Meaningless Conjectures

Huffy, husky hussy who handles hustling.

[strawberrycartt]

The man the myth the stampede.. Vash

[pissvortex]

Found what might be the greatest twitter account ever

[pissvortex]

Fujoshi beast mode

[rowanisawriter]

i believe kim suffered more than jesus in this game actually

[milf-adjacent]

The Dover Boys (1942)

[exclamatia]

yeah fuck it why not

dover boys break

[kylebobbergman]

I always forget about and then laugh my ass off at the scout

[heavensickness]

[iamjapanese]

Valery Fedorovich Shkarubo（Валерий Фёдорович Шкарубо Belarusian, 1957-2020）

oil painting via

[elkian]

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!!!!

[commodorez]

I know I sound like a broken record when I praise Windows 95 UI, but holy fuck Microsoft figured this shit out already about 30 years ago. It's all there, black and white, clear as christmas:

So much of modern UX woes stem from not knowing, or intentionally ignoring the genuine design study put forth into GUIs in the 90s.

3D elements are 3D in a specific way with lighting from a specific side to make it obvious where a window element begins and ends.

The gradient always should from from one side, and keep it consistent.

Make your color shading and shape of scroll bars consistently side and easy to press. I have a 4K display, don't make me hunt for the magic activation pixel that makes your 3-pixel wide scroll bar appear.

It's a desktop application, I've got the screen real estate to spare to have the actual GUI elements present on screen at all times (I know, heresy).

The moment aesthetic takes precedence over form and function, you've failed as a UI designer.

[weaselsblaugh]

And any argument about "we don't have the resolution" can go right out the window, we were having nice, clear and legible interface widgets on nine inch screens in 1984. We continued to have nice, clear and legible interfaces on machines vastly less powerful than today's and on screens vastly less pixel-dense than today's. We used to know what the hell we were doing. At least one of these examples even has on-screen instructions in case the widgets functionality isn't immediately apparent.

(images sourced from The GUI Gallery)

[weaselsblaugh]

since this has come back to my dashboard again i want to call attention to one more thing that these GUIs have that modern ones don't even try to do.

RESIZE WIDGETS.

Do you tire of trying to grab and resize a window whose border is literally only 1 pixel wide?

Do you see how large the corner widgets are in those clips above? Those are at least 16x16 pixels. They're almost as large as the Close buttons on a modern GUI. If you can see the bottom right corner of your window, resizing it is a snap. You can aim much more easily at a 16x16 widget than you can at a one-pixel-wide vertical line.

OK, maybe technically Windows' borders are wider than 1 pixel. They're technically 3 pixels. That is still just really goddamn tiny compared to 16 of them.

We used to be a society. Look at this. Look at this.

WINDOWS FUGGIN' 95 HAD THE CORNER WIDGET. Why the hell can't Windows 11?

[inqorporeal]

The push for minimalism is ruining accessibility in tech

[lloras]

bars

[phineas-and-ferb-heritage-posts]

phineas and ferb heritage post

[knightsickness]

love this image bc what did the princess do to make the crowd shout and throw tomatoes at her. i know it wasnt nothing

[serial-unaliver-deactivated2024]

believe women

[orteil42]

Visit Original Link

entered a manic state yesterday and did a Hardware Store cover in some obscure 90s tracker

[s-u-f-j-a-n-s-t-e-v-e-n-s]

Come On Feel The "Illinoise" Musical is now open on Broadway for a limited 16-week run at the St. James Theatre. Tickets for all dates can be found here.

[neosatsuma]

What was your first anime? (excluding Pokemon)

Naruto

Hetalia

Fullmetal Alchemist (either)

Bleach

Death Note

One Piece

Wolf's Rain

Ouran High School Host Club

Black Butler

Soul Eater

something else

Voting ended onMay 3, 2024

[kylebobbergman]

DRAGON BALL!??????????????

[theinformationcollector]

TIL Dr. Sigmund Freud was addicted to smoking and failed to quit for good throughout a 45 years long battle that included 33 operations for cancer of the jaw, an artificial jaw replacement, and attacks of “tobacco angina” exacerbated by nicotine . He was known to smoke up to twenty cigars a day.

via reddit.com

[blurrymango]

Jesus ffucking christ bro.

[kawaii-pigeon]

Seems like he had an oral fixation… Almost as if he were replacing the cigarette with… No i shant say…

[gearboxpraexology]

Then we’ll all say it together

F

[anjew-jackson]

O

[nemo-the-goat]

R

[anjew-jackson]

F

[dogsagainstbenitojuarez]

R

[geminiagentgreen]

O

[anjew-jackson]

D

[facelift90]

O

[anjew-jackson]

[rhythmgameurl]

[digitronsurfers]

dio’s fuckhouswe

[nthflower]

Yuri warrior harry du Bois

[viralfrog]

[charlesoberonn]