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buyer's remorse late-90s edition 2016-10-25 23:57:05 Post No. 57238959
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> 11th birthday
> lower-class family
> parents get me EA NCAA Football 99 for Microsoft Windows
> box shows cool 3D graphics
> hyped
> watch VHS-recorded football during 8-hour install
> turn volume to "40" to hear it over the Compaq's cooling fan
> finally finishes
> smash keyboard until on-field gameplay starts
> message pops up
"Sorry faggot, but it looks like you're too poor to use DIRECT3D HARDWARE ACCELERATED GRAPHICS. Enjoy your consolation sprites."
> completely different set of graphics
> game is fun but can't shake depression of being blue-collar trash
> "How is the game anon? Man I can't believe these modern games it's just like watching TV!"
> say everything is great
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> Christmas is coming up
> ask if I can get a 3DFX VOODOO 2 PCI graphics card
> "Sorry anon but you know on our budget we can't afford that. What even is that thing anyway?"
> start saving money
> go door-to-door shoveling driveways
> put up flyers offering to help people with housework
"POOR FAGGOT LOOKING FOR WORK. NEED MONEY TO BUY GRAPHICS CARD AND HIDE DEPRESSION FROM FAMILY"
> make enough to buy a 3DFX VOODOO BANSHEE PCI DERELICT EDITION
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>>57238959
>ask for laptop since forever cause that cool laptop that now probably look like a brick with a radio on it lip
>get one those abc animal laptops
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> "Are you sure you want to spend so much money on this anon? You put in so much hard work for this."
> Dad takes me to CompUSA
> $150 after $3000 mail-in rebate
> go home and install hardware
> watch VHS-recoreded Animaniacs during 8-hour driver install
> finally finishes
> start up EA NCAA Football 99
> change primary display device
> start a game
> camera pans around to show 3D-ACCELERATED polygonal graphics
> this is it
> win the coin toss
> action starts
> players looks funny when they run
> jaggies everywhere
> nothing is round, even the player helmets
> "How is the new graphics thingy anon? Oh yeah I see it everything looks different it's just like watching TV!"
> change display adapter back to "software renderer"
Does anyone else know that feel?
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What is this thread even?
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>>57239176
it's stories of buyer's remorse in the late 1990s
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>>57238959
>1994 (age 8)
>dad brings home dank 486/66 8mb ram w/ 2x cdrom from mom n pop locally owned best buy equivalent
>play tons of classic dos games legit and copied floppies
>1995
>brother borks win 95 install
>fdisks the hard drive and can't figure out how to fix it
>dad returns to store and causes enough of a scene that they accept a return on the old pc and give him full store credit a fucking year later
>go from 486/66 to Pentium MMX 166 w 4mb graphics card
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>>57238959
>depression of being blue-collar trash
I hope you're in a better place now in your life, anon.
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