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Re:Before buying a NYT subscription, here's what it'll take ... by tjr on Thursday February 18, 2021 @11:09AM (#26181576)
Bureaucracy was very enjoyable. I wish he had released that same basic content in other forms. I often think of scenes from that game in everyday life; too few other people have ever played it.
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Re:Before buying a NYT subscription, here's what it'll take ... by throwanem on Thursday February 18, 2021 @11:15AM (#26181658)
Likewise. But it was so hard to get any work out of Adams, apparently [1], that it's no great surprise Bureaucracy only happened in the medium of IF.

Perhaps it's time for a reimagining - I could see it working really well as a collection of "websites" with "live chats" and "emails" and so forth, borrowing tools from the "alternate-reality game" style of organic viral marketing and turning them to an altogether nobler purpose. I think that'd be the right choice of medium to tell this sort of story today.

[1] https://www.filfre.net/2015/08/bureaucracy/

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