I 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.
Capitol Hill's mystery soda machine
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You must not have read the article, it is on Capitol Hill in Seattle, which is in the state of Washington, not Washington D.C.
Seattle may have or influence tech secrets Russia wants.
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#46I 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.
In a sort of similar vein there was the Mystery of the South London Hellraiser VHS. A few years ago, someone spotted a Hellraiser VHS on the roof of a bus stop. It was removed and a replacement appeared. Then it happened again. Then more Hellraisers appeared on other bus stops. It can still be seen on Google Maps. I always thought Stoke Newington was a gateway to hell, so it was good to have it confirmed. https://blo…
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#471. https://medium.com/purple-theory/vending-machines-vs-sharks-...
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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.
> true Alternate Reality Games peaked in the mid-to-late 2000s I agree. Early 2000's were the glory years of the internet. The internet was powerful enough to be bringing people together that could have never communicated or met before. It allowed niche interest groups to connect so that these types of stories and mysteries could proliferate and spread, but it was not so widespread and attention-focused that the myst…
TBH, that picture couldn’t give us less information if it tried…