Well this is interesting

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https://pluralistic.net/2020/08/05/behavioral-v-contextual/#adrian-hon

not one-boxing?

Qanon is an ARG
an Alternate Reality Game: an intense interactive mystery narrative that is collaboratively designed by its players, who create theories to explain the mystery, which get adopted by the “game masters” and integrated into the tale.

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similar to this essay which draws from the same sources

Perhaps the best explanation I’ve heard for the movement’s popularity comes from Adrian Hon, the chief executive of the gaming company Six to Start and a designer of alternate reality games or ARGs. Unlike video games, alternate reality games aren’t played on a console — they use the world as their storytelling platform. There’s no one particular medium. The story takes place in real time and seems to exist in the world. So game designers hide clues and puzzles in websites, apps and even newspaper advertisements. It’s a bit like a networked treasure hunt that turns the world around you into a game.

For Mr. Hon, that phenomenon resembled the dynamics governing QAnon. In a viral Twitter thread and follow-up post, he argued that “QAnon pushes the same buttons that ARGs do, whether by intention or by coincidence. In both cases, ‘do your research’ leads curious onlookers to a cornucopia of brain-tingling information.”

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There’s an element of laziness though that this idea doesn’t capture. Sure, looking up things on Wikipedia gives investigatory frisson just like looking up horseshit does, but the horseshit embodies laziness in a way that even Wikipedia doesn’t.

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Eeesh.

It’s almost as if Jared Kushner was in charge of the warehouses.

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An in-depth explanation of the explosion, the ship and the larger situation in Lebanon.

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I would argue so, but that’s nothing new in Chinese history. Emperors would sometimes try and erase previous emperors from the historical record.

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That’s awesome! I love the artwork!

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Thanks! Here’s an updated version. I colored it because it was a bit too simple. Debt makes one blue, and who in debt hasn’t worn khakis at one time or another. Also, he/she is skinny from not being able to afford enough food.

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Love it! Wonderful work that really drives home how destructive student debt has become.

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Become a CCP (certified cheese professional):

https://www.cheesesociety.org/certification/certification-2/

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Beirut has a district called The Quarantine. Yes, the original Zone.

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Researchers found banana microfossils, stone tools, charcoal and a series of retaining walls at the site.

It further dispels the myth that Australia’s native peoples were solely “hunter-gatherers”, researchers said.

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speaking of myth, what does aboriginal oral tradition say about the matter?

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