Meme transcription: A table comparing the steps to start a game ‘then’ vs. ‘now’.
Content of the “Then” column:
- Double-click GAME.exe
- Play game
Content of the “Now” column:
- Launch Steam
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Steam updates
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Steam opens
- Close Steam’s ad window
- Select Game
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Game launcher starts
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Game launcher launches Game launcher updater
- Yes
- Yes
- Yes
- Ok
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Would you like to sign up for our newsletter?
- No
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Our EULAs have changed. Please review them before continuing
- Scroll
- Scroll
- Scroll
- Scroll
- Yes
- Yes
- Yes, sell my soul
- Start game
- Skip vendor intro
- Skip vendor intro #2
- Skip vendor intro #3
- Sit through nVidia The way it’s meant to be played
- Skip opening cutscene
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Main menu opens
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Would you like to connect your Steam account to account?
- No
- Press play.
- Play game.
I’m saying that OP might not be talking about the 90s. They literally might be talking about windows vista or 7. You have no way of knowing.
In 7 and vista you already used steam and battle.net. The last time you clicked on an exe really was a long time ago.
Every installer ever since windows 95, made an item in your start menu. No clicking an exe.
unless you pirate your games, but then you’re still just clicking an exe and this post doesn’t make sense.
But hey, he made fun with his meme, I had fun typing my response, that’s all there was to it, no?
Yeah I don’t really think they meant actually clicking an exe file, it’s just that’s a lot shorter than saying “click the shortcut in your start menu”. It’s a meme, not a diatribe. But yeah it’s a joke so we can just move on. Thanks for the conversation.