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It was in fact 1 pile (of >1000 nuts) that I moved 3 times. I thought the first time would draw a swarm of squirrels and/or bluejays that would look awesome in a timelapse video, and when it didn't I decided rather than admit defeat I'd gather the nuts up and drop them again somewhere else. Then I did it again. And again. When on the last attempt I saw the squirrels pass within 2 feet of the pile without noticing it, I decided they'd proved their point and I'd just post a montage of my failures.
The last drop was in the Shakespeare Garden, one week ago today. Odds are good that humans will have gathered them up even if squirrels haven't, but you might find some shells lying around.
I feel like it would be more in the spirit of EquivalenZ ("model the real on the virtual") to take a time you've gotten lost in cyberspace and then try to replicate that journey in meatspace.
Sort of like Misuse of Maps but using your browser history after a normal session of websurfing as the "map".
You make a good point; if I were smart I'd be selling these things at a profit so I could monetize my tasking.
($8.36 is the site's printing cost for this particular game; they let you tack on any extra amount you want as profit, so you can either just print stuff up at cost or try to make money at it. It's like CafePress for games.)
According to the task tracker, Everyday Life is indeed over (the task I just did doesn't show up in my "Completed Tasks" because it falls outside the Everyday Life time range), but no era has taken its place. The Mayans were right!
You have the power to de-slack it! Go forth and find peeps, and update the proof! It's the only way to assuage the burning sense of shame you are feeling right now.
Utterly fantastic. Journey is how I found SF0, and it still epitomizes what I love about this game -- the adventure, the magic, the discovery, all distilled into one insane and fantastic night. Your writeup captured it beautifully.
It's still there one year later! Added a photo.
That approach removes a lot of potential awesomeness in having proofs build on each other, though. For example, this task is a logical subset of this task, but they're clearly meant to be completed and recorded independently so that one leads into the next. In your example, I think it'd have been pretty cool to see each smaller praxis documented on its own, and then link them all together to make an overarching epic narrative that jumps from proof to proof.
Take them back! Take them back!
I love this. Who wants to do a patriotic BBQ this winter? Or an egg hunt? Or go to Santacon dressed as Cupid?