The Death Generator

deathgenerator.com

17 points·danbolt··7 comments

Definitely remove the back button hi-jacking.

Also, it may have been obvious to some, but there's a short description on the github page:

> "This creates GAME OVER/YOU DIED screens as seen in Sierra Online's SCI engine, as well as lots of other fake videogame screenshots from many, many games."

https://github.com/foone/SierraDeathGenerator

It doesn't look like it is actually hi-jacking the back button, just a crappy ui.

When you go to the site it shows a random screen and the expanded list so you can't actually see the random screen at the bottom. If you do click on a selection from the list it shows you the selected option without the expanded list. At this point the back button will take you to your last page (the first random selection) but without the expanded list so it looks different than it did the first time.

I know this is off topic, but man do I hate when sites highjack the back button.

It doesn't appear to hi-jack the back button. I think it redirects to a new page once or twice, and as you go back it triggers the redirect again. On Firefox, you can right-click the back button to show a list of your history to jump back to where you want to go.

On Firefox mobile I'm unable to return back to HN. It seems to have an auto redirect forward every time I go back.

Although this is as much a failing of Firefox as it is this site IMO.

Thanks for saving me the click.

I'm just grateful this site exists, back button shenanigans or not. These images always get a smile out of the right friends.

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