That is not what I am referring to. The structure of those modes is too rigid: players have to follow a planned route, stop and wait for the guide to finish talking at each station. Too much like a real life tour.

I'm with you.

You believe you’re on a “pretentious news aggregator devoted to people trying to suckle on VC money to launch their next 'great idea'.” That isn’t lighthearted, it is a spiteful declaration that you look down on HN and everyone involved with it. Your third paragraph in the comment I’m responding to is similarly dripping with hatred against anyone who takes HN seriously. Everything you’re saying amounts to a confession that your goal is to push against the spirit of the rules on HN as hard as you can without getting banned.

Anyone who wants to submerge themselves in low IQ “lighthearted” pop culture references has the entire rest of the internet for that. As you know and everybody else knows, if we wanted to see content such as what was submitted here, we’d go to the appropriate subreddit such as /r/PopCultureGarbageCodedIn5Minutes. No one needs your help to find reddit, especially not people who are “lonely and completely disconnected from the world” to borrow the insult you used against everyone on this site.

I don’t know why everyone here is pretending to be unaware that this particular pop culture reference is extremely controversial and inflammatory. This specific meme was a powerful cultural breaking point, evenly dividing people between the 50% who love it and the other 50% who want nothing to do with the people who love it. Many of the latter are lurking in the comment section here but are worried about the consequences of speaking their mind where the former seized control early and planted their flag.

This submission should be treated like a honeypot. Everyone who upvoted OP’s submission or posted a positive comment here is actively participating in a subversive attempt to turn HN into something more like reddit. As a consequence of this, they should be permanently shadowbanned from commenting as well as voting. It’s the only way to ensure that people using HN correctly won’t have their activity drowned out by those who don’t.

Holy mother of god. This changes everything.

I don’t buy that interpretation. The joke is super old, like, baby boomer old. They weren’t that dark. They were going around saying things like, “In the year 2000, we’re going to have a base.. on the moon!”

There’s no way the people of that generation would have even considered the darker interpretation of that joke. Hell, I’m gen-x, and depressive, and that interpretation never occurred to me.

Well I choose to believe FriendlyNormie really thinks I'm on a massive campaign to subvert and corrupt hn. It gives my comments far more purpose than just trying to gain a sense of validation when somebody clicks that up arrow and approves of something I say. Makes me feel like a spy rather than just a lonely internet dweller.

I like to have fun on-line :-)