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The Website Is Down (Hilarious 10 Minute Video)

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I saw this a few days ago and considered submitting it, then I thought, "No way the HN community would find this kosher."

Shows what I know :P

EDIT: kosher for submission to HN, not kosher in general.

Hey, if it's this funny, submit it!

Downmodded, but i have to explain. First, it's specifically mentioned in the guidelines that just funny news are strongly discouraged. Second, this is not reddit and i like it. I read both, but for very different reasons.

Agreed.

2 reasons I "strayed" and posted this:

- Humor that only an IT person can really appreciate

- I laughed so hard at this, I just had to share it with you guys.

I won't stray from the guidelines again unless it's really that good. This one was.

Notice I didn't pick on you but on the sentiment that "all funny is good". The video is already a meme, and I wasn't surprised to see it here.

I love all the subtle touches in the video, like the Monster.com page being up in the beginning.

Favorite part though: logging in to guy's Exchange account and deleting the message from the sent box. Brilliant.

I loved the idle "shoot the Halo guy in the crotch" part, I can't think of how often I've been idling in a game whilst talking to a noob repeatedly shooting a teammate in the crotch in CS:S

May not be the best of hacker news, but don't drink and watch this at the same time unless you have a waterproof keyboard.

The voices in this video are sort of annoying, they sound all pitched up. The one thing that is great how each party has different terminology for what restarting is and means. plus the desktop is pretty funny.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=230838

Same video, different site, submitted 2 days ago.

This is a funny video, but what's also funny is that it made the front page this time.

(1) less-known submitter; (2) linkjacked.

Agreed. If you are a no-body than your submissions need to be topnotch to get up-votes, where as well known submitters get special up-vote treatment for mediocre submissions.

I agree. It's a think about trusting. If someone less known submitted this I'd have not clicked or continue watching the video after 1st minute because it's boring at the beggining.

I thought this was Hacker news. This is, what, 4 days old? Ancient!

</sarcasm>

C'mon downmodders! I even included sarcasm tags! :-)

Perfect opportunity for TIPJOY to step in!

?? Why?

This is blatantly a viral ad for Monster. They've paid for it already.

I already tipped it :)

http://tipjoy.com/joy/28560/

There is no reason a page should go down because of bandwidth limits. Just ask the readers/viewers to support the cost. One tip in 10,000 should suffice.

Spot on!

- website = Internet - sales guy humor vs admin guy terseness. - deleting from exchange email love it

There is so much wrong with this I don't know where to start.

Paralysis of options!

I mean seriously. If I were in charge of this company, I'd fire everyone, format all of the servers and start the company over. You just can't fix it when its that far gone!

its not real?

funny as hell... cracking up throughout.

"How many programs do you have running?"

Dang, I sometimes have 2x that much going at once, and not all little stuff either. Like, 5 eclipse instances and Visual studio, 7 or 8 shells, 10 notepads, 3 or 4 mysql prompts, 2 remote desktops, FF, IE, IM, outlook, word, excel, not to mention 5 different dbms's running in the background. I guess I could top it off with Halo.

Your context-switching costs must be huge!

And no, I'm not talking about the computer.

GENIUS

hmm, thewebsiteisdown.com is... down?! you don't say?!

i saw it on TC first, but its now on the main page of www.noob.us if you haven't seen it.

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