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Message: 3291
Author: andrewbroad
Date: 19/01/2003
Subject: Re: the girl with the Kari T-shirt
dm_boozefreek wrote:
>You've got to be pulling my leg! ;-)
> Also and this is the most interesting one yet. Tonight in the pub
> I saw a girl with a white T-shirt on with The Kari sprite from
> We Pretty on it blown up in black. I asked her where she got it
> and she said she got it printed. I said where did you get the
> picture and she said from a game I've played. I figured I'd bring
> this info forward because personally I couldn't believe it!
> I figured it would either please or anger Andrew Broad.
> I was just speechless about it.""
If it /is/ true, then wow, that's absolutely amazing!! I just wish I
could have been the one to see that girl... (I wouldn't have been
looking in a pub, though, as I am a strict teetotaller.)
Are you 100% sure it was Kari? Were her `on'-pixels black?
soa1000 wrote:
>Yes, that's the question to ask if you (TDM) ever see her again! Give
> Brilliant! You should have asked if she'd seen the club.
her the URL! :-)
> God knows we need more women in the scene, which up to nowI'll second that! I would love to see a female JSW-author, but for
> has been almost exclusively male (and the editing scene entirely
> male it seems). I'm still pursuing the dream of universality
> in the JSW community
some reason girls just aren't as computer-sympathetic (let alone
Willy-sympathetic) as boys (there are far more men than women in my
department at university, although the ratio *is* much better than for
MM/JSW).
At least we've got women interested in *playing* MM/JSW, but editing
is another matter... What can we do to develop their interest?
One of my enduring memories from childhood is of my little sister
crying because she thought I'd /permanently/ removed all the items
from Jet Set Willy. If only her passion for the game had remained...
--
Andrew Broad
http://www.cs.man.ac.uk/~broada/
http://www.cs.man.ac.uk/~broada/spectrum/
http://www.cs.man.ac.uk/~broada/spectrum/willy/
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