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Geek Culture / Derren Brown - Waking Dead Video game

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BatVink
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Posted: 7th May 2005 07:00
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Anyone see this tonight? It was unbelievable, and very, very scary.

Rather than explain it myself, here's an overview from a review...

Quote: "The second part of this programme is unmissable. Brown devises a pub computer game called Waking Dead. Like something out of a horror movie, the person who plays it goes into a deep trance. He is taken to a nearby room and woken up inside a “real” version of the game that he was just playing, with a gun in his hand and zombies coming towards him. The effect on the person — and the implication about the effect of computer games — is profoundly disturbing. In a perfect world, there would be a separate programme afterwards, in which Derren Brown discusses the programme with psychologists — if only to put my mind at rest"


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Mnemonix
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Posted: 7th May 2005 07:43
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I thought it was outstanding. Very impressive.

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Posted: 7th May 2005 07:54
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We all know it's fake though

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Kohaku
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Posted: 7th May 2005 07:55 Edited at: 7th May 2005 08:09
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It was pretty cool.

Though I do feel it was fake.

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Mnemonix
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Posted: 7th May 2005 08:35
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It is fake...He is an illusionist.

Although I believe that the trance etc. were real, because it is possible to do that. He played an illusion on the person. I am usually skeptical about his tricks, simply because there are logical ways that they are done.

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BatVink
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Posted: 7th May 2005 18:22
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What do you mean it was fake? Do you mean the target was an actor?

Derren uses various methods, including hypnotism and persuasion for his tricks. This, I would imagine, verges on the side of hypnotism.

I've seen him live. It is quite obvious how many of his performances work. But the fact still stands - he is damn good at what he does. Although you can see how he does things, you would struggle to replicate them with as much success.

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Posted: 8th May 2005 01:28
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Would've been amusing if the victim was trained in martial arts and beat the crap out of all the actors. Or alternatively found some sort of weapon such as a plank of wood in the corner forcing the actors to run away screaming.

Simple... yet fun!
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Quote: "and beat the crap out of all the actors"


I did wonder about this myself. Maybe part of the illusion is that the guy had a gun when playing in the pub, and so adheres to the "rules".

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It was weird how he was absolutely, completely distraught - screaming and crying - then when he came out he was absolutely buzzing. "Man that was gooood!"

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Posted: 8th May 2005 08:10
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I was confused as to why although he thought he was playing the game and could remember being in the game, at the end he didn't mention the fact that Derren had walked towards him and talked normally - surely he would have thought this is as not part of the game.

Simple... yet fun!
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soapyfish
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Balls. The one time I miss the programme and it's the one everyone's talking about. Oh well, live and learn.




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they'll propably repeat it alot, don't worry
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Implications about the effects of games on people? Well, when games start drugging us, dragging us to pubs, surrounding us with zombies and putting live guns in our hands, we can start to worry

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