[Y_Y]

We can do better than a link to a Reddit thread with a screenshot of some text. I found this on GameFAQs slightly modified from the original and posted the day after, on 2013-06-16.

  -2018
  -wake up feeling sick after a late night of playing vidya
  -excited to play some halo 2k19
  -"xbox on"
  -...
  -"XBOX ON"
  -"Please verify that you are "annon332" by saying "Doritos™ Dew™ it right!"
  -"Doritos™ Dew™ it right"
  -"ERROR! Please drink a verification can"
  -reach into my Doritos™ Mountain Dew™ Halo 2k19™ War Chest
  -only a few cans left, needed to verify 14 times last night
  -still feeling sick from the 14
  -force it down and grumble out "mmmm that really hit the spot"
  -xbox does nothing
  -i attempt to smile
  -"Connecting to verification server"
  -...
  -"Verification complete!"
  -finally
  -boot up halo 2k19
  -finding multiplayer match...
  -"ERROR! User attempting to steal online gameplay!"
  -my mother just walked in the room
  -"Adding another user to your pass, this will be charged to your credit card. Do you accept?"
  -"NO!"
  -"Console entering lock state!"
  -"to unlock drink verification can"
  -last can
  -"WARNING, OUT OF VERIFICATION CANS, an order has been shipped and charged to your credit card"
  -drink half the can, oh god im going to be sick
  -pour the last half out the window
  -"PIRACY DETECTED! PLEASE COMPLETE THIS ADVERTISEMENT TO CONTINUE"
  -the mountain dew ad plays
  -i have to dance for it
  -feeling so sick
  -makes me sing along
  -dancing and singing
  -"mountain dew is for me and you"
  -throw up on my self
  -throw up on my tv and entertainment system
  -router shorts
  -"ERROR NO CONNECTION! XBOX SHUTTING OFF"
  -"PLEASE DRINK VERIFICATION CAN TO CONTINUE"

[exo762]

Greentext, as the most relevant form of art.

[thatguy0900]

Well, it's not a greentext without the green text.

[NotPractical]

Does this content really have a place on here?

[dijit]

Honestly. This is quite pointed satire at the current state of things.

If you showed someone from the 70s how things are today, they would view these two things as not as dissimilar as we do.

[ryandrake]

I was going to say! Since quite a large number of HN's readership is hard at work actually building these paywalls, digital restrictions and gatekeepers, unnecessarily Internet-connected devices, and other corporate-mediated dystopias, I'd say Please Drink Verification Can is exceedingly appropriate here.

[mrlonglong]

Well said!

[ljm]

They're not so different from the old bash.org quotes (as in hunter2) or the old b3ta ones. It's just classic internet culture.

I think this particular one satirizes a patent Microsoft filed showing how to detect how many people are watching a TV (via the Kinect).

[duskwuff]

There's also some inspiration taken from Sony's patent "System for converting television commercials into interactive networked video games":

https://patents.google.com/patent/US8246454B2/en

(Note in particular "SAY MCDONALDS TO END COMMERCIAL" in Figure 9.)

[phist_mcgee]

Humor is an effective medium for exchanging ideas and concepts. I would say satire in small doses is perfect for HN.

[cyral]

It was the first HN comment to give me a good laugh in a while

[bschwindHN]

Humor?? In _my_ gated community??