ElectricMachman

That’s an excellent description of Microsoft Office after 2007.

I just did the breaking part. Still ended up an IT guy.

People value them because they’re expensive and rare. Except they’re not rare, and they’re only expensive because most of the world’s supply is locked away to inflate their value.

Trinity

Breaking Bad started out about that. Was the whole reason he broke bad in the first place!

Little kids are built different in Ankh-Morpork

Watership Down

Mouse look was a thing in Wolf 3D, and similar to Doom, it did the whole forward/backward bit too. Really weird.

Han “I don’t know the difference between distance and time” Solo?

Kind of like an open-source Evercade, then?

I’ve noticed quite a few other companies following suit now as well. It’s tiring.

We’re not in the abyss, we’re in the car park and snack area adjacent to the abyss. Not too bad.

Oh well.

I have. Nothing happened.

Finally, a keyboard for Sims!

I get you. I think you’re right - if you have a page which does make heavy use of JS, it can be difficult if not.impossible to replicate the same behaviour without it. HOWEVER: you can often get something close enough!

To go back to my shop example: yes, you can use JS to show a richer shopping experience, with pop-up windows, filtering, and the ability to add to cart without leaving the page. Graceful degradation would be to show the same listings, but without the more convenient features that use JS - so without popups, with filtering that refreshes the page, and a completely separate cart.

Some apps really can’t function without JS, because they are… well, apps.

People do stuff in JavaScript that you really don’t need JavaScript for. You don’t need JS to display a store listing, for instance. Or a news page, or documentation, or even a search engine

I get the sense the artist is throwing stuff at the wall and seeing what sticks. (Which I think is pretty bold, but I do also remember a bit of advice years ago which boiled down to “you don’t need to share everything you make”)

I liked it when it was used to digitise books. Beyond that… nah.

The effort that goes into adding a game to the Death Generator makes it 100% worth using, even if you can use PS.