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Engineering Festivus
- michelpp 4y agoHe's played the comical part of slick startup investor "Freak Masterstroke" in the new mst3k series: https://mst3k.fandom.com/wiki/Freak_Masterstroke https://mst3k.fandom.com/wiki/Freak_Masterstroke "Where's my second-screen experience!"
- flobosg 4y agoGetting some jery get ipad vibes from this.
- rideontime 4y agoThat and the 9/11 spec script[0] have ruined all other attempts at updating Seinfeld for me. [0] https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B50l484pDaMobXI2Wk5CX0NMbkU/view?resourcekey=0-SNjGjqQNeO7e9M6sLGt9Mw https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B50l484pDaMobXI2Wk5CX0NMbkU...
- auslegung 4y agoI’m sure the niche is quite small, but if the Seinfeld crew did shorts like this for real, I would pay so much money for the privilege of watching them
- krapp 4y agoI have wondered how feasible it would be to update Seinfeld segments with deepfakes. Have Kramer spin in and go on about NFTs and whatnot. It would obviously be instantly banned everywhere but might be funny. Or have them recite Reddit or HN threads or something.
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- castrodd 4y agoThis feels like a distillation of my entire life up till now.
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- XorNot 4y agoI lost it at the conclusion of the editor argument one.
- 0xbadcafebee 4y agoI mean it's clearly superior. You can see all your files right there on the left!
- rullelito 4y agoAwesome idea, but not sure if these are funny though :/
- rcfox 4y agoHave you ever watched Seinfeld? The subtitles don't do them justice, the delivery is really part of the context for the humour.
- cesarb 4y ago> Have you ever watched Seinfeld? There's a good chance that people from other countries (which is most of the world) haven't. I only knew that show existed because of a TVTropes page (https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/SeinfeldIsUnfunny https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/SeinfeldIsUnfunn...), and that page is the only thing I'd seen about that show until today.
- wmeredith 4y agoThere is little in life more subjective than humor. These are spreading like wildfire on reddit this week, and now they've shown up here. I'd say it's safe to assume these "are funny," at least to someone.
- peteradio 4y agoThat's gold Jerry! Gold!
- tailspin2019 4y agoNot sure if I’m missing something but all I see on that link is the title at the top and then a list of unrelated articles? (I’m on an iPhone) Edit: ok I was missing something; clicking on any of the links. Never mind.
- sokoloff 4y agoI appreciate the loop from the HN Dropbox reference skit: https://festivus.dev/hacker-news-comments/ https://festivus.dev/hacker-news-comments/
- mywittyname 4y agoCostanza would the be the one who gets into tech (by lying to investors), makes it big, then blows everything up (because he has no idea what he's doing). Kramer would offer George some help, in exchange for all of his shares in the company. Kramer proceeded to clean up the mess George left, then offload the entire company to private equity for an undisclosed sum. The episode would close with Kramer sitting at a table, facing the camera, smoking a cigar, shaking hands with a whole crew of men, who aren't facing the camera, but look distinctly like a few famous tech people, Branson, Gates, Cuban, etc
- lqet 4y agoIn some alternative universe, the whole Costanza/Yankees plot is replaced by a Costanza/Apple plot, and George is frequently sitting in front of a manically gesticulating Steve Jobs head with the voice of Larry David. "There is nothing more satisfying after typing than looking down and seeing just a screen!"
- googlryas 4y agoCanonically, George made millions by inventing 'iLoo', so you can find a toilet wherever you may be, and did not defraud investors or poorly manage his company, but in fact was merely a victim himself of Madoff.
- zelag 4y agoKramer would most likely become a billionaire in crypto.
- stew-j 4y agoThey used to call me "Costanza" when I worked in aviation, because I would occasionally take a nap in the comfortable seats in the mockup jets at the Customer Service Center. That was back when I wore suits, and one time a group of unaccompanied buyers woke me up. I recovered enough to half convince them to buy a mid-level jet (I was a software dev), I was arranging a test drive when the real salesman came in and ran me off.
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- DrinkWater 4y ago"What's the deal with React? I don't get it. Am i right people?"
- davesque 4y ago"Why do they call it React? The UI is slow, the experience is slow...they should call it 'Protract!'"
- zeveb 4y agoThese are hilarious. Is it a meta-joke that a series of videos about over-complicated technology are only visible if one allows JavaScript and embedded Twitter posts?
- Bayart 4y agoI can feel the plot of "Automating Simple Things" in my bones.
- castrodd 4y agoWe've all been there. But it still hurts.
- 50yearsold 4y agowhen i play the clips - can't hear sound on any of the clips. do I need to have a twitter account to hear the audio?
- castrodd 4y agoThere is no audio because the original cast of Seinfeld has not come back to record new dialogue about tech. We can only dream.
- 120bits 4y agoThe Hacker News comments was so accurate! I'm having so much fun going through Seinfeld shorts.
- abledon 4y agonow if only someone piped these through TacoTron to get output similar to the standup routine [1] [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1onxri0duN0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1onxri0duN0
- echelon 4y agoI need to clone their voices on FakeYou.com and give this person API access. This is a great concept. It needs audio to sell it.
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- j-bos 4y agoRepurposing Seinfeld reminds me the (in)famous 9/11 spec script: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12223790 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12223790
- tapanjk 4y agoA bit off-topic but since many Seinfeld fans are here... Here's something I discovered here on HN and want to share: https://watchseinfeld.net/ https://watchseinfeld.net/