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authormms <michal@sapka.me>2024-09-06 21:40:01 +0200
committermms <michal@sapka.me>2024-09-06 21:40:01 +0200
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feat(blog): pc retro
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+abstract = "CDE babe!"
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Mission for today: window decoration.
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Those are the `decorations`.
By default, Fvwm comes with a modern, flat design.
-A bit boring for my test.
+A bit boring for my taste.
{{< image class="centered" alt="Screenshot of St terminal editor" file="fvwm-wd-vanila.png" >}}
Default look
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+title = "Retro games are PC games for me"
+author = ["MichaƂ Sapka"]
+date = 2024-09-06T21:38:00+02:00
+categories = ["blog"]
+draft = false
+weight = 2001
+image_dir = "blog/images"
+image_max_width = 600
+abstract = "Tomb Raider is a PC game"
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+
+Like with everything recently, I tend not to be interested at all in new games and rely on so-called "retro" gaming (I'm almost 40. I wonder if that's related).
+Not that I play them, but there are other ways to relive them.
+
+However, once I went that rabbit hole, I found that my experience was much different than of many other folks.
+I never owned a console.
+I never owned an Amiga, or Commodore.
+All I experienced were outdated PCs.
+Now, I use a PSX4, but it doesn't count as I can't be nostalgic for something that happened 4 years ago.
+
+This also means I have no memory of the PSX, SNES or the Game Boy.
+When English speaking vloggers discuss games I remember as PC games, they refer to them as console games.
+Gex? It was a PC game that came with Microsoft Sidewinder.
+Resident Evil? PC, of course.
+Mortal Kombat? A PC game!
+Earthworm Jim? You guessed it - a PC game.
+GTA? Just as PC as Microsoft Excel.
+Tomb Raider? To no surprise - a PC game.
+
+I won't even mention games, which were _designed_ for PC, other than Grim Fandango or Diablo.
+
+Every time I hear someone refer to such titles as "PSX" or "Sega", I feel disjointed.
+But we are both right in our memories!
+Yes, there were exclusives and Nintendo is hateful towards other platforms as ever (Chrono Trigger? That's Snes9X game!).
+But it most cases we played the same games, but the memory of that experienced differ.
+I never sat in front of the TV to control Lara, I did on my desk in the lowest resolution out there.
+This makes it hard for me to emphasize with [Joel](https://joelchrono.xyz/blog/august-2024-summary/).
+He bought a retro emulator in a for of a handheld to relive games of his youth.
+For me, a complete QWERTY keyboard would be needed.
+Even if we played the same games, we did in a different way.