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.

  • Platypus@lemmings.world
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    2 months ago

    Portable consoles. They’re dead now or replaced by indie shit. No, the switch doesn’t count, if it can’t fit in my pocket isn’t portable.

    • jeffers00n@lemmy.ml
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      2 months ago

      Very much agree. I’d love if Valve would consider filling this niche considering the great success of the Steam Deck. A small clam-shell handheld sized like the GBA SP or the DS.

    • Noxy@yiffit.netEnglish
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      2 months ago

      The indie shit is great tho. Analogue Pocket is an outstanding gaming device to run a whole bunch of portable console games (and some originally non-portable consoles too, like Genesis/Megadrive)

      And folks are still making and sometimes even selling Gameboy games right now in 2024

      Indie is great, and honestly vital when so much mainstream/AAA shit is such shit

      • PraiseTheSoup@lemm.ee
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        2 months ago

        I’d never heard of these so I checked it out. At a price point of about $1200 (over double what a steam deck costs) I certainly hope it “puts the deck to shame”.

        • InvertedParallax@lemm.ee
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          2 months ago

          Meh, you’re not wrong, but I had the older gpd win2 for years and it was just incredible, nowhere near the power in this thing but full windows and a gamepad made steam rpgs endless fun.

          But this is a walkable, plus full gaming pc with an egpu (becomes a monster actually).

    • AItoothbrush@lemmy.zipEnglish
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      2 months ago

      I think indie is pretty cool. Its at the point where you can basically design a console by yourself. You can emulate up to ps2 on some of them so you got all the classics in your pocket.

    • Count Regal Inkwell@pawb.socialOP
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      2 months ago

      Counterpoint: A modern SBC Console from China (Retroid, Anbernic, whatever) will play a library in the thousands of titles, WHILE fitting in your pocket AND having a modern screen.

      • stingpie@lemmy.world
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        2 months ago

        Countercounterpoint: Emulation is not as cool as the real thing. Especially for the PSP because it was basically a tiny DVD player.