my pet peeve is when people call anything with overscaled pixels or a square wave sample "8-bit"

like, shut up, i bet you don't even know how to program a Z80

this is less to invalidate the work of people who call their things 8-bit and more the feeling that calling their work 8-bit invalidates actual 8-bit work

calling it "retro style" or "fakebit" (coined in some music circles) or anything to that effect is fine

it's also just. hella misleading

what's 8bit about 24bit PNGs and 16bit sampled audio in a game engine running on a 64bit processor architecture?

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