@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?
That’s cool, but I sort of said that exact thing in my first comment. So now you are explaining what I said back to me.
Also, bullshit. Shaders are not close to CRTs. They lack the tactile response and the emission spectrum of the tube. They are a substitute but nothing gets close to using the actual hardware.
Sorry, tactile response from a CRT?
Yeah, when you turned them on they frequently had push buttons with satisfying resistance and a click.
As an object they had their own tactility, often solid and heavy (as opposed to the sort of articulated physicality of most modern monitors). You could often feel the static electricity across the glass.
They even had their own sounds. The hum of warming up, the whine and clunk of being turned off.
When we talk about nostalgia it’s often the sensations adjacent to the activity that we are talking about.