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Non-NEC Console Related Discussion => Chit-Chat => Topic started by: Lost Monkey on April 11, 2017, 04:00:51 AM

Title: When nerds have too much influence...
Post by: Lost Monkey on April 11, 2017, 04:00:51 AM
http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2017/04/11/bank-of-canada-10-bill-konami-code_n_15937926.html

I particularly like this quote:

"The Bank of Canada's web team thought the Konami code was a fun way to celebrate Canada's 150th anniversary of Confederation,'' Bank of Canada spokeswoman Josianne Menard said.

Here is a direct link to the BOC site:

http://www.bankofcanada.ca/banknotes/banknote150/

Please discuss and post more examples...
Title: Re: When nerds have too much influence...
Post by: Necromancer on April 11, 2017, 04:07:20 AM
Heh, that's awesome.  It's just a hidden easter egg and entirely non-offensive, so I'd say it's just the right amount of influence.
Title: Re: When nerds have too much influence...
Post by: esteban on April 11, 2017, 04:07:46 AM
Ha!
Title: Re: When nerds have too much influence...
Post by: Lost Monkey on April 11, 2017, 04:28:17 AM
I guess it isn't "ABACABB"... that might have been offensive.. lol

Title: Re: When nerds have too much influence...
Post by: SignOfZeta on April 11, 2017, 07:21:34 AM
I think this is a great topic, even if perhaps accidentally. I worry about too much nerd influence. It seems like there are too many companies making million dollar decisions based on Twitter feedback instead of sound engineering.

It's not nerdiness that worries me, it's the fake expertise of the modern nerd who lacks traditional nerd background. Not Toshio Okada's "Otaku Generation" but rather the more modern less rounded western version.
Title: Re: When nerds have too much influence...
Post by: gex on April 11, 2017, 09:25:27 AM
I was just about to post this! So awesome. 80's/90's gamers are taking the executive lvl jobs now, and doing cool stuff like this.
Title: Re: When nerds have too much influence...
Post by: Desh on April 11, 2017, 11:42:05 AM
I guess it isn't "ABACABB"... that might have been offensive.. lol

Is that MK blood code?  I thought it was A,B,B,A,AC,BC,BC,AC?
Title: Re: When nerds have too much influence...
Post by: Punch on April 11, 2017, 11:53:00 AM
Too much influence would be doing a pinball easter egg upon registering for an account with last name "a$$holeFUK" and first name "DEVILSATAN".

Title: Re: When nerds have too much influence...
Post by: Lost Monkey on April 11, 2017, 02:38:47 PM
I guess it isn't "ABACABB"... that might have been offensive.. lol

Is that MK blood code?  I thought it was A,B,B,A,AC,BC,BC,AC?

ABACABB is the Genesis MK 1 code - there was also DULLARD.
Title: Re: When nerds have too much influence...
Post by: esteban on April 11, 2017, 05:00:37 PM
I guess it isn't "ABACABB"... that might have been offensive.. lol

Is that MK blood code?  I thought it was A,B,B,A,AC,BC,BC,AC?

ABACABB is the Genesis MK 1 code - there was also DULLARD.

Ha! I thought Lost Monkey was referring to the Ikari Warriors (NES) code.

:)
Title: Re: When nerds have too much influence...
Post by: TheClash603 on April 12, 2017, 12:01:01 AM
I guess it isn't "ABACABB"... that might have been offensive.. lol

Is that MK blood code?  I thought it was A,B,B,A,AC,BC,BC,AC?

ABACABB is the Genesis MK 1 code - there was also DULLARD.

Ha! I thought Lost Monkey was referring to the Ikari Warriors (NES) code.

:)

That Ikari Warriors code (ABBA) is the only code I ever discovered on my own.
Title: Re: When nerds have too much influence...
Post by: Warbucks on April 12, 2017, 03:17:09 AM
Hah, I remember Ikari Warriors, I used to play the hell out of that game.