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Anthony McGlynn

Wikipedia's been turned into a Pokemon TCG-like gacha game where you collect its pages, because the random article button wasn't distracting enough already

A screenshot of Wikigacha.com shows a golden pack of cards with the Wikipedia logo on them.

Wikipedia rabbit holes are a constant danger at the best of times, what with the "Random article" button and such, but now that someone's turned the digital encyclopedia into a gacha game? A threat to the fabric of society, and I love it.

As highlighted by Automaton, a Japanese developer called Harusugi is responsible for this drain on your productivity. The game is simply called Wikipedia Gacha, and it turns every entry on the site into a trading card. Each pack contains five cards, spread across multiple rarity levels, pulling from every nook and cranny from the vast pools of information Wiki boasts, not unlike the Pokemon TCG.

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