28 votes

It is as if you were on your phone

9 comments

  1. [4]
    Falcon79
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    I have ambivalent feelings about this. It was annoyingly stimulating for a bit to long for my taste. On one level it was really stupid, but on another I really wanted to see how it would progress.

    I have ambivalent feelings about this. It was annoyingly stimulating for a bit to long for my taste. On one level it was really stupid, but on another I really wanted to see how it would progress.

    12 votes
    1. [3]
      Jubilee
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      Sounds like you would enjoy itisasifyouweremakinglove! https://pippinbarr.com/itisasifyouweremakinglove/info/ There more! https://pippinbarr.com/games/

      Sounds like you would enjoy itisasifyouweremakinglove!

      https://pippinbarr.com/itisasifyouweremakinglove/info/

      There more!

      https://pippinbarr.com/games/

      9 votes
      1. SaltSong
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        That website is nearly unreadable.

        That website is nearly unreadable.

        1 vote
      2. DefinitelyNotAFae
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        If this is what I have to do to survive the AI revolution...

        itisasifyouweremakinglove

        If this is what I have to do to survive the AI revolution...

  2. [2]
    slade
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    The "swipe right" button at the top of the article didn't work for me on the Android / DuckDuckGo browser.

    The "swipe right" button at the top of the article didn't work for me on the Android / DuckDuckGo browser.

    3 votes
    1. Grayscail
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      You want to click the "Play Online" text below that

      You want to click the "Play Online" text below that

      6 votes
  3. Hollow
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    I played for a few minutes but stopped when I realised I was blindly obeying a text box telling me to stretch my neck and keep looking at the screen, and I was afraid it would start instructing me...

    I played for a few minutes but stopped when I realised I was blindly obeying a text box telling me to stretch my neck and keep looking at the screen, and I was afraid it would start instructing me to do weird stuff to test my awareness.

    3 votes
  4. [2]
    HeroesJourneyMadness
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    This is paradoxically annoying. To me it’s another barometer for my internals. You know how every now and then there is someone who just aggravates you? They just chafe. Rub you the wrong way. I...

    This is paradoxically annoying. To me it’s another barometer for my internals.

    You know how every now and then there is someone who just aggravates you? They just chafe. Rub you the wrong way.

    I was told (annoyingly) once that those people are good barometers to use to assess how I’m doing. That instead of them being the issue, maybe I could take a look at my reaction and use it constructively.

    That’s annoying, and so it this game.

    What’s even worse it that it’s probably proportional- the amount that it annoys me is probably just how much I need to address my phone habits.

    Eff Pippen and his evil genius little satirical game. I didn’t need to have that pointed out.

    (I kid! Pippen deserves all the credit for that insidious social experiment/game/commentary.)

    2 votes
    1. clem
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      Its annoyance to me was the opposite: it emphasized for me just how much I hate playing on my phone. I was fine with swiping right at first, but then it had me tap a bunch of dots. I tapped three...

      Its annoyance to me was the opposite: it emphasized for me just how much I hate playing on my phone. I was fine with swiping right at first, but then it had me tap a bunch of dots. I tapped three or four, then a bunch more showed up, and that was all I could stand. I think that was less than 10 seconds total.

      Not that I don't like playing on the internet! Don't think this is me saying I don't waste time like that. I'm just lucky that the phone form factor is obnoxious to me, so I'm not as inclined to pull the thing out of my pocket for that purpose.