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	1 Day Of The GrParazyd - Backstory
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	4 Thanks for playing this first gopher clickolding game!
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	6 You came here to hear the backstory of Day Of The GrParazyd:
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	8 gopher://parazyd.org/1/dotg
	9 mirror: gophers://bitreich.org/1/dotg
	10 git://bitreich.org/dotg
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	12 In 2018, during FOSDEM in Brussels, Belgium, some Bitreich members had f…
	13 a side party besides the regular FOSDEM programme. This party became the…
	14 of dotg1.
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	16 All characters in the story have some real-life actor. The story is the
	17 interpretation of what happened and could have happened in an ideal funny
	18 world.
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	20 The name derives from "Day of the Tentacle", "Parazyd" - the nickname of…
	21 first initial code developer - and some way to make fun of Google and a …
	22 shortening.
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	24 Following the success with a time machine at Bitreich and two extensions…
	25 British and one French, the big demotivational phase began. We had huge …
	26 for making dotg2 out of the notes we made at FOSDEM 2020. It did not fel…
	27 it was perfect. So we postponed the project.
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	29 Then came SARS-CoV-2 and the global pandemic. We first met in person at …
	30 in 2023 again. Culture changed very much. New notes for a dotg2 revival …
	31 made. But it did not feel perfect again.
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	33 After some years of pause the whole story line has changed. Persons who …
	34 planned for the glorious ending changed too much to make the game end as…
	35 should end.
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	37 Click by click things got further and never seem to have ended. Like the…
	38 you just played. The story line of dotg extended. And it can be extended…
	39 further. How will it end?
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	41 How will perfection look like?
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	43 Perfection is a thing of the feeling.
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