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   Paul Hart (paulhart@mastodon.gamedev.place)'s status on Monday, 06-May-2024 03:13:31 JST Paul Hart

   • Thomas 🔭🕹️

   @thomasfuchs also the simple fact that these products are being made because they’re targeting a market with disposable income enough to afford them.

   And mea culpa, I’ve often wanted (and sometimes purchased) stuff like this. At this point I think I’d be fine with a retro-styled Game Dad and a couple of MicroSD cards.

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     rootCompute (rootcompute@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 06-May-2024 03:23:54 JST rootCompute

     • Thomas 🔭🕹️

     @thomasfuchs If I can't like Windows XP because it existed at the same time as the Iraq war, then I guess every piece of technology and media that exists today should be invalidated while existing concurrent to the mass slaughter of Palestinians (or war in Ukraine if you prefer)

     Nostalgia absolutely can be weaponized in reactionary movements but that doesn't mean it is categorically wrong. By the same token, new technology is not good because some people's social values have improved

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     Santiago Lema :amiga: (santiago@masto.lema.org)'s status on Monday, 06-May-2024 05:20:32 JST Santiago Lema :amiga:

     • Thomas 🔭🕹️

     @thomasfuchs History moves on several axes at the same time. Some of them backwards at times. I think it’s sane to pick from each period some specific items and trash the rest.

     One can get inspired by 1950’s design furniture and not wish to go back to such dark times for minorities.

     In terms of computing retro doesn’t always mean going back to the 80s but trying to rebuild some human joy that existed in the tech itself before advertising and A.I. took hold. Neo-retro as some say