oh god how did this get here i am not good with computer

 


 

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The scenes with the shark are usually very intense and disturbing.

 

I use Arch BTW

 

Fun fact: Neo-Nazi dipshit cartoonist Stonetoss is in fact Hans Kristian Graebener of Spring, Texas


Decade
@Decade

Is it weird that I prefer the look of pixel art as it's displayed on modern monitors as opposed to CRTs?


Decade
@Decade

To clarify, I mean i like sprites looking more clean and blocky as opposed to blurred on an older display.


DecayWTF
@DecayWTF

I mean I love CRT art but people also overstate how much CRT art was "made for that"; lots of quality CRTs had very sharp pixels and the artists were drawing for those sharp pixels. Plenty of older games look great with sharp pixels and were really meant to be played that way. Not everything was Vagrant Story.


jake2
@jake2

wait, how were they meant to be played with sharp pixels? what kind of display would allow that?


DecayWTF
@DecayWTF

Quality CRTs? I used to have a Sony Trinitron that was sharper than my current LCD


NireBryce
@NireBryce

so funny that gamers are paying huge amounts to get 144hz monitors when we had 500hz monitors for awhile


DecayWTF
@DecayWTF

Not ripping on people who never used them but there were great CRTs back in the day. The problem was not refresh or display sharpness - you could cut yourself on the pixels from some high end displays even in the late 80s - it was that they weighed 60 fucking kilos and needed their own power substation. You could severely injure yourself moving them and god help you if you let the magic smoke out


DecayWTF
@DecayWTF

Also as Nire points out you can't make your monitor go BWAAAAARM anymore and display an acid trip rainbow to make them sharpen back up


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i'm pretty sure all of the best displays I've ever seen in person were CRTs

damn I wish I had been able to keep one of the Apple studio displays from an old gig but that sounds like a compatibility nightmare also it was like 50 lbs and drew 120W

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