#what the fuck is this interface

[puppyeared]

i have to say its a strange experience taking classes on branding and marketing while being vehemently anticapitalist and scorning the economic system

#i shit you not ill be in class and theyre talking abt how to make brands memorable and use words to describe their tone and feel #and at the same time i see starbucks endorsing genocide and greedflation and AI techbros scheming us into extinction #its extremely fucking dystopian. and its even worse when u have teachers telling u to use chatGPT and midjourney for #placeholder text and images. like damn. this is really the industry im going into huh #i feel complicit doing this because i want to pursue graphic design but its chilling to see ppl get really worked up abt branding #do u not feel used?? doesnt it feel like youre giving a faceless entity a mask to gloss over the ugly parts?? cuz i do #i get excited at the design and UX aspect of things like how people think and how design and user interfaces are planned around how #we think and act. but when the endgoal becomes marketing or doing it for companies it just feels like a waste #like i think this is what bill watterson meant when he didnt want calvin and hobbes to be commercialized #i dont want to do anything else unless it comes to that like i change my career path somewhere down the line. but fuck dude #im just gonna keep using unsplash and lorem ipsum as much as i can because i sure as hell dont wanna add to the problem if i cant solve it #yapping #vent

[gargyshmub]

interface by Umami

interface by umami is GOOD and you should GO WATCH IT its on YOUTUBE and its <: ) < : ) good

#ms paint #my art #umami #interface #mischeif #henrick #fuck #whats the white womans name #static white woman whats her name #PLEASE watch interface and TELL ME WHAT THE WHITE WOMANS NAME IS

[mushrooms-n-frog]

made my first item of clothing this week. third ever project and i had to look up like half the words in the patterns cus it was advertised as advanced but im an idiot

#like wtf is bias tape?? #i hate that shit it’s so difficult #interfacing too #that had me real confused #but i was still like yeah i can do that #no problem it’ll be a breeze #also the sewing machine i inherited from my grandma is bougie as fuck apparently #cus she’s a rich quilter #it has like 50 stitches and a 200 page manual #“project runway limited edition #what the fuck #sewing #sewing beginner

[foldingfittedsheets]

I’ve spent hours today throwing myself at Maya trying to use the rigging tools I broke down and bought. It fiiiiinally worked and now I’m too tired to actually rig because I invested so much time in prep.

#fucking pymel was a nightmare and then I had to get python and I barely know what I’m doing on the interface side of my pc #a fellow student helped me to the best of his ability and we were still stumped #but I finally got it and I can autogenerate ribbons for my limbs now #ramblies #rigging #one of the controllers generated flipped but I’m still calling this a win

[anarchicarachnid]

LITERALLY why do i learn about a cutting down on staff due to a failure of the tumblr business model owing to their utter inability to listen to user feedback and instead just constantly making changes nobody wants,

and the *same fucking day* there's a new pointless aesthetic change on mobile that literally not one single person on this website asked for or wants.

why is it always like this

#tumblr #hellsite #ui changes #tumblr updates #mobile #what the fuck #website design is my passion #interface design is my burden #social media

[johntorrington]

my most embarrassing moment in recent history was when i was at an event at the campus bar (male beauty pageant my friend was competing in) and the club organizing it couldn’t figure out how to get the lights to work. and i (stage lighting technician with an ego problem) went up to try and give them a hand after my friend texted me from the stage asking me to. it turns not only was i completely unfamiliar with the system they were running (what the fuck is a hog 4 stop making shit up) but i also clicked one button and the house lights came on and blinded everyone. and so they just decided to do the show in just the house lights and i had to shuffle back to my seat to go watch my friend lose.

#apparently hog 4 is an ETC product which you CANNOT tell from looking at the interface. i know ETC. what the fuck is that #(circus music starts) #LX tag

[thatmightyheart]

Hey jsyk @ mysillyaccountlol on TikTok reposted ur art apparently they found it on Pinterest and they make “Pinterest finds vids” just thought I’d let you know

thank you for letting me know, unfortunately i'm not on tiktok at all and i have no real idea how i would get them to... stop... or take it down......

#n0-1-important #postcards #like if it was on pinterest... i ought to have a harder line on this but idk it feels like such a lost cause at this point =_= #especially like. what. all the fucking bnha art reposts #ty for taking the time to let me know though #i opened the sign up page once (once) long ago and i hate to say it #but the interface was so immediately offputting and baffling i did the most precise and immutable 180 i ever did in my life

[volturialice]

@ tumblr what the fuck is a livestreaming credit I just wanna see my queue

#every time I log in the interface is worse #what the fuck is THIS

[greyias]

Finally updated and launched the latest version of After Effects... and am so enraged I now want to go hunt down the devs and shake them until they stop stripping out the basic functions I've used for decades.

Like what the hell. I don't care if you ADD things, but don't fuck with my decade+ muscle memory and not give me the option to return to the way the software has always worked for the most basic functions!

#grey vents apparently #they literally changed how fucking keyframes work #like there's an entirely separate panel off of the timeline #and if it had been addition to the interface i probably would have liked it #but no i have almost 15+ years of looking in ONE SPOT on the application for properties #and you've moved it completely and i can't even get it back #WHY DO THEY KEEP DOING THIS??? #first they changed the way workspaces functioned #in a completely useless way that added nothing #then they fucked with the way importing and exporting footage works in premiere #and THEN they changed the way a new project is started #and it's like the reason it's so infuriating is it's a completely jarring change #that makes you relearn something basic #when you're in a time crunch to get something done #and it's so goddamn inconvenient #to have to stop what you're doing on something that used to be as easy as breathing #and have to figure out wtf they've done like some computer illiterate person #adobe please stop fixing things that aren't broken i'm begging you #okay i'm done now :(

[ohnoaname]

I want a new profile pic but I have trouble even deciding on a theme

#what are the chances that people will see me in their feed and forget why they have followed me #i won't mind people unfollowing that their business I'm just wandering #also THANK FUCK i didn't put a picrew as my pic it would have been very recognisable #ohnotalking #what is it called dash here not feed #my interface is in russian and I honestly don't know

[sevicia]

I wanted to make a cleaner summary of last week's classes and also review the classes I have this week since the material is already uploaded beforehand but I was feeling so horrible throughout the day that when I sat down I was just gonna look at the ones for tomorrow but I think I'm just gonna go to bed because I just gave my little numbers game a few tries and not even the joy of tribial elementary school-level math games is bringing my brain cells and/or full sentience back

#diary #accessing it through the CMD thing and not just running it from the IDE made me realize a few things about it though so I'll hav #I'll have to maybe jot them down somewhere when I'd normally just be rly excited and try to fix them straight away like I am truly fucked r #I do wanna make an eng version of it sometime soon so I can share it even tho it's literally the simplest little thing. it's fun if you're #an easily amused nerd that loves playing with numbers in a truly useless manner. if that makes sense #also very obviously text-only I am NOT torturing myself with any graphics of ANY kind rn #it closes immediatly as they do and also when it comes to having double/triple digit starting numbers it becomes a lot less fun I think tho #though I haven't used it much with those yet #I still wanna figure out a way of making it better when it comes to 2/3 digit starters. and my original idea included maybe keeping track #keeping track of how many steps you took even between different rounds but I made the simplest version for now. I also think making like a #''this was the least amount of steps possible!'' type thing would be very very cool but that is FAR too big brained for me rn #cause I can figure out how to do the record keeping thing but that last one is like. let's stop talking for a little while................. #oh but adding an actual interface sounds so fun even though I have very little clue on how to do that rn I could probably STOP typing becau #because I can feel my stupid ass self start getting excited about this which will make it so I start working on it instead of going to bed #NO. DOWN !!!!!!!!!!!!!! auhgh............ oh man I had a lame joke to make but I completely forgot what it was #I have coding class tomorrow in which I normally just do the exercises as fast as possible before playing around but the only Python editor #I could find installed on the school computers was Visual Studio Code and I have no clue how to use that shit like I don't need so many #so many buttons. probz. OKAY GOODNIGHT

[nemesis-is-my-middle-name]

Ok. ok ok ok I know youre having fun with Elden ring, and youve probably moved on from the Ley Line Au But Hear me out! Ive been chewing on it for a bit.

So! Three main things that just feel off to me in the au. 1. Giratina is the only primordial god without a magic branch (Which I Know They are anti magic but HEAR ME OUT!) 2. The Twin Dragons are the Light (They just dont feel like Primordial Gods ya'know?) . 3. Giratina still has no motive.

I!!! have connected the dots!!! It always rubbed me a bit when we talked about the dead god and the twin dragons. The Twin dragons are not really death connected. I just realized, we have a perfectly good ghost dragon Right there! Giratina!

So let me set the stage! The Three Primordial Children of the One. At the One's command they became The Fonts of Magic from which the world sprung forth. Then, an unimaginable time later, the Light tore its god to shreads. The God is dead. What is left from the smoldering remains of Light and Magic is a Lack. A Hole from which no light comes and no magic resides. Magic follows waters rules and tries to fill a hole which cannot be filled. In which the Starving, Writhing thing that was Once Light was banished by The One bc It was now a Danger to the world it created. (It is starving Its mind is in disarray WHERE IS ITS LIGHT.) The Magic it brought forth is now destabilized. Which as one of the forces stabilizing space time and the world is a big uh oh. So One Minor Dragon God seized the light as it thrashed and tore the world in a despite bid to keep its people safe. Unlike the Original Light whom was shredded until nothing but a shade remained, the Dragon God was only torn in twane. (Whether its because the light mages (Maybe Celestica? they have light theme right?) stopped in shock or divine retribution has claimed them Idk.)

But the tearing stabilized the light bc It created a dichotomy. Light was no longer JUST light. Its the swing of light to dark. the Truth to the Ideal. The gods original thing merged kinda with the Light. Maybe the Twin gods were gods of Wishes or Maybe Human Perspective idk. But It was important bc Now the Original God of Light is now Darkness. And the Allowance of Darkness in the Light Magic kinda keeps it from folding like a house of cards.

Light Magic tends to the rule of two. Or Give and Take. Depends on the user and the intent. Which makes it Very Dangerous. The Twin Gods try their best but the Light Magic is scarred and volatile. Light users tend to play by the rule of two bc Its generally the more safe of the rules to play by. Two Mages or One who Gives so they can Take. (the appearance of a LONE ridiculously powerful Light Mage Could be very alarming, what could they give to take that much magic. (where is the other one) and Irida has to safe.)

Which Gives Giratina a motive! or maybe a motive for Arceus to stop them. I imagine being killed is very disorenting and not very conductive to being rational non rampaging gods who have yet to realize what it has become. Maybe at the events of the plot it has chilled enough to be reasoned with to Not Eat all the Light Magic and kill everyone (Kinda. it IS a primordial god. ) Tho with Volo maybe trying to control it or maybe enabling it and giving it awful ideas we might need to deal with him first. (If we go with the Idea that Celestica killed Giratina and thats why they're dead, then Volo trying to control the god that their ancestors failed to would be a better motivation than just bc yeah?)

Sorry I just had to get it out here. <3 Have fun with Elden Ring

oh anon i have never moved on from a thing in my life and i am SO INTO THIS.

the one thing i take issue with tho is the sidelining of the twin dragons to being minor deities, bc having a minor deity jump on the ruins of a primal force feels kind of left-field, and to me the concept of there being gods who entirely, by definition, rule the domain of human thought and desire—and pokemon gods, animal gods that can be leashed and controlled—is a concept that fucks so hard and i can't see it as being anything other than deeply fundamental to the universe itself. so can i play with your premise a lil bit

bc i think—and idr how much of this ive talked abt before—BUT i think in pokemon CANON, giratina is also kind of a god's corpse moreso than it is a god in itself. by which i mean to say, giratina was the original holder of spirit, not the lake trio—but having the whole force of spirit contained in one mind was too much for it, and arceus had to take it away and reform it into three separate beings, leaving giratina a banished and abandoned shell. which actually dovetails so neatly into this, just instead of being doomed by its creation, giratina was killed by its mages instead.

so like. light to dark to antimagic to spirit. this feels like such a closed loop. like, it's always kind of fascinated me how the lake and tao legends feel so conceptually linked—truth and ideals vs. willpower emotion and knowledge, like you can see how they're distinct concepts if you squint but intuitively it feels like there should be a lot of overlap. SO. do you see where i'm going with this. i've already said that light is like, the fundamental force that is the contract law of the universe—which fits so neatly with the lake trio's red chain of spirit and the way it can control even palkia and dialga and repair the very fabric of reality. cogita even suggests that it "lets one see reality as it truly is."

i also take umbrage with the idea that resh/zek don't have a death link bc to me they are the products of a death. the original dragon died, and they're the leftovers of its power, with kyurem being the body. ...but kyurem also hasn't played much of a role at all in this so far. has it.

so maybe reshiram and zekrom weren't a separate god that stepped in to fill the void. light has always been the same thing as spirit, two words for the same fundamental domain—fitting so neatly with the concept of facets and angles we've had going so far—and resh and zek are the shards of giratina's corpse. fundamentally disunified and out of balance, two opposing pieces of a god trying to fill the role of a single one. meanwhile giratina persists, but now having been completely gutted, the fundamental piece of its heart where its magic should live permanently gutted and bleeding darkness.

is this tracking?? idc i'm rolling with this now anyway. it fucks to me. anyway i'm also so into the idea that it was celestic who originally killed giratina, bc those mages have been kind of faceless until now but i think it also gives ingo such a fascinating personal stake in this whole quest in a way even irida and adaman don't have. like, he inherited their bloodied hands. he knows more intimately than anyone what the force of light is like now, lacking a true deity. that is fascinating to me.

also wouldn't that legally make volo another light mage?? but like, an Old Light Mage. one of the few who still adhere to the way it used to function, before the killing. bc like, i don't think this has made it into a post yet but i do think those are very different things. light magic is a completely different ballgame nowadays. goddammit yet again volo and emmet have taken up narratively opposed and symmetric positions. why do they do this EVERY time.

#the nemesis speaks #the nemesis answers #anonymous #ley lines au #or maybe volo's like the one and only mage of darkness #but i don't... know that that's a thing that's possible to be #anyway i think i should also say that i think the light mages killing their god was pretty poggers of them #like not in the sense that it was a good decision that benefited them or anyone. it didn't #but they had no way of knowing at the time what would happen. and their motives weren't selfish in themselves #so more in a sense of yeah u go u funky little guys. why SHOULD the big worm get to be the sole arbiter of your power. #they punched so fucking high. good for them. #also this whole au is kind of elden ring in its vibes. im ngl #it's the approach to deities as these far-removed forces with inhuman morals and wants interfacing with mortals in strange ways #and also killing very powerful things and yet they persist and it goes horrifically wrong. also that.

[coulson-is-an-avenger]

me: im not self taught at sewing i promise. i understand professional lingo.

me when handed an actual sewing pattern: what the FUCK is this

#me when i Was taught by a professional. who was self taught. #mossy speaks #what the fuck is interfacing. dont swear at me #sewing

[maybankiara]

wattpad excluding fanfiction from the wattys is actually a joke. just don't give the winner money and give them a nice little sticker to put on their book. this is ridiculous

#d.tag #i feel like i should have a tag for hating wattpad #they went from being the best place to read books to something horrible #and it all happened when some authors went to radish to get money #so wattpad thought they could do the same #and just fucked everyone over and made a perfectly good app unusuable #not to mention that the website has been horrendous since the interface update like ten years ago #and it's only been getting worse #wattpad needs to remember it's not amazon #it's a social media yet they keep getting rid of features that make it social media #i wish someone would explain to me what their 10 year plan is for the company/website #is it going to be a bookshop??? is it going to be a library?? #cause it sure as hell isn't going to be a social media app #i miss seeing what other people read on my newsfeed and the comments and everything #i miss the forums where you could meet people #it's literally losing all the functionality and then just making the only thing it does well (reading) horrible with all the ads #i have no idea how it's still an operational app and i honestly hate that there's no real good alternative #(that is if anyone has one i'm all ears)

[sanguine-tenshi]

Genuinely think that if you design a piece of technology that is user unfriendly you should be brought before a firing squad.

#brought to you by wall heaters #it seemed like the most convinient way to heat my room #as we have solar panels so heating on electricity is the best option #but the user interface is so fucking god awful and unfriendly that i am genuinely considering sending a 'strongly worded' email about it #do you know what this thing needs? #two buttons to set the temperature and an on/off switch #do you know what this thing has? #a requirement to set the current day and time. a requirement to set the on and off time spans. temperature settings #oh and a grand total of four buttons for you to do it on #this piece of shit also comes together with an instuction manual so god fucking awful and confusing that you'll come out even more confused #on how to operate this mess #every piece of new technology should be easy to use and understand #the probability of user errors should be minimized as much as possible #it shouldnt be some tech bro flexing about how smart and educated he is #bro you put a radiator on the wall #congratulations #youve discovered america in the year 2023 of our lord

[ageofzero]

Oh I love when advertising fucks with the website UI so that instead of clicking the website’s usual buttons, I can only click on their dumb fucking advertising gimmick. /SARCASM (aggro)

#Tumblr #advertising #user interface #feedback #I’m not tagging the Thing #They’re not getting the satisfaction of metrics from me talking about it explicitly #You know what I’m talking about if you’ve seen tumblr without Adblock today #Every day I’m traveling I miss my fcking desktop computer #Mobile browser users how do you cope #Mobile users how do you cope??? #I wasn’t interested in this stupid thing before but now I’m gonna go OUT OF MY WAY to miss this fcking thing they’re advertising #Get out of my way and let me click the like button what the fuck is wrong with you!!!!! #Also when I try to click on the options button for the sponsored post it disappears lmao #Scared I’ll report you you dumb piece of shit??? #I’ve woken up and chosen Violence today #I already sent a tumblr feedback form don’t tell me to do that #(Unrelated salt: don’t use acronyms for your tone indicators just spell out the word like those Mass Effect aliens do) #(This is the aggro episode) #Since tumblr is severely unusable today more so than ever I am going to abscond after posting this