On a gloomy June afternoon, about 20 people gathered around a pop-up picnic table in San Francisco s Golden Gate Park. Attendees wore name tags like "spam" and "suchwow" to help others connect their online usernames to their actual faces. These folks usually hang out on the chat app Discord, but today they re gathering in the flesh.
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