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Wow an unpopular opinion that’s just unpopular. No bigotry toward anyone. What a concept.
I also kinda agree with you. I think CRT people are just into it for nostalgic reasons.
I SHOULD be into it for those reasons- I grew up on Atari, NES, and SNES and am a nostalgic as hell person.
And I very clearly remember looking at things like this:
and thinking “why can’t I get the TV to look like the box art?”
I’ll take the image image on the left:
Or on the right:
ANY day.
In your examples, perhaps, though it’s more that dithering techniques (not seen here) assume scanlines, and in those cases they can look a little abnormal without.
Resolution, CRT bloom, curvature, etc, are certainly nostalgia though. The blur of low res does have a sort of anti-aliasing effect, too, although that might be more a personal taste (and frankly high res anti-aliasing on pixel art is kind of my favorite). Like how old movies put Vaseline on the lens-- there are just better ways to do that decades later.
Fun side note: do play older emulated handheld games with the proper filter (e.g. GBA). It’s more a color issue-- the old software assumes no backlight so colors are exaggerated. Playing with the filter generally gives better results, unless you like cartoonishly strong colors.