An easter egg for one user: Luke Skywalker

einaregilsson | 798 points

This is similar to the story of the guy who pranked his roommate by buying Facebook targeted ads that only targeted him [0]. Perhaps in the future, the AIs will know us all so well that every interaction will be filled with little in-jokes.

http://ghostinfluence.com/the-ultimate-retaliation-pranking-...

dankohn1 | 7 years ago

This is clever! Also worth praising: This site is free, loads quickly, doesn't require a user account, and has an easy-to-understand privacy policy.

carrier_lost | 7 years ago

Well Hamill is a better man than I.

I would hate this. If I imagine being him, this is like having to turn up to the office at 7am on a Saturday for a meeting. It's work. In analogy we're watching Mark Hamill get out of bed on a weekend, groan, drink some Pepto-Bismol and get his best shit-eating grin on his face.

scandox | 7 years ago

Must admit that this seems a bit creepy to me! I guess he's just amused but I wonder if it starts him thinking, is this game monitoring me personally? How else can I be targeted?

comice | 7 years ago

That's just too cool. I have not read such a faith-in-humanity-inspriring moment in a long time.

eeks | 7 years ago

Wonder how many people got "Dad" and wondered why in the world I'm playing against Darth Vader?!?

kbutler | 7 years ago

Tried it out to see the easter egg... not only does it work, but the game is pretty awesome too

bcg1 | 7 years ago

And this is how you do marketing the right way.

erikb | 7 years ago

I suppose the more interesting question here is what the author did to actually detect the avatar.

bojo | 7 years ago

Next time he need to put in Batman.

cwbrandsma | 7 years ago

That's great! I haven't put any real easter eggs into one of my games yet, but I definitely will with my next one. You never know who will play your game (well I guess you do if they tweet about it, but you get what I mean).

mysterydip | 7 years ago

I wish they could have allowed Mark to change the third set by passing his hand over

devgutt | 7 years ago

This is why we love Mark Hamill.

msimpson | 7 years ago

If only the easter egg showcased one of his other roles such as cocknocker from Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back [0].

[0] http://m.imdb.com/name/nm0000434/filmotype/actor

_e | 7 years ago

Hopefully, this doesn't get shutdown by Hasbro.

lpgauth | 7 years ago

Totally worth it!

simonhamp | 7 years ago

It should be noticed that there were the times when Mark Hamill was incredibly pissed off that people only see Luke in him and his acting career was actually ruined by this role. But now he is older and it looks like he is just fine with it. Or may be it's just prozac that makes it look this way.

dmitripopov | 7 years ago

Wow, this place sure is filled with curmudgeons.

mikeash | 7 years ago

It saddens me to see all the comments ascribing victimization where none has occurred.

This is how SJWs operate. Don't do that.

kstenerud | 7 years ago