NireBryce

reality is the battlefield

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๐Ÿฅ I am not embroiled in any legal battle
๐Ÿฆ other than battles that are legal ๐ŸŽฎ

I speak to the universe and it speaks back, in it's own way.

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I live on the northeast coast of the US.

'non-functional programmer'. 'far left'.

conceptual midwife.

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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


NireBryce
@NireBryce

yeah but with a lot of these gamers only having finger strength i figure a 20lb monitor and a 350lb monitor are about the same level of out of spec


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in reply to @Decade's post:

in reply to @DecayWTF's post:

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