Nah, that’s merely “Heck.” In Hell you use a TV remote.
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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.
My tv remote is motion so that's not really too bad. Point and click.
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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.
At least there are some remotes that use T9
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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.
I never understood why on screen keyboards are A-Z.
Everyone knows where letters are on a QWERTY keyboard, why even have something different?
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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 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 its not the fancy bluetooth one on new TVs where you can point it anywhere, but good old infrared, aiming and all. All the while the batteries are half dead/not slotted correctly so you have to open it up and roll it around a bit to hit the g-spot so it works.
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.
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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.
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
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Challenge accepted.
Minimum 18 characters, must use caps, lower case, punctuation, numbers, and at least 4 special symbols.
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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
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.
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
On an Alphabet order keyboard
I did this to my boss once. I noticed he was using one of those ghastly low-throw 'boards that show up with all the cheap entry level Dells and Amazon refurbished pieces of shit, and unlike on a real keyboard the profile is the same on all of the keys on those, regardless of which row they're on.
So I rearranged all of his letters into alphabetical order. For good measure, I created a custom keyboard "language" layout that actually make it type that way, too. He put up with it for nearly an entire day before giving up and asking me for a different keyboard.
Actually...
I just had a poke around in the supply room. I still have it:
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As someone who grew up inputing passwords in Mega Drive games with one: there are worst things.
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 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
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.
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And the keyboard is randomized with every letter typed.
It's in alphabetical order not qwerty
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.
Hell is just real life but someone keeps eating nature valley bars in your bed.
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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.
In Hell, you pay for a subscription to use your controller.
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