abfarid

joined 2 years ago
[–] abfarid@startrek.website 0 points 1 day ago (3 children)

You're not wrong, as it's your personal subjective experience, which can't be wrong.
But the fact that it pisses you off implies that you don't understand the reason behind it.
We used to have information-dense UIs before because:

  • devices used to have only large screens with lower resolution.
  • devices were used primarily be specialists for productivity.

Which means programs had to fit a lot of stuff in very few pixels. Nowadays, vast majority of users are casual, the people of the land, fatfingering their tiny displays. They don't need a ton of buttons and sliders. In fact, a common user would get overwhelmed by all that, even on the desktop. And while a small amount of people would benefit from a denser UI for the same casual apps, it's usually not with the effort designing and implementing them.

[–] abfarid@startrek.website 10 points 1 day ago

Thanks, I hate it.

[–] abfarid@startrek.website 2 points 4 days ago

Btw, that Nathan Fillion gif is from Castle and not Firefly.

[–] abfarid@startrek.website 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Is it short for Wartholomeow?

[–] abfarid@startrek.website 9 points 1 week ago (1 children)

That Windows XP Merlin though.

[–] abfarid@startrek.website 2 points 1 week ago

I accidentally responded to your other comment in a different thread.

[–] abfarid@startrek.website 5 points 1 week ago

Depends on what you use to emulate and how much you want to hurt the device.
I usually emulate using RetroArch and it got all the CRT shaders you might want. Unless you get really into it. Look for CRT shaders with words "hylian glow", geom and royale. There even exist some advanced shaders for high refresh rate monitors that try to emulate CRT beam.

You can also check out Retro Crisis on YouTube to get started.

[–] abfarid@startrek.website 19 points 1 week ago (3 children)

That's not just scaliness but a full-on CRT shader with phosphor glow and stuff 👌

[–] abfarid@startrek.website 64 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Not to brag, but I have comments with, like, 11+ upvotes.

[–] abfarid@startrek.website 1 points 3 weeks ago

Allosaurus?

[–] abfarid@startrek.website 2 points 3 weeks ago

Oh right, didn't pay enough attention. But it was the first thing I saw in the morning.

[–] abfarid@startrek.website 11 points 3 weeks ago (5 children)

Shouldn't 7/10" actually be 7/20"?

 
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