a pretty UI is only pretty until people get used to it. then you have to redesign it so it seems pretty again
an ugly, utilitarian, bare-practicality UI is only ugly until people get used to it, and then it’s utilitarian and practical forever
what the fuck did they do to the youtube UI
why do corpos always do this constant UI churn instead of fixing or improving anything
I feel like I could throw a dart at a map and hit a better place to live
I mean, I would probably hit somewhere in the atlantic ocean. but I would rather drown in the atlantic ocean than live here
someone in the EU please rescue me
if you think about it, a widescreen monitor is the same as an ultrawide monitor except you’re getting even more picture on the top and the bottom
DAILY GIRL AFFIRMATIONS:
I AM A COMPLEX ORGANISM BRUTALLY ENGINEERED BY UNCARING FORCES OF NATURE
I AM A PRODUCT OF BILLIONS OF YEARS AND TRILLIONS OF DEATHS
I AM BUILDING A MACHINE GREATER THAN MYSELF
I AM ABLE TO MAKE PHONE CALLS AND APPOINTMENTS
Eclipse Phase ran into this problem too. one of their factions is kinda a Nazi faction and another smaller faction is definitely a Nazi faction
in the first edition, they tried to leave it ambiguous which factions were “evil” and which were “good” because they thought it would be self-evident that the fascist factions were terrible, but they also wanted to leave room for nuance
but enough chuds started getting into the game that for the second edition they had to get pretty heavy-handed and almost parody the viewpoints of a lot of their nastier factions. which resulted in some darkly hilarious writing that I love, so I’m not complaining
it is so gross how much fascists seem to like Helldivers 2. every time YouTube recommends me a video about the game it’s always full of dog whistles and sometimes actual slurs
I get that the game is trying to parody fascism but fascists love to miss the point of parodies of their ideology, and then unironically love and embrace the parody
could Helldivers 2 have avoided this by getting even more heavy-handed with their satire? I’m honestly not sure. but I wish they had just done something else
Gaming Through New Eyes - Award Winning Documentary - Blind Gaming (Extended Cut)
this is a really interesting video about playing games while blind: how that works, what accessibility needs there are, and what it’s like
1850: it’s okay to own people and animals
1950: it’s okay to own animals, but not people
2050: it’s okay to own anything that passes the Harkness Test
@kasdeya i still wish asm.js caught on. it feels like a solution that fits the web much better: there's no need to standardize like 30 different extensions just to do what asm.js could already do. no need to polyfill it. no need to enforce a JS control flow compatible assembly language on everyone else. performance was only like 0.5x compared to native with comparatively not many changes to js engines. i just think it was really neat and WASM is just too big and wide.
I decided to dabble in #PixelArt yesterday and made this. I feel like I could’ve done a better job with shading but I’m a little proud of it - especially since I basically don’t do pixel art at all
(this is traced from an actual picture btw)
it's so funny to me how embarrassingly weak gravity is. i have a fridge magnet stuck to my fridge. it's stronger than the gravitational pull of the ENTIRE EARTH. gravity fuckin blows dude
omg wait I actually found a pretty good one! about Q helping Picard in his own irritating way while he was assimilated by the Borg
I found a TNG story that started off pretty interesting with Geordi La Forge in sickbay recovering from a mysterious illness and everything was leading to an interesting plot twist of some kind but then the plot twist was him and Data kissing
@5225225 @sanity omg interesting. yeah honestly I don’t think it would be that hard to make something like this? and someone could even make a library that handles all of the basic UI stuff and is just like “okay tell me what to ask the user and give me a function to validate the user’s inputs for each option” and that would basically be all you need, I think
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a-zuu14fmyk
JM8 with a fantastic video on video game difficulty