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Re: Balloon Trip: An Existential Journey

Sir Cucumber — Sun, 01 Feb 2009 13:36:55 -0000

Hey man, the video is back up on Yahoo now: http://resignedgamer.blogsp...

Re: Balloon Trip: An Existential Journey

Sir Cucumber — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 00:25:24 -0000

christ.

It seems to still play from my Youtube channel: http://www.youtube.com/user...

I'll try to upload it to Vimeo or someone else who doesn't suck so much and send you a link soon.

fuck! mah viewz!

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Methossa — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 00:16:52 -0000

The video is no longer available due to a copyright claim from WMG? This is unmitigated horseshit. I want my philosophical quotes!

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cakefarm — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 04:06:39 -0000

Harvest Moon / Pot... Ran?

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Sir Cucumber — Mon, 08 Dec 2008 21:28:43 -0000

you got it. original harvest moon on snes. i don't recommend it unless you've got a lot of pot.

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DmL — Mon, 08 Dec 2008 21:17:16 -0000

Harvest Moon, maybe SNES version, maybe GBA.

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Anonymous — Mon, 08 Dec 2008 20:16:34 -0000

What is the game with the character busting a stump into logs?

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plotz — Mon, 08 Dec 2008 17:41:18 -0000

What a marvelous film! Great work. I love that you used all these 8 bit games. Visually, they're every bit is a powerful as today's hyper-threaded mega-polycount 3d jobbies. My only very minor quibble is the transition effects you used to bring in the quotations. I found them distracting. But that doesn't change a thing - I loved it, I thought it was hilarious and engaging.

Odd how irony can upset people though, isn't it?

Re: Balloon Trip: An Existential Journey

Sir Cucumber — Mon, 08 Dec 2008 11:44:31 -0000

secret sega master system snail maze game FTW!!!!!!!!

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Josh — Mon, 08 Dec 2008 11:34:08 -0000

Existential quotes are fun, and are just about the only that cheer me up these days. For people that are just too, I don't know, something or other for philoshophy especially that of the last century, cool, have fun with that brand of idiocy. As for me I still remember the secret game embeded on the Master System board, and just knowing that is was there makes me happy to this day. I wish there was more hidden crap in games that made is worthwhile somehow, I would like to believe there is more depth to these worlds than the thin verneer spread within them. The thought of it makes me happy, and i will probably never see them either...

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Sir Cucumber — Mon, 08 Dec 2008 09:54:06 -0000

Wow man, that's some deep shit...And I just wanted to make people laugh!

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Jackablade — Mon, 08 Dec 2008 09:20:17 -0000

If the floating man is a symbol of the everyman, I don't believe it is such a nihilistic. From his birth, he strives to acquire those balloons, negotiating the perils that appear before him in doing so. Sometimes there are bubbles. He can chase after them at great personal risk. Perhaps he'll capture one, perhaps he won't. Maybe it will end in his demise.
As his life comes to an end in the moments before he is consumed by the star or the sea he can look back on is life and think "You know, I've got a lot of balloons."

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Kris — Mon, 08 Dec 2008 08:54:09 -0000

Thanks for this fantastic mash-up! One of the most thought-provoking approaches to video games I have seen.

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Guy — Sun, 07 Dec 2008 18:49:42 -0000

It's just a game. Get some counseling.

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Cheepak Dopra — Sun, 07 Dec 2008 15:07:36 -0000

What are you, a 40 year old virgin? What's this emphasis on GIRLFRIENDs?

You need to stop visiting Dr. Phil, bro.

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Ricky Grove — Sun, 07 Dec 2008 14:39:59 -0000

Wonderful idea. I love how you work in the comic existential angst in a retro game. Thanks for putting this together. You've given me a lot of ideas.

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Arafat Medini — Sun, 07 Dec 2008 14:27:56 -0000

@George

Reread my post very carefully.

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Arafat Medini — Sun, 07 Dec 2008 14:27:52 -0000

@George

Reread my post very carefully.

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Arafat Medini — Sun, 07 Dec 2008 14:24:13 -0000

@George

Reread my post very carefully.

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Arafat Medini — Sun, 07 Dec 2008 14:22:46 -0000

I am playing Ikaruga right now.

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Sir Cucumber — Sun, 07 Dec 2008 12:57:37 -0000

lulz, all I want to know is what games Arafat has been playing recently? Gotta get me some of dat!

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George — Sun, 07 Dec 2008 11:50:02 -0000

You do realize that your post mantra sounds almost exactly like the opening to Trainspotting. Some people look for deeper meaning than "get a girlfriend, get married, and work hard" and previously-chewed soundbites like "find a PURPOSE for your life." What you're advocating is a this age's version of thoughtless animalistic existence drenched in an inhuman optimism.

If you don't want to think about those things, then go back to your life and live it how you want--but make no mistake that you're simply avoiding the philosophical issue, not solving it or confronting it in any way.

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Arafat Medini — Sun, 07 Dec 2008 10:59:38 -0000

Your life is meaningless not mine. Go search the meaning of your life, GO find a PURPOSE for your life. That is YOUR meaning.

How can you say everybody, like 100%, like people in India and in a small town in Siberia are bored? What is truth for you?
No, I am not bored for example, sorry but your assumption is wrong.

Habits are only means to a Goal, to accomplish your pupose in you life.

Life is full of wonderful children with warm happy smiling faces, that's how I see it.

Loneliness... GO find a Girlfriend.. Not somebody to simulate a porno movie but a REAL girlfriend somebody who cares about you when you feel tired after a hard day of work.

Time does not matter YOU matter man.

GO find a GIRLFRIEND NOW PRONTO will ye!! Then you can marry.

I feel people around me are free so as important as I am to myself they are to me.

I got bored from this movie, it is poorly made, does not have any relationship with videogames.. Why did get posted on Kotaku???

Man stop making bad movies, WORK hard, give LOVE, and go get a GIRLFRIEND. NOW!!!

Re: Balloon Trip: An Existential Journey

flow — Sun, 07 Dec 2008 10:39:05 -0000

Cool, but I think it would be better if you excluded the game sounds. It's enough with the music, visuals and quotes.

Re: Balloon Trip: An Existential Journey

George — Sun, 07 Dec 2008 00:48:14 -0000

A friend of mine held the same belief as you had about Balloon Fight about Super Mario--that there was a secret minus underwater world. And there was.

Seriously though, the idea that anything can represent existentialism assumes that there is a reality other than an existentialistic one in which to generate the analogy. That is the inherent joke on things which purport to demonstrate existentialism--the very demonstration undermines that which is attempted to be demonstrated.

Also, it would be nice if people stopped assuming "meaninglessness" is the same as "absurd." Camus was no nihilist, thank you very much. (You can keep your Sartre.)