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Shouldn't that be "mad"? ...no! I'm not mad about it! ... ... ...but there's no arguing this is especially scientific.

I'm full of bad science!
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Y'know, MOST people... um... design their stream layouts around stuff like viewer interaction and the like... so... all this "negative space" I'm enjoying really... isn't? OOPS, CAN'T HEAR YOU, GOTTA FIGURE OUT THE MOVING PARTS FIRST!

Just like how the transitions between are essentially placeholders, I can't exactly have meaningful scrawling on all the margins until I can really pin down WHERE those margins really are. Or if I even HAVE margins to doodle on to begin with!

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This is just generally what happens when I'm apparently too tired or otherwise unavailable during reasonable hours to stream properly, but still want the agony of the technical nonsense that is involved in streaming.

I mean, it has to get done sometimes. The recreational mathological logistilogics get crunched SOMEHOW, otherwise it'd be utter mayhem in terms of user interface and experience.

And what REALLY makes it "bad" is the part where you have to make the impossible choice between form, function, and accuracy... since... um... not even the games themselves are always designed sensibly OR consistently with this kind of thing in mind.

The important part is to try lots of things and always exercise your options!

...and maybe ban sitting. Yep, no more sitting. Gaming is now to be done from an upright and standing position at all times. Make a note of it!

It's just important to note that some of these options WILL be empirically... "wrong" in the first place. That's just SCIENCE! (You still have to try them and see how they turn out! That's ALSO science!)

Besides, the REAL science here is even FURTHER behind the scenes, because the actual MAD-sane FUN-gineering at play is... the fact that regardless of how any of this is being laid out in the moment... there's actually a (relatively) clean copy of what's going on here being saved as raw material with multiple audio tracks in the background.

THAT is the power science feared!

(I chose to revolve most test cases around "big Joou" and "sitting down" because they're the least spatially economical baselines I have at my disposal.)

... ... ...I'm also not REALLY sure what the possible benefits of having reversible mirror image layouts is supposed to be... I only actually dabbled in that to begin with for the sake of fighting games where the interface would naturally put my game stats on one side or the other... but on a handheld, you're always going to have the same personalized information regardless.

Still, options! Who cares why?! ...who even cares that when things get extra asymmetrical with the advent of different-sized screens, the mirroring is actually REALLY inadvisable?! There's SCIENCE to be done! VARIABLES to be crunched!

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I'd say it's kinda spooky that all these test cases for these various layouts ended up being action-puzzle games... but... um... ... ... hello, have we met?

Also I guess there's just enough abstractness to the action that it makes it "reasonable" that everything, even your perspective on reality could be considered purely relative.