Blame Hawaii’s apocalypse fake-out on this common video game mistake

Nobody likes a bad user interface.

It makes video games — and really, any app or software — needlessly confusing and difficult to navigate. And as we now know, it’s also the reason the state of Hawaii experienced a brief yet horrifying period of existential panic on Saturday.

When an unnamed state official accidentally issued the alert about an incoming ballistic missile attack, this is the screen they were looking at:

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