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It is as if you were doing work
- dijksterhuis 6y agoI 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.
- WJW 6y agoLoved it, 9/10. Only loss of points caused by the available game not being minesweeper or solitaire.
- ohduran 6y agoAbsolutely great!
- braunshedd 6y agoAh! This is classic, wonder if this is based on the old flash game... * https://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/186896 https://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/186896
- benrbray 6y agoAhhh, 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/score https://www.newgrounds.com/games/browse/tag/windows/sort/sco... [2] https://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/512482 https://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/512482
- exikyut 6y agoOne identification of the keyword "pepperflashplugin-nonfree" and a browser restart later, I can wholeheartedly concur this implementation was very well made.
- thatcherc 6y agoReminds 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/ https://spaceteam.ca/
- MarcellusDrum 6y agoShares 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 6y agoOnce the bomb is sufficiently diffused, the explosion will cover a large area but it will be too weak to cause much damage. (sorry)
- mikepurvis 6y agoThe real fun of that one is when you have more than one bomb consultant, and the manual has been ripped up into its separate pages, so the person diffusing basically goes round robin, barking out information about the different parts of the bomb to each consultant in turn, and then they each use the downtime between "turns" to figure out the next action is on their part and get it queued up. It's pretty neat when it really gets going and you see just how efficient it can be.
- twic 6y agoSpaceteam 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.
- meowface 6y agoThis evokes such a broad array of emotions. Nostalgia, despair, mirth, appreciation, existential puzzlement.
- typenil 6y agoWay too accurate for comfort.
- twoslide 6y agoReminds me a lot of the "job simulator" game on oculus.
- ShamelessC 6y agoIs that one any good? Trying to find satisfying VR games after play Alyx is tough.
- mithr 6y agoJob 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 6y agoMake 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 6y agoCrouch 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.
- neals 6y agoLucky 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 6y agoOh 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.
- cagenut 6y agostill made more sense than jira
- jeffbee 6y agobrutal work simulation. Drag little poops from the bottom of column A to column B. Every time you drag one the page reloads.
- bachmeier 6y agoBusy 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.
- TimTheTinker 6y agoI really enjoy hearing all the old Windows 95 sound effects again.
- l0c0b0x 6y agoI have a report to work on, and this just took over my life. Thanks!
- mrfredward 6y agoI 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 6y agoThis 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.
- Havoc 6y agoYou wanted to know where the story goes. Meanwhile I was just thinking I need to get myself on of these email programs.
- Apocryphon 6y agoSort of ironic that the Windows 95 aesthetic is simultaneously both comforting and familiar (vaporwave), and full of dread and ennui (Dilbert, Office Space).
- wetmore 6y agoI 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
- bitwize 6y agoDread and ennui is as much a part of vaporwave as anything else. It's kind of the duality of the hopefulness of the era -- Windows and Mac machines being touted as the precursors of the Ono-Sendai cyberdecks we would all be using -- and the soul-crushing boredom and consumerism.
- spartas 6y agohttps://www.decisionproblem.com/paperclips/index2.html https://www.decisionproblem.com/paperclips/index2.html
- SenHeng 6y agoNot sure what this does. All I see is a grey screen on my iPad.
- wantstobuybook 6y agoSame, it only worked with I told uBlock to allow Google Analytics.
- cheschire 6y agoThat's because work can't be done on an iPad. /s
- thewebcount 6y agoSame here on a(n older) Mac Pro.
- toxik 6y agoSame, iOS
- slowmovintarget 6y agoCrowdsourced random number generator?
- dwaltrip 6y agoFinally, I've found my purpose.
- allworknoplay9 6y agoabsolutely terrifying 10/10
- allworknoplay9 6y agoi 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
- dwaltrip 6y agoThis 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.
- drdeca 6y agoI think some of the bricks have a durability number to them, where the same brick has to be hit (e.g.) twice in order to be destroyed? On the other hand, I do think I noticed a time where the ball went through a brick, which was odd.
- izzydata 6y agoIf I never acknowledged the 3D display popup then it would let me type forever and get promoted without doing anything else.
- mjayhn 6y agofound our future CEO
- FearNotDaniel 6y agoSociopaths win. [0] [0] https://www.ribbonfarm.com/2009/10/07/the-gervais-principle-or-the-office-according-to-the-office/ https://www.ribbonfarm.com/2009/10/07/the-gervais-principle-...
- camjohnson26 6y agoKeep the document open and just mash on the keyboard, multiple keys at a time
- 082349872349872 6y agoDid you eventually become ruler of the Queen's Navy? https://www.allthelyrics.com/lyrics/gilbert_and_sullivan/when_i_was_a_lad-lyrics-446448.html https://www.allthelyrics.com/lyrics/gilbert_and_sullivan/whe...
- _Microft 6y agoWhat 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.
- abathur 6y agoThanks, man. I've earned several key promotions with this one easy trick.
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- andrepd 6y agoStanley 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 6y agoThis 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 https://thestanleyparable.fandom.com/wiki/Dialogue
- klank 6y agoHighly 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.
- medicineman 6y agoFired up this and conferencecall.biz Now this is corporate horror!
- Tobu 6y agoHere's more about how this came about: https://github.com/pippinbarr/itisasifyouweredoingwork/tree/master/press https://github.com/pippinbarr/itisasifyouweredoingwork/tree/...
- oezi 6y agoReadme here: https://github.com/pippinbarr/itisasifyouweredoingwork/blob/master/press/README.md https://github.com/pippinbarr/itisasifyouweredoingwork/blob/...
- hartator 6y agoLol this IS art.
- 7ewis 6y agoSupposed to be doing actual work, ended up getting to Computation Administrator in this.
- phyzome 6y agoHmm, just a gray screen here. I allowed Javascript and even permitted it to read canvas data. Does this only work on some specific browser?
- aasasd 6y agoMy real-life break reminder ended, and the in-game one started. So realistic!
- aasasd 6y agoP.S. Ah, why is progress in Breakout not saved? I had a good run...
- nelsonenzo 6y agoimmediately addictive. can i turn off the tasks and just play pong? can i reduce the number of emails to send? i don't like smashing on my laptop keyboard in order to keep up.
- bebop 6y agoMy companies name showed up in one of the dialog boxes and it kinda messed me up... Well done!
- Nextgrid 6y agoBullshit Job Simulator 2020.
- chasd00 6y agoshowed this to my 8 year old, he's taking it very seriously haha
- elipsey 6y agoFinally, a sense of purpose! Can we add this to UBI somehow?
- hliyan 6y agoI found something about this comforting: it shows me dialogs that focus only on the thing that needs my attention, without having to load an entire app with its associated branding. I actually prefer these types of popups to what I deal with now: slack notifications (requires me to open slack first), mail notifications (requires me to open mail), our custom admin app notifications (same). Apps have become first class citizens and the content they operate on have taken a backseat. I'd like to think of these dialogs as the GUI equivalent of Unix pipes.
- neilwilson 6y agoDoes it deliberately not work on Safari?
- jan_Inkepa 6y agoIt works for me on safari (Version 13.1 (15609.1.20.111.8) / catalina). So probably not deliberate.
- marvion 6y ago"Please Login with you work credentials"... never saw someone putting so much work into a phising website ;D
- 2sk21 6y agoThis was brilliant touch!
- limaoscarjuliet 6y agoVery well done! To all the people out there (not this thread necessarily) for whom this resembles their daily work - CHANGE IT NOW! Go create value. And of course, not only in the monetary sense. Solve problems. Be proud of what you have accomplished.
- tempestn 6y agoDoes it ever end? I was starting to get flashbacks to the real world times I'd be typing mid-sentence and some mystery dialog would appear for a nanosecond, grab my spacebar entry, and then take that as permission to go do... something, so I had to quit. (I'm amazed Microsoft hasn't managed to do something about that issue for going on three decades now...)
- rcarmo 6y agoThis captures the constant sense of being interrupted with senseless/out of context requests I have in my day job, and reminds me why I sorely miss doing engineering. The only way it could be more realistic is if some of those texts were PowerPoints.
- frumiousirc 6y agoIn only 30 seconds I wanted to punch my screen. Well done!
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