This is a silly site based on the Rick and Morty clip of Rick turning himself into a pickle [1] (because ??? he could). The amusement comes from Rick revealing he is the pickle, so I turned that into a command line 'surprise'. When you type "flip-pickle" into the mock-terminal, an asciiart image of Rick the pickle is shown.
That's it... lol. A simple and silly project. I considered making it more of a text adventure, but honestly two days of dev time is more than enough for this app!
Plus I now know how to use a mock-terminal in React, so I learned something. :)
If you are interested in the tech, this is a single page app (SPA) built in ReactJS using the terminal-in-react [2] library. Deployed with docker-compose on my Hetzner server, utilizing Cloudflare. It has 4 sizes of asciiart for different screen sizes, so it works decently well on mobile and desktop. And the favicon! lol.
I believe that's the point of the episode - people go far out of their way to elaborately avoid getting help or working on their problems - or to even acknowledge they have problems in the first place. Rick is willing to turn himself into a pickle and fight to the death in the sewers before he talks to his daughter about his mental health.
UX 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
My sole reason for playing Assassin's Creed games is so I can wander around in historical settings and read the flavor text they use to describe the various landmarks and historical events, artworks and people. Honestly, I think Ubisoft should eighty-six the assassin stuff and just make virtual museums.
That is not what I am referring to. The structure of those modes is too rigid: players have to follow a planned route, stop and wait for the guide to finish talking at each station. Too much like a real life tour.
Ah I understand, my assumption is you can disable/ignore the tour and walk around as you wish but I'm yet to have chance to try the mode myself to confirm.
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'.
I was banned a while ago. Way back...I just kept posting and eventually I was unbanned.
To address your post...uhh..well I dunno where to start. If I despised it I wouldn't bother posting here. I was making a light hearted comment about what this place literally is. It's a news website for people who are interested in or are currently applying for funding from YC. That's why hacker news exists. The fact that it attracts people who are uninterested in or unable to apply for funding from YC is ancillary.
Plus, it's nice to remind people here there's a world outside silicon valley. You guys seem lonely and completely disconnected from the world in your silver palaces sometimes.
Sorry, for this low quality, possibly inflammatory comment. I'll keep it at this and not drift any more.
You believe you’re on a “pretentious news aggregator devoted to people trying to suckle on VC money to launch their next 'great idea'.” That isn’t lighthearted, it is a spiteful declaration that you look down on HN and everyone involved with it. Your third paragraph in the comment I’m responding to is similarly dripping with hatred against anyone who takes HN seriously. Everything you’re saying amounts to a confession that your goal is to push against the spirit of the rules on HN as hard as you can without getting banned.
Anyone who wants to submerge themselves in low IQ “lighthearted” pop culture references has the entire rest of the internet for that. As you know and everybody else knows, if we wanted to see content such as what was submitted here, we’d go to the appropriate subreddit such as /r/PopCultureGarbageCodedIn5Minutes. No one needs your help to find reddit, especially not people who are “lonely and completely disconnected from the world” to borrow the insult you used against everyone on this site.
I don’t know why everyone here is pretending to be unaware that this particular pop culture reference is extremely controversial and inflammatory. This specific meme was a powerful cultural breaking point, evenly dividing people between the 50% who love it and the other 50% who want nothing to do with the people who love it. Many of the latter are lurking in the comment section here but are worried about the consequences of speaking their mind where the former seized control early and planted their flag.
This submission should be treated like a honeypot. Everyone who upvoted OP’s submission or posted a positive comment here is actively participating in a subversive attempt to turn HN into something more like reddit. As a consequence of this, they should be permanently shadowbanned from commenting as well as voting. It’s the only way to ensure that people using HN correctly won’t have their activity drowned out by those who don’t.
You seem to have a misunderstanding on the use of Hacker News (henceforth "orange site"). While orange site (or its users) may be characterized as pretentious, it's by no means not a place for low IQ discussion. This can be demonstrated by the use of the upvote system. The goal of orange site is to increase your score and you do so by gaining upvotes. Every user's vote is worth the same so to increase upvotes an optimal strategy is to write a comment (or submission) that most who see it will agree with or like. High IQ content will be definition only appeal to a minority so isn't part of an optimal strategy (unless you can make it look significantly impressive).
Well I choose to believe FriendlyNormie really thinks I'm on a massive campaign to subvert and corrupt hn. It gives my comments far more purpose than just trying to gain a sense of validation when somebody clicks that up arrow and approves of something I say. Makes me feel like a spy rather than just a lonely internet dweller.
I mean, he did turn himself into a pickle. Geez rick, they were right about outlandish requirements in the job market these days. I’m glad I have my 25 years of react experience to fall back on.
> 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.
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.
I don’t buy that interpretation. The joke is super old, like, baby boomer old. They weren’t that dark. They were going around saying things like, “In the year 2000, we’re going to have a base.. on the moon!”
There’s no way the people of that generation would have even considered the darker interpretation of that joke. Hell, I’m gen-x, and depressive, and that interpretation never occurred to me.
Is this comment a joke, or it's the perception that some of my generational peers have : that dark thoughts, melancholy, depression are embodied only by gen x, and only gen x truly know them, to the point that no creative endeavor could reflect those states?
Please tell me it's the first, because I'm afraid of breaking my spine while folding in cringe.
I'm gen X too and I'm fairly sure our parents came to the same conclusion, amongst all the others too.. Also, when we were kids, we were the ones saying we'll have flying cars and moon-bases, while our parents did something we will never do, actual, productive work. :)
This is a silly site based on the Rick and Morty clip of Rick turning himself into a pickle [1] (because ??? he could). The amusement comes from Rick revealing he is the pickle, so I turned that into a command line 'surprise'. When you type "flip-pickle" into the mock-terminal, an asciiart image of Rick the pickle is shown.
That's it... lol. A simple and silly project. I considered making it more of a text adventure, but honestly two days of dev time is more than enough for this app!
Plus I now know how to use a mock-terminal in React, so I learned something. :)
If you are interested in the tech, this is a single page app (SPA) built in ReactJS using the terminal-in-react [2] library. Deployed with docker-compose on my Hetzner server, utilizing Cloudflare. It has 4 sizes of asciiart for different screen sizes, so it works decently well on mobile and desktop. And the favicon! lol.
But back to the serious work.
[1] https://www.adultswim.com/videos/rick-and-morty/its-pickle-r...
[2] https://github.com/nitin42/terminal-in-react