[HN Gopher] It is as if you were doing work
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It is as if you were doing work
Author : duck
Score : 150 points
Date : 2020-06-05 16:55 UTC (6 hours ago)
(HTM) web link (pippinbarr.github.io)
(TXT) w3m dump (pippinbarr.github.io)
| dijksterhuis wrote:
| I have no idea what I'm doing. Screens appear and I have to click
| on things... Another day in the office then.
|
| Also, loving the hip hop music loop.
| meowface wrote:
| This evokes such a broad array of emotions. Nostalgia, despair,
| mirth, appreciation, existential puzzlement.
| dwaltrip wrote:
| This is very cool and very well done. The dialogs are perfect.
|
| However, did anyone else get a bug where the breakout game would
| no longer destroy the bricks?
|
| My own self-directed minigame within the game was to try to get
| on top of the brick wall before my "break" ended and the whole
| thing was less fun after that bug.
| WJW wrote:
| Loved it, 9/10. Only loss of points caused by the available game
| not being minesweeper or solitaire.
| 7ewis wrote:
| Supposed to be doing actual work, ended up getting to Computation
| Administrator in this.
| bachmeier wrote:
| Busy work and responding to stuff as it comes in so you don't
| have to figure out what you should be doing. A simulation is
| worth a thousand words.
| spartas wrote:
| https://www.decisionproblem.com/paperclips/index2.html
| TimTheTinker wrote:
| I really enjoy hearing all the old Windows 95 sound effects
| again.
| _Microft wrote:
| _What do you do for a living? Oh, I 'm an_ about dialog
| _-operator for a few years now and the work really suits me._
|
| Repeatedly opening dialogs from the desktop allows to gain work
| unit points even during breaks. What. A. Madness.
| andrepd wrote:
| Stanley worked for a company in a big building where he was
| Employee #427.
|
| Employee #427's job was simple: he sat at his desk in Room 427
| and he pushed buttons on a keyboard.
|
| Orders came to him through a monitor on his desk telling him
| what buttons to push, how long to push them, and in what order.
|
| This is what Employee #427 did every day of every month of
| every year, and although others may have considered it soul
| rending,
|
| Stanley relished every moment that the orders came in, as
| though he had been made exactly for this job.
|
| And Stanley was happy.
| nickff wrote:
| This is from "The Stanley Parable". I have not played the
| game, but looked up the source because I liked the quote;
| thanks for posting it.
|
| https://thestanleyparable.fandom.com/wiki/Dialogue
| klank wrote:
| Highly recommend playing the game, even if not a fan of
| video games. It's wonderfully written and doesn't require a
| large time commitment. It's also devoid mechanical checks.
| filoleg wrote:
| To add to this, it is less of a "game" in traditional
| sense, and more of an interactive experience with tons of
| choices.
|
| Despite not being into the whole "games that are not
| really games" genre myself, this one is imo a great work
| of art that I can recommend to everyone.
| twic wrote:
| I have a mental list of video games that i could use to
| justify to my dad that video games are not a mindless
| waste of time. The Stanley Parable is on that list.
| filoleg wrote:
| I would be careful about using The Stanley Parable for
| that specific purpose, because it is one of the easiest
| targets for "mindless waste of time" classification.
|
| Don't get me wrong, I totally like it, but the whole
| "game" can be described as "do a bunch of actions, pick
| some different doors every time, and then restart it all
| over again, except it might be slightly different, but
| you are still just choosing which doors to walk through,
| while listening to some voice".
|
| Note: I didn't "beat" the game (assuming there is some
| actual ending), but I spent a good couple of hours on it.
| abathur wrote:
| Thanks, man. I've earned several key promotions with this one
| easy trick.
| izzydata wrote:
| If I never acknowledged the 3D display popup then it would let me
| type forever and get promoted without doing anything else.
| camjohnson26 wrote:
| Keep the document open and just mash on the keyboard, multiple
| keys at a time
| mjayhn wrote:
| found our future CEO
| FearNotDaniel wrote:
| Sociopaths win. [0]
|
| [0] https://www.ribbonfarm.com/2009/10/07/the-gervais-
| principle-...
| SenHeng wrote:
| Not sure what this does. All I see is a grey screen on my iPad.
| wantstobuybook wrote:
| Same, it only worked with I told uBlock to allow Google
| Analytics.
| thewebcount wrote:
| Same here on a(n older) Mac Pro.
| cheschire wrote:
| That's because work can't be done on an iPad. /s
| l0c0b0x wrote:
| I have a report to work on, and this just took over my life.
|
| Thanks!
| slowmovintarget wrote:
| Crowdsourced random number generator?
| typenil wrote:
| Way too accurate for comfort.
| phyzome wrote:
| Hmm, just a gray screen here. I allowed Javascript and even
| permitted it to read canvas data. Does this only work on some
| specific browser?
| ohduran wrote:
| Absolutely great!
| hartator wrote:
| Lol this IS art.
| cagenut wrote:
| still made more sense than jira
| jeffbee wrote:
| brutal work simulation. Drag little poops from the bottom of
| column A to column B. Every time you drag one the page reloads.
| braunshedd wrote:
| Ah! This is classic, wonder if this is based on the old flash
| game...
|
| * https://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/186896
| benrbray wrote:
| Ahhh, this pulls at my heartstrings.
|
| I always loved the window-simulator genre [1] of flash games as
| a kid, and it's no exaggeration to say that windows spoofs made
| me the person I am today. I wanted to make my own so badly that
| in middle school, I saved up to buy a student edition of Flash
| CS3 and spent a few years building "Window Doors" [2], which
| I'm proud to say was one of the most fully-featured windows
| spoofs of its time. Ten years later I have a cs/math degree,
| all thanks to the kind people on the Newgrounds BBS who were
| kind enough to put up with middle-school-me.
|
| [1]
| https://www.newgrounds.com/games/browse/tag/windows/sort/sco...
|
| [2] https://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/512482
| mrfredward wrote:
| I kept holding down a key in the email boxes thinking the story
| was going somewhere...but then I looked at the source and it
| turns out each sentence is randomly picked from an array of
| inspirational sentences.
| gen220 wrote:
| This is, itself, a meaningful metaphor! love it.
|
| It also encourages you to zone out and type without even
| reading what's being written, which is scarily accurate given
| some corporate emails I've seen.
| dwaltrip wrote:
| Finally, I've found my purpose.
| twoslide wrote:
| Reminds me a lot of the "job simulator" game on oculus.
| ShamelessC wrote:
| Is that one any good? Trying to find satisfying VR games after
| play Alyx is tough.
| neals wrote:
| Lucky you! I can't even force myself through that train
| carriage level, right at the beginning, because that game is
| so scary to me.
| ShamelessC wrote:
| Oh wow I'd hate to see you how reacted to the chapter
| "Jeff" in that case. Was an amazing horror experience on
| par with P.T.
| mithr wrote:
| Job Simulator is one of my favorite VR games, and is the one
| I most often show as demo. The humor is just spot-on, and (as
| one anecdote) watching people try to interact with a virtual
| computer by touching it, fail, and then realize they have to
| actually use their controller to move a virtual mouse is...
| priceless.
| kroltan wrote:
| Make sure to try out Budget Cuts too, it is also set in
| 90s-style megacorp offices, but it's a stealth/action game.
|
| Think the Matrix office escape scene, but a full game out of
| that. (And less crouch-walking, so it's knee-friendly!)
| ShamelessC wrote:
| Crouch walking is one of those things that is both
| incredibly awesome but also needs to be optional. I think
| Alyx did an okay job with it but there were times when I
| had to literally crouch behind cover not to die. Again, it
| was pretty awesome but I'm glad they have a toggle crouch
| option in the settings.
| allworknoplay9 wrote:
| absolutely terrifying 10/10
| Apocryphon wrote:
| Sort of ironic that the Windows 95 aesthetic is simultaneously
| both comforting and familiar (vaporwave), and full of dread and
| ennui (Dilbert, Office Space).
| wetmore wrote:
| I think how you view it correlates with how old you were when
| win95 was in use. I certainly don't have any negative
| associations with it, just nostalgia, but I was just a kid at
| the time
| medicineman wrote:
| Fired up this and conferencecall.biz
|
| Now this is corporate horror!
| allworknoplay9 wrote:
| i clicked thinking this would help me slack off and look like i
| was working. Guess this is what a "free candy van" is like.
|
| absolutely terrifying 10/10
| thatcherc wrote:
| Reminds me of the (very fun!) cooperative game SpaceTeam[0],
| where you have to complete an ever-increasing set of fanciful
| space-themed actions on a little control panel on your phone. The
| fun part there is that some of the actions require you to tell
| someone else to complete an action on their phone, so games
| always involve frantic shouting to your teammates. Lots of fun
|
| [0] - https://spaceteam.ca/
| MarcellusDrum wrote:
| Shares the concept with "Keep Talking and Nobody Explodes". Its
| a game about diffusing a bomb. One player has a pdf file
| containing the instructions, and the other is on the PC
| diffusing it. The game gets increasingly more complicated, and
| harder for both players to communicate what they are
| seeing/what should be done. Really fun, and tests your
| relationship with the other player, as you'll be shouting and
| insulting each other the whole time.
| seryoiupfurds wrote:
| Once the bomb is sufficiently diffused, the explosion will
| cover a large area but it will be too weak to cause much
| damage.
|
| (sorry)
| twic wrote:
| Spaceteam is fantastic.
|
| There is a card game version: each player has a stack of
| problem cards, and a hand of tool cards, and you need a certain
| combination of tools to fix each problem. You can pass tool
| cards to other players who need them.
|
| Simple, right?
|
| You can only pass cards to the players immediately to your left
| or right, so if you need a tool from someone on the other side
| of the table, you need to get them passed all the way round.
|
| Each tool has a name and a picture. Some of the problem cards
| refer to the tool by name, some with a picture. So you're
| asking for "the tool that looks like a red egg whisk", a
| description which other players may or may not recognise.
|
| There are cards in the problem deck which cause you problems.
| You might have to throw your hand down and wait for the other
| players to pick it up. You might not be able to use your
| thumbs. You might not be able to speak out loud or move until
| someone touches you.
|
| And of course the game is played in realtime, against a timer,
| with all players playing simultaneously. There is a lot of
| shouting.
|
| Plus, i swear that the cards are far more slippery than normal
| cards, so if you make the slightest error in handling them,
| they fly off the table.
| Tobu wrote:
| Here's more about how this came about:
|
| https://github.com/pippinbarr/itisasifyouweredoingwork/tree/...
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