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  • I guess I wasn’t clear, because your reply doesn’t address what I was talking about, but it turns out I was simply confused.

    You said:

    “curly” instead of “curved” brackets

    But I didn’t think anyone was calling curly brackets curved brackets, so what you said seemed odd. It turns out I didn’t read who you replied to closely enough, and the German commenter was indeed saying they’re called “curved” brackets (in German).

    Then again, perhaps the German person was wrong because DuckDuckGo translate says that word actually does mean “curly” and not “curved”.





  • I don’t see how your first paragraph contradicts anything I said, so I’m confused by your use of “actually”. You can call old games “classic”, although I’m not sure any of them are old enough to be called “antique”. Maybe an old Pong home machine or something. Those words all largely mean the same thing.

    I would say “retro style” is redundant. Retro is always referring to the style. Looking back and taking styles from the past is what retro means. Like modern bell-bottom jeans, or cars like the 11th generation Thunderbird which looks more like the original that any previous models.

    The Wikipedia article uses the word to describe it.

    This was the last year [4th generation] for the convertible until the “retro” models of 2002–05.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ford_Thunderbird



  • Retro means modern games that remind you of old games. Like Shovel Knight or UFO 50. There’s not really a time limit to that. Shovel Knight is quite old now, but the graphical style it copied is even older, so it’s still retro.

    Obviously, I’m sort of joking, but y’all do use the word “retro” wrong. You’re talking about vintage games, not retro games, and yes, I will die on this hill. Gamers are the only people who don’t know the difference between retro and vintage. Everyone else gets it right: car people, clothing people, furniture people, sneaker people, jewelry people, etc.