…before this account dies.

Sorry for being so dramatic, but since my instance is closing down, i’ll quickly give away some GoG codes I have lying around.

Just mention which game you would want (and make sure you intend to play it) and also write one or two lines about some good gaming memories you would like to share.

One game per account and account must be more than a week old.

  • Blood Omen 2 : Legacy of Kain
  • Mail Time
  • Wild Country
  • Mordheim: City of the Damned
  • FATE
  • Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus Digital Deluxe Edition (XBOX code)
  • Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus Digital Deluxe Edition (Microsoft Store code)
  • Thief II : The Metal Age (Gone)
  • Hypnospace Outlaw (Code expired)
  • Saints Row : Gat out of Hell (Gone)
  • Golf With Your Friends (Gone)
  • xavier666@lemm.eeOPEnglish
    2·
    1 day ago

    Also helping to cart all the monitors in was some good cardio, kinda miss moving 24" Sony Trinitron CRTs around

    Kids will never know the pain. I remember that for a small time CRTs had the advantage over LCDs due to their higher refresh rate (75 Hz over 60 Hz) so pro players preferred CRTs.

    Btw, you didn’t mention any game.

    • shads@lemy.lolEnglish
      2·
      10 hours ago

      Oh that’s OK I just wanted to reminisce on the glory days, my backlog is so long already I could use all my spare time for the next year and still barely make a dent.

    • shads@lemy.lolEnglish
      1·
      10 hours ago

      Oh and the latencies, the really minimal processing that a CRT does compared to an LCD means that input lag could be insanely low. Subtlely different to refresh rate, I always felt it was the gamer equivalent of audiophile grade speaker cables personally, but some people swear they can detect it.

      • xavier666@lemm.eeOPEnglish
        1·
        8 hours ago

        I always felt it was the gamer equivalent of audiophile grade speaker cables personally, but some people swear they can detect it.

        Don’t forget the ultra audiophile who sources their own electricity to prevent the electrical grid noise from seeping into the audio

        • shads@lemy.lolEnglish
          1·
          4 hours ago

          Oh, I was going to say you know a higher grade of audiophile than I do, but then I remembered that no I have met one. He had installed what was in effect a powerwall with supercaps and was generating his own waves through. His speakers cost more than my car, individually. I want to say Palladium Studio References. Wow yep. Thanks for that little blast from the musty vaults of deep memory… Well a 10 minute conversation 20ish years ago and a lot of “Ohs” and “Ahs” at his photo album.

          • shads@lemy.lolEnglish
            1·
            4 hours ago

            Actually I am misremembering, apparently capacitors are bad for audio, so to get the best you have to have chunky inductors and circuitry to do powerfctor correction to get a PF of 1. I was remembering big chunky power conditioners that look like batteries but are actually huge iron core inductors. They get your audio equipment “closer” to the power generation, which “improves your soundscape”. I’m sure he was using the stupid crazy priced audiophile powercords as well.