trolley mashup

July 6, 2022 12:54 PM

The Potato Problem (SLYT)

What happens when you pull the lever and smash one trend into another one?

"Nothing bad's happening so far...

...EVERYTHING BAD'S HAPPENING SO FAR!"

posted by Don Pepino (12 comments total)

Mods, please mash this potato thing.
posted by ryanshepard at 1:25 PM on July 6, 2022 [7 favorites]

Potatoes are the best (you)tubers!
posted by cynical pinnacle at 1:26 PM on July 6, 2022 [2 favorites]

Mods, please mash this potato thing

You want to bury the potato thing? You know what happens when you put a potato in the ground? You just get more.
posted by justsomebodythatyouusedtoknow at 2:05 PM on July 6, 2022 [9 favorites]

Love that, as the host says, it's no longer philosophical if you can't let anyone die. As for any complaints about excessive potato content: well, taters gonna tate, I guess.
posted by col_pogo at 3:02 PM on July 6, 2022 [5 favorites]

This place is turning into Reddit with all the potato shitposting.
posted by JustSayNoDawg at 3:21 PM on July 6, 2022 [1 favorite]

Mods, please mash this potato thing

I can't imagine the potato thing is a difficult problem. Let's hash it out. What we can't have is a latke-daisical attitude because time fries past when you're letting sleeping spuds lie. We'll croquette easily, please join in even if your problem-solving skills are rosti.
posted by k3ninho at 3:31 PM on July 6, 2022 [1 favorite]

mmm....rosti
posted by supermedusa at 3:31 PM on July 6, 2022

Love that, as the host says, it's no longer philosophical if you can't let anyone die.

Disagree. You're now weighing lives against the thought, care and effort required to save them. Research and planning have opportunity costs. Time spent finding the perfect death-free solution to this one situation may result in needless deaths in other situations due to lack of planning time spent on them.
posted by justsomebodythatyouusedtoknow at 4:25 PM on July 6, 2022 [2 favorites]

This looks like a game I would enjoy if you could just set up the pieces and then hit the start button (a long time ago, one of the Burnout games had a Crash Mode that was kinda this), but having to make moves in real time would totally stress me out.
posted by box at 5:31 PM on July 6, 2022

Loved the “Stop dying, ya pricks!”
posted by darkstar at 5:37 PM on July 6, 2022

Apparently you can download it at https://allshar.itch.io/the-potato-problem
posted by DreamerFi at 4:05 AM on July 7, 2022

I don't know what's going on here, this potato stuff is beyond me. But here's a fun related game: Absurd trolley problems.

Also, I'm one favorite away from 20,000, so this is a fairly shameless comment.

I'd feel bad about that, but I just killed 43 people and a cat.
posted by iamkimiam at 5:56 AM on July 7, 2022 [3 favorites]