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| Comments on Saturday 15 June 2002: |
| Today's grand idea - a TV show of paintball combat, with two teams of thirty-or-so, 20 hours of time in advance in which to set up your end of the play area (so you can have people half-buried, or set up paint sprayers to be triggered by tripwires, and suchlike), and themed games, eg. Mensa members versus McDonalds employees, Quake players versus Warcraft 2 players, Corporate Teamwork Consultants versus telephone tech support, Optimists versus Pessimists, and people who like Britney Spears versus people borrowed from a high-security lunatic asylum.
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| RavenBlack |
| Some of the content of this was due to discussion with Tyrethali, starting from the theme of Mensa uselessness. |
| Stavrogin |
| Reminds me of Lemmings Paintball... |
| Kevan |
| Reminded me of the BBC2 series where they dumped two groups of differently-professioned people in a jungle, and ordered them to build shelters and eat iguanas, and things. Far more entertaining. Here's a link:- http://www.qwertyuiop.co.uk/gs/atoz/programmes/b/bare_necessities |
| Digi |
| Or the tedious Channel 4 program X-fire (pronounced cross fire, yes it's that good), where all of Raven's suggestions take place weekly. Even down to te themed teams. |
| RavenBlack |
| Even down to the pre-prepared traps? |
| Digi |
| It's rubish so I've never watched it in full, but from what I've seen yes. It's certainly more than a televised paintball session. |
| RavenBlack |
| There was something here that was arguably 'more' than a televised paintball session. It was 25 minutes of tedious talking to the players, and about 2 minutes of action, unthemed, no preparation, very dull. Ah well, if my idea's been done (albeit poorly), then we'll just have to do the same thing with chainsaw battles instead. |
| Digi |
| Or you could have a talk show type show, and have an episode where you get a load of families who are missing someone. Maybe in Australia somewhere. Then interview them, and make sugestive remarks, and questions like "If you could speak to so and so, what would say?", "Wouldn't it be great if so and so was here". Then do *not* reunite anyone. Then, and only then, may bring out the chainsaws. |
| eperdu |
| So... people who like Britney Spears, AREN'T insane? Hmm. |
| jonathon |
| it's not that the people who like britney spears aren't insane, they just aren't in the high-security mental institution. |