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I Larped at a Drug-Fueled Cryptorave and It Ended in Tears
- el_cujo 8y agoI'm having a hard time deciphering how many levels of irony this article was written under.
- atm0sphere 8y agois anything real?
- BethGagaShaggy 8y agoIronic distance requires at least some level of self-awareness, so I'll say none.
- walrus01 8y agoConsidering the number of outright fraud artists and charlatans masquerading as "c level executives" of dozens of different cryptocurrency firms, isn't the whole thing an elaborate LARP?
- busterarm 8y agoMy fear here is that people are using events like these as a tool to generate believable false identities (for opsec purposes. watch the grugq's video). Recycle a few key identities between events and you can build something really useful.
- pbrb 8y agoWas thinking similar thoughts - if the characters are reused at a few parties, meet a ton of people, and those people go on and bring up memorable characters in the future they can eventually connect. Outside validation immediately makes that 'character' a real person to those who met them or read about them.
- blotter_paper 8y agoTo me, the end of the article seemed to suggest that Salem might be a contrived identity used by a larper larping as a larp organizer: >Suddenly I’m curious about this strange person. From the balcony, I ask her where she’s from. >“The U.K.,” she says. >“Where exactly?,” I follow up, wondering if it’s London, Scotland, or wherever. >She squints back up at me, surprised by the question, and repeats, “The U.K.” >I watch her walk quickly down the block, hail a taxi, and drive away forever.
- busterarm 8y agoThe fact that enough of us are a) thinking this b) that such a strange event has such reach, and c) involves Monero, leads me to believe that this is the true purpose of this event series. I do ARGs and Nordic LARPs and generally know of everyone involved in organizing events of this nature and this is totally off my radar.
- OscarTheGrinch 8y agoAll my crypto friends agree I am rich, the wider world not so much.
- jaredwiener 8y agoHeadlines like this make me feel old.
- prepend 8y agoThis reads like Douglas Rushkoff’s Ecstacy Club novel for modern times.
- aaaaaaaaaaab 8y agoI don’t get it. Can someone explain in plain English what this article is about?
- walrus01 8y agoLacking any other suitable explanation, "postmodernism"
- sverige 8y agoNot just any old postmodernism, though. This is blockchain postmodernism.
- isoprophlex 8y agoThe entire story was also surprisingly bland and boring.
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- ablation 8y agoGoodness me, this was a chore to try and read. I guess points for postmodernism? Not sure what else to take from it.