There's a game about the boat stuck in the Suez Canal and you're the bulldozer

Suez Canal Bulldozer game
(Image credit: Eric Wilder)

Like the it's memeing, the from Eric Wil🐓der is both hilarious and depressing. It's hilarious because it's a plucky little bulldozer trying to dislodge a 247,000-t🎀on container ship, and it's depressing for exactly the same reason. The stuck ship is disrupting global trade on a staggering scale, and it's unclear when it'll be unstuck.

After wasting a few minutes playing the Suez Canal Bulldozer game, it's pretty clear that there's no winning here. Whereas in real life, we can reasonably assume there will꧃ 𝕴come a time when the 1,300-foot Ever Given will move along with its life and the Suez Canal will flow free again, there seems to be no way to give the massive Freightliner so much as a nudge in Wilder's free-to-play browser game.

The controls are simple enough: you move the bulldozer with the directional keys and you can try to move the ship by pressing ꦓJ, but you're told "it's super stuck" (a reference to Pokemon games). I tried bri𝕴nging the bulldozer back to the edge of the screen to gain momentum and slamming into the ship, but no luck. Pressing J along with every possible combination of the directional keys? Nothing. Does the conspicuously placed duck in the water have anything to do with a solution? Probably not, but feel free to try.

The Suez Canal Bulldozer game is the natural culmination of a new meme trend (cheers, ) comparing the stuck boat and bulldozer to a plethora of other crappy situations with ineffectual solutions, from the two hobbits at the foref🧔ront of the fight against Sauron in The Lord of the Rings, to the daily walks intended to ease the cumulative m♏ental burden of the COVID-19 pandemic.

As points out, despite its indisputable meme-worthiness, the situation at the Suez Canal couldn't be more pressing. reports that the Ever Given is, at the time of writing, disrupting more than&nb💦sp; and . Of course, that doesn't make Wilder's Suez Canal Bulldozer game any les🌌s amusing, but it does add some sobering context.

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