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Reminds me of the PhD Comics "Emergency button" (http://phdcomics.com/ http://phdcomics.com/, bottom right) redirecting to a fake journal article and a similar
by stared 5y ago
Reminds me of the PhD Comics "Emergency button" (http://phdcomics.com/ http://phdcomics.com/, bottom right) redirecting to a fake journal article and a similar tool for Tinder redirecting to a spreadsheet.
In the case of PhD Comics is clearly an inside joke (I guess). For other tools I find it a clearly desired yet not the most honest feature.
- Amorymeltzer 5y agoThere was a computer game I played a bit at a kid that had a "boss coming" mode. It'd cover the screen with fake progress bars and messages like "updating spreadsheets" and "compiling estimates" or something. Clearly meant as a jokey easter egg, but fun.
- partomniscient 5y agoThe original Leisure Suit Larry in the Land of the Lounge Lizards (1987) had a 'boss coming' key. It showed a spreadsheet bar graph thing, that looked like 'work' although if you looked at the labels it had columns for different condom types like "plain", "ribbed" and a couple of others.
- Amorymeltzer 5y agoInspired me to look up the game I was thinking about. It was Enigma, a MasterMind clone: https://www.macintoshrepository.org/20064-enigma-freeverse- https://www.macintoshrepository.org/20064-enigma-freeverse-