Probably the strangest sight I saw today was a guy getting really angry about the fact the Atari Lynx had an option to flip its screen over and play "left-handed" — a feature that the Evercade team have been experimenting with implementing in their upcoming Lynx collections.
I'm not entirely sure why the guy got so furious as English was not his first language and thus his explanation was not the clearest. But from what I made out, he was, for some reason, upset that Atari had included this entirely optional feature when every other console ever had had the D-pad on the left and the buttons on the right. Left-handed people had always played like that, he reasoned, so why should the Lynx be different?
Well, the Lynx isn't different, it just has the option to flip it around, so I remain baffled as to why this chap got into such a rage with everyone on the Evercade Discord, who were all politely trying to explain why this feature was present, and how it being completely optional meant that there was absolutely no need to get angry about it.
I guess this is another side of things you see elsewhere that defy reason — people who object to the presence of Easy modes in video games, for example. Sometimes these options can be a huge benefit from an accessibility perspective, and the presence of said options doesn't mean you have to use them. That is, after all, what the word "option" implies.
Oh well. Every day people find strange and unusual ways to confuse and disappoint me!
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