SwiftOnSecurityWhat you don't understand is the elevator sections of Mass Effect 1 were rational atmospherics because the Citadel was REALLY BIG. It was annoying but as a teen gamer this stuff was just part of the experience. Disc games were not 100% dopamine speedruns and that was fine...
The fact this miracle machine was taking so much time to load the next area emphasized how difficult and expansive it was. The computer was WORKING. It being transparent wasn't the point. This was the future. Computers PUT IN WORK.
There was a time there was a visceral feeling to the effort that computing devices endeavored. There were eight different ways of click and speed and spin and distortion that informed you as to its internal state you typically don't get now. You knew the machine was working.
Drew Breunig@SwiftOnSecurity I always enjoyed the feeling of an original iPod in your hand as you hit play, a gyroscopic twist as the drive spun up.
Ozzie D, NP-hard 
@dbreunig @SwiftOnSecurity that brings back embodied memories, thanks.
Fishd@dbreunig @SwiftOnSecurity Utterly bonkers to think there is an entire generation of folks who would look at the original iPod and think it quaintly antiquated.
ManMachine@dbreunig @SwiftOnSecurity that’s the one thing I miss after flashmodding mine
Varx@SwiftOnSecurity kids these days will never know the "clickclickclick click ... click" that meant the computer was "thinking". Or the analog audio noise that meant a cell phone call was about to come in. Digital and analog become further and further apart.
ParzivalWolfram@varx @SwiftOnSecurity I have a very poorly shielded USB headset that still does this if my phone is anywhere near the wire after the physical buttons.
GreenDotGuy@SwiftOnSecurity weirdly, I can somehow hear the NVMe SSD on my laptop. That's all I have left, the slightest sensation of a sound, only perceptible to some people in the quietest circumstances, but my drive still 'clicks'.
Lee Holmes 
@SwiftOnSecurity Sometimes, both the machine and the human are doing mechanical work and it's wonderful. I've had the pleasure of using several Curtas and even the simplest of calculations brings joy.
Show and Tell: The Curta Calculator
Ashley McGlone
Dubi is here 
@SwiftOnSecurity
I mean,now the cooling on the GPU zooms up...
I mean,now the cooling on the GPU zooms up...
Samantaz Fox@SwiftOnSecurity Well, today we get fake "loading" animations on websites while the 25 MB of ads load, before the page finally shows the 3 paragraphs that should have been part of the initial web page.
It's still working in a way, but mostly to do useless stuff x)
Orin@SwiftOnSecurity I miss those days. The computers would tell you what was wrong, if you were listening.
Jordan Biserkov@auroran @SwiftOnSecurity There's a theory that the sounds the early modems made where screams, trying to warn us about the horrors the Internet will bring.