You're leaving a lot of extra gold stars on the table by not including some Solenya lore...
Show HN: I Am Pickle Rick
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#32UX improvement: make it case insensitive. I'm on mobile and it took me a sec to realize that it didn't work because my keyboard automatically capitalizes the first letter in an input box
Also, consider allowing "flip" as a valid action.
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#33This might be the post that causes me to never come back to HN.
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#34This might be the post that causes me to never come back to HN.
Ya know, sometimes it's nice to just relax and be silly once in a while. Even on a pretentious news aggregator devoted to people trying to suckle on VC money to launch their next 'great idea'.
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#35To be fair, you have to have a very high IQ to understand Rick and Morty. The humour is extremely subtle, and without a solid grasp of theoretical physics most of the jokes will go over a typical viewer's head. There's also Rick's nihilistic outlook, which is deftly woven into his characterisation- his personal philosophy draws heavily from Narodnaya Volya literature, for instance. The fans understand this stuff; they have the intellectual capacity to truly appreciate the depths of these jokes, to realise that they're not just funny- they say something deep about LIFE. As a consequence people who dislike Rick & Morty truly ARE idiots- of course they wouldn't appreciate, for instance, the humour in Rick's existential catchphrase "Wubba Lubba Dub Dub," which itself is a cryptic reference to Turgenev's Russian epic Fathers and Sons. I'm smirking right now just imagining one of those addlepated simpletons scratching their heads in confusion as Dan Harmon's genius wit unfolds itself on their television screens. What fools.. how I pity them.
And yes, by the way, i DO have a Rick & Morty tattoo. And no, you cannot see it. It's for the ladies' eyes only- and even then they have to demonstrate that they're within 5 IQ points of my own (preferably lower) beforehand. Nothin personnel kid
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#36This might be the post that causes me to never come back to HN.
Noo! We're just having a few lighthearted laughs :)
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#37This might be the post that causes me to never come back to HN.
Ya know, sometimes it's nice to just relax and be silly once in a while. Even on a pretentious news aggregator devoted to people trying to suckle on VC money to launch their next 'great idea'.
You just openly admitted you’re only here to subvert HN because you despise everything about it. Explain why you shouldn’t be banned at this point.
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#38Cute but definitely keep going - I expected to make it through a bunch of the dialogue and thought it’d just crapped out. Super cute though.
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#39To be fair, you have to have a very high IQ to understand Rick and Morty. The humour is extremely subtle, and without a solid grasp of theoretical physics most of the jokes will go over a typical viewer's head. There's also Rick's nihilistic outlook, which is deftly woven into his characterisation- his personal philosophy draws heavily from Narodnaya Volya literature, for instance. The fans understand this stuff; the…
Can we please not turn HN into Reddit?
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#40> Rick turning himself into a pickle [1] (because ??? he could) I feel like most people miss the thrust of that episode. Pickle Rick is an allegory about Rick’s drinking problem taken to an absurd literalist extreme.
He's literally pickled himself. This was obvious to me but I love these kinds of things that are hiding in plain sight. It took me 30 years to understand the "chicken cross the road" joke. I adore the "ohhhhh" feeling you get when discovering them.
> It took me 30 years to understand the "chicken cross the road" joke
wait is there a deeper meaning to this joke? now I'm questioning everything.