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For quite some time now Linux and FOSS vlogger Nixie Pixel, has been bringing videos about Linux, FOSS, and more to many a thirsty geek. Finally, after a mysterious absence of one year, the vlog darling returns to YouTube.
If you're not familiar with her, she has two channels on YouTube:
NixieDoesLinux, and "OS.ALT. The second of which covers the indie/hacking/geek community, including open source alternatives to operating systems and gaming."
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(Score: 2) by Grishnakh on Saturday July 22 2017, @12:05AM (8 children)
I checked out her web page at nixiepixel.com, and I'm rather confused. On her "about" [nixiepixel.com] page, she says she's 26 years old, and in her videos and photos that looks about right, definitely not over 30. But then she talks about growing up gaming on the Atari 2600 and how she used to play King's Quest for hours... Um, I'm a lot older than 26, and while I remember the Atari 2600 when it was current, I'm actually a little too young to have grown up playing it (the 2600 came out in the late 70s). I am old enough to have played King's Quest (the first one), though I played KQ3 if I recall correctly. She should have been born around 1990, which is long after the 2600 was dead and replaced with not only the NES, but the SuperNES, and King's Quest is older than that too. At her age, she would have been growing up with Windows 98 and XP and I'm guessing the first Xbox or PS2. I'm not even sure how well KQ1 would have played on a Win98 or XP machine if you loaded up a copy.
Did she get a bunch of ancient computing hand-me-downs or something? Or is she an immortal who's lying about her age to explain why she doesn't look like she's 45-50?
(Score: 0, Flamebait) by Ethanol-fueled on Saturday July 22 2017, @12:10AM (1 child)
Judging by her photos, I imagine she lies about much more than her vintage gaming creds. Amount of dicks taken, incurable STDs infected, abortions, being addicted to coke and Xanax, bulimia, lack of father figure in childhood, taxable income procured from Backpage, preference for Black men and Cholos, game cartridges stolen from pimply male friends, voting for Hillary Clinton,
Fuck, I could go all night, but I got booze to drink, man!
(Score: 2) by bob_super on Saturday July 22 2017, @12:28AM
> Fuck, I could go all night, but I got booze to drink, man!
... must ... resist ... too ... easy ...
(Score: 2) by krishnoid on Saturday July 22 2017, @12:27AM
Can we go with both? It makes for an interesting story, at least.
(Score: 3, Informative) by Runaway1956 on Saturday July 22 2017, @12:36AM
My kids are about her age, and THEY grew up gaming on Atari. The Atari game systems didn't just wear out and disappear within two years of manufacture, after all. I can still see the two older boys fighting over which game to plug in, while their baby brother watched from his playpen. Geeez, Louise.
(Score: 2) by stormwyrm on Saturday July 22 2017, @01:11AM (1 child)
The original King's Quest I probably would have been reasonably playable on a machine from the mid-late 1990s with a CPU slowdown utility. I've used such a thing often enough to play on modern hardware the old games like Ultima and Bard's Tale which I grew up on. There was also an official remake of KQ1 which Sierra released in 1990 (along with a similar remake of Leisure Suit Larry I as I recall) which would have played better on the hardware of the late nineties/early 2000s, and seems like it might have been perfectly playable on Windows 95/98/XP.
Numquam ponenda est pluralitas sine necessitate.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday July 22 2017, @03:03AM
At least when I was a kid (80s-late 90s), people held onto their games. Hell I first played Leisure Suit Larry *1* in the mid 90s because somebody I knew had it as one of the few games on their computers.
Boxed/cartridge games from the 80s and 90s got a lot more mileage spent on them compared to modern day games where after a year you are expected to move on to the next game. Rare is that a game consistently sells more than a year or two later, and 5 years seems to be pushing it nowadays. Many of those older games (some of which are now available on GOG or Steam, upping their lifetime and marketability significantly) had *SHELF* lives of 5-15 years. Which is pretty significant when you think about it. Some of these games could be found reissued on CD, or in a box, etc up to 15 years later. As an example I picked up the Ultimate Doom trilogy after the Doom 3 expansion was out, which puts it around 10-13 years after Doom originally came out, and about 4-5 games later as far as id's 'flagship games' went.
Having said that, between handmedowns, and being poor but tech savvy with a Good Will nearby, maybe she picked one up at the local thrift store, before all the bougies started pilfering them for deals on electronics.
(Score: 2) by Arik on Saturday July 22 2017, @02:53AM (1 child)
That said, now you've got me curious. Possible, definitely, but a fair bit unlikely.
If laughter is the best medicine, who are the best doctors?
(Score: 2) by Grishnakh on Saturday July 22 2017, @04:49PM
Yeah, I realize Atari 2600s didn't all drop dead as soon as the NES arrived on the market, but I'm just pointing out it seems odd that a girl this young would be playing something that old. Honestly, by 1990, the NES was the most popular console in history, and the 2600 was all but forgotten. It's certainly possible she grew up with some parents who had a 2600 or really loved it or something, and who never got a NES or SuperNES or Sega or whatever, but it does make me curious.