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cool_boy_mew (coolboymew@shitposter.world)'s status on Friday, 24-Jan-2025 12:04:26 JST cool_boy_mew
@PurpCat @nyanide @ElDeadKennedy @ooignignoktoo Streaming in general is a disaster for many, many, many reasons

You basically end up watching the same stuff if you aren't forced, like you did for TV

Having an always playing TV was super kino for playing JRPGs and stuff. Without it, I don't want to set something up that I will only half-watch. It's a me problem, but with TV, it was playing whether you liked it or not. No pause, no nothing. So you took what you get

Also content was limited, so you got what you'e got, and people around would have watched the same thing you did

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- xianc78@gameliberty.club's status on Friday, 24-Jan-2025 12:11:48 JST xianc78
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  @coolboymew @PurpCat @nyanide @ElDeadKennedy @ooignignoktoo I feel like that was more due to being a kid and living with other siblings who were watching TV while you were on the computer in the same room or something like that. I was never a TV person, but all my TV nostalgia comes from what my siblings were watching while I was in the same room.
  
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- xianc78@gameliberty.club's status on Friday, 24-Jan-2025 12:25:36 JST xianc78
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  @coolboymew @PurpCat @nyanide @ElDeadKennedy @ooignignoktoo I kind of liked watching TV while being on the computer as a kid. I am pretty nostalgic for a lot of cartoons, but it wasn't really something I did exclusively.
  Most of the flash and shockwave games I played as a kid were from Nick (Jr) and PBS Kids. So there's that.
  
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- cool_boy_mew (coolboymew@shitposter.world)'s status on Friday, 24-Jan-2025 12:25:37 JST cool_boy_mew
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  @xianc78 @PurpCat @nyanide @ElDeadKennedy @ooignignoktoo I was a massive cartoon fan and I could not tell you how much I obsessed about wanting to have cable TV, because there were 24/7 cartoon channels
  
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- cool_boy_mew (coolboymew@shitposter.world)'s status on Friday, 24-Jan-2025 12:41:43 JST cool_boy_mew
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  @xianc78 @PurpCat @nyanide @ElDeadKennedy @ooignignoktoo kids channels websites were the absolute shit
  
  YTV in Canada had some sort of robot thing you dressed up with unlockable codes you found on the site or were given on TV
  
  Teletoon french and english had this massive awesome flash site with many, many games
  
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- xianc78@gameliberty.club's status on Friday, 24-Jan-2025 12:41:43 JST xianc78
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  @coolboymew @PurpCat @nyanide @ElDeadKennedy @ooignignoktoo I was like 3-5 years old playing Blue's Clues games, but I can't remember what exactly I was playing. I think one of them was a shockwave game. You could fully explore Blue's neighborhood in first person. It was pretty mind blowing for a flash game.
  I think most of the games allowed you to print something after completing them and I was really attached to the printer as a little kid. It was a tangible reward for something.
  
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- cool_boy_mew (coolboymew@shitposter.world)'s status on Friday, 24-Jan-2025 12:53:23 JST cool_boy_mew
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  @xianc78 @PurpCat @nyanide @ElDeadKennedy @ooignignoktoo disappointing that all of this might be lost. A lot of these games were flash within flash and probably were multiloading files because they'd be too big or something and to prevent cheating
  
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- xianc78@gameliberty.club's status on Friday, 24-Jan-2025 12:53:23 JST xianc78
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  @coolboymew @PurpCat @nyanide @ElDeadKennedy @ooignignoktoo I bet NOBODY is preserving the little kid games and there doesn't seem to be much effort to preserve Shockwave games as there is for flash games.
  I think there were also some pure HTML games (something like text-adventures with links) and even JavaScript games (pre-HTML5, just text and variables or changing the src on an image element).
  
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- cool_boy_mew (coolboymew@shitposter.world)'s status on Saturday, 25-Jan-2025 03:01:13 JST cool_boy_mew
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  @ElDeadKennedy @PurpCat @nyanide @ooignignoktoo @xianc78 the web was so much better back then, practically every sites was like that
  
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- Otaku Hot Girl 🍙💅🏿 (weeble@fedi.bungle.online)'s status on Saturday, 25-Jan-2025 03:01:13 JST Otaku Hot Girl 🍙💅🏿
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  @coolboymew@shitposter.world @ElDeadKennedy@shitposter.world @PurpCat@clubcyberia.co @nyanide@lab.nyanide.com @ooignignoktoo@shitposter.world @xianc78@gameliberty.club I would go on websites like these all the time as a kid. I'd go to official ones like for CN, Nick, Disney, Barbie/Mattel etc. But I'd find ones that would host a bunch of flash games ripped from other sites.
  
  The official sites had cool collectibles like coloring pages to print out or desktop buddies to download too.
  
  I just liked how it's this whole presentation with endless pages of content and rabbitholes.
  
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- DulceKennedy (eldeadkennedy@shitposter.world)'s status on Saturday, 25-Jan-2025 03:01:14 JST DulceKennedy
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  @coolboymew @xianc78 @PurpCat @nyanide @ooignignoktoo I remember playing some official Ed, Edd & Eddy browser game. Maybe around 2005
  
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- DulceKennedy (eldeadkennedy@shitposter.world)'s status on Saturday, 25-Jan-2025 03:01:14 JST DulceKennedy
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  @coolboymew @PurpCat @nyanide @ooignignoktoo @xianc78 I decided to go back to that website using Wayback Machine. THIS is what the soydevs took from you
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