Valve: “We need a credit card on file to prove you’re 18”
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@farbenstau @luc0x61 @draeath @SecurityWriter Wolfenstein 3D did run on a 286.
@RandamuMaki @luc0x61 @draeath @SecurityWriter Heh. Actually never tried that back in the days, because possession of that game was illegal in my country back then.
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@farbenstau @luc0x61 @draeath @SecurityWriter you can run DOOM on a fly's brain.
@dresstokilt @farbenstau @draeath @SecurityWriter That's true for latest reimplementations, but the original was only for i386, as said above: clearly my memories on when we switched from i286 to i386 in that department were wrong!
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@luc0x61 @draeath @SecurityWriter https://www.reddit.com/r/gaming/comments/a4yi5t/original_doom_system_requirements_from_my_25_year/ here's a copy of the original spec thas lists i386 as minimum, i486 as recommended. I seriously doubt a DOS extender would have worked on an i286, anyway …
@farbenstau @draeath @SecurityWriter Yep, you're right: then we had switched to 386!
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My memories of three decades ago are disappearing, I'm ready for retirement!
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@dresstokilt @farbenstau @draeath @SecurityWriter That's true for latest reimplementations, but the original was only for i386, as said above: clearly my memories on when we switched from i286 to i386 in that department were wrong!
@luc0x61 @dresstokilt @draeath @SecurityWriter See, that's why I'm glad this isn't Twitter - over there, instead of admitting one is wrong, the typical reply would have involved questioning my mother's morale, followed by a block and counter-block. 🤪
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@dresstokilt @farbenstau @draeath @SecurityWriter That's true for latest reimplementations, but the original was only for i386, as said above: clearly my memories on when we switched from i286 to i386 in that department were wrong!
@luc0x61 @farbenstau @draeath @SecurityWriter my 286 only had a CGA card so I don't think it could have handled it anyway.
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@luc0x61 @farbenstau @draeath @SecurityWriter my 286 only had a CGA card so I don't think it could have handled it anyway.
@dresstokilt @farbenstau @draeath @SecurityWriter At this point I don't remember what graphics card I had there! I worked in two different places, somewhere we had some scientific setup, otherwise we had plain business machines.
I remember of the site for the Doom DM, with 4 players on the local network. It was also something very new for us. From home we dialled by slow modems, for a point-to-point two players gameplay.
I'd never believe in those times of the 6 Gbps fiber I have at home now! -
@SecurityWriter 23 years is impressive, I'm holding at the 21 years mark.
Which they give you fucking BADGE for that's the FIRST THING on your profile.
Mine's 21 as well, but when I bought Orange Box I gave my original account to my son, so his is 22.
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@SecurityWriter You can't say meaningful things to bureacracy, even worse to bureacracy created for people control.
BTW even my Steam account dates back to portal creation, λ2@luc0x61 @SecurityWriter it's the tech companies pushing for control, it doesn't come from bureaucracy. They want to be able to tell advertisers that real humans are seeing ads, not just bots and AI agents. Bureaucracy just sucked dick and took bribes.
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@dresstokilt @farbenstau @draeath @SecurityWriter At this point I don't remember what graphics card I had there! I worked in two different places, somewhere we had some scientific setup, otherwise we had plain business machines.
I remember of the site for the Doom DM, with 4 players on the local network. It was also something very new for us. From home we dialled by slow modems, for a point-to-point two players gameplay.
I'd never believe in those times of the 6 Gbps fiber I have at home now!@luc0x61 @dresstokilt @draeath @SecurityWriter Consider yourself lucky. I'm stuck at 6-12 (only on a good day) MBit/s via DSL, yes, in 2026.
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@SecurityWriter using a desktop is dating yourself. as an old fart.
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@yetzt @SecurityWriter But, it’s steam. How can you play games without a desktop.
@Kyebr @yetzt @SecurityWriter Handheld.
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@luc0x61 @dresstokilt @draeath @SecurityWriter Consider yourself lucky. I'm stuck at 6-12 (only on a good day) MBit/s via DSL, yes, in 2026.
@farbenstau @dresstokilt @draeath @SecurityWriter I consider myself lucky: another house, 2 km from here, has a 70 Mbps DSL connection on lucky days, when the phone switch isn't flooded. A friend's former house, 30 km from here, had the DSL connection running below 1 Mbps (yes, less than 1000 kbps).
There are areas here where no phone company invests money, even if they're 200 meters from best connectivity. -
Valve: “We need a credit card on file to prove you’re 18”
Me: “My account is 23 years old”
Valve: “That just proves your account is old”
Me: “A credit card just proves you know someone with a credit card”
@SecurityWriter you can get on a UK credit card at 14
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Valve: “We need a credit card on file to prove you’re 18”
Me: “My account is 23 years old”
Valve: “That just proves your account is old”
Me: “A credit card just proves you know someone with a credit card”
@SecurityWriter My age verification should be a picture of the complete set of Windows 95 install discs that are still sitting in my closet. And if that isn't sufficient, I'll go pick up a box of my old floppy disk DOS games from my parents house.
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@SecurityWriter The kids at school are impressed that my daughters Steam account has well over 200 games.
(Thanks, HumbleBundle!)
Okay, it's my account, but she plays games on it more than I do!@mancavgeek @SecurityWriter I thought I had a decent account with 300+ games. Then about a decade ago, I made a friend who had spent a while in the game industry. He has over 1800. This was 10 years ago, no idea how many he has now.
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