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Athens (Greece, not Georgia) had one based on Schindler's List Also one called Guantanamo. I've been in that one, it's not bad. Minus the connontations, of course.
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This American Life did a segment on a simulated illegal border crossing. Not exactly an escape room, but ...
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GWBBQ posted:This American Life did a segment on a simulated illegal border crossing. Not exactly an escape room, but ... There's been a couple escape rooms and extreme haunts that simulate kidnapping. I really wanted to go to one in Brooklyn where you basically got tied up and thrown in a warehouse with other actors and had to use your limited time between the kidnappers grabbing other "victims" to kill to try and free yourself and escape.
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I remember a few faux-outrage pieces in a couple of newspapers about that, several years back. Lot of fuss about people paying to kidnap each other but hiding behind foreign law.  I don't think many bothered pointing out how it was all simulated, (meant to be) highly regulated, and you weren't throwing money at a black van to pick your friends off the street.
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...are there regulations on the "fake kidnapping" industry?
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I imagine there was more to it than lawless youths having an alternative to happy slapping, at least. 
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Doggles posted:My initial thought was that maybe this was a good fake, but no, in looking more into Fiverr I'm more convinced this is real. So this is like a hip version of that car ad with American family high-fiving each other because they only need 2 weeks of vacation unlike weak Europeans.
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Strudel Man posted:...are there regulations on the "fake kidnapping" industry? You sign a waiver before anything occurs and they can’t do anything like kill or permanently mutilate you. Look up McKamey Manor if you want to see just how far people will go for extreme situations.
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Alhazred posted:Someone at snapchat approved this ad: I don't get how this is supposed to be a difficult choice, is there anyone in the world who wouldn't rather punch Chris Brown
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Doctor Malaver posted:So this is like a hip version of that car ad with American family high-fiving each other because they only need 2 weeks of vacation unlike weak Europeans. August? They take the whole month of August! And that’s why we made it to the moon.
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Phlegmish posted:I don't get how this is supposed to be a difficult choice, is there anyone in the world who wouldn't rather punch Chris Brown My top choice would be for Chris Brown to have a road-to-Damascus kind of moment in which he realizes that he’s done some truly monstrous things, and that while he can’t change the past, he can dedicate his resources to helping victims of abuse find peace and stability, and helping abusers find the tools to become better people but if I only have the two options, then yeah, it’s barely even a choice; Mr. Brown’s eating a haymaker
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Phlegmish posted:I don't get how this is supposed to be a difficult choice, is there anyone in the world who wouldn't rather punch Chris Brown Poptart Fairy apparently
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How sexual can the slap be, though? Also same about the fisting.
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Phlegmish posted:I don't get how this is supposed to be a difficult choice, is there anyone in the world who wouldn't rather punch Chris Brown There are, depressingly, people who think Brown did nothing wrong, just like there are people who want to free Oscar Pistorius. For a lot of people it's better to double down and deny reality than to admit that the target of their fandom is imperfect in any way.
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There are also plenty of people who think it's OK that Chris Brown did what he did because he can sing songs good. If you asked them if someone else who did the same things should be locked up, they would probably say yes.
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chitoryu12 posted:Is United just hiring sociopaths, or do all flight attendants turn into that at some point? Air travel makes me mildly sociopathic just upon arrival at the airport so I'm not surprised it happens to cabin crew at a more severe level over time.
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Anybody interested in a hamawk? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T2oldQIjBpM
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Away all Goats posted:Anybody interested in a hamawk?
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Memento posted:There are also plenty of people who think it's OK that Chris Brown did what he did because he can sing songs good. If you asked them if someone else who did the same things should be locked up, they would probably say yes. Also people that think it consisted of a drunken punch or something, rather than him actually trying to kill her. (Not that beating your partner is ever justified of course)
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There would be nothing morally wrong with putting Chris Brown down in the street, like a diseased dog.
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The best take on Chris Brown will always be this one.
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Apparently Snapchats shares dropped by 5% after Rihanna asked her Instagram followers to delete the app! So there’s that making it an even stupider move in marketing for them.
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Helith posted:Apparently Snapchats shares dropped by 5% after Rihanna asked her Instagram followers to delete the app! They recently lost a lot of shares because Kylie Jenner asked whether anyone is still using it anymore. It turns out the answer is “no” since the app made a lot of recent changes that left users confused and they went back to Instagram or whatever else is easier to use. Obviously Kylie using Snapchat to show her daughter’s face to the world did not help much.
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Away all Goats posted:Anybody interested in a hamawk? This is mesmerizing.
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The MSJ posted:They recently lost a lot of shares because Kylie Jenner asked whether anyone is still using it anymore. It turns out the answer is “no” since the app made a lot of recent changes that left users confused and they went back to Instagram or whatever else is easier to use. Yeah, they hosed up Snapchat. It used to be that you'd press an icon on the right side of the screen to see Stories (where people would post snippets of their lives, and companies or celebrities could do the same) and press an icon on the left side of the screen to see individual snaps sent to you. It was like this for years and pretty intuitive after a day or so. Then they decided to have the stories accessed by the icon on the right side only be public stories that anyone could see (mainly giving you a giant block of celebrities and new media companies, with a handful of friends who set their stuff to public) and you'd have to go to the individual snap page to see stories for any of your other friends, all mixed in with their privately sent snaps to you. They did the update without telling anyone they were doing it or what the changes were, so you just logged in and suddenly everything was swapped around. It was like showing up on a forum to post and finding that all the buttons had been mirrored. Almost all of my friends gave up on using it immediately.
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I have absolutely no idea how to do anything in Snapchat other than take a picture and send it to people. The UI has been offensively bad as long as I can remember and all I can do is tap and swipe randomly in the hope that I'll find what I'm looking for.
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GWBBQ posted:I have absolutely no idea how to do anything in Snapchat other than take a picture and send it to people. The UI has been offensively bad as long as I can remember and all I can do is tap and swipe randomly in the hope that I'll find what I'm looking for. That's what I do on tinder.
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Isn't Snapchat mainly used as a means of sending nudes while using a plausible deniability of it being a social media platform?
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Shnag posted:Isn't Snapchat mainly used as a means of sending nudes while using a plausible deniability of it being a social media platform? Yep.
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I went to a housewarming party (in San Francisco) and at some point during the party, everyone got on their phones and started to snapchat to each other, the other people in the party. This was somehow what convinced me that I finally needed to get out of the SF Bay Area. That and spending more than half my take home on rent. That's my Snapchat story (but not Story™), thanks for listening.
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I wouldn't give up on Snap just yet. It's still massively popular with teenagers and not only for sending nudes. These same kids hate Facebook. They do use Instagram, but I think Snap is still preferred for most of their communication. When all your friends use a platform, you don't necessarily change just because a Jenner tells you to. That said Snap has no business being a public company or having a valuation in the tens of billions. Same probably goes for Twitter. Some companies are useful despite the fact they will never grow past a certain size or make that much money.
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Yeah, I teach high school, and the kids are on snapchat pretty much all the drat time. They get very animated when they think they might lose a streak on snapchat (even though as far as I can tell, losing a streak doesnt do anything at all except the number next to the friends name goes away). I've heard them talk about instagram occasionally, and many of them apparently have youtube channels, but they almost never mention facebook. What killed facebook for them I think is pretty simple; Their parents are on facebook, and no teenager wants their parents to be completely up on every aspect of their lives. Also snapchat is more convenient for cyberbullying.
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I must have gotten lucky on that my parents are on Facebook but I've never been asked to friend them. They want to stay away from my cyberlife
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My sister unfriended her mother-in-law and almost started a war lol
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SiKboy posted:Yeah, I teach high school, and the kids are on snapchat pretty much all the drat time. They get very animated when they think they might lose a streak on snapchat (even though as far as I can tell, losing a streak doesnt do anything at all except the number next to the friends name goes away). I've heard them talk about instagram occasionally, and many of them apparently have youtube channels, but they almost never mention facebook. What killed facebook for them I think is pretty simple; Their parents are on facebook, and no teenager wants their parents to be completely up on every aspect of their lives. Also snapchat is more convenient for cyberbullying. My kid could care less if we take her phone as long as we let her log onto some device by 9pm every night so she can rapidly send 60 selfies to keep her streaks going. She's about to discover her next social network Twitch because of Fortnite. It's like watching your child grow and mature through a progression of milestones and you just know the next stage is calling people homos online. Krispy Wafer has a new favorite as of 20:29 on Mar 17, 2018 |
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Krispy Wafer posted:My kid could care less if we take her phone as long as we let her log onto some device by 9pm every night so she can rapidly send 60 selfies to keep her streaks going. Makes sense, in my day it was Xbox live. At least now you don't have to buy a system, game, and online account you just turn on twitch and let it do the job.
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Len posted:I must have gotten lucky on that my parents are on Facebook but I've never been asked to friend them. They want to stay away from my cyberlife Your parents are swingers. 
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