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@nostupidquestions Why do people like crt shaders in the retroarch community. There's so many videos about it. Is it a product of their time or are non-crt experiencers doing it?
Maybe it's a way for their smoothening upscaling shaders to look more pixelated and retro?

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[–] als@lemmy.blahaj.zone 36 points 1 month ago (4 children)

Lots of these games were designed on and for CRT screens and they look worse on a modern one without filtering.

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[–] FeelzGoodMan420@eviltoast.org 10 points 1 month ago (1 children)

This thread is full of insane people because all of the comments are saying the CRT ones look worse. I feel like I'm in the Twilight Zone here. Unbelievable.

[–] thermal_shock@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

unbelievable

how can you just dismiss someone's opinion? you don't have to agree, it's literally an opinion, not fact. let people do what they want with the filters and quit giving people shit over what they like. you don't have their eyes.

[–] callouscomic@lemm.ee 9 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

I disagree. I emulate a lot, and the CRT stuff makes them look worse to me. Just adds noise to the image.

[–] FeelzGoodMan420@eviltoast.org -5 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

Either you are doing the shaders wrong and messing up the image, or you may need to have your vision checked....the CRT images are vastly superior to the non-crt ones. There really just isn't any other possible take on this, I'm sorry.

[–] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 13 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

There really just isn’t any other possible take on this

people can disagree on what they like better?

[–] BearOfaTime@lemm.ee 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I disagree, and the second image (which is reversed vs the others) doesn't look any better. It's just as bad in it's own way.

[–] burgersc12@mander.xyz 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] FeelzGoodMan420@eviltoast.org 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

You're absolutely right. I think everyone in this thread has glaucoma or something.

[–] callouscomic@lemm.ee 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Shit, I better see a Doc. If only I could, but I have glaucoma or something.

[–] FeelzGoodMan420@eviltoast.org 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Did you come up with that edgy reply all by yourself or did you utilize ChatGPT for that snarky comment?

[–] callouscomic@lemm.ee 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

No idea how to respond to this, so I decided to try your suggestion, and honestly, it's worse.

In all honesty, my garbage replies come naturally.

[–] FeelzGoodMan420@eviltoast.org 1 points 1 month ago

Lol that's funny. I'm changing my downvote to an upvote. You've moved me sir.

[–] Acamon@lemmy.world 6 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Sorry to be dumb, but which ones are the crt ones?

[–] FeelzGoodMan420@eviltoast.org 12 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Assuming the right ones, except for the middle pic, looks like the left one. The person who replied with these should have mentioned which was which...

[–] peopleproblems@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

The right ones.

CRT pixels weren't perfect blocks, making them look better with special care. It actually made some processes much easier to calculate as they could rely on that method to "round out" the image.

Edit: Except the second image

[–] jol@discuss.tchncs.de -1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

It only looks better because of nostalgia. I think the filter-less ones look better.

[–] FeelzGoodMan420@eviltoast.org 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Lol wut? Insane take. The CRT emulated ones look vastly superior. The non crt ones look pixelated as fuck.

[–] FarraigePlaisteach@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

The pixelated look is fashionable at the moment. I wonder if that’s the reason.

[–] FeelzGoodMan420@eviltoast.org 4 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I think people maybe expect old games to be pixelated just because they're old. (Because old = pixelated?) So when they see the CRT version look more blurred, they are confused and think it looks wrong. That's my guess