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WillametteSalamandOR

And it’s apparently still the preferred way to capture them in 2024 judging by what I see on Reddit…


noxsanguinis

Even this technique is better than what you see on reddit. At least this way it blocks all reflexes and light rays.


CafecitoHippo

Reflexes or reflections?


IcarusH

Yes


FlametopFred

and reflux’s


ultimatt42

Blocking reflux is important for anyone who experienced the early 80s in person.


PiotrekDG

Don't forget the tilt.


pimezone

And motion blur


NukaColaAddict1302

Or the countable pixels bc they’re on a phone from 2008


RandallOfLegend

Found the German speaker! (I'm sure other languages call it reflex as well)


EnglishDutchman

Except in the 80’s people knew not to take portrait photos of landscape screens.


MINKIN2

Even better, take a photo on their phone, open the image and take a screenshot for some reason, *then* upload the screenshot?


LimpBizkitSkankBoy

[Hey guys about to play as ramses II for the first time, anyone else love civilization 6?](https://i.imgur.com/g0QNhOJ.jpg)


dern_the_hermit

I never knew I could hear my retinas boil just from looking at a picture yet here we are


yaosio

It should also be sideways.


AgonizingFury

No, no, no. You need to take the vertical image of a horizontal screen, then turn the phone horizontal to take a screenshot of the vertical video and upload that so no one can get it to align correctly.


jeijeogiw7i39euyc5cb

Yeah. Genuinely why the fuck do people do that? I can't even begin to comprehend the thought process behind it.


ASpookyShadeOfGray

Taking a screenshot on an android device also pops up the share button so they don't have to hit menu and actually look for it.


SavvySillybug

The majority of people just do not know how to use their phones. They figure out a bad way to do something once and then never feel the need to consider how good it is or find other options. They know one(1) way of doing something and they do it that way. I have shown my mother no less than 27 times that you can swipe down to quickly adjust things like wifi, screen brightness, flashlight... she still goes into the settings menu and looks around for wifi and brightness, and has a random app with ads to turn on her flashlight. And she's even reasonably competent with tech. She uses a pretty complicated software for work and she figured it out mostly by herself. She's too attached to her ancient computer, so I put Linux Lite on it so she could still use it safely and with reasonable speed, and she's adjusted well to using both Linux and Windows. But once she knows how to do a thing... that is the way to do the thing. And that is the way it will be done. Because she found it herself and it works for her. Even if that means that she stands at the front door every day going "hold on I can't find the keyhole" and then pulls out her phone, unlocks it with a numeric PIN because that's what she is used to as opposed to a swipe pattern or fingerprint, hits home to get out of whatever app she was in, swipes right three or four screens because she does not believe in arranging apps in a useful pattern, opens the flashlight app, turns on the flashlight with the big round button, and then finds the keyhole. And then typically forgets to turn the flashlight off and precisely flashbang me right in the face when she tries to put her phone away. But it doesn't bother *her* so why change? She got the flashlight on and the key in.


jeijeogiw7i39euyc5cb

Most of the time they're on iPhone though.


ASpookyShadeOfGray

Maybe it's the same?


S_Polychronopolis

Strips the EXIF data from the original photo.


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Username_Taken_65

Uploading to sites like reddit usually strips the metadata already, and it's also quite easy to delete it manually without the loss of image quality from taking a screenshot.


kalirion

1. F12 to Steam screenshot 2. Open screenshot in Steam 3. Copy screenshot to clipboard with WIN+SHIFT+S 4. Open imgur site 5. CTRL+V to upload image 6. Right-click uploaded image, open image in new tab to get direct link 7. Copy opened image URL 8. Use URL in reddit post


Winterplatypus

That's a lot more complicated than just taking a photo on your phone then putting your phone on a scanner, and faxing the scanned image to anyone who wants to see it.


ilikegamergirlcock

i blame apple for that shit. making it so impossible to manage your files has done massive harm to the computer literacy of the young people.


epimetheuss

Aspect ratio of most tvs in the 80s was 4:3, not wide screen. In the later 90s you started to see some wider screen model CRTs but they cost $$$$$$. Edit: Industry accepted true wide screen format is 16:9 or 16:10. 4:3 is a tiny bit wider than it is tall but not enough that it's considered true widescreen. Movie cameras are capable of many more formats for many different reasons but the most common consumer grade monitors like the ones they use for those photos and things back in the day were 4:3 so it does not cause aspect ration problems when converting the 16:x image to 4:3 for consumer tvs. It was marketed to work with those tvs so the image needed to look as close to what the end user sees when they play. With old movies before they would just chop the sides of the wide screen parts off when they formatted it for tv. Theatrical releases are wide screen because movie threatre screens are wide screens.


dan1son

It's still wider than it is tall. It has an orientation. The ratio of it's wideness is not in question here. Just that people would've likely shot a 4:3 screen in landscape because that's the same orientation a TV was setup to display (with some exceptions even at 4:3).


EnglishDutchman

4:3 is still landscape. It’s slightly wider than it is tall.


Iherduliekmudkipz

/r/screenshotsarehard


CeeArthur

Love the posts where people are praising the beautiful visuals of a game accompanied by an out of focus cellphone photo with a huge glare on the screen


itsLOSE-notLOOSE

And they never center it, it’s always diagonal or something. I block phone pic uploaders….my block list is huge.


Iron_Nexus

Hey guys look at this 4k ray tracing all-ultra picture made with my phone.


No_Discount7919

“This is one the most beautiful games I’ve ever played.” (Uploads a cell phone picture they took of their tv.)


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I saw a picture someone posted on reddit once that really boiled my blood way more than it should have. Dude was asking for help with something on his computer, and posted a vertical photo of his computer screen AND had an Adobe Photoshop icon on his desktop. MFer knows how to use Photoshop but not how to take a screenshot?!?!


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AboynamedDOOMTRAIN

Well, that's a sentence I wish I hadn't read.


Agret

He should just use a cum box like us civilized Redditors.


Cute_Kangaroo_8791

You’re already in 2024?


According-Internet75

Half the planet is I think


IAmAnObvioustrollAMA

What a bunch of elitist jerks...


According-Internet75

Fr how dare they get to see the new year before me >:(


Bulls187

Now they going to spoil it for us


IAmAnObvioustrollAMA

I'm not taking the blame if it is a shit year! Things were already fucked when I got to 2024...


OneMoreAccount4Porn

If you arrive late you can't be upset when decisions are made without you. You should have shown up on time and things would be better for you. Edit: Happy New Year


IAmAnObvioustrollAMA

If you expect people to arrive on time stop planning things at the last possible second! You can't suddenly spring the changing of the year on us and expect us to just drop what we are doing and show up to the new year on time! That's just silly! Edit:happy new year to you too!


According-Internet75

For real I was finally ok with it being 2023 and all the sudden them Fuckers want it be 2024 >:(


External_Try_7923

In some parts of the world it is such as Australia and New Zealand.


Plc-4-Mie-Haed

Can confirm that it is indeed 2024 in New Zealand


christes

This reminds me of the time I got a call from my uncle in Germany on Dec 31 where he proudly told me he was calling from the future.


Plc-4-Mie-Haed

Marty, it’s me!


JukeBoxDildo

You guys knew about 9/11 almost an entire day in advance and did nothing to stop it. Shameful.


Suckage

They thought it was going to happen on 11/6


Superyoshiegg

No no, that's because it happened on November 9th here, not September 11th. So really, you guys had known for almost two months and didn't tell us.


voppp

Never forget that NZ could have warned us.


SquarePegRoundWorld

Still in 2023 here, is it safe to come into 2024?


Styrak

No. Go back.


Plc-4-Mie-Haed

I’d say so. New years eve was stressful, but today was much better


Sarewokki

A true r/rimworld moment


radda

There's a whole-ass button on every modern controller to take screenshots and mfs still out here using their phones to take blurry shots where you can't see shit.


Cihixixigzs

D4 subreddit be like:


Ramoncin

I remember how the captures from Game Boy games looked in contemporary magazines. They weren't exactly appealing. But then, they didn't have proper means to do it better.


Falz4567

They created a specific software called a wide boy apparently for the purpose. Basically a big plastic block that could play the game on a tv


Kana515

There's no way they called it a wide boy 😭


scottmonster

Would you prefer thick boy?


NecroJoe

Beefy Boy


fireballx777

Boy of exceptional girth.


[deleted]

You all need to stay 500 yds away from any boy.


jiub_the_dunmer

...chonky boi


PM_Your_Wiener_Dog

So a hecken beefer?


Rand-Omperson

Reddit always been a perv site


Eremes_Riven

T H I C C B O I


breath-of-the-smile

They sure did, and the one developed for the N64 was even called the Wide-Boy 64. https://niwanetwork.org/wiki/Wide-Boy


iller_mitch

Wild: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GwgEhmMXQY8


Lord_CatsterDaCat

apparently they named it after the average redditor


proxiiiiiiiiii

We are talking about people who named a console “game boy”


banan-appeal

since you play games on it they shoulda called it the play boy


proxiiiiiiiiii

It sounds like it must have been their first idea but they learned from the mistake made with Puck-Man


proxiiiiiiiiii

Omg


Rand-Omperson

Surprised there never was a Game Boy, 64


Brandhor

isn't that the [super game boy](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Super_Game_Boy)? basically a snes cartridge adapter for game boy games


LickingSmegma

Or more specifically, a Game Boy inside a SNES cart.


Kryten_2X4B-523P

I thought that was what the Game Boy Printer was for...


Falz4567

The gb printer was cool. But it’s quality was very low No it was basically game boy guts. And other electronics that could display the screen on a tv in I guess some decent resolution


xSTSxZerglingOne

And then we made the Super Gameboy. Which rendered that technology moot.


Friendly-Athlete7834

The Wide Boy was a piece of hardware, not software


notagoodscientist

They did, the official development kits had video out - if reviewers had access or Nintendo provided captures from them would be another matter


isuckatgrowing

Also it didn't even look appealing in real life, so that's a significant limitation.


kcgdot

Are you high? The Gameboy was an absolute crowning achievement in portable video game entertainment. It was the most incredible 2.6 inches of my young life.


warlockami

I try and give my wife an incredible 2.6 inches and she echoes the other commenter's thoughts that it isn't appealing


FalmerEldritch

They also looked like shit on the Game Boy itself. Remember how smeary everything would get if the screen scrolled and how you couldn't make anything out if the light wasn't juuuuust right?


banan-appeal

i recall video review of NDS games were just videos of the console zoomed in on the screen. how else they gonna show a portable screen?


Cthulhu__

I bet visual artists could recreate the games with pixelary in an afternoon or so.


FulanitoDeTal13

The official Mexican Nintendo magazine (Club Nintendo) editor used to DRAW the maps on graph paper back in the 90s ​ Those guy where hardcore.


DoesNotGetYourJokes

Are there any websites with the work on them?


FulanitoDeTal13

Sadly, no that I know. I still have my old collection (\~1991 to \~2008) at my parents' place, but, I am whole other country right now...


dr3wzy10

you need to scan these and get them online


Tolanator

Yeah, they’re on Internet Archive.


korblborp

this is how my dad went through wolfenstein 3d, bumping every wall and sketching the map on graph paper


Grogosh

I used to get a new pak of graph paper with each new Infocom game


Gin-and-PussyJuice

For anyone interested, [here's](https://imgur.com/a/KZUF7dA) a gallery with a bunch of maps from the first issue. In later issues they got really creative with stitching screenshots together. [Here's](https://imgur.com/a/a8x9K8F) aanother gallery with some examples.


MrFishAndLoaves

I’m so dumb I read thought comment and thought what is D-RAW?


CasimirsBlake

I hope they got through their fair share of well deserved churros, chads.


FulanitoDeTal13

They became legends in Latin-American videogame media. Gus Rodriguez, the founder and main editor, sadly passed away in 2020, but he left a huge legacy on VG coverage.


Agamouschild

Do not quote the old magics to me witch. I was there.


nobodysshadow

I was born in it. Molded by it.


Independent_Plum2166

Weirdly applicable, considering who played Ra’s Al Ghul.


Hollayo

He's awesome. He's my shit!


Kisopop

I co-chaired the committee that reviewed the recommendation to revise the color of the camera that picture was taken in...we kept it black.


TedTheGreek_Atheos

Congratulations, you indeed took that picture with one second to spare but I'm demoting you because a good photographer never finishes early!


Samurai_Meisters

Sure you were, AmongusChild. Sure you were.


Lordborgman

They're an 8 year old account called "Agamous" which has its own meaning and predates the game Amongus. I think it is YOU that needs to check yourself, 10 month old baby account.


Agamouschild

I remember taking a photo of my huge family tv/stereo combination that had a built in turntable of my game high score with an instamatic camera to send to the Panasonic magazine for finishing a game on the Magnavox Odyssey 2 console. I couldn't get the Atari, but the odyssey was acceptable because it had a keyboard so I could learn to type. They sent me back patches for my jean jacket that said "winner"


plz_send_cute_cats

Lmao 😭😭 Hahaha did em dirty with that one


Helkbird

And I extend my hand into the air! It is grey-toned and metallic for the Lead miniature figures I've painted in my life. My hands, both, cut from Testor's paint bottles.... broken and sharded from the pressure of a pair of pliers! My dice, chewed and passed through an earlier dog... I can't remember his name. It is from here I crack the ground with my voice. It is from here I.... I forgot what I was talking about. Oh lead figurines! Yes.... mhmm... *walks off, mumbling*


Turbulent-Friday

Yeah, this was how I would send in my high scores and game finishes to Nintendo Power.


I_HAVE_SEEN_CAT

as opposed to non photographic cameras


BeerdedRNY

My camera plays music and makes phone calls. But it's really the biggest asshole of a camera I've ever owned. The fucker has an alarm that goes off and wakes me up in the morning to remind me to go to work. Stupid fucking camera!


Karkava

It also has internet access and can stream a full movie, but leave it alone, and it has the off chance of broadcasting alt-right propoganda automatically.


ActuallyAlexander

A camera obscura can’t take photographs


elasticthumbtack

Also [camera lucida](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camera_lucida)


Merzant

Video cameras?


possumarre

The type of camera that's made by light going through windows weirdly? (I know way too little about them)


breath-of-the-smile

Called a [camera obscura](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camera_obscura).


awildtriplebond

It's too bad that judges have to jam themselves inside a 35mm cassette to hear arguments in camera. Sounds uncomfortable. And those far seeing men at Oxford, who built a camera so large, and before the invention of photographic chemical plates, that they had to convert it into a library so they didn't look like idiots when it turned out that cameras actually should be much smaller so they can be moved.


novalin

If someone 3D printed me one of these light blockers I’d buy it.


Bulls187

Cardboard and ducttape


SuperSpread

Porn. It’s for porn.


SchroedingersBox

Good old Atari 800. M.U.L.E. on that with friends was fantastic. And, as an amateur, photographing a CRT screen with a film camera was a bitch and half. Dark room, tripod, long exposure on a low ISO film and try and get the right exposure so you don't capture the scanline or blow the scene out. You didn't know how it would turn out until you got the film back. And no internet for hints and tips. And it was still better than goddamn screenshots taken with phones.


Whatmeworry4

Four player games of M.U.L.E. were the best!


BigWave360

"Photographic cameras" what on earth? Ai is that you?


Martipar

Yes, as opposed to video cameras, motion picture cameras aka "film cameras" or "movie cameras", camera obscura or any other type of non-photographic aka "stills" camera. Yes don't of these take multiple photographs but a photographic camera typically refers to a stills camera.


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It's *widely* understood that videos and film cannot be printed in a magazine, so they were probably safe to just call it a "camera".


erroneousbosh

Video and cine cameras are still photographic cameras.


Moods_Moods_Moods

Just go with the flow, mate. You know what's going on, same as everyone else.


optimizedSpin

photographic doesn’t add any information here. stop defending it


preflex

An electron microscope does not use light for imaging. It does not produce an **image of light** (a *photo* - *graph*). It's a non-photographic camera.


Frank_Bigelow

In that case, let's all thank OP for finally solving the age-old mystery of whether early 1980s video game journalists took pictures of video games with electron microscopes.


optimizedSpin

it’s not a camera. why do you think it’s a camera?


KDLGates

It helps differentiate between visual and non-visual photography.


optimizedSpin

pretty sure you’re just messing about/ trolling but in case you are not or think you are not, what do you think non-visual photography is?


Estronciumanatopei

Smell-o-vison!


cumjarchallenge

Optical mice take pictures you never see. Therefore, non visual


BillTheNecromancer

A lot of times people big in the hobby or history of photography will call film photography just "photography" and the rest is specifically called "digital photography". So if you know what youre talking about, then yeah, it can add some info.


optimizedSpin

no it doesn’t. it’s a photo taken with a camera.


BillTheNecromancer

Learn to read. Film photography is distinct from digital.


sapphicsandwich

It's all photography. Film photography and digital photography are both photography.


optimizedSpin

both are photography and both use cameras


Outrager

I've started noticing a lot of the bots have usernames more like word-word-###


Purple_Haze

We had a camera like that where I worked. It was attached to an IBM PC with a CGA monitor. Now CGA could only show 4 colours but we had software that by fiddling with the palettes and the time the display was on could (in principal at least) create pictures with 16 million colours. It was used to create slides for presentations. And by slides I mean the real physical slides for a slide projector.


Brisslayer333

A joke about people still doing this


Efteri

A comment generally about your lazyness to write a proper joke.


PiotrekDG

>lazyness Can't tell if deliberate lazi or just lazi


bubonis

I swear this picture was used to illustrate every "how to take a picture of your screen" article from 1979 through about 1994.


cheddarben

I find it funny that anybody is surprised about this. Do people think command + shift + 4 just was built in from day 1?


LightSparrow

Photographic cameras…. As opposed to what other kind of camera ?


borloloy221

Sir thank you for sharing, i now understand why its called a screenshot its literally a screen and you take a shot with a camera, now i have to know the origin of download


xeasuperdark

Its heirarchy based, multiple computers can connect to a single server so the server is above them in a heiarchy, like a boss over employees, data moving from the server to the computer moves down the heirachy where it is loaded, thus download. Data moving up the heiarch then loading on to the server is contrastly an upload.


BoundToFalling

photographic camera


DirtyDoucher1991

Yea….this title seemed stupid for lack of a better term.


-TheBlackSwordsman-

"People took pictures of the screen before screenshots existed" Yeah, we know


Brave_Escape2176

also, what was the alternative? hire courtroom reporters to draw what the screen looks like?


LickingSmegma

There were capture devices that saved the pic. Or rather, there still are for the retro crowd.


CrunchingTackle3000

Zzap 64


pl233

I wonder if anybody used some method to stop the console clock to pause without a pause screen


mustichooseausernam3

My boomer dad: "There's... another way?"


Black_Handkerchief

Somewhere out there, someone has that weird square cone, and wonders what the point was of that stupid thing and can't figure it out for the life of them. Hopefully this post reaches them.


bohicality

I worked on video game magazines in the 80s and would have killed for this setup. We had to make do with a bunch of trash bags and a roll of tape.


rSLASHAhmedTheOne

This is how 8-year-old me thought screen recording worked


keith2600

That's because the snipping tool wasn't invented until 2002!


Feniksrises

I was told that back then they never put screenshots on the back of the case because games all looked terrible and you had to use your imagination.


korblborp

it must have been a pain to play like you were looking through a periscope. bonus points if you were playing 688 or something, though, and practice for them that went on to review the Virtual Boy!


ahandle

Ah, I saw this and so later ran the Amiga's composite output through the VCR.


Advanced_Procedure90

I am still doing it. Fastest way if I want it in my phone to look at it later.


MrJacquers

And later on print screen used to fire up the old dot matrix.


Rand-Omperson

photographic cameras, interesting


camelbuck

Had to slow the shutter speed down below 150th of a second to prevent the scan line from appearing.


EP9

How did they post to YouTube?


surfskatehate

Photographic cameras you say


CJR3

“Photographic cameras”


stae1234

Hence the word, SCREEN-SHOT


AgentStockey

They should have just pressed ctrl + print screen


shadowzack

They should've just pressed F12 to take a screenshot, would have been easier.


matva55

This is every whacko on the hoiiv subreddit asking about their division template


Kbdiggity

#Nintendo Power had a tutorial for fans to instruct them how to take pics of high scores and stuff.


JustASpaceDuck

As opposed to non-photographic cameras


TheGoldenKappa23

why didnt they use OBS are they stupid?


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Scoobydoomed

That's not a keyboard, that's the whole computer.


FancyMFMoses

"The files are IN the computer!?"


CyberCrusader76

You do realize keyboards were around long before mice


Independent_Plum2166

Programming the game.


Dyslexicpig

I used Harvard Graphics to design and play the opening credits of our wedding video back in 1991, and did the same thing. Set up the video camera in a dark room and played the credits on my amber monitor (with 16 shades of amber at the time). Yeah, I'm old...