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Re: Snakisms

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Post by dgoldstein0 »

eyelidlessness wrote: post #4

For the views which state “swipes control snake”, is it part of the gag that by and large swipes do nothing? Or is that because I was too hasty loading nihilism?

For me the swipe controls only work some of the time. Might be dropping some inputs

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Post by fardo »

lrpe wrote: post #13

Took me way too long to realize that you can't die in stoicist snake.

You can instead enjoy the horror of creating a situation in which despite not losing, there is no valid direction of motion, so your immortal snake is forever trapped in a prison of its own making.

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Post by cbanek »

TFW you read this as snackisms and was confused for like, a full minute.

Then you realize it's snake-isms, and finally get the joke and laugh for a full minute. What a day. Love this.

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Post by idk1 »

Narcissism my favourite, I won't spoil it because it's a delight to find out, that was just fantastic, the whole this was brilliant.

Re: Snakisms

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Post by eurasiantiger »

bgun wrote: post #9
eurasiantiger wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Right. Joke.

If you think iOS opening mailto: links in the Mail app represents some kind of security breach then I have bad news for you.

If an application developer expects people NOT to react defensively to automatically launched external applications, they are deluded.

That link does not open from a user-initiated event, even if it technically does.

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Post by jb1991 »

It was interesting until it auto-opened a mail window somehow without me pressing on anything obviously, and the email had a subject of "I love your work!" to the developer. Man, do I not like that sort of site behavior.

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Post by Cederfjard »

eurasiantiger wrote: post #18
bgun wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If you think iOS opening mailto: links in the Mail app represents some kind of security breach then I have bad news for you.

If an application developer expects people NOT to react defensively to automatically launched external applications, they are deluded. That link does not open from a user-initiated event, even if it technically does.

That's fair, but if you don't think it's meant as a joke, what do you think the intention is?
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