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[gohoos]

Worth a second listen

[Incitatus]

yep, all very good.

The only outstanding audio that confusses the hell outta me is one of the ambient ILB wavs that played off the site.
With the demonic I love bees, and noices and bees in the BKGD.

If you reverse the file, about halfway through it, you clearly hear a voice say Connection, and the rest is drowned out by the chatter. I soo wanted to know what else was said....

[water10]

[thunderclap8]

While they won't all fit on my mp3 player, I'm planning on loading it up with the audio files, and burning the rest to audio cds for the Thanksgiving car trip next week. Really looking forward to it too.

[Incitatus]

[krystyn]

Something that didn't really hit me so much on re-listen, but perhaps shortly before it, was that huge thread we had about the value of A.I. existence versus human life.

I was always in the camp of placing a pretty high value upon Melissa's/Durga's/Sleeping Princess' 'life,' but there were lots of people that felt that that entity was easily expendable next to Dana's life. I wonder how that might've changed for people upon a re-listen, knowing what they know now? Knowing how very real Melissa was, in spite of 'just' being a machine?

How could they listen to her pleading with Kamal, or recapping her adventures in 2004, without feeling as though there was something more there than just 1s and 0s? It sorta boggles the mind.

[thunderclap8]

[thebruce]

[Incitatus]

[CoffeeJedi]

the theme of family

[Incitatus]

Re: the theme of family

[Phaedra]

Not particularly surprising that it would be emphasized, considering that community-building is one of the things that 42's website advertises. Having a story which emphasizes ties and loyalty puts people in the right mindset.

[gohoos]

And tie that with the parallels between the bees community and the "team" that the characters form. Different people in different locations that come together for a common purpose. Families both.

Every time I hear durga get... forceful... I still get chills. "I am not your THING." <shudder> So powerful. And then again, after Kamal comes over to Jersey's.


I downloaded the CD version that someone had made available via bittorrent after the game closed. It had MP3's that must have come from the DVD as they are of a higher sound quality than the downloaded clips from the site. I keep them on my ipod.

My only problem is that I still think that they are out of order in places. I'm going to play with the order a bit more; maybe verify that they are in the same order as the humptydumpty page.

[edit]
I need to document this while I listen, but It really seems like they aren't quite in order on the 404 page. For instance, In chapter 10.1 Jan gets mad about not being able to enlist and smashes something, and Jersey said "I just got finished buying a new lamp - could you people stop breaking things..." But Kamal doesn't show up to break the lamp until 10.2.

Is the order on the DVD the same as the Humptydumpty page?

[DreamOfTheRood]

One of the most chilling parts comes in the week 6 files.
Kamal says, "On sale for a limited time only. Offer expires December 31, 2004."
And then there's this little sound like 4 bells ringing in succession.
Creeeeeepy.

[thebruce]

if you're looking for a linear order for the axon scenes in the chapters, take a look at the Axon Plot in my sig - all the clips read linearly and did my best to make it flow the best it could from start to end, splitting threads by scene if necessary...