Needs more serifs.
this post was submitted on 08 Apr 2025
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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.
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.
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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.
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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Man, a lot of those are really excellent designs
1984 flickered a lot
It's what the yout's think the 80's looked like.
Needed more rolling shutter and film grain. Also sepia tone.
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I enjoyed this way more than I thought I would.
Thanks for sharing!
I was expecting Orwell references.
Man I wish we’d go back to fun and unique logos. Now everything is minimalist lower case crap that looks the same
What, you don't like every app icon being a white logo on a rounded blue square?
(go count yours, I personally have 19)
22 if I'm generous with the definition
I think you got an e-mail.
You blue yourself.
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They look better to me.
Because they aren't minimalistic and "safe"
they have personality, character, and charm
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.