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Endless Doom Scroller
- noetokyo 6y agoI thought this was gonna be doom the game
- chris_overseas 6y agoI'm wondering if there's anyone who _didn't_ think this!
- joosters 6y agoI submitted this link, and I also thought it was going to be Doom the game from where I originally saw it!
- Theizestooke 6y agoI've only noticed the term "doom scroller" on twitter, and american twitter at that. And then I forgot about it, although it fits the medium.
- noitsnot 6y agoI tried clicking on the buttons but nothing happens.
- mdtancsa 6y agohahaha, the same. I thought it would be running through a corridor in a loop!
- kortex 6y agoWas expecting a procedurally-generated Doom sidescroller conversion. I was nonetheless quite amused.
- rgoulter 6y agoIn case anyone hasn't seen it: Linear Doom https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AM50BifVRHA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AM50BifVRHA It's Doom, but if it were just a single, linear hallway.
- IgorPartola 6y agoAlso 2D Doom: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=puoB-ofLF98 https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=puoB-ofLF98
- chii 6y agothats amazing! It's like the modern day on rails shooters!
- robertlagrant 6y agoI also was.
- zadkey 6y agoI was also expecting a doom side scroller. Was hoping it would be similar to the old 2d duke nukem stuff.
- ackbar03 6y agoI thought it was gonna link to some articles at least
- EmilioTT 6y agoRepetition detected..
- shipstern 6y agoHow about adding a circular loader? Why not inserting some void into the user's head before the doom continues?
- ithkuil 6y agoI scrolled to the bottom and it said "no end in sight" but it stopped there
- mistersquid 6y ago> I scrolled to the bottom and it said "no end in sight" but it stopped there I could not verify your reported result after running this in my web browser console: var scrollToBottom = function() { window.scrollTo(0,(document.scrollingElement.scrollHeight - window.innerHeight)); setTimeout(function() { if (window.scrollY < (document.scrollingElement.scrollHeight - window.innerHeight)) { scrollToBottom(); } } ,500); return } scrollToBottom();
- jansan 6y agoSo you think it was the end? Or did is just give up, because there was no end in sight? Or did your browser freeze because Bill Gates was wrong when he claimed that 640K is more memory than anyone will ever need on a computer?
- gramakri 6y agoYou may not know it but you reached the end of the internet
- mberning 6y agoI thought I was on the front page of Reddit for a second. Well done.
- xvector 6y agoWould actually be interesting to see a version of this with the Reddit CSS/design, randomized upvotes and all.
- thomasdd 6y agoI admire people who love to create useless unique things! That “luxury” of nonsense! Great!
- shahbaby 6y agoNicely done
- kingkawn 6y agoIf this were formatted to look a little more like a contemporary news site it would be perfect
- grugagag 6y agoThis is basically the news we’re reading and theres no end in sight
- colmvp 6y agoIt's interesting that they chose precisely the same typeface used by the New York Times for their wordmark.
- Tepix 6y agoElon Musk on avoiding daily news: “The daily news I find to be a lot of noise. Generally newspapers seem to try to answer the question, ‘What is the worst thing that happened on the Earth today?’”
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- glaberficken 6y agoNassim Taleb, also makes many allusions to this in several of his books. Particularly jarring is the constant fixation that is going on in the news with Daily COVID-19 data. There is simply too much daily variation that has nothing to do with how the virus is spreading and affecting each location. A huge waste of attention and resources with titles such as "Largest number of new cases in a day since March!"... so what?
- HumblyTossed 6y agoWell, that explains a few things.
- newacct583 6y agoMusk in particular has been... let's just say somewhat ill-informed about a bunch of recent events, though.
- FriendlyNormie 6y agoNo he hasn’t. Faggot.
- varjag 6y agoElon 'Covid will be over by April' Musk?
- dvtrn 6y agoYes that Elon Musk. People can say dumb things, and sometimes they can say interesting things. No one is permanently locked into one or the other.
- ldad 6y agoSomething similar: https://badnewsfirst.co/ https://badnewsfirst.co/
- davedx 6y agoHey, it’s the Guardian’s front page with less photos!
- thomasahle 6y agoIs that a meme or something? I checked the current front page, and I think it's only half bad. > Coronavirus: UN warns of 'catastrophe' over school closures; France says second wave likely Negative > US Donald Trump flounders in interview over US Covid-19 death toll Neutral > Spain Country speculates over whereabouts of scandal-hit ex-king Juan Carlos Neutral > A good sign Sailors stranded on Pacific island saved by giant SOS in sand Positive > Climate crisis Rising temperatures will cause more deaths than all infectious diseases – study Negative > TikTok China hits out at US 'smash and grab' as tech row deepens China hits out at US 'smash and grab' as tech row deepens Probably negative > Thailand Country orders new investigation into Red Bull heir's alleged hit and run Probably positive > Brexit Number of UK citizens emigrating to EU has risen 30% since vote on withdrawal Neutral > Thailand Protesters openly criticise monarchy in Harry Potter themed rally Probably positive > Mexico Giant dam poised to displace indigenous people and flood graves Negative So four negatives and three positives. Maybe people just focus too much on the negatives?
- phtrivier 6y ago> Maybe people just focus too much on the negatives ? Basically, yes. Source: Wikipedia [1], and, also, every newspaper since pretty much forever [2] [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Negativity_bias https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Negativity_bias [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yellow_journalism https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yellow_journalism
- Wolfenstein98k 6y agoWhy is a simple link to the New York Times main page worthy of a post here on HN? Oh...
- ivolimmen 6y ago338 different doom messages are not endless but depressing non the less...
- asd 6y agoHere are all 338 headlines if scrolling isn't your thing. https://pastebin.com/1J0N8iLg https://pastebin.com/1J0N8iLg
- Abishek_Muthian 6y agoIs the list being looped? Considering the site is titled 'Endless'.
- micheljansen 6y agoso not endless after all?
- fnord77 6y agoso, /r/politics
- jpseawell 6y agoI half expected this to just redirect to twitter.
- Barrin92 6y agoI don't really understand the 'doomer' debate, that is to say complaining about negative news when the world in fact is facing enormous negative events. It seems to me sort of like the 'three-wise-monkeys', just think happy thoughts and the world gets better or something. It seems infantile. I don't see how you can fix problems if you aren't willing to in the first place look at them, as we've seen in this pandemic the virus doesn't care how optimistic you are. The prevailing opinion these days seems to be that people are too negative, honestly looking at the world in sober fashion I think most people are probably not scared enough.
- bzb3 6y agoThat's why we have democracy, so we can delegate and not care about negative news for the most part
- luckylion 6y ago> I don't see how you can fix problems if you aren't willing to in the first place look at them, as we've seen in this pandemic the virus doesn't care how optimistic you are. How can you fix problems by knowing about them? What I mean is: unless you're an expert on the problem, or willing and able to become one as soon as you've learned about it, what difference does it make whether you specifically know how bad something is? We have institutions to work on things, do we need each individual citizen to be constantly worried about everything that goes wrong, will go wrong, can go wrong or won't go at all? Does "knowing" about it do anything? Leave aside that you probably don't really know anything if you've read doomsday news, you're just afraid, but the facts are very light and usually styled for effect: everything is always terrible, it's constantly just one minute away from certain destruction etc.
- lucideer 6y ago> We have institutions to work on things, do we need each individual citizen to be constantly worried about everything that goes wrong, will go wrong, can go wrong or won't go at all? To give an accompanying reply to the sibling commenter saying "that's why we have democracy, so we can delegate": that's why democracy in its current state works so poorly; a disengaged electorate. The "we have institutions to work on things" line could only be uttered by someone so disconnected from reality that they actually believe those institutions can be effective without oversight.
- abhv 6y agoThere was also "some good news" briefly, but that was purchased by ViacomCbs. Maybe this OP is also looking for a media deal.
- wpasc 6y agoWoah, wait til you guys see what the last one was!
- softwaredoug 6y agoI would advise the way to beat the anxiety about doom scrolling is to RTFA Headline: The world is spiraling out of control Body: X is happening that will impact Y in these specific ways. Z people are working against X and trying tactics A & B... The Headline is calibrated to maximize your anxiety. The Body is often calibrated to the right level of anxiety and context. I find instead of trying to mentally suppress Headline that freaks me out, and thus subconsciously imagining the worst possible thing, RTFA helps to soften and calibrate the anxiety more appropriately.
- lolinder 6y agoThe problem with this approach is that it continues to drives traffic to exaggerated headlines, which merely encourages this same kind of headline in the future. Does anyone know if there are news sources out there that don't have exaggerated, doom- and anger-filled headlines? If they're there, I'd love to drive traffic to them.
- Robotbeat 6y agoThe problem with that is we are bombarded with at least 10 times as many headlines as articles can possibly be read. Even within an article, there will be links to other headlines. Look at a news front page and there are enough headlines immediately in view that would take an hour or five to read through. There’s no way to “get ahead” by RTFA, and shaming people for only having seen a misleading headline is attacking the victim, not the perpetrator. (You’re not doing that here, but I often see it done online.) We MUST start shaming media organizations that publish bullcrap headlines. This is almost entirely the editors’ fault, BTW. The reporters don’t have control over the headline.
- ontifica 6y agoIf news media is for profit, news media will naturally use the most engaging headline to beat out competition. There is no solution to this problem unless news is regulated or not for profit. You won't 'shame' an entire industry into changing something they've been doing for centuries.
- goalieca 6y agoI want to stay informed about the world but I'm unable to read the highly editorialized doom scrollers. I'm tired of the news cheering for the hurricane and I'm tired of pointless feel good stories to bring "happy news" that isn't really news at all. I've started to read more long-form essays on current events topics. I find they nicely summarize events in a chronological order with all of the benefit of hindsight to go with it. Opinions are generally more nuanced and the writing style assumes that you read all the way through the article. TV news and late night talk shows are just the worst.
- BurningFrog 6y ago"The News" is mostly gossip and things that are interesting because they almost never happen. As a way of learning how the world works, it's pretty awful. If you want to be informed, spend the news time reading books/essays about important/interesting topics, and you'll be way more enlightened in a year. If you go all the way in this, you won't be able to participate in the shared culture of society, so I don't get fanatical with it. I'm human, and some gossip is fun.
- Tepix 6y agoI feel similarly. I started subscribing to the monthly magazine "Le Monde Diplomatique" - they focus on in-depth analyses and not the daily or even weekly events.
- terrymah 6y agoI, too, came for the procedurally generated Doom levels and left disappointed
- gonational 6y agoThere are two kinds of doomer news in 2020. The first is “the virus is going to kill us all”. The second is “the things we’re all doing because of the virus will kill us all”. The former is fear-mongering, but the latter is true.
- mtagius 6y agoTired of doom scrolling? Try out my infinite scroll website that I promise will not fill you with dread. https://endlessdonuts.us/ https://endlessdonuts.us/
- dencodev 6y agoI spend too much time on HN because my first thought in seeing these was to add more randomness and unique features to the point that the probability of getting an exact donut replica on a page load was near 0
- mtagius 6y agoHaha, I love it. I tried that at first, but I had to prevent a bunch of combos from being generated because the colors clashed bad or the icing/sprinkles looked too messy.
- cs702 6y agoThis is a brilliant work of interactive digital art that perfectly captures the zeitgeist. The artist, one Benjamin Grosser, describes it as follows: > "Doomscrolling" refers to the ways in which people find themselves regularly—and in some cases, almost involuntarily—scrolling bad news headlines on their phone, often for hours each night in bed when they had meant to be sleeping. Certainly the realities of the pandemic necessitate a level of vigilance for the purposes of personal safety. But doomscrolling isn’t just a natural reaction to the news of the day—it’s the result of a perfect yet evil marriage between a populace stuck online, social media interfaces designed to game and hold our attention, and the realities of an existential global crisis. Yes, it may be hard to look away from bad news in any format, but it’s nearly impossible to avert our eyes when that news is endlessly presented via designed-to-be-addictive social media interfaces that know just what to show us next in order to keep us “engaged.” As an alternative interface, The Endless Doomscroller acts as a lens on our software-enabled collective descent into despair. By distilling the news and social media sites down to their barest most generalized messages and interface conventions, The Endless Doomscroller shows us the mechanism that’s behind our scroll-induced anxiety: interfaces—and corporations—that always want more. More doom (bad news headlines) compels more engagement (via continued liking/sharing/posting) which produces more personal data, thus making possible ever more profit. By stripping away the specifics wrapped up in each headline and minimizing the mechanics behind most interface patterns, The Endless Doomscroller offers up an opportunity for mindfulness about how we’re spending our time online and about who most benefits from our late night scroll sessions. And, if one scrolls as endlessly as the work makes possible, The Endless Doomscroller might even enable a sort of exposure or substitution therapy, a way to escape or replace what these interfaces want from and do to us. In other words, perhaps the only way out of too much doomscrolling is endless doomscrolling. Source: https://bengrosser.com/projects/endless-doomscroller/ https://bengrosser.com/projects/endless-doomscroller/
- teddyh 6y agoYes, the submitted link should have been this instead.
- runawaybottle 6y agoIn cognitive behavioral therapy this akin to “catastrophizing”.
- CarlosCabrito 6y agoIt feels like Doom Scroller at the time, was created to enhance user experience and it is not pushed to drive further increases in profitability to the point where it is a detriment to society. I am curious to see if society will move towards providing a tick-box setting to give users control over Doom Scrolling. Only time will tell.
- jwally 6y agoYOU DON’T NEED TO WATCH THAT MUCH NEWS You will never have the political power to do something about all the terrifying problems we wave at you. The human brain just isn’t designed to take in a whole world’s worth of disturbing news. Most of us have enough trouble with the more mundane problems of finding inner peace and securing happiness for our loved ones. We know this, but keep winding you up anyway. In fact, the tension between the sheer quantity of horrifying news and your real-world impotence to do much about it is part of our consumer strategy. #We create the illusion that being informed is a kind of action in itself#. So to wash that guilt out—to eliminate the shame and discomfort you feel over doing nothing as the world goes mad—you’ll keep tuning in. The “You don’t actually need to be watching this all day” rule would be true even if news stories were sorted logically and according to social importance. They aren’t: Taibbi, Matt. Hate Inc. (p. 137). OR Books. Kindle Edition.
- brandonmenc 6y agoI expected more instances of the word "grim". Seems like every headline author cannot not use that word lately.
- rubin55 6y agoHa! I found a: “This Is Not the End” Hope in the endless doom!
- softwaredoug 6y agoAnother thing to mitigate doom scrolling - read History What we're experiencing now is part of a broad, generational change. Regardless of your country or the outcome of any one election or news cycle, the far right is emerging as a strong force. It will remain so in most Western countries, maybe for decades. Understand the broader sweeps and landscape. Understand that you're probably like a drop in the ocean. If you see a part of it that's your duty, do your duty. But do, or do not... History shows us broad strokes oscillations of political winds, how often things have seemed absolutely terrible, how things swing back often unexpectedly. How even the most influential have little control over affairs...
- apta 6y ago> the far right is emerging as a strong force. As a response to the far left. Not that I condone either.