{ "export": { "source": "https://urth.darkrealm.vip/thread/urth/5529", "note": "Exported from an unofficial mirror of a public mailing list. Copyright in each message remains with the person who wrote it. Email addresses are obscured as `user at host`, the form the original archive published. This file was rebuilt from parsed fields rather than retained headers, so it is faithful in content but not byte-exact.", "addresses": "obscured as 'user at host'" }, "archive": "urth", "thread": { "id": 5529, "subject": "Maybe i'm reading too much into it...", "messages": 4, "voices": 3, "first": "2010-01-04T19:08:14+00:00", "last": "2010-01-05T04:27:16+00:00" }, "messages": [ { "message_id": "<81c420fa1001041108pe0b0844x1fd15156cbbc1118@mail.gmail.com>", "from": { "name": "Greg Bates", "address": "tedkennedyrolls at gmail.com" }, "date": "2010-01-04T19:08:14+00:00", "subject": "(urth) Maybe i'm reading too much into it...", "in_reply_to": null, "reply_link": null, "blocks": [ { "kind": "text", "depth": 0, "text": "I'm probably reading too much into this, but I just started playing Killzone\n2 today (got a Playstation 3 for Christmas), and I couldn't help but notice\nthat your main character's name is \"Sev\" and the spaceship he arrived in is\ncalled the \"New Sun.\" Anybody else caught any strange maybe-Gene Wolfe\nreferences in pop culture?" } ] }, { "message_id": "", "from": { "name": "Lane Haygood", "address": "lhaygood at gmail.com" }, "date": "2010-01-04T19:17:20+00:00", "subject": "(urth) Maybe i'm reading too much into it...", "in_reply_to": "<81c420fa1001041108pe0b0844x1fd15156cbbc1118@mail.gmail.com>", "reply_link": "header", "blocks": [ { "kind": "text", "depth": 0, "text": "That seems fairly blatant to me.\n\nSent from my iPhone" }, { "kind": "quote", "depth": 1, "text": "On Jan 4, 2010, at 1:08 PM, Greg Bates \nwrote:\nI'm probably reading too much into this, but I just started playing \nKillzone 2 today (got a Playstation 3 for Christmas), and I couldn't \nhelp but notice that your main character's name is \"Sev\" and the \nspaceship he arrived in is called the \"New Sun.\" Anybody else caught \nany strange maybe-Gene Wolfe references in pop culture?\n_______________________________________________" } ] }, { "message_id": "<44fb53d11001041221kcf1c957te78071e78b8c5a0@mail.gmail.com>", "from": { "name": "Matthew Keeley", "address": "matthew.keeley.1 at gmail.com" }, "date": "2010-01-04T20:21:50+00:00", "subject": "(urth) Maybe i'm reading too much into it...", "in_reply_to": "<81c420fa1001041108pe0b0844x1fd15156cbbc1118@mail.gmail.com>", "reply_link": "header", "blocks": [ { "kind": "text", "depth": 0, "text": "I don't think you're reading too much into this at all. I played the\ngame myself and noticed it. Someone on the Killzone 2 team has good\ntaste in literature — the second level is called Blood Meridian.\n\nAlso, the main villain's rank is \"autarch\".\n\nTerminus Est appears as a sword in Castlevania: Symphony of the Night.\nDoubtless there are other Wolfe references in games too.\n\nI don't know if your PS3 is online at the moment, but if you want to\nadd a fellow Wolfe fan as a PSN friend, my screentag is keeleymk.\nMostly playing Uncharted 2 at the moment — highly, highly recommended.\n\n-Matt" }, { "kind": "quote", "depth": 1, "text": "On Mon, Jan 4, 2010 at 2:08 PM, Greg Bates wrote:\nI'm probably reading too much into this, but I just started playing Killzone\n2 today (got a Playstation 3 for Christmas), and I couldn't help but notice\nthat your main character's name is \"Sev\" and the spaceship he arrived in is\ncalled the \"New Sun.\" Anybody else caught any strange maybe-Gene Wolfe\nreferences in pop culture?\n_______________________________________________" } ] }, { "message_id": "<81c420fa1001042027t334b508do1de8bbc36473651f@mail.gmail.com>", "from": { "name": "Greg Bates", "address": "tedkennedyrolls at gmail.com" }, "date": "2010-01-05T04:27:16+00:00", "subject": "(urth) Maybe i'm reading too much into it...", "in_reply_to": "<44fb53d11001041221kcf1c957te78071e78b8c5a0@mail.gmail.com>", "reply_link": "header", "blocks": [ { "kind": "text", "depth": 0, "text": "Sent. Never found Terminus Est in SotN - maybe it's time for a 2nd run.\nI'll keep my eyes peeled for any two-headed bosses in Killzone, too." }, { "kind": "quote", "depth": 1, "text": "On Mon, Jan 4, 2010 at 3:21 PM, Matthew Keeley\nwrote:\nI don't think you're reading too much into this at all. I played the\ngame myself and noticed it. Someone on the Killzone 2 team has good\ntaste in literature — the second level is called Blood Meridian.\n\nAlso, the main villain's rank is \"autarch\".\n\nTerminus Est appears as a sword in Castlevania: Symphony of the Night.\nDoubtless there are other Wolfe references in games too.\n\nI don't know if your PS3 is online at the moment, but if you want to\nadd a fellow Wolfe fan as a PSN friend, my screentag is keeleymk.\nMostly playing Uncharted 2 at the moment — highly, highly recommended.\n\n-Matt\n\nOn Mon, Jan 4, 2010 at 2:08 PM, Greg Bates \nwrote:" }, { "kind": "quote", "depth": 2, "text": "I'm probably reading too much into this, but I just started playing\nKillzone\n2 today (got a Playstation 3 for Christmas), and I couldn't help but\nnotice\nthat your main character's name is \"Sev\" and the spaceship he arrived in\nis\ncalled the \"New Sun.\" Anybody else caught any strange maybe-Gene Wolfe\nreferences in pop culture?\n_______________________________________________" } ] } ] }