A Mysterious Website I Stumbled Upon

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

108•_Yguy_•7mo ago

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throawayonthe•7mo ago

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

jbeninger•7mo ago

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

i_am_proteus•7mo ago

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

wrsh07•7mo ago

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

moron4hire•7mo 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•7mo ago

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

snowwrestler•7mo 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_•7mo ago

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

alargemoose•7mo 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•7mo ago

Wait, this is actually amazing.

sshah_24•7mo ago

I had to print preview it... :)

Strang•7mo ago

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

bArray•7mo ago

Needs to be removed from front page.

GTP•7mo ago

How? This luckily didn't happen to me.

ablation•7mo 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•7mo ago

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

Phenix88be•7mo ago

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

alephnerd•7mo ago

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

khaki54•7mo ago

Works great in edge on mac

haiku2077•7mo 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•7mo ago

I got jumpscared by the text :sob:

Thoreandan•7mo ago

Viewing it under Chrome, as soon as the scrollbar reached a certain point, it started progressively zoom-increasing the text size. Weird bug.

jbeninger•7mo ago

Is it, though?

Agentlien•7mo ago

Try again, with some patience. You might find this bug more interesting than expected.

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