Tam K. links to a Wall Street Journal feature piece entitled Our Longing for Inconvenience and she, Ms. K., quotes:
I am not the only one thinking about the upsides of inconvenience, it seems; there is even a term, frictionmaxxing, to describe the trend of people resisting the lulling ease of screens. On a Saturday morning when I do not have to help a friend move, I am in bed scrolling Instagram. One video features what appears to be an elder millennial saying that he wants the nineties back. He wants a VCR. He wants old-school arcade machines that you have to feed with quarters. He wants a Walkman and cassette tapes to put in said Walkman.
Yeah, sorry, don’t understand.
Number of video games that take quarters in my office right now: 2 (Trivia Whiz IV and Arkanoid). Nogglestead features many audiocassette players in the main stereo in the parlor, the unit I just put in my office, the radio in the storm room, the radio in the garage, and in the main vehicle of Nogglestead (my beautiful wife plays her favorite mixed tapes in it; I play old audiocourses, as you know). The Walkman? I think it’s in the office closet or a bin in the storeroom. VCR? I have one hooked up (although the last videocassette I watched was in March), and I have some backups in storage for when this one fails (spare DVD players, too, because their time is going.
I mean, I guess the original author was someone who never had these things. I am someone who has them and has never given them up.
