Would be eerie if it wasn’t so darn cool
Capitol Hill's mystery soda machine
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#12I feel like we live in a world where it is becoming increasingly impossible for things like this to exist. I don’t have much commentary on the matter other than to say it makes me sad.
Nothing wrong with a more orderly, predictable, benign, ideally deterministic world without variance.
Isn't there? The moon is a "world" without variance, but I wouldn't want to live there!
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#13Background: https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/capitol-hills-magi... Restocking: https://www.capitolhillseattle.com/2014/05/spoiler-alert-mys... Disappearance: https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/seattle-mystery-soda-m...
Not gonna lie, keeping up a machine like this spitting fire drinks for years is a great couple's activity.
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#14I feel like we live in a world where it is becoming increasingly impossible for things like this to exist. I don’t have much commentary on the matter other than to say it makes me sad.
Nothing wrong with a more orderly, predictable, benign, ideally deterministic world without variance.
Pass the Soma.
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#15I feel like we live in a world where it is becoming increasingly impossible for things like this to exist. I don’t have much commentary on the matter other than to say it makes me sad.
Nothing wrong with a more orderly, predictable, benign, ideally deterministic world without variance.
might want to get your T levels checked
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#16I feel like we live in a world where it is becoming increasingly impossible for things like this to exist. I don’t have much commentary on the matter other than to say it makes me sad.
I think that this has lead to the popularity of ARG/Analog Horror/SCP/etc. The Unknown is shrinking, so we need to create the Unknowable.
Oddly, true Alternate Reality Games [0] peaked in the mid-to-late 2000s, even as the world has shrunk by orders of magnitude since. Perhaps that's the period when the internet itself was at its most Unknown, before the great silofication of everything.
[0] ...as opposed to, say, ads with base64 "puzzles" tacked on or narrative-less viral videos with arbitrary distortion.
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#18I feel like we live in a world where it is becoming increasingly impossible for things like this to exist. I don’t have much commentary on the matter other than to say it makes me sad.
It's literally a story about this thing happening.
It’s a story about it ending 3 years ago. Not sure if I agree with GP but “here’s a story of something that used to happen” doesn’t contradict “this type of thing can’t happen anymore”
Re: Capitol Hill's mystery soda machine
#19I feel like we live in a world where it is becoming increasingly impossible for things like this to exist. I don’t have much commentary on the matter other than to say it makes me sad.
It's literally a story about this thing happening.
In the past. The comment said "increasingly impossible," looking toward the future.