I wonder what the quality would be if football was not the hoover of European childhood athletic talent it currently is. Plenty of sportsmen in other fields played football as children and went onto success in other sports. Maybe if basketball was the predominant sport of young boys would we still have Messi and Ronaldo?
The opposite is true in the US. Parents treat soccer as a youth pastime and funnel kids towards basketball, football and baseball for high school and college.
Then the question becomes: Would LeBron or Patrick Mahomes be elite soccer players if they were raised in Europe?
My guess is yes. Their body composition would be different by following different fitness goals but I think there’s a combination of strength, balance, vision, endurance, leadership, decision making and determination that is highly translatable across team sports.
| "Only the act of design can make the content less readable"
I disagree with this, HTML in it's raw rendered state is not pleasant to read. You have to apply some rules (or specify the rules in your browser) to get the text to a state where it is pleasant to read.
Well, it's not going to get less readable if you do nothing, which I think was the point. You're getting at being able to make it more readable with design, which is possible, and addressed a few sentences later. But, the defaults aren't too bad: black text on white, blue or purple hyperlinks with underlines, larger headings, responsive, etc. The one thing I would always do is enforce a maximum line length for larger monitors.
I find that the in-built systems are all horrendous and designers create lots of inefficient designs so they look good in the marketing video but are a pain to use.
I have a Toyota and when I want to change the audio source I have to press 'Source' and then it displays a carousel of inputs that I have to scroll through. Or I can press the 'All' button and it displays a neat grid with the options laid out, why not just show me the grid? That's quick and efficient, the current setup is not.
I agree about buttons, if we try and control computers with a button, we will end up with lots of buttons a la 90s ICE system, or a simple interface with mystery button syndrome where you are looking at a screen to see what your button is going to do next.
A family friend bought this for our family on the C64 and then my dad got super addicted to it, he was up until 2am most nights trying to crack the game. He would leave work early (he ran his own business) to come home and play it. It also meant no-one else could play the computer or watch TV.
Eventually, I took a biro to the tape, sorry dad, and scribbled across it, which seemed to break it. Finally we were free.
This comment gave me a sense of nostalgia in two weird ways. My dad used get addicted to a few select games too and play them through. I remember him playing Zelda and Metroid obsessively. The other thing was how communal playing video games was, when there was only one tv and everyone watched others play, while awaiting their turn.
