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Her foresight is impeccable
little does she know but there are now more words than you can even imagine
1982 was the year the video game market crashed in an endless sea of dog shit shovelware, she had a point.
She made the common blunder of making long term hyperbolic predictions based on short term trends and immediate events.
Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing, Oregon Trail, and Math Blaster were some of the first games I ever played. All very educational and also helped me understand computers.
I remember the majority of business owners in my city telling me that the Internet was a fad. People are stupid.
I'm reminded of stuff like this when I see certain takes on AI.
Oh for sure. It's understandable to be threatened by it. It's not understandable to pretend it's a worthless fad. Some of the statements I see here make me wonder how ridiculously bad some people must be at prompting the AI.
1982 was a banger year for video games:
DigDug Mrs. Pacman Tron Q*bert Joust
The list keeps going.
No joke, I loved all these games and played them as much as I could.
Captcha's getting weiiirdd
That was so wrong.
You know, I was wondering why this was posted to c/facepalm. Mystery solved!
this post was submitted on 07 Nov 2024
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