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For people who don't get this joke: There's a party game called 'Among Us' that's sort of like a real-time version of Mafia set on a space ship. Most of the players are trying to determine who's the 'killer' while completing tasks, and the killer is trying to kill all the other players. So when he says 'red sus' he means, the red colored player is suspected to be the killer.

Apparently the words 'among us' show up somewhere in the Rust source code, so the person made a silly pull request to change it to "here" instead.

God I'm out of the loop...

Arguably Among Us is the game of last summer, or hell, even the game of this lockdown.

Uh, Animal Crossing would like to have a word about that latter title.

Pokémon Go enters the chat. Seriously, we picked the worse games to pass time during lockdown.

Edit: I mean it, lockdown was weird and it looked like it would last only a few months, so many of us picked casual games to fill the time we would spend running errands. It took me three months to switch to more interesting passtimes.

Among Us has been holding on longer than Animal Crossing at this point. In some ways it has fewer annoying design problems - Animal Crossing feels like it's forcing you to slow down and relax, but they did this by making all the loading times and menus at least twice as slow as they should be.

Inventory management, selling bugs, visiting islands, etc, it just takes too long.

Vlad, you're looking a little sus at the moment.

Roblox piggy has that title.

That's probably a good thing. ;-)

I've found, even when I research the meaning/origin of popular memes, that I still do not understand them. AMOGUS is one of these.

Incidentally, TikTok is also really disturbing to me because practically -nothing- on it makes any sense to me... almost as if it were from another planet. It's disturbing because it makes me realize how little I understand about people in the very society in which I live.

Get off my lawn?

I think "AMOGUS" is a meta reference to the overuse of Among Us memes, where people would constantly ask if everything was a reference to the game, eventually devolving to "AMOGUS".

Edit: Tiktok is similar; its some sort of Darwinian laboratory of memes where innocuous memes are selected for and duet-ed until they become freakish monstrosities of in-jokes and meta humour.

Hah, that's actually a very insightful description of TikTok (to me at least). Thanks!

My kid refers to a character in the game as a "mungus" -- I've never heard him pluralize it. But god, we couldn't figure out what the hell he was talking about until he drew the thing.

> refers to a character in the game as a "mungus"

> a "mungus"

Your kid is quite clever.

Oh, I don't know... he also pronounces "bald" as "bob" and considers bob to be the third gender. We're working on that.

Similarly, I've heard of kids "versing" eachother. Root cause: in Pokemon, the announcer says "A versus B" -- naturally, the kids interpret "verse" as a verb, which clearly means "to fight", and conjugate it normally.

I'm guessing he's in between 11 - 17? (Rhetorical, definitely would not expect an answer to that.)

I wouldn't worry too much. He'll get there when he gets there, in the meantime, just let him enjoy the in-jokes [0]. You'll miss it when it's gone.

(source: Spent a while hanging/working with a group 11-18 year old males, as both a member and a leader [1])

[0] The group I hung out with/worked with would refer to "potato" as a species. The "mungus" and "versing" both strike me as plays on words, much in the spirit of programmer humor.

[1] In a semi-official capacity. Not as in "natural leader".

lol, no, he's 5 (yes, this is perfectly normal for his age -- he hasn't learned to spell). And yeah, I'll miss this phase in a few years.

Ah, never mind then. Probably should work on that.

Entertainingly enough, all of those things you described would've matched up pretty spectacularly with the interactions of that group I was describing.

We really were all just a bunch of five year olds at heart :P

The phrase "is this an Among Us reference?" has also become a meme, and has been further deconstructed into AMOGUS? as a reaction to overuse.

I really still don't get it.

If it's any consolation, I think you'd get the same response from a group of 3rd graders if you showed them "All your base are belong to us."

To be clear: there is no joke in the code. The joke is the issue itself.

Specifically, the idea is that the character designs in Among Us are so minimalistic that just about anything [1] can look like them, due to pareidolia. So there's a running gag of people posting objects whose resemblance to the characters is increasingly strained, until you're seeing little spacemen literally everywhere you look. When you take this to its extreme, the joke is that even just seeing the words "among us" in source code is enough to drive someone to a nervous breakdown.

[1]: https://imgflip.com/memetemplate/284994674/AMONG-US-TRASH-CA...

Oh ok. Not very funny but cool cool.

I suppose I'm becoming old and grumpy but I'm with the one guy who "requested changes". Go outside. What a waste of people's time just because you can't read two words without thinking about a video game.

Eh, they did the work to change it, the diff is pretty inconsequential and it seems like enough people empathize/sympathize.

This is a form of "programmer humor", something you're probably familiar with if you're a grumpy old programmer. I think it's a good sign that a new generation of devs also have a decent sense of humor, but I guess it's all subjective.

It is a joke

Careful! The bots don't understand humor. Might need a captcha in front.

This game became a feature of this lockdown, it's understandable if you don't appreciate the humor, which isn't good to start with.

I would have left it there, though, as a token of these times.

Edit: checked the history, the text was there 4 years ago, while Among Us is from 2018, so this wasn't a reference, just a coincidence.

Well, when not that long time ago somebody decided for us that we have to/should use main instead of master, then this argument wasn't accepted

>What a waste of people's time just because you can't read two words without thinking about a :).

“among us” doesn’t evoke a context of terrible crimes against millions of people

Neither does "master" in reference to content versioning or electronics. Not that that stopped anyone from getting huffy about it.

er master combined with slave sure does, and that's the origin in tech.

I think it's ok to remind that this problem probably had no place in non-native english speakers minds.

Using "master/slave" didn't create any connections to crimes 'n' similar - those were completely neutral terms until this show started.

Er because slavery is a fine practice outside the antebellum south? Are you seriously arguing that other kinds of slavery are not problematic?

Origin in tech is electronics.

Master/slave has seen quite a good history of use due to the relationship the master switch has to downstream elements. It's state, determines the state of those that follow. Downstream elements are 'slaved' to the "master's" state, which is a valid, ahistorical description that's been around since my grandparent's time at least.

The fact there are folks who can't seperate their own discomfort with certain aspects of American history from technical contexts is not the fields' or practitioners problem.

Some people are allergic to humor ;)

There's a little bit of humerus inside of every among us guy

Ok, I concede. I was being a grouch yesterday :D

I honestly think this is a good thing. If new developers are willing to have a sense of humor while also not detrimentally breaking the experience for others, I fail to see the harm there. It's certainly less harmful than naming your photo editor "Gimp", as good of a name and well-intentioned as it may be.

1. We do put humorous things in the docs.

2. This wasn’t that; it’s a coincidence. This text is older than the game.

There will always exist someone who feel offended or harmed by the most innocent words, it's hard to know where to draw the line. It's like those "insensitive clod" comments on slashdot that used be understood as jokes, but these days we can't be sure.

Coincidentally, wikipedia no longer has a reference to insensitive clod. https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Slashdot&type=rev...

Absolutely, and I think there's not much of a justification to hate a program like Gimp. But people do anyways, and it's a shame that they are missing out on some great open source software. Likewise, I think that harmless pull requests like this one are a better outlet for programmer humor then your end product.

I'm a bit prone to the out of place joke when people are being serious. But not in code. There is no humour in my code. Not even the odd pun. When something accidentally funny or ambiguous emerges I scrub it out. It feels like a sacred duty to make it as clear and concise as I can, and humour always detracts from that. Same goes for issues, etc. It just lowers the signal to noise ratio, when figuring this stuff out is tough enough anyway.

I too prefer the code itself to be the joke rather than relying on comedic devices

Rust has time travel. That landed two years before among us was released.

The oldest commit is from October 17, the game released on June 2018. Definitely not a reference.

https://github.com/aaabot/rust-by-example/commit/c621fd05c0e...

"Rust uses the power of inverse async and GPU-accelerated turboencabulation to travel back in time and litter development resources with culturally appropriate references from the future."

I think the number of people who think this PR is serious / not satire is even funnier. Maybe I'm just too young? (20)

Poor guy

Not sure which is more amusing, the PR or the comments on HN.

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