That Coldplay 'Kiss Cam' Couple Just Became a Vibe-Coded Videogame - and Then an NFT (forbes.com) 69
"I vibe coded a little game called Coldplay Canoodlers," reads the X.com post by gaming enthusiast/songwriter Jonathan Mann. "You're the camera operator and you have to find the CEO and HR lady canoodling. 10 points every time you find them."
Mann's post includes a 30-second clip from the game, which is playable here.
Forbes notes that the TikTok video of the couple's reaction has drawn more than 100 million views — and that the married-to-someone-else CEO has now tendered his resignation from his dataops company Astronomer (which was accepted). The company is now searching for a new chief executive, according to a statement posted on LinkedIn. ("Comments have been turned off on this post...")
"Our leaders are expected to set the standard in both conduct and accountability, and recently, that standard was not met."
But songwriter Mann saw a chance to have some fun, writes Forbes: Mann used ChatGPT to make the "Coldplay Canoodlers" game, inputting such prompts as: "Can you generate an 8-bit pixel image of a stadium concert viewed from the stage" and "there should be a large jumbotron somewhere up in the stadium seats." He also entered rough drawings of the visual style he envisioned... The response to the game, Mann said in an interview, has been unexpected. "I have gone viral many times with my songs," he said. It's "very strange to have it happen with a game I made in four hours."
Songwriter Mann has been sharing an original song online every day for over 17 years. Last summer Slashdot also covered Mann's attempts to sell NFTs of his songs, and his concerns about SEC regulations. (This led him to file a real-world legal challenge — and to write a song titled "I'm Suing the SEC".) So with all the attention this weekend to his instant game, there was nothing to do but... write a new song about it.
And minutes ago on X.com, Mann also posted a new update about his game.
"I turned it into an NFT."
"Took some time," Mann explained later. "But I vibe coded my own ERC-721 contract and minted the game as a playable NFT. (Plays great on OpenSea)."
Mann's post includes a 30-second clip from the game, which is playable here.
Forbes notes that the TikTok video of the couple's reaction has drawn more than 100 million views — and that the married-to-someone-else CEO has now tendered his resignation from his dataops company Astronomer (which was accepted). The company is now searching for a new chief executive, according to a statement posted on LinkedIn. ("Comments have been turned off on this post...")
"Our leaders are expected to set the standard in both conduct and accountability, and recently, that standard was not met."
But songwriter Mann saw a chance to have some fun, writes Forbes: Mann used ChatGPT to make the "Coldplay Canoodlers" game, inputting such prompts as: "Can you generate an 8-bit pixel image of a stadium concert viewed from the stage" and "there should be a large jumbotron somewhere up in the stadium seats." He also entered rough drawings of the visual style he envisioned... The response to the game, Mann said in an interview, has been unexpected. "I have gone viral many times with my songs," he said. It's "very strange to have it happen with a game I made in four hours."
Songwriter Mann has been sharing an original song online every day for over 17 years. Last summer Slashdot also covered Mann's attempts to sell NFTs of his songs, and his concerns about SEC regulations. (This led him to file a real-world legal challenge — and to write a song titled "I'm Suing the SEC".) So with all the attention this weekend to his instant game, there was nothing to do but... write a new song about it.
And minutes ago on X.com, Mann also posted a new update about his game.
"I turned it into an NFT."
"Took some time," Mann explained later. "But I vibe coded my own ERC-721 contract and minted the game as a playable NFT. (Plays great on OpenSea)."
Jesus fuck everything wrong with the world here (Score:5, Insightful)
And fucking nfts? Are we going to bring back that tax dodge? Because that's what those were going to be until the IRS said no, you couldn't use the art loophole anymore and you certainly couldn't use it on nfts.
I cannot go a single day without this God forsaken world reminding me that the entirety of human civilization is collapsing. At least not without turning off the internet and any other media device.
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Re: More things wrong with the world. (Score:1)
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In no fault states, divorce is generally unfair to the person that didn't lie, cheat, and steal.
Really?
If your spouse fucks someone else, they shouldn't have a right to half of the marital assets?
You need counseling.
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divides the assets basically by algorithm regardless of who cheated.
Good. What does division of the assets have to do with where your dick wandered?
As I said, you need counseling.
Marriage seems to have become a legacy concept
The irony.
I wonder why? Is it perhaps because it's used as a weapon by vindictive spouses who have had their pride wounded?
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I'm seriously having trouble understanding your perspective
I find it fascinating that your head could be that far up your ass.
You seem to assume a lot about me.
You seem to underestimate just how much about yourself that you're outing.
My point was that the cheater (or liar, or thief, or various other forms of treachery) is at fault
Fault? There is no fault in a no-fault state. That's quite literally the point.
which should influence the algorithm
You think if someone fucks around on you, it should affect how the marital resources are divided? Why on earth would you think such a thing?
but does not.
Makes sense. Unless of course the marital assets were accumulated by said cheating, they have no bearing on the matter.
Can you refute that point?
The natural thing to do is to div
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> how much about yourself that you're outing.
You seem to be generalizing.
> You think if someone fucks around on you, it should affect how the marital resources are divided?
Yes, because it’s basically breach of contract, and very psychologically damaging to the cheated and the children. Without some other agreement, marriage implies monogamy.
> The natural thing to do is to divide evenly. You're the one that needs
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You are clearly reading the voices in your own head into my words.
Nope, and I'll demonstrate shortly. You really do out yourself, and just aren't quite bright enough to see it.
Yes, because it’s basically breach of contract, and very psychologically damaging to the cheated and the children. Without some other agreement, marriage implies monogamy.
Perfect. I was hoping you'd see this.
A breach of contract does not somehow imply that you forfeit a equitable distribution of the resources (unless of course you signed a contract saying that)
In a no-fault state, you signed no such contract.
It is your own personal belief system that says that the spouse who breaches the contract should also somehow forfeit what they own.
Because the contributions were not equal and one person breached the contract.
Oh, they weren't?
I really
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I appreciate your perspective and points, but apparently you didn't go through my divorce in the "no fault" state of Oregon (actually getting re-litigated now).
I went through my parents in the "no fault" state of Washington.
Also, there is no actual marriage contract
This is correct, in the general sense. What we are calling "the contract" here, is just divorce law.
just marriage law that nobody seems to understand before signing up.
That is the fault of those who did not bother to learn.
And cheating is not the only form of marital abuse.
That doesn't matter.
Marital abuse still does not imply asset forfeiture.
Other forms can be very difficult to prove in court, but most divorce cases never reach court.
That's because most divorces are not contentious. Any contention goes to court if it can't be resolved outside of court.
BTW, you definitely don't seem like a very happy person.
I'm happy as a clam.
Happy and married.
And if my wife cheats on me, I won't be trying to fuck her o
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No-fault merely means that in the consideration of equitable distribution, there is no concept of "fault".
This really shouldn't be contentious.
If my wife and I own a condo 50/50, and she cheats on me, does she lose her half of the condo? That thing that she contributed to the marriage to earn? Of course not- unless your intent is punitive. No-fault removes the punitive aspect.
Now for story time.
My parents divorced when I was 15.
There wasn't a good guy in that story. My
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Asshole? That's fucking rich.
So you're in the camp of, "if your spouse cheats, you should be able to take everything from them."
I suppose we should be able to hit them when they mouth off as well, shouldn't we?
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They should get NOTHING!!
Fuck them.
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What if the one who cheated is:
A stay at home mom who has never had a career, and cheated because she was driven to it by a sustained pattern of emotional neglect?
I am not saying this always happens nor is it the case in this story. But you think that under these circumstances, she should just be booted out to the street, homeless and penniless and with no means of contributing to the parenting of her children, and needing to start a career many years or possibly over a decade late in life? You think that
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In a no-fault state, then that contract does not include fidelity.
The idea that if you violate the marital contract, you lose your right to that which you have accumulated in the marriage over the course of your life is the most tiny-dick chauvinist horse shit that ever existed. Frankly, you should be ashamed of yourself. Get over that tiny dick you have.
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Shows how much you know you're wrong that you have to sink to insults to try to be right.
Except that I'm right, and you're wrong.
Should a man lose his marital assets if he beats up his wife?
No, he should go to jail.
Reparations will be handled in the criminal case.
What if a woman murders her husband?
No, she should go to jail.
Reparations will be handled in the criminal case.
I mean just because they broke the trust doesn't mean they should lose their assets, right?
Uh, correct, and this should be obvious to anyone who isn't a piece of shit. Are you a piece of shit?
Or it only physical abuse that gets that?
Not that either.
Why would you want to reward such reprehensible behavior?
This is just really unclever manipulation of the argument.
Nobody is rewarding anyone. You want to punish. That's different.
The damages in a contract are stipulated in the contract.
Breach of it does n
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The commenter clearly seemed to think the world was going to be supremely unfair to the CEO (turns out 'exec' is ambiguous, as the man, his wife, the mistress, and the mistress' husband are all executives one place or another). You said the exec deserves to lose because of his actions, which seems to be inconsistent. The commenter's stance is based on his blatant assumption that the wife was not earning money and the mistress was just some gold digger, and that even if the wife wasn't earning money, that
Re: More things wrong with the world. (Score:2)
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Every word you post is acting like a victim and how unfair it is to the guy that he got caught cheating. I'm sorry you cheated on your wife and lost everything. Maybe, don't get married?
Re:More things wrong with the world. (Score:5, Informative)
YEah, none of this will happen. Let's assume they don't have a prenup (in which case the settlement of assets is dictated by that). The wife would get 50% of what was generated during their marriage at best. That may include the house, but its value would be subtracted from what she got in cash. Alimony... depends on a lot of circumstances, but it's more rare and generally a limited time. Plus we have no idea what the wife's income is, she may make as much or more.
Will he get a job again? Of course he will. Probably not as a CEO in the near term, but he'll absolutely get jobs where he isn't a visible presence for the company. And in a few years the CEO jobs will open again, because nobody is going to give a fuck a year from now.
As for going to jail- no. If the alimony (which is unlikely to exist) does exist and it is set high, he goes back to court to get it lowered. Because alimony is based on your income (with a few exceptions for example purposefully staying unemployed). Given that he was just publicly fired, his current income potential is very low, so any alimony would be matchingly low. There are formulas for these things.
So in other words, your just spouting misogynistic bullshit.
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given current divorce laws, she will wind up with the house and most of his money
That depends on jurisdiction. Community property states have more reasonable divorce laws.
The community property states are Arizona, California, Idaho, Louisiana, Nevada, New Mexico, Texas, Washington, and Wisconsin.
If you don't live in one of these states, you can move there, live for six months, and then file for divorce, even if your spouse lives elsewhere.
Kissgate was in Boston, so Byron is screwed if his wife files first.
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Spoken like a man with great breadth and depth of experience.
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Cheaters deserve to lose everything and any bad thing that happens to them.
Fuck cheaters.
But outside of that, no, divorce shouldn't be a virtual death sentence, unless one is an abuser, child molester, etc.
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You seem to have just been hit with the headlines and manufactured a scenario where he is a rich guy married to a stay at home wife, with a gold digging mistress.
My spouse was interested enough to bother to dig in and the reality is that the CEO, the wife, the mistress, and the mistress' husband are all four rich with income, so alimony is likely not even a factor. Similarly, the assets being split is unlikely to be lopsided.
From what I've seen in actual life, that all seems to be a rich person trope, and
Re: More things wrong with the world. (Score:2)
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Coldplay for sure. And, he could of used just a little fucking discretion. Now the entire world knows and it's better then soap operas.
Well then... (Score:2)
Not everyone is cut out for the marriage.
You're clearly not ready for it, and that's OK. Just move on with your life and maybe you'll get there someday.
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Grifters every last one of them man. That game is some serious dog shit too. I feel bad if they had to vibe code it is as it seems like something that could easily be cobbled together from any number of free sample games in a few hours at most.
I had forgotten that people were still trying to use NFTs to scam people out of money by making you pay for jpgs. That is so 2010s.
Re:Jesus fuck everything wrong with the world here (Score:4, Informative)
And fucking nfts? Are we going to bring back that tax dodge? Because that's what those were going to be until the IRS said no, you couldn't use the art loophole anymore and you certainly couldn't use it on nfts.
Yeah, but there's a new sheriff in town... and he thinks NFTs are great (as long as he gets to wet his beak).
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This. Why can't people just laugh and have a bit of fun. There's a lot of grumpyoldfart shouting at clouds energy about this.
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That's even the best use case for vibe coding / AI slop. The nuke launch system shouldn't be coded this way, but a 5 minute game is precisely the point where it's a nice to have.
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Maybe it's less about the 'AI' and more about the 'slop'. Just like mobile games are flooded with slop, even before AI.
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LOL someone pissed in your cornflakes so hard this morning you stopped learning how to use language.
If you are saying "vibe coding" isn't coding by your definition then nothing but low level assembly is coding since you're handing off instructions to something else at every step of the way. "You suck, the C compiler did all the work, booo"
Secondly "cookie cutter" implies duplication and replication. By all accounts this looks like a rather unique creation in the gaming world, and doesn't appear to be copied
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agreed except having fun merely at the expense of another's disgrace is quite cringey, not really fun for me.
i have litle sympathy for these protagonists, but they were just going about their lives. it would be different to make fun of him, say, for being a ceo and doing nasty ceo stuff that harms the world, or if they would have been previously preaching marital faithfulness on twitter. this is just exploiting/monetizing weakness and/or unleashing the mob for the lulz. fuck this guy.
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agreed except having fun merely at the expense of another's disgrace is quite cringey, not really fun for me.
Each to their own. While I don't agree with that we outed them as a society, having fun with the outcome is what we do. Much of human comedy is predicated on poking fun at the misery of others. It doesn't suit everyone, but no form of comedy ever will.
Re: Jesus fuck everything wrong with the world her (Score:2)
Plus, he didn't ask for a permission to use the caught couple's image. He may need to pay back for that one day.
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Do you understand what an NFT actually is? They don't, and usually aren't, sold as a scammy cryptocurrency token. I get an NFT every time I go to a concert and it is a fun talking point when a group of friends share what shows they've been to. It has no selling value and is use for entertainment
I'm gonna make a Error: buzzword not found (Score:1)
Then I'm going to post it on Error: timely reference sadly dated.
And then I'm going to Disney World!
Poor couple. (Score:5, Interesting)
Yeah, they were cheating. That is not a crime. At least no in the US.
They got caught, and now a bunch of scum buckets are trying to make money/internet points out of their misery. Shmucks ignoring their rights, invading both their privacy and also not paying them anything for using their name/likeness.
I hate the idiots making games, jokes, and NFTs about this incident far more than the poor couple that were caught choking.
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well, tbh they weren't really being very diligent about their privacy, but i concur. also, stuff like this going viral is a bit depressing.
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Adultery is a crime in Virginia.
18.2-365. Adultery defined; penalty.
Any person, being married, who voluntarily shall have sexual intercourse with any person not his or her spouse shall be guilty of adultery, punishable as a Class 4 misdemeanor.
Not sure about other states.
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The law is unconstitutional, as other similar laws have been found in the past. It hasn't been removed from the books only because nobody has been charged for it in a century, thus nobody has had a chance to challenge it on those grounds. The exception is for the military, which has the UMC which is allowed to have stricter restrictions on behavior.
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"As of 22 November 2024, adultery remains a crime in 16 states and the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico but prosecutions are rare.[86][87][88]" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... [wikipedia.org] I agree it SHOULDN'T, but right now it is.
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Lawrence v. Texas pretty much invalidated all of these laws.
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I don't know, I'm not so sympathetic. As the person who posted the original video said, "Play stupid games, win stupid prizes."
Should have just waved at the camera (Score:5, Insightful)
They got outed because of their reaction.
The Coldplay guy would not have noticed or commented on them otherwise.
If they had had the presence of mind to just act normal instead of hiding, 2 seconds on the big screen and they would have been done.
Re:Should have just waved at the camera (Score:5, Insightful)
It's easy to say something, and quite different to do something. Hiding when you're doing something you yourself think is wrong is a natural instinct. Yeah acting naturally would be the obvious answer, but I'd wager precisely 0% of people here would have done that.
I mean if they had presence of mind you wouldn't be at a Coldplay concert in the first place.
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Let that be a lesson to all exec suite cheaters. If you take your cheating to a public arena and stand-up to be seen, then you should first game-plan it out. If showcased on the kiss-cam act completely normal and casual -- but don't actually kiss on cam because that might go viral too.
There are probably consultants that can give good advice on avoiding detection to rich adulterers. Also there are consultants (usually called P.I.s) that are expert on detecting rich adulterers. Lifestyles of the rich and powe
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While true, it's not a given that they would have gone totally unnoticed. It's highly likely that other employees were in the arena, and at least a few of them might have recognized their CEO.
The next CEO search (Score:3)
They are OK as long as the Chief People Officer spearheads the effort. I heard she's intimately familiar with the position.
I think I can honestly say... (Score:3)
...this is the post-CmdrTaco slashdottiest slashdot article in the history of post-Taco Slashdot.
It has EVERYTHING. AI. Crypto. Memes! It's also TERRIBLE!
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