my pet peeve is when people call anything with overscaled pixels or a square wave sample "8-bit"
@squirrel same -_- but sometimes you have to do it for ~marketing reasons~
@modernmodron ugh
@squirrel same
i'm also annoyed when people dismiss amiga mods with samples as "not real chiptune"
paula would like a fuckin' word
@squirrel urgh people who make "8-bit pixel games" but the screen has many different varying sizes of pixel, and rotations, movement, etc are done smoothly outside of the pixel space
@er1n aaaaaAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
@squirrel they can be good but
DONT FUCKING CALL IT 8-BIT
GO WATCH SOME OLDSKOOL DEMOS OR GAMES
THIS ISN'T 8-BIT
@squirrel YES
@squirrel like, I did a bunch of art for magic tokens inspired by late GBA art and it got marketed as 8-bit T_T
SIGH ok...
@squirrel I do pixel art and not music but I agree 10000%
like, shut up, i bet you don't even know how to program a Z80