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Doesn't it look cooler now because it's "retro"? I'm sure the people who were forced to use it for hardware reasons would've loved to have all 24 bits available

Doesn't it look cooler now because it's "retro"? I'm sure the people who were forced to use it for hardware reasons would've loved to have all 24 bits available to them.

yesenadam 6y ago
Primitive/retro looking cool reminds me of Veblen on the "exaltation of the defective": "...the cheap, and therefore indecorous, articles of daily consumption in modern industrial communities are commonly machine products; and the generic feature of the physiognomy of machine-made goods as compared with the hand-wrought article is their greater perfection in workmanship and greater accuracy in the detail execution of the design. Hence it comes about that the visible imperfections of the hand-wrought goods, being honorific, are accounted marks of superiority in point of beauty, or serviceability, or both. Hence has arisen that exaltation of the defective, of which John Ruskin and William Morris were such eager spokesmen in their time; and on this ground their propaganda of crudity and wasted effort has been taken up and carried forward since their time. And hence also the propaganda for a return to handicraft and household industry. So much of the work and speculations of this group of men as fairly comes under the characterisation here given would have been impossible at a time when the visibly more perfect goods were not the cheaper." – Thorstein Veblen, The Theory of the Leisure Class, 1899, p162
- sitkack 6y ago
  $40 mac and cheese with peas, arctic salt with pulled mammoth jerky in a margarine glaze.
  - yesenadam 6y ago
    I have no idea what that means or why I upvoted it. Because it's funny I guess. Thank you.
dehrmann 6y ago
Posterizing, which I guess is a type of low-bit dithering, or not dithering at all, has been popular of a long time. There's the famous Obama "Hope" poster with him in front of a French flag that was really popular in 2008.
- durakot 6y ago
  Posterizing is fine but dithering is an art unto itself.

Doesn't it look cooler now because it's "retro"? I'm sure the people who were forced to use it for hardware reasons would've loved to have all 24 bits available to them.

yesenadam 6y ago

Primitive/retro looking cool reminds me of Veblen on the "exaltation of the defective": "...the cheap, and therefore indecorous, articles of daily consumption in modern industrial communities are commonly machine products; and the generic feature of the physiognomy of machine-made goods as compared with the hand-wrought article is their greater perfection in workmanship and greater accuracy in the detail execution of the design. Hence it comes about that the visible imperfections of the hand-wrought goods, being honorific, are accounted marks of superiority in point of beauty, or serviceability, or both. Hence has arisen that exaltation of the defective, of which John Ruskin and William Morris were such eager spokesmen in their time; and on this ground their propaganda of crudity and wasted effort has been taken up and carried forward since their time. And hence also the propaganda for a return to handicraft and household industry. So much of the work and speculations of this group of men as fairly comes under the characterisation here given would have been impossible at a time when the visibly more perfect goods were not the cheaper." – Thorstein Veblen, The Theory of the Leisure Class, 1899, p162

sitkack 6y ago
$40 mac and cheese with peas, arctic salt with pulled mammoth jerky in a margarine glaze.
- yesenadam 6y ago
  I have no idea what that means or why I upvoted it. Because it's funny I guess. Thank you.

dehrmann 6y ago

Posterizing, which I guess is a type of low-bit dithering, or not dithering at all, has been popular of a long time. There's the famous Obama "Hope" poster with him in front of a French flag that was really popular in 2008.

durakot 6y ago
Posterizing is fine but dithering is an art unto itself.