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Nah, that’s merely “Heck.” In Hell you use a TV remote.
Nah, in hell its answering Captchas that can’t be answered:
“To get out of hell and go to heaven, simply click on the fruit pictured that has the same weight as mathmatics”
The worst circle of hell is just normal Captchas.
Click verify once no pictures of bicycles remain but there are always more bicycles, then after 30 days of that it starts again with crosswalks.
In hell you have to use a TV remote while checking the password manager app on your phone to input 32 random characters, many of which are numbers and symbols that don’t appear on the main keyboard, and there’s no button to unhide what you’ve typed so you can never get it correct on the first attempt.
My tv remote is motion so that’s not really too bad. Point and click.
I hate that function. It’s imprecise and the cursor always shows up when I don’t want it.
hey i also used to have a Wii
At least there are some remotes that use T9
In hell you use a tv remote with a gyro pointer and on-screen keyboard. And it has a slight, but random, delay.
How do I know this is torture? My partner has one and because it feeds through multiple devices, it has a slight but random delay. And it’s the most frustrating experience of all time. Souls-like games on nightmare are likely less frustrating (and this comes from someone who can’t finish any of them on the lowest difficulty).
One that sometimes lags and doesn’t type what you pressed… then catches up and double-types or omits part of it.
Typing with a controller really isn’t that bad. That’s more like a purgatory thing. Hell would be having to use a television remote.
With a different on screen keyboard everytime. Some QWERTY, some A-Z. Some with with a separate section with capital letters instead of a shift button.
I never understood why on screen keyboards are A-Z.
Everyone knows where letters are on a QWERTY keyboard, why even have something different?
And there’s a lag…
Yes, changing between 1-4s
That’s the upper level. On the lower level you use a remote control, and there’s tons of input lag.
“@” and “.” need to be accessed by a separate punctuation page.
Also the keys sometimes get stuck, and the keyboard closes without saving your input when you press up in the top row.
Oh wait, that’s just Android TV. :(
and its not the fancy bluetooth one on new TVs where you can point it anywhere, but good old infrared, aiming and all. All the while the batteries are half dead/not slotted correctly so you have to open it up and roll it around a bit to hit the g-spot so it works.
Also the passwords are in a key manager and are 30 random characters. You have to look at your phone and manually enter them one character at a time via the remote.
AND ghost clicks. And just enough time of input lag to make you click again, just to see the key being pressed twice, and now you have to go to the backspace button
And the onscreen keyboard is in reverse alphabetic order
No, it is just endlessly looking up and trying to get a movie to play on Paramount+
Aka a TV remote
TV remotes are worse often, they add a bit of delay, worse buttons, and a 50% chance of any given input not being registered
At least in a gamepad the directional buttons are consistent.
I have a STB where text input is solely via the D-pad plus color buttons for Shift/Num/Backspace/Confirm. Pretty normal except the number pad has the telephone-style alphabet printed, which I would very much prefer.
Challenge accepted.
Games controller is no way near as bad as TV remote, the delay alone makes it so much more frustrating
TV remote, and it doesn’t wrap around to the other side of the letter box.
And you can’t get a clear line of sight on the sensor, you you have to hold your arm up at a weird angle to input it
And the batteries are weak, so it’s only actually sending like 1/3 of the signals. Also there’s no battery cover, so they fall out sometimes.
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And you never know if it will be qwerty or alphabetical.
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You have to open the option menu for capitalization
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Special characters are all in submenus under the letters
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There is no backspace
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Minimum 18 characters, must use caps, lower case, punctuation, numbers, and at least 4 special symbols.
Me who already does this on PS5
“I thought hell would be worse.”
They’re new credentials every time and the passwords are 32char randomized strings that include equal amounts of lowercase, uppercase, numbers, and special characters.
and I/l and 0/O are nearly indistinguishable.
The keyboard is also neither ABC or QWERTY. It completely randomizes with every character selected and there is no backspace.
QWERTY except it randomly swaps two characters every time you get comfortable.
Lol, pah-leeeze
That calendar and the fan selector are cruel and hilarious.
Them as are amused by the fan directed cursor may also enjoy Bubble Ghost, which came out on several retro platforms including the Game Boy.
Lmao, I got to hall 28, it’s a bit ASMR when the volume is down low, except for the buzzer at the end sometimes. I like having to figure out how the ghost might get it.
On an Alphabet order keyboard
I did this to my boss once. I noticed he was using one of those ghastly low-throw 'boards that show up with all the cheap entry level Dells and Amazon refurbished pieces of shit, and unlike on a real keyboard the profile is the same on all of the keys on those, regardless of which row they’re on.
So I rearranged all of his letters into alphabetical order. For good measure, I created a custom keyboard “language” layout that actually make it type that way, too. He put up with it for nearly an entire day before giving up and asking me for a different keyboard.
Actually…
I just had a poke around in the supply room. I still have it:
Real keyboards can also have the same profile on keys my man. You have KAM, XDA and DSA.
I once got a couple of Amazon Echo Dots as part of a promo. Little spherical devices with about a 3" round touchscreen. To set it up you had to enter your Amazon account info by tapping a keyboard on that tiny screen.
My password at the time was a random 80 character string, full of special characters. That would have been painful enough, but the password entry box would hide each character a second or so after typing, so it was nearly impossible to keep track of where I was, and whether I had skipped or double entered something.
I should have just binned them immediately at that point, but I spent probably an hour of typing passwords on those two fuckers–more out of stubbornness than anything else.
Question: Do I have a choice on what controller I use?
For some reason, I imagined the controller scheme of a Wii and using the pointer controls to type each letter
Eh, beats finding yourself in that complete breakdown of a process where you’re having to recite your email address character by character to a person who somehow is both
a) judging YOU and
b) unsure the part after the @ can actually be something besides gmail.com.
Roku has entered the chat
I like that Roku gives the microphone button. I keep forgetting to use it but it’s a lot more convenient than typing.
