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Man, some people will really go out of their way to take things personally and invent things to feel offended about.

Errors should certainly be as helpful and clear as possible, but no the developers are not trying to directly attack you specifically if they aren’t, or if they wrote something they thought was fun.

Yeesh, get a grip.

If I got this error message while trying to buy a train ticket, I'd be thinking "Ok, who do I talk to to get this sorted out"

I don't understand the sort of person who stops to think "How dare this error message trivialize my Very Important Problem! I feel bad now because the words on this screen are too silly!"

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Big talk for a guy who's inventing something to feel superior about.

Why bother spending your time minimizing the passion someone else feels about software design?

Maybe the person who wrote the post and the scores of people who upvoted it feel this way on behalf of the countless users who get stupid error messages from carelessly designed software?

I think more people should write about the things they dislike about software. And when they do, they ought to ignore the people who ask why they're getting so annoyed about something that doesn't matter.

In all seriousness, the moment when somebody is trying to do something and getting thwarted by error messages is one of the worst possible times to try to be cute with them. You generally don't try to play cute when you can see that someone is in a bad mood, either.

Family members waiting anxiously in the hospital, the surgery is dragging on, suddenly the waiting room door opens and the surgeon leans in. Family members all turn to the surgeon expectantly.

Surgeon: " :( theatrical exaggerated frowny face Something went wrong."

Exit surgeon.

"Well, this is awkward" reads as "omg oopsie whoopsie did we make a lwittle error uwu!!! ><" which I'm not surprised is viscerally cringy.

It literally doesn't though. Maybe they are in the same direction, but there's a rather large difference in degree.

That's like saying getting a paper cut on your finger is just like having your arm chopped off. There's a pretty wide difference there.

I guess if you're the sort of person to hyperbolicly exaggerate every minor inconvenience you encounter, it's the same thing. It must be exhausting to be like that.

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