I love this comment by BubbaBrown on the original site:

Good flash. I heard all the same things when I quit my job. Still an unemployed computer scientist, but sometimes you just got to escape. A professor once told me to be wary of the "golden handcuffs" or getting too complacent and comfortable... I saw what he meant. Guys with 10+ years of industry experience sitting around doing nothing and incapable, after years of atrophy, of doing anything of importance, but still collecting a check. I had to leave. It's the worst time to do so, but you don't see the living dead, your future, and stick around. So, good luck on your future ventures.

Now I'm sitting in a customer's office and looking at my invisible but oh-so real golden handcuffs. Something to think about on the week-end...

Wow I sat there for a whole minute before realizing I was supposed to control the guy myself. So much for reading instructions eh?

Same here. I thought it was pretty significant. Here I'm sitting at a big corporation, hating my life and counting down hours until the weekend... but maybe I should use the arrow keys and control the guy myself. He's not going to go anywhere until I start hitting those keys.

well, the opening screen does show you the controls, and the "play" button are strong implications that you're supposed to interact and play the game. but i admit i couldn't tell when it "started" exactly

a "play" button to press doesn't hint at a game at all, it hints at a movie. you press "play" to play a movie, you press "Start" to start a game. You may argue that those terms can be easily reversed, which may at first glance be a sound argument, but deeper investigation would reveal that you do not play many video games, or have possibly never owned a VCR. This isn't an argument of grammar, this is an argument of tradition, and traditionally we say: ↑↑↓↓←→ ←→ A B SELECT START

just saying, not hating >_>

Yea the beginning started like a movie so I thought it was an animation. Also the title didn't really hint that it was interactive.

He should sell predefined videos that can be customized... bet he'd make a fortune, cause that was pretty neat.

Hell, he'd probably even be able to put that on his resume.

I don't know why and I can't explain it, but I felt really touched and inspired playing that.

Being able to take "that leap" against all the in-game nay-sayers, actually felt as real as the day I left my job of 5 years to do it myself.

I want to make one like that about the project cycle.

It starts with people saying "Lets dream!" "We're going to touch the stars!"

Then it evolves in to "We need more time." "We're going to have to cut things."

Then after that, it switches to "We'll never ship on time." "Gotta get it out regardless."

And then the final jump off the cliff will be off the stock price chart.

yea that's a good ideas, video templates for people who are about to quit their job :)

Isn't this really old or has this been done before?

You're probably remembering the guy that made the mario flash movie where he tells he's leaving. Don't remember what company, but I do know it was in AU.

This one, perhaps?: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=588139

Cheers, I too thought it was that one. Guess the nonsense meme speak headlines do that to my memory.

Direct link to the old one http://farbs.org/Message.html

I prefer this one.

That's awesome. And congrats on taking the leap!