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Re: Police Shut Down a 3k-Person Game of Hide-and-Seek at IKEA

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Post by wolco » Sat, Sep 07, 2019, 5:52 AM UTC

urda wrote: post #97

gist wrote: post #95

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> and stakes are raise: if you're found, you go to jail Go to jail? For what? What is the crime? I would say that at least in the US there would be no such thing for this type of activity. Can you imagine a prosecutor trying to make a case over this?

In some jurisdictions they can charge you with "disorderly conduct" [1]. It can be argued that 3k+ people playing a game of hide-and-seek in a public store like Ikea does meet the following criteria: - Makes noise that is unreasonable, considering the nature and purpose of the actor's conduct, location, time of day or night, and other factors that would govern the conduct of a reasonably prudent person under the circ…

Terrorism...

Re: Police Shut Down a 3k-Person Game of Hide-and-Seek at IKEA

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Post by spookyuser » Sat, Sep 07, 2019, 6:05 AM UTC

gitgud wrote: post #170

dakics wrote: post #75

Worth remembering "IKEA Heights", a soap opera filmed covertly inside the IKEA store in Burbank, California 10 years ago. https://www.youtube.com/user/IKEAHeights/videos https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IKEA_Heights

Whoa that's hilarious, it's got [1] Randall Park in it before he was famous! Do you know some other series from that era? I recently discovered "GoodNeighborStuff" which has the same quality sketch comedy feel to it. [1] https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1320827/ [2] https://www.youtube.com/user/GoodNeighborStuff

Take a look at Channel101.com, it seems like this show originally was screened there. The idea is people submit 5 minute tv pilots and only continue making them if the live channel101 audience votes to renew them for another episode.

Almost everything on channel101, even now, still feels like quality sketch comedy. Some of the best stuff though is Dan Harmon's original shows - though there are almost too many to watch http://www.channel101.com/talent/108

Re: Police Shut Down a 3k-Person Game of Hide-and-Seek at IKEA

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Post by anonytrary » Sat, Sep 07, 2019, 6:12 AM UTC

Hide-and-seek was always my favorite game to play with friends. Nothing can really beat the basal gratification and excitement in simulating a predator-prey situation. It is kind of neat that humans, after conquering hunting and being hunted, simulate this activity for risk-free thrill.

Re: Police Shut Down a 3k-Person Game of Hide-and-Seek at IKEA

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Post by StavrosK » Sat, Sep 07, 2019, 6:16 AM UTC

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2bitencryption wrote: post #131

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(off-topic) Just curious, have you heard of the game "Control" that was just released? I've been playing it, and it borrows heavily from SCP (and I mean heavily -- it's the same concept). Just wondering your thoughts on that, for such a big-budget production to make use of SCP concepts? Reminds me of the Slenderman films (except much much better).

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> A oroborous of being touched and touching, endlessly.

Like two adolescent child molesters.

Re: Police Shut Down a 3k-Person Game of Hide-and-Seek at IKEA

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Post by StavrosK » Sat, Sep 07, 2019, 6:28 AM UTC

rotexo wrote: post #69

ineedasername wrote: post #47

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…

You might be interested in the hide-and-seek variant Sardines. One person hides, with a group of seekers. Seekers that find the one who hides have to hide with them, until one seeker is left. There is nothing like the feeling of looking around, encountering fewer and fewer other seekers, until you are alone with the knowledge that you just lost.

How can you ever be sure if you've lost?

Re: Police Shut Down a 3k-Person Game of Hide-and-Seek at IKEA

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Post by raverbashing » Sat, Sep 07, 2019, 6:59 AM UTC

Scoundreller wrote: post #161

raverbashing wrote: post #51

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Refrigerators are safer now

How?

They have a limit on how much force it takes to open them from the inside

Older refrigerators (50's/60's) had a locking handle

Re: Police Shut Down a 3k-Person Game of Hide-and-Seek at IKEA

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Post by dgzl » Sat, Sep 07, 2019, 8:43 AM UTC

When I was in high school, I would play a game called "fugitive"[0] with 100+ people from nearby schools. Essentially, it's a game of chase through a few miles of town. Everyone starts at the same line but runners get a head start. Runners who are tagged become chasers who carpool with drivers. Runners use any means necessary to get away, including hiding and deceiving, trespassing across properties, jumping fences and scaling houses.... It was a frenzy and madness and probably didn't last an hour overall. Athletes win the race and everyone else has a brilliant hilarious experience.

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fugitive_(game)

Re: Police Shut Down a 3k-Person Game of Hide-and-Seek at IKEA

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Post by kwhitefoot » Sat, Sep 07, 2019, 8:56 AM UTC

logfromblammo wrote: post #39

A 3000-person game of Hide-and-Seek in an IKEA is what happens when private businesses start to take over free culture, public places, and public events. In the past, villages would play village football (or "mob football", or "Ba") against each other. The England-Scotland border was actually defined in part by the winner of an annual Ba game between Coldstream and Wark. The "Baa Green" south of the river went to the…

The Ba in Kirkwall is held every year still. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kirkwall_Ba_game

Re: Police Shut Down a 3k-Person Game of Hide-and-Seek at IKEA

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Post by LandR » Sat, Sep 07, 2019, 10:49 AM UTC

squeaky-clean wrote: post #35

LandR wrote: post #18

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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…

Man, you are not kidding! I didn't realise it was so far from anywhere and that looks fairly inhospitable terrain too.

Re: Police Shut Down a 3k-Person Game of Hide-and-Seek at IKEA

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Post by kaikai » Sat, Sep 07, 2019, 2:57 PM UTC

throwaway5752 wrote: post #149

scbrg wrote: post #109

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"To have fun" is a good reason.

Yes. Fun for the people playing. Fun, at the expense of the people I was talking about. Maybe I am too cranky, but it seems really frivolous and thoughtless. Given all the mass shootings at retailers, it seems like it could cause too many people anxiety or other distress to be worth it.

Fun is not a zero-sum game, thankfully