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by Ice Cream Jonsey 04/19/2008, 8:54pm PDT |
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That Infocom thread does get more and more intense, and I think it hit Slashdot by now.
For a somewhat different take on Necrotic Drift, do check out this thread. I don't know if Google Groups re-orders the posts, but the fun currently starts at around post 50. But if not, you can follow everything by seeing where I show up and tracing a bit back. An excerpt:
I'm losing respect for you rapidly, Emily. You discussed Necrotic Drift and Rendition ***at an academic conference***? Appalling. Or possibly you were having them on, the stiff intellectual bastards, and left laughing up your sleeve. Please tell me that's why you did it.
One of the opening paragraphs in Necrotic Drift includes a reminiscence of someone defecating on top of a television, after which the feces were allowed to remain, attracting flies, for two weeks. (And this is the game that _isn't_ a piece of filth. Hmmm.)
I kept going for a few more minutes, long enough to reach the point where these four guys and Audrey are hanging out in their dumpy living room (the furniture, we're told, retrieved from a Dumpster) watching a movie. The action is going nowhere, and these people are all pathetic, scummy losers. Why exactly should I be interested in going on with the game? Why should I ever download anything else by Robb Sherwin, ever again?
WHY INDEED? It actually ends amicably.
the dark and gritty...Ice Cream Jonsey! |
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