One we discussed yesterday with a colleague (we're C++ devs): seeing anyone - especially a fellow dev - browsing the web WITHOUT ANY ADBLOCKER.
My guilty pleasure at these tourist trap places is significantly overpaying for their staged portraits. They (often) ask you if you’d like a free portrait, and then will print you up a postage stamp sized picture with a big watermark on it, with the option to pay ¥2000 or (or thereabouts) for a larger print. Or other times they’ll even print up the big print in advance and just throw it away if you don’t buy it, which I think preys on peoples’ guilt for waste. I don’t know if dododo land does this, but seems like the kind of place that would.
I’ve got one with my family from Pineapple Park in Okinawa that makes me laugh every time I see it. Smartphones make it easy to take a million photos with incredibly good quality, but there’s something about that crappy print with its ridiculous cardboard frame that hits different.
Reminds me a bit of the Park of Aging in Miraikan The National Museum of Emerging Science.
I remember when staff casually handed me a paper brochure near the area dedicated to aging that when opened was blurry and difficult to read. I was confused. When it finally dawned on me this was one of their simulations of old age I never laughed (at myself) harder. Such a fun and educational experience highly recommend for all ages.
Additional: https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2023/11/22/japan/science-h...
A Dododo Land on that premise would be more interesting than what is described, which is weak tea social commentary. A Dododo Land where the doors are confusing and you have to pull rather than push - where there's typos everywhere and the kerning is always inconsistent or sometimes the font randomly changes and everything is hung 1 degree off level - where you pay for a ticket but then it errors out at the entrance and the clerk tells you that your payment must not have gone through - where a few lights just flicker once in a while and there's an odd high-pitched sound that half your group can't hear but sounds like tinnitus - where the employees are reading manga and you have to get their attention by coughing loudly - ...
That sounds amazing, agreed!
That sounds like Shenzhen!
Soranews24 is one of the best websites on the internet! So weird and looks like spam but it's not. This Dododo Land is so weird. Seems like Meow Wolf or Museum of Ice Cream but featuring little things that bother people instead of creative fiction or photo ops.
fta: "'dododo' is the kanji character for 'anger' (怒) written three times in a row".
Do other countries have websites like this covering them?
Is this another one of those weird bot posts I've been hearing about? 3 paragraphs, low-content but apparently interesting, ~50 points new account?
@dang what's HN's position here, I feel like my paranoia is going to ruin the shreds of authenticity that underpinned real engagement on this site. It's a giga-eternal September, and idk how one can moderate this in a way that earns trust and buyin from the humans among us (I swear I'm a human, look no third paragraph).
I didn’t think it was a bot, but I think a good rule is when in doubt, just move along. There are times when it’s necessary to verify the authenticity of the things you read, but this is not one of them. Certainly nothing worth getting paranoid about.
Definitely not a bot or ai touched at all or ESL. And reading the comment as I wrote it, it definitely read oddly to me too! Maybe I’ve accidentally created a mini dododo land here with the comment..
I take a little offense to the low content. Maybe low effort, but I feel like the references were worthwhile and for a reply-less post (at the time) I thought soranews24 deserved more attention. It is a very weird and good site to me. And I guess I wanted to address the content of the article at least a little with my comment. I read dododo as the bird.
I appreciate the comment saying Meow Wolf is a cash grab. I kinda agree but I’m glad it exists. And the cracked citation, I agree it’s a kindred spirit. (What’s the deal with 3rd paragraphs?)
> I feel like my paranoia is going to ruin the shreds of authenticity that underpinned real engagement on this site.
That’s a you problem.
You can either tell or you can’t. I don’t know what to say other than some people have this way of thinking intrinsic and some do not. I’m not sure it can be trained. The moderators of HN do appear to have it, Dan certainly does: I’ve had a few direct interactions with him. Tom I don’t know, never interacted with them.
Insightful comment!
But -- It's not a me problem, it's an us problem.
Let's be honest here, the erosion of trust spans across this and other sides. And your strong beliefs that you have 100% predicitve precision and recall smacks of self serving reasoning. Inspect your own priors and move forward, fellow human.
Of course anything is possible, but I don't think bots typically edit their comments multiple times.
I hear about meow wolf all the time and I seem to be the only person in the world who thought it was an underwhelming cash grab that is beaten by a half dozen events a year in nearly every major city in the US. Am I just missing some huge piece of it?
Which one did you go to?
My other hangout is cracked.com. Another corner with really niche and weird content.