Rules are rules

Dude what are you talking about, it was still here less than 15 years ago. The Nintendo Wii literally had an ATI GPU
- I hate to break it to you but the Wii came out 17 years ago
  
  It came out in 2006, but production didn’t stop until 2013. There is still a very active homebrew and modding community out there.
  
  Not that much time
- How about this one then?
  
  Oh come on that's not even that old
  Looks at release date
  oh...
  
  Oh I had that one it was great
- I’m 30 and my back hurts. Has done for 8+ years. So this could apply to anyone ~22 or over in my experience.
- Well most people wouldn't really know the name of a company like that until they were 15 or so, and 30 is when the back pain really starts to hit so it seems pretty accurate.

fuck you
yes
- Now remind me I'm supposed to schedule a prostate exam.

Do you mean this?

Yes, anyone over 30 is super old omg lol. I can't even imagine how horrible it must be!

So every GameCube owner? Since the GC has a “Graphics by ATi” sticker on the front.
- The wii had that as well

i would have went with this rule
- I would have gone with the Antikythera Mechanism myself
  
  or this tbh
- I learned to program on a CoCo3 that was hooked to a 13" CRT as a monitor.

Is ATI not still around? I thought I still saw Radeon GPUs pretty regularly, no?
- They got bought up by AMD and their mobile GPU division got bought by qualcom.
  
  Adreno is an anagram of Radeon
- AMD bought ATI a while ago. The ATI brand hasn't existed for about as long but AMD kept branding their GPUs with Radeon

Athlon64 days!
- Slot A Athlon's

I love being 46 and in relatively good health. I remember ATI and nothing aches (งツ)ว
- Fuck you, I wish you a continued long and healthy life ლ(ಠ益ಠლ)

How about this one:
- Security Industry Specialists?
  I worked for them. And also won a CLA against them for not paying my or my coworkers wages.
  
  Damn, I hope you got a good payout. The logo is for a taiwanese foundry called Silicon Integrated Systems; they used to make very cheap chipsets and stuff like that.
- I had one of these, it was terrible, me and my friends called it The Cyst.
  
  My first "multimedia" computer back in '99 had an integrated SiS VGA card, with an amazing 8MB video RAM.
  Before that, my computer was a keyboard-only monochrome 386 with windows 3.1
  Yes, my back is killing me but my knees are surprisingly ok.
- There was a 15 minute window where the 735 was the best Socket A chipset on the market.
  Unfortunately, they couldn't get past cheapo ECS mainboards.
- Thank you for the memory! The first "retail" card I ever purchased (from a small town computer shop), literally just said AGP Graphics Adapter on the box... and inside was a delightfully generic SiS board, with which I had many fun hours.
- My super7 mainboard was the best! Upgrade to a k6-2 and I've overclocked the bus to 112mhz

they do, but for the reasons you think ;)

ATI 9800 pro held a special place in my heart. If I remember correctly it's what I played half life 2 on.
- IIRC that was the ideal GPU to play Half-life 2. My 9700m could not keep up. I was only 16 at the time, so I fell for the lies from the DELL salesman when I was buying my first gaming machine for that game. He told me that mobile GPUs are almost as good as desktop GPUs, and that the 9700m was almost as good as the 9800 desktop card. It was not.
  Barely got 30 FPS on medium, and I couldn't run it at the laptop's native resolution of 1900x1200. Had to settle for 1280x800 and the crappy upscaling of the time.
  I worked my ass off an entire summer for that stupid brick of a laptop (it was a first gen XPS, BTW), and it couldn't even do 60 FPS in the latest games. I was betrayed so hard by that purchase that I learned how to build my own PCs so I'd never have to settle for an overpriced "gaming" laptop ever again.
  
  Oh jeez. Fuck that salesman. :( That's an awful thing to do to a kid. Money comes so hard at that age.
  I had a self build and a decent CRT at the time so scaling wasn't an issue but I remember how horrible it was in those days on LCDs. It actually put me off moving from the CRT for a long time.
  I definitely overclocked that card and it was really good for that even on the stock cooler but I do vaguely remember it struggling with HL2. I can't remember what CPU I had so that could have been the bottleneck.

I remember the Voodoo brand cards, so not only do my back and knees hurt, but I should probably start getting my prostate checked.

FFS. My first GPU was an ATI 9250. My knees are fine thank you!

FUCK YOU, also yes :(

I mean the cards were much lighter over what's made today.... So backs are ok.

Mid 40s and the two weeks my buddy lent me his voodoo 2, which was CPU-INDEPENDENT, were some of the best times I had playing FF7 on my DX4. I should have my prostate checked.
- It ain't so bad. Just make sure you go home and take a shower and don't head back to work after....
  Also choose your urologist by glove size.
  
  You mean largest glove size right?👉🏻👈🏻

Hah! Jokes on you my back started hurting when I was 10 and my knees when I was 18! :'(
- That's funny, for me it was my knees at 10!

My back and knees hurt back when AMD bought ATI.

My first Video card was Cirrus Logic. Spent $110 dollars to get 2 512KB memory chips to add to the card, but combined the 2MB video made Wing Commander III look great!

I've started yelling at clouds too. Are you happy now?
- I work in IT supporting cloud based architecture. Yelling at clouds is my job.

Consider getting a coloscopy.
- They let you shit in a box and mail it now.
  But remember, there is a specific lab you're supposed to send it to.
  
  But remember, there is a specific lab you're supposed to send it to.
  Not true. You can always send it to my boss's house if you'd prefer.

My knees are fine and my back doesn't hurt from age.
- Healthy knees and back ATI crew gather right here! 👇✋

I remember this brand fondly but, my back and knee pains aren't from age but from getting side-swipped by an SUV on my motorcycle a few years ago. 30s isn't old, it's just adult, instead of young adult of the 20s.

Get off my lawn

My back hurt when this brand was still separated from AMD.
- You had a long and full life. I’m sorry for your family’s imminent loss.
- Same ... but interestingly for 3Dfxs fall I was still an invincible young lad, not knowing the meaning of chronic pain (or about that becoming the norm for a good day). Im still nostalgically sad about 3Dfx, and the later acquisition by nVidia ... which then fucking used the SLI brand but made the acronym mean something else. It was not necessary.

fuck you
it's just my back. My knees are perfectly ok somehow

Fuck you No I'm actually doing very good. I know the brand from my parents

Yep

If you remember this brand and your back and knees hurt you probably shoulda spent more time exercising, but the good news is it probably isnt too late to eat healthy and take care of your body.

Pfff. I had a Compaq laptop with a "blazing fast 12mbps" Express WiFi card. Everything hurts.

That's just mean :(

gonna fire up my ATI capture card and get my STANDARD DEF XL-1 footage into FCP 2.1....probably lay down some sweet Thievery Corporation track as a my background music.
How the fuck am I nostalgic for that?

Only 25 but yes they do hurt.

Pour one out for ATI :(

Monster voodoo 3d
- The good old days when you had just two choices and were either in the Riva TNT or the Voodoo club for a graphics card.
  
  When you needed more than one voodoo card to be cool.

Mostly my shoulder tbh

This could be a nursing meme and still 100% accurate lol

Needs more 3Dfx

The 9x00 Gen ATI cards were awesome. The 9500 could be modded into an honest to goodness 9700. The 9700 was just a downclocked 9700pro. The things you could do with bios mods and a little overclocking were just great.
My back gets sore just thinking about all the time I spent crawling around my PC case on the floor.

Bad take 😆

ATI died 13-14 years ago.