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[-] ApatheticCactus@lemmy.world 5 points 6 days ago

Generally speaking, you learn more about how something works when the core functionality is exposed to the user, and just janky enough to require fiddling with it and fixing things.

This is true of lots of things like cars, drones, 3D printers, and computers. If you get a really nice one, it just works and you don't have to figure anything out. A cheap one, or something you have to build yourself, makes you have to learn how it actually works to get it to run right.

Now that things are so comodified and simplified, they just work and really discourage tinkering, so people learn less about core functionality and how things actually work. Not always true, but a trend I've experienced.

[-] ApatheticCactus@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago

I still get hit hard from just the trailer.

[-] ApatheticCactus@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

Amnesia is one of my all-time favorite games. F.E.A.R. should have been scary, but all the scary parts were completely non lethal, so I just laughed and ran through them. Layers of Fear was similar in that a lot of the time it was creepy, but not lethal. It's kinda like checking if friendly fire is on or if fire damages the player. You need to set expectations in games or play with the player's ideas of what is and is not safe.

[-] ApatheticCactus@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

Odd aside, it's my test in a horror game to see if I should actually take threats seriously. If you see something creepy- can it kill you? Some games it's just creepy stuff that can only scare you- but if it can't hurt you then no big deal and loses all risk and threat.

[-] ApatheticCactus@lemmy.world 0 points 1 month ago

It's also funny because most of my heavy conservative coworkers all have beards, trucks, and country stuff because that's the image.

Now that I think about it, quite a few are bald and shave their heads, sooo... Maybe that's an angle they could shoot for? Those could be some wild ads.

[-] ApatheticCactus@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

I'd be watching a car accident compilation and a Buick starts trying to tell me to ask my doctor about Cymbalta. You know... I might actually watch that.

[-] ApatheticCactus@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago

Pluto, obviously.

[-] ApatheticCactus@lemmy.world 0 points 6 months ago

"I contributed a bag of quickrete!"

Yeah that wouldn't work here.

[-] ApatheticCactus@lemmy.world 0 points 6 months ago

Maybe this is what Apple is trying to solve with spatial computing.

[-] ApatheticCactus@lemmy.world 17 points 6 months ago

We put the charging port underneath the car!

[-] ApatheticCactus@lemmy.world 5 points 6 months ago

Well, sort of. Thing is time flows at different rates for different things. There is a lot of relativity shenanigans that kinda breaks the idea of a universal clock.

[-] ApatheticCactus@lemmy.world 1 points 7 months ago

The odd thing I have heard is that those born without hearing have internal sign language dialogue.

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