> but they don’t really do anything A rollercoaster is an adrenaline production machine.
I would argue it's more catalyst for the biological machine that produces adrenaline
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>Please don't post shallow dismissals, especially of other people's work. A good critical comment teaches us something.
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#14> It produces no As someone with kids. We now know that “senses” aren’t just things that we have that inform us about the world, there are also “sensory needs.” From proprioception to vestibular and plenty other $5 words. This seems like a new development or at least a new acknowledgement and awareness is still growing. So I would say that these devices produce sensory experiences.
Sometimes it helps to read past the first paragraph before commenting on something.
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#15we ride on our ships, further than most raiding and pillaging from North to South Coast We steal only metal, like guns, tanks and toasters and melt them all down, to make RollarCoasters --Buckethead
Nice!
Also, greetings to a fellow Buckethead fan!
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#16"Star Tours" at Disneyland doubled down on this uselessness factor. When it opened in 1987 I was fascinated, as a teen, and there were several demonstrations of the technology they were using, and principles they exploited, to make a roller-coaster ride out of a "room" that never traveled anywhere! It was a large-scale flight simulator, in fact; you cram people into the fuselage, shut the doors, and then toss them around with hydraulic actuators while showing them a film, and the combined sensations really convince people that they're in motion, flying through space, and being buffeted by battles and explosions.
The waiting in line part was even made fun by all the branded Star Wars animatronics. There was never a dull moment, even if it was two hours before you actually boarded the "ride".
But it was all completely fake, pseudo-futuristic, and based on a fictional universe of characters who don't exist, yet with all those layers of simulation, people paid good money and invested an entire day at the park to be hoodwinked and thereby entertained, and indeed, inspired to bond with friends, family, and significant others.
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#17One could also argue that a coaster is a transducer of sorts. It converts chemical energy into sound (screams of passengers) and is also a substance-free emetic [1].
When i was young my siblings and I were riding a low/mid intensity coaster. My brother and I are smiling and screaming, and we look at momentarily at some point backwards a couple of cars and we see our sister, looking completely unamused, staring indifferently out into the horizon. No smile, no frown. She seems like normal person now. But what does that say about a person!? Maybe it was an 8-10 year old power move.
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#18The article's predicate is that rollercoasters have no purpose, but then seems to explain what their purpose is. There are far more things in the world that are "purposeless" than rollercoasters, if amusement is insufficient. As someone who appreciates rollercoasters and psychoactive substances, I've made comparisons between them. A good ride will make you feel weightless one moment, four times heavier the next. You'…
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#19"Star Tours" at Disneyland doubled down on this uselessness factor. When it opened in 1987 I was fascinated, as a teen, and there were several demonstrations of the technology they were using, and principles they exploited, to make a roller-coaster ride out of a "room" that never traveled anywhere! It was a large-scale flight simulator, in fact; you cram people into the fuselage, shut the doors, and then toss them ar…
>> inspired to bond with friends, family, and significant others.
That is what I remember from decades past, but parks seem different now. With all the complex ticketing and line-bypassing schemes, it now seems more about social signaling than enjoying the ride. Those Disney lines were fun but now it seems that standing in a line is only a signal that you aren't subscribed to whatever scheme allows one to bypass the line on a given day. Airlines are the same. Once upon a time everyone just got onto the plane. Now we all line up and compare each other according to which order we are allowed to board. Disney worked to make the line entertaining. Now they want to upsell and I worry that, like airlines, they now want to make the line experience worse in order to better sell the bypass option.
(Starting in the late 90s, Disney actively tried to reduce lines so that people would spend more time shopping/spending, which is why the parks suddenly felt far more crowded.)
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#20What a ridiculous piece. A rollercoaster is just like literality 100000 other things that are done just for the adrenaline/novelty maxing like video games, sports, scrolling tiktok or jumping into a pool of water over and over.
Play behaviour that carried over from kid to adult life to encourage developing oneself and exploring the environment, all traits that tech today exploit in benign and less benign ways.