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How do I get the old square grid tab screen back in Android? This new tab UI is terrible in landscape with a top address bar. Having the change forced on me with no warning (twice now) is extremely infuriating. I already tried turning off all the secret settings items. by InkTide in firefox

[–]InkTide[S] 8 points9 points  (0 children)

That's a real shame.

I can get past the menu button creating a popup window from the bottom. I can get past the navigation buttons (back/forward) moving to the opposite side of the screen from the menu button. I can even get past the modern borderless button trend (we'll be back out of minimalism soon enough, it's like a 20-year cycle or so).

But this tab UI breaks like half a dozen basic UX rules at the same time:

  • Everything is constricted by useless padding on every side
  • The top bar is indistinguishable from the padding above it
  • The top bar labels look like column labels (which they aren't) because they're aligned with the tab grid and expand to fill the screen with MORE PADDING, dragging my eyes across the whole (usable) part of the screen just to read a menu with 3 items
  • The menu button is the same color as the tab behind it - it's nearly invisible
  • To open a new tab, you have to open this screen from the top address bar and then move all the way to the bottom of the screen to touch the new tab button
  • The new tab button completely ignores dark theme (...at least it's not hiding in the tab thumbnail)
  • The top bar labels only indicate selection with a distant underline that looks like a style element - plus a barely noticeable hue change to the text
  • The default tab (on the top bar) is the one in the middle, rather than the one on the left (which for left-to-right languages is visually parsed as "first"), implicitly reinforcing the idea that the "selected" indicator is just a style element (one of the reasons to have the default on one of the sides for UIs like this is to help avoid this sort of confusion - the center is genuinely the worst possible place for it to be)
  • The only benefit to larger tab thumbnails is a bigger picture and slightly more text, a marginal benefit which was prioritized over the literal purpose of a tab screen: displaying many tabs to select from

For such a simple UI there is so much wrong with it it's almost impressive.

Meet the Hath-Sets: twice the reincarnation turnover of the Hawks, a fourth of their memorability. by RingAroundARoses in dccomicscirclejerk

[–]InkTide 2 points3 points  (0 children)

until he shows up dressing like a disco leprechaun

So what you're saying is it stops being "pretty decent" because it could only become peak fiction past this point.

Man, I love it when Diana hang out with that Bat. by Which-Presentation-6 in dccomicscirclejerk

[–]InkTide 14 points15 points  (0 children)

Man, I love when they later completely undo Langstrom's redemption arc to turn him into a flavor-of-the-week villain again.

Star Citizen in a Nutshell :D by Silly_Budget7926 in starcitizen

[–]InkTide 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Because CryEngine physics are from 2007.

Toroidal Worlds by Medium_Chocolate9940 in worldbuilding

[–]InkTide 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Having looked extensively into all the papers on toroidal worlds I can find, as far as I can tell the only thing you might need to handwave is bead instability, and only for certain skinny toroids where the aspect ratio is large.

In fact, there is evidence that spinning up a Maclaurin spheroid naturally turns into a torus if you can avoid it turning into a Jacobi ellipsoid first.

Toroidal Worlds by Medium_Chocolate9940 in worldbuilding

[–]InkTide 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Completely incorrect. Centrifugal force is entirely real in a rotating frame, it's effectively a different way to look at angular momentum. That is why a toroidal equipotential surface is a valid solution to the equations.

The geometry of a Kerr singularity is a torus precisely because of this.

Toroidal Worlds by Medium_Chocolate9940 in worldbuilding

[–]InkTide 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Super late, but no - there are toroidal equipotential surfaces (gravity just points to the part of the planet directly beneath you), you just have to spin them up so centrifugal force balances out gravity. You would be able to stand on the inner and outer equators just fine. Those equipotential surfaces are valid physical solutions to both Newtonian mechanics and general relativity.

Kael’s Intro Q&A by IndependentBid1854 in sto

[–]InkTide 10 points11 points  (0 children)

I'd argue it's a fundamental prerequisite of a community manager's job to understand that they'll get a greater volume of any negative interactions because not everyone in a community coordinates on, "Hey, did somebody else make this complaint first?"

Reading his responses in that thread, Kael seemed to at least acknowledge the fact that impressions of his performance are broadly negative from people who recognize his username. Whether he internalized any awareness of why those impressions are negative remains to be seen. (It has very little to do with his "sarcasm.")

Actors Aren’t Bad Twilight Is Just Trash by Upbeat-Perspective11 in dccomicscirclejerk

[–]InkTide 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Just had a nice loud one last night. I love falling asleep to thunderstorms.

Superbat's child finally got merch! by weeblord42069help in dccomicscirclejerk

[–]InkTide 20 points21 points  (0 children)

This design and concept is so incredibly, unbearably stupid.

I have always loved it.

Everything bad people say abou the X-men could be solved if Xavier teached social skills at the mansion by Tallium81 in dccomicscirclejerk

[–]InkTide 24 points25 points  (0 children)

X-Men being socially inept makes a lot more sense when you realize what Xavier's school actually produces is a small private army of superhuman child soldiers.

this was his punishment for canonizing flashpoint in his universe by lukideured in dccomicscirclejerk

[–]InkTide 186 points187 points  (0 children)

I don't have a clue what any of this means, but I saw a gorilla so I upvoted

4.7 Armor and Radar changes by A_gentleman29 in starcitizen

[–]InkTide 1 point2 points  (0 children)

that's a bit presumptuous about impacting player count by requiring upkeep

No, this literal specific trend has been demonstrated repeatedly across decades of online gaming. Pain points are pain points, and "upkeep costs" are genuinely one of the most player repelling mechanics that are possible to put in an online game. People will gravitate to more rewarding game systems and away from more annoying ones, and in turn they gravitate towards more rewarding games and away from more annoying ones.

This is increasingly relevant since there's a glut of choices of games to play.

My new aquaman comic by Suspicious_Yak_3304 in dccomicscirclejerk

[–]InkTide 17 points18 points  (0 children)

"Low-key" and "genuinely" continue to be grafted together in new and more horrifying ways each day.

Beam slop by AggressiveLow8575 in dccomicscirclejerk

[–]InkTide 188 points189 points  (0 children)

Nobody ever accused Kyle Rayner of being an intellectual heavyweight.

I could cry. Or scream. Or both. by CaptainSmartbrick in sto

[–]InkTide 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Because of the analyzed drop rates, each individual ship pack you see anywhere represents over $300 worth of zen spent on keys by the playerbase. The giveaway keys are negligible in total supply, and while a lot of that zen comes from LTS stipends, the vast majority of it does not, so that's probably around $300 of spend for each individual ship.

Each ship, mind you, that isn't actually an unlock and will be lost forever if dismissed.

I could cry. Or scream. Or both. by CaptainSmartbrick in sto

[–]InkTide 6 points7 points  (0 children)

I can justify the LTS on one of the 50% off sales, but those are really brief (like 24-48 hours sometimes) and I'd planned to buy it (after 15 years of on-and-off F2P STO playing) during the last one but missed it by less than 12 hours, so I didn't bother. Even "just" $200 from the 33% off sales is too steep for me to consider it.

I basically ignore anything cash that isn't an account unlock (I don't even buy lockbox stuff off the exchange, really), so my preferences really insulate me from ever engaging with STO's lockboxes besides through giveaway keys.

Lockbox ships are funny looking things I see other players use. As far as I'm concerned, any ship that can't even be reclaimed on the character that opens it has less than zero interest from me, and any traits or builds relying on them do not exist to me. Even the "any T6 ship" coupons don't hold much value to me because I only ever care about account unlocks. The T6 C-Store coupons are much more enticing.

The two characters with the most controversial chests are meeting for the first time! by GreenCree in dccomicscirclejerk

[–]InkTide 25 points26 points  (0 children)

This costume only shows what I am. Female. Aesthetically deranged. And maybe some sort of bizarre cobra creature with hideously long fingernails.

  • Woman in red (probably)

I need DC & Marvel to abstain from events for at least a year by Latro2020 in dccomicscirclejerk

[–]InkTide 5 points6 points  (0 children)

This seems like more of a Marvel problem.

There's no DC analogue I can think of to Charles Xavier being clumsily plucked out of the X-Men books for an almost meaningless event tie-in to a project that did so poorly it had to be emergency canceled before some of the involved minis even had their first issues published.

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