E-sports
MMORPGs
Sloppy remakes made to get a quick buck
Opening/closing doors in adventure games (point and click adventure games)

vetz wrote on 2020-12-16, 18:54:

All websites are designed primarily towards mobile and not desktop.

Basically Deviantart.
A lot of the users on there left because of the redesign (its gotten a little better since the company added new colors)

My pick for most annoying trend?
Searing, bright colored LEDs on everything!! HDD lights that illuminate an entire room in electric blue! And the fact that it's more difficult to find a worthwhile full-ATX computer case that doesn't have a bajillion ultra-bright lights anymore! Whatever happened to being able to focus on your work, rather than the blinky lights all vying at your attention? And it gets worse: new keyboards and mice also have blinky color-cycling bullshit lights, which cannot always be turned off in an intuitive manner. Lightdims are an absolute godsend in this day and age, though sometimes I have to layer several over the more offensive lights. 😐

I can also rant about how prices on eBay for vintage PC hardware are bordering on extortion, but that's a different rant for a different day.

Eep386 wrote on 2021-01-18, 03:23:

My pick for most annoying trend?
Searing, bright colored LEDs on everything!! HDD lights that illuminate an entire room in electric blue! And the fact that it's more difficult to find a worthwhile full-ATX computer case that doesn't have a bajillion ultra-bright lights anymore! Whatever happened to being able to focus on your work, rather than the blinky lights all vying at your attention? And it gets worse: new keyboards and mice also have blinky color-cycling bullshit lights, which cannot always be turned off in an intuitive manner. Lightdims are an absolute godsend in this day and age, though sometimes I have to layer several over the more offensive lights. 😐

I absolutely agree .

Eep386 wrote on 2021-01-18, 03:23:

I can also rant about how prices on eBay for vintage PC hardware are bordering on extortion, but that's a different rant for a different day.

Some stuff is indeed surprisingly expensive considering how common it is . That said, I am actually under the impression that prices on some things sold from Japan, like Sound Canvas MIDI modules, have actually gone down a bit in the last few months . For example, an SC-88VL (better than non VL version due to external PSU), for less than 160 $US, including shipping to US or Canada (possibly elsewhere too), is not a bad deal, IMHO .

EDIT: MT-32 prices are still eye-watering, though

ODwilly wrote on 2021-01-18, 01:10:

Music and explosions in movies being 10x louder than the dialogue so that you are constantly adjusting the volume every scene and without good closed captions to boot.

I suspect this, like the visual darkness of modern movies, is an anti-piracy measure.

Awww, I like the Apple G3 style translucent cases.

What I dont like is:
1) RGB
2) Computer case with glass side panel. ( The thing just SCARES ME, What if it breaks ? ).
3) Sheet Metal cases. ( Once you go Aluminum, You never go back )

This kinda reminded me of Darth Vader.

Intel486dx33 wrote on 2021-01-18, 07:22:

Awww, I like the Apple G3 style translucent cases.

In the music video for "Dinosaur" by AKMU you can see the apple g3 computer. Its hard to spot though

Also I've noticed one of the early macintosh computers in the kids show storybots

Blue LEDs are the worst thing I've ever seen.

I keep some electrical tape handy so that I can pop it over any blue LEDs that offend.

Blue LEDs were quite cool in the year 2000. That whole millennium "futuristic" black / silver / blue-LED aesthetic of the time.

Back then, we mad young modders used to actively put them into things that didn't already have them.

Then, after a short time and a slight degree of ongoing retinal blinding, the blue LEDs themselves were modded... with blue TACK. Installations of which, can still be founded dotted around my house and appliances to this day. 🤣

Online and other multiplayer games. Many new interesting shooters etc. give you grand trailers and teasers and then you read that it only has online campaign or some multiplayer BS . I know it's easier to let the players create all the content, but it's just sad how far A titles have fallen in the past 10 years from what they used to be.

pete8475 wrote on 2021-01-19, 04:28:

Blue LEDs are the worst thing I've ever seen.

I donno if I lucked out, got characteristically old stock, or if it only applies to the New Model M, but I was afraid the Unicomp Classic I got for Christmas would have blue LEDs. Heard that was a thing they were doing lately.

Nope. Nice, heart warming green LEDs.

I like to think that by the end of this century steampunk will have given way to 'bluepunk'. Just blue LEDs everywhere and on everything. So retro.

Hopefully we'll get a remake of The Running Man soon in which Dynamo is festooned with incredibly bright blue LEDs. How the hell else are we supposed to know we're living in the future?

I didn't even know steampunk and blue light punk where a big thing with PCs.

Everywhere I look it's either "RGB Unicornpuke-punk" or "White, clean, minimal, Apple-style asthetic". Mostly the former.

my main PC is in a black bland big tower without a window... does have a blue power LED though (that is covered x3 because it's annoying)

I have to admit though that I did mod my old In-Win back in the day with a blue and red LED :3

SodaSuccubus wrote on 2021-01-19, 17:47:

I didn't even know steampunk and blue light punk where a big thing with PCs.

Everywhere I look it's either "RGB Unicornpuke-punk" or "White, clean, minimal, Apple-style asthetic". Mostly the former.

Luckily, good quality cases can last practically forever, unless something drasticly different comes about with the ATX form factor . So far, even current motherboards will fit into 20+ years old beige cases (and anything newer), AFAIK .

EDIT: Those old beige cases often have crappy airflow, though .

imi wrote on 2021-01-19, 18:43:

my main PC is in a black bland big tower without a window... does have a blue power LED though (that is covered x3 because it's annoying)

OK, I have to confess.

My main PC is a blue LED.

dr_st wrote on 2021-01-19, 19:28:

imi wrote on 2021-01-19, 18:43:

my main PC is in a black bland big tower without a window... does have a blue power LED though (that is covered x3 because it's annoying)

OK, I have to confess.

My main PC is a blue LED.

I'm not even sure what PC of mine is my main PC anymore........I have a Dell 7010 that Runs Linux....hardly any lights at all, an iMac from 2015, no LEDs, I have a Latitude 15 from 2014 but that thing has no LEDs except the one power LED in front......honestly, the PC that could maybe count as a "main" because I use it a lot is my revolving door of NEC Versa "retro laptops" because FreeDOS with FLMail and Links is almost day-today-usable, and those don't have any LED lights - they have an LCD Status DIsplay 😁 - I could backlight it if I want....but they have auditory feedback too.

Actually, that reminds me, a trend I hate, that I always forget about, is the lack of HDD LED lights on modern computers, especially laptops. It seems they did away with them when Windows 8 became a thing. I know, I know, Task Manager - but it's so much less of a hassle, sometimes grandly, to just glance at a little light, than to have to go CTRL+ALT+DEL then go to the System Monitor Tab to watch the HDD passing 2mb/s at 100% utilization to find out something is up - and hope it comes up if things are really messed up.

well hdd access indicators are pretty useless in modern windows systems anyways, back then they used to indicate that your drives are busy loading something or still writing data... nowadays your drive is always busy because windows thinks it needs to index this and that and shuffle around it's page file a bunch or preload updates to install them in the most untimely moment...

oh yeah... that's definitely a hated trend of mine... automatic updates.

"nice system you got there, everything is running fine? ...let me change that"