Science. If we weren't stupid we would already know everything and wouldn't have to study it.
edit: that was a joke, sorry if I didn't make it clear.
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The price of Apple products
Everything.
I'm gonna get downvoted for this but... gaming consoles.
Gaming consoles made sense back in the day before home computing took off, and for a while they actually had superior hardware than computers when it came specifically to running games. But nowadays gaming consoles are just locked down user-hostile computers with a subscription service attached. The gaming equivalent of inkjet printers. It's an industry made irrelevant by advancements in technology, propped up by misleading marketing and artificial hype that sadly many people fall for.
You're not wrong. There definitely used to be a difference back when consoles would get way better support and PC ports were terrible.
Sound On / Off
-- The entire options menu of a PC port in like 2006.
But nowadays I struggle to understand the point of getting one of those big chonky tower consoles like whatever the latest Xbox or PlayStation is. (PlayStation even selling entirely new consoles for a simple graphics/RAM upgrade, smh).
At least the Switch's portability made sense.
The old consoles also were just plug the game in and boot up.
No Hassle.
Now they sounds like Windows boxes.
I LOVED how the original X-Box had an "desktop" in it. Unfortunately that's gone way too far anymore.
Nowadays I find these interfaces so overly complicated and fiddly that it makes the UX of an N64 far superior.
I pretty much went PC-only after the xbox 360 though, when ports finally started getting good. :)
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Dark Souls 2
Warnings and instructions.
Warnings, yes. Instructions, no. Though, people are often stupid for not reading the instructions.
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Gerrymandering?
Gerrymandering is an actual brilliant way to ensure victory.
Yep, but it exists because of the existence of these districts in the first place. Which weren't put there because the founders figured the populus was particularly bright.
GUIs which I use as I am also stupid.
I disagree, GUI's are more visually appealing and allow for faster intake of the most important information (according to the designer) information. If it was all plain text I think the internet would be a terribly boring place to crawl through.
If it was all plain text I think the internet would be a terribly boring place to crawl through.
Yeah, using Lynx browser or BBSs is a neat novelty but would be super tedious if it were all like that.
...although maybe one could argue the way we present information would have taken that format into account, if it had stuck around longer? 🤔
Fair point I'm just speaking from terminal based interaction to GUI which was done for accessibility.
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India
Children?
A good chunk of them anyways
Microsoft Windows
As a heavy Windows user on a 12+ hour/day basis - I 110% agree with you.
laws
Any brand of authoritarianism.
Casinos & Gacha games