Mailbag: Halloween 2026

I’m curious what you thought about the Halloween spell on Unsung! In case you enjoyed it, here are some follow ups I collected since publishing: A few people online suggested the distinctive and creepy “I can do it” Monopoly Deluxe sample is from a cartoon Ren & Stimpy, which premiered not long before the game. I found an example that’s very close, but not quite exactly like the one from the game. (It’s not creepy in the video!) Nik Clayton added some color to the YouTube red and blue squares mystery, and specifically of the name of the YouTube channel – “Webdriver Torso”: This was a test not just of the video encoding pipeline, but of the entire end-user experience. So rather than using an API to upload the videos directly, a web browser was controlled, aka driven by a script to navigate through the YouTube UI and upload the random videos. This was done without showing any of the browser UI on the screen so it could be completely automated, often referred to as running the browser in…

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