alt Hacker News> OBJECTIVELY pixel art looks incomparably better on CRT monitors
"Objectively" doesn't just mean a thing is a strongly held opinion or even widely held. This seems like a perfect example of a thing that is subjective, not objective. There is no objective metric for measuring the looks of pixel art. Or really any art in general.
Probably most people who care prefer this, but that doesn't mean it's objective.
This probably doesn't contribute to the discussion. But I have a personal peeve about people using the word "objectively" (and "demonstrably") when they really mean "significantly".
Carry on.
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Intersubjective is also a word that nicely fills in the ground between subjective and objective.
Thank you for pointing that out. I agree that using the word „objectively” in this case was a bit silly, and I apologize for that.
I think the objectivity here is that it is what the artist intended.
Not true anymore for modern pixel art, which is often an art style intended for modern displays, and it is sometimes combined with high resolution images and transforms.