So Far
Posted: Wed Sep 04, 2019 7:23 pm
This is not a review or anything.
One of the great divisions in my life was the switch from the dial-up BBS, where I basically treated it like a diary/blog and this forum, which I basically treat like a diary/blog. There were two events right at the end that really stick out to me.
1) Someone uploaded a really weirdly made GIF of the logo to the TV show Red Dwarf. And it blows my mind that they have been making that show for so long (not continuously by a long stretch or anything) that it was popular and I had people upload images of it to my bulletin board before it went down in 1999.
2) I remember somehow finding the game So Far and writing about it with a joyous newbie optimism on the dial up BBS. I should find the post, I have a copy of the BBS somewhere. Hey guys! I think I said. People are still making text adventures! Or, people are able to make text adventures in this day and age, wow!
And of course, playing So Far somehow had me look for other for other games. I found I-0 because of So Far, I-0 made me think I could make a game and helped me find Pinback, and a host of other things. I dunno if it was inevitable that I would find all of this without that game. Maybe.
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... So Far had a Wikipedia page that some assholes deleted last year.
They are going to be assholes, that's only a little of what this post is about. But it's amazing that I have lived long enough to live in a world where some games get made by a company in the 1980s, some games get made by people in that style in the 1990s, an online encyclopedia comes into creation with information on the game and millions of other things and then lived long enough to see people, people that do nothing that contribute nothing and are worth nothing start coming in to destroy all those good things.
One of the great divisions in my life was the switch from the dial-up BBS, where I basically treated it like a diary/blog and this forum, which I basically treat like a diary/blog. There were two events right at the end that really stick out to me.
1) Someone uploaded a really weirdly made GIF of the logo to the TV show Red Dwarf. And it blows my mind that they have been making that show for so long (not continuously by a long stretch or anything) that it was popular and I had people upload images of it to my bulletin board before it went down in 1999.
2) I remember somehow finding the game So Far and writing about it with a joyous newbie optimism on the dial up BBS. I should find the post, I have a copy of the BBS somewhere. Hey guys! I think I said. People are still making text adventures! Or, people are able to make text adventures in this day and age, wow!
And of course, playing So Far somehow had me look for other for other games. I found I-0 because of So Far, I-0 made me think I could make a game and helped me find Pinback, and a host of other things. I dunno if it was inevitable that I would find all of this without that game. Maybe.
.
...
... So Far had a Wikipedia page that some assholes deleted last year.
They are going to be assholes, that's only a little of what this post is about. But it's amazing that I have lived long enough to live in a world where some games get made by a company in the 1980s, some games get made by people in that style in the 1990s, an online encyclopedia comes into creation with information on the game and millions of other things and then lived long enough to see people, people that do nothing that contribute nothing and are worth nothing start coming in to destroy all those good things.