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tpurvesyesterday at 11:01 PM6 repliesview on HN

This is such a dastardly psychological trick. Being slightly aswew really hard to fight the subconscious urge to reach out and 'fix' them. I almost want to rush out to a nearest McDonald's right now and buy one of these burgers so that I can make sure that it's buns are aligned properly....


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xofertoday at 1:39 AM

I'd like to reach out and snatch that last apostrophe from your comment for similar reasons.

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vivid242today at 12:12 AM

In a culture that likes things neat and orderly lined up!

socotoday at 10:38 AM

Interesting, I couldn't care less about those shapes. Where is the difference in our minds? Because I haven't for single a second thought about "fixing" it, nor cared about it - even after you mentioned it.

m463today at 4:42 AM

> reach out and 'fix' them

maybe by eating your way into the problem...

sbt567today at 7:55 AM

Oh, that is absolutely how all of mobile game ads now are designed. It will deliberately fail a very simple task to poke our desires of "Huh, I can do better than that"

kylehotchkisstoday at 4:27 AM

What if I told you that you could do this without flying to Japan. You’ll probably be reprimanded for holding up orders.