This reminds me of a drinking game my friends played in high school.
System32 Roulette is a drinking game where you get a fresh install of Windows 98 on some crappy Pentium 2 in your friend's mom's basement. Each player takes a turn deleting a random file out of System32 (we disabled protections, I forget how), then reboots and tries to play a game of minesweeper. If you can, everyone else takes a drink. If you can't, you finish your drink and the game starts over with a clean install.
I really ought to formalize it and make a container based version of the game. But it's far more fun to do on a real computer from the era.
It's true. It was uncanny just how balanced the game was. And there was a meta-layer where the drunker you get, the more awful it was to reinstall Windows 98. We had two computers going to cut down on install time.
I think once we mapped a Thrustmaster snowboard to the mouse and had to use that to navigate. It was awful.
This reminds me of that time I decided to clean up my computer and organized everything inside System32 into neat little folders. Then my computer stopped working and had to be taken in for service.
In its current form, it seems more conceptual than practical, but I think an engaging and potentially fun-to-play ("fun"?) gaming product can come out of this.
Classify shortcuts into tiers/difficulty levels
1. baby (little to no real consequence)
2. teenager (slight potential embarrassment)
3. reckless (mortifying but not career- or relationship damaging)
4. daredevil (would require apologies and other face-saving actions to recover)
5. drunken (even with face-saving would inflict career- or -relationship damage)
6. destroyer (guaranteed social consequence; possibly career- or -relationship ending)
7. just no (immoral and illegal in many jurisdictions)
Let opponents create and join the game with real stakes (money, labor, product, reputation, etc.).
Make sure your EULA is ironclad in case any users litigate after having woken up with a massive hangover and finding the entire world angry at them.
UPDATE: The tiers should be additive, so level 4, for example, would include shortcuts from levels 1 through 3.
EDIT: formatting; swap categories 4 and 5; punctuation; number agreement; grammar; add UPDATE
South African. Stretch goal for this one was to pick a random accent and a random message from messages, ideally revealing something embarrassing, but couldn't find a way to do it. So now it languishes in mediocrity till I replace it.
>Send a random Bible passage to a contact, or tweet it, or Instagram it.
>Ditto, but random Quran passage.
Trivia: Half of Quran verses consists of corrupted Biblical passages (due to the fact Syriac Aramaic text interpreted as Arabic), along with other half of weird poetic legal texts.
Frequent, random Internet searches regarding bioweapons, chemical weapons, fabricating nuclear weapons, and how to get in contact with various terrorist organizations.
It is with iMessages. Not sure if you can leave one you've started, but I've left some that others have started (my email address was similar to their friend's).
See, this is what's so brilliant about technology. We all know that social media is (okay, probably) going to be the death of society, and these bright sparks have worked out a way to "shortcut"[1] the process.
No death throes of the Republic, we can just move straight to being social outcasts and speed up the atomisation of our society.
reminds me of Social Roulette [1] which was also brilliant. this seems like a much more involved (and potentially life-ruining) version of that. cheers to making something interesting!
How does "send selfie to a contact" work when the user physically has to press send for imessages?
As far as I'm aware you cannot get iOS to send SMS's or iMessages on behalf of the user.
In this case, I've chosen to have all the messages show up with the user having to confirm with the send button. However, this isn't necessary for all information. I've built a shortcut that can take contact data, put it in a message, and send it to a predetermined number without a preview showing.
System32 Roulette is a drinking game where you get a fresh install of Windows 98 on some crappy Pentium 2 in your friend's mom's basement. Each player takes a turn deleting a random file out of System32 (we disabled protections, I forget how), then reboots and tries to play a game of minesweeper. If you can, everyone else takes a drink. If you can't, you finish your drink and the game starts over with a clean install.
I really ought to formalize it and make a container based version of the game. But it's far more fun to do on a real computer from the era.