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His scientific predictions have withstood 100 years of scientific challenges. His thinking fundamentally changed the way we understand the universe. Yet people are more likely to be convinced Einstein wasn’t a great physicist than to change their minds on topics like immigration or the death penalty. A Game Designer’s Analysis Of QAnon. Q is a fictional character I’m afraid this needs to be said. Q is not a real person, but a fictional character. QAnon uses the oldest trope of all mystery fiction. A mysterious stranger shows up and drops a strange clue leading to long-hidden secrets which his clues, and your detecting power, can reveal. Qanon is an Enormous Alternate Reality Game (ARG) Run by Malevolent Puppetmasters. What follows is a summary of my findings, how I came to these conclusions and important background.
Hi! I was one of several ‘puppetmasters’ on the largest alternate reality games (ARGs) ever run — before Qanon. I was co-founder, CTO and game designer at 42 Entertainment from 2003–2007 and I ran the team that built I Love Bees, Year Zero, the first half of Why So Serious? Join the Q: How the Wayfair Conspiracy Got Absorbed by QAnon. A story claiming that popular e-commerce site, Wayfair, was using ‘overpriced’ cabinets recently set the Internet alight.
The theory originated from a post by PrincessPeach1987 on Reddit’s conspiracy subreddit. After nearly 6000 upvotes, 2.7k comments, and crossposts to other subreddits including pedogate, the post erupted across all social media platforms as users began conducting their own research (which mostly amounted to searching products priced high>low, finding items that didn’t appear to fit, and seeing if they shared a name with any entry on missing children databases), really hitting its stride the weekend after PrincessPeach1987’s initial post.
As seen in the incredibly popular tweet below, the conspiracy found almost instant international appeal once spreading out of Reddit. As journalists and netizens attempted to address the spurious nature of the evidence provided, more threads were then added to the conspiracy. Twitter Analysis The Turkish Connection. NASA’s 'Remastered' View of Europa Is The Best Yet. Kinja is in read-only mode.
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Commemorating Cassini at Saturn: A gallery of wonders. On Friday, September 15, 2017, the Cassini mission will come to an end.
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Moving forward into the future won't change the laws of physics, and thus won't change the practicality of any technology. Its like the article that ran about comparing 3D printers to Star Trek's replicators. The two technologies aren't comparable, because the Star Trek replicator requires matter teleportation for its mode of assembly, and that breaks known physics. Hbm. Blog.bjrn.se: Let’s build an MP3-decoder! Even though MP3 is probably the single most well known file format and codec on Earth, it’s not very well understood by most programmers – for many encoders/decoders is in the class of software “other people” write, like standard libraries or operating system kernels. This article will attempt to demystify the decoder, with short top-down primers on signal processing and information theory when necessary. Additionally, a small but not full-featured decoder will be written (in Haskell), suited to play around with.
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