hmm tomorrow i will write an absolutely unhinged post on car headlight design despite knowing little to nothing about design
ugh, so true. one of my worst pet peeves is when i go to click on one thing but another appears suddenly and either moves that original button or hides it entirely, via a pop-up. and it's so damn slow that by the time i think the UI is done loading, i go to click something, and lo and behold i have clicked on something else. why is it like this.
One small but extremely annoying effect of Tech Modernization or w/e is how UI contrast is garbage anymore, especially just, like, application windows in general.
"Ooh our scrollbar expands when you mouse over it! Or does it? Only you can know by sitting there like an idiot for 3 seconds waiting for it to expand, only to move your cursor away just as it does so!" or Discord's even more excellent "scrollbar is 2 shades off of the background color and is one (1) pixel wide" fuck OFF
I tried to move a system window around yesterday and had to click 3 times before I got the half of the upper bar that let me drag it. Why are there two separate bars with absolutely nothing to visually differentiate them on that.
"Well if you look closely-" I should not!! have to squint!!! at the screen for a minute straight to detect basic UI elements!! Not mention how ableist this shit is, and for what? ~✨Aesthetic✨~?
and then every website and app imitates this but in different ways so everything is consistently dogshit to try to use but not always in ways you can immediately grok it's!!!! terrible!!!! just put lines on things again I'm begging you!!!!
funny car
Everyone who’s been talking to me knows i’ve been working on this comic about wlws and cats for a while and i’m so so happy it’s finally here!!! :D
idea stolen from this post :’3
is elon the first billionaire lolcow
raidcore
comfortable, decent quality bedding will change your life I'm so serious
tragic irony has struck me. i had a mediocre day filled with sorrow towards my past self, largely related to academic performance, and just now my friends were doing today's wordle and so i decided to do it as well (i don't normally do them). i was halfway to tears (because of the previously mentioned reasons) while doing it and then i got it after cheating (by clearing my browser's cache for that page to give me more chances because i used some dumb shitpost words) and the word was
"dummy"
im gonna lose it. poetically ironic. absolute cinema. i burst out laughing
He made her an offer she couldn't refuse
last night i had the craziest fucking dream
there was this island off the coast of los angeles called thelena iirc. (sidenote, i didnt know what it was called for the longest time. i pulled out my phone in the dream and used google maps and saw all of the city names and ferry routes) iirc it gained significant popularity and acted as a refuge for many people after some climate disaster killed a lot of the usa, but i also remember the usa being bustling, so thats a continuity error in my dream. the other part of thelena was as a massive experiment by the united states government, as they wanted to see if they should switch the usa over to a socialist nation, as well as switch over to public transit/walkable cities because thelena was relatively small (iirc around the size of los angeles), and was isolated from the mainland, it was a perfect testing ground.
unsurprisingly, thelena socially blew up, with many thousands of people migrating to it, and being a hub for scientific and technological advancement, all in perfect harmony with nature
*sigh* i wish thelena was real
also, some whacky shit happened in that dream.
- there was a pizza hut on thelena and one of the toppings was whole brains
- i had a derelict boeing 737 with broken cockpit windows which i flew around in and fucked around with
- i fought ganondorf (from the legend of zelda) but with horse legs at the beginning of the dream
- one of the ways you can tell if you're in a dream is by noticing text, and if its all weird and moves due to the fact that your brain cant render text, you are in a dream. my brain just didnt do this. thats how i knew it was called thelena (although i might have forgot the exact spelling)
- my brain somehow almost perfectly rendered google maps on my phone? there were a few graphical glitches with nonexistent islands filling up ocean bays and it looked really weird, but other than that my brain perfectly rendered google maps text, zoom, roads, and ferry routes
enough of this "androids who dream of being human" shtick. more androids who love being androids, and are lowkey sorry for humans bc that shit sounds exhausting
electrical engineering student who smells specifically of soldering fumes, estrogen, and motorcycle exhaust (i love electronics, design, electronic music/dubstep, motorcycles)
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