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Well, I for one don't think everything is ugly. Apple devices and stores look clean and elegant to me. Tesla vehicles feel and look simple and beautiful to me
by cs702 3y ago
Well, I for one don't think everything is ugly.
Apple devices and stores look clean and elegant to me.
Tesla vehicles feel and look simple and beautiful to me.
If given a choice, I'd rather live in new buildings with bright, light-filled interiors than in old buildings with darker, mustier interiors.
I could provide more examples of things I don't think are ugly. The main point is this:
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.
- JadeNB 3y ago> Tesla vehicles look beautiful to me. As you say, beauty is in the eye of the beholder—but, seriously, the Cybertruck as a thing of beauty? (This is from someone who actually liked the boxy car designs of old.)
- pixl97 3y agoEvery family has that ugly cousin no one talks about.
- xprn 3y agoObligatory “if you don’t know who it is, it’s you”
- cs702 3y agoYes, the Cybertruck looks great to me. Is it different? Yes. But ugly? Not in my view. Have you seen it in person?
- callalex 3y agoI had the opposite experience. I thought pictures on the internet looked neat because it was unique. In person it causes an almost physical reaction in me because I found it so hideous.
- JadeNB 3y ago> Have you seen it in person? I have not. I can't imagine it improving that much in person, but who knows? Anyway, whether I think it's ugly, in person or from afar, is not the issue; I was surprised that someone found it beautiful (which is different from just not being ugly), but I certainly don't mean to argue the point.
- lijok 3y agoI find it beautiful as well, but beauty for me transcends the visual and into the conceptual / historical. It’s interesting, unique, strange and therefore beautiful.
- filoeleven 3y agoAs a comparison data point, have you also studied Esperanto?
- lijok 3y agoNo, sorry, no idea who Esperanto is
- JadeNB 3y agoI think the reference was to the language https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Esperanto https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Esperanto, which is interesting and strange. (I am not sure to what extent it is unique, but it is probably the best known among the conlangs.)
- lijok 3y agoThat looks very interesting. Thanks
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- martythemaniak 3y agoCybertruck fan here, I wouldn't describe it as either ugly or beautiful. It is bold and different, and utterly unlike anything else out there, much the same way modern architecture was 70 years ago and modern art 100+ years ago. I find this very appealing.
- at_compile_time 3y agoIf you don't like the Cybertruck, you can close your browser tab and not be offended further. Tesla 3s and Ys exist in the real world, and they're more pleasant to look at than most vehicles.
- Yujf 3y agoAre they? Something about them seems off to me, but I cant put my finger on it
- xyzelement 3y agoNo grille in the front?
- mewpmewp2 3y agoModel S looks good to me, but others look kind of funny or not in correct proportions and the front lights of those are also weird.
- NoPedantsThanks 3y agoRelax. He didn't lash out in fury at their existence. He just said he doesn't like their appearance. Did you design it or something?
- at_compile_time 3y agoI couldn't read any strong emotion in my comment. Maybe it's on your end?
- Klonoar 3y agoDef not just on their end, your comment reads needlessly aggressive.
- at_compile_time 3y agoWell then, my apologies.
- vagab0nd 3y agoYour comment just proved the point of gp. Even if you think something is ugly, why not acknowledge the fact that some might consider it beautiful?
- JadeNB 3y ago> Even if you think something is ugly, why not acknowledge the fact that some might consider it beautiful? I do. I was checking to see whether my parent really meant to include Cybertrucks among things of beauty. I didn't say that they were wrong—I think I made my point of view implicitly clear, but also said, in a reply https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39081204 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39081204 to cs702's reply https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39080900 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39080900, that my opinion was of no relevance to whether they found it beautiful. Or maybe you mean, why even go so far as to ask the question?—but, well, this is a discussion board, the topic under discussion is specifically whether everything is ugly, and Teslas were advanced contra that thesis, so it seemed relevant!
- GolfPopper 3y agoThe Cybertruck looks like something from the Rigger Black Book for Shadowrun. (Whether that's good or bad is, as JadeNB says, left as an exercise for the viewer. But for me it definitely fits its name.)
- bigstrat2003 3y agoWhat gets me about the Cybertruck is that it feels like it's almost a cool design. I feel like if I squint my eyes, I can almost see a modern version of the DeLorean design (which was cool as hell). But it went wrong somewhere, and Tesla took a left turn into the ugly zone.
- maximus-decimus 3y agoI like the look of the cybertruck. I also like the look of my Thinkpad 420. GIVE ME BIG ANGULAR THINGS. I for sure find the cybertruck prettier than 99% of cars on the roads anyway. The SUVs are especially ugly imo.
- randomdata 3y agoWhat's beauty? It seems like a bit of a handwavy term.
- jurgenaut23 3y agoWe are talking about beauty here, and the first thing that comes to mind is freakin' Apple devices and Tesla vehicles? Even by HN standard, that feels like ... weird.
- KptMarchewa 3y agoThis is what a lot of negative comments were about, so there's nothing weird about also commenting on that.
- throwaway295729 3y agoAs soon as they added the 3-eyed protruding camera, iPhone’s lost a lot of their appeal. Tesla vehicles look fairly bland, dry and devoid of emotion to me. There are things that objectively make something more beautiful. Symmetry for example. Not all beauty is in the eye of the beholder.