[UA] Suicide countdown

[Doctor Jest]

I suppose the message on the page today of "LOL! We Punked the Internet 
and the internet punked us back" with alot of flashing Hello Kitty 
graphics and really annoying music is a sign that this was total on the 
level and 100% legitimate website and not at all a hoax. :-P

Then again, there could be something sinister in those flashing Hello 
Kitty graphics... I feel somewhat woozy after seeing the site, but oddly 
compelled to return to see them again... and again...


> On 8/19/06, Doctor Jest <doctorjest at darkdungeons.net> wrote:
>> Come on, this isn't just a claim to someone committing suicide, it's a
>> claim to RITUAL SEPPAKU LIVE ON THE INTERNET.
>
>  Ahh, and here is where the misunderstanding is.  My reading of the
> site isn't that it's a claim to commit ritual Seppaku live on the
> internet.
>
>  I believe the website claims to MOCK someone /else/ who has claimed
> they will commit ritual seppaku live on the internet.
>
>  I don't think that's so unbelievable at all, is it? :)
>
>  I interperted this site as essentially someone seeing someone else
> saying "I'm going to commit Seppaku!!", and them responding with "OH
> YEAH?  I'm going to put up a whole website about it!  With a timer!!!
> Let's see if you're really going to do it, huh, HUH?"
>
>  That's my read on the website, at any rate...  And I'd like to think
> my read, although perhaps saying something about human nature("Humans
> are more than willing to ridicule and mock others"), is perfectly
> plausible.
>
>> ...On the other note, I ran a BBS system about 12 years ago. One of the
>> door programs I ran was a "Chat with Lisa" program, which was designed
>> to emulate a horny slightly drunk chick hotchatting with whomever was on
>> the other side (but not without some good coaxing, of course... and it
>> would use being drunk as an excuse when someone started questioning if
>> it didn't make sense for some reason). I sometimes would watch people
>> chat with this program back and forth as if it was a real person. I
>> don't know how many believed it was real, and how many just played
>> along, but I have seen people type some very intimate and personal
>> things to a computer program. I am certain more than one person had some
>> very private moments with that program. I am sure more than one person
>> was complete fooled by the A.I.
>
>  Okay, there are definitely story seeds there.  Not quite sure what
> they are yet, but... :)
>