Comments on: G4 2 QT? http://grandtextauto.org/2005/07/27/g4-2-qt/ A group blog about computer narrative, games, poetry, and art. Thu, 30 Sep 2010 22:43:57 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.2 By: Daniel http://grandtextauto.org/2005/07/27/g4-2-qt/comment-page-1/#comment-67704 Daniel Thu, 28 Jul 2005 17:33:40 +0000 http://grandtextauto.org/?p=874#comment-67704 lol! did u actually do that andrew or is that fake? lol! did u actually do that andrew or is that fake?

]]> By: andrew http://grandtextauto.org/2005/07/27/g4-2-qt/comment-page-1/#comment-67665 andrew Thu, 28 Jul 2005 05:39:46 +0000 http://grandtextauto.org/?p=874#comment-67665 TRIP So! Drinks! What's your poison? How about a martini? JENS fish balls GRACE What? She -- uh -- TRIP Um... GRACE I don't -- TRIP Ha ha... ha ha ha... GRACE Ha ha... TRIP ... never afraid to push our buttons ... ha ha... (Mathilde picks up the advice ball.) TRIP (interrupted) Oh that, that's uh, a little toy I like to get advice from now and then... (The advice ball reads, "<a href="http://o.lauffenburger.free.fr/index_en.php?page=accueil" rel="nofollow">Nu nesumnili hatreski!</a>") GRACE Trip, didn't I tell you to put that thing away? TRIP Yeah, I will, later, after -- (interrupted) JENS I miss Dierdre. GRACE What? What are you saying to me -- (interrupted) (Jens hugs Grace.) GRACE Oh... uh... you're hugging me... TRIP Oh, that's nice Jens, I'm sure Grace appreciates that... heh... GRACE (clears throat) (Claire puts the book on the bar.) CLAIRE Oh my God, the butler did it! GRACE Um.. yeah... TRIP Hey, let me show you this photo I just took on our recent trip to Italy! JENS Ever been to Iceland? TRIP You know what, I think this evening is over. (Trip grabs Jens, Claire and Mathilde by their collars, and drags them to the door.) MATHILDE hey! CLAIRE Trip, were you a butler in college? TRIP There's only so much you can ask us to put up with, you know? JENS get a divorce CLAIRE failed marriage (Trip throws them out of the apartment.) TRIP We'll be fine, you just have to go! MATHILDE and you guys are ugly (Trip slams the door.) JENS fish balls (fade out) TRIP
So! Drinks! What’s your poison? How about a martini?

JENS
fish balls

GRACE
What? She — uh –

TRIP
Um…

GRACE
I don’t –

TRIP
Ha ha… ha ha ha…

GRACE
Ha ha…

TRIP
… never afraid to push our buttons … ha ha…

(Mathilde picks up the advice ball.)

TRIP (interrupted)
Oh that, that’s uh, a little toy I like to get advice from now and then…

(The advice ball reads, “Nu nesumnili hatreski!“)

GRACE
Trip, didn’t I tell you to put that thing away?

TRIP
Yeah, I will, later, after — (interrupted)

JENS
I miss Dierdre.

GRACE
What? What are you saying to me — (interrupted)

(Jens hugs Grace.)

GRACE
Oh… uh… you’re hugging me…

TRIP
Oh, that’s nice Jens, I’m sure Grace appreciates that… heh…

GRACE
(clears throat)

(Claire puts the book on the bar.)

CLAIRE
Oh my God, the butler did it!

GRACE
Um.. yeah…

TRIP
Hey, let me show you this photo I just took on our recent trip to Italy!

JENS
Ever been to Iceland?

TRIP
You know what, I think this evening is over.

(Trip grabs Jens, Claire and Mathilde by their collars, and drags them to the door.)

MATHILDE
hey!

CLAIRE
Trip, were you a butler in college?

TRIP
There’s only so much you can ask us to put up with, you know?

JENS
get a divorce

CLAIRE
failed marriage

(Trip throws them out of the apartment.)

TRIP
We’ll be fine, you just have to go!

MATHILDE
and you guys are ugly

(Trip slams the door.)

JENS
fish balls

(fade out)

]]> By: Ian Bogost http://grandtextauto.org/2005/07/27/g4-2-qt/comment-page-1/#comment-67661 Ian Bogost Thu, 28 Jul 2005 03:04:11 +0000 http://grandtextauto.org/?p=874#comment-67661 This week on The Bindery While Claire shifts nervously in her overstuffed shabby-chic armchair as she completes the final pages of her murder mystery, Jens flips impatiently through the New Icelandic Cookbook, wondering if fish balls will satisfy Dierdre, whom he met at the bookstore leafing surreptitiously through Austrian travel guides. Meanwhile, Mathilde pages occasionallly through her Hittite grammar, wishing it had been manufactured with a true lay-flat binding, rather than modified perfect binding. This week on The Bindery

While Claire shifts nervously in her overstuffed shabby-chic armchair as she completes the final pages of her murder mystery, Jens flips impatiently through the New Icelandic Cookbook, wondering if fish balls will satisfy Dierdre, whom he met at the bookstore leafing surreptitiously through Austrian travel guides. Meanwhile, Mathilde pages occasionallly through her Hittite grammar, wishing it had been manufactured with a true lay-flat binding, rather than modified perfect binding.

]]> By: nick http://grandtextauto.org/2005/07/27/g4-2-qt/comment-page-1/#comment-67640 nick Thu, 28 Jul 2005 02:35:57 +0000 http://grandtextauto.org/?p=874#comment-67640 This gives me an idea for a TV show about books in which people simply read books. Silently, to themselves. And they misread them. This gives me an idea for a TV show about books in which people simply read books. Silently, to themselves. And they misread them.

]]> By: Ian bogost http://grandtextauto.org/2005/07/27/g4-2-qt/comment-page-1/#comment-67630 Ian bogost Thu, 28 Jul 2005 02:23:50 +0000 http://grandtextauto.org/?p=874#comment-67630 OMG. What a terrible show. It's JUST captured play footage of games. No commentary, no people even. Just game after game after game, interminable minutes watching someone play. The Facade segment was just on. We saw the characters early in the evening. Then the interactor typed these phrases: get a divorce failed marriage and you guys are ugly Then Trip told the player ("Warren," btw) that the evening was over and led him out. OMG. What a terrible show. It’s JUST captured play footage of games. No commentary, no people even. Just game after game after game, interminable minutes watching someone play.

The Facade segment was just on. We saw the characters early in the evening. Then the interactor typed these phrases:

get a divorce
failed marriage
and you guys are ugly

Then Trip told the player (“Warren,” btw) that the evening was over and led him out.

]]> By: Ian bogost http://grandtextauto.org/2005/07/27/g4-2-qt/comment-page-1/#comment-67626 Ian bogost Thu, 28 Jul 2005 02:08:18 +0000 http://grandtextauto.org/?p=874#comment-67626 I'm DVR'ing it now. Not sure if I can get it off the DVR... I’m DVR’ing it now. Not sure if I can get it off the DVR…

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