As someone who had to suffer through an innumerable amount of those things, good fucking riddance!! https://www.washingtonpost.com/obit...is-austin-software-developer-powerpoint-dies/
PowerPoint was never the problem. It’s actually a pretty useful tool with a lot of capabilities that most people never use. It’s the idiots thinking they’re graphic designers who were the problem.
Not that long ago, I was taking courses to be a teacher. Ultimately didn't become one, my current job pays a lot more, better hours, better benefits, 224 hours of vacation, with holidays I can extend it to 304. But anyway, I had to go talk to a student counselor person. One class there was a guy who decided that every slide on PowerPoint needed animations, transitions, and every possible effect. After the third or so presentation he made, I lost patience and blurted out "For fucks sake, drop the fucking shit already, fucking idiot.". The dude used every possible wipe, fade on, transition and animation possible for each slide. His presentations would be half the length if it wasn't for an the stupid shit he added.
Yep. PowerPoint is fine. Much like how Premiere Pro is a good program, but if you use every single transition from the Effects menu, you're gonna look like an idiot.
I adapted a quote about writing from a guy I follow on Substack: "Unnecessary, flashy effects in a story are like cake frosting. A good cake doesn’t need food-coloring roses and a shitty cake can’t be saved by them. If you're all up in the frosting, you're fucking up the cake."
You're forgetting about the idiots who used it when an email with one line in it would suffice, but no, because we'd spent all this money on PP, so they were going to use it every fucking time they had to communicate something to us. Fuck, I can remember having jobs where meetings were delayed because the PP wasn't ready, even though there was no reason for the meeting to have a PP presentation to begin with!
My first PP was just like that. but, it was only 4 slides and just giving information. no presenter. just a website. directions. and a phone number. or similar information. The biggest issue with PP is the author wants to put everything on the slide. So, if giving a 20 minute presentation with say 10 slides, not only does the audience have to listen to this @$$hole speak for 20 minutes, but he's just reading the f-ing PP and I can do that on my own. The only thing on the PP should be bullet points. Then the speaker can speak on the topic while the audience reads the PP for notes or whatever.
