Hotel Synthifornia: 1999, game level »Synworld« Public Netbase, Vienna/A |
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There she stood in the doorway: I heard the mission bell. And I was thinking to myself: This could be Heaven and this could be Hell. Relax! We are programmed to receive, you can check out any time you like, but you can never leave. [The Eagles: Hotel California] |
"Hotel Synthifornia ironically paraphrases the Eagles all-time-classic: 'Such a lovely place, such a lovely face... Relax!' Find yourself caught by the schizophrenic interpretation of a shoot-up game like Epic Games' Unreal. The semantic shift from shoot-up to chill-down confronts concepts of privacy and self-determination with the notorious public participation of the conventional deathmatch. Under these circumstances public space can prove to be lethal, and as a consequence 'Gemütlichkeit' might be a quality worth while being rediscovered collectively." [Micz Flor, Public Netbase] |