Thanks to ebooks now I read now more than ever. I can buy books that wouldn't be even avaible, and I can just do so by sitting on my ass :P

Paper books are still awesome, but I am not going to buy new ones.

One of my childhood favorites. I remember when they sent it on TV (NRK) on Saturdays, I was always terrified of that old woman with her nose stuck in the tree stub. :)


Really? I agree with everything you write - GOG is way more convenient than the stores ever were - but you can't physically flip through games, you don't get to look at the box art, and you don't get to flip through the awesome-smelling manual on the bus on your way home.

I miss the days where going out game shopping was like a scavenger hunt. I don't know how many times I visited a handful of stores within a couple of hours looking for that one rare find.

I miss print magazines, too. I've bought a couple here and there, but it's not the same. The internet and the digital; age has pretty much made them obsolete. I miss having magazines in the bathroom. They're been replaced by a tablet. It's not the same.

I DON'T miss buying a game that looked great and then getting home and finding out it sucks ass. I few weeks later the reviews are out in the magazines and, sure enough, the reviews are terrible.

I also miss how people were not as self-centered as they are now. Social media has pretty much made people stuck in that adolescent egocentric mindset.

When all you had was a couple of small screenshots in a game magazine printed on cheap paper to keep your anticipation fueled for a title that would arrive sometime that year (if not getting canceled) where you also couldn't count on even being able to buy it from local stores then. Now I'm out of breath.

This.

What's with the cell phones hatred?

I didn't know people having sex with their phones was that big issue these days.

Agreed, I actually loved it when games didn't work and I had to figure out how to get them running, but I don't have time to spend hours on that stuff anymore. Luckily, gog does that work for me now, and at most I'm left troubleshooting minor problems that are solved within half an hour.



Agreed. As I mentioned earlier, the only magazines I still read in paper format are National Geographic and magazines related to my professional work - gaming magazines just can't keep up anymore.

Well, I have to admit that I never "read the fucking manual" anyway. Probably also because I mostly bought cheap editions from the bargain bin and most of them didn't even have one. And I hate riding the bus. ;)

Plus, GOG has box art and screenshots, too. But to a certain degree I can relate to what you're saying, I still occasionally browse stores when I'm bored and then I'm a bit disappointed or even sad that their selection is lacking and every dvd has a "this game is protected by DRM" label on it that makes me put it back on the shelf. I guess it's just that my priorities and preferences are a bit different. I don't really like my shelves full of game boxes; but I do prefer paper books you can touch over e-books, for example.

Well, you have to physically flip trough the games as the mouse-wheel won't turn for you, you can look at the game page art and you don't have to flip trough the manual 'cause you don't need a bus in the first place :-p

I think it only has to do with the layouts. For example, Bing News in Windows 8 Metro interface is awesome. It feels just like reading a magazine.

It's f*cking annoying when you're with someone and they check their phone\write sms's constantly.
Other than that I think lots of people are stressed out because they feel like they always need to be available, but that's not an issue for me. I turn my cell phone off when I don't want to be available, and that's actually worked wonders for my stress levels. Of course, some people have shitty bosses or jobs that require them to be available constantly and aren't able to just turn their phones off when they feel like it.

Well for one in a concert (especially a heavy metal concert) no more people raising their cell phones to cheaply record the concert. I miss the days when people raises their hands.

But the smell... the smell, dude!

The "precious" and "forbidden" character of sexuality in erotic / porn magazines, going to the shop with a weird grin / shy face buying one lol.. Really sex as it is, a privilege, not a right like too many are claiming now.. The video games manuals and boxes.. Renting videotapes and copy them before giving them back! :o

Ah, that's another biggie for me. Not that harmful and extremely inconvenient DRM wasn't around back in the day, (Starforce and SecuROM, I'm giving you a major side-eye,) but the market's exploded with ridiculous DRM's in the past few years. I stick with Gog because I can play the games anywhere, anytime, without needing an online connection, and because the games won't f*ck my computer up.

Hah, I get what you're saying. :)
Like I said earlier, nostalgia can turn even the steamiest shit into a pile of gold. Objectively speaking, gaming is much more convenient for the consumer now than it ever was back in the day.