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by HCIdivision17 3860 days ago
My, where history's path takes us. I'm not really sure how to describe this feeling; a clever hacker put a boggled cat and pickles on a star field and it's clearly missing lasers.

Like, I get there's a source GIF that inspired it, and lazoring pickles with a cat has that sort of pseudo randomness like 'purple monkey dishwasher'. But I still think it's strange that it stands out as an omission over, say, talking wrenches. (I think the awestruck cat is fine just how it is; just flummoxed over how legitimate your quip was.)

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I think you're on to something here. I hadn't seen the cat/laser/cucumber gif prior to reading this thread (after visiting the demo), and after I noticed the cat following my mouse I tried clicking pickles with the expectation that they would be attacked by laser vision.

It's odd that I can say straight-faced "of course you would expect lasers to shoot from that cat's eyes and destroy the pickle," but that I can't describe why that assumption is so obvious.

I was going to leave a comment like "why isn't it shooting lasers at the pickles", but then I did a search in the page and found this comment thread. So... yeah. Our brains are all warped in the same way.
Yes my brain is totally warped. That said I do really like it.