[aniviacat]

Is the Google "Minecraft" easter egg intolerant of gender?

Easter eggs can certainly be problematic when used in APIs (or similar) where access is intended to be automated (and therefore vulnerable to surprises).

But in user facing code, easter eggs are perfectly fine.

[chuckadams]

It's an Easter egg, so clearly it's intolerant of other religions!

[varelaz]

Is it just a marketing tool of a mega-corp which tries to look nicer and engage you more?

[ARandomerDude]

I'm sure some companies use easter eggs as marketing/recruiting tools.

That said, I've put a small number of user-facing easter eggs in publicly-traded MegaCorp code before. In every case, it was an inside joke among devs that the higher-ups never knew about it. The C-Suite is uptight and we definitely would have been reprimanded if they were aware.

[aniviacat]

I don't know what your point is.

Yes, Google is a corporation and yes, Google tries to build a product people want to use.

(Building things that people like is a good thing.)

[varelaz]

I don't say it's bad. It's commercialized experiense and it's cool if you love it. I just wouldn't treat it the same as devs fun of hiding things for valuable user who loves their product and I'm talking from dev prospective, not user.