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  • Exactly.

    It is interesting as the metaphor becomes reality though. Modern folks (and I mean anything post-gen-X) mostly don’t understand folders and especially filing cabinets, and that metaphor breaks badly with deep nesting, and symlinks/shortcuts and multiple different vies of the same content (e.g. google drive web vs desktop)…

    It also leads to odd anachronisms like the floppy disk as save icon.

    The thing is the metaphor was never perfect and it takes a long time to get enough people used to it, plus you have to be pretty consistent or people don’t realize the metaphor exists at all.


















  • It actually can work like that, but only to a limited degree.

    My wife used to get terrible motion sickness from Minecraft but adapted over time to the point where she can play it at least.

    For me the biggest difference in many/most games is adjusting the FoV setting. Higher FoV helps a lot for me. Borderlands in particular defaulted to FoV 75 and was unplayable without adjusting it up to 90-100 instead.