pug n tell

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Hack & Tell NYC presentation on PUG's Avatar Hot or Not. Just a small bit of stupidity.

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Aggressively power bored + antsy.

Year 2000

Shallow, Dumb, and Stoopid

Interwebs = Shallow, Dumb, and Stoopid (Sometimes)

And we’re gamers (kindof)

XBOX LIVE AVATARS + HOT OR NOT = LULZ

l33t haxx0r

The secret ingredient is the URL

herp derp, thanks MSFT

Despite two decades of online interactions which have exposed me to the very stupidest things humanity can offer, it nevertheless manages to sneak in a surprise now and again.

All the pointlessness of Xbox Live Avatars combined with the ancient (by internet standards) practice of rating them on a one to five scale based on how "hot" or "not" they are. And yet, I still found myself clicking through half a dozen avatars (rating every one a "3" because I don't know what the hell constitutes a "hot" or "not" avatar).

It's about time we stopped judging whether or not people were hot by how they look like and instead by which out of a very small selection of clothing they choose to wear and how much money they have spent on completely useless things. Small victories.

http://github.com/jgrebski/

http://avatarhotornot.comyip, it’s open sourced

nonsense provided by @daseinmonkey + @jgrebski

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