chaos gf

Can't wait for people to explore it when it's abandoned.

to be fair, a high budget Immersive Fascist Theme Park already exists, in kentucky, its called "Arc Encounter", and the ammount of lore worldbuilding and pseudoscientific mental gymnastics they did for it is honestly impressive, i say as a worldbuilder myself.

it is a enormous 1:1 full scale "replica" of noah's ark (if you can build a replica of a mythical object existing only in sacred texts), featuring intricate and desperate justifications as to why noah's ark would have been possible to Literally Exist In Real Life And Not Just As A Myth Or Metaphor, animitronics, a whole fake branch of science they and their friends made up caled bereminology which is like "well phylogenists did all the work but we don't agree with their conclusions so we're just going to take everything they've done and twist it to match our story", movies, restaurants.

the people who run it really do consider themselves the "good american christian values" alternative to disney, and having heard someone describe going there, it certainly sounds like they succeeded at the "immersive theme park" thing by making the bible as their IP their customers care about, and expanding all their biblical blorbos into full characters.

it sounds kind of horrifying! lmao

i think the government helped fund it as well

Replacing the outer train loop with a go kart interstate is so emblematic on its own.

This is giving me big Freedomland vibes, especially the whole "quite possibly just a huge scam" part of it.

My favorite ride is the slow haunted-house style ride through a crowded restaurant set in 2020 where actors cough on you for real

It occurs to me that, while conservatives are pretty much wrong about basically everything, they're never more wrong than when they try to prove that people love them every bit as fun and popular as people who don't bother to build their entire identities around hatred. They spend enormous amounts of money on their figurative anti-anti-proms and associated parallel infrastructure. It never occurs to them to analyze the failure of the last time their peers tried essentially the same things. And then they need to invent a new version of (what's currently) "cancel culture" to explain to each other why nobody wants to hang out with them.

And they just refuse to believe that not being an actively hateful jerk takes almost no effort.

In fact, it would make way more sense to make the theme park AS a computer game. Make it an mmo, or metaverse, or whatever. Would cost less, too. Would fail as hard.

[9 people i love burn to death inside a decrepit house] "what, you don't love that house??!?"

growing up in the US as a nonAmerican was a real trip for this reason