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sport competition idea.
we randomly choose a bad text input method, see who can type the fastest, 3 errors and you’re eliminated.
T9 keyboard, game controller, remote control, VR point and shoot…
T9 doesn’t belong there. You need practice to be good with it but it can be pretty fast.
Digital Stockholm syndrome.
Depends whether we talkin predictive T9 or not
I forgot that was a thing. Since we are talking about passwords, predictive T9 would be truly evil.
On real world cases even predictive T9 beats typing with the arrow keys on a alphabetically order virtual keyboard with a remote’s arrow keys.
Nah, that’s merely “Heck.” In Hell you use a TV remote.
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).
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.
One that sometimes lags and doesn’t type what you pressed… then catches up and double-types or omits part of it.
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.
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.
A punishment that never gets old, a fresh mental wound daily as the emails and passwords become more nonsensical. 🤪🫠
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.
And there’s a lag…
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?
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.
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.
In Hell, you pay for a subscription to use your controller.
And the keyboard is randomized with every letter typed.
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.
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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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You can only communicate by typing messages in Xbox game chat. With no ai word finishing.
Hell is just real life but someone keeps eating nature valley bars in your bed.
The closest I got to hell recently is trying to get Australia Post’s imbecilic voice ‘recognition’ software to understand an alphanumeric code over and over and over…
It blows my mind that in many cases I can’t use my voice to enter text in fucking 2025.
I’m pissed that it worked better in 2019 vs 2025. (At least for Google’s voice recognition)
I’m even more pissed that my old Motorola flip phone could dial by voice on the device, but my current pocket supercomputer running the latest Android can’t do it without recording my audio and sending it to a server somewhere to be processed in the “cloud,” and doesn’t even work if I’m standing somewhere with spotty data service.
Honestly, I kind of want the old assistant back. I don’t find Gemini any more useful for my use cases. It feels dumber sometimes.
as someone with an accent, may I beat you up with a 1997 modem for asking for more voice input?
those things are a nightmare.
