๐ The Evil Ideas thread
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"Oops, one of the screws fell out"
http://i.imgur.com/LADWgmy.gif
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They probably do that once every ten or so rides.
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They probably do that once every ten or so rides.
Yes, I'm sure it's a skit. But think of the counter-reaction, when the guy in the chair is like, "No worries, launch this thing."
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Giving a game-show contestant in a wheelchair, with no legs, a treadmill:
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Come on, it's right there in the article:
"Prizes are determined in advance of the show and are not decided based on the contestants."
On other occasions, prizes have not always been the best match. For example, contestants have won trips to their hometown or nearby cities.
You could say "ok, fine, so they could come up with a set of alternate prizes for such a situation," until you realize that people would just game it. "Oh, I had a traumatic experience in Cleveland, do you have a trip to Fiji instead?"
At least this woman can sell the treadmill.
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At least this woman can sell the treadmill.
generally to the show. there's usually a clause burried in there that lets the contestant cash out the prize instead. for a fee of course so they may be better off taking the item.
of course another thing with all these prizes is you still need to pay tax on them. the show doesn't pay that for you and you often need to pay it up front. so there are whole warehouses of unclaimed goods in cali just waiting for people to pay the owed tax on the prize (or for the prize terms to expire so the studio can sell the item to recoup some losses)
the things they don't tell you till you are actually a contestant...
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of course another thing with all these prizes is you still need to pay tax on them. the show doesn't pay that for you and you often need to pay it up front.
Wow, that's shitty...
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yep. it is.
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h/t Althouse, who says:
But: should this be dismissed as a "trolling stunt"? It could be compared to the way โ in the walking-around world โ protesters go to a place they want to protest or, say, right-to-lifers seek to engage with women who are walking into abortion clinics. On line, there's the danger that people will set things up so they only hear the speech of those they want to allow into the comfortable space of their closed minds. Maybe it's good to have a way to override these barriers, to pierce the on-line cocoon.
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"Oh crap, we forgot to announce the teams we invited to the tournament!"
"What if we announce them now, but we wait half an hour between each announcement?"
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Bah. WoT's was better, they're just ripping it off.
Added bonus: World of Tanks actually isn't a shitty game full of assholes.
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Evil idea: Telling people to Google image search "atari breakout" while at work.
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atari breakout
Would be better if that also worked with "Cyberblock Metal Orange EX" ...
Although, image searching for that at work is a bad idea ...
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Evil idea: Encoding a user's account ID into a repeating texture on the background of a webpage so screenshots they post on TDWTF are linked to their account.
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repeating texture on the background
That explains those strange patterns @aliceif uses
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A WR code? Isn't that what you've been using as your avatar for years?
There's an idea: screw Gravatar, build QavataR.
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Evil idea: Encoding a user's account ID into a repeating texture on the background of a webpage so screenshots they post on TDWTF are linked to their account.
Supposedly Blizzard actually did that in a beta of one of their earlier expansions: a pattern of little (IIRC) yellow dots, like color laser printers do, was displayed on the screen that was different per-user: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4505584
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IIRC that's been in all wow versions at least from BC until cata, and includes the server IP and internal account ID (not your battle.net email). Used to track private servers.
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Design a programming language where strings terminate with
\a
.
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nah, not evil enough.
Designing a language in which string constants terminate with
\a
but in memory strings terminate with\f
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Can we name it BELgium?
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Or Discourse? :P
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Taking "get off my lawn!" to the extreme:
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Same here. Fine pre-upload. Can I blame dickhorse?
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Fixed
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AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
IT LOST ALL THE FUCKING CHANGES I MADE IN THE PAST TWO WEEKS
FUCK THIS.
This is Windows, right? Just hit UNDO.
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This is Windows, right? Just hit UNDO.
That's only available on Linux hardware I'm afraid.
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- Be a health insurance company. Already pretty evil.
- Launch a big wellness program for your clients that pushes their employees to focus on waist size as a "health risk" and lose weight. Charge fat employees more.
- Throw a big annual wellness fair....
- at which, an ice cream truck is parked handing out free sundaes and floats.
- profit!
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Making an album called ร (Disambiguation) so that Wikipedia has to add a disambiguation to the ร (disambiguation) page.
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When I were but a nipper, everybody learnt to play the recorder at a very young school age. I'm forever scarred by the experience.
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When my brother and his (then) two young kids were living overseas, my parents and I made a point of sending the little brats the noisiest gifts we could find for birthdays and Christmas. Recorders with gender-appropriate songbooks were definitely part of one package.
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dkf says you're literally Hitler.
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I bought my nephew an Otamatone
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PxLB70G-tRY
Yes that's about as "tuned" as they get.
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I don't quite remember where I saw this first. (But it is not my original idea.)
Open a few source files and replace semicolon symbols with greek question marks (U+037E).
- Code point: U+003B - SEMICOLON : " ; "
- Code point: U+037E - GREEK QUESTION MARK : " อพ "
Of course, this only works if the compiler (and IDE) supports Unicode.
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I don't quite remember where I saw this first.
Twitter? Earliest occurrence I can find on google is this:
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The following thread?
https://what.thedailywtf.com/t/why-this-small-js-code-doesnt-work/5065/1
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everybody learnt to play the recorder at a very young school age.
4th grade. "Hot Cross Buns" must be one of the most annoying tunes ever written. (But not nearly as painful as when my son learned to play trumpet in 7th grade. His middle school band was quite good compared to most, but it was still music you would listen to voluntarily only if your own kid was playing.)
When my brother and his (then) two young kids were living overseas, my parents and I made a point of sending the little brats the noisiest gifts we could find for birthdays and Christmas. Recorders with gender-appropriate songbooks were definitely part of one package.
My ex-FIL gave my ex-BIL's son a drum kit. Real drums, not a practice pad. Acoustic, not electronic โ no headphones, no volume control.Yes that's about as "tuned" as they get.
There is a special place in Hell for whomever invented that.
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Hot Cross Buns
It was Three Blind Mice for me and my peers. Three notes in the tune IIRC
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It was Three Blind Mice for me and my peers. Three notes in the tune IIRC
Know why that's funny?
<They're the same three notes, at least at the start. But three blind mice at least has the bit after that
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No. Do I want to?
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I secretly hid the answer in the raw, around the same time as you posted. So we'll find out if you want to.