audio | interview with probably not a vampire

[omniavincit]

[ William jumps right in—unless they're brand new, most inmates should know his voice. It belongs to the guy who stays with them in the dorms and is usually out of bed before six in the morning. Maybe you recently heard it raised at Travis outside the commissary! ]

I spoke to the Navarch, and while it's almost unheard of for her to correspond with inmates, she's agreed to take questions on your behalf. I'll be sitting down with her and broadcasting the interview to the network.

For privacy and ease of organization [ and to minimize network arguments ] please message me directly with whatever you'd like asked. It can be anything, but I'd prefer it be interesting. If I have a problem with it I'll let you know.

[ This is not a threat, but it is wry. ]


[ WARDEN FILTER ]

We should pool our tickets.



[ ooc: TO AVOID A MILLION INBOX THREADS, just reply here with "private" in the subject line if you're sending William a question! Or ignore him and discuss shit publicly, I'm not the police. ]

Comments

[grindset]

Not even once.
I am familiar with remotely operated devices, but none related to video.

[It does occur to him they're drifting from the original topic... but that's too bad, he's learning things now.]

[rank1]

[This is the only kind of virginity that matters.]

Holy shit. I wish I could show you but this place is almost crabby as fucking Jack Thompson.

Video games are a budding and hugely unappreciated art form. They can be anything and everything. Anything you can dream up, you can make into a game. You can immerse yourself in it, you can become something else, you can live for that moment. You can fly fighter jets in space, you can race expensive cars around the world, you can save princesses, you can fight zombies, you can be a motherfucking hedgehog running at mach speed. Anything. It's like a movie, but ten times better because you're in it.

[Wait.]

Do you have movies, right? Please tell me you have movies.

[grindset]

[Escapist tendencies noted.]

Alas, no. I'm aware of the medium, thanks to Warden Morningstar.
I will take recommendations if you have any - though cannot promise I'll get through all of them.

[rank1]

My top 3 right now:

- Electric Thunder Tiger. In the 23rd century, sentient construction machines rise from the underground to take control of the city, forcing a simple electrician to become a superhero called Electro Triple Star. Amazing. I used to spend hours at the arcade with this one. It takes some pretty cliché American superhero shit and transforms it, makes it experimental and this crazy deep dive into the relationship that the hero, and the player through him, has with the city he wants to protect and the machines that both built the city and want to destroy it.

- Hotline Miami. It's 1989 and you're a badass antihero on a murderous rampage against the shady underworld. This one really stands the test of time, great combat loop, stellar visuals, a banging soundtrack, and real kinetic combat. One of the greatest titles ever.

- Shovel Knight. You're this guy with a shovel looking to find his lost beloved and take down some evil knights led by this enchantress chick. This one's hard, but it's meticulously designed to prepare you for the levels getting harder and harder. Some major overhaul of old-school platform mechanics as well.

[saklas]

start him on tenomino or something!

these ones are nobody's first game. just let the guy move some descending blocks into lines before you make him run in three dimensions while jumping and shooting

[rank1]

What? Tetris is a classic but it's not an immersive narrative experience, and with everything that's come since, you can really only appreciate it if you understand the time it was made in and how revolutionary it was then. Now it's just a bunch of blocks. Let's blow the guy's mind.

[grindset]

[oh god this is so much]

Are these movies or video games?

[rank1]

Video games, fool!

[grindset]

Excuse you.

I will look into these when I can spare the time.
Good luck coming up with your questions.

[rank1]

[Whoops. That hits different in text.]

Awesome. Let me know what you think, or if you get stuck.

[Travis opens up his notes app and types:

List of guys who can't handle bro talk:
- Volk
- Viktor]