I hate the past. To me, the past is something we should learn from but never return to. I have no desire to return to the days where gay and the r-slur were every day jokes and and “Tits or gtfo” was a common reply to women on the internet.
But I love old machines and gizmos. I love gears and levers and buttons. I love things that clunk and whir. Vinage music boxes, Clockwork toys and VHS machines that sound like they’re trying to go into orbit when you rewind a cassette. I’ve always liked old stuff for as long as I can remember.
Is it nostalgia or just autism? Is it something I should be ashamed of?
Hear me out: I think you’re just experiencing old stuff the way the designers were hoping. Which is really sweet and cool in a way: we’re connected to other people’s creativity through the medium of thinking about how some gizmo would sound and feel nice to use.
Someone went “this button is fine and everything, but it should be a little clickier and the spring should be a different material so it doesn’t sound weird” or whatever. And now here we are decades later thinking “damn the experience of using that old thing is GREAT. Iconic even.”
Good news slimer: you got pranked by the enduring human spirit, as we all do.
This is a large part of why I hate touch screens. That consideration is now out the window because the worst format became standard. I find them bad from a practical standpoint but there is also just a better vibe to pressing a real button that exists. Commodity fetishism fits in there really well. It is easier to consider the designers who make buttons more ergonomic than the coders who code what parts of a touch screen count as keyboard cause one feels nice and the other has me making typos constantly cause I can’t feel the letters. Slide phone keyboard I could text with perfect grammar and syntax without autocorrect or even looking at the screen cause I could feel the buttons.
Building Gundam models becoming my latest main hobby has led to me looking up the names of the people who engineered the model kits ive enjoyed. That’s gotta be a pretty difficult task requiring quite a few different skills. They should be credited on the boxes. Same goes for Lego or whatever
ugh I hate it when that happens