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minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink31•9 days agoIt’s real, but not a commercial product. I think it was made by students, either as an engineering project or a computing project or something similar
minus-squareMaven (famous)linkfedilink39•9 days agoIt was made for a tech competition as a joke. Originally it was designed for quitting vaping but they thought it would get more attention in the competition if it was “evil” so they made it evil.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish25•9 days agoAnd then we laugh and go, “What a sick and crazy idea and by pointing out how crazy it is, society will learn not to do this.” And then a decade later, you’ll see it in stores. Source: am in marketing.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink4•9 days agoReally hope I don’t have to wait a decade for one of these
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink2•9 days agoSo… Is marketing just like comedy, all about timing?
minus-squareLem JukeslinkfedilinkEnglish6•9 days agoOh you mean the Torment Nexus? From the book ‘Don’t Build the Torment Nexus’?
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink9•9 days agoIt would be much darker if they made it so that the more you smoke the more quickly the ‘pet’ dies.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink4•9 days agoReading the comments, thats actually how is it was designed, but for the lols they switched it to be “evil” as a lark. The actual designed is that way
It’s real, but not a commercial product. I think it was made by students, either as an engineering project or a computing project or something similar
It was made for a tech competition as a joke. Originally it was designed for quitting vaping but they thought it would get more attention in the competition if it was “evil” so they made it evil.
And then we laugh and go, “What a sick and crazy idea and by pointing out how crazy it is, society will learn not to do this.”
And then a decade later, you’ll see it in stores.
Source: am in marketing.
Vape companies:
Really hope I don’t have to wait a decade for one of these
So… Is marketing just like comedy, all about timing?
Oh you mean the Torment Nexus? From the book ‘Don’t Build the Torment Nexus’?
It would be much darker if they made it so that the more you smoke the more quickly the ‘pet’ dies.
Reading the comments, thats actually how is it was designed, but for the lols they switched it to be “evil” as a lark.
The actual designed is that way
Evil geniuses think alike!
Bwah-ha-ha!