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by horyzen 2559 days ago
I find it very amusing that they use the name "Feng Shui" for placing the victim page.

For those who don't understand: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feng_shui

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It's also an idiom Alex Sotirov coined 10 years ago:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heap_feng_shui

Imagine if human beings could be vulnerable to such attacks. Someone sends you a video link, you watch it, you see weird shapes appearing and disappearing for a few minutes, then the next thing you know, you wake up in a bathtub full of ice-cubes with one of your kidneys stolen.
Another fun one is the Lexicon by Max Barry, except it exploits the auditory language processing.

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16158596-lexicon

If you're into movies with zombies, pontypool is a fun watch: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pontypool_(film)
this is more or less how the TV show Chuck works, except in generally a positive capacity.