Month end catch-up
Here's some links you may have missed
Dirt: Goncharov
The greatest mafia movie ever imagined.
“Through parody and satire we’ve shaped this into something solid and genuine,” wrote one Tumblr user, who alluded to other examples of fictional conspiracy theories and fandoms, like Ong’s Hat and Polybius. It is the Tumblr version of “Ratatouille: The TikTok Musical,”
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The Birth of Alternate Reality Games
Alternate Reality Games have existed for far longer than most people realize, I just wanted to talk about some of the first ones. (the outro has all the music used in order)
SPLINTERED STATES I ‘traveled back in time from 2036’ – the US capital will change after America breaks into 5 during a second civil war
Lots of people wholeheartedly believed Titor while other people obsessed over errors and inconsistencies, becoming online detectives trying to uncover his truth.
A multimedia artist said that the John Tritor story “was created as a literary experiment by people who were observing what I was doing with Ong’s Hat [a pioneering early alternate reality game].”
“And these people wanted to do something like that. I was a consultant on the project, [but] it wasn’t my project,” Joseph Matheny added, according to Thrillist.
Richard O’Connor, who listened to the radio station, said: “There was always the sense that Art was fully aware of the con.”
“This made the gullibility of the callers even better,” O’Connor stated.
He added: “John Titor, probably to lesser than most of the other ‘time travelers,’ didn’t seem to have a strong enough grasp of history (or the present, for that matter) to concoct particularly compelling stories.
“But Art had this fine skill of constructing drama from the little they said and pulling out just enough bits to make it fun,” O’Connor said.
Read the article:https://www.the-sun.com/news/6712743/traveled-back-time-us-change-america-second-civil-war/