Aether (moved) @Taylor@awoo.space

Unless some sort of societal change/discovery happens post/mid-90s, any fictional setting with "real furries" should as a result treat the furry fandom differently.

You could probably get away with it being the same if the animal people live in a secret society, but still.

This is the same sort of problem as other scifi where everything is the same in terms of the cultural effects of fiction, except the one series the story is set in (e.g Doctor Who) doesn't exist.

Sometimes players will reset and reload to get the most out of a playthrough or mechanic.

Is it better that this process be easier for this purpose, or better that it be inconvenient (ie. load times, splash screens) to discourage it?

Alternately the choice is to give the player more control over mechanics instead of relying to RNG, but sometimes less exactness feels more natural and interesting, so it's harder to avoid.

I really don't want to have to replace my Surface. I just bought a new desktop. That's enough money burning for a while.

Lately my Surface has been mysteriously shutting off way before the battery is low/critical. - ie. about 20-25%, when the concern level is 10-15% - And by shut off I mean it just stops dead, and booting up again starts from scratch.

It also has a habit of screen burn around the edges for a few minutes if I've been using a bright/white program like SAI.

And now that I've started it up after the most recent pop, the screen is flickering while on power.

https://hitchhikers.fandom.com/wiki/Marvin

I had a compulsion.

The year is 2080, and Alphabet Inc. owns everything. iOS and Android phones have fused to become the worst of both worlds. Safari is now Chromium-based. The only legal search engine is Google, but Windows 10 keeps Bing as legacy support. Kids wonder why Windows versions 95 and 98 are worse than version 10.

"1 in 30 people poop in the shower" factoid actualy just statistical error. average person never poops in shower. Shitters Georg, who--

So Twitter today changed my timeline back to Home over Latest Tweets and helpfully gave me two separate sets of Discourse being talked about because of pushing the likes into my timeline.

At some point I am going to snap and just delete all of my accounts.

... sometimes I forget that Firefox hasn't had a status bar since like, Firefox 3.0. I greatly disliked this change at the time because I preferred to have the information the status bar presented, and to put things like adblock at the bottom of the UI.

You can't do that now. You have to put addons in the address bar space, and loading bars are in the tab icons only.

... my internet is less shit now so I'm less concerned about the loading bars, but I'm sure some people would still benefit from it.

I've at least used userchrome to create a fake status bar because I prefer to have dedicated space to link previews, because it's distracting to have it as a popup-esque shape.

The status bar thing is obnoxious because Firefox literally just copied Chrome, which also changed to a popup effect at the time.
These habits in design changes are functionality and accessibility problems, and no one in the industry will ever give a shit because trends and pretty looks are more important.

UI design has been trending towards distributor control/presumption over user control for a while now that by this point people just roll over when software/OSes get harder to use, and distributors know it.

I'm going by memory here, but design trends feel like they went like this:

• mid-90s: Limited system-generated bevels. Functional, perhaps overly so.
• early-00s: Everything looked like gimmicky kids toys. Chaotic and confusing, though you still had the functions if you could find them.
• mid-00s: Toothpaste tubes. Everything was gradients and bevels. Structurally more like the early-00s again, but more about big icons than text.
• 10s onwards: what, YOU own YOUR software? lmao. User customisation gets harder, shapes and presented information cut down further and further.

I'm still really frustrated by Discord's new UI changes. The colour hover effect, the changes in padding, and the lack of dividing line between user posts - they're all accessibility nightmares because they make everything subtly more difficult to read.

Remember when UI wasn't this flat-colour-fill wankfest? Because it's getting harder and harder to remember those days.