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Playing The Escape
erich666 writes "Wired reports on 'La Fuga' (The Escape), a real-world game. You overcome physical and mental challenges to escape a prison. Not just any live-action role playing game, this one is run in a $20 million facility in Madrid. A networked PDA and RFID tag keep you in touch while you play. The company is now building a 30,000-square-foot game center at 49th and Broadway in New York City." From the article: "The screen goes static and then switches to a view of a sweaty prisoner with a 5 o'clock shadow who tells me that I can liberate myself and all the other drones stuck in the prison. Those who have escaped before me will contact me to assist in my quest. The door opens, and I enter a sort of closet before another door opens to reveal a metal air duct. I try to step in, but I slip, fall hard on my ass, and slide down the chute into a room containing a baggage carousel surrounded by screens."
Interactive experiences for adults have been around for awhile and aren't anything new, and have been popular in several cities for a long time [5-wits.com], for example. This one sounds pretty damn cool and seems really reminiscent of those awful (but curious) Cube movie they play constantly on the Sci-Fi channel. I've gotten used to the fact that when anything comes to NYC, even if it's not new it automatically becomes newsworthy. Hopefully, it will get more people going to these places and build up more of an industry for something that is really just on the cusp of becoming popular. Lord knows, we could use more interactive (read: physical) forms of entertainment in this country.
Something intelligent here.
No, last seasons loosers
Dunno, doesn't sound very practical for a ruthless government. It'd be a whole lot safer, easier & more efficient to kill such a person & "disappear" the body.
The Prisoner story makes a lot more sense if you need something special from that prisoner, or for them to do something special.
That is a complete load of shit
No sooner do I get over one, then you put a better one right next to me. Bastards.
You god-damned fucking hypocrite.
I guarantee at some point in time you have laughed at or even told a joke that highlights somebody's unfortunate fate, be it murder, car crash, amputation, blindness, deafness or similar things. Yet you wouldn't wish any of those things on your loved ones would you? Snort.
Why the special treatment for rape? What is it about rape that gets certain people's panties in a twist (pun only half-intended) more than worse fates such as death? If the grandparent had made a joke about getting shanked in the prison showers, would you be so quick to complain about murder jokes? I doubt it. I must say that the sound of the word does come across as somewhat strange. Say it with me, RAPE. It's similar to 'race' I suppose, another subject that gets people into emotional hysterics.
Since when does joking about something equate to condoning it or wishing it on someone else? When I tell a joke about a hedgehog crossing the road and getting flattened, does that mean I wish for this to happen to hedgehogs the land over or that my own pet hedgehog deserves to be run over in some karmic act of just deserts? No it bloody well doesn't.
Yes, rape is a terrible thing. It's terrible when it happens to women. It's terrible when it happens to men. This all goes without saying; nobody actually likes rape beyond rapists so this disclaimer paragraph is redundant, yet I include it because your logic and reasoning capabilities seem to be corrupted.
A funny joke is a funny joke. Unfunny jokes are unfunny. Sick humour for the sake of sick humour is generally unfunny. But sick humour CAN be funny. The grandparent's example is not actually that amusing but I have seen prison rape jokes that are hilarious because they employed creative observations, witty puns and/or clever twists. I can laugh at distasteful jokes because I can see them for what they are: a fucking joke. Sure, they're insensitive but seriously, get over it, what good joke isn't insensitive to some group, be they chickens, Irishmen, quadraplegics or genies?
Jesus, it's like some bastardised Godwin's Law: for every Slashdot story that references prison there will always be at least one prison rape joke, however funny or unfunny, and there'll always be some high-horsed twat replying to said joke with the typical 'Do you think prison rape is funny?' retort.
Can we leave the absolutist bollocks to the politicians please?
Obvious fake. You can't put someone in a trance that easily, and it's not very legal to abduct an unwilling participant like that, especially without first checking if he has any kind of cardiac or neurological disorder. Sorry.
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Damn, my RAM is full of llamas.
I can't decide if this is an incredibly insightful comment or if you bit hard on a troll. Or both.