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DVD Bouncing Logo
- nabakin 4y agoIf anyone is interested in more of these kinds of easter eggs, I run a subreddit for them at https://reddit.com/r/eastereggs https://reddit.com/r/eastereggs
- pwarner 4y agoI have the DVD logo as a Zoom video background. Always get chuckles.
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- jamal-kumar 4y agoI love the DVD bouncing logo. I like videos where people get really excited about it hitting one of the corners, prompting cheers. There's a bunch from bus trips but here's a bigger one in a stadium [1] [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ytKVGtJ5yng https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ytKVGtJ5yng
- TakeBlaster16 4y agoMy favorite is still The Office. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QOtuX0jL85Y https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QOtuX0jL85Y
- sbf501 4y agoThat was funny, but then I was disappointed they needed an aside to explain it. Seemed unnecessary IMHO.
- yupper32 4y agoI think it was a good aside. 1. It makes it more evergreen. 2. The excited/super invested explanations are funny. 3. It leads into the joke that Jim doesn't believe that Pam ever saw it hit the corner.
- sbf501 4y agoAh, good point. I didn't know the joke kept running. I've never seen the US version. I'll give it a go.
- jahnu 4y agoIt’s very good. Bar the first season and last … 3? Different take entirely. For those unaware the UK version is so cynical and on occasion even dark (and i love it for that) and in contrast the US version is more light hearted and succeeds completely on those terms. Both are landmarks in tv comedy.
- tptacek 4y agoIt's a very different show. The pilot is note-for-note the UK show, but they quickly realized that Steve Carell can't play Ricky Gervais; he's just not enough of an asshole. So they recalibrated. I think the US version in its heyday is the better of the two shows. Greg Daniels was the showrunner for the first 4 seasons; he's Peak Simpsons, and also King Of The Hill.
- tdeck 4y agoI watched that office episode came out and I didn't realize this was a thing (watching the logo and cheering when it hits the corner) outside of The Office, so it seems like the aside was necessary.
- lostlogin 4y agoIt’s the difference between US and UK comedy.
- pengaru 4y agoThat watches like live-action reenactment of an OG Invader Zim scene.
- dvtrn 4y agoMan Invader Zim, haven’t seen that referenced in a long time, that little cartoon was the perfect kind of weird for its time.
- eyelidlessness 4y agoIf you haven’t already checked out other work by Zim creator Jhonen Vasquez, his comics Johnny the Homicidal Maniac, and Squee, are excellent and full of very similar weird humor.
- dvtrn 4y agoVery familiar, I’ve got hard copies of both plus Filler Bunny! Huge fan.
- nullify88 4y agoFWIW, Netflix released a special episode in 2019 reuniting a lot of the key people back with the show. It brought back some great memories and hasn't lost its touch. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Invader_Zim:_Enter_the_Florpus https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Invader_Zim:_Enter_the_Florp...
- nerdponx 4y agoThat's strangely accurate. I didn't like that "edgy dark" humor for the most part (every Squee and Zim fan I ever knew was a total dickhead), but Zim in particular was kind of a weird and endearing look at humanity.
- paledot 4y agoYou put your finger on something that's bothered me for a while but was never able to articulate. I loved some episodes and some moments were pure gold, but much of the show was nonsensical and revolting. Dipped a toe into his other work and discovered that the latter was much more his style. It's a bit like how I really enjoy Tarantino movies, except for the violence.
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- dec0dedab0de 4y agoIf you're wondering why it's just a link to a search, let it wait a bit. I didn't know about this until they started doing it at Flyers games, and everyone cheered when it hit the corner.
- woeh 4y agoBonus hint: if you are on mobile set the browser to "show desktopsite"
- davidkunz 4y agoHere I am waiting way too long for it to move, thanks for the tip!
- tssva 4y agoWorked fine on mobile for me without showing the desktop site.
- woeh 4y agoInteresting. I tried both Firefox and Chrome on Android, neither worked without the desktop mode enabled. In that case my guess is that the screen size or the resolution of our mobile devices plays a role. I did notice more Google widgets not working on mobile, such as the current "ethereum merge" search, wich is supposed to show a countdown timer (which can not be fixed with the desktop mode btw).
- tssva 4y agoI had success with Kiwi Browser, Chrome, Edge and Firefox for Android on a Pixel 4 running Android 13.
- Karellen 4y agoI just see a "Before you continue to Google" popover. :-(
- judge2020 4y agoSeems like it's hitting the corner quit often - is it on a predetermined path, or perhaps it's manipulating the bounces to achieve this?
- neogodless 4y agoTry resizing your browser window. By default, my 16:9 screen with tabs and address bar leave a nearly 16:8 (2:1) rectangle such that (with the 45° trajectory) the logo bounces to the bottom middle, then to a corner, then repeats that loop, mostly.
- ksherlock 4y agoYou can resize the window to prevent it from hitting a corner if you'd like. Turn it into opposite-of-pong game.
- capableweb 4y agoWhat do you mean? Barely hits any corners for me... https://imgur.com/a/uFB6ck6 https://imgur.com/a/uFB6ck6
- wil421 4y agoNever hit once on a good portion of my ultra wide screen. I watched for longer than I care to admit.
- zwieback 4y agoSometimes the bouncing DVD logo is better than the movie on the DVD. The Amazon firestick screen saver is also my favorite thing on TV.
- yardie 4y agoAmazon Fire Stick with the Aerial Views[0] (Apple TV Screen Saver) app probably the best thing on TV since GoT. [0] https://github.com/theothernt/AerialViews https://github.com/theothernt/AerialViews
- Arrath 4y agoI quite enjoy the background pictures my chromecast serves up. Even the Win10/11 login screen pictures are quite nice, most times. Really, anything is better than the 20 second eternally looping attract reel of a dvd's main menu. Friends once fell asleep to one of the redneck comedy tour dvds and it reverted to the main menu once playback completed. It was the worst until I turned it off.
- joewrong 4y agolove it. I remember seeing this pulled off with 2 scrolling <marquee> HTML tags https://dvdmarquee.neocities.org/ https://dvdmarquee.neocities.org/
- zelag 4y agoThis is how you know Google has far too many people than they actually need.
- matt_heimer 4y agoLetting people occasionally work on something fun can be good for morale.
- Buttons840 4y agoIt's also a sign that your culture is able to deliver a fun feature, just for the sake of it. I've worked several places where things are so fragile nobody would dare make any change that wasn't strictly necessary. That's not a good sign.
- JoshuaRogers 4y agoWhile it can definitely be good for morale, it's worth remembering that all changes bear the possibility of unintended consequences. This amusing anecdote comes to mind: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2fsUAdlzwAs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2fsUAdlzwAs Bearing risk in mind, there's probably a reason that it's acceptable to implement the DVD logo on the front-end client but poor taste to humorously update HTTP headers, for instance. (That said, I tend to stay in the camp of "any path that can be hit, I'll eventually have to support.")
- yupper32 4y agoAll business, all the time! No fun allowed!
- JimiofEden 4y agoOutstandingly catchy (and funny imo) song based on this concept of the bouncing DVD logo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ws0QtAiiXQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ws0QtAiiXQ
- avnigo 4y agoI was fully expecting to be disappointed and turn it off after a few seconds, but I can tell you, I was transfixed.
- jaredsohn 4y agoYouTube's 'most replayed' feature is useful here. Huge spike when it happens.
- theogravity 4y agoOk, that was very surprisingly catchy.
- shmde 4y agoJust a heads up. If you want it to work on your phone you have to check the "Desktop Site" option.
- tssva 4y agoDidn't have to do this on my phone.
- z3c0 4y agoIt appears that nobody has shared the rather long list of Google easter eggs, so here it is: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Google_Easter_eggs https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Google_Easter_eggs Personally, I'm a fan of "recursion", as well as "emacs" or "vi"
- RedShift1 4y agoHow did this work on actual DVD players? Was it programmed to never hit a corner or was that a side effect of how it was implemented?
- hk__2 4y ago> Was it programmed to never hit a corner or was that a side effect of how it was implemented? None of that because it was hitting corners.
- maxbond 4y agoCan confirm it would hit the corner if you waited long enough. I saw it happen twice, and a third time where it was like two or three pixels off from hitting right in the corner. I'm fairly sure (based on observation/recollection) the logo was placed randomly with a random vector, and when it contacted the wall it's vector was reflected across the normal at that point (eg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Reflection_angles.svg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Reflection_angles.sv...). I'm not sure that every configuration would reach the corner, but many would.
- vikingerik 4y agoIt hits the corner, it's just really rare. If there are 500 possible pixel positions when it hits the edge, then it's only going to hit the corner exactly on 0.2% of bounces.
- TecoAndJix 4y agoUseless App Idea #8237: Record a 10 second video of the DVD bouncing logo and get a future alert when its about to hit a corner. It can also notify your friends so they know what they are missing
- bze12 4y agoI seriously considered making a mobile game about this
- acuozzo 4y agohttps://www.screensaversplanet.com/screensavers/zz-dvd-1164/ https://www.screensaversplanet.com/screensavers/zz-dvd-1164/
- troyerrdt 4y agoSwitching to another tab and switching back hits a corner for me every time
- lucideer 4y agoDoesn't work for me. If I leave it a while, I eventually get a notification pop-down saying "This page is slowing down Firefox. To speed up your browser, stop this page." Is it Chrome only? Whatever it is, it sounds like someone's implemented a very simple feature very badly - a bouncing logo is the type of thing people made in basic "DHTML" on the old web, not something that should be slowing down a browser in 2022...
- merlincorey 4y agoWorked on Firefox for me -- maybe you need an update, or maybe you have an extension that is fighting it?
- lucideer 4y agoNo weird extensions and same in safe mode. I suspect it's hw accel issues of some kind. Wouldn't've expected as it's just a PNG (they're dynamically generating a PNG data uri and inserting it into an IMG SRC), but I don't know how they're generating it (hidden canvas?) and the update frequency is high. Doesn't seem very optimised.
- merlincorey 4y agoIt is probably down to ensuring hardware acceleration is turned on as I am certain that I have done that for a different web issue.
- lucideer 4y agoTried it in Chrome. It works but oh my is the frame rate awful.
- SquareWheel 4y agoAll it's doing is setting the logo to absolute and adjusting its position values each step. Outside of CSS redraws, it shouldn't be causing any slowdowns.
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- pryelluw 4y agoShameless self promotion: https://github.com/pryelluw/mac-dvd-screensaver https://github.com/pryelluw/mac-dvd-screensaver A Mac screen saver that does that but with a twist.
- hk1337 4y agoPam claims that she saw it one day when she was alone in the conference room... okay. I believe she thinks she saw it.
- m4tthumphrey 4y agohttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QOtuX0jL85Y https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QOtuX0jL85Y
- nerdponx 4y agoIt's interesting how memes like this propagated without really ever propagating "on the Web" or really any centralized communication channel. See also: blow on the game cartridge if it doesn't work, in case there's dust on it.
- jader201 4y agohttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22886401 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22886401
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- bilekas 4y agoMy nostalgia kicked in and so I opened the link and began searching for videos of it hitting the corner perfectly.. And then it started. I love google for these hidden gems.
- cryptozeus 4y agowish it only changed color when reached at the corner
- user3939382 4y agoWe do our best to spy on every detail of your life we possibly can, but look at how whimsical we are about it! :D Here's another Google search link https://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=pernicious https://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=pernicious
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- derefr 4y agoFor anyone who wants to try digging through Google's mangled mess of JS embeds: I'm curious, does Google embed the logic for these easter eggs in the common JS that comes along with every SERP, or only on the page that has the easter-egg itself?
- esprehn 4y agoSearch lazy loads the easter eggs, there's way too many to load them all on every search request. In general Google product's JS is built around a lot of lazy loading bundles.
- amelius 4y agoIs there a way to disable them? I hate to be distracted, especially at work.
- lynguist 4y agoLazy means you only get them when you search for them.
- seattle_spring 4y agoDo you find yourself searching "dvd bouncing logo" for work quite often?
- dang 4y agoRelated: Bouncing DVD Logo - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22882260 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22882260 - April 2020 (270 comments)
- swozniak 4y agoSelf-promotion: I made an Android live wallpaper of this. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.stephanwozniak.dvdwallpaper https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.stephanwoz...
- pantulis 4y agoIt's addictive because you can try resizing the browser window to try and make the logo hit the corner, it's kind of fun.
- sogen 4y agoIt hit the corner like 3 times in a minute?
- user1391 4y agoAlso, do a barrel roll https://www.google.com/search?q=do+a+barrel+roll https://www.google.com/search?q=do+a+barrel+roll
- pseudosavant 4y agohttps://dvd-player-screensaver.glitch.me/ https://dvd-player-screensaver.glitch.me/ 6 months ago, I decided to build the DVD screensaver using just SVG+CSS. Enjoy.
- rektide 4y agoI just imagine, 'We payed hella bucks to put the logo on the unit & box, damn straight it'll bounce across thr screen.'
- 1-6 4y agoI thought Googlers were supposed to work with greater focus in mind. Someone is playing around.
- preisschild 4y agoFirst thing I did when I got my new tv was to install this as screen saver (for oled tvs this is recommended).
- cdaringe 4y agohttps://dvd.js.org https://dvd.js.org Add a query flag to turn it into a selection game of sorts. I used it to pick standup order :) https://dvd.js.org/?names=han,leia,chewbacca https://dvd.js.org/?names=han,leia,chewbacca