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Re: Floor796

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The entire page was amazing, but holy shit that art in the middle that shows how the current system works where kids are sent to school to study and then they graduate, get crushed into becoming mere tools instead of the human beings we are meant to be.

I think it is “Pink Floyd - Another Brick in the Wall” reference. edit: Ha! Actually one can double-click on objects and get more info about their origin.

Single-clicking is sufficient :)

Also there are a lot of special clickable actions (mentioned in the FAQ > About section, or just keep clicking until you find something, there are 20+ special actions).

Re: Floor796

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This has been making the rounds for the years and I think what captivates me the most is the art style. There is something about it I cannot put my finger on. Just like the art style of Moebius or the 90's game Flashback.

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Re: Floor796

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There is now a neon add for some weird place called 'Hacker News'; right between the ones for Dunder Mifflin and Weyland Yutani Corp, over by the Catbus, behind that new huge pirate ship, but if you hit the Black Mesa ad you've gone too far.

For the lazy: https://floor796.com/#t1l5,168,967

Re: Floor796

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Thats curious, there are multiple Russian and even Soviet-era characters which I don't think western people know about.

Definitely too many to be random. I think they are all mostly soviet era things, no? So the author is likely an émigré from the USSR.

Why émigré? He is probably Russian.

Re: Floor796

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I wish I could show my kid this incredible mega gif. But it's NSFW ;D

Mega gif indeed. Two relevant excerpts found in the about page (it's a gif but not a gif):

> Why 796?

> The name of the project has a small code: 7, 9 and 6 are the ordinal numbers of the letters in the English alphabet for the word GIF. This project is essentially one big gif, a mega gif, so all the action takes place on the 796th (GIF) floor of the space station :)

> How does animation rendering work?

In order to maintain pixel clarity and still have good compression, it was necessary to create own video format. The entire animation is divided into sections, and each section is packed into this special format. The browser then loads the desired section and renders it in a separate thread into the common canvas.

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