I will take no arguments

Never forget what they took from us

I guess it's very much a matter of taste.

Ten years or so earlier, you could still get a TV where the sides of the case were made of wood. Wood, metal and black plastic throughout. Physical buttons that went 'clunk', a physical slider to adjust the volume, a metal dial for tuning.

To me, that was peak design.

Wrong, you can get colored and transparent shells for the Steam Deck. Design technology is still peaking.

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I only got the backplate but man I'm tempted to do the front too.

Also transparent filaments are great. I 3D printed an olfa knife handle in transparent green (think Razer's green) and it looks fucking awesome.

I like how they threw a 2DS into the pile of late 90s, early 2000s tech.

Initially I agreed, but actually I think it stands. The design is similar enough, regardless of era. Honestly, I really do wish this kind of design would come back

Technology design peaked here:

Eventually all of these products found a place in our hearts.

And our brains, our kidneys and for some of us, our balls.

Well if you don’t like black rectangle, you can have silver rectangle.

I don't know why, but translucent colored plastic gives me "cheap garbage" vibes. Probably because knock off memory cards and controllers for the PS1/PS2 used exactly that design.

RGB, plastic edition.

The original iMac being the device that kicked off the colored, translucent plastic craze of the late 1990s and early 2000s.

There was a translucent George Foreman grill!

Translucent products had been around for a decade prior to those iMacs. If anything, they marked the beginning of the end for the trend.
I always thought it was a Nintendo thing first.

Later: We all have 8 different flavors of cancer from these

Did...did you eat your atomic purple N64?
- It was just a nibble!
- We were all tempted. It's okay.
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It just looks so... technological

That blue ps2 looks dope af

One of these is not like the others

I always go for the clear plastic replacement shells for my electronics. I got a Dreamcast with a chewed up shell that is now clear blue, did my GBA SP in a clear green a couple of years ago, and I'm looking into reshelling my Wii too now.

Hey, I still have that exact iMac on my garage!

It's got Yellow Dog Linux on it lol

There is one thing In here not like the others...

REAL

There's no 3DO there, though.

Graphite iMac G3 is perfection.

Yeah. Love that round fucking mouse, and that computer with a space heating, ESD producing CRT crammed into the same chassis. Those things were fucking garbage.
- Ok, fine, Graphite iMac G3 is perfection of form over function. That better?
  
  Never actually had one, always wanted one. I did use the hockey puck mouse at school, and agree that it was fucking terrible. Can't really speak to the esd issues from the CRT, didn't use it often/long enough for that to affect me, though I can certainly see how it could have been a problem. Most computers are some level of space heaters, as far as that goes, especially if you've got a decent GPU, so I'm not sure I'd really knock it too much for that unless it was just really super egregious.