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OP, I love not just that you noticed this, but that you thought to post it here too. HN is the best.
Yes! It's genuinely fascinating, and it's the kind of thing I trust this community to talk about in a reasonable way which is not quite always the case (Mozilla, many politics topics). But this feels like, potentially, AI prompting or even more interestingly an intentional stylistic choice.
This isn't interesting. Does it imply there is a cultural difference that would make this style more lucrative in Japan than other places? Does it suggest compositionally the alignment of asymmetric shapes in a regular form is more satisfying than a regular arrangement of identical forms? Does it imply that given an array of nearly identical choices it's important to add some noise visually to distinguish? I'm a cyni…
You've also listed a few questions that seem pretty interesting to me, from a curiosity perspective.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wabi-sabi
That would be the charitable reason, but I wonder if it could be more related to their laws on accurate representations in ads (Act against Unjustifiable Premiums and Misleading Representations [0]). [0] https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/2303/e...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wabi-sabi
That would be the charitable reason, but I wonder if it could be more related to their laws on accurate representations in ads (Act against Unjustifiable Premiums and Misleading Representations [0]). [0] https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/2303/e...
I like how it makes the burgers look more "laid back", like some cool sunglasses-wearing skater/surfer dude leaning back, or a pin-up model whose pose invites you in. Standing up straight is for the man and that's not how I want my burgers to be. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Man
I was thinking more of south park characters, maybe ike: https://southpark.fandom.com/wiki/Ike_Broflovski
OP, I love not just that you noticed this, but that you thought to post it here too. HN is the best.
Yes! It's genuinely fascinating, and it's the kind of thing I trust this community to talk about in a reasonable way which is not quite always the case (Mozilla, many politics topics). But this feels like, potentially, AI prompting or even more interestingly an intentional stylistic choice.
Are you joking?
Is it me or are those prices dead cheap compared to UK / US?
Earlier quoted context omitted.
Please don’t compare a beautiful practice with the symbol of ultra-capitalism. Probably it’s some sociopathic psychologist working for McDonalds that find out that askew buns makes them sell 0.2% more units per year, which is around half a gazillion dollars in increased revenue.
Why can't it be both?
Urge to fix something, or tricking one to spend money for a novelty is quite literally the opposite of wabi-sabi.