• WhoaDang@reddthat.comEnglish
    24·
    6 months ago

    This isn’t a real PS2 ad. It’s a fake created a few years ago by an influencer named Shy Smith.

  • JadenSmith@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    10·
    6 months ago

    I find this funny, since I used to hide drugs like mushrooms inside consoles. I figured it was the one place literally no one would think to look. Just unscrewed them, put a baggie inside in one of those empty spaces (there’s always a spot), and put the case back together.

    • cRazi_man@lemm.eeEnglish
      3·
      6 months ago

      If ads were interesting and creative, I might have turned off my adblockers to watch them.

      • RobertoOberto@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        1·
        2 months ago

        Cognitively and logically, I understand.

        But emotionally, it’s just another one of those little reminders of the passage of time that hits unexpectedly hard.

        I think it’s because my only memories of it are from when I was young. Quake 3 Arena was released almost a year before the PS2, but I’ve never really stopped playing it, and still sometimes get in-person LAN parties together to play it. It feels just as old as I am, and I associate it with good memories from every age.

        But I haven’t touched or even thought about a PS2 in decades. So when it suddenly jumps to the front of my mind, only old memories come with it. Then you start to think about the friends you played it with, and everything that’s happened to you all between them and now. Kids, marriages, divorces, houses, bankruptcies, jobs earned and lost, deaths, etc… Some are doing great, some not so great, but most you just don’t know because you’ve lost contact.

        So yeah, it seems silly on its face, but sometimes random thing just pull you into the past unexpectedly, putting the present and the path between them both in stark contrast. This just happened to be one for me this time.

        • jballs@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
          2·
          6 months ago

          Someone correct me if I’m wrong, but I don’t believe ecstacy is actually dehydrating. Dancing at a rave for hours on end without drinking anything is though.

          • Crismus@lemmy.worldEnglish
            31·
            6 months ago

            Just like SSRI’s, Ecstasy does interfere with your hypothalamus and temperature regulation. So, small energy expenditures creat oversized responses.

            You would still sweat heavily doing more than lying down with a fan blowing on you.

            • sp3ctr4l@lemmy.zipEnglish
              8·
              6 months ago

              Yeah, another part of the problem is that you cannot tell that you are hyperthermic and or dehydrated.

              Thats how you get the people that dance all night and then just die, or go comatose or pass out.

              Your body stops telling you wow, i am way too hot and wow, i really need water.

              Sort of like that rare condition where you literally cannot feel pain, and children with it will break their fingers because it feels weird.

      • kwomp2@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        31·
        6 months ago

        Looks more like a few hours of cramping body and soul followed by 3 days of emotional hangover

        • Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
          5·
          6 months ago

          Ehhhhh so this was in 2000. Your standard ecstasy pill (we’re assuming they’re not pipers; these don’t look shiny and they’re not shaped or outpressed) have between 70mg MDMA and 120mg (if they’re absolute fire.)

          This would be about 400mg of MDMA total. While that is quite a lot, you’re not going to have a horrible time—I just wouldn’t do it in public because you WILL be a chattering mess. It’ll still feel amazing, though.

          Source: oldhead, last time I rolled it was a total of about 450mg but spread out over hours and I was absolutely not in public, just writing naked with my partner)

            • Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
              4·
              6 months ago

              Oh GOD I fully agree in that case. Rolls nowadays have up to 300-400mg in a single pill (sounds like you already know that, but I’m just saying this for context in case another reader doesn’t)

              That’d be like eating a gram or more of Molly at once, and THAT is for sure not safe and not a good time.

      • Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
        2·
        6 months ago

        AKSHULLY that wasn’t a thing in the 2000s, just marketing hype. Rolls back then had between 70 and 120mg of MDMA, and 120 is a basal amount you want to take if you fully want to get rolling.

        Now it’s TOTALLY a thing, tons of rolls have 300-400mg in a single pill now. It’s insanity.

        • person420@lemmynsfw.comEnglish
          1·
          6 months ago

          Worse than that, that one website dance something that would test pills found that a huge percentage of the “ecstasy” people took didn’t contain MDMA. A surprising amount didn’t even contain illegal drugs. Just over the counter speed.

            • person420@lemmynsfw.comEnglish
              2·
              6 months ago

              Dancesafe.org was it! I’m going back over 20 years to the late 90’s early 2000’s. I can’t comment on the state of ecstasy today, I haven’t rolled in over 20 years.

          • Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
            1·
            6 months ago

            Yah, there were TONS of pipers going around (BZP/TFMPP) when that was legal to buy. I’ve never had one because I could instantly tell when a pill was a piper (shiny, hard, outpress, or shaped.) I could also tell by the taste if I licked it. Headache city apparently.

        • ditty@lemm.eeEnglish
          1·
          6 months ago

          Damn that is insane. My skin would slink off if I did 300+

          • Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
            1·
            6 months ago

            Recently did 400-450 each with my partner in a night but over the course of a couple hours… definitely not something to do in public hahaha. We were naked, quivering piles of hedonism, writhing in bed for hours in absolute insane, well, ecstasy. It’s aptly named, that’s for sure.

            For once, got incredible sleep afterwards and felt awesome the next day! Thank you, sleep.

  • sp3ctr4l@lemmy.zipEnglish
    3·
    6 months ago

    Can someone make a version of this photo, but its acetaminophen and the girl is just up-aged to how old she’d be now?

  • oce 🐆@jlai.luEnglish
    3·
    6 months ago

    I feel like it means: we are not like Nintendo, we make video games for adults (and children who want to play like adults).

  • FinishingDutch@lemmy.worldEnglish
    31·
    6 months ago

    I miss that era. Companies didn’t mind a bit of edginess and weren’t afraid to market to adults. The console culture itself also isn’t what it used to be.

    These days, gaming consoles all need to be safe enough for five year olds to play on them. And it’s caused everything to be just too bland and safe, both in marketing and the console itself. Can’t really have things like Xbox 360 Uno with the live camera feed and no moderation. Or the wholly uncensored COD lobbies.

    • stufkes@lemmy.worldEnglish
      22·
      6 months ago

      I like the part between your two paragraphs. The early gaming era was really shitty when it came to diversity and… It’s not even representation, it’s not having to play sluts or princesses or whatever.

      The now-era is all AAA all-the-same sanitised stuff, nothing to do with lack of edginess. Just corporate safety in mainstream appeal. Currently, indie games are where the experiments and interesting ideas happen.

      • nl4real@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        6 months ago

        Yeah, gaming (and tech in general) going mainstream brought with it both the good and the bad. More diversity, but also more corporate consolidation.

      • FinishingDutch@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        6 months ago

        I’m certainly not going to say you’re wrong on that first part. I’ve been online since 1996. At that time, the internet was the domain of white, heterosexual, nerdy, generally well educated guys. And me being a white, heterosexual, nerdy, well educated guy… well… going online felt like coming home. Those were my people. I still really miss those days.

        But I also know that the experience of someone not like me would’ve been wildly different. I learned a bajillion slurs on COD lobbies after all. It’s a good thing that more people now feel welcome online, as it led to platform growth and functionality that we otherwise wouldn’t have had if it was just ‘my kind of people’.

        The current safe, sanitised, gentrified gaming sphere also has benefits: COD lobbies these days are very pleasant by comparison. You even have to sign a code of conduct to get on multiplayer. It feels more welcoming, less hostile. Of course, companies certainly have been financially incentivized to attract as wide an audience as possible. For example, the very first GTA game sold about 6 million copies. GTA V has sold 200 million. And with ever-increasing development budgets, you can’t afford to cater to a niche, you want to cast as wide a net as possible to recoup those costs.

        • Shardikprime@lemmy.worldEnglish
          21·
          6 months ago

          Bro here in Brazil, we have slurs in the millions since gaming took of in the 90s

          The number reaches the Brazillions

          • FinishingDutch@lemmy.worldEnglish
            1·
            6 months ago

            I don’t think I’ve met any Brazilians back in those days; (online) gaming is really expensive there from what I heard, right?

            One fun thing in the old COD lobbies was always to teach others slurs and general cursing in your language. I learned how to curse folks out in like 50 languages. Each country also has its own unique style of cursing. We Dutch really like to incorporate diseases for example.

            • Shardikprime@lemmy.worldEnglish
              01·
              6 months ago

              A lot were in tibia, RO, Mu, AOE and other classics like Ultima, xeminos and lineage

              Wild times but no voice chat so that was nice 👍

        • stufkes@lemmy.worldEnglish
          21·
          6 months ago

          “the internet was the domain of white, heterosexual, nerdy, generally well educated guys. And me being a white, heterosexual, nerdy, well educated guy… well… going online felt like coming home. Those were my people”

          Thank you for putting it so clearly. Yes, it is completely valid to long for a time where the own niche was the in-group. As someone who’s been on the web from early on but a woman, it wasn’t really “my people”. It was never a safe space for me, but I totally understand where you are coming from. It’s great to be on the side of the “default”.

          The only spaces I genuinely miss are phpbb forums. I honestly believe they are better than reddit, or the fediverse for that matter. Smaller interest groups have a self selection mechanism and better moderation. I think they could still foster a great environment today that would welcome nerdy educated people on a shared interest without specifically speaking to just one type of educated nerds.

      • tjsauce@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        6 months ago

        It’s the eternal pendulum swinging between slut and saint, whore and Madonna. AAA games are afraid of sexuality, and one can see why when looking back on how Lara Croft was portrayed in magazines. We need games that, when appropriate, acknowledge sexuality in a way that reflects its role in people’s lives.