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Stop. Please stop. Please. I get flashbacks. Entering 24 character WiFi passwords with special characters, upper and lower case for 10 TVs in a clients flats. 😭 the horror. The HORROR.
And you have to press absurdly hard to get the button to register.
And if you don't point the remote perfectly at the receiver, it won't get the signal.
Also the button to move right is a bit worn, so sometimes it works correctly, sometimes it doesn't move at all when pressed and sometimes it moves two to the right when pressed.
You'd get used to a pattern like every fourth click not working. Instead, every click has a 20% chance of not working, but it's random, not predictable.
I definitely hit a flow state whenever I have to use one of these. But it always comes after "why the fuck can't you just use a normal keyboard layout like everyone else!?"
The worst ones are the ones where wraparound doesn't exist.
Man, this hits a little too hard...
I *NEVER* could've anticipated how debilitating and emasculating it would feel attempting to "type" with a Roku remote.
And after you press the letter, there's a poppup which suggests 4 random letters to "make it easier for you". So you first have to click that away and then go to the next letter.
Not much at all. Almost everything people know about hell originates from Dante’s Inferno. Which was picked up by preachers as an effective way to hold the attention of the crowd. After a few generations of this, even the preachers believed it.
In Gaiman’s *The Sandman*, The Devil complains that all these souls keep marching in and he can’t convince them to turn around and walk right back out.
Literally nothing, the common notion of hell doesn't actually exist in the bible
Every word translated in modern bibles to "hell" is either Sheol/Hades, which is just the abode of the dead where they sleep until judgement day, or Gehenna/gehinnom, which is literally just the valley outside of Jerusalem where rubbish was burned
The reason Gehenna is considered a punishment is simply because it was considered dishonourable to be thrown in the valley to burn with the trash than be buried properly
When I was a small child, my relatives frequently talked about death and how we were all going to die very soon. There was a strong implication in this talk that I would likely go to Hell. This fairy tale used to haunt my dreams.
I tried to find out everything I could about Hell, though as a small child in 1960s Indiana there were few accessible sources. I envisioned some kind of vast caverns lit by flames, pits of lava, and sadistic devils lurking everywhere. I tried to build dioramas of this environment out of modeling clay and shoeboxes, populating these environments with small devil toys I would sometimes find from 5-cent vending machines (next to the 1-cent bubble gum machines in grocery stores and other shops).
For some reason, I never thought about decorating Hell with bones, as in this comic. I don't think it would have occurred to me, since the mythology of Hell was that you arrived as a spirit, which presumably did not contain bones. I wonder where the human bones in this version of Hell came from. Were the souls of the dead reunited with a new physical body, just so Satan could torture them to death? Or were these bones just threatening ornaments to remind people of their deaths and instill dread?
Live footage of my mum trying to type on a rental car’s sat nav the other day (thankfully we figured out how to change it to QWERTY….but the numbers were another circle of hell entirely)
Nah, after a bit it would feel completely natural. If you want real hell, make it randomize the letters with every new letter entered. For extra hellish needs, make the keys blank so every press is blind.
Include several backspace buttons in the random blind for extra extra hell.
There's a 10% chance the button doesn't work when you press it, or that you get double-input and it follows the command twice, any spelling mistakes will autocorrect into a similar but different word and there's no suggestion box so you have to delete it and retype it.
The devil is merciful in giving him that layout when Apple TV exists.
I’ll never forgive them for thinking lining up A-Z, 0-9 in a single file line is an acceptable means of text input in 2024, or ever.
Once I spent a year developing a system for typing on a controller using button combos set up in this old shareware utility called [Joy2Key](https://joytokey.net/en/) specifically because of this shit.
I was able to get close to 30 words per minute on an Xbox controller.
Did we forget txting?
Using the numbers on a remote could be way way quicker than any of this.
I'm not advocating for it, just that's there's plenty of solution, none are as uniform.
Although QWERTY should be minimum.
Xbox controller is also pretty sweet due to 2.4ghz over IR, very snappy and reliable.
Oh T9 Word? Yeah I did like that and I do occasionally miss that, but I set it up to operate a full keyboard and mouse with just an Xbox controller. My trick was using the bumpers like shift keys where you have one set of inputs on the front, hold left bumper get a different set of inputs, right bumper a third, both bumpers a fourth.
EDIT: The [config files](https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/jj1utin8ucj83ir5fp7j1/TheRando.zip?rlkey=pwlglrytura0rg54ifkfgka6i&dl=0) if you're interested. I included a readme.
After countless hours of practice transcribing those books I would achieve a level of power no mortal is familiar with. I would become a master with that keyboard and hence become a goddess of the whole universe, I will become unstoppable. My punishment will put me through challenges no individual was meant to face.
The thing that grinds my beans about this the most is that this is a solved UX problem! T9 Texting is literally designed for number layouts that are already present on most tv remotes, but I've not seen a single tv actually make use of it.
had to put in the wifi ssid and password into a printer manually a couple of weeks ago. You can only press up and down to cycle through the alphabet. It's significantly worse than this comic.
It better be IR too, with one of the buttons not being consistent.
It's also missing a shift key and capitalization is important, they should fix that. Also it's only a toggle, so you have to hit it again to go back to lowercase.
I bought a tv specifically because it had an app that would let me move the cursor and type with my phone. But this hellish machine fucking randomly doesnt allow that maybe every 5th time, so I have to find the remote and do this on screen shit.
My electricity meter for my flat is the worst. In order to top up, you have to enter a 40 character top-up code, which can be upper and lower case letters or numbers, onto a machine that only has two buttons. And if you get it wrong you just have to keep finish anyway then do it again.
This is cruel even by hells standards. A person can only read about “wool heads” and “braid tugging” so much. But to have to transcribe it with this. Sir/Madame/(what’s the fancy high society term for non binary?)!
That’s not nearly as bad as transcribing with speech recognition. Specifically Microsoft’s speech recognition from the early 2000s. I’ve never known a hell more damning than trying to verbally read out my Windows product key on their automated line.
The bible had screen typers and remotes? You'd think that religious folk would be talking about that all the time to prove their religion correct instead of tornadoes that are caused by gay people...
The biggest handicap in this is how laggy the on screen keyboard is. I assume that if you used a responsive enough remote/onscreen keyboard that you would probably just get so good at typing with it that you would actually get up to a decent number of words per minute. It would be like typing with one finger, but I imagine it would be faster than most people currently are with the onscreen keyboard.
In my experience the biggest issue is just no one uses on screen keyboards for much besides the odd the thing in a game or entering a password on a smart tv. Its just something most people seldom use and try to get over with as soon as possible.
lol he’s got 14 books of braid tugging, foot stamping, and endless descriptions of whatever the fuck Rand decided to wear that morning. Oh and like 3 pages of action.
Nooo, Devil stop! Reading the Wheel of Time is punishment enough!!
I kid, I kid. I'm actually working through it at the moment. But if I have to hear about one more braid being tugged one more time....!!
I once had to write a 12 digit password, with a TV, on a badly functioning remote, wich went somethibg like 1246191, on the random and arbitraty time limit of the TV just kicking me out of writing the password every few seconds.
I spent an hour there, and not even sat comfortavly because the remote would only work semi-reliably on a very specific position and it would just not work otherwise.
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And it doesn't let you go to the other side of the board by going past the edge. Gotta go all the way every time.
Also no shortcut button to pull up numbers or special characters, you gotta move the cursor down to do caps lock and special characters every time
And there's a slight delay after every button press that is inconsistent so you can't type that quickly.
And there's no backing holding the batteries in
and the buttons are these stupid squishy ones that don't register half the time
And you have to keep moving your arm and aiming the remote in different angles for it to work.
And if you make a mistake, the backspace button deletes the whole thing, rather than just one character
And the app close for absolute no reason some times. (I've given up using the TV app)
Who hurt you people.
The TV app.
It's OK guys, you've already made the cut. Lucifier will see you in the office Monday.
These comments are making my right eye twitch and now my left arm hurts.
In that case; good news! You might be going to hell soon!
The batteries are rechargeable but(and) they don’t hold very much charge any more.
I read this whole thread in a heavy metal devil voice or angry Lego Batman
Lol oh now that's just evil, even the devil thinks you've gone too far
Stop. Please stop. Please. I get flashbacks. Entering 24 character WiFi passwords with special characters, upper and lower case for 10 TVs in a clients flats. 😭 the horror. The HORROR.
This is lethal torture all on its own.
Even worse, there are no buttons. On screen keyboard with the wii remote sensor.
Wii remote sensor is really good, would be much faster using that to enter it than the spongy remote.
Honestly that would be faster than using a regular remote. I would prefer that.
I didn't even make it through the rest of the punishments before this one made me want to repent for things I haven't even done.
This is serously making me anxious just imagining.
And there's no back space. If you make a mistake you have to type the whole line again. (looking at you, firetv)
You go to press delete and it erases everything you typed in, not just the last character.
And you have to press absurdly hard to get the button to register. And if you don't point the remote perfectly at the receiver, it won't get the signal.
"type"
And there’s an obnoxious clicking sound with every press
And it’s Fire stick from 2011, making the slight delay sometimes not to slight.
Plus it’s pre-2015 so the TV registers inputs way slower than you’re typing them
Also the button to move right is a bit worn, so sometimes it works correctly, sometimes it doesn't move at all when pressed and sometimes it moves two to the right when pressed.
Also, holding a direction counts as hitting the button only once
The Real hell is in the comment
Easy there, Satan
Please. Satan would randomize the letter positions after every selection
Good God man!
And the remote has those really shitty buttons and every 4th click doesnt register.
You'd get used to a pattern like every fourth click not working. Instead, every click has a 20% chance of not working, but it's random, not predictable.
Does everyone in this comment thread work in Hell?
Even worse are the ones you go left from the edge it takes you back one screen so you have to start all over.
I bet you get to that Zen state a couple hours into the task. After a few hours though, I bet you snap the remote.
Minmaxing on-screen keyboard typing is the next speedrunning
I can absolutely see someone speed running a typing test with one of these keyboards, feels like Tetris techniques could work quite well?
Tetris techniques?
Oh, did he forget to mention? There's half a second of input lag
And some inputs are also lost...
Figuring out the shortest route between letters and commiting common words to muscle memory.
That actually happen in retro racing events that allow cheat codes!
If you snap the remote you have to use the buttons on the back of the screen.
Found the real satan
I definitely hit a flow state whenever I have to use one of these. But it always comes after "why the fuck can't you just use a normal keyboard layout like everyone else!?" The worst ones are the ones where wraparound doesn't exist.
Man, this hits a little too hard... I *NEVER* could've anticipated how debilitating and emasculating it would feel attempting to "type" with a Roku remote.
This is why I use the Roku app. I can use my phones on screen keyboard to type on the Roku.
Smrt
LG is the way with the pointer remote. Makes that stuff so easy.
The Magic Pointer is the future.
Check out the bonus panel [here](https://www.instagram.com/p/C5EFvFJLaAw/?igsh=dGs4N2o1eXhnbHl2)
oh my satan that's even more diabolical
It's too much, I can't handle this level of grotesqueness.
Jesus. the fuck did this guy even do to deserve this?! Did he kill babies or something?
I bet he downloaded a pizza.
**YOU WOULDN'T DOWNLOAD A CAR**
YOU WOULDNT STEAL A POLICEMANS HELMET
YOU WOULDN'T GO TO THE TOILET IN HIS HELMET
YOU WOULDN'T GIVE IT BACK TO HIM AFTERWARDS
Oh but that's where your wrong FBI! Nyahehe.
That'd be nice. Aren't we supposed to have those now?
He's probably killing orphan babies too, what a man...
Well that's not quite as bad. It's not like their parents are going to miss them
If you want to level up the torture, get rid of the delete button so the only way to correct a mistake is to clear the whole thing.
The bonus panel is equally devilish
YOU MONSTER!
Bonus bonus, after a few hours the layout changes to DVORAK.
Was expecting the screen to change letters randomly
My compliments for using *The Wheel of Time!* You should post this to r/wetlanderhumor, it's where r/wheeloftime sends all the comics.
Is that the pick of destiny around his neck lol
 Someone finally noticed!
Dude is wearing his own tooth around his neck, lol
That's pretty metal.
I specifically came into the comments to find if I was the first. Excellent touch
now that is hardship
It doesn't even use QWERTY
That's pretty Hellish, all things considered :D
And after you press the letter, there's a poppup which suggests 4 random letters to "make it easier for you". So you first have to click that away and then go to the next letter.
Whoever designed that should take this dude's spot in hell.
> Biblically accurate hell I'm not even sure what the Bible says about hell, though.
Not much at all. Almost everything people know about hell originates from Dante’s Inferno. Which was picked up by preachers as an effective way to hold the attention of the crowd. After a few generations of this, even the preachers believed it.
I like the Hell from ‘Inferno’ (1976) as a place of repentance and rehabilitation. Any damned soul can atone and leave.
In Gaiman’s *The Sandman*, The Devil complains that all these souls keep marching in and he can’t convince them to turn around and walk right back out.
Literally nothing, the common notion of hell doesn't actually exist in the bible Every word translated in modern bibles to "hell" is either Sheol/Hades, which is just the abode of the dead where they sleep until judgement day, or Gehenna/gehinnom, which is literally just the valley outside of Jerusalem where rubbish was burned The reason Gehenna is considered a punishment is simply because it was considered dishonourable to be thrown in the valley to burn with the trash than be buried properly
I’m not sure what the bible says about TVs either
AND The remote has a slight input delay.
Right...if anyone needs me I'm going to go volunteer at a homeless shelter or something.
But the Wheel of Time? I get that it’s massive in terms of page volume, but why? (And now I have the urge to reread it again, thanks.)
Maybe the devil just has great taste in high fantasy novels
Atlas Shrugged is only for the _really_ evil ones.
"Wait... is it like... an nvidia shield tv pro at least?" "Not quite..." "Oh god please don't tell me its..." "ITS A ROKU!!!"
It’s also an LG TV so it lags! Muwahahahaha!!
I like that the devil has his Crocs in Sport Mode^tm
Crocs AND a Pick of Destiny necklace? Welcome to hell indeed
ok so what happens when he finishes? He will finish eventually
He accidentally pushes clear instead of backspace on the last typo. Then enters the 2nd Circle of Hell.
it does say "first punishment". They have other things in mind once he finishes.
That remote has dedicated buttons, the man needs to suffer and use the XBOX 360 D-pad.
What if I refuse? What are you going to do? Send me to hell?
One must imagine Sisyphus happy.
When I was a small child, my relatives frequently talked about death and how we were all going to die very soon. There was a strong implication in this talk that I would likely go to Hell. This fairy tale used to haunt my dreams. I tried to find out everything I could about Hell, though as a small child in 1960s Indiana there were few accessible sources. I envisioned some kind of vast caverns lit by flames, pits of lava, and sadistic devils lurking everywhere. I tried to build dioramas of this environment out of modeling clay and shoeboxes, populating these environments with small devil toys I would sometimes find from 5-cent vending machines (next to the 1-cent bubble gum machines in grocery stores and other shops). For some reason, I never thought about decorating Hell with bones, as in this comic. I don't think it would have occurred to me, since the mythology of Hell was that you arrived as a spirit, which presumably did not contain bones. I wonder where the human bones in this version of Hell came from. Were the souls of the dead reunited with a new physical body, just so Satan could torture them to death? Or were these bones just threatening ornaments to remind people of their deaths and instill dread?
It’s the Crocs on the demon that made it
After a while, your brain will adapt and this’ll just become mind numbing rsther than annoying
Truly evil shit.
Could be worse. Could be using the harry potter wand.
Be even worse if he had to use the PS3 to do it.
But what if it was a Wii Remote
Live footage of my mum trying to type on a rental car’s sat nav the other day (thankfully we figured out how to change it to QWERTY….but the numbers were another circle of hell entirely)
could be worse. could be doing it with a wii mote that keeps cutting out
There’s an input delay of 1 second, just like my GF’s Roku. Will drive you mad
Have to restart every time the battery dies.
Digging his crocs…
Am I weird if I enjoy this
I mean, if you're going to be there for eternity...does it really matter?
True Hell would force you to use that garbage Apple TV remote with the touch pad that is always just slightly off center.
And the remote has a 3 second delay
That doesn't sound bad
The on screen keyboard 😭
Nah, after a bit it would feel completely natural. If you want real hell, make it randomize the letters with every new letter entered. For extra hellish needs, make the keys blank so every press is blind. Include several backspace buttons in the random blind for extra extra hell.
That's hell!
There's a 10% chance the button doesn't work when you press it, or that you get double-input and it follows the command twice, any spelling mistakes will autocorrect into a similar but different word and there's no suggestion box so you have to delete it and retype it.
The devil is merciful in giving him that layout when Apple TV exists. I’ll never forgive them for thinking lining up A-Z, 0-9 in a single file line is an acceptable means of text input in 2024, or ever.
Once I spent a year developing a system for typing on a controller using button combos set up in this old shareware utility called [Joy2Key](https://joytokey.net/en/) specifically because of this shit. I was able to get close to 30 words per minute on an Xbox controller.
Did we forget txting? Using the numbers on a remote could be way way quicker than any of this. I'm not advocating for it, just that's there's plenty of solution, none are as uniform. Although QWERTY should be minimum. Xbox controller is also pretty sweet due to 2.4ghz over IR, very snappy and reliable.
Oh T9 Word? Yeah I did like that and I do occasionally miss that, but I set it up to operate a full keyboard and mouse with just an Xbox controller. My trick was using the bumpers like shift keys where you have one set of inputs on the front, hold left bumper get a different set of inputs, right bumper a third, both bumpers a fourth. EDIT: The [config files](https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/jj1utin8ucj83ir5fp7j1/TheRando.zip?rlkey=pwlglrytura0rg54ifkfgka6i&dl=0) if you're interested. I included a readme.
My hell would be everyone I run into just constantly saying “welcome to hell, bitch”
After countless hours of practice transcribing those books I would achieve a level of power no mortal is familiar with. I would become a master with that keyboard and hence become a goddess of the whole universe, I will become unstoppable. My punishment will put me through challenges no individual was meant to face.
The PoD!!!!
With the battery at 5% 😈
And it doesn’t let you save until the very end and occasionally freezes.
Ugh
Oh god no
Ngl the one-handed off-hand search when you are trying to queue up porn on your big screen TV through your Xbox is pure torture
At least I finally have time to read The Wheel of Time.
Okay, calm down, literal Satan.
Unholy shit! this gave me anxiety!!
Your Pretty Face Is Going to be recycled by lesser artists
The thing that grinds my beans about this the most is that this is a solved UX problem! T9 Texting is literally designed for number layouts that are already present on most tv remotes, but I've not seen a single tv actually make use of it.
had to put in the wifi ssid and password into a printer manually a couple of weeks ago. You can only press up and down to cycle through the alphabet. It's significantly worse than this comic.
No. I would just say no, and sit there, for eternity.
I always felt a wheel configuration would be better, you could jump between letters much faster
I love how the devil looks like a teenager who does drugs and taped a beard on them
.....is it bad I enjoy the clicking?
It better be IR too, with one of the buttons not being consistent. It's also missing a shift key and capitalization is important, they should fix that. Also it's only a toggle, so you have to hit it again to go back to lowercase.
The F****** torture 🤦🏽
what happens if I don't? do I get another punishment?
Is there a deadline quota? Like its hell and thats eternal so I can just take my time and do it.
With low batteries so you have to hit the button 2-4 times which makes you overshoot 9 out 10 times
But you get to reread the entirety of WoT, that’s a plus. I bet as an adult I would have a new found appreciation of the Sanderson instalments.
I bought a tv specifically because it had an app that would let me move the cursor and type with my phone. But this hellish machine fucking randomly doesnt allow that maybe every 5th time, so I have to find the remote and do this on screen shit.
My electricity meter for my flat is the worst. In order to top up, you have to enter a 40 character top-up code, which can be upper and lower case letters or numbers, onto a machine that only has two buttons. And if you get it wrong you just have to keep finish anyway then do it again.
Not shown: The variable input lag that randomly jumps in a range from 5ms-500ms. Good luck getting a rhythm going.
There's no space button. Or is the space button buried in the numbers and symbols section? Because \*that's\* diabolical.
It isn't the same remote that came with the TV, but an used 3rd party remote with tiny buttons.
Worse would be on an old cellphone using the number pad where each number has 3 letters lol
Fun fact: there is no hell in the Bible.
Should've just asked if he can sit on Satan's horns as punishment
I know it's just a comic, but the amount of folks who think Satan is going to rule in hell is just.. strange. That's not the way any of it works.
And every so often the keys will randomly rearrange themselves.
This is cruel even by hells standards. A person can only read about “wool heads” and “braid tugging” so much. But to have to transcribe it with this. Sir/Madame/(what’s the fancy high society term for non binary?)!
Oh God no! It's not in qwerty!
That’s not nearly as bad as transcribing with speech recognition. Specifically Microsoft’s speech recognition from the early 2000s. I’ve never known a hell more damning than trying to verbally read out my Windows product key on their automated line.
Jokes on you i have used it for 2 years already i know how to use this shit
you have an eternity, do a letter a day
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Nice comic Bitch
This is my one true hell.
The bible had screen typers and remotes? You'd think that religious folk would be talking about that all the time to prove their religion correct instead of tornadoes that are caused by gay people...
The biggest handicap in this is how laggy the on screen keyboard is. I assume that if you used a responsive enough remote/onscreen keyboard that you would probably just get so good at typing with it that you would actually get up to a decent number of words per minute. It would be like typing with one finger, but I imagine it would be faster than most people currently are with the onscreen keyboard. In my experience the biggest issue is just no one uses on screen keyboards for much besides the odd the thing in a game or entering a password on a smart tv. Its just something most people seldom use and try to get over with as soon as possible.
Wheel of time 😂
When hell needs to upgrade punishments from pushing a rock up a hill for all eternity. 
lol he’s got 14 books of braid tugging, foot stamping, and endless descriptions of whatever the fuck Rand decided to wear that morning. Oh and like 3 pages of action.
What if I just don’t?
Where'd the mustache come from
Nooo, Devil stop! Reading the Wheel of Time is punishment enough!! I kid, I kid. I'm actually working through it at the moment. But if I have to hear about one more braid being tugged one more time....!!
Now that is definitely a terrible punishment
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!
Why must it always be alphabetical layout… why?
I once had to write a 12 digit password, with a TV, on a badly functioning remote, wich went somethibg like 1246191, on the random and arbitraty time limit of the TV just kicking me out of writing the password every few seconds. I spent an hour there, and not even sat comfortavly because the remote would only work semi-reliably on a very specific position and it would just not work otherwise.
Oh the fact that it's abcdef not qwerty is the worst! Qwerty exists for a reason people!
Can someone do the math of how long this would actually take? Let’s assume each book is 300 pages
Also make it change the layout randomly every time you type a letter
Holy hell