Post AX93OrpMdVju2pXF5c by nepi@fedi.snepi.space
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 (DIR) Post #AX93OqTLfsXDqGE98S by nepi@fedi.snepi.space
       2023-06-28T05:55:33.008604Z
       
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       this is probably mis-placed nostalgia, but i miss when things sucked because it was the best we could do. VHS sucked, but it was the only way to squeeze that bandwidth out of magnetic tape. dial-up sucked, but it was orders of magnitude faster at getting people online versus building dedicated last-mile infrastructure.now? it seems like things suck for way more arbitrary, greedy reasons.
       
 (DIR) Post #AX93OrpMdVju2pXF5c by nepi@fedi.snepi.space
       2023-06-28T06:07:59.017086Z
       
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       this is key to understanding the vaporwave/analog aesthetic beyond "it's just nostalgia". it's opposite to how most take the capitalism critique inherent in vaporwave, i think. instead of a reflection on consumerist attitudes, the implication is that we were *trying* back then, and we aren't now. we weren't just inventing a new torment nexus every several years to squeeze money from online advertisers. consumerism is preferable to that.