For people who don't get this joke:
There's a party game called 'Among Us' that's sort of like a real-time version of Mafia set on a space ship. Most of the players are trying to determine who's the 'killer' while completing tasks, and the killer is trying to kill all the other players. So when he says 'red sus' he means, the red colored player is suspected to be the killer.
Apparently the words 'among us' show up somewhere in the Rust source code, so the person made a silly pull request to change it to "here" instead.
Pokémon Go enters the chat. Seriously, we picked the worse games to pass time during lockdown.
Edit: I mean it, lockdown was weird and it looked like it would last only a few months, so many of us picked casual games to fill the time we would spend running errands. It took me three months to switch to more interesting passtimes.
Among Us has been holding on longer than Animal Crossing at this point. In some ways it has fewer annoying design problems - Animal Crossing feels like it's forcing you to slow down and relax, but they did this by making all the loading times and menus at least twice as slow as they should be.
Inventory management, selling bugs, visiting islands, etc, it just takes too long.
I've found, even when I research the meaning/origin of popular memes, that I still do not understand them. AMOGUS is one of these.
Incidentally, TikTok is also really disturbing to me because practically -nothing- on it makes any sense to me... almost as if it were from another planet. It's disturbing because it makes me realize how little I understand about people in the very society in which I live.
I think "AMOGUS" is a meta reference to the overuse of Among Us memes, where people would constantly ask if everything was a reference to the game, eventually devolving to "AMOGUS".
Edit: Tiktok is similar; its some sort of Darwinian laboratory of memes where innocuous memes are selected for and duet-ed until they become freakish monstrosities of in-jokes and meta humour.
My kid refers to a character in the game as a "mungus" -- I've never heard him pluralize it. But god, we couldn't figure out what the hell he was talking about until he drew the thing.
Oh, I don't know... he also pronounces "bald" as "bob" and considers bob to be the third gender. We're working on that.
Similarly, I've heard of kids "versing" eachother. Root cause: in Pokemon, the announcer says "A versus B" -- naturally, the kids interpret "verse" as a verb, which clearly means "to fight", and conjugate it normally.
I'm guessing he's in between 11 - 17? (Rhetorical, definitely would not expect an answer to that.)
I wouldn't worry too much. He'll get there when he gets there, in the meantime, just let him enjoy the in-jokes [0]. You'll miss it when it's gone.
(source: Spent a while hanging/working with a group 11-18 year old males, as both a member and a leader [1])
[0] The group I hung out with/worked with would refer to "potato" as a species. The "mungus" and "versing" both strike me as plays on words, much in the spirit of programmer humor.
[1] In a semi-official capacity. Not as in "natural leader".
Ah, never mind then. Probably should work on that.
Entertainingly enough, all of those things you described would've matched up pretty spectacularly with the interactions of that group I was describing.
We really were all just a bunch of five year olds at heart :P
To be clear: there is no joke in the code. The joke is the issue itself.
Specifically, the idea is that the character designs in Among Us are so minimalistic that just about anything [1] can look like them, due to pareidolia. So there's a running gag of people posting objects whose resemblance to the characters is increasingly strained, until you're seeing little spacemen literally everywhere you look. When you take this to its extreme, the joke is that even just seeing the words "among us" in source code is enough to drive someone to a nervous breakdown.
I suppose I'm becoming old and grumpy but I'm with the one guy who "requested changes". Go outside. What a waste of people's time just because you can't read two words without thinking about a video game.
This is a form of "programmer humor", something you're probably familiar with if you're a grumpy old programmer. I think it's a good sign that a new generation of devs also have a decent sense of humor, but I guess it's all subjective.
Master/slave has seen quite a good history of use due to the relationship the master switch has to downstream elements. It's state, determines the state of those that follow. Downstream elements are 'slaved' to the "master's" state, which is a valid, ahistorical description that's been around since my grandparent's time at least.
The fact there are folks who can't seperate their own discomfort with certain aspects of American history from technical contexts is not the fields' or practitioners problem.
I honestly think this is a good thing. If new developers are willing to have a sense of humor while also not detrimentally breaking the experience for others, I fail to see the harm there. It's certainly less harmful than naming your photo editor "Gimp", as good of a name and well-intentioned as it may be.
There will always exist someone who feel offended or harmed by the most innocent words, it's hard to know where to draw the line. It's like those "insensitive clod" comments on slashdot that used be understood as jokes, but these days we can't be sure.
Absolutely, and I think there's not much of a justification to hate a program like Gimp. But people do anyways, and it's a shame that they are missing out on some great open source software. Likewise, I think that harmless pull requests like this one are a better outlet for programmer humor then your end product.
"Rust uses the power of inverse async and GPU-accelerated turboencabulation to travel back in time and litter development resources with culturally appropriate references from the future."
I'm a bit prone to the out of place joke when people are being serious. But not in code. There is no humour in my code. Not even the odd pun. When something accidentally funny or ambiguous emerges I scrub it out. It feels like a sacred duty to make it as clear and concise as I can, and humour always detracts from that. Same goes for issues, etc. It just lowers the signal to noise ratio, when figuring this stuff out is tough enough anyway.
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[ 3.1 ms ] story [ 133 ms ] threadApparently the words 'among us' show up somewhere in the Rust source code, so the person made a silly pull request to change it to "here" instead.
Edit: I mean it, lockdown was weird and it looked like it would last only a few months, so many of us picked casual games to fill the time we would spend running errands. It took me three months to switch to more interesting passtimes.
Inventory management, selling bugs, visiting islands, etc, it just takes too long.
I've found, even when I research the meaning/origin of popular memes, that I still do not understand them. AMOGUS is one of these.
Incidentally, TikTok is also really disturbing to me because practically -nothing- on it makes any sense to me... almost as if it were from another planet. It's disturbing because it makes me realize how little I understand about people in the very society in which I live.
Get off my lawn?
Edit: Tiktok is similar; its some sort of Darwinian laboratory of memes where innocuous memes are selected for and duet-ed until they become freakish monstrosities of in-jokes and meta humour.
> a "mungus"
Your kid is quite clever.
Similarly, I've heard of kids "versing" eachother. Root cause: in Pokemon, the announcer says "A versus B" -- naturally, the kids interpret "verse" as a verb, which clearly means "to fight", and conjugate it normally.
I wouldn't worry too much. He'll get there when he gets there, in the meantime, just let him enjoy the in-jokes [0]. You'll miss it when it's gone.
(source: Spent a while hanging/working with a group 11-18 year old males, as both a member and a leader [1])
[0] The group I hung out with/worked with would refer to "potato" as a species. The "mungus" and "versing" both strike me as plays on words, much in the spirit of programmer humor.
[1] In a semi-official capacity. Not as in "natural leader".
Entertainingly enough, all of those things you described would've matched up pretty spectacularly with the interactions of that group I was describing.
We really were all just a bunch of five year olds at heart :P
Specifically, the idea is that the character designs in Among Us are so minimalistic that just about anything [1] can look like them, due to pareidolia. So there's a running gag of people posting objects whose resemblance to the characters is increasingly strained, until you're seeing little spacemen literally everywhere you look. When you take this to its extreme, the joke is that even just seeing the words "among us" in source code is enough to drive someone to a nervous breakdown.
[1]: https://imgflip.com/memetemplate/284994674/AMONG-US-TRASH-CA...
I would have left it there, though, as a token of these times.
Edit: checked the history, the text was there 4 years ago, while Among Us is from 2018, so this wasn't a reference, just a coincidence.
>What a waste of people's time just because you can't read two words without thinking about a :).
Using "master/slave" didn't create any connections to crimes 'n' similar - those were completely neutral terms until this show started.
Master/slave has seen quite a good history of use due to the relationship the master switch has to downstream elements. It's state, determines the state of those that follow. Downstream elements are 'slaved' to the "master's" state, which is a valid, ahistorical description that's been around since my grandparent's time at least.
The fact there are folks who can't seperate their own discomfort with certain aspects of American history from technical contexts is not the fields' or practitioners problem.
2. This wasn’t that; it’s a coincidence. This text is older than the game.
Coincidentally, wikipedia no longer has a reference to insensitive clod. https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Slashdot&type=rev...
https://github.com/aaabot/rust-by-example/commit/c621fd05c0e...