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1 Day Of The GrParazyd - Backstory
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4 Thanks for playing this first gopher clickolding game!
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6 You came here to hear the backstory of Day Of The GrParazyd:
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8 gopher://parazyd.org/1/dotg
9 mirror: gophers://bitreich.org/1/dotg
10 git://bitreich.org/dotg
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12 In 2018, during FOSDEM in Brussels, Belgium, some Bitreich members had fun at
13 a side party besides the regular FOSDEM programme. This party became the story
14 of dotg1.
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16 All characters in the story have some real-life actor. The story is the
17 interpretation of what happened and could have happened in an ideal funny
18 world.
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20 The name derives from "Day of the Tentacle", "Parazyd" - the nickname of the
21 first initial code developer - and some way to make fun of Google and a ".g"
22 shortening.
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24 Following the success with a time machine at Bitreich and two extensions, one
25 British and one French, the big demotivational phase began. We had huge plans
26 for making dotg2 out of the notes we made at FOSDEM 2020. It did not felt like
27 it was perfect. So we postponed the project.
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29 Then came SARS-CoV-2 and the global pandemic. We first met in person at FOSDEM
30 in 2023 again. Culture changed very much. New notes for a dotg2 revival were
31 made. But it did not feel perfect again.
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33 After some years of pause the whole story line has changed. Persons who were
34 planned for the glorious ending changed too much to make the game end as it
35 should end.
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37 Click by click things got further and never seem to have ended. Like the game
38 you just played. The story line of dotg extended. And it can be extended even
39 further. How will it end?
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41 How will perfection look like?
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43 Perfection is a thing of the feeling.
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