death of culture

riddle: what am i?

"f*ck. f*ck. f*cking f*ck. f*cker. motherf*ck." etc.

a: apple tv!

a: netflix!

a: f*cking everything!

strooth

> The first hour of play hits you with so much tedious factional politics it makes the opening crawl of The Phantom Menace look like Serious Sam. Most of the dialogue is people moaning about their bosses or their charges. Everything is broken. People are starving and miserable, bereft of doctors and medical supplies. It’s basically 2025 but in space.

failure is job one

funny how even when you mostly cede the car console to carplay, it is all still kind of terrible. like, lag. and, like, you certainly didn't learn anything about ux from (the better, bygone, days of) apple when it comes to your own-brand parts of the infotainment head unit. again, just basic stuff like oh i dunno the entire radio ux being a train wreck, eg any restriction on the number of favorited radio stations less than something like MAX_INT_32 is highway robbery. 

omfg

some toyota cars have a glossy, reflective finish on the flat horizontal area around the shifter. 

just so i can be randomly blinded by sunshine every time i drive during daylight hours? (norcal! always sun! no clouds!)

f"ux"ing

any ui that has capricious reversals of contrast is stupid and evil, plain and simple. 

eg ios clock app. 

eg ios maps app modes. 

eg tutorial sites where the code blocks are reversed video colors. 

apple quality user experience

definitely advantageous to make all the hardware very slippery. genius. patent that shyte. 

tap of poo

meh. i'm not a big fan of Valve, when it comes to anything other than the original Half Life which was of course completely awesomeness.

steam is bad and kind of evil, both as a consumer & a publusher, but that's capitalism for ya. 

steamdeck is... problematic in so many, many ways. etc. And the pass people give them is annoying. If any other $500+ product has a constant wide-spread long-term problem with its touchscreen, there'd be trouble on the internet.