![]() A Christian site that asks readers to pray a prayer before scrolling down, then declaring the reader is now a Christian themselves, is a particular favourite. ![]() Having lived through the mid-to-late 90s internet isn't necessary to enjoy Hypnospace - it quickly makes clear what you 'missed' - but it also contains so very many references and observations of the era that'll delight you if you did. Online communities, reactionary protests, dodgy "download accelerator" software, pop-ups, it's got the lot. A keenly observed pastiche of the early internet, in those days when it felt achievable to eventually know everyone else who was logged in. It's vital I put that up front, because so much of Hypnospace's core themes are about wading through the deliberately terrible. ![]() Which means you're going to be looking through a lot of very terrible internet pages, wielding a banhammer. And, because it's an internet controlled by a corporation, it contains all manner of content violation that cannot be tolerated. Accessed by wearing a brain-scanning headband, users can create their own Geocities-like web spaces, interact via a chat app, and share music and images with one another, all via the HypnOS operating system. Hypnospace Outlaw, if it can be described at all, is a game about policing an alternate-world dream-based internet browsing system in 1999. ![]()
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