A Mysterious Website I Stumbled Upon

https://www.sbnation.com/a/17776-football

98•_Yguy_•6h ago

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throawayonthe•4h ago

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/17776

jbeninger•4h ago

One of my favourite web-things of all time. Incredible creativity in an unexpected place.

i_am_proteus•4h ago

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/17776

wrsh07•3h ago

This spoilery link provides context about the op link if that's what you want

moron4hire•4h ago

This is an earlier work from the same author that I found absolutely delightful. https://www.sbnation.com/2014/8/18/5998715/the-tim-tebow-cfl...

You cannot predict where this story will go. It will take a turn and you will think, "oh, that's weird, but ok, I get it". And then it will do it again, and again, and again. But somehow, by the end of it all, it all makes sense.

IAmBroom•4h ago

Reminding me a lot of Unsong.com, by Scott Alexander.

snowwrestler•4h ago

In case people are wondering why this is being posted to HN again, the author just signed a book deal:

https://bsky.app/profile/jonbois.bsky.social/post/3lp7tpfpeq...

_Yguy_•3h ago

I had no idea about this haha (I can confirm I am not associated with the author in any way)

alargemoose•2h ago

I’ve adored Jon’s writing for years, so a book is exciting! But it does bum me out a little bit that it will be “just” a book. Compared to the dynamic and multimedia formats of “Tim Tebow in the CFL” and “Football 17776”. The writing is excellent, but the dynamic and multimedia nature of his previous work will be missed. Can’t wait to get my hands on it!

addandsubtract•4h ago

Wait, this is actually amazing.

sshah_24•4h ago

I had to print preview it... :)

Strang•4h ago

This completely locked up my laptop. I had to hard power down.

bArray•3h ago

Needs to be removed from front page.

GTP•3h ago

How? This luckily didn't happen to me.

ablation•3h ago

Jon Bois has done some fantastic work. I love his Pretty Good series: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLUXSZMIiUfFSCYW1o-4wh... Entertaining even if you're not into sports (but you better be into data!)

whatamidoingyo•3h ago

Not going to lie, that jump scared me. lol.

Phenix88be•2h ago

This page sucked 100% of my CPU in mear seconds… I'm lucky I could close the tab fast enough.

alephnerd•1h ago

Same here. It's complete garbage with on Firefox despite using an overpowered Macbook Pro.

khaki54•2h ago

Works great in edge on mac

haiku2077•1h ago

For those who don't have time to... "read"... this great story, Jacob Geller provides a fun and effective summary within this video at 9 minutes in

https://youtu.be/aBBuoD9eL5k

In his words: "It is in my opinion one of the best sci-fi stories ever written."

Jotalea•1h ago

I got jumpscared by the text :sob:

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