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KDice HQ
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Vezquex wrote
at 4:12 AM, Tuesday December 16, 2008 EST
I just imagined an array of monitors that KDice creator, Ryan, uses to watch all ongoing matches at once. Let's call this place KDice headquarters. Using geo-location, he can bring up a map to see exactly where each player is on the globe. And since many have connected KDice to their Facebook profiles, he knows everything about the players: where they went to school, what outfits they wear, even who their girlfriends are. The beep that indicates the start of your turn is training you to do his bidding, like training a dog to respond to a whistle. There are secret bindings in the source code that, when activated, turn the players' computers into a botnet to perform DDOS attacks on websites of Ryan's enemies. When the attack is finished for the day, the server is turned off to conserve bandwidth, even if it's in the middle of a match or tournament. Soon, mini games will be added that are secretly Amazon Mechanical Turk jobs, funneling hundreds of pennies a day into KDice coffers in exchange for completing mundane tasks. Individuality will cease as we become mindless drones doing digital odd jobs. But this is only the beginning.
Once a year, a few lucky people will be invited to tour Ryan's castle in Canada, but they will die on the tour, crushed by giant dice or molded into the very dice that they use to roll. The tournaments will gradually increase in stakes; in time, you won't just be playing for points, but for your very lives. The game will expand into reality in other ways. Instead of paying for groceries, you'll have to roll for them. It will start affecting the language too. A beautiful woman will no longer be referred to as a ten, but a six (two would be a twelve, etc.). New brand names start appearing on store shelves, such as KDice Crunchies and KStation. Most words will be replaced by dice-related terms. "I'm feeling good today!" "Yellow means, '1 dicing win this sun-match'?" "K." But the language will break down even further as we stop talking and chatting entirely, living only for the beep. The human body will adapt to this new existence by dwelling within the office chair as a hermit crab lives in its shell. Google Chrome is forked as KDichrome, which only loads one page and becomes the new bundled operating system. But few people will notice, as they'll have memorized the packet format by then and play exclusively through SMS. *beep* Oh, it's my turn. I'll see you later. Have a good dice...err...day. |
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nuflis wrote
at 7:31 AM, Tuesday December 16, 2008 EST Ryan: MUAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!
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Cal Ripken wrote
at 8:07 AM, Tuesday December 16, 2008 EST kdice players don't have girlfriends.
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Thraxle wrote
at 8:26 AM, Tuesday December 16, 2008 EST You're right JP..............some of us have a wife.
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Cal Ripken wrote
at 9:11 AM, Tuesday December 16, 2008 EST Some of us aren't old, either.
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Cal Ripken wrote
at 9:12 AM, Tuesday December 16, 2008 EST and since when are wives/girlfriends mutually exclusive?
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wishbone wrote
at 3:15 PM, Tuesday December 16, 2008 EST i read about 1/8th of this, then scanned around, and I'll i can think of is,
what the fuck? |
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Armadillo wrote
at 5:24 PM, Tuesday December 16, 2008 EST some kdice players have boyfriends.
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JDizzle787 wrote
at 12:23 AM, Wednesday December 17, 2008 EST that was a fun read. And some KDicers perform beastiality...
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JDizzle787 wrote
at 12:23 AM, Wednesday December 17, 2008 EST I think I spelled that wrong
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RageUnleashed wrote
at 2:04 PM, Thursday December 18, 2008 EST Nice post
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