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by Bananadine 10/02/2007, 4:31pm PDT |
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Ice Cream Jonsey wrote:
Not only is there a documentary on text games in development, but the MC Frontalot video "It is Pitch Dark" has a music video for it! Shot by the same man doing the documentary! The video is a terrific amount of fun. Catch the details on where to find it right here.
I have the BBS documentary that guy did. It is good! Not so much as a fiiiilm, meaning that it is pretty bare-bones and stylistically plain and rambling and loooong, but certainly as a document of a lot of interesting stuff that I am too young to have known anything about really until I took in this huge mass of firsthand reports. Highlight: an interview with the guy who made the ARC compression algorithm, only to have it stolen by PKWARE's Phil Katz (who went on to steamroll said guy's company with his far superior spin and marketing abilities), wherein said guy recounts in the careful, objective voice of a hardcore technician how perplexed and helpless he felt as the user community (tricked by lying ads from PKWARE that claimed their competitor was some kind of evil giant faceless corporation) turned against him and rejected his perfectly good products and sent him (and his mom I think, because she was the rest of the company?!) piles and piles of hate mail--speaking all the time in this very neutral, rational manner, until he reveals to his own apparent surprise as much as anyone's that he still doesn't really understand at any deeper level what the hell happened back then by suddenly starting to weep. |
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MC Frontalot's "It is Pitch Dark" music video by Ice Cream Jonsey 08/08/2007, 3:08pm PDT 
You cannot "see" that object: what are you looking at? NT by Grumah 08/08/2007, 9:50pm PDT
Re: You cannot "see" that object: what are you looking at? by Ice Cream Jonsey 08/09/2007, 6:05pm PDT
You are at a north south east west crossroads, you cant do that, you cant do thi NT by Grumah 08/10/2007, 1:32am PDT
(basically all I know about zork from the 30 minutes I played) NT by Grumah 08/10/2007, 1:33am PDT
Are you talking to yourself again? There is no "fag" here! You have died. NT by laudablepuss 08/10/2007, 11:46am PDT
Are you pretending to be a video game or something? NT by Jhoh Clbbl O_____O 08/10/2007, 5:16pm PDT
I don't see an are you pretending to be a video game or something here. NT by laudablepuss 08/10/2007, 6:03pm PDT
There is no fag here, you open the mailbox your cortex bomb detonates NT by Grumah 08/11/2007, 2:57am PDT
It's on Youtube now by Ice Cream Jonsey 09/14/2007, 2:03pm PDT
Not a match or a torch in your inventory. NT by Mischief Maker 09/14/2007, 8:57pm PDT
I've got a match: my face and your vagina 8) NT by Jerry Whorebach 09/14/2007, 9:35pm PDT
Theres sand in it NT by Grumah 09/14/2007, 10:13pm PDT
Re: MC Frontalot's "It is Pitch Dark" music video by Bananadine 10/02/2007, 4:31pm PDT
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