On the day Melissa Hortman and her husband were killed, I started getting Youtube ads for silencers and tactical gear. I guess it follows that people were searching for those sort topics then and I fit some cohort (probably "angry young male"), but it was very unnerving.
Now Youtube mostly shows me ads for fake AI generated products and other scams.
You finally grew a fragment of a brain? No shit, none of this is right and history will remember people like you as fucking traitors for voting in this child-raping orange clown.
Well, it's not just that (not that I disagree with the author in general, but I do on this point). point-and-click interfaces _are_ objectively worse interfaces for power use. I've been stuck selecting a group of files, moving them, double-clicking and renaming, selecting another, etc. all the while knowing that I could write a script that could do all of this much faster if I had access to a command line interface. Point-and-click is just easier to get started with.
The comparison with Zork and the later comment about having to "guess" what to input to get a CLI to work we're also bizarre. He's obviously stretching really hard to make the analogy work.
Don't get me wrong, I'm not arguing that expansion of GUI based interfaces wasn't a good thing. There's plenty of things I prefer to interact with that way, and the majority of people wouldn't use computers if CLIs were still the default method. But what he's describing is literally not how any ever used the commandline.
Also most of the infocom games were pretty much improved against Zork in the 80's.
In the 90's, the amateur Inform6 games basically put Infocom games almost as if they were the original amateur ones, because a lot of them were outstanding and they could ran on underpowered 16 bit machines like nothing.
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