General Nitpicking Thread

The display on every casino machine that reads out the credit-to-unit exchange rate makes no sense and it drives me mad because this is something you can be looking at for potentially hours.

The way they’ve textured faded zeroes into the background would suggest the panel is only capable of displaying characters that overlap in zero’s shape, however it’s clearly printing characters that would only be possible on a full dot matrix panel. Either that, or we’re to believe that these displays at one point just had 0 lit up across the entire panel for so long that they’re all burnt in.

In short:

This…

…is poorly trying to mimic something like this…

…when it should actually look something like this…


…or this.

How’s THAT for a nitpick?

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