Inklings of Addiction...

[John Bailey]

The only software hiccup I picked up was mention of iTunes Visualizer
- as far as I can tell iTunes didn't launch until Sept 2002. Although
the way it's used in the novel as a metaphor is pretty sweet.

On Mon, Sep 23, 2013 at 8:45 AM, Christopher Simon
<kierkegaurdian at gmail.com> wrote:
> As a recovering video game junkie and Linux user, I was surprised at how
> accurate and familiar the video game, etc.,  references were. The only thing
> that struck me as a bit off was the mention of Microsoft XP, which would
> almost always be referred to as Windows XP. This was cancelled out by the
> reference to Maxine going home from the party, CD tilde home (or something
> very similar). In Linux, the cd command changes directories in the shell,
> and the ~ is the default indicator for the home directory. I thought that
> was pretty clever.
> ________________________________
> From: Bekah
> Sent: 9/21/2013 12:59 AM
> To: John Bailey
> Cc: Michael Bailey; P-list
> Subject: Re: Inklings of Addiction...
>
> Not to neglect the MUDs which were prior to Jackson's birth - and (D)ARPANET
> which seemed to be Google searched.  There used to be (still is)  an
> "undernet" where I did some stuff years ago.  It's also called "Deep Web"
> but I never knew it as that.
>
> There is a hwgaahwgh.com just recently registered.  (heh)
> http://w11.zetaboards.com/thefictionalwoods/topic/9144840/1/
>
> Bek
>
>
>
> On Sep 20, 2013, at 8:21 PM, John Bailey <sundayjb at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Pynchon seems reasonably well-versed in gaming history - enough to
>> suggest he was at least a hands-on parent when it came to his kids'
>> gaming habits. More than just running a wikipedia search on what games
>> were popular in the years leading up to 2001.
>>
>> Portal 2 (not Portal) offered one of the most engaging experiences
>> I've had in any artform. No violence, incredibly gorgeous to look at,
>> but the narrative that creeps up organically around all the play is
>> deeply affecting if you pay attention to it. Lost of references to the
>> myths of Electra, Prometheus etc and the dialogue is laugh-out-loud
>> funny throughout. One of only two games I've played that are worthy of
>> the boring "are games art?" debate (the other being Journey which had
>> me weeping copiously).
>>
>> On Sat, Sep 21, 2013 at 1:00 PM, Michael Bailey
>> <michael.lee.bailey at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> I'm somewhat ashamed that i never have done much gaming atall ... I was
>>> pretty good at one pinball game, long ago won a sub sandwich for high
>>> score
>>> on Gulfstream, but, well - that game was an easy one.
>>>
>>> Guys in my workgroup have been devoted to zelda, wow &c also quake but it
>>> seems like a lot of pretend killing ... Hard to get very revved about
>>> that...being a militant pacifist & all!!!
>>>
>>> Ddr seems like fun, played it a little, then bought the sims a long time
>>> ago
>>> but never got hooked
>>>
>>> Portal is supposed to be cool but am i going to be striving to blow
>>> somebody
>>> away?? Live & let live...
>>>
>>> In bleeding edge i just read a reference to games that were "too
>>> beautiful"
>>> to be marketable - any idea which games pynchon may have meant?
>>>
>>> I remember being humiliated by myst, playing at a friend's house and
>>> getting
>>> stuck at some limbo full of reproachful phantasms...that was a very
>>> pretty
>>> game!
>