the infancy of Internet television

or, pride and prejudice Director ↑Geoff Lapaire, playing the character ‘↑Kyle‘ in the “↑Pure Pwnage“ Internet television series, finally revealing his face to the audience at the end of ↑Episode 12 “Game Over” [46:08min | .avi | 342.5MB], closing the series’ first season.   ‘Kyle’ (Geoff Lapaire), director of the “Pure Pwnage” series, has written a short but ↑insightful essay on the nexus between gaming- and online-culture, independent film making, the television industry, and public funding. He starts by relating the development of the download numbers, which mean the minimum of viewers of each show. Lapaire and ↑Jarett Cale (playing … Continue reading

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kyle pwned

More than a year ago I ↵added a tidbit to the entry ↑Pure Pwnage at Wikipedia. My addition, which—in the wake of Wikipedia’s ↑Project Internet Culture—meanwhile was moved to the ↑easter eggs section of the now existing entry ↑List of Pure Pwnage episodes, read like that: In Episode 8, when Doug is competing against 7 other CS:S players, one of his victims is under the alias “f4tality”. This is a nod to ↑Johnathan Wendel, a professional FPS-gamer who goes by the name “Fatal1ty”. Early in his career, Wendel played “↑Counter-Strike“ before he resorted to single-player games such as “↑Quake III … Continue reading

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