Tech went wrong when it stopped labeling stuff as wizards

[jerry@decentralis.social]

@sabik @lumi @eniko

install bard = limewire
install rouge = malware
install barbarian = Those 1001 games CDs they used to make

[sabrina@fedi01.unicornsparkle.club]

@eniko I made a commit yesterday with the message, "Sync settings is now a wizard. Magical!"

I'm doing my part!

[leberschnitzel@existiert.ch]

@sabik with install barbarian I just imagine a gigantic person slamming an extra drive into my PC and hammering it in, with the software pre-installed...

@lumi @eniko

[sol_hsa@mastodon.gamedev.place]

@jerry @sabik @lumi @eniko
rogue = webreaper

[nazokiyoubinbou@urusai.social]

@sabik @lumi @eniko We get those. Install bard is when there's a big fanfare about an update. Everyone does that a little. Install rogue is when something is quietly snuck in and we don't even find out about it later. A lot of corporations are getting good at that. And install barbarian is what Microsoft does...

[0@corteximplant.com]

@sabik @lumi @eniko trust this mouse, you do not want an install barbarian

[dalias@hachyderm.io]

@eniko I was in the wizard hating camp. Give me a complete form view where I can see in advance all the options before I get into sunk cost.

[gwenthefops@transfem.social]

@0@corteximplant.com @sabik@rants.au @lumi@snug.moe @eniko@mastodon.gamedev.place install barbarian: overwrites all binaries in your system with the one being installed, so that this way you will use the new program to open the desired file type (and also every other file type)

[curtmack@floss.social]

@sabik @lumi @eniko with an install rogue you have to navigate the dungeon of your computer to install the product, fighting monsters (viruses, bloated cache files, etc.) along the way

[drsbaitso@infosec.exchange]

@eniko When was the last time the guru meditated, anyway?

[grawity@social.treehouse.systems]

@sabik @lumi @eniko some old GNOME apps used to have a first-launch "Setup Druid" or "Configuration Druid"

http://ftp.iij.ad.jp/pub/linux/centos-vault/3.9/docs/html/rh-cs-en-3/s1-netfs-nfsdruid.html

https://code.gnucash.org/website/docs/v1.8/C/gnucash-guide/basics_interface1.html

(I don't have a direct screenshot of the one I've seen myself unfortunately, so here's one from old manuals)

[maypop_neocities@wetdry.world]

@eniko perhaps we should come up with even more fantasy-based tech terms and it'll make everything even better. for example, we could call long-lived background processes "daemons." or something. nah that's dumb.

[maypop_neocities@wetdry.world]

@jerry @sabik @lumi @eniko they made 1,001 games CDs? how did they fit all the games on the CD?

[maypop_neocities@wetdry.world]

@eniko calling the network "ether" would be a pretty good fantasy thing. like a sort of ether net.

[farbs@mastodon.social]

@eniko I was so glad we made the between missions menu flow in Void Bastards a wizard. It could easily have been a clusterfuck hub menu with buttons to go process your loot, build stuff at the workshop, zoom around on the star map, change your loadout, and board whatever ship you're at. And I would have forgotten or just not bothered to do lots of those things lots of the time. But the wizard made me visit each step, highlighted opportunities, and forced decisions by not offering defaults.

[jerry@decentralis.social]

@maypop_neocities @sabik @lumi @eniko the games were exceptionally small and exceptionally basic (shovelware) or shareware game compilations (think free demos)

1001 was a bit of an exaggeration, usually those came on 2 disks.

Example: https://archive.org/details/gog-1001

[lumecolca@kolektiva.social]

@sabik @lumi @eniko
The installation druid has encountered an error: not enough birds.

[maypop_neocities@wetdry.world]

@jerry @sabik @lumi @eniko i wonder if you could fit 1,001 good games if they used procedurally generated assets and lots of shared code…

[bovaz@misskey.social]

@sabik@rants.au @lumi@snug.moe @eniko@mastodon.gamedev.place Most things now have an install rogue, stealing your credentials and data.

[j_bertolotti@mathstodon.xyz]

@sabik Barbarians do not know how the Daemon work, and will just try to slay it (Rogues know, but you shouldn't trust them).
@lumi @eniko

(edit: typos)