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    • _kush · 6 months ago

      So fun! Are there any other easter eggs like this? I've been clicking everywhere and didn't find any

          • wartijn_ · 6 months ago

            From the FAQ in the "about" section of the website:

            - You can try to find Wally (Waldo), as in the well-known game Where's Wally. He is partially visible, but if you click on him, he will appear in full and wave at you.

            - Quest #1 - Mafia Treasures. To start the quest, go to the room where the Mafia is holding the annual meeting and click on the suitcase.

            - Quest #2 - Subspace Tuner: To start this quest, click on the large advertising screen that says 'Bad Signal' next to the pirate ship.

            - Payphone - you can call different subscribers on the 796th floor. Subscriber numbers are constantly being added and can be found in various places on the floor.

            - In the Police Station click on the big screen to see the project statistics: current online, visits by country, number on interactions with all elements on the floor, etc.

            - One of the arcade machines has a real game - Racer796.

            - In the park zone there is Change My Mind guy. Click on him to add your own phrase to the rotation.

            - You can compose a 10-second melody and add it to rotation by clicking on the guy in the hospital with the pink synthesizer.

            - You can draw small pixel animation and add it to rotation by clicking on the Fun Drawing Screen near the Police Station.

            - Click on the Chunk Norris in the park zone.

            - Click on the JAWS 19 ad screen in the block with Back to the Future references.

            - Click on Naruto near the pirate ship.

            - There is Free Ads Board next to the pirate ship. You can draw your own advertising screen and specify which URL it links to.

            - There are also many small interactive elements on the floor, clicking on which will show an additional picture, play a sound or cause some action to occur.

              • mrlonglong · 6 months ago

                Cute. There's that tripedal robot from Interstellar there.

                • lossyalgo · 6 months ago

                  Or the Ninja Turtle to the left of the black hole.

            • xfour · 6 months ago

              What did I just click on? Love the no context drop in with 37 points and no comments.

              That being said whatever this is… something

            • sph · 6 months ago

              This is incredible!

              I bet there's Waldo hidden somewhere... good luck!

              • cmg · 6 months ago

                From the FAQ:

                > You can try to find Wally (Waldo), as in the well-known game Where's Wally. He is partially visible, but if you click on him, he will appear in full and wave at you.

                • eightturn · 6 months ago

                  sites like this make the internet a better place.

                  • jnellis · 6 months ago

                    Nice, this just crashed my entire desktop.

                    • throawayonthe · 6 months ago

                      impressive, what's your desktop?

                      • jnellis · 6 months ago

                        just win10 and firefox. It wanted to run workers in firefox, locked up firefox, then somehow taskmanager was locked up and things went downhill from there.

                        • justsomehnguy · 6 months ago

                          Works for me on Win 10, Win 11, Firefox, DDG.

                          Probably somet=ing gone very wrong with the video drivers.

                    • Peteragain · 6 months ago

                      I think it will absorb at least as many hours as doom scrolling, and be much better for me.

                      • jupin · 6 months ago

                        I wish I could show my kid this incredible mega gif. But it's NSFW ;D

                        • debo_ · 6 months ago

                          Hopefully your kids aren't working yet, so it's fair game!

                          • latexr · 6 months ago

                            Maybe their kid is called William and they meant it’s Not Safe for Will.

                          • cyode · 6 months ago

                            Mega gif indeed. Two relevant excerpts found in the about page (it's a gif but not a gif):

                            > Why 796?

                            > The name of the project has a small code: 7, 9 and 6 are the ordinal numbers of the letters in the English alphabet for the word GIF. This project is essentially one big gif, a mega gif, so all the action takes place on the 796th (GIF) floor of the space station :)

                            > How does animation rendering work?

                            In order to maintain pixel clarity and still have good compression, it was necessary to create own video format. The entire animation is divided into sections, and each section is packed into this special format. The browser then loads the desired section and renders it in a separate thread into the common canvas.

                          • vjay15 · 6 months ago

                            The entire page was amazing, but holy shit that art in the middle that shows how the current system works where kids are sent to school to study and then they graduate, get crushed into becoming mere tools instead of the human beings we are meant to be.

                            • p2detar · 6 months ago

                              I think it is “Pink Floyd - Another Brick in the Wall” reference.

                              edit: Ha! Actually one can double-click on objects and get more info about their origin.

                              • lossyalgo · 6 months ago

                                Single-clicking is sufficient :)

                                Also there are a lot of special clickable actions (mentioned in the FAQ > About section, or just keep clicking until you find something, there are 20+ special actions).

                              • ForceBru · 6 months ago

                                Is it just me or is the phrase "human beings" used more often than simply "humans"? I've just started to notice this: the next word after "human" is very often "beings". Whenever someone wants to emphasize our humanity (as opposed, say, to a horse's horseness), they almost always say "human _beings_" instead of "humans". Somehow "human beings" seems to emphasize the "human spirit/soul".

                                • Jakob · 6 months ago

                                  Yes. There are lots around; whenever the original word becomes too short for the importance people want to give it.

                                  Tuna fish, chai tea, Enter the room -> enter “into” the room, French: hui (today) -> aujourd’hui (day of today)

                                  Keyword: pleonasm

                                  • umanwizard · 6 months ago

                                    I'm sure I've even heard French people say "au jour d'aujourd'hui"

                                    • teapot7 · 6 months ago

                                      I'm pretty sure I've seen that one in a list, by a French person, of things they wish other people wouldn't say!

                                      • simgt · 6 months ago

                                        Yes, we had an epidemic of that about 10 years ago. It was everywhere. Thankfully it's mostly gone now and we're back to "aujourd'hui".

                                      • Hnrobert42 · 6 months ago

                                        Lived experience

                                        • xigoi · 6 months ago

                                          Also French: je ne sais (I don’t know) → je ne sais pas (I don’t know a step)

                                          • Jakob · 6 months ago

                                            And recently even dropping the negation itself while keeping the meaning: “je sais pas”

                                            I never thought about that. Interesting. This negation related cycle is apparently called Jespersen’s cycle and happens in many languages. The English equivalent

                                            I say not -> I “do” not say -> I don’t say. -> ?

                                            https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jespersen%27s_cycle

                                        • tux1968 · 6 months ago

                                          Thanks for sharing this one. There's so many brilliant and funny little vignettes in this piece. I'm amazed at what some people are able to do, so far outside anything I could dream about creating.

                                          • eightturn · 6 months ago

                                            there's even a HN img reference

                                          • arrty88 · 6 months ago

                                            So cool. Nice to see Walt and Jesse cooking

                                            • scrollop · 6 months ago

                                              Would be interesting to give all the NPC AI, then control one and see how everything interacts, or get dropped into this in first person and interact with everything/everyone powered by AI.

                                              • bovermyer · 6 months ago

                                                Given that this is hand-crafted by a real artist, introducing AI into it would be a betrayal of the entire concept.

                                                • NooneAtAll3 · 6 months ago

                                                  you're thinking of wrong kind of Ai

                                                  • bovermyer · 6 months ago

                                                    I don't think I am. The wording of the person's post suggests the use of LLMs, not general AI or another form.

                                                  • deadbabe · 6 months ago

                                                    AI != LLM

                                                  • justsomehnguy · 6 months ago

                                                    Theme Hospital is a thing.

                                                    • lexx · 6 months ago

                                                      Indeed

                                                      • burnt-resistor · 6 months ago

                                                        Kai strikes again. That series was hilarious to my undergrad self. I think I caught it on Comedy Central or the Sci-Fi Channel (SyFy) junior year.

                                                      • krelian · 6 months ago

                                                        This has been making the rounds for the years and I think what captivates me the most is the art style. There is something about it I cannot put my finger on. Just like the art style of Moebius or the 90's game Flashback.

                                                        • vitaflo · 6 months ago

                                                          I thought for sure this was eBoy at first. The style is similar and eBoy has been around forever but looks like it’s just someone else who is really good at this stuff.

                                                          https://www.eboy.com/

                                                          • geerlingguy · 6 months ago

                                                            Silicon Valley (TV show) had a similar themed intro style

                                                            • swah · 6 months ago

                                                              Ouch, this now looks dated. Society is in another mood...

                                                            • InfiniteLoopGuy · 6 months ago

                                                              Theme Hospital

                                                              • pell · 6 months ago

                                                                That was my first thought too. I replayed it recently. Still a great game.

                                                              • spopejoy · 6 months ago

                                                                The style reminds me of the old Alien Syndrome arcade game

                                                                • dilyevsky · 6 months ago

                                                                  Looks more like Xcom: UFO Defense

                                                                • jofzar · 6 months ago

                                                                  To me it has very Habbo hotel like graphics, not the same but it hits the same "itch". Specifically with the dancing.

                                                                  • Findecanor · 6 months ago

                                                                    The art style reminds me a bit of that of Al Jaffee in MAD magazine.

                                                                  • marcellus23 · 6 months ago

                                                                    This reminds me a lot of the 2000s internet that I grew up on. This was the kind of thing I used to find using StumbleUpon.

                                                                    • chiantiM · 6 months ago

                                                                      OMG... stunning maximalism

                                                                      • paulbjensen · 6 months ago

                                                                        This is a work of art. Thank you for sharing.

                                                                        • backtogeek · 6 months ago

                                                                          This sort of thing gives me a nice hit of nostalgia.

                                                                          I am pleased things like this continue to exist on the tinterweb.

                                                                          • smusamashah · 6 months ago

                                                                            The editor that is used to draw these animations https://floor796.com/editor/l0

                                                                            Author has a YouTube channel too somewhere where you can see him making a drawing start to end. (edit: https://m.youtube.com/channel/UCribkEGzOuMQ9ozb0ektMCQ)

                                                                            From FAQs

                                                                            > The creation of Floor796 started in 2018. I spent the first year creating the animation editor, the rendering engine and the site itself. Then I started drawing the first characters. I drew slowly at first, as I had to get used to the projection and constantly improve the animation editor. I've been creating the first block for over 8 months. Now I draw 1 block in about 1-1.5 months.

                                                                            Author made everything, including the editor, by himself.

                                                                            • mapcars · 6 months ago

                                                                              Thats curious, there are multiple Russian and even Soviet-era characters which I don't think western people know about.

                                                                              • mojuba · 6 months ago

                                                                                Definitely too many to be random. I think they are all mostly soviet era things, no? So the author is likely an émigré from the USSR.

                                                                                • cubefox · 6 months ago

                                                                                  Why émigré? He is probably Russian.

                                                                                  • PeterHolzwarth · 6 months ago

                                                                                    Well, not to put too fine a point on it, but it would be more correct to say that the author/artist is likely from a country that uses the Cyrillic script.

                                                                              • Rendello · 6 months ago

                                                                                You can click characters to show who they are, as well.

                                                                                • tartoran · 6 months ago

                                                                                  I just spotted Steven Segal is munching on a carrot.

                                                                                  • Hnrobert42 · 6 months ago

                                                                                    The two language options are English and Russian.

                                                                                    • MisterTea · 6 months ago

                                                                                      I learned of this site via HN a few years back and someone mentioned that the author must be Russian and mentioned the characters from Kin Dza Dza. A quick search revealed the film is freely available on Youtube with English subtitles. It's a great film and thankful for floor796 in revealing it as well as being an amazing work of art.

                                                                                    • csomar · 6 months ago

                                                                                      The source map is there. The whole thing is made with JavaScript and with very little (pretty much no?) dependencies. No React, No TypeScript, No 54.643 packages to download. He seems to use lesscss but that's about it.

                                                                                      Sometimes I wonder if we lost the art-craft in all of this frameworks mania. This work has better performance than 99.9% of the apps out there despite being reasonably complex (UI-wise). I legit though this was built with WebAssembly at the initial interactions.

                                                                                      • MangoToupe · 6 months ago

                                                                                        Different constraints produce different results.

                                                                                    • kylecazar · 6 months ago

                                                                                      Haven't found Waldo yet

                                                                                      Edit: I absolutely did find Waldo! That was fun.

                                                                                      • crasshacker · 6 months ago

                                                                                        Is Waldo really there? Because I've looked everywhere, and at this point I'm a bit concerned that my eyes are going to give out before I'm able to find him. That guy sure is a wily fella.

                                                                                        • kylecazar · 6 months ago

                                                                                          He's really there. I was on the verge of giving up myself.

                                                                                            • crasshacker · 6 months ago

                                                                                              I managed to find him without help - I'm stubborn - but man, did it take me a long time to do it. It didn't help that I was constantly being distracted by some new character grabbing my attention. There's just so much here!

                                                                                        • spopejoy · 6 months ago

                                                                                          Here's a fun one: find AE3803

                                                                                      • buybackoff · 6 months ago

                                                                                        For some time recently, I was zooming in on Bosch's The Garden of Earthly Delights. The floor's level of interactivity would be so nice there. At least on this floor, I can guess what's going on quite reliably. The experience is quite similar at some level though. I saw Bosch's originals (or 1-to-1 by size repros) many years ago and without zooming in, it was incomprehensible. With zoom, the details are overwhelming.

                                                                                        https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Garden_of_Earthly_Delights...

                                                                                        • jmkd · 6 months ago

                                                                                          Note this digitisation was by a company called Mad Pixel, and supported by Google in 2009. It was the first experiment that later became the Google Art Project in 2011 (now Google Arts & Culture).

                                                                                        • rishabhaiover · 6 months ago

                                                                                          I love the fact that Steven Seagal made it.

                                                                                          • Freak_NL · 6 months ago

                                                                                            There is now a neon add for some weird place called 'Hacker News'; right between the ones for Dunder Mifflin and Weyland Yutani Corp, over by the Catbus, behind that new huge pirate ship, but if you hit the Black Mesa ad you've gone too far.

                                                                                          • utopcell · 6 months ago

                                                                                            If you're curious: the name alludes to this being the 796th floor of a space station.

                                                                                            • croes · 6 months ago

                                                                                              And the 7th, 9th and 6th letter of the English alphabet are?

                                                                                              • utopcell · 6 months ago

                                                                                                Ha! I did not notice. Thank you for sharing!

                                                                                              • stavros · 6 months ago

                                                                                                I got inspired by this the other day and made something related, though user-drawable:

                                                                                                https://pine.town

                                                                                                Obviously nowhere near as good as Floor796, but if you like pixel art, maybe you'll like my weekend hack.

                                                                                                • doublerabbit · 6 months ago

                                                                                                  Also very cool.

                                                                                                • underlipton · 6 months ago

                                                                                                  What did they do to Muzzy?!

                                                                                                  • cod1r · 6 months ago

                                                                                                    This is great and I love it. Very polished work.

                                                                                                    • mariopt · 6 months ago

                                                                                                      The artwork looks amazing, is it AI/ComfyUI?

                                                                                                      • saagarjha · 6 months ago

                                                                                                        No.

                                                                                                      • Kiboneu · 6 months ago

                                                                                                        this is where i’d like to chill when they wake me up from the simulation.

                                                                                                          • cantalopes · 6 months ago

                                                                                                            Well, there goes my carrier data plan

                                                                                                            • wowczarek · 6 months ago

                                                                                                              I giggled at Monkey Island and then I saw the tentacle... but from Half Life. This is a masterpiece and it keeps on giving.

                                                                                                              • dmead · 6 months ago

                                                                                                                Is this the same author as goontower?

                                                                                                                • alexconrad · 6 months ago

                                                                                                                  Goofy has a sound clip when you click on it. Are there other ones with sound?

                                                                                                                  • alexconrad · 6 months ago

                                                                                                                    Found another one. Duke Nukem 3D Cocoon with a girl. Good times!

                                                                                                                  • yieldcrv · 6 months ago

                                                                                                                    How fast this loads is a lost art

                                                                                                                    • BargirPezza · 6 months ago

                                                                                                                      Amazing, real dedication and it looks so good! Have spent some time just wandering around and clicking on different characters I don't recognize. So fun

                                                                                                                      • metalman · 6 months ago

                                                                                                                        the guy must have started consuming media in the womb and has an amazing ability to capture iconic characters and moments with the smallest possible numbers of pixles, the proof of that is bieng able to identify many familiar characters, but the ones from different cultures register as extras and are devoid of personality, pattern recognition doing it's thing effortlessly. It's very much of our time, and speaks to the need for drama and absurdity, and also the role that AI is bieng pushed to fill, while showing that for true iconic imagery , human biengs still have the edge.

                                                                                                                        • hermitcrab · 6 months ago

                                                                                                                          Can we please have a room where Jake Paul and Tate are getting humbled in a boxing ring for all eternity.

                                                                                                                          • jimmySixDOF · 6 months ago

                                                                                                                            One of my soft milestone tests for AGI is if this gets reproduced in a World Model with Gaussian Splats or whatever it is by then that lets you do gameplay walkthrough in first player egocentric 3D-6DOF-360 view in XR with some friends till then its just all stochastic parrots on word calculators whats the point

                                                                                                                            • SilverSlash · 6 months ago

                                                                                                                              One of the coolest things I've seen this year! A true labor of love!

                                                                                                                              • spaceman_2020 · 6 months ago

                                                                                                                                This is one of the best things I’ve ever seen online

                                                                                                                                • javiramos · 6 months ago

                                                                                                                                  This is an internet masterpiece

                                                                                                                                      • maxglute · 6 months ago

                                                                                                                                        You can click on characters for context. Was this a feature last year?

                                                                                                                                        Would make a great animated wallpaper.