It never went away. They just figured out how to make it subtle so it could be active all the time instead of just when the computer wasn't working properly. Do you really feel like you're using trauma-free software day-to-day?
I will always remember Eternal Darkness for getting me off the couch to go reset my GameCube cause it appeared frozen. I didn’t get all the way there before realizing the game was fucking with me
iirc this is the screen you would get when the PS2 was borked and wouldn't boot properly, or something like that. It's been a long time but I do still remember the terror I associate with this image lol
Edit: Actually it might have been a disc read error
I suspect this is some kind of console error? I've only owned a SNES before becoming part of the PC master race, so just like the kids of today this early millennial has no idea what he's looking at exactly.
It's the PS2 disc error screen, just before the actual disc read error message displays it does this little red animation. This is like the very beginning of that animation
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JusticeForPorygon@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 36 pts · 233d
UI Designers need to bring back the childhood trauma aspect of software
AnyOldName3@lemmy.world · 21 pts · 233d
It never went away. They just figured out how to make it subtle so it could be active all the time instead of just when the computer wasn't working properly. Do you really feel like you're using trauma-free software day-to-day?
einlander@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 233d
Software integrating mandatory online accounts, ai, and other anti consumer tactics:
danc4498@lemmy.world · 15 pts · 233d
I will always remember Eternal Darkness for getting me off the couch to go reset my GameCube cause it appeared frozen. I didn’t get all the way there before realizing the game was fucking with me
running_system@feddit.org · 6 pts · 233d
I almost fell for it while being at the brink of a nervous meltdown.
ceenote@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 233d
It never left, they just monetized it.
notreallyhere@lemmy.world · 28 pts · 233d
Marafon@sh.itjust.works · 35 pts · 233d
iirc this is the screen you would get when the PS2 was borked and wouldn't boot properly, or something like that. It's been a long time but I do still remember the terror I associate with this image lol
Edit: Actually it might have been a disc read error
ceenote@lemmy.world · 35 pts · 233d
It was a disc read error. In that era, the most likely issue was that your disc was too beat up to work properly.
cm0002@libretechni.ca · 15 pts · 233d
Another big reason, a lot of the earlier PS2 models had a poor quality laser that would go bad really quick
Korhaka@sopuli.xyz · 7 pts · 233d
That kind of trauma is probably why I had stopped using optical media by 2005.
Marafon@sh.itjust.works · 6 pts · 233d
That explains why I also remembered the smell and texture of toothpaste lol
Opisek@piefed.blahaj.zone · 6 pts · 233d
Oh, so kind of like the red ring of death for us xbox kids!
n7gifmdn@lemmy.ca · 1 pts · 232d
did i wonder into Instagram or some such nonsense? The 'verse is supposed to be just us old nerds.
n7gifmdn@lemmy.ca · 1 pts · 232d
I was trying to figure out some Commodore 64 screen I was looking at.
Marafon@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 232d
Bruh, 30 is the new 60 because of gestures wildly all around
GreenBeanMachine@lemmy.world · 20 pts · 233d
waz@feddit.uk · 18 pts · 233d
I’m this old
GlitchyDigiBun@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 233d
Oh hey! The music started, must be about halfway loaded. Guess I'll go grab a snack.
GreenBeanMachine@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 233d
tomiant@piefed.social · 3 pts · 233d
Less than 1/20 of a floppy disk. It's like 60-70 kb per side.
Pretty sick what they could fit on those things, considering. Some truly beautiful art.
Eternal192@anarchist.nexus · 5 pts · 233d
PS2 was my last console, i still have a silver slim one just gathering dust because emulators exist, but for me that was the golden age of gaming...
Shrubbery@piefed.social · 4 pts · 233d
Relive the horror: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1uHLQHjtPLE
Hotzilla@sopuli.xyz · 2 pts · 232d
That's goatse, right?
Aganim@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 231d
I suspect this is some kind of console error? I've only owned a SNES before becoming part of the PC master race, so just like the kids of today this early millennial has no idea what he's looking at exactly.
cm0002@libretechni.ca · 1 pts · 231d
It's the PS2 disc error screen, just before the actual disc read error message displays it does this little red animation. This is like the very beginning of that animation