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submitted 5 days ago by Alvaro to c/showerthoughts@lemmy.world

Just shows how phones stopped innovating on design

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[-] early_riser@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

Even crazier that 2008 isn’t modern anymore.

[-] homes@piefed.world 137 points 5 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

good design is timeless

this chair was designed in 1958 and still remains one of the most popular chairs in the world

[-] lIlIlIlIlIlIl@lemmy.world 16 points 5 days ago

Point well made

[-] RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 7 points 5 days ago

Airline lobby bench seating.

[-] homes@piefed.world 5 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

These chairs go for $2500 a pop (for a reproduction). You’re not gonna see one of these in any lobby.

An authentic one from the 50s (when you can find one) sells at auction for $5-8k+

[-] RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 13 points 4 days ago

In no way did I mean that statement literally.

It was a sarcastic reference. This style of seat is quite common in terminals.

[-] homes@piefed.world 1 points 4 days ago

Oh, I see what you mean. Yeah, the design has certainly inspired a lot of imitations.

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[-] Alvaro 11 points 5 days ago

Don't get me wrong, I do like how the DSi looks, but the ones with themes are 10x cooler, and it goes to show that the design CAN be exciting

[-] homes@piefed.world 5 points 5 days ago

to my knowledge, I've never seen this... whatever it is. I don't even know what it is.

but it looks cool.

that's worth a lot

[-] CmdrShepard49@sh.itjust.works 4 points 5 days ago

Its one of those Nintendos that all the neighborhood grandkids are playing

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[-] etherphon@piefed.world 49 points 5 days ago

The electronic music I listen to that came out 30 years ago now sounds more futuristic than most made today, funny how it works. Swear someone hit the reverse button sometimes.

[-] lemmyman@lemmy.world 10 points 5 days ago

Elektronik supersonik isn't that old is it?

[-] etherphon@piefed.world 11 points 5 days ago

One of my favorite electronics albums, The Orb's Adventures Beyond the Ultraworld by The Orb is 35 years old, I can't even comprehend it. It still sounds as good today as it did then but there's some high nostalgia involved there.

[-] JayGray91@piefed.social 2 points 5 days ago

I'm in the process of listening to the album. Mind you, that album is the same-ish age as me.

By Back Side of the Moon, I'm convinced this can be in the OG Deus Ex game. Or maybe System Shock.

[-] yermaw@sh.itjust.works 4 points 5 days ago

Just more proof that the History Monks are real. They say it doesnt really matter so much that time goes back in the exact right order, as long as the general shape of history is fine.

It explains why humans have got tribes in jungles hunting with sticks while also having semi-sentient robots on Mars singing happy birthday to itself.

[-] etherphon@piefed.world 3 points 5 days ago

It blows my mind thinking about the latter thing you mentioned sometimes, it's just such a wild contrast but it's also cool at the same time. I personally respect the hell out of those hold outs, they're not playing anyone else's games. It's interesting to think about though, if there were some kind of event that splintered time somehow.

[-] PrimeMinisterKeyes@leminal.space 3 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

Suicide (as in: the band) was formed in 1971, and I'd argue that for more than 30 years, their sound was ahead of its time.
Here's Cheree, guess in which year this song was originally recorded.

addendumThe song made for a terrific outro for "Downtown 81," a movie about, and starring, Basquiat.

[-] etherphon@piefed.world 1 points 4 days ago

Absolutely yea, I definitely see their name thrown around by artists a lot but not mentioned as much by listeners, though I suppose that is common for those types of groups who were ahead of the curve by so much than the rest of their contemporaries.

[-] hexagonwin@lemmy.today 4 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

i'm curious, would you mind sharing some of the stuff you listen to?

[-] etherphon@piefed.world 5 points 5 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

Sure.. I hope you don't mind that I just rattle some off, you can search them out your preferred way.

albums:
Meat Beat Manifesto - Satyricon
The Future Sound of London - Lifeforms & Accelerator
Hallucinogen - The Lone Deranger
Spacetime Continuum - Sea Biscuit
The Shamen - Axis Mutatis
Pete Namlook & The Higher Intelligence Agency - S.H.A.D.O.
Intergalactic Federation (I.F.) - Intergalactic Federation 1 & 2
Alex Martin - Pieces For Endless Riddle
Rhythmystec - Plasmatik EP
Eat Static - Science of the Gods
Front 242 - 05:22:09:12 Off & 06:21:03:11 Up Evil
Air Liquide - Nephrology - The New Religion & The Increased Difficulty of Concentration
The Black Dog - Spanners
Juno Reactor - Transmissions
Reload - A Collection of Short Stories
X-Dream - Radio
Solar Quest - Orgisms
Alien Mutation vs Indigo Egg - Microcosmacrocosm
Higher Intelligence Agency - Colourform & Freefloater

I'm sure there's some good ones I'm not thinking about and my collection is messy, I will add some more if something comes to mind, but those are definitely some solid favorites.

[-] hexagonwin@lemmy.today 2 points 3 days ago

thanks a lot for sharing, i haven't known much electronic music before so it's quite eye opening. :)

[-] etherphon@piefed.world 2 points 3 days ago

You're quite welcome. Ah, this is kind of a specific subset of electronic music then, it's all made before 2000 and mostly in the ambient, trance, goa trance or industrial/ebm genres, there's tons more genres of course, a lot different sounding. Hope you found something good in there :)

[-] Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 5 days ago

Oh for real! I can’t believe Astral Projection released Trust in Trance in the mid-90s, and they had been making music like that since the 80s.

[-] etherphon@piefed.world 3 points 4 days ago

Yeah they're a class act too, very interesting history behind Goa trance, it has roots in the 60s hippies that went to India seeking enlightenment, in German Industrial music and European and American techno and house music, DJs were taking these different records and mixing them for beach parties in Goa, a lot of that music was very future forward as well, but then a lot of it was also rooted in the surroundings so you had mantras and eastern instruments brought into the mix so it's kind of a mix of future past, it's very cool interesting music.

[-] Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 4 days ago

You know your electronic music ;3

Aside from chiptune I heard and loved in super early keygens, Goa trance is what got me into electronic music!

[-] etherphon@piefed.world 3 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

Thanks :) At least I'm good for something :D That's fun, how did you get into chiptunes? I was into tracker music (MOD, MED, XM, S3M, IT) for a while but never got into chiptune, though I love good chiptune music in games.

I got into it through EBM/industrial music, but Goa is the genre I've listened to the most throughout the years besides ambient probably. I happened upon a Dragonly Project II Trance CD at Camelot records one day and I played the hell out of that thing haha, then in a year or so I went to this three day outdoor where I picked up Dan Efex - Excursions in Trance (which btw are some of the best mixes to this day) which had a ton of Hallucinogen, Transwave, Infinity Project, X-Dream, Prana, etc. tracks and I was hooked then :)

[-] cravl@slrpnk.net 27 points 5 days ago

Home of the OG Flipnote Studio—you will be missed.

[-] helpImTrappedOnline@lemmy.world 26 points 5 days ago

Only 1 camera? That's so last decade.

[-] SatyrSack@quokk.au 8 points 5 days ago

There is a front-facing camera as well, on the other side.

[-] YiddishMcSquidish@lemmy.today 2 points 5 days ago

Unless it looks like that quad rocket launcher Arnold held up in commando, it's completed garbage!/s

[-] RampantParanoia2365@lemmy.world 9 points 5 days ago

Equally crazy how you couldn't be bothered to write Nintendo anywhere in your post. 👌

[-] Alvaro 10 points 4 days ago

Is it that crazy? If you don't know what it is just searching "dsi" will tell you, and if you do than you don't need it.

[-] RampantParanoia2365@lemmy.world 5 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

I'm really tired of googling things, because they can't be communicated. You mentioned design, but in design school I was taught to consider how my material is interacted with, and make information clear the first time. I really don't understand why this is a difficult concept to grasp, but it definitely is. So I have to wonder why you're criticizing other designs, when you don't even understand what it means, but here's a hint: what things look like is the final step, not the first.

[-] Alvaro 12 points 4 days ago
[-] Buddahriffic@lemmy.world 7 points 5 days ago

Nintendo? Like the playing card company?

[-] Lupo@lemmy.world 5 points 4 days ago

I would simp hard on a DS smartphone.

[-] irelephant@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 5 days ago

I miss when you could be more creative with hardware

[-] Maultasche@lemmy.world 9 points 5 days ago

Why does it look like a white Pokédex?

[-] Jomega@lemmy.world 20 points 5 days ago

It's the other way around. GameFreak redesigns the Pokedex each generation to resemble contemporary hardware. Gens 1 through 4 looked like the handheld you were playing on, 5 onwards look like a smartphone, and in Let's Go only it looks like a laptop.

[-] Maultasche@lemmy.world 4 points 5 days ago

But it looks like the Gen 1 Pokédex to me, which did not really look like a Gameboy (I'm also pretty sure the Hoenn Pokédex did not look like a GBA until the remake)

[-] Sylvartas@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 points 5 days ago

Gen 1 had a gameboy-looking face though.

[-] ICastFist@programming.dev 2 points 4 days ago

The precursor to the DS was the Game and Watch, back in the 1980s.

https://gameverse.com/2019/07/17/nintendo-handhelds-ranked-best-ever/

Bulbapedia has a reference of all different dex designs

https://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/Pok%C3%A9dex#Artwork

[-] OR3X@lemmy.world 3 points 5 days ago

The original DSi was my favorite DS model. Still have mine. It's too small for my hands now days though.

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