Japan's Dododo Land, the most irritating place on Earth

One we discussed yesterday with a colleague (we're C++ devs): seeing anyone - especially a fellow dev - browsing the web WITHOUT ANY ADBLOCKER.

Imagine if your job was to sit at a fake desk all day and pretend to be annoyed by someone walking into your room.

Probably highly relatable to office work tbh.

My guilty pleasure at these tourist trap places is significantly overpaying for their staged portraits. They (often) ask you if you’d like a free portrait, and then will print you up a postage stamp sized picture with a big watermark on it, with the option to pay ¥2000 or (or thereabouts) for a larger print. Or other times they’ll even print up the big print in advance and just throw it away if you don’t buy it, which I think preys on peoples’ guilt for waste. I don’t know if dododo land does this, but seems like the kind of place that would.

I’ve got one with my family from Pineapple Park in Okinawa that makes me laugh every time I see it. Smartphones make it easy to take a million photos with incredibly good quality, but there’s something about that crappy print with its ridiculous cardboard frame that hits different.

Reminds me a bit of the Park of Aging in Miraikan The National Museum of Emerging Science.

I remember when staff casually handed me a paper brochure near the area dedicated to aging that when opened was blurry and difficult to read. I was confused. When it finally dawned on me this was one of their simulations of old age I never laughed (at myself) harder. Such a fun and educational experience highly recommend for all ages.

Additional: https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2023/11/22/japan/science-h...

Soranews24 is one of the best websites on the internet! So weird and looks like spam but it's not. This Dododo Land is so weird. Seems like Meow Wolf or Museum of Ice Cream but featuring little things that bother people instead of creative fiction or photo ops.

fta: "'dododo' is the kanji character for 'anger' (怒) written three times in a row".

Do other countries have websites like this covering them?