Never forget what they took from us
I guess it’s very much a matter of taste.
Ten years or so earlier, you could still get a TV where the sides of the case were made of wood. Wood, metal and black plastic throughout. Physical buttons that went ‘clunk’, a physical slider to adjust the volume, a metal dial for tuning.
To me, that was peak design.
Wrong, you can get colored and transparent shells for the Steam Deck. Design technology is still peaking.
)I only got the backplate but man I’m tempted to do the front too.
Also transparent filaments are great. I 3D printed an olfa knife handle in transparent green (think Razer’s green) and it looks fucking awesome.
I like how they threw a 2DS into the pile of late 90s, early 2000s tech.
Fun factoid of the day: The Nintendo 2DS only actually has one screen. Go ahead, open one up, you’ll see…
fun followup of the day: a “factoid” is something that isn’t true, but is presented as being true. go ahead, look it up!
Interesting. I might research that on the toilet tonight, or just drop the word factoid from my vocabulary.
Regardless, clowns still have to go to college, while politicians do not. Fun fact of the day!
i wrote it on the toilet before bed, so that seems apt.
Initially I agreed, but actually I think it stands. The design is similar enough, regardless of era. Honestly, I really do wish this kind of design would come back
Technology design peaked here:
Eventually all of these products found a place in our hearts.
And our brains, our kidneys and for some of us, our balls.
I don’t know why, but translucent colored plastic gives me “cheap garbage” vibes. Probably because knock off memory cards and controllers for the PS1/PS2 used exactly that design.
Well if you don’t like black rectangle, you can have silver rectangle.
RGB, plastic edition.
The original iMac being the device that kicked off the colored, translucent plastic craze of the late 1990s and early 2000s.
There was a translucent George Foreman grill!
Translucent products had been around for a decade prior to those iMacs. If anything, they marked the beginning of the end for the trend.
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I always thought it was a Nintendo thing first.
Translucent George Foreman grill? For real?
Did it even have a power switch? Mine isn’t translucent, but my OG George Foreman grill does not even have a power switch, you literally gotta unplug that mofo if you don’t want your house to burn down.
Later: We all have 8 different flavors of cancer from these
Did…did you eat your atomic purple N64?
It was just a nibble!
We were all tempted. It’s okay.
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That translucent blue plastic becomes about the most absolute brittle shit over time. When they say plastic lasts hundreds if not thousands of years, translucent blue plastic missed that memo.
When they say it lasts, they don’t mean it stays in the exact same condition and shape.
Most of it is in my balls now.
Now they’re technically not blanks 🙏
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Microplastics are stored in the balls.
Well, you’re not wrong…
Plastic lasts thousands of years, most of it lasts tens of thousands of years but blue plastic singlehandedly brings down the average.
Gold Plastic Syndrome has entered the chat
It just looks so… technological
Give me translucent Game Boy Color any day :)
That blue ps2 looks dope af
