All the time — References & Easter Eggs

Let's take a look at things that are applicable to the website "all the time". That is, anything that applies to either of the website’s pages (landing or main).

Clipboard shenanigans

When copying text from the website by selecting it and using Ctrl+C, the contents of your clipboard are replaced with the text “Just Wizards”. Maybe they don’t do it as much anymore, but I remember a period where quite a few websites would add credit to themselves at the end of whatever you copied, which got really annoying!

Seconds tracker

While on the webpage (if accessed directly, not embedded), the address bar tallies up the number of seconds you’ve been on the page for, flooding your browser history in the process.

I’m mentioning this because it isn’t obvious this is happening when accessing the page from itch.io, due to it being in an iframe over there.

Spinning wizards

If you right-click on the website (or use the menu key on your keyboard) at any time, you get whisked away to the music video Dead Or Alive – You Spin Me Round (Like a Record) with spinning wizards up and down the  You may see that the YouTube upload date is a little on the early side for 4K, and you’d be right — at some point they replaced a 480p upload that looks taken from videotape with a 4K scan.

What I’ve done for the current release of Just Wizards is take the audio from the 4K upload but retain the video from the 480p one. The old audio was muffled, so it’s good to get something better. While there’s a large difference visually between the two versions, I found any blemishes on the film more distracting in the 4K version, so stuck with the old 480p one. And it’s not my intention to run a piracy site, so I’m fine with people having to go to the official upload for better quality.

Unfortunately, this doesn’t work in Safari on iOS. Long-pressing doesn’t trigger the contextmenu event. Android users should be able to, though. Rotate your device to a landscape orientation for a decent experience.

At the time of writing, there also seems to be a curious bug with this in Firefox, at least on Linux and macOS. If a video file is loaded from your local filesystem, as in not over the internet, it’ll get stuck in for several seconds at the last second of video. This has caused me a small amount of grief, but fortunately it doesn’t affect the live site in any way, unless you download it.

Another bug is that resizing the window can possibly mess up the scale on some of the wizards. I don’t know exactly what causes this to happen — I find it impossible to intentionally make it happen. So I’m not too worried about fixing it.

In the code

There’s not much additional stuff to be found within the website’s code, but there’s scraps here and there. I may as well point them out, seeing as the website is vanilla HTML/CSS/JS without even any minification at play.

quickMaths() is a reference to Man’s Not Hot by Big Shaq — “two plus two is four; minus one that’s three, quick maths”. It was a recent release at the time of originally making the website, so it was fresh on my mind.

pwomise() is an intentional misspelling of “promise” in the style of that degenerate “OwO” copypasta stuff.

The “keylogger” for the “wizard” Easter egg is named as such just to sound malicious. It’s not — keystrokes aren’t sent off to a server anywhere and it doesn’t have access to what you type outside the website anyway. The variable keyz is named as such because I guess keys is a reserved keyword? It wasn’t working, in any case.

The spinMyWizard class is… well, I could hardly call it wizardSpin. Not after the Meatspin shock website (SFW Know Your Meme link), which uses the same You Spin Me Round song.