It is pretty rare that I find a video game I really enjoy playing, through and through. Usually even just trying to get into actually playing a game is enough to destroy whatever interest I might of had, or any fun I might have derived. Then the controls of the game usually kind of suck for me. Then the gameplay itself is kind of frustrating and not all that much fun.
Minecraft: Terrible menus. Terrible config ui.
Rocket League: Most of the time the ball is off the screen anyway, so how is that supposed to be fun? I literally do not get it.
Anything that falls afoul of parental controls in some horribly bad confusing way: Star Trek Online on Xbox One for example.
Anything with a non FPS 3D camera system, because I have never seen one that doesn't just plain suck, one way or another.
Racing games: I really enjoyed Rally Sport Challenge. Other racing games have been really otherwise meh to me.
Any toys to life games: All of the above problems, plus too expen$ive.
Sunday, December 31, 2017
Wednesday, December 27, 2017
I do not like Microsoft. I think the whole Xbox Live experience is super crappy bad evil classic shyte UX.
(Now, lest you get me wrong: I also have strong dislike for most any organization that is related to technology. Mostly because the UX is just for crap. Microsoft, Apple, Google, Sony, Yamaha, XYZprinting, anybody who ever made a video game (their UX all sucks), Netflix, Steam, yes most anything with DRM because it often just screws the little people, Linux desktop GUIs, any company that makes a car, etc., etc.)
(Now, lest you get me wrong: I also have strong dislike for most any organization that is related to technology. Mostly because the UX is just for crap. Microsoft, Apple, Google, Sony, Yamaha, XYZprinting, anybody who ever made a video game (their UX all sucks), Netflix, Steam, yes most anything with DRM because it often just screws the little people, Linux desktop GUIs, any company that makes a car, etc., etc.)
Saturday, December 16, 2017
A large majority of the Xbox UX is crap, on both the 360 and the One. (I also have the original, which wasn't so bad in my mind simply because there wasn't anything it could really do since it wasn't really all that super duper internet enabled by comparison, maybe. Or maybe just because I never did any Xbox Live stuff on my original Xboxes.) Add on the layers of Xbox Live, and holy heck, what a complete pie in the face, bullet to the groin, back handed slap, insult to intelligence type train wreck the whole experience is.
It drives me bat poop crazy that the companies that somehow have taken over the world have consistently never managed to do a very good job with UX, UI, Usability, Design. (Some things might look good, but there's always, always, always really horribly bad stupid broken crap about their actual UX.)
It drives me bat poop crazy that the companies that somehow have taken over the world have consistently never managed to do a very good job with UX, UI, Usability, Design. (Some things might look good, but there's always, always, always really horribly bad stupid broken crap about their actual UX.)
Saturday, December 9, 2017
When it comes to technology, humans have made their own hell.
Consider the naively mundane issue of determining the "type" of a file. What a freaking nightmare. Like how in (I guess it is) Nautilus I can't sort so that all the JPG files are together, because sorting by the Type column is for the string Nautilus is showing for the files, like "Image".
Consider the naively mundane issue of determining the "type" of a file. What a freaking nightmare. Like how in (I guess it is) Nautilus I can't sort so that all the JPG files are together, because sorting by the Type column is for the string Nautilus is showing for the files, like "Image".
Friday, December 8, 2017
Saturday, December 2, 2017
Part of what sucks about trying to do any software development in the modern world is that there are too many options and different systems, and so people are not willing to spend much energy making setup become automagic. Instead they write documentation about "make sure you do this" and "don't forget to do that" but then they forget some detail or other, and they quickly get out of date, are invalidated by other things changing, and so in the end it is just a stressful nightmare of UX haaaayyyyttteeeee if you ask me.
Being a computer user or programmer is signing oneself up for the death of a thousand cuts. Like I just want to try ScalaJS with ReactNative on Linux (yes I know that's insane out of the box, but it really shouldn't have to be) and before I can even get anywhere I have to get sidetracked because when I do apt update I get
W: Failed to fetch http://debian.sourcegear.com/ubuntu/dists/trusty/main/binary-amd64/Packages 403 Forbidden
and debugging / fixing that is a freaking nightmare adventure of hell all in and of itself. Because it would be too freaking hard for apt to figure out that gosh maybe it should try some other mirror then, I guess?
So then I try to use the standard tools to fix it, only to re-encounter for the zillionith time the fact that GTK or whatever the hell this stuff uses is itself fundamentally a horrible piece of broken ux dog excrement that cannot even handle drawing scrolling lists of check boxes correctly.
W: Failed to fetch http://debian.sourcegear.com/ubuntu/dists/trusty/main/binary-amd64/Packages 403 Forbidden
and debugging / fixing that is a freaking nightmare adventure of hell all in and of itself. Because it would be too freaking hard for apt to figure out that gosh maybe it should try some other mirror then, I guess?
So then I try to use the standard tools to fix it, only to re-encounter for the zillionith time the fact that GTK or whatever the hell this stuff uses is itself fundamentally a horrible piece of broken ux dog excrement that cannot even handle drawing scrolling lists of check boxes correctly.
Firefox 57.0.1 on my Ubuntu 16.04 machines is (a) a crashy piece of crap so far and (b) has a ui that makes me kind of mad. I really strongly dislike their cylon mode activity / wait widgets.
Funny that after I use the restore tabs function, the Android Studio web page that I was on says it is showing me instructions for installing on linux, but it is clearly showing me windows stuff (with a giant screenshot of a windows desktop) and I have to toggle it to windows and back to linux to get the right instructions to show up.
The world of computers is just a steaming pile of half broken crap. Created by people who seem to think they are so clever.
Funny that after I use the restore tabs function, the Android Studio web page that I was on says it is showing me instructions for installing on linux, but it is clearly showing me windows stuff (with a giant screenshot of a windows desktop) and I have to toggle it to windows and back to linux to get the right instructions to show up.
The world of computers is just a steaming pile of half broken crap. Created by people who seem to think they are so clever.
So I go to the Android Studio download page. It correctly has picked the right OS for me (linux). Then when I download it advances me to the page with instructions about how to really install and use it. But... they instructions are for Windows. (There's even a little drop down menu thing to let me change to Linux, so it isn't as if they couldn't have put me on the right thing.)
Of course it freaks out and shows discombobulated incorrect info when Firefox crashes and I restart it and use the restore tabs feature.
And then I finally get Android Studio running on Linux and one of the very first things it does it put up a warning error dialog saying something obscure about IBus or something like that which I blithely ignore because I've freaking had it up to my ears with everything being a piece of junk that I have to manually baby sit and fix and freaking deal with before I can get anywhere near JUST WRITING SOME CODE.
Of course it freaks out and shows discombobulated incorrect info when Firefox crashes and I restart it and use the restore tabs feature.
And then I finally get Android Studio running on Linux and one of the very first things it does it put up a warning error dialog saying something obscure about IBus or something like that which I blithely ignore because I've freaking had it up to my ears with everything being a piece of junk that I have to manually baby sit and fix and freaking deal with before I can get anywhere near JUST WRITING SOME CODE.
The Internet is just a bunch of dumb stuff, sometimes, if you ask me. I just wanted to see if there's any last minute vacations in the USA that I'd like to buy and it was a freaking nightmare of utterly incompetent UX on every darned web site I tried. I guess nobody actually wants to take my money after all.
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