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So far, the game is a lot more nuanced and involved than I was expecting. TheSims meets HackerNews. Very well done!
by donpdonp 10y ago
So far, the game is a lot more nuanced and involved than I was expecting. TheSims meets HackerNews. Very well done!
- djsumdog 10y agoI think it's hilarious. Not just all the design work that went into it, but how it just pokes fun at the entire post-dot-com start-up era culture.
- qwertyuiop924 10y agoDespite HN's rep as the epicenter of the startup culture, I think it's somewhat telling that most anything mocking said culture makes it to the front page. Either my opinion of startup culture (ie: screw it) is way more common than I think, or people here know how to laugh at themselves. Either is fine with me.
- freehunter 10y agoEvery few days there is some self-aware rundown of startup or hacker type stuff that gets pretty wide attention here. I recently saw something maybe last week that was "what it's like to use JavaScript in 2017" that got spread pretty widely. It was a fictional conversation between a modern code hacker and an old school Netscape JavaScript guy and it was definitely not favorable to the state of JavaScript today. You gotta be able to poke fun at yourself.
- qwertyuiop924 10y agoOddly, JS is hell now, despite the fact that a lot of the additions to JS have been strictly for the better, and those that aren't are easily ignored. This is largely due to the JS ecosystem, which pushes shinyness over actual good design.