Japan's Dododo Land, the most irritating place on Earth
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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...
Where the map does not represent the actual venue. Where every route leads to the gift shop. Where some displays are only in English. Where the flow between the rooms is non-intuitive. Where the audio guide is too loud/quiet and you cannot adjust the volume, or pause it during an item. Where there are mind-your-head bars in the way for no reason.
Or a heater/airconditioning blasting unpleasantly cold or hot air in your face as you go through the doors.
I like your typographical examples, but I'm afraid they'd be lost on most people.
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.
fta: "'dododo' is the kanji character for 'anger' (怒) written three times in a row".
Do other countries have websites like this covering them?
@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 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?)
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.
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.
But then i see a comment below saying that the post was edited multiple times, so I'm late to the party.
Is it another one of those 7-11 sandwiches, or do there exist like, the webring and jump cushions and individual blogs and hosting colocations and all that infrastructure for each of all major languages? I suspect Chinese WWW might have some, but what about e.g. Indonesia, major Western European languages, LATAM as a region, or, most importantly, en-US?
When we went we got the priority tickets (can't remember the exact name of the deal) because there were no normal slots left that day; that does get you discounts on stuff but awkwardly the discount is at the gift shop _outside_ and it wasn't clear whether there were things at the fake supermarket checkout _inside_ that you couldn't get outside. It also gets you the card you boop for the scavenger hunt which makes you more involved in the whole thing. So yeah, they got us for some extra cash but it wasn't so bad as a one-off.
BrandoElFollito's legorafi.fr reference seems more pop-culture content farm-y some how? Maybe if I read french I could articulate/notice the ways it's not better. The two headlines sound like The Onion though, 328 steps to improve attention is pretty funny.
Edit: Ha. I went back to IanVisits and saw "Derelict shops in Aldgate to be redeveloped as horse stables for the police" and reference to "Boundary Dragons". I think this site gives me the same joy SoraNews24 does.
Some articles:
- resolve your attention problems in 328 steps
- according to studies, humans use only 10% of their smartphone
There are others that are very good but to close to France to be understandable abroad
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blood_type_personality_theory
(Personally I'd agree slightly with you, the red is very strong and too bright, but without that, the page looks fine)
Japans has a whole mythos about blood type iirc, it’s like astrology excerpt applied to blood type. It’s that weird personality-divining woo.
Probably highly relatable to office work tbh.
Reminds me of some of the old tourist information places in Scotland before the internet was widely available. I was in Huntly, a small town and I was the only person in the office. I remember asking for information/a leaflet about George MacDonald's birthplace in Huntly, and when it was open etc, and getting told something like, "I wouldn't know about that, that's for people who are interested in that kind of thing."
I just replied by saying, "You might not be interested in it, but I am, that's why I'm asking."
She eventually dug out a badly made leaflet with a phone number from just under the desk, as if it was some great chore.
Her heart wasn't in that job. There wasn't much else to see in that town, other than a castle (which is pretty impressive TBF) and some whisky distilleries.
(I accidentally ended up in what I can only describe as a beer automat some months ago. It was billed as some sort of friendly living room to the meeting organizers, and was loaded with propaganda pushing that premise.)
welcome to the public sector :)