This is brilliant.
It is as if you were doing work
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Re: It is as if you were doing work
#192Earlier quoted context omitted.
Man, I feel a bit silly now. Related: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14656945
Ha, reading that thread and this game reminds me of a temp job I once had. It was at a sandpaper factory that made sandpaper belts. My job was to pull a sheet from a roll until it hit a mark. Another guy pressed a button. Lift sheet onto pile. Pull sheet until it hits mark. Another guy pressed a button. Lift sheet onto pile. Pull sheet until it hits mark. Another guy pressed a button. Lift sheet onto pile. Pull sheet…
Indeed.
I worked at a factory that had me do the following:
Put bracket in machine. Press button to tap holes. Repeat.
I got the loop down to about 3.85 seconds which was 115% faster than the engineers said I could do.
I found I could listen to audiobooks at that job. It still didn't stop the existential dread. I worked there for 2 months before finding a better place.
Re: It is as if you were doing work
#193Earlier quoted context omitted.
Ha, no. It should have been "Site visit-cum-lunch", i.e. a visit that is also a lunch, but someone didn't quite enter it correctly...
Now that "w/" is well understood there is no reason to ever use "cum", except maybe in phrases that are entirely Latin.
'cum louder' was once spotted on a CV under the education section. Damn that spell checker... I hope.
Re: It is as if you were doing work
#194This just makes me sad that windows stealing focus, grabbing a randomly typed space bar, and submitting themselves before you can even read them is still a thing.
Literally happened to me the other day:
I was typing something in Slack and sudd-
> A new version of Ubuntu is available. Would you like to upgrade? [Don't Upgrade] [Ask me Later] [Yes, Upgrade Now]
-enly I found out that "spacebar" acts as a click of the selected default button and the rest of my sentence ended up in the password field.
I dismissed the slightly confused password prompt and didn't see the message again for the remainder of the day.
Yes, Canonical, while I'm typing something in Slack is exactly the moment I want to tell you whether I want to update my operating system.
Re: It is as if you were doing work
#195Earlier quoted context omitted.
> It's also a reflection on modern gaming in general. If only some games had busywork as part of their gameplay, they'd feel less tiring and more fun. Like grinding in an MMORPG? I'm not so sure.
That's why I never really got into MMORPGs, the gameplay feels like a task that should be automated.
Once people start developing bots for a game it has pretty much reached this point. While usually not kosher, in some games I think developing a bot for them would be more interesting than the game itself
Re: It is as if you were doing work
#196Earlier quoted context omitted.
> This must be what most people working on a desk must feel like Out of curiosity - as opposed to?
Being a facilitator for human interactions or doing creative stuff.
You can't do creative things at a desk? Where else would you do them? What if you want to sit?
Re: It is as if you were doing work
#197Earlier quoted context omitted.
> It's also a reflection on modern gaming in general. If only some games had busywork as part of their gameplay, they'd feel less tiring and more fun. Like grinding in an MMORPG? I'm not so sure.
That's why I never really got into MMORPGs, the gameplay feels like a task that should be automated.
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Re: It is as if you were doing work
#198This just makes me sad that windows stealing focus, grabbing a randomly typed space bar, and submitting themselves before you can even read them is still a thing.
Literally happened to me the other day: I was typing something in Slack and sudd- > A new version of Ubuntu is available. Would you like to upgrade? [Don't Upgrade] [Ask me Later] [ Yes, Upgrade Now ] -enly I found out that "spacebar" acts as a click of the selected default button and the rest of my sentence ended up in the password field. I dismissed the slightly confused password prompt and didn't see the message a…
I hate this kind of thing so much!
We already have a mechanism for detecting if the user is busy or not, which activates the screen saver and power management.
If you really need to get my attention, a little flashing icon in the corner (while not preferred) is still much better than stealing my focus.
Re: It is as if you were doing work
#199Clearly it needs the following 3 things: 1. It needs a fake calendar that is randomly populated with meetings. 2. It needs to randomly require that you open Google Hangouts and chat with other users. 3. It needs to send random Slack notifications.
Maybe I quit before I got to this, but I would add: 4. Time-sensitive pop-ups: things that force you to act NOW instead of ignoring them.
Yep, you did quit too early. That's a thing in the game.
Re: It is as if you were doing work
#200This just makes me sad that windows stealing focus, grabbing a randomly typed space bar, and submitting themselves before you can even read them is still a thing.
Literally happened to me the other day: I was typing something in Slack and sudd- > A new version of Ubuntu is available. Would you like to upgrade? [Don't Upgrade] [Ask me Later] [ Yes, Upgrade Now ] -enly I found out that "spacebar" acts as a click of the selected default button and the rest of my sentence ended up in the password field. I dismissed the slightly confused password prompt and didn't see the message a…
Well, my cat did install Windows 10 on my laptop. I guess he can upgrade Ubuntu too :)