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The bureaucratic misadventures at the start of the article sound like this is a bunch of people playing a LARP version of Papers, Please. Which, come to think o

by AimHere 12y ago

The bureaucratic misadventures at the start of the article sound like this is a bunch of people playing a LARP version of Papers, Please. Which, come to think of it, should be a thing.

mrcsparker 12y ago
Yup. It seemed like they were just having a good time with the journalist. Isn't there an actual real-life game where someone is sent from person to person to get help, eventually landing back at the first person?
- spiritplumber 12y ago
  Some snipe hunts are like that. Apparently it's a Navy thing.
  - cobrausn 12y ago
    I was once asked to acquire 'one yard of gig line'. http://www.ask.com/question/what-is-a-gig-line http://www.ask.com/question/what-is-a-gig-line
logfromblammo 12y ago
You'll need a license from Lucas Pope, and a permit from the venue. The permit-issuing authority will want to see your license before granting the permit, and Lucas will need to see your permit before granting the license, but you can get around this by obtaining a provisional temporary interim permit from the protests and demonstrations secretary at the mayor's office. You will need to claim that the LARP is actually a protest against government bureaucracy, which it is, technically, albeit satirical. That permit is only valid for the grassy verge between the sidewalk and the west wall of the city government annex. So you will need to apply for a change of venue on your real permit application, which requires approval from the police chief. Since the best place is the county administration center, you will also need to get approval from the sheriff. Now the sheriff and the police chief don't like each other, and won't agree on anything, so you will need to make the first approval look like a rejection to get the second. I'm sure you can figure it out from there. Good luck. There's nothing else that I can do for you without possibly getting fired.
- jere 12y ago
  This was actually a thing. https://twitter.com/ocornut/status/446353072944451584/photo/1 https://twitter.com/ocornut/status/446353072944451584/photo/... And I'll agree this quote seems pulled right out of Papers, Please >“No, a letter isn’t good enough anymore. It was fine last week, but the guys on the tenth floor”—the security team’s floor, which is known as the NKVD—“said you have to have a press card.”
  - cbhl 12y ago
    Doing that with your real passport sounds like Bad Idea(TM).
mortenjorck 12y ago
About halfway through, I was very nearly convinced that the headline was a misdirection and that this "country in an 11-story building" would be revealed to be an art installation that deconstructs Soviet-era bureaucracy.

by AimHere 12y ago

The bureaucratic misadventures at the start of the article sound like this is a bunch of people playing a LARP version of Papers, Please. Which, come to think of it, should be a thing.

mrcsparker 12y ago

Yup. It seemed like they were just having a good time with the journalist. Isn't there an actual real-life game where someone is sent from person to person to get help, eventually landing back at the first person?

spiritplumber 12y ago
Some snipe hunts are like that. Apparently it's a Navy thing.
- cobrausn 12y ago
  I was once asked to acquire 'one yard of gig line'. http://www.ask.com/question/what-is-a-gig-line http://www.ask.com/question/what-is-a-gig-line

logfromblammo 12y ago

You'll need a license from Lucas Pope, and a permit from the venue. The permit-issuing authority will want to see your license before granting the permit, and Lucas will need to see your permit before granting the license, but you can get around this by obtaining a provisional temporary interim permit from the protests and demonstrations secretary at the mayor's office. You will need to claim that the LARP is actually a protest against government bureaucracy, which it is, technically, albeit satirical. That permit is only valid for the grassy verge between the sidewalk and the west wall of the city government annex. So you will need to apply for a change of venue on your real permit application, which requires approval from the police chief. Since the best place is the county administration center, you will also need to get approval from the sheriff. Now the sheriff and the police chief don't like each other, and won't agree on anything, so you will need to make the first approval look like a rejection to get the second. I'm sure you can figure it out from there. Good luck. There's nothing else that I can do for you without possibly getting fired.

jere 12y ago
This was actually a thing. https://twitter.com/ocornut/status/446353072944451584/photo/1 https://twitter.com/ocornut/status/446353072944451584/photo/... And I'll agree this quote seems pulled right out of Papers, Please >“No, a letter isn’t good enough anymore. It was fine last week, but the guys on the tenth floor”—the security team’s floor, which is known as the NKVD—“said you have to have a press card.”
- cbhl 12y ago
  Doing that with your real passport sounds like Bad Idea(TM).

mortenjorck 12y ago

About halfway through, I was very nearly convinced that the headline was a misdirection and that this "country in an 11-story building" would be revealed to be an art installation that deconstructs Soviet-era bureaucracy.