[UA] Suicide countdown

[Jade Hammons]

Uhm.. congratulations. You win at the internet.

Happy?


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Doctor Jest" <doctorjest at darkdungeons.net>
To: "The Unknown Armies RPG Mailing List" <ua at lists.unknown-armies.com>
Sent: Sunday, August 20, 2006 11:38 PM
Subject: Re: [UA] Suicide countdown


>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... :)
>>
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