BenSM

AEA Stage Manager: Theatre, Opera, Music, Events. Nerd, Gaymer, Sci-Fi fan. Tax prep. ISTJ, heavy on the J. Weird obsession w/ license plates. 🏳️‍🌈🎮🖖

[BenSM @BenTheStageMan]

"I tell the actors what to do. Well, I tell them WHEN to do it anyway." #ExplainSMing

[BenSM @BenTheStageMan]

I literally cannot understand L1/L2 and L/ZL. Bumpers and triggers for the win!

[yorueshi @yorueshi]

10 ans que j’ai la xbox j’ai jamais capté pourquoi les touche s’appellent LT-LB frr alors que la PS c’est simple L1 L2

[BenSM @BenTheStageMan]

It's wild to me when people are using Windows 11 and they have left all the default taskbar settings as is out of the box. The search bar is insane. Why would you not make it a button? Windows 10 has this same problem FWIW.

[💟 ᏦᏋᎩ ᏦᏋᎩ ᎷᎧᏁᎥᎤᏬᏋ 💟 @KeyKeytoMarz]

Greatest commercial EVER!!!

[Men's Humor @MensHumor]

Gen Z won't understand, but this woman dropped one of the hardest lines of the 2000's.

[BenSM @BenTheStageMan]

Guys, no one says "Cue" when they're calling a show (and if they do, they shouldn't). It's "Lights 1 Go" not "Lights Cue 1 Go" and ABSOLUTELY not "Cue 1 Go." #SMlife

[BenSM @BenTheStageMan]

My apprentice redecorated the booth.

[Broskі @broskiFGC]

its cool how half the global economy is contingent on this shit

[U.S. Graphics Company @usgraphics]

This website is like a piece of paper that's glued to the wall like you ripped it off of a magazine. There's panning and scrolling. The mental model of the page is vividly clear. Navigation is straightforward and predictable. Menu doesn't move. The 'staticness' of these old sites is undervalued and now kind of forgotten.

Compare this with modern full screen webapps that give you no sense of where you are on the page and molasses-like animated UI that captures native scrolling. These websites have their own abstraction layer to navigate, browse and present things. Almost like motion picture that presents information to you and you don't have much control. Signifiers that visually inform you of interactability are misplaced or entirely missing. You have some illusion of control but it's nowhere as explicit as a static page.

There is an ad-tech-smell and "pop" in modern websites as they take over your visual field in mysterious, unpredictable ways. Doesn't let go of the attention easily. Huge typography and motion effects captivate users kinda like a 30-sec advertisement. Crack cocaine of information consumption.

Combine this with terrible decisions at the OS-level like making scrollbars invisible, practice of UI/UX is deeply unserious today. It's not like we don't have solutions and it's an unknown problem. We have the blueprints. We had it all and we deliberately abandoned it with great carelessness. But in a certain light, the practice of UI/UX today is deeply serious in the ad-tech aspects and bedazzles their userbase with ever-increasing sense of bedazzlement. What purpose does Apple Liquid Glass UI serve otherwise?

Open for discussion and critique.

[James Tate @JamesTate121]

You can’t really argue this. They believe in investing in the people and infrastructure.

[Jenni @hashjenni]

Why is sleeping at night so hard but sleeping in the morning is like drifting away on a soft fluffy cloud while time passes at 10x speed

[Samay @Samaytwt]

Unpopular opinion: Windows 10 was still better than Windows 11.

[Cottrello @CottrelloVision]

Nintendo has completed the infinity gauntlet of going back to a game. We have now the perfect guide for if a game is a remaster, remake etc.

I present the Starfox Scale.

[Bizlet @bizlet7]

What’s extremely weird about the sequel trilogy is they didn’t plan it out.
This is the biggest trilogy of all time by the biggest entertainment corpo that has ever existed and they couldn’t bother to write all three movies together.
The random nerd at the comic book store could have done a better job.

[BenSM @BenTheStageMan]

@wilsongrahams @ChrisCushman2 Yes, and, it's why I don't really care about the fan arguments about more current series portraying the Connie Enterprise's bridge, for example, completely differently than in the 60's.

[BenSM @BenTheStageMan]

@ChrisCushman2 And so, I posit that in the "real" Constitution class the turbolift is on the centerline and the communications station would be to Port of the doorway and not Starboard.

[BenSM @BenTheStageMan]

@ChrisCushman2 I guess I should say, perhaps because I work in theatrical productions, I believe that what we see on screen is an interpretation of the story and the fictional reality might possibly be different--but rendered through the aesthetic and logic of the time where the art is created.

[BenSM @BenTheStageMan]

@ChrisCushman2 Because it's clearly in the "wrong" place in the show, so if you think the bridge isn't offset (per your point 2) you must think that what we see on screen is not accurate to the fictional reality

[BenSM @BenTheStageMan]

@ChrisCushman2 Right. I know. But do you think in the reality of the universe of Star Trek the lift is on the centerline (and so is the view screen) but the TV version artistically places it in the "wrong" place for all those camera blocking reasons.