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PJ Vogt

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The Dave and Buster's Anomaly

Still, why would a multi-trillion dollar company be feuding with Dave and Buster's? I shelved this idea for a moment. Even in our timeline, it seemed too absurd. I moved on to theory number two, which both Nicole and Eric had considered, tech company censorship. The idea that there was something in the phrase Dave and Busters that the iPhone software was blocking. To me, this also seemed unlikely.

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The Dave and Buster's Anomaly

Still, why would a multi-trillion dollar company be feuding with Dave and Buster's? I shelved this idea for a moment. Even in our timeline, it seemed too absurd. I moved on to theory number two, which both Nicole and Eric had considered, tech company censorship. The idea that there was something in the phrase Dave and Busters that the iPhone software was blocking. To me, this also seemed unlikely.

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The Dave and Buster's Anomaly

You can say whatever you ducking want in a text message, any vile thing. Why would an audio message be any different? I needed more probable theories. So I went looking for them. First stop, the forums on Apple's website. There, I found one person posting about this issue, a man named Wesley, writing on December 30th, 2024, says, quote, Craziest thing.

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The Dave and Buster's Anomaly

You can say whatever you ducking want in a text message, any vile thing. Why would an audio message be any different? I needed more probable theories. So I went looking for them. First stop, the forums on Apple's website. There, I found one person posting about this issue, a man named Wesley, writing on December 30th, 2024, says, quote, Craziest thing.

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The Dave and Buster's Anomaly

You can say whatever you ducking want in a text message, any vile thing. Why would an audio message be any different? I needed more probable theories. So I went looking for them. First stop, the forums on Apple's website. There, I found one person posting about this issue, a man named Wesley, writing on December 30th, 2024, says, quote, Craziest thing.

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The Dave and Buster's Anomaly

Try to send a voice text, not dictated text, with the phrase Dave and Buster's in it, and the recipient will not receive it. It's the craziest thing I've seen. Let me know what you get. Apple moderators closed down the thread. No replies. Wesley's call to follow him, silenced, into the void. So I looked to the 22,000-member Dave & Buster's community on Reddit.

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The Dave and Buster's Anomaly

Try to send a voice text, not dictated text, with the phrase Dave and Buster's in it, and the recipient will not receive it. It's the craziest thing I've seen. Let me know what you get. Apple moderators closed down the thread. No replies. Wesley's call to follow him, silenced, into the void. So I looked to the 22,000-member Dave & Buster's community on Reddit.

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The Dave and Buster's Anomaly

Try to send a voice text, not dictated text, with the phrase Dave and Buster's in it, and the recipient will not receive it. It's the craziest thing I've seen. Let me know what you get. Apple moderators closed down the thread. No replies. Wesley's call to follow him, silenced, into the void. So I looked to the 22,000-member Dave & Buster's community on Reddit.

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The Dave and Buster's Anomaly

Something you need to understand about this community is that Dave & Buster's offers its customers a sort of soft gambling experience. You compete there for tickets that you can exchange for valuable prizes, like a Nintendo Switch. And in the subreddit, people mainly obsess over ticket-maximizing strategies and brag about the valuable prizes they've won.

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The Dave and Buster's Anomaly

Something you need to understand about this community is that Dave & Buster's offers its customers a sort of soft gambling experience. You compete there for tickets that you can exchange for valuable prizes, like a Nintendo Switch. And in the subreddit, people mainly obsess over ticket-maximizing strategies and brag about the valuable prizes they've won.

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The Dave and Buster's Anomaly

Something you need to understand about this community is that Dave & Buster's offers its customers a sort of soft gambling experience. You compete there for tickets that you can exchange for valuable prizes, like a Nintendo Switch. And in the subreddit, people mainly obsess over ticket-maximizing strategies and brag about the valuable prizes they've won.

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The Dave and Buster's Anomaly

One typical thread I saw, quote, cashed in five emoji barcode balls for 20,000 tickets and got the foot massager. Another, first time hitting the super bonus. A third, my favorite, plaintive. How long does it take to get the birthday reward? No mention here, not one, of the anomaly.

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The Dave and Buster's Anomaly

One typical thread I saw, quote, cashed in five emoji barcode balls for 20,000 tickets and got the foot massager. Another, first time hitting the super bonus. A third, my favorite, plaintive. How long does it take to get the birthday reward? No mention here, not one, of the anomaly.

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The Dave and Buster's Anomaly

One typical thread I saw, quote, cashed in five emoji barcode balls for 20,000 tickets and got the foot massager. Another, first time hitting the super bonus. A third, my favorite, plaintive. How long does it take to get the birthday reward? No mention here, not one, of the anomaly.

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The Dave and Buster's Anomaly

None of these people had noticed they weren't allowed to whisper into their iPhones the name of the place they most loved. I was not yet making progress, but at least I now carried the question with me because socially it was the most powerful search engine query I've discovered. At dinner, at drinks, if conversation lulled, if I wanted to steer things in another direction, I'd pull my phone out.

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The Dave and Buster's Anomaly

None of these people had noticed they weren't allowed to whisper into their iPhones the name of the place they most loved. I was not yet making progress, but at least I now carried the question with me because socially it was the most powerful search engine query I've discovered. At dinner, at drinks, if conversation lulled, if I wanted to steer things in another direction, I'd pull my phone out.

Search Engine
The Dave and Buster's Anomaly

None of these people had noticed they weren't allowed to whisper into their iPhones the name of the place they most loved. I was not yet making progress, but at least I now carried the question with me because socially it was the most powerful search engine query I've discovered. At dinner, at drinks, if conversation lulled, if I wanted to steer things in another direction, I'd pull my phone out.

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The Dave and Buster's Anomaly

It was a superpower. Want to see a secret almost nobody else on earth knows? The anomaly would provoke a flurry of voice noting, and then feelings of wonder, which would melt into feelings of paranoia, a one-two you often encounter in America. So many conspiracy theories about Apple, Tim Cook, Dave, Buster, phones listening in on you, which again, I just was not ready to buy any of these.

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The Dave and Buster's Anomaly

It was a superpower. Want to see a secret almost nobody else on earth knows? The anomaly would provoke a flurry of voice noting, and then feelings of wonder, which would melt into feelings of paranoia, a one-two you often encounter in America. So many conspiracy theories about Apple, Tim Cook, Dave, Buster, phones listening in on you, which again, I just was not ready to buy any of these.

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The Dave and Buster's Anomaly

It was a superpower. Want to see a secret almost nobody else on earth knows? The anomaly would provoke a flurry of voice noting, and then feelings of wonder, which would melt into feelings of paranoia, a one-two you often encounter in America. So many conspiracy theories about Apple, Tim Cook, Dave, Buster, phones listening in on you, which again, I just was not ready to buy any of these.