Making a Splash

In a previous life, I wrote a tool to make the setting up and editing of quests easier. As the tool loaded up, it would display a splash screen along with a random bit of text. I recently rediscovered this list and thought it would be fun to share it.

Note: This is not the complete list. I have removed some either since they require a bit of backstory, or because they cut a bit too deep (these were written around the time I resigned, and shots were fired).

  • Creating Bugs
  • Making Everything Awesome
  • Business, Business, Business
  • Packing Lootboxes
  • Counting Studs
  • Awarding Gold Bricks
  • Assembling Items
  • Checking Checkpoints
  • Collecting Characters
  • Becoming Sentient
  • Drawing Icons
  • Downloading the Internet - 0%
  • Browsing Netflix
  • Ignoring emails
  • Longing for realistic deadlines
  • Running at 27fps
  • Leaving the EU
  • Backing Star Citizen
  • Loading
  • Your content will begin when this advert finishes
  • Finding GIFs
  • Swiping Nectar Cards
  • Admiring Reggie's Body
  • Putting Coffee in the Sugar Bowl
  • Leaving Teabags in the Sink
  • Deleting Tweets
  • Liked, Commented and Subscribed
  • Freshly Baked
  • Using the Best Words
  • Adding Battle Royale Mode
  • Press Z or R twice
  • Powered by Sodium
  • Estimated Metacritic: x
    • x would be a random number between 10 and 70
  • Also available in Rose Gold
  • Summoning Dark Magician
  • Directed by Michael Bay
  • Blue Peter Badge Owner
  • More Money than Kylie Jenner
  • Consonant Please, Carol
  • Published by EA
  • Sparing No Expense
  • Generating Memes
  • Falling With Style
  • BRB, Using Imagination since Not Enough Info
  • Setting things up without assets because that's how it works, right?
  • The new Password Policy mandates you must only use Emojis
  • Actually a worse love story than Twilight
  • In the Top Percentage of Quest Editors
  • Ed Balls
  • Having fun isn't hard when you've got a Library Card
  • This is Art Attack
  • Installing Adobe Reader
  • Not included in the Meal Deal
  • A Netflix Original Series
  • Xbox One Console Exclusive
  • Make LEGO Games Great Again
  • Stop trying to make fetch quests happen. They're not going to happen.
  • There ain't no party like an S-Club Party
  • Thanos did nothing wrong
  • Prepare for trouble, and make it double
  • As Designed
  • No added sguar
  • Not a story the Jedi would tell you
  • Available to stream for the next x days
    • x would be a number between 1 and 31
  • Made in China
  • Despite the constant negative press covfefe
  • Academy Award Winner
  • Based on a true story
  • Preorder now to get absolutely no content
  • In space, no one can hear you scream. Mostly because no one else is there.
  • Before it was cut, there used to be a greying tower alone on the sea
  • Please ensure you are wearing wrist straps while using this software
  • For British Eyes Only
  • Citation Needed
  • Rated 11/10 by Edge Magazine
  • Recruting a team of teenagers with attitude
    • There was also a bulk tool in the editor with pictures of Bulk from Power Rangers
  • As Seen on TV
  • Turning it off and on again
  • Homeschooling. Where you can call your teacher mum and it's OK
In December, an additional 5 strings got added to the random pool:
  • Have you been naughty or nice?
  • He knows when you are sleeping. He knows when you're awake.
  • For most of the year, Santa spends his time streaming on Twitch
  • Christmas was invented by Cliff Richard to sell his music and calendars
  • Wrapping Presents
On Halloween, the text would not be random.
  • I ain't afraid of not ghosts
The random pool would also be ignored on Guy Fawke's Night.
  • Remember, remember, some day in November

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