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Post by kickscondor »

1_player wrote: post #59
kickscondor wrote: post #40

Some other Internet 'lore' rabbitholes: * SilvaGunner (also: Unregistered HyperCam 2): https://siivagunner.fandom.com/wiki/SiIvaGunner_Wiki * Pronounciation Book / horse_ebooks: https://77days.fandom.com/wiki/Pronunciation_Book_Conspiracy... * Cicada 3301: http://www.cicada3301.org I'm cataloguing some of these here: https://href.cool/Stories/Folkmeme Interested to hear about other favorites of yours!

LEMMiNO has a nice 18 minutes documentary and summary on Cicada 3301: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I2O7blSSzpI -- Some "internet lore" off the top of my head: * Body builders try to figure out how many days are in a week, summary dramatised here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eECjjLNAOd4 * Time Cube: https://timecube.2enp.com/ -- EDIT: speaking of SilvaGunner, I've never heard this name before, I found two menti…

These 'going deep' videos also bring to mind 'The Lasangacat Monologue': https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NAh9oLs67Cw (Originally ran across this in HN comments btw)

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Post by crazypython »

dang wrote: post #66
crazypython wrote: post #54

In less than one minute, this post went from #4 to #12, suggesting anomalous behavior. https://upvotetracker.com/post/hn/27120460

That's not "anomalous behavior", that's routine: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html . If you want anomalous behavior: we not only put your post in the second-chance pool ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26998308 ), we unbanned wikidot.com and unkilled your submission so that it could go through in the first place.

I'm joking. It's userflags or mods.

Thanks for putting it in the second-chance pool.

The issue is anything that seems to disagree with Hacker News' mainstream[0] beliefs[1] gets flagged. Or even things the flagger doesn't understand: see this post being killed in the first place.

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27112353

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26838634

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Post by dang »

crazypython wrote: post #72
dang wrote: post #66

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That's not "anomalous behavior", that's routine: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html . If you want anomalous behavior: we not only put your post in the second-chance pool ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26998308 ), we unbanned wikidot.com and unkilled your submission so that it could go through in the first place.

I'm joking. It's userflags or mods. Thanks for putting it in the second-chance pool. The issue is anything that seems to disagree with Hacker News' mainstream[0] beliefs[1] gets flagged. Or even things the flagger doesn't understand: see this post being killed in the first place. [0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27112353 [1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26838634

The flags were correct. The first link was unsubstantive, and you can tell from the comments why people were flagging it: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27112503. The second was flamebait on the biggest flamewar topic in months. By the time it was posted HN had had a massive number of threads about it (see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26713650). It's easy to see why users would consider yet another such post off-topic.

> The issue is anything that seems to disagree with Hacker News' mainstream[0] beliefs gets flagged.

You don't have to resort to "beliefs" to explain those cases. You may be falling prey to the bias where the bad (what you don't like) stands out more than the good (what you like), leading to false feelings of generality.

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...

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Post by kuyan »

throwaway_2047 wrote: post #63

Can someone explain to me what am I reading here? Everyone is mentioning SCP. What is SCP?

> The SCP Foundation[note 3] is a fictional organization documented by the web-based collaborative-fiction project of the same name. Within the website's fictional setting, the SCP Foundation is responsible for locating and containing individuals, entities, locations, and objects that violate natural law (referred to as SCPs). The real-world website is community-based and includes elements of many genres such as horror, science fiction, and urban fantasy.

> On the SCP Foundation wiki, the majority of works consist of "special containment procedures", structured internal documentation that describes an SCP object and the means of keeping it contained. The website also contains thousands of "Foundation Tales", short stories that take place within the SCP Foundation setting. The series has been praised for its ability to convey horror through its scientific and academic writing style, as well as for its high standards of quality.

> The Foundation has inspired numerous spin-off works, including the horror indie video games SCP – Containment Breach and SCP: Secret Laboratory.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SCP_Foundation

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Post by nonbirithm »

dash2 wrote: post #67
kickscondor wrote: post #42

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Also interested in stuff like the 847-page 'please will anyone speak to about anything to me' historical document. https://web.archive.org/web/20060324180631/http://www.moviec...

What in hell is that????

It was an Internet phenomenon caused by a quirk in Google's "I'm feeling lucky" ranking.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_am_lonely_will_anyone_speak_...

HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25532050

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Post by TrevorJ »

gswdh wrote: post #13
xvector wrote: post #10

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Did anything ever come of this? Were the ideas ever implemented in the real world?

I heard they concluded the best sign was no sign. Any sign would draw attention to the site if it could not be understood. The best thing to do is to bury waste as deep as possible in secure and boring (geologically) locations to reduce the chances of anyone digging.

There's a common theme among fantasy stories of a race of (usually dwarves) that 'dug too deep' and uncovered something evil underground. It's interesting that this cautionary tale already seems embedded in our lore. I wonder why? Have we made this mistake before, at some point in our forgotten past?

Probably not, but it's interesting to think about.

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Post by p1mrx »

sbierwagen wrote: post #14
xvector wrote: post #10

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Did anything ever come of this? Were the ideas ever implemented in the real world?

Regrettably, the actual markers at the WIPP burial site are far more boring and government-y: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:WIPP_Large_Surface_M...

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https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:WIPP-09.jpeg

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Post by dragontamer »

debo_ wrote: post #60
dragontamer wrote: post #53

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And of course, the anime based off of John Titor's legend: Steins;Gate (and other urban legends: such as miniature black holes are being created by "SERN" in the LHC: the obvious play on CERN in the real world). A pretty funny (and horrific!!) "what if" scenario if a lot of those legends happened to be true. I have my doubts if it has aged very well: a lot of the pull of that anime was that it felt very "in the now".…

The urban legends may have an expiry date, but "tuturuu~" is timeless.

That's true. A lot of the characters are very memorable and stand on their own, even without any context of the urban legends.

Isn't that right Chrrrrris-TINA!!

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Post by TeMPOraL »

debo_ wrote: post #60
dragontamer wrote: post #53

Earlier quoted context omitted.

And of course, the anime based off of John Titor's legend: Steins;Gate (and other urban legends: such as miniature black holes are being created by "SERN" in the LHC: the obvious play on CERN in the real world). A pretty funny (and horrific!!) "what if" scenario if a lot of those legends happened to be true. I have my doubts if it has aged very well: a lot of the pull of that anime was that it felt very "in the now".…

The urban legends may have an expiry date, but "tuturuu~" is timeless.

Indeed.

I imagine it also had a measurable impact on the sales of Dr Pepper. It took me a year to kick the habit of drinking it, which started after binge-watching Steins;Gate.

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