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July 04, 2017

it is as if you were doing work [browser]

The robots are here and there is no more work to do. You feel apathetic and unproductive. Fortunately Pippin Barr is here with his latest highly philosophical creation: It is as if you were doing work.

18 comments:

  1. Anonymous4 July 2017 at 18:29

    This is genius

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  2. Xexus4 July 2017 at 19:33

    Original and Fun, albeit maybe a little too close to real work.

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  3. Anonymous4 July 2017 at 19:36

    I don't want my life to be like this :( :'( :'(

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  4. Emily4 July 2017 at 19:50

    Breakout was very buggy for me, with the ball frequently not breaking the blocks and occasionally passing through them entirely. Other then that, I enjoyed it. Felt a little like Stanley from The Stanley Parable.

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  5. jj4 July 2017 at 19:54

    It was as if I was playing a game

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  6. eightoclock4 July 2017 at 21:11

    Is there an actually end?

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  7. Inès4 July 2017 at 21:56

    @Anonymous eightoclock
    I got to Dialog Technician and gave up, I don't think there's really and 'end' to this 'game'.

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  8. Anonymous5 July 2017 at 05:27

    You go around in circles with job grades (you pop off the top and start again at the bottom). Also, repeatedly reading the "about" content while on a break is the fastest way to achieve promotion :-)

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  9. PK5 July 2017 at 12:20

    So . . . why do I want to get promoted again?

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  10. Nathan K.5 July 2017 at 17:24

    That was alarmingly difficult to quit doing.

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  11. Emily5 July 2017 at 18:52

    I figured I had reached the end when I got promoted to "undefined," but according to Anonymous@5:27 perhaps that was a bug. At another point my work units hit 0 without giving me a promotion, so they just stayed at 0 until eventually I refreshed the page.

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  12. Wee Eck5 July 2017 at 19:19

    I would like an ending, but i suppose that is the thing about work, it seems it never ends, but i'm retired now so i don't want to be doing work all day.

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  13. NarnianLucy6 July 2017 at 21:03

    Cool concept. Breakout was buggy for me as well, though. It's a fun little time waster, for sure, though.

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  14. Momster7 July 2017 at 07:38

    I got to Chief Technology Officer and the top bar read "Work Units to Promotion/NA." Work kept piling up, but there were no more promotions.

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  15. Riiick7 July 2017 at 11:58

    If you would rather pretend you were playing chess: http://www.pippinbarr.com/games/itisasifyouwereplayingchess/

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  16. Devin11 July 2017 at 03:32

    I got to "Chief Tech Executive" and the Work Points counter just read "N/A" so I assumed I was done and closed the tab

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  17. jcfclark16 July 2017 at 19:23

    I stopped playing when it typed 'Be kind to others and stern with yourself' -- about as close to corporate mentality as one can get.

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  18. Sad6 August 2017 at 08:27

    I work in a place where the ongoing 'promotions' roundabout is as random as this but we just have an incompetent micro manager in charge. Robots might be better.

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