A sad indictment of modern times: 1. Invited to play physical game with friends ...

stavros · 2025-09-08T07:58:42 1757318322

This comment is a sad indictment of modern times. Nobody can be facetious on the web any more without someone taking the joke seriously.

To me, it seems like it actually was:

1. Had a Hungry Hungry Hippos game

2. Thought it would be a fun project to automate

3. Wrote a funny setup for the post

4.???

Eddy_Viscosity2 · 2025-09-08T11:47:43 1757332063

Exactly. There is no way that he couldn't find others to play hungry hippos. You could be in the process of getting arrested and then pull out hungry hippos to the cop and say "one quick game", and he'd be like "yes".

stavros · 2025-09-08T11:55:24 1757332524

I'm going to try this.

gus_massa · 2025-09-08T11:54:55 1757332495

Or you can try to improve it and implement a version where your friends connect to a webpage to control the other 3 hippos. Not as fun as IRL, but it may be nice when you have a few friends living abroad.

JKCalhoun · 2025-09-08T12:35:57 1757334957

A sadder indictment would be if they marketed Hungry Hungry Hippo (singular).