Live from 4pm BST
It’s time to discuss the focus of this month’sRPS Game Club,Hypnospace Outlaw! We’ve spent the last month writing a bunch of articles about Tendershoot’s weird and wonderful alternate-reality internet simulator, mourning a time when theinternet used to be fun,reminiscing about virtual petsand even having a chat with the Hypnospace creator Jay Tholen about the game’sorigins and legacy. But now it’s time to hear whatyouthink about it.
From 4pm BST today, we’ll be here to chat about the game together thanks to our fancy liveblogging technology. If you have some thoughts about Dylan Merchant, Coolpunk or Granny Cream’s Hot Butter Ice Cream, then make sure you pop in to let us know!
Our live coverage of this event has finished.
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–Katharine Castle
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They’re slimy gooey animals! Giraffes and wolves and so much more!
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Mine has got to be Colder Than The Rest by Fre3zer. I just think its existence is like, testament to the amount of work that went into the game’s music, specifically? A song that belongs to a genre that revolves around remixing an old Soda jingle, commenting on the ridiculousness of crass consumerism. It’s just… perfect?
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All I can think of at the moment is Obra Dinn? Lucas Pope knows how to bang a bell, that’s for sure.
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An excellent choice, and I completely agree. What I love about The Chowder Man is how well Hot Dad nailed that performance in a way that is silly but still believable.
I mentioned this in the article I wrote aboutChowder’s discographythe other week but the lyric “And I’m not frightened, I just am” is genuinely incredible.
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Nope! I think it’s accessible enough to enjoy even if you don’t have a huge amount of nostalgia for the era. It’s just a great detective game that takes place in a unique setting!
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The whole Fre3zer saga is one of my favourite plotlines. It’s so good, and so easy to miss!
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–Katharine Castle
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I was a fan of Alice O’s Christmas traditions long before I joined the team (Skeal is a yearly tradition for me now, too) and although I did know of the track before she started writing articles about it, it’s gained a new level of poignancy over the last few years.
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Zane is such a good character because of how obnoxious and grating he is though, right? Like, clearly the goal was to create an annoying teenager that gets in your way constantly and, well, mission accomplished. That kid sucks, but I have a lot of empathy for him. Probably because I was also a dweeby, edgelord teenager.
Slayers X does a good job of fleshing him out further, too.
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I wish there were more of them!
While we’re on the subject, I can’t not share this banger:
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Properly excellent track, that. It’s incredible, really, that a song serves as a narrative delivery vehicle for an important sub-plot. It’s not really something I’ve ever seen in a game before.
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This is a good point haha. I do wonder if there’s an ending that’s considered “canon”, and if we’ll see any returning faces in Dreamsettler…
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I’m big into this sentiment.
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Oh this is a great question, I’d love to hear your answers as well!
Other than the era I discussed in that article (thnx for your kind words xx) I sort of miss the dawn of social media, back when it was more personality focused and weird. MySpace. Bebo. Piczo. Even Twitter, in its earliest form. Hell, evenFacebook. It was an exciting time, although in hindsight it feels a bit like the dinosaurs all commenting on how the incoming meteor really added a certain something to the night sky.
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I miss WinAmp so much. What a thing! What a time!
–Liam Richardson
Interesting! It reminded me a lot of the old YTMND bit (meme, I guess?) “Safety Not Guaranteed”.
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I actually dislike large Discord servers as I find them too overwhelming. Forums were slower, and more… permanent? You could have multiple conversations on the go at once and were able to slowly catch-up at your own pace. Also threads didn’t disappear, or get buried in the same way they do on Discord. Bring back forums, I say.
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It was far better to create for the sake of creating, with the vague hope that you may get recommended enough on StumbleUpon, Digg or Reddit to find an organic audience, than it is to constantly chase the algorithm. Agreed. One thing I’ve always loved about RPS is that sense of a traditional community here in the comments.
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Completely agree. That new-age lady, by the way? Based on areal person.
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The final message you get from Dylan - and the application included with it - is a real gut punch.
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If anyone can do it, it’s Jay. I can’t wait to see what he’s been cooking, no matter how long it takes.
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