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

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

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Post by wool_gather »

throwaway5752 wrote: post #90
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…

A bunch of childish young adults inconvenience a bunch of shoppers and employees at a big box store and the police for no good reason.

Why do you assume the players were young, and how were the other people inconvenienced? (And why does inconvenience outweigh the players' enjoyment?)

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

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Post by ineedasername »

hinkley wrote: post #76
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…

When the seeker gets pissed off enough about how well people are hiding, they take the people they found and go inside and watch a movie. As grownups, maybe the bar, or just hang out in the Ikea food court?

That sounds about right, "I found 100 people. I'm done. Time to get a hotdog and something with lingonberry in it."

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

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Post by pbhjpbhj »

ineedasername wrote: post #192
hinkley wrote: post #76

Earlier quoted context omitted.

When the seeker gets pissed off enough about how well people are hiding, they take the people they found and go inside and watch a movie. As grownups, maybe the bar, or just hang out in the Ikea food court?

That sounds about right, "I found 100 people. I'm done. Time to get a hotdog and something with lingonberry in it."

Two hotdogs, one with jam?

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

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Post by pbhjpbhj »

gremlinsinc wrote: post #59

Ikea should stop 'banning' them and embracing these. They should build a ticket platform so you can only get into the game w/a ticket. You'd put an armband on signifying you're a 'player'. That way they could maybe limit it to a smaller number per game.. 3000 seems like a lot. Maybe 500 or less. How many of these people would shop while there are go to the cafeteria?

We were at Ikea today and I thought - they should have a "lazer" game where you try to get as many tags as possible. Players would be required to walk, you could only tag someone once and they could have tags on furniture [or only on furniture] that encouraged kids to "catch them all" ensuring the parents visited a particular room or item that Ikea wanted to sell.

Maybe ...

MVP would be just have some of the barcodes with a different colour background and give people barcode readers "capture 30 tags and get an icecream"; improves engagement, keeps kids interested in the "hunt"??

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Post by FridgeSeal »

coryfklein wrote: post #160
girvo wrote: post #147

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A game that seems very inspired by the SCP Foundation itself recently came out, Control by Remedy — if you enjoyed the site and play games at all, you should check it out!

Hey I've seen the trailer for that, I hadn't read enough SCP to recognize the inspiration though. Very interesting!

I’m midway through it, and it’s one of my favourite games already. If you dig the “weird sci-fi” aesthetic, then I strongly recommend it. The physics engine is also super impressive.

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Post by dredmorbius »

LandR wrote: post #189
squeaky-clean wrote: post #35

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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.

The hospitable terrain in the area is highly inhospitable.

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

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Post by dwild »

JohnFen wrote: post #141
dwild wrote: post #130

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> If you've been asked to leave, the crime would be trespassing. If you are asked to leave, it would means that you were found, doesn't it? > if you're found, you go to jail. If you are found, you lose, you don't go to jail.

> If you are asked to leave, it would means that you were found, doesn't it? Not necessarily. You could be asked to leave with an announcement over the PA system.

> Not necessarily. You could be asked to leave with an announcement over the PA system.

Would that be valid legally though? Like how can you know it was targeting you? If they mentions everyone, that could works.

You will still not go to jail though and you can still try to avoid their sight (or else you'll be "found").

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Post by dlwiest »

The first (public) web app was a tool for managing large games of Assassin, which we used for about a week and a half to run a class-wide game until someone complained to his parents and the school shut us down. We probably could have finished it out, but once people get scared and start dropping out of an in-progress game, it's hard to keep going.

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

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Post by roryokane »

tomatotomato37 wrote: post #136
coryfklein wrote: post #94

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That SCP was both completely unexpected and completely appropriate. Also a very interesting mix of creepy and hilarious. I nearly lost it at the description of the humanoids SCP-3008-2. Edit: Working my way through the journal entry - my goodness this stuff is straight-up made for its own movie or Netflix series!

Check out the containment series on youtube; the latest episode is based off that SCP. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cM6GkERwEM0&list=PLEXIiC3q94...

Link to the specific video based on SCP-3008: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vcq1lLCgk7E&list=PLEXIiC3q94...

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

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Post by mdrzn »

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

I almost forgot about it! Great throwback, this "show" was hilarious.
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