Just shows how phones stopped innovating on design
Am i this old that i dont see anyone praise the DS Lite that came before this one and after the original DS ? To me this was the shit !
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good design is timeless
this chair was designed in 1958 and still remains one of the most popular chairs in the world
Airline lobby bench seating.
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 sells at auction for $5-8k+
In no way did I mean that statement literally.
It was a sarcastic reference. This style of seat is quite common in terminals.
Oh, I see what you mean. Yeah, the design has certainly inspired a lot of imitations.
The image isn’t loading for me—could you please describe the chair to me? I’m curious!
But what I’m referring to is specifically known as the Eames Executive Group Management Chair
(Pictured: a 2023 model reproduction by Herman Miller)
Thank you so much! Yah, these are hella comfy.
I had one once. It was my most prized possession. 😢
(pictured: a 2013 model reproduction by Manhattan Home Design with full pneumatic controls and carpet casters)
It’s not just a chair. It’s a piece of art.
it was also (easily) the most expensive thing I had ever owned, and I grabbed it off the curb. often I would just stare at it, because it was beautiful.
I miss it...
Damn, what a curb find. What happened to it? :(
Long story short, I got evicted
I had 20 minutes to grab everything I could. So I grabbed my cat and my laptop and a suitcase full of clothes, and I was out the door.
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Point well made
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
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I would simp hard on a DS smartphone.
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.
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.
addendum
The song made for a terrific outro for "Downtown 81," a movie about, and starring, Basquiat.
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.
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.
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.
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!
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 :)
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.
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.
Elektronik supersonik isn't that old is it?
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.
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.
i'm curious, would you mind sharing what you listen to?
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.
thanks a lot for sharing, i haven't known much electronic music before so it's quite eye opening. :)
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 :)
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Only 1 camera? That's so last decade.
There is a front-facing camera as well, on the other side.
Unless it looks like that quad rocket launcher Arnold held up in commando, it's completed garbage!/s
I miss when you could be more creative with hardware
Why does it look like a white Pokédex?
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.
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)
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
Gen 1 had a gameboy-looking face though.
you can pry my DSLite from my cold dead hands.
never had the DSi or any of the nintendo handhelds after the DSLite.
I do have a retroid pocket that I'm in love with right now. my only problem is that I can't take it anywhere without my kids stealing it from me.
Really? Those pens remind me of palm pilots
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