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Closed Beta Test 10/19/2002
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Freddie_H_Official: 08:00:00TESTING... Is this thing on? Welcome to the exclusive Dangertainment Closed Beta Test!! The future of entertainment starts right here.
Tech_Nora_Dangertainment: 08:00:22Freddie, I'm seeing a massive frame drop on the external encoder. Everyone in chat, please let us know if the video is stuttering.
Matrix_Reloaded_02: 08:00:45Yeah it's lagging bad. I'm on a fresh RoadRunner cable connection and it's buffering every 5 seconds. Audio is like 4 seconds behind the video.
GoreHound_Y2K: 08:00:58FIRST!! Oh wait, third. Whatever, the video window is tiny lol. Is this really 240p? I can barely see Freddie's face, it's just pixels.
SpookyGirl_02: 08:01:20I can hear you Freddie! But you look like a robot moving in slow motion.
Freddie_H_Official: 08:01:50@Matrix_Reloaded_02 That's just a routing bottleneck at our Haddonfield uplink hub, don't worry! We're upgrading the pipes before the 31st. It's gonna be smooth as silk.
Tech_Nora_Dangertainment: 08:02:22Just restarted the RealPlayer streaming server daemon. Users might experience a brief disconnect. Hold on.
Linkin_Park_Dirge: 08:03:15Ok, reconnected. Audio is clearer now. Anyone else trying to watch this on 56k dial-up? My modem is literally screaming right now, everything else is frozen.
X_File_Guy: 08:03:32Dial-up in 2002? Get DSL dude, it's worth it. Hey Freddie, is the camera we're looking at right now inside the actual Myers house?
Freddie_H_Official: 08:04:00@X_File_Guy Yes sir! This is the main hallway camera feed. You are looking at the exact birthplace of the Boogeyman. On Halloween night, six internet strangers live here. You watch. You control.
GoreHound_Y2K: 08:04:25Are they actually gonna find real stuff in there or is it all staged? Be honest Freddie, did you hide fake skeletons in the closets??
Freddie_H_Official: 08:05:02@GoreHound_Y2K Dangertainment is 100% real interactive reality television. What they find is up to destiny. No scripts. Just raw terror.
Tech_Nora_Dangertainment: 08:05:31Freddie, stop pacing around, you're causing interlacing artifacts on Camera 2. The wireless transmitter in your vest is dropping packets.
Scream_Queen: 08:05:55Omg I just noticed the chat text color is bright neon green. Very retro, I like it. Very matrix.
Matrix_Reloaded_02: 08:06:28The text is fine but the video feed just cut to a blue screen. Nora, what did you do?
Tech_Nora_Dangertainment: 08:06:50Checking the hardware capture card... Looks like a Windows resource conflict on the streaming box. Give it a minute.
Haddonfield_Local_02: 08:07:22I still don't think you guys should be doing this. It's completely disrespectful to the families. That house should have been torn down years ago.
Linkin_Park_Dirge: 08:07:45@Haddonfield_Local_02 Cry more. It's history. If people want to pay to see inside, let them. Freddie is a genius.
GoreHound_Y2K: 08:08:10Is the video back yet? I'm just getting a spinning buffering wheel. RealPlayer says 'Connecting to Server...'
SpookyGirl_02: 08:08:35Mine is back! I can see the kitchen now. Wow, it looks super gross and dusty in there. Are the contestants gonna sleep on the floor?
X_File_Guy: 08:09:00They have sleeping bags I think. Hey Nora, what's the maximum concurrent user limit for the live chat room on the 31st? Will it crash?
Tech_Nora_Dangertainment: 08:09:45We have load-balancing servers provisioned in Chicago. The text chat is running on an optimized IRC-style backend, it can handle up to 3,000 users before throttling.
Freddie_H_Official: 08:10:20Hear that? We have the best tech in the business! This isn't some amateur webcam site, this is a multi-million dollar broadcast event. Tell your friends to buy their web-passes before they sell out.
Matrix_Reloaded_02: 08:10:50The web-pass price is a little steep ($14.99 for a weekend access key), but if the feeds stay stable like this, I guess it's worth it for Halloween night.
Haddonfield_Local_02: 08:11:22You won't be laughing when Myers actually shows up to claim his property. You're turning a tragedy into a circus.
Scream_Queen: 08:11:45@Haddonfield_Local_02 Myers is dead or in an asylum somewhere, old man. Get over it. The 70s were thirty years ago.
GoreHound_Y2K: 08:12:12Loomis shot him like six times and he survived, he's like a ghost or something. That's why this is cool.
Freddie_H_Official: 08:12:50We welcome all opinions in the Dangertainment community! Even the skeptics. That's what makes the internet great. Total freedom.
Tech_Nora_Dangertainment: 08:13:22Freddie, I need you to go to the basement stairs and test the audio range on the boundary microphone. The signal looks weak on the mixer.
Linkin_Park_Dirge: 08:13:55Ooh, the basement. Turn on the night-vision mode on Cam 4, let's see how it looks in the dark.
SpookyGirl_02: 08:14:20Yeah! Night vision! Make it look like the Blair Witch!
Tech_Nora_Dangertainment: 08:14:52Enabling infrared mode on Main Basement Feed... check your players now.
Matrix_Reloaded_02: 08:15:25Whoa, that looks sick. Everything is all ghostly and green. Creepy as hell.
X_File_Guy: 08:15:50Now that's what I'm talking about. Imagine watching someone walk down those stairs in pitch black. Best $15 I ever spent.
GoreHound_Y2K: 08:16:20Wait, did something just move near the corner of the screen on the basement feed? Next to the old boiler?
Scream_Queen: 08:16:42Stop trying to scare everyone, there's nobody down there yet lol.
GoreHound_Y2K: 08:17:05I'm serious! It looked like a shadow. Nora, can you enhance that or zoom in?
Tech_Nora_Dangertainment: 08:17:35These are fixed-lens webcams, I can't optical zoom remotely. It's likely just compression artifacts or shadows from Freddie walking around upstairs. The floorboards are thin.
Freddie_H_Official: 08:18:15I'm back upstairs now. Testing the audio from the living room. Everything sounding crisp in the headphones, Nora?
Tech_Nora_Dangertainment: 08:18:42Yes, your wireless lapel is registering fine now. Just stay away from the microwave in the back room, it interferes with the 2.4GHz receiver.
Linkin_Park_Dirge: 08:19:10Lmfao a microwave cutting off the boogeyman broadcast. Ultimate high tech.
Haddonfield_Local_02: 08:19:45Enjoy your jokes. When the blood starts flowing for real, don't say nobody warned you.
Matrix_Reloaded_02: 08:20:10Alright Grandpa, go back to reading the newspaper. Hey Freddie, what time does the stream start on Halloween night exactly?
Freddie_H_Official: 08:20:48The pre-show countdown starts at 6:00 PM Central time on October 31st! The contestants enter the house exactly at 8:00 PM as the sun goes down. Do NOT miss the opening minutes.
SpookyGirl_02: 08:21:20I already bought my junk food and soda for it. My friends are coming over to watch on my dad's computer.
X_File_Guy: 08:21:52Sounds like a solid plan. Nora, thanks for fixing the audio sync, it's perfect now.
Tech_Nora_Dangertainment: 08:22:20No problem. Closing down the beta test stream now so we can save bandwidth and apply these server patches. Thanks for helping us test the network, everyone.
GoreHound_Y2K: 08:22:45Aw man, already? See you guys on Halloween night!! It's gonna be epic.
Freddie_H_Official: 08:23:10Stay dangerous, internet! See you in the house of Myers on October 31st!!! Over and out.
Tech_Nora_Dangertainment: 08:23:35SYSTEM: Broadcast server has been shut down by administrator. Connection closed.