This is absolutely brilliant.
In its current form, it seems more conceptual than practical, but I think an engaging and potentially fun-to-play ("fun"?) gaming product can come out of this.
Classify shortcuts into tiers/difficulty levels
1. baby (little to no real consequence)
2. teenager (slight potential embarrassment)
3. reckless (mortifying but not career- or relationship damaging)
4. daredevil (would require apologies and other face-saving actions to recover)
5. drunken (even with face-saving would inflict career- or -relationship damage)
6. destroyer (guaranteed social consequence; possibly career- or -relationship ending)
7. just no (immoral and illegal in many jurisdictions)
Let opponents create and join the game with real stakes (money, labor, product, reputation, etc.).
Make sure your EULA is ironclad in case any users litigate after having woken up with a massive hangover and finding the entire world angry at them.
UPDATE: The tiers should be additive, so level 4, for example, would include shortcuts from levels 1 through 3.
EDIT: formatting; swap categories 4 and 5; punctuation; number agreement; grammar; add UPDATE
Some preview of possible outcomes is here: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1oxkvHCRrCh4LxY29KowN...
This is a great/dumb idea. Let's brainstorm some more life ruining actions:
* Create an alarm to go off for every 5 mins for the rest of the day
* Share what you last copied to clipboard on Social Media
* Text a sexual suggestive gif to a random contact
See, this is what's so brilliant about technology. We all know that social media is (okay, probably) going to be the death of society, and these bright sparks have worked out a way to "shortcut"[1] the process.
No death throes of the Republic, we can just move straight to being social outcasts and speed up the atomisation of our society.
Fk, I wish I was joking.
[1]: See what I did there? :-)
reminds me of Social Roulette [1] which was also brilliant. this seems like a much more involved (and potentially life-ruining) version of that. cheers to making something interesting!
Like the rod of wonder, but worse. amazing.
I have no words for how dumb/brilliant that is.
How does "send selfie to a contact" work when the user physically has to press send for imessages? As far as I'm aware you cannot get iOS to send SMS's or iMessages on behalf of the user.
This is an absolutely horrible idea.
... I love it!
With proper execution and promotion it will be a pop culture highlight for decades.
Bravo. I would play this, and likely lose very fast.
Oh, no.
Can I make this into an app is that possible I’ll give it out for free?
This is hilarious. Thanks for sharing! :)
I want to meet this product team and look them in the eyes so I can see what an empty abyss looks like.
That is so awesome!
This reminds me of a drinking game my friends played in high school.
System32 Roulette is a drinking game where you get a fresh install of Windows 98 on some crappy Pentium 2 in your friend's mom's basement. Each player takes a turn deleting a random file out of System32 (we disabled protections, I forget how), then reboots and tries to play a game of minesweeper. If you can, everyone else takes a drink. If you can't, you finish your drink and the game starts over with a clean install.
I really ought to formalize it and make a container based version of the game. But it's far more fun to do on a real computer from the era.