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David Tristram made one of these works for the IRIX (“EYE-ricks”) system called Electropaint. The creation of these works is crowdsourced to computers running the Electric Sheep program. In one of these works, a man on a deserted island has a relationship with a mermaid and is attacked by (15[1])Lilliputian pirates, among many other events. Another of these works has an Easter egg in which a Utah (-5[1])teapot model randomly replaces a joint connecting two segments of a 3D (*) pipe growing at 90 degree angles. Sierra On-line (10[1])created (10[1])one of these works named “Johnny Castaway”, and Berkeley Systems released a collection of these works called After Dark. A cold open in The Office references the obsession with wanting a bouncing object in one of these works to hit a corner. For 10 points, name these ephemeral artworks that appear when a TV or computer monitor is left unattended. ■END■ (10[1])

ANSWER: screensavers [prompt on “animations” with “what purpose do the animations have?”]
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PlayerTeamOpponentBuzz PositionValue
Kevin Wanga neural-net processor; a thinking machineEdwardian Manifestation of All Colonial Sins4715
Vishwa ShanmugamMacro EditorsWe Bought a Complexity Zoo Story65-5
Ashvin SrivatsaEight Megabytes And Constantly Swappingplaying emacs while my parents are arguing8510
Seth EbnerDianetics for Diabeticsscreaming into the public static void main(String[] args)8610
Swapnil GargWe Bought a Complexity Zoo StoryMacro Editors14710