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If anyone, like me, did not know what Flappy Bird is: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flappy_Bird https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flappy_Bird You control the "bird

If anyone, like me, did not know what Flappy Bird is: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flappy_Bird https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flappy_Bird You control the "bird" (the dot). Click to ascend and fly through the approaching openings.

Kiro 6y ago
I mean, https://xkcd.com/1053/ https://xkcd.com/1053/ and all but I wonder how it's possible to have missed Flappy Bird. It was the corona virus of its time.
- Mayzie 6y ago
  I mean, Flappy Bird was popular in late 2013/early 2014, nearly 7 years ago. If you’re a HN reader and currently aged 16 or 17 years old, you would’ve only been 9 or 10 years old at the height of its popularity. Somewhat reasonable to not know about it at that age, so it is entirely possible that some people on HN might not know about it at all.
  - iDemonix 6y ago
    Thanks, I needed to feel this old on a Monday morning.
  - willis936 6y ago
    If you add another 10 years you’ll hit people who knew the previous iteration as “helicopter”.
    - secondcoming 6y ago
      There is a terrible ad infested version of that game here: https://www.addictinggames.com/clicker/helicopter-game https://www.addictinggames.com/clicker/helicopter-game
      - willis936 6y ago
        If you’re willing to put in effort and storage, flashpoint is a good way to play flash games of yore. It’s a pretty large archive, but there are still one or two games from my childhood I haven’t been able to find (or name, what a distraction that feeling is). https://bluemaxima.org/flashpoint/ https://bluemaxima.org/flashpoint/
  - rasmusei 6y ago
    Ha, well, thank you for giving me the benefit of the doubt. But I am 32 and hopeless when it comes to following popular culture. I was probably just focusing my attention on something else. I have a solid track record of not noticing stuff. So the nuance added to xkcd 1053 by this story is that the average value of ten thousand per day is just an average :) (And another nuance is that I am not in the US and so also not part of the ten thousand per day average.)
- jquery 6y ago
  > It was the corona virus of its time. I wouldn’t go this far.

Kiro 6y ago

I mean, https://xkcd.com/1053/ https://xkcd.com/1053/ and all but I wonder how it's possible to have missed Flappy Bird. It was the corona virus of its time.

Mayzie 6y ago
I mean, Flappy Bird was popular in late 2013/early 2014, nearly 7 years ago. If you’re a HN reader and currently aged 16 or 17 years old, you would’ve only been 9 or 10 years old at the height of its popularity. Somewhat reasonable to not know about it at that age, so it is entirely possible that some people on HN might not know about it at all.
- iDemonix 6y ago
  Thanks, I needed to feel this old on a Monday morning.
- willis936 6y ago
  If you add another 10 years you’ll hit people who knew the previous iteration as “helicopter”.
  - secondcoming 6y ago
    There is a terrible ad infested version of that game here: https://www.addictinggames.com/clicker/helicopter-game https://www.addictinggames.com/clicker/helicopter-game
    - willis936 6y ago
      If you’re willing to put in effort and storage, flashpoint is a good way to play flash games of yore. It’s a pretty large archive, but there are still one or two games from my childhood I haven’t been able to find (or name, what a distraction that feeling is). https://bluemaxima.org/flashpoint/ https://bluemaxima.org/flashpoint/
- rasmusei 6y ago
  Ha, well, thank you for giving me the benefit of the doubt. But I am 32 and hopeless when it comes to following popular culture. I was probably just focusing my attention on something else. I have a solid track record of not noticing stuff. So the nuance added to xkcd 1053 by this story is that the average value of ten thousand per day is just an average :) (And another nuance is that I am not in the US and so also not part of the ten thousand per day average.)
jquery 6y ago
> It was the corona virus of its time. I wouldn’t go this far.