I don’t mean BETTER. That’s a different conversation. I mean cooler.

An old CRT display was literally a small scale particle accelerator, firing angry electron beams at light speed towards the viewers, bent by an electromagnet that alternates at an ultra high frequency, stopped by a rounded rectangle of glowing phosphors.

If a CRT goes bad it can actually make people sick.

That’s just. Conceptually a lot COOLER than a modern LED panel, which really is just a bajillion very tiny lightbulbs.

  • Count Regal InkwellOP
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    2 months ago

    I generally can’t be arsed with online multiplayer – Just as a concept.

    But I made great memories with my cousins playing Wii/GameCube local multiplayer titles. Smash, Mario Kart, Sonic Adventure 2, et cetera.

    • psycotica0@lemmy.ca
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      2 months ago

      I have never played a game with random strangers ever. But! My brother and sister both live hours away from me (and each other), and we keep in touch by playing online co-op games every week.

      I have a group of friends that I have mostly kept in touch with by playing online games too.

      So I agree with what I think you meant, but I’m very glad online multiplayer exists in some form.

      • Count Regal InkwellOP
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        2 months ago

        I mean. All my friends who match my freak live 120Km+ away from me and so I have played online games with them.

        But man it’s just not the same as the experience of snacks, a beat up sofa, crowding around a television, yelling at each other, yanno?