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Old 04-19-2023, 10:02 PM   #31
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Could you have cared less? How much more could you have cared less?

 
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Old 04-20-2023, 09:44 AM   #32
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Machina era + artwork decoding was fun. Everyone who says it wasn't fun was either not there or is wrong.
Yeah, it was a lot of fun. Ultimately fruitless, of course, but I did find just the general topic of alchemy interesting to learn about. Later on I'd get into a couple of ARGs (remember those?) for the same general feeling. But, y'know, a better feeling because the puzzles had actual answers, and there was new stuff all the time, and an ending.

 
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Old 04-20-2023, 05:09 PM   #33
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I never paid much attention to it.
What was that one thing (maybe a fake album title or something like that) from back then - Judy and The Red Dwarf?

does that ring a bell? It was definitely something about a Red Dwarf

 
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Old 04-20-2023, 07:06 PM   #34
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at some point I thought I must have been too busy writing my own parallel AGR that I lost track of billy's. And then it turned out that billy's wasn't even fleshed out or with a goal. Maybe the red dwarf was a righs battle we had because the only AGR that survived documented is mine.
FU billy and your mystery. let it remain forever a mysetery.
and I'll put the M2 versions back onto archive after I'm back from Ukraine if you haven't released the M1&M2 boxset by then. that's a threat.

 
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Old 04-21-2023, 06:12 AM   #35
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I just simplified the Machina story in my head to think of it this way:

If Mellon Collie is about the ups and downs of teen age, then Machina is about facing up to adulthood. I find that Machina really does a lot to articulate the feeling of getting older and taking on more responsibilities but deep down wishing you could just go and flee from everything. There are fleeting moments wherein you can escape the endless march of day to day life, but ultimately you have to keep going, because that is what people are supposed to do.

None of the lyrics or themes necessarily reflect any of that, but that was where I was at when I first picked up the record, and that feeling has kinda just stuck with me.

 
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Old 04-21-2023, 06:50 AM   #36
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Old 04-21-2023, 08:20 PM   #37
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at some point I thought I must have been too busy writing my own parallel AGR that I lost track of billy's.
I used to have an entire binder filled with yours and Tigershorty's posts. for a long time that dumb numerical track order was gospel.

the one that was like: 4 3 15 8 6 12 (etc, or whatever)

 
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Old 04-21-2023, 09:21 PM   #38
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Yeah, it was a lot of fun. Ultimately fruitless, of course, but I did find just the general topic of alchemy interesting to learn about. Later on I'd get into a couple of ARGs (remember those?) for the same general feeling. But, y'know, a better feeling because the puzzles had actual answers, and there was new stuff all the time, and an ending.
Who here remembers the Dark Knight ARG marketing campaign in 2007? That shit was lit.

 
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Old 04-21-2023, 09:26 PM   #39
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I used to have an entire binder filled with yours and Tigershorty's posts. for a long time that dumb numerical track order was gospel.

the one that was like: 4 3 15 8 6 12 (etc, or whatever)
billy still hasn't discounted it.

 
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Old 05-15-2023, 06:57 PM   #40
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Old 05-15-2023, 07:14 PM   #41
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Is it a sine?!?

 
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Old 05-15-2023, 07:45 PM   #42
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I sign that he likes tea? Yeah, pretty much

 
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Old 05-15-2023, 08:34 PM   #43
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i learned watching a wonderful life that zuzu is an old timey nickname for susan

which makes the name a bit less stupid but still

 
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Old 05-16-2023, 05:44 AM   #44
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Wow, you're *that* T&T?

 
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Old 05-16-2023, 12:12 PM   #45
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kind of sad he is ordering ATUM from zuzu's

 
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Old 05-17-2023, 07:23 AM   #46
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Vasily… come on brother… tell us you’re working on that goshdang reissue… and that’s what the hold up is… brother… come on…

 
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Old 06-04-2023, 07:00 PM   #47
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Not sure here is the best place to post this, but here's a message from Vasily. He has a GoFundMe to help him look after his wife's treatment


 
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Old 06-05-2023, 10:10 AM   #48
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very sad, that is a shitty cancer (they all are)

would be nice if billy included his art work in the Machina rerelease

 
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