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eurasiantiger
On iOS this suddenly wanted to open a page in Mail. You have been warned.
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cwillu
Joke explainer:

Narcissism mode attempts to send an email to the author when you score a point: “https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/?fs=1&tf=cm&source=mailto&s...

   Subject: I+love+your+work
   to: pippin.barr@gmail.com
   body: I+wanted+to+take+a+couple+of+minutes+to+write+you+an+email+about+how+much+I+respect+and+appreciate+your+work...
eurasiantiger
Right. Joke.
bgun
If you think iOS opening mailto: links in the Mail app represents some kind of security breach then I have bad news for you.
eurasiantiger
If an application developer expects people NOT to react defensively to automatically launched external applications, they are deluded.

That link does not open from a user-initiated event, even if it technically does.

Cederfjard
That's fair, but if you don't think it's meant as a joke, what do you think the intention is?
shadowgovt
It's a double-joke because the narcissist truly does not care about this category of criticism.
eurasiantiger
How did you come to the conclusion that I don’t think it’s meant as a joke, after having that openly explained to me on a public forum?

That kind of mind-reading is right next to gaslighting on the dark triad trait list.

Cederfjard
Your direct response to the person explaining that it was a joke was literally ”Right. Joke.” Was that not sarcasm?

While we’re handing out psych evaluations, you seem oddly keen on finding malice in the behavior of others.

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viridian
Wait, are you Eurasiantiger from reddit?
eyelidlessness
For the views which state “swipes control snake”, is it part of the gag that by and large swipes do nothing? Or is that because I was too hasty loading nihilism?
cwillu
Try dualism if you want to experiment with mind control
dgoldstein0
For me the swipe controls only work some of the time. Might be dropping some inputs
JoshCole
It must be really hard to play when you can't swipe. I suggest playing determinism; it should completely eradicate your control issues.
eyelidlessness
After clicking nihilism, determinism was my next stop for sure. I didn’t have any expectations that weren’t met!
eliasffyksen
Nice to see I'm not the only one obsessed with Snake. This goes directly in my bookmarks :P
lrpe
Took me way too long to realize that you can't die in stoicist snake.
fardo
You can instead enjoy the horror of creating a situation in which despite not losing, there is no valid direction of motion, so your immortal snake is forever trapped in a prison of its own making.
kelseyfrog
The true winning state is to understand that it's up to you to decide whether to feel neither horror nor comfort in that realization.
cbanek
TFW you read this as snackisms and was confused for like, a full minute.

Then you realize it's snake-isms, and finally get the joke and laugh for a full minute. What a day. Love this.

idk1
Narcissism my favourite, I won't spoil it because it's a delight to find out, that was just fantastic, the whole this was brilliant.
jb1991
It was interesting until it auto-opened a mail window somehow without me pressing on anything obviously, and the email had a subject of "I love your work!" to the developer. Man, do I not like that sort of site behavior.
blendergeek
This is the "narcissism" snake. That is expected behavior.
lobstrosity420
I have no idea if the people ITT complaining about the mailto link are in on the joke or not but I lol'd.
camtarn
Very much amused by Nihilism.
sAbakumoff
I wish it had the "Buddhism" mode.
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