guest post by Jason Schupp
To be honest, I’m not a big fan of alternate reality games—yet—as the almost inevitable product tie-in at the end makes me feel like everyone’s been working to arrive at a commercial, but if they continue making introductory videos like the one for This Is My Milwaukee, I might be swayed. (I might also be swayed if I happen upon a Go.D.S.E.E.D fragment and find myself without my flare gun and rebreather, you know?) The video above from the “Milwaukee Tourism Commission” starts relatively innocuous but keeps getting more and more off-kilter.
Looking into the game proceedings, I was a little amused to find out that last month, a dead drop had been hidden under a table in Café Gratitude in San Francisco’s Inner Sunset, and players were discussing how not to look weird in going about finding it. In a city frequently besieged by Santas, zombies, and other oddities, I wouldn’t think it would be a problem.
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I’ll buy you a ham BURger when I get back from the TOOOOOOOOOOOMMMMMMMBBBBBBBB
Sweet, but I’ll have to take the Vegetarian Option. Beeeeeep!
WTF???? that wasn’t shot in Milwaukee.
Also most of those attempts at humor that are about poking
fun at Milwaukee are way off.
Milwaukee has tons of vegetarian food, and kick-ass margaritas.
(not made with vermouth….)
Geez.
this was totally offensive, stupid and not funny.
*native milwaukeean and proud of it!
Hey Christy, you’re right, that wasn’t shot in Milwaukee. But it’s not supposed to represent Milwaukee as it is now, accurately or otherwise. It’s for an alternate reality game with a story in an alternate timeline, including a tragedy that happened after science got out of control nearly destroyed Milwaukee, altered the landscape of the US, and threw society into disarray. Or something. There’s some mystery there.
Don’t take it seriously or personally. Really.
this is hilarious I have to go to milwaukee for work next month I hope my hotel is a class k structure