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Metalocalypse
2006 · TV series · 11 min episodes · 4 seasons
Created by Brendon Small
Part-American, part-Scandinavian death-metal band Dethklok has a lingering effect on its fans, who take the words seriously and do anything Dethklok lyrics say. The government fears the band's influence and sets out to destroy it by covert means; for example, by sending military pharmaceutical psychotropic drug manufacturers. Deemed sociopaths for tossing hot coffee at their concert attendees, two of the band members are alcoholics, and they all have self-esteem issues.
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This would make an amazing episode of Metalocalypse.
Where they show up to put on a show, and blast the audience with 200bpm death metal.
The front row catches fire. All clergy and politicians in a 30 mile radius have their heads explode.
There's a Metalocalypse episode where they use water as a new media fornat that produces superior quality sound. Science fiction into fact?
Bruh, we're getting a Venture Bros. movie _AND_ a Metalocalypse movie, too! It's a good year for movies.
>People just make a UI that is akin to the ones Google or Apple make and call it a day.
It's worse than that. Lots of people involved in the creation of software don't just follow the trends, they have internalized the idea a UI exposing any complexity is inherently bad. That if something can't be easily expressed in the interaction language currently fashionable in mobile, then it must be a misfeature.
A distant but perhaps illustratively analogous example can be seen in non-nerdy teens and young adults. Take one that does class writing assignments in a google doc on their phone (they're not hard to find, you can even find some that try to do CAD on mobile devices). Try suggesting that if they learned to properly touch type on a real keyboard they'd find the whole process easier and faster. Then tell them apple's bluetooth keyboard can pair to iPhones. Compare the reactions.
tl;dr: In the TV show Metalocalypse the characters derisively called acoustic guitars "grandpa's guitars." That's the UX world in a nutshell.
Somehow this conjures up the image of this Metalocalypse episode which I think sums it up perfectly:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=msGvEtmR970
"We can't die." And of course, don't call it Anti-Aging, please, call it "Hamburger time."
- Nathan Explosion
I hope I live long enough to eat my words or see this startup fail. Is that not the only thing to say at the investor meetings?
I agree, FWIW. It reminds me of a Metalocalypse episode [1].
[1] http://dethklok.wikia.com/wiki/Dethwater