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Comment by pelagicAustral | Hacker News Reader

I can understand the nostalgia, but my experience with these menus always brought me to the absolute brink of sudoku.

I was just utterly incapable of conducting business in these screens, but it could have been a massive web of combinatronics between poorly engineered hardware in the form of remote control buttons, low patience, and some cognitive dissonance after so many years of downloading warez films on Limewire.

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Seppuku?

Though the idea of being so frustrated that you must solve a sudoku is kind of funny.

It's a common intentional misspelling/euphemism: https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/commit-sudoku

Can't (directly) suggest harm on the internet or you could get in trouble. Everyone knows this. You have to do it using cutesy words, and memes.

Sudoku is a number grid game. Surely you used the wrong term...

Secondly, I'm assuming you're just too young to understand/appreciate DVD menus. Your wording sounds like you are of later Gen Z age and therefore couldn't have had the frame of reference to respect the history and progression.

I’m an old millennial. I was tired of dvd menus in the 90s

The easy path should have the ability to start playing with a second of inserting the disc.

I'm 45, I hated DVD menus. I mean, maybe 5% were cool but 95% were awful.

Of course, even worse than the menus was when companies realised they could give you unskippable adverts and trailers on your DVDs.

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