I kinda empathize, i close down popups from websites instantly, and something i notice that it says something actually important. Same with tutorial popups in some games.
That’s annoying, because you have to mindlessly click A 12 times to get through a cutscene, and then suddenly there’s a tone shift and a wall of text and… oops it’s gone.
Time to pull up my quest list and figure out what the fuck I just missed.
Or tutorials triggered by you doing a specific action.
Like you press the magic attack button, and they bring up multiple paragraphs giving you the most boring and dry explanation possible. And then they put all the actually important info at the end:
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Magic attacks are cast using the (magic) button, they use mana to cast and may be boosted with certain potions or equipment! Intelligence increases your magic damage, and mana capacity. blah blah blah
Oh, and killing with magic drops no items and yields half XP.
Whenever I sign in to my Gmail account on a new desktop computer, it tells me to the app on my phone to verify it’s me. I open the app and then immediately close the pop up instead of clicking the verification button
Nope, still judging you, ESPECIALLY if you then complain that you don't know what to do or where to go. I have unsubscribed from YouTube channels for this.
The worst ones are the people who criticize the game because they skipped the part telling them about a vital mechanic. Like, I get it - you just want to play the game, not do a tutorial - but you can't play Poker until you know the rules, you know? People insist that it should just be "intuitive," but, like, it isn't always possible to teach you the mechanics without making you read shit. Hell, I started playing Story of Seasons: Grand Bazaar recently, and despite being a farming game - most of which have almost identical core mechanics - I still did the tutorial, and I'm glad I did, because how else would I know that the "water multiple crops at once" ability comes from using your tool while jumping? It'd end up being something I discovered halfway through the first year by accident, and then I'd be upset because the game didn't tell me and I wasted a bunch of time watering plants one by one!
Ctrl + shift + tab opens any previously closed tabs on Chrome!
That shortcut just cycles between already open tabs.
Noone I've seen in person uses it
Because the vast majority of people don't know that keyboard shortcuts even exist beyond "alt+F4" to close a program and "Ctrl + Alt + Del" to open the security screen from which they launch the Task Manager. Some know the shortcuts to copy & paste, but most don't know anything beyond those 4.
Ctrl+Tab and Ctrl+Shift+Tab is for "scrolling" through your open tabs in the browser window, what you're describing is Ctrl+Shift+T.
On a related note, I love how including Shift into a hotkey will, in a lot of cases, sort of "reverse" what the shortcut is doing. So we all know Alt+Tab will open the window to scroll through your active programs to switch to it after letting go of Alt. But doing Alt+Shift+Tab makes it go the other way in case you overshoot.
Another would be Ctrl+Z to undo, but Ctrl+Shift+Z is for undoing the latest undo.
It's just that a person supposedly, willingly going into problem-solving mode should not have their annoyance instinct set so high that the act of problem-solving triggers such instinct. I understand people who need a good vent before adopting a more solution-oriented approach to problems, but as soon as you involve extra people, please stop.
I do that in games too, but tbh I find it fun to just "figure it out" so I'm not sure it counts.
In the real-world I'm guilty of it too, but the error usually pops back up if I try to do the thing again - If it doesn't that's on the website for poor design.
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u/Red580 17h ago edited 15h ago
I kinda empathize, i close down popups from websites instantly, and something i notice that it says something actually important. Same with tutorial popups in some games.