#this is the reason why i find html documents way easier to read than epubs | Explore Tumblr posts and blogs

catgirltoes · 8 months ago

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Anyways this observation was prompted by an attempt to express that I tend to be bad with television and film, and visual novels especially, because I find the mediums hard to get into.

'Media' isn't really the plural of 'medium' anymore. 'Media' means specifically, like, news media and social media and things that directly communicate information (some sort of semantic narrowing), which makes it weird to use it to describe, say, the the materials with which a piece of art are created. Oil painting and watercolour are mediums, not media.

#with movies it's a matter of distraction y'know like it takes a lot for me to actually focus on them #and it helps to have someone watching with me #whereas with visual novels i find the format itself fundamentally annoying #what do you mean it slowly spits out like two lines of text and then i have to click the button *again*#like the pattern of having to constantly hover over the mouse is uncomfortable and takes away from the experience #i cannot stand most text-conveyed conversations in video games for the same reason #like this would be so much easier if you just gave me a script to read honestly #it's a similar thing with webcomics and ebooks tbh #i think the only reason i managed to get through homestuck was because there was a lot of text between clicks #but yeah anything that makes me Constantly Push A Button to advance is deeply annoying #fuck off! present this more efficiently!#this is the reason why i find html documents way easier to read than epubs #because with html you can just scroll #even pdf i find more comfortable than epub a lot of the time even though it's worse for a myriad of other reasons #and this doesn't apply to physical books btw largely because they're so much more comfortable to read #slightly adjusting my thumb grip to allow a page to turn is a completely natural action whereas clicking is not #actually now i think about it i might have slightly better luck with visual novels on a tablet #hitting a touchscreen with my thumb is less annoying than hovering my finger over a button #catgirltxt

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