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Nah, that’s merely “Heck.” In Hell you use a TV remote.
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.
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).
At least there are some remotes that use T9
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.
hey i also used to have a Wii
That's the upper level. On the lower level you use a remote control, and there's tons of input lag.
"@" and "." need to be accessed by a separate punctuation page.
Also the passwords are in a key manager and are 30 random characters. You have to look at your phone and manually enter them one character at a time via the remote.
AND ghost clicks. And just enough time of input lag to make you click again, just to see the key being pressed twice, and now you have to go to the backspace button
No, it is just endlessly looking up and trying to get a movie to play on Paramount+
Aka a TV remote
Also the keys sometimes get stuck, and the keyboard closes without saving your input when you press up in the top row.
Oh wait, that's just Android TV. :(
And the onscreen keyboard is in reverse alphabetic order
TV remotes are worse often, they add a bit of delay, worse buttons, and a 50% chance of any given input not being registered
At least in a gamepad the directional buttons are consistent.
I have a STB where text input is solely via the D-pad plus color buttons for Shift/Num/Backspace/Confirm. Pretty normal except the number pad has the telephone-style alphabet printed, which I would very much prefer.
Minimum 18 characters, must use caps, lower case, punctuation, numbers, and at least 4 special symbols.
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.
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.
Challenge accepted.
Question: Do I have a choice on what controller I use?
For some reason, I imagined the controller scheme of a Wii and using the pointer controls to type each letter
Me who already does this on PS5
"I thought hell would be worse."
They're new credentials every time and the passwords are 32char randomized strings that include equal amounts of lowercase, uppercase, numbers, and special characters.
and I/l and 0/O are nearly indistinguishable.
The keyboard is also neither ABC or QWERTY. It completely randomizes with every character selected and there is no backspace.
QWERTY except it randomly swaps two characters every time you get comfortable.
As someone who grew up inputing passwords in Mega Drive games with one: there are worst things.
It's in alphabetical order not qwerty
And the passwords are random gibberish, and every time you enter in the password the letter location scrambles.
I vote the PS3 Onscren Keyboard.
Other systems like the PSP and Xbox are actually usable in a way. But the PS3 is hateful. Spaces when you don’t want them. Unintuitive button layout and use. Laggy interface. It has it all.
Eh, beats finding yourself in that complete breakdown of a process where you're having to recite your email address character by character to a person who somehow is both
a) judging YOU and
b) unsure the part after the @ can actually be something besides gmail.com.
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...
The first level of the game is called “input a 3000 word essay on why you are in hell”
Any spelling mistakes will require a full do over.
Depending on your crime the return/erase button may be disabled.
Sin, crime doesn't necessarily cause damnation in most mainstream religions that have a Hell
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.
Don't forget the endless TFA challenges, which will either never arrive, will arrive after the code is expired, or the code just won't work.
Hell would be having to input it using voice typing
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.
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