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Re: Rotary Jails

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Post by ljp_206 »

There's some kind of sickening scroll acceleration applied to this page, making it exceedingly frustrating to use with a magic mouse. Not surprised due to level of shit shoveled onto the site, but I have no idea why anybody would want to subject their users to this.

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Post by brnt »

johngalt wrote: post #2

It's always interesting to see the weird things that are designed after technology advances but before it is optimized.

Or, alternatively, horrible over-engineering for only a very slight benefit (fewer guards), with huge externalized cost (prisoners feelings about living in such a concoction, fire safety).

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Post by AgentME »

ljp_206 wrote: post #4

There's some kind of sickening scroll acceleration applied to this page, making it exceedingly frustrating to use with a magic mouse. Not surprised due to level of shit shoveled onto the site, but I have no idea why anybody would want to subject their users to this.

It feels like someone recreated the experience of a slippery ice floor from a platformer game in a webpage. It's amazing that they found something less pleasant to do on a webpage than the mouse-following-sparkles that used to be popular on people's geocities pages.

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Post by dasmoth »

moonbug wrote: post #5

If this caught your imagination, you'll want to read the short story "Manuscript Found in a Police State" by Brian Aldiss

Also, the “great wheel” in his Helliconia books (which takes this idea to rather extreme levels).
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