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Julian Sanchez | August 29, 2005

Jesse Walker just keeps telling himself "it's only a game; it's only a game."

Comments

|8.29.05 @ 1:58PM|#

You mean Microsoft wasn't involved in 9/11? Liar!

Jeff P.|8.29.05 @ 2:05PM|#

Yeah, yeah yeah. It's all very viral and metafictional and Phil Dick-ian. Unfortunately I exert too much time and energy making my own life interesting to bother with a ficticious one.

Any chance I can gets the ads for this shit out of my comics?

|8.29.05 @ 3:48PM|#

The question that is most interesting to me about all this is:

If a viral marketer falls and cracks his skull in the forest and fluffy isn't there to hear it, does the fracture make a noise?

|8.29.05 @ 8:47PM|#

I have just three words for you all:

I
BURIED
PAUL

Moon God|8.29.05 @ 9:44PM|#

Jesse, you forgot to mention one of the other weird pre-echoes of 9/11: the pilot episode of the ill-fated X-Files spin-off, "The Lone Gunmen." See details here and here.

In short, the episode deals with the Lone Gunmen trying to stop a secret government plot to hijack a plane in order to crash it into the World Trade Center, and subsequently blame it on Islamic terrorists so as to justify starting new wars in Middle Eastern countries.

|8.30.05 @ 6:06AM|#

(Not your religion, dear reader. That one's the unvarnished truth. I'm referring to all the others.)

Best parenthetical comment I've seen in a long while.

|8.30.05 @ 11:04AM|#

Sounds like more people should watch Serial Experiments Lain. Some of what he's talking about sounds rather like what Phantoma (from the show) turned out to be...

|8.30.05 @ 11:06AM|#

Oh, and as far as the constant paranoia goes... There's long been a pen-and-paper RPG titled Paranoia. Best rulebook ever. Very fun game.