Question on things like this. Do we only prefer these because of true nostalgia, or because everything truly is worse now? I am unsure how one can have nostalgia for a time before they were even alive, but that seems to be a strong sentiment among many young people I've talked to. I know my most enjoyable days are turning off my phone and watching vhs tapes and playing ps1/atari. I truly think those times were far better than now.
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I think you can feel nostalgic for a time before you were alive in the sense that you long for the vision of the future they had then, as opposed to the current shitshow.
there's also just the fact that everything's so fucking samey nowadays, so things from the past look better simply because it's novel to us.
True. Just like cars, they look novel but in 1969 every car had round headlights.
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Youtube channel Black Pants Legion did an extremely 80's intro to one of their Tex Talks Battletech videos, it's the Marauder video. Similar aesthetic to the above, complete with drum machine and Yamaha synths, neon lines painting themselves in...the music you could have achieved in the 80's, not the visuals, not at this resolution and framerate, but they would have loved it if you could.
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Needs more serifs.
never realized that discord's logo is supposed to be a console controller
It's way too squished to me to see it as that, the problem with minimalism I suppose. I always saw it as a weird little face, like for Wumpus or a different strangely shaped creature.
it looks like some sort of dog-pig-goat hybrid, with long floppy ears that hug the head.
I was expecting Orwell references.
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