Caterpillar creates 2,700 square metre Pac-Man gameboard

Re:Caterpillar creates 2,700 square metre Pac-Man gameboard by paledot on Saturday October 24, 2020 @10:29PM (#24883407)

I'm not sure if I love or hate the prospect of future archaeologists finding this and trying to figure out what role it played in our society. "We're referring to it as the 'ball court', though it could also have had ceremonial or political significance. Notice the symmetry and the way it is aligned to true north."

(I know the dirt walls won't last a decade, don't ruin my fun.)

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Re:Caterpillar creates 2,700 square metre Pac-Man gameboard by chrisco255 on Sunday October 25, 2020 @12:42AM (#24883888)

Exactly. It turns out that the pyramids were just a cross-promotional publicity stunt between the Egyptian Wheel Company and an ancient board game.

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Re:Caterpillar creates 2,700 square metre Pac-Man gameboard by arthurcolle on Monday October 26, 2020 @04:22AM (#24893880)

With big painted billboards advertising Khalem-tet's building force (an early Mechanical Turk) on all 4 sides!

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Re:Caterpillar creates 2,700 square metre Pac-Man gameboard by bigbubba on Sunday October 25, 2020 @12:00AM (#24883736)

> (I know the dirt walls won't last a decade, don't ruin my fun.)

They probably won't... but maybe... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mound_Builders

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Re:Caterpillar creates 2,700 square metre Pac-Man gameboard by app4soft on Sunday October 25, 2020 @02:56AM (#24884338)

> hate the prospect of future archaeologists finding this and trying to figure out what role it played in our society

Nowadays archaeologists also trying to figure out what role each thing they found already played in ancient society.

Nobody really don't know why (and how) Egyptian pyramids built in such form as we know it now.

Every thing in our life is a game; Just remember that each player in real world has only "1 life" & there are NO "god mode", even more — there are NO objects which could grant user at least "1UP".

[Spoiler] «The Game of Life». RIP John Conway[0]

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22843306

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Re:Caterpillar creates 2,700 square metre Pac-Man gameboard by marcosdumay on Sunday October 25, 2020 @01:06AM (#24883968)

Do enough stunts, and one or two of them get preserved just by sheer chance.

This one almost certainly won't stay there. None of them will. But whatever gets preserved will be some crazy stuff that future people have no chance of understanding.

(But well, nobody should be surprised that our civilization can align things with the true North... So, nobody probably will.)

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Re:Caterpillar creates 2,700 square metre Pac-Man gameboard by oh_sigh on Sunday October 25, 2020 @02:06AM (#24884169)

Well they won't last any time because their destruction was caught at the end of the video.

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Re:Caterpillar creates 2,700 square metre Pac-Man gameboard by paledot on Sunday October 25, 2020 @09:51AM (#24886257)

oh_sigh

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