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Neat idea! The connections game looks like it's exactly the same as the original. I'm surprised they can get away with that.

You can't copyright game mechanics, so there's little to stop anyone from copying games like these.

You can patent them though!

Connections is very similar to Only Connect’s third round:

https://www.denofgeek.com/tv/the-new-york-times-just-invente...

Are they game jamming whilst on strike? Outrageous! I just love it!

What a cool thing! They're so brave to form a union and strike in the first place, nobody does that, I have mad respect for these workers. Then they go and build some cool sh*t while they wait? Heck yeah!

If you're reading this, I'm rooting for ya'll :)

Weird, how did this not get marked as a dupe by the automated system when op posted?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42078647

There's a time difference of 8 hours between those posts.

I just tested dupe detection with this post [0], and I got forwarded to it after submit. It was posted 13 hours ago.

Just to be clear, in my original comment I meant: why didn't op get forwarded when he submitted.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42083547

I have never ever heard of software engineers going on strike until now. I guess software engineers are going the way of commoditized factory workers.

Everything on this site looks like it could have been built by AI in like 20 minutes.

Nothing ai over the messaging in the games they've added in there.

Wow, what a negative, pessimistic comment. It just makes me sad to read.

Here you have a bunch of software engineers doing something none of us were brave enough to do, forming a union, fighting for their rights, striking when they're being ignored.

Then they have a hackathon to build a few things in a few days, symbolizing the power of software! Look at all the cool stuff they made in just that time.

How else would you have wanted it to go?

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