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Replace the “among us” reference with “here”

60 points by Fabricio20 6y ago

reidjs 6y ago
For people who don't get this joke: There's a party game called 'Among Us' that's sort of like a real-time version of Mafia set on a space ship. Most of the players are trying to determine who's the 'killer' while completing tasks, and the killer is trying to kill all the other players. So when he says 'red sus' he means, the red colored player is suspected to be the killer. Apparently the words 'among us' show up somewhere in the Rust source code, so the person made a silly pull request to change it to "here" instead.
- Funes- 6y ago
  God I'm out of the loop...
  - trav4225 6y ago
    That's probably a good thing. ;-) I've found, even when I research the meaning/origin of popular memes, that I still do not understand them. AMOGUS is one of these. Incidentally, TikTok is also really disturbing to me because practically -nothing- on it makes any sense to me... almost as if it were from another planet. It's disturbing because it makes me realize how little I understand about people in the very society in which I live. Get off my lawn?
    - HDMI_Cable 6y ago
      I think "AMOGUS" is a meta reference to the overuse of Among Us memes, where people would constantly ask if everything was a reference to the game, eventually devolving to "AMOGUS". Edit: Tiktok is similar; its some sort of Darwinian laboratory of memes where innocuous memes are selected for and duet-ed until they become freakish monstrosities of in-jokes and meta humour.
      - trav4225 6y ago
        Hah, that's actually a very insightful description of TikTok (to me at least). Thanks!
  - pityJuke 6y ago
    Arguably Among Us is the game of last summer, or hell, even the game of this lockdown.
    - mynameisvlad 6y ago
      Uh, Animal Crossing would like to have a word about that latter title.
      - ASalazarMX 6y ago
        Pokémon Go enters the chat. Seriously, we picked the worse games to pass time during lockdown. Edit: I mean it, lockdown was weird and it looked like it would last only a few months, so many of us picked casual games to fill the time we would spend running errands. It took me three months to switch to more interesting passtimes.
      - astrange 6y ago
        Among Us has been holding on longer than Animal Crossing at this point. In some ways it has fewer annoying design problems - Animal Crossing feels like it's forcing you to slow down and relax, but they did this by making all the loading times and menus at least twice as slow as they should be. Inventory management, selling bugs, visiting islands, etc, it just takes too long.
      - smoldesu 6y ago
        Vlad, you're looking a little sus at the moment.
    - cabaalis 6y ago
      Roblox piggy has that title.
  - klyrs 6y ago
    My kid refers to a character in the game as a "mungus" -- I've never heard him pluralize it. But god, we couldn't figure out what the hell he was talking about until he drew the thing.
    - Shared404 6y ago
      > refers to a character in the game as a "mungus" > a "mungus" Your kid is quite clever.
      - klyrs 6y ago
        Oh, I don't know... he also pronounces "bald" as "bob" and considers bob to be the third gender. We're working on that. Similarly, I've heard of kids "versing" eachother. Root cause: in Pokemon, the announcer says "A versus B" -- naturally, the kids interpret "verse" as a verb, which clearly means "to fight", and conjugate it normally.
        Shared404 6y ago
        I'm guessing he's in between 11 - 17? (Rhetorical, definitely would not expect an answer to that.) I wouldn't worry too much. He'll get there when he gets there, in the meantime, just let him enjoy the in-jokes [0]. You'll miss it when it's gone. (source: Spent a while hanging/working with a group 11-18 year old males, as both a member and a leader [1]) [0] The group I hung out with/worked with would refer to "potato" as a species. The "mungus" and "versing" both strike me as plays on words, much in the spirit of programmer humor. [1] In a semi-official capacity. Not as in "natural leader".
        klyrs 6y ago
        lol, no, he's 5 (yes, this is perfectly normal for his age -- he hasn't learned to spell). And yeah, I'll miss this phase in a few years.
        Shared404 6y ago
- Narretz 6y ago
  The phrase "is this an Among Us reference?" has also become a meme, and has been further deconstructed into AMOGUS? as a reaction to overuse.
- mdoms 6y ago
  I really still don't get it.
  - smoldesu 6y ago
    If it's any consolation, I think you'd get the same response from a group of 3rd graders if you showed them "All your base are belong to us."
  - teraflop 6y ago
    To be clear: there is no joke in the code. The joke is the issue itself. Specifically, the idea is that the character designs in Among Us are so minimalistic that just about anything [1] can look like them, due to pareidolia. So there's a running gag of people posting objects whose resemblance to the characters is increasingly strained, until you're seeing little spacemen literally everywhere you look. When you take this to its extreme, the joke is that even just seeing the words "among us" in source code is enough to drive someone to a nervous breakdown. [1]: https://imgflip.com/memetemplate/284994674/AMONG-US-TRASH-CAN https://imgflip.com/memetemplate/284994674/AMONG-US-TRASH-CA...
    - mdoms 6y ago
      Oh ok. Not very funny but cool cool.
nynx 6y ago
Poor guy
notapenny 6y ago
I suppose I'm becoming old and grumpy but I'm with the one guy who "requested changes". Go outside. What a waste of people's time just because you can't read two words without thinking about a video game.
- notJim 6y ago
  Eh, they did the work to change it, the diff is pretty inconsequential and it seems like enough people empathize/sympathize.
- smoldesu 6y ago
  This is a form of "programmer humor", something you're probably familiar with if you're a grumpy old programmer. I think it's a good sign that a new generation of devs also have a decent sense of humor, but I guess it's all subjective.
- corndoge 6y ago
  It is a joke
  - kwdc 6y ago
    Careful! The bots don't understand humor. Might need a captcha in front.
- ASalazarMX 6y ago
  This game became a feature of this lockdown, it's understandable if you don't appreciate the humor, which isn't good to start with. I would have left it there, though, as a token of these times. Edit: checked the history, the text was there 4 years ago, while Among Us is from 2018, so this wasn't a reference, just a coincidence.
- tester756 6y ago
  Well, when not that long time ago somebody decided for us that we have to/should use main instead of master, then this argument wasn't accepted >What a waste of people's time just because you can't read two words without thinking about a :).
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smoldesu 6y ago
I honestly think this is a good thing. If new developers are willing to have a sense of humor while also not detrimentally breaking the experience for others, I fail to see the harm there. It's certainly less harmful than naming your photo editor "Gimp", as good of a name and well-intentioned as it may be.
- steveklabnik 6y ago
  1. We do put humorous things in the docs. 2. This wasn’t that; it’s a coincidence. This text is older than the game.
- omoikane 6y ago
  There will always exist someone who feel offended or harmed by the most innocent words, it's hard to know where to draw the line. It's like those "insensitive clod" comments on slashdot that used be understood as jokes, but these days we can't be sure. Coincidentally, wikipedia no longer has a reference to insensitive clod. https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Slashdot&type=revision&diff=745369660&oldid=745010857 https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Slashdot&type=rev...
  - smoldesu 6y ago
    Absolutely, and I think there's not much of a justification to hate a program like Gimp. But people do anyways, and it's a shame that they are missing out on some great open source software. Likewise, I think that harmless pull requests like this one are a better outlet for programmer humor then your end product.
the_mitsuhiko 6y ago
Rust has time travel. That landed two years before among us was released.
- ASalazarMX 6y ago
  The oldest commit is from October 17, the game released on June 2018. Definitely not a reference. https://github.com/aaabot/rust-by-example/commit/c621fd05c0e69a15d0e98ccba69e72db19bdf531 https://github.com/aaabot/rust-by-example/commit/c621fd05c0e...
  - smoldesu 6y ago
    "Rust uses the power of inverse async and GPU-accelerated turboencabulation to travel back in time and litter development resources with culturally appropriate references from the future."
maxrev17 6y ago
Not sure which is more amusing, the PR or the comments on HN.
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hirundo 6y ago
I'm a bit prone to the out of place joke when people are being serious. But not in code. There is no humour in my code. Not even the odd pun. When something accidentally funny or ambiguous emerges I scrub it out. It feels like a sacred duty to make it as clear and concise as I can, and humour always detracts from that. Same goes for issues, etc. It just lowers the signal to noise ratio, when figuring this stuff out is tough enough anyway.
- dw-im-here 6y ago
  I too prefer the code itself to be the joke rather than relying on comedic devices
weakfish 6y ago
I think the number of people who think this PR is serious / not satire is even funnier. Maybe I'm just too young? (20)

60 points by Fabricio20 6y ago

For people who don't get this joke: There's a party game called 'Among Us' that's sort of like a real-time version of Mafia set on a space ship. Most of the players are trying to determine who's the 'killer' while completing tasks, and the killer is trying to kill all the other players. So when he says 'red sus' he means, the red colored player is suspected to be the killer. Apparently the words 'among us' show up somewhere in the Rust source code, so the person made a silly pull request to change it to "here" instead.

Funes- 6y ago
God I'm out of the loop...
- trav4225 6y ago
  That's probably a good thing. ;-) I've found, even when I research the meaning/origin of popular memes, that I still do not understand them. AMOGUS is one of these. Incidentally, TikTok is also really disturbing to me because practically -nothing- on it makes any sense to me... almost as if it were from another planet. It's disturbing because it makes me realize how little I understand about people in the very society in which I live. Get off my lawn?
  - HDMI_Cable 6y ago
    I think "AMOGUS" is a meta reference to the overuse of Among Us memes, where people would constantly ask if everything was a reference to the game, eventually devolving to "AMOGUS". Edit: Tiktok is similar; its some sort of Darwinian laboratory of memes where innocuous memes are selected for and duet-ed until they become freakish monstrosities of in-jokes and meta humour.
    - trav4225 6y ago
      Hah, that's actually a very insightful description of TikTok (to me at least). Thanks!
- pityJuke 6y ago
  Arguably Among Us is the game of last summer, or hell, even the game of this lockdown.
  - mynameisvlad 6y ago
    Uh, Animal Crossing would like to have a word about that latter title.
    - ASalazarMX 6y ago
      Pokémon Go enters the chat. Seriously, we picked the worse games to pass time during lockdown. Edit: I mean it, lockdown was weird and it looked like it would last only a few months, so many of us picked casual games to fill the time we would spend running errands. It took me three months to switch to more interesting passtimes.
    - astrange 6y ago
      Among Us has been holding on longer than Animal Crossing at this point. In some ways it has fewer annoying design problems - Animal Crossing feels like it's forcing you to slow down and relax, but they did this by making all the loading times and menus at least twice as slow as they should be. Inventory management, selling bugs, visiting islands, etc, it just takes too long.
    - smoldesu 6y ago
      Vlad, you're looking a little sus at the moment.
  - cabaalis 6y ago
    Roblox piggy has that title.
- klyrs 6y ago
  My kid refers to a character in the game as a "mungus" -- I've never heard him pluralize it. But god, we couldn't figure out what the hell he was talking about until he drew the thing.
  - Shared404 6y ago
    > refers to a character in the game as a "mungus" > a "mungus" Your kid is quite clever.
    - klyrs 6y ago
      Oh, I don't know... he also pronounces "bald" as "bob" and considers bob to be the third gender. We're working on that. Similarly, I've heard of kids "versing" eachother. Root cause: in Pokemon, the announcer says "A versus B" -- naturally, the kids interpret "verse" as a verb, which clearly means "to fight", and conjugate it normally.
      - Shared404 6y ago
        I'm guessing he's in between 11 - 17? (Rhetorical, definitely would not expect an answer to that.) I wouldn't worry too much. He'll get there when he gets there, in the meantime, just let him enjoy the in-jokes [0]. You'll miss it when it's gone. (source: Spent a while hanging/working with a group 11-18 year old males, as both a member and a leader [1]) [0] The group I hung out with/worked with would refer to "potato" as a species. The "mungus" and "versing" both strike me as plays on words, much in the spirit of programmer humor. [1] In a semi-official capacity. Not as in "natural leader".
        klyrs 6y ago
        lol, no, he's 5 (yes, this is perfectly normal for his age -- he hasn't learned to spell). And yeah, I'll miss this phase in a few years.
        Shared404 6y ago
Narretz 6y ago
The phrase "is this an Among Us reference?" has also become a meme, and has been further deconstructed into AMOGUS? as a reaction to overuse.
mdoms 6y ago
I really still don't get it.
- smoldesu 6y ago
  If it's any consolation, I think you'd get the same response from a group of 3rd graders if you showed them "All your base are belong to us."
- teraflop 6y ago
  To be clear: there is no joke in the code. The joke is the issue itself. Specifically, the idea is that the character designs in Among Us are so minimalistic that just about anything [1] can look like them, due to pareidolia. So there's a running gag of people posting objects whose resemblance to the characters is increasingly strained, until you're seeing little spacemen literally everywhere you look. When you take this to its extreme, the joke is that even just seeing the words "among us" in source code is enough to drive someone to a nervous breakdown. [1]: https://imgflip.com/memetemplate/284994674/AMONG-US-TRASH-CAN https://imgflip.com/memetemplate/284994674/AMONG-US-TRASH-CA...
  - mdoms 6y ago
    Oh ok. Not very funny but cool cool.

nynx 6y ago

Poor guy

notapenny 6y ago

I suppose I'm becoming old and grumpy but I'm with the one guy who "requested changes". Go outside. What a waste of people's time just because you can't read two words without thinking about a video game.

notJim 6y ago
Eh, they did the work to change it, the diff is pretty inconsequential and it seems like enough people empathize/sympathize.
smoldesu 6y ago
This is a form of "programmer humor", something you're probably familiar with if you're a grumpy old programmer. I think it's a good sign that a new generation of devs also have a decent sense of humor, but I guess it's all subjective.
corndoge 6y ago
It is a joke
- kwdc 6y ago
  Careful! The bots don't understand humor. Might need a captcha in front.
ASalazarMX 6y ago
This game became a feature of this lockdown, it's understandable if you don't appreciate the humor, which isn't good to start with. I would have left it there, though, as a token of these times. Edit: checked the history, the text was there 4 years ago, while Among Us is from 2018, so this wasn't a reference, just a coincidence.
tester756 6y ago
Well, when not that long time ago somebody decided for us that we have to/should use main instead of master, then this argument wasn't accepted >What a waste of people's time just because you can't read two words without thinking about a :).

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smoldesu 6y ago

I honestly think this is a good thing. If new developers are willing to have a sense of humor while also not detrimentally breaking the experience for others, I fail to see the harm there. It's certainly less harmful than naming your photo editor "Gimp", as good of a name and well-intentioned as it may be.

steveklabnik 6y ago
1. We do put humorous things in the docs. 2. This wasn’t that; it’s a coincidence. This text is older than the game.
omoikane 6y ago
There will always exist someone who feel offended or harmed by the most innocent words, it's hard to know where to draw the line. It's like those "insensitive clod" comments on slashdot that used be understood as jokes, but these days we can't be sure. Coincidentally, wikipedia no longer has a reference to insensitive clod. https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Slashdot&type=revision&diff=745369660&oldid=745010857 https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Slashdot&type=rev...
- smoldesu 6y ago
  Absolutely, and I think there's not much of a justification to hate a program like Gimp. But people do anyways, and it's a shame that they are missing out on some great open source software. Likewise, I think that harmless pull requests like this one are a better outlet for programmer humor then your end product.

the_mitsuhiko 6y ago

Rust has time travel. That landed two years before among us was released.

ASalazarMX 6y ago
The oldest commit is from October 17, the game released on June 2018. Definitely not a reference. https://github.com/aaabot/rust-by-example/commit/c621fd05c0e69a15d0e98ccba69e72db19bdf531 https://github.com/aaabot/rust-by-example/commit/c621fd05c0e...
- smoldesu 6y ago
  "Rust uses the power of inverse async and GPU-accelerated turboencabulation to travel back in time and litter development resources with culturally appropriate references from the future."

maxrev17 6y ago

Not sure which is more amusing, the PR or the comments on HN.

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hirundo 6y ago

I'm a bit prone to the out of place joke when people are being serious. But not in code. There is no humour in my code. Not even the odd pun. When something accidentally funny or ambiguous emerges I scrub it out. It feels like a sacred duty to make it as clear and concise as I can, and humour always detracts from that. Same goes for issues, etc. It just lowers the signal to noise ratio, when figuring this stuff out is tough enough anyway.

dw-im-here 6y ago
I too prefer the code itself to be the joke rather than relying on comedic devices

weakfish 6y ago

I think the number of people who think this PR is serious / not satire is even funnier. Maybe I'm just too young? (20)