First came the comment reply to /u/Too_MuchWhiskey's post in Ideas for the admins.
Then came a direct message
I googled squirrel + rhino and found this article. Maybe you can figure what it all means?
First came the comment reply to /u/Too_MuchWhiskey's post in Ideas for the admins.
Then came a direct message
I googled squirrel + rhino and found this article. Maybe you can figure what it all means?
Maybe this will be the opposing teams of this years game? Kinda like orangered and periwinkle?
Possibly. Although I wasn't there for orangered and periwinkle, it seems to me that what took the Button to another level (actually someone might've already said this) was the ability to choose a side and make of the Button what you did, rather than being told which team you were on.
Powerlanguage responded to my message.
Interesting... I'm not sure that makes it any clearer but thanks for keeping me in the loop.
Applying that article to The Button, the connection is pretty clear.
A rhino sees the button and decides to click it. Moves on.
A squirrel is tactical, but this leads to indecisiveness. They come up with strategies, plans, rituals, you name it, to get whatever they think the favourable outcome is. This can of course backfire on them.
That's assuming that's what the meaning of the two animals that were messaged is, which I doubt. The Button was a data gathering exercise on behaviour, and I can only assume that after crunching all that data they have more questions to answer and a more refined idea of where to look and what to test.
So do you think this year we'll have two buttons? And we are only allowed to choose one? The Rhino button and the Squirrel button? O_O
Maybe one button will have a shorter timer and the other will have a longer timer, AND you can only pick one!
My guess is that this is connected to playing pretend American politics. Instead of the Donkeys and Elephants we have the Squirrels and Rhinos. Don't know what's planned but my bet is it's based off that idea, if these images actually have any significance.
Rhinos are filthy pressers, Squirrels are filthy non-pressers.
Everyone just needs to take a bath.
While we're speculating, do you suppose it could have something to do with O'Reilly books? Squirrels are HTTP, and Rhino is Javascript- so could be implying that this year's prank will involve another interactive script?
Interesting idea. This is getting pretty abstract but I guess we won't know until the 1st.
Hey check this out- the flairs are weird.
https://www.reddit.com/r/joinrobin/comments/4cnpmf/testing/
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It's gonna be some kind of thing to figure out, where you either choose the easy way, or the hard way. If you stop to think it through, or if you just go for it. Similar to the button, but my guess would be more complex.
Hmmm, so many possibilities. It'll probably be good fun but even so, anything other then the Button will be a big disappointment for me. Happy cakeday btw, you're four times older than me :)
Thanks, this is actually my newer account ;)
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