Companies make everything the same basic colors- red/blue/black/grey. Cars, kitchenware- they stick to those four basics because they're cost-effective and sell faster. Unique color items often suffer a color tax. They cost more despite being the same product, so poor people have fewer color options

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This is kind of why when me and mom had to buy a new microwave after our old apartment burned down, I decided we should get this aqua blue one instead of the black or white ones that were there.
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Movies are also a huge problem. The grungy dirt and booger filters slapped on everything from superhero films to "live-action" Disney animation adaptations make it clear that color is for BABIES. Real adults only watch movies that look/feel like depression. Color just isn't believable as "real life"
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As if real life does not have colors... (I am agreeing with you just to be totally clear lol)
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There is semi-joke that the Adventures of Robin Hood (1938) has more historically authentic costuming than pretty much anything "medieval" that has come out of Hollywood in ages, because in it the rich wear some colours.
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What was it VGcats said? Brown is Real?

Anyway fuck the color Greige.
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There's a little ironic twist with films where, I believe, colour grading/correction got popular because of some very well made films using it carefully - Traffic to help the viewer keep track of intertwining plotlines, O' Brother Where Art Thou for a whimsical sepia-toned period feel,
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It's very sad when people are knee-jerk dismissive of movies like Thor: Love & Thunder or Multiverse of Madness even though they look much nicer than the SyFy Channel Minority Report slop that should have died after the one-two flop of Fant4stic and BvS.
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movies! eyecancering teal & orange filters everywhere! now even bleaker! and those "re-mastered" versions... plain awful. one day people in their right mind will laugh at these non-colors 🌈
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I recently fell in love with Torchlight 2 again. The art direction in that game is something I took for granted. Looking at it now its kind of surreal how cohesive and brilliant it is. And its chocked full of intense colors. The amount of bright blues and oranges is wild.
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I mean in all seriousness look at these, which of the three is coolest. We all know the answer. (dead on, so sick of the drab filters, love when a move plays with COLOR)
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The Victorians didn't invent artificial dyes and deck themselves out in purple (mauve!), green, red, yellow, and all the other colors they could coax from a reagent for us to believe that Real Is Brown
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What really bothers me is that they only have something to adapt *because* people loved the colors, and both those things were, you know, for children or at least okay for children, aside from the whole seduction of the innocent paranoia.
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I use Hue lights with colorful films. I get sad when everything is grey and beige.
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Color leeching is obvious and all around us.
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Color comes to mind every time I think of buying an older model truck. Lots of awesome colors, unfortunately it’s harder to get replacement exterior pieces or the right paint color if it ever needs bodywork 😞
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White too sometimes.
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My 78 yo mom has started going "grey, black, black, grey, white, oh a blue one!" when out and about about how depressingly same all the cars are.
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not to mention houses and interiors
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Honestly I'd kill for red and blue most of the time round here the options are beige, white or grey and sometimes they throw in a mustard. If you're very lucky a millennial emerald green but more often the icky pastel sage one
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I'm a huge fan of Fordite, or the Detroit Agate because car companies used to offer such a range of sick colors. It's just not the same when the choices are 3 shades of grey, red, and white.
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God imagine a piece of modern fordite. White grey white grey white white white white white bluegrey white grey
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my car is 14 years old & it is bright orange. i would replace it with the same model, but they don't make it anymore & just casually looking at a potential replacement...there's nothing near as bright & cheerful on the market. i hate it.
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It's actually safer to drive a brightly coloured car! Dark coloured cars have more accidents on average.
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My sister's first car was this bright green little car we affectionately called the pea. Then she had to replace it with a grey bland mobile
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If you think that’s sad look up
The color “Greige” and Beige Moms

youtu.be/sZK0sE_bPgI?si=To1Mb5SLv6Ch64Nd
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