Oh it happened all right. And no one’s seen Koichi since.
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Hmm. I’m not sure it was as fully immersive or used the real world as a platform quite as much as this description makes it sound. As an ARG, it was fairly rudimentary in that sense.
It was more of a case of the folks who run WK making use of certain tendencies the forum already had by giving us a little push to tip us over the edge into an amplified version of our ordinary insanity, from which they ended up benefitting. It definitely took on a life of its own and I’m not sure they were expecting that.
They learned. 
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I tentatively believe you, but that last sentence also makes it sound like you’re pulling my leg. I’m the gullible type but even this is a lot for me!
You don’t have to take my word for it.
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No usually those are referred to as AR games rather than ARGs
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The Wikipedia thing uses fanciful language there to try to be general but most ARGS are exactly like WK did. A good example :
https://ae27ff.challenge.pt/about.php
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行きですね
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Haha was that the real purpose of the Descent we were all engrossed in for months? I always thought it was its own thing with no real purpose and the beta test for the app just happened to be something else happening at the time. lol
It just goes to show, you should always eGoooott when you eGoooott in order to eGoooott clearly.
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I have to confess I was quite disappointed when this did not lead me directly to Rick Astley. 
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Does it lead indirectly to Rick Astley?
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how bout this
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What do you mean? It does for me. 
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guilty
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Not the meme we need, but the meme we deserve.
https://community.wanikani.com/t/pray-for-my-account-please/45101
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A bit of background for this one: I first started Wanikani YEARS ago, and got up to level 14, but at that point I started worrying that I was going too slow and pushed myself and got burned out. My account lay dormant for a long, long time, all while I promised to one day come back. Well, early this year I finally did it and renewed my subscription! …to a whopping ~2,000 due reviews :') And my memory of a lot of these kanji was…not good. After a lot of struggling, some anki work and level-long pop quizzes, I finally managed to get back into tackling those reviews with an actually not terrible correct percentage.
Today, I made time to sit down and found a good youtube video to listen to in the background and managed to shave a good 120 items off my review list! I’m down to 650 now, and the end actually seems to be in sight!
…and then I realised that I’ll be getting 100 new reviews added to my list before next week :'D
Welp. Progress is progress? n.n;;;
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