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Oh I see. So you associated the physicality of the console with it's operation and made new designs based on that. Curiously, that never dawned on me in even th

Oh I see. So you associated the physicality of the console with it's operation and made new designs based on that. Curiously, that never dawned on me in even though I was really into mechs, which clearly is in the same milieu (that is, superficial design implying physically un-realizable degrees-of-freedom). I think I was entranced by the idea that you could write to both sides of a disk by snipping the floppy just so, and even defeat copy protection in a similar manner. It was all black magic to me, and I enjoyed being the magician at my school. But it would be a lie to claim I understood what I was doing: the primacy of causality would only really sink in during college.

eyelidlessness 5y ago
> So you associated the physicality of the console with it's operation and made new designs based on that. Yes exactly this. I can also say it’s weird that the things I most focused on in those ideas have somewhat become a reality! I was obsessed with multi-screen possibilities, and the idea of games that could be portable and played on a TV. I think my younger vision of multi-screen looked less like the DS style game and more like choose your own angle in adult media. But it’s weird how much physical world shaped how I think about technology so early on.