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That sounds awesome, but how does a 3k game of hide & seek actually work? I mean, by home rules growing up, one person was "it" and had to find everyone. That would suck. One person would have to find 2999 others, and most of them would just be stuck stuck under an Espevar, waiting. This is an important problem to solve. I call on the engineers of this site to find a solution to the hide & seek scaling problem. Let's…
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Probably cheaper than TV/mail advertising per-customer-acquisition or per-additional-dollar-o-profit.
Could just as well turn off real customers who head home when the store has turned into a playground.
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I think whether or not it was started as a joke is somewhat irrelevant now that over 4K people have signed up. It seems likely that at least of few those people will actually try to show up. https://www.facebook.com/events/area-51-groom-lake/raid-area...
4K? Try 2 million: https://www.facebook.com/events/area-51/storm-area-51-they-c... The latest seems to be that they're organizing a festival called "Alienstock" in the desert near Area 51, maybe it could end up being similar to Burning Man or it could also just be a scam. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/aug/21/will-alienst...
That sounds awesome, but how does a 3k game of hide & seek actually work? I mean, by home rules growing up, one person was "it" and had to find everyone. That would suck. One person would have to find 2999 others, and most of them would just be stuck stuck under an Espevar, waiting. This is an important problem to solve. I call on the engineers of this site to find a solution to the hide & seek scaling problem. Let's…
Maybe 2999 people had to find the one?
This has some neat extra elements, such as tactics ("I think I found them but I first need to misdirect and lose these guys"), gymnastics ("Found, so how am I going to fit my big ass into this tiny, already overcrowded spot"), and most importantly shared shadenfreude ("How are we supposed to hold our laughs if the last seeker just strolls by with all of us packed here?").
Highly recommended
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Is this an actual thing? I thought it was a joke, is it meant to be a joke but some people are going to turn up having it taken it seriously? Not an American, but I feel that could go badly.
It's not an actual thing beyond a big in-joke. If anyone does actually show up, it will be something like the pizzagate gunman situation, where they have mental issues. Area 51 is so isolated [0] that a raid by any average person is pretty much impossible, they'll be stopped miles away from the facility. It's a long gravel road just to reach the restricted roads. [1] If you type for directions from Crystal Springs to…
How is a 3000-person game of hide-and-seek supposed to work? Hide-and-seek typically involves knowing who you're looking for, or at least knowing that anyone in a given area is in on the game.
That sounds awesome, but how does a 3k game of hide & seek actually work? I mean, by home rules growing up, one person was "it" and had to find everyone. That would suck. One person would have to find 2999 others, and most of them would just be stuck stuck under an Espevar, waiting. This is an important problem to solve. I call on the engineers of this site to find a solution to the hide & seek scaling problem. Let's…