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This is why stuff like this doesn’t happen more often. I played a 10-day game of tag in college. (Called Humans vs Zombie, “humans” were able to tagged by zomb
by MatthiasPortzel 2y ago
This is why stuff like this doesn’t happen more often.
I played a 10-day game of tag in college. (Called Humans vs Zombie, “humans” were able to tagged by zombies any time that they were outside. We would start with ~150 humans, at the beginning, and by the end of the game only ~30 were not zombies.)
The amount of work that the core-team put in to run the game was insane: reserving space on campus, marketing it to students, defining and refining rules, communicating with campus security, negotiating with campus administration, dealing with rule violations, and more.
I think it’s a shame that it’s so much work to put together and play what is ultimately a very simple game with very little potential to harm anyone. But there are a lot of people who are scared and uncomfortable when other people start running around.
- giantrobot 2y ago> But there are a lot of people who are scared and uncomfortable when other people start running around. Gosh, and for no reason whatsoever at all! /s
- master-lincoln 2y agoIf you say this sarcastically I believe you think there are legitimate reasons to worry when seeing people running around in a park. Can you elaborate why that is?
- mycologos 2y agoThey're responding to a comment about playing tag across a college campus, not a park.
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- msrenee 2y agoThis would have been less concerning a couple decades ago, but after Virgina Tech, more than 1 or 2 people suddenly running past me would cause me to make assumptions. Some "Capture the Flag Game in Progress" signs would be comforting in that situation.
- giantrobot 2y ago> Can you elaborate why that is? First, the person I was responding to was talking about a college campus and not a park. Second, the ridiculous number of mass shootings that have occurred in schools in the past three decades including the one on the Virginia Tech campus. If you see a bunch of people running around and hiding in a place that's not expected it's not a great idea to assume they're doing it for fun. Not with a sad history of gun toting lunatics shooting up public spaces.