I literally returned a game from steam because it not only required a Microsoft login but the login dialog said “let’s get you signed in.”

I maintain that if it didn’t use such infantilizing wording I may have given it a chance (I had a Microsoft account, after all.)

There’s a certain… dissonance that happens when I’m reading a dialog that pretends me and an app are good buddies, old pals, when in reality I fucking hate the company involved. It can make me feel physically angry, like enough to want to throw my computer. I’m fully aware that this is a flaw in my personality, but I just hate it so, so, so much.

Ditto “Got it!” (With the cutesy fucking exclamation point) and other similar informal language in the buttons.

It’s NewSpeak. The concept is often misapplied to refer to the use of new words for new/nuanced concepts, but that isn’t accurate to how it is described in 1984. Instead, NewSpeak is a stripping away of words and phrases, such that only the acceptable responses can even be expressed.

Every time a dialogue box has “Sure”/“Ask me later”, they are preventing you from expressing “No”.