I'm the Crusty ole Gamer, just a CoG in the machine.
I had to program in basic, uphill, both ways, in the snow.
When we had to use Fortran, we didn't whine about it... we shut up and did it, because it built character.
Long before you were swimming laps in your daddy's sack, I was transcribing machine code from a magazine into a Vic20 just to watch a sixteen color sprite shamble across the screen for ten seconds at best.
You want to talk about loading times?! When the loading screen says press play on tape, you know you're in for the long haul.
Now sit back junior because you're about to get taken to school.