I war of the worlds’d my partner once. It’s the sort of thing you do once, realize just how fucked up your actions were, and learn never to do it again, or a yearly tradition if you’re with precisely the right person.
Created like 2 years of emotional dependence from that. Really stagnated our personal evolutions. Truly a terrible joke. I regret it weekly.
It’s replicable and I know one of you will consider trying it despite the flashing warning signs. I’d rather not instigate others into betraying the trust of those closest to them. When I said that I regret it weekly, I was entirely sincere.
Honestly, that’s fair. I’m not the type that would do it, but I’ve known enough that would that I think it’s the responsible thing of you to probably keep that information to yourself.
But I do have questions, and if you’re not comfortable answering public, I swear to God, I will not share the information online or in any capacity in which in might be used for harm if you were to DM me an answer. Lol. I don’t think the answers could be used like that, anyway.
Does the person you did this to now know the full truth of the situation?
Was the hoax religious in nature?
Was it political (for instance, a terror attack, election result, or other “big ticket” news worthy type of thing?
If it caused a lasting impact on the victim, was that impact purely a loss of trust with you/others in involved, or did it cause like lasting issues in their perception of reality? (As in, do they still believe this, or partially believe it, even if they have been informed of the truth?)
Are you still with/close to/associated with the victim?
Was there physical harm caused?
And finally, what was your motivation to do it in the first place?
Totally get it if you don’t want to answer any or all of these… But you did open the door, so I assume you’re comfortable talking about aspects of it, so long as the information given doesn’t make it replicatible, and I feel my curiosity is very understandable. Lol
I won’t go into specifics about the hoax, but everything else is fine. At the time, I was one of their few friends, which inadvertently made me the one to comfort them and abuse them.
I thought it would be entertaining to put my burgeoning skills on display, but disconnecting a person from reality and then re-anchoring them to it causes far more psychological harm than 20s me could have understood. Your anchor cannot unmoor itself without forcing you to travel a ways and I didn’t even consider the proverbial currents.
I told them immediately after, but that compelled a unique sort of emotional dependence and power dynamic that I hated then and that haunts my days and nights now. I became both abuser and soother. It was like flipping the switch to “battered housewife.”
We’re still together, and significantly better for one another after counseling. Neither of us were harmed physically. Just years of potential development wasted.
Fun fact: that never actually happened. It was just a fun little goof some papers ran with and spread for shits and gigs to play along. No one thought it was real.
In actuality, it was a weekly radio program that always told fiction stories and it was on its regular broadcast time, only had a 2% listener audience across the US, there were commercial breaks that mentioned the show, and no one believed it was real. No histaria, no people killing themselves, no end of the world vibes.
I assume it’s in reference to the 1938 radio adaptation of the novel The War of the Worlds, which was framed as though it were a legitimate news broadcast being periodically interrupted by reports of an alien invasion. What we might consider “found footage”-style nowadays if there had been, you know, actual footage. Story goes that a non-zero number of people didn’t get the memo that it was a radio play and thought Martians were actually invading.
The English website of the public broadcaster Czech Radio, which produces almost all radio plays made here, only seems to feature 2 relevant articles (radio program scripts):
that come from a “playlist” file from a 20-years-old copy of the article and even if Internet Archive scanned the file for links, it would not try to archive audio streamed over RTSP or PNM. Maybe you can contact Czech Radio to have it reuploaded.
Recordings have been made but only excerpts seem to be available online. They said they would upload the full audio if the technical side worked so you can nudge them to follow up on their promise.
Also, I can’t fail to mention:
Audio plays were incidentally invented by Victorian-era Czech genius Jára Cimrman even before the invention of the radio (which he also inspired when accidentally meeting Marconi but whatever). His short audio play Tma jako v pytli (“Pitch Black”) would be staged as a replacement whenever power was cut at his theater. It is now played during the introductory seminar before his cca-1910 play Záskok (“The Stand-In”) whenever featured at the theatre named after him. An English version that presumably also features Pitch Black is available in the Cimrman English Theater but they don’t publish recordings nor their painstakingly translated scripts.
ahhh that’s so cool! thank you so much for sharing so much info!
I will definitely be checking these out they sound very cool.
Czechia/CR (what do you call it?) is definitely on my travel list, chasing bohemia is something that I think my soul needs. the idea of bohemia has always resonated with me massively.
Guess what, Charles University Faculty of Education student Bc. Šárka Nygrýnová actually wrote her master’s thesis on her translation of the Záskok play and the history lecture that precedes each staging. The audio play’s script is on pages 15 through 19 of the thesis.
Still, it seems Cimrman English Theatre uses a different translation based on the trailers I saw.
I war of the worlds’d my partner once. It’s the sort of thing you do once, realize just how fucked up your actions were, and learn never to do it again, or a yearly tradition if you’re with precisely the right person.
Created like 2 years of emotional dependence from that. Really stagnated our personal evolutions. Truly a terrible joke. I regret it weekly.
What did you do exactly, if you don’t mind us asking?
I once somehow convinced my girlfriend that we didn’t have a dog and she had just imagined it. I stopped making jokes like that afterwards.
NO
It’s replicable and I know one of you will consider trying it despite the flashing warning signs. I’d rather not instigate others into betraying the trust of those closest to them. When I said that I regret it weekly, I was entirely sincere.
You’re no fun.
Completely fair, thanks!
Honestly, that’s fair. I’m not the type that would do it, but I’ve known enough that would that I think it’s the responsible thing of you to probably keep that information to yourself.
But I do have questions, and if you’re not comfortable answering public, I swear to God, I will not share the information online or in any capacity in which in might be used for harm if you were to DM me an answer. Lol. I don’t think the answers could be used like that, anyway.
Does the person you did this to now know the full truth of the situation?
Was the hoax religious in nature?
Was it political (for instance, a terror attack, election result, or other “big ticket” news worthy type of thing?
If it caused a lasting impact on the victim, was that impact purely a loss of trust with you/others in involved, or did it cause like lasting issues in their perception of reality? (As in, do they still believe this, or partially believe it, even if they have been informed of the truth?)
Are you still with/close to/associated with the victim?
Was there physical harm caused?
And finally, what was your motivation to do it in the first place?
Totally get it if you don’t want to answer any or all of these… But you did open the door, so I assume you’re comfortable talking about aspects of it, so long as the information given doesn’t make it replicatible, and I feel my curiosity is very understandable. Lol
I won’t go into specifics about the hoax, but everything else is fine. At the time, I was one of their few friends, which inadvertently made me the one to comfort them and abuse them.
I thought it would be entertaining to put my burgeoning skills on display, but disconnecting a person from reality and then re-anchoring them to it causes far more psychological harm than 20s me could have understood. Your anchor cannot unmoor itself without forcing you to travel a ways and I didn’t even consider the proverbial currents.
I told them immediately after, but that compelled a unique sort of emotional dependence and power dynamic that I hated then and that haunts my days and nights now. I became both abuser and soother. It was like flipping the switch to “battered housewife.”
We’re still together, and significantly better for one another after counseling. Neither of us were harmed physically. Just years of potential development wasted.
You what
Faked a narrative so convincingly that the partner really thought something (i guess) terrible has happened.
You know, like when War fo the Worlds was aired for the first time, people really thought aliens had attacked the US.
Aaahhhhh… and I thought you turned into a 20 meter high mechanical spider abducting people and razing buildings. I thought yea, this guy went too far
I was all for it until he started razing the orphanages.
The first was funny. The fifth felt like he was pushing impropriety a little far.
I turn orphanages into work houses for children.
It did get kinda funny again at the sixth one, but the seventh ruined it.
Fun fact: that never actually happened. It was just a fun little goof some papers ran with and spread for shits and gigs to play along. No one thought it was real.
In actuality, it was a weekly radio program that always told fiction stories and it was on its regular broadcast time, only had a 2% listener audience across the US, there were commercial breaks that mentioned the show, and no one believed it was real. No histaria, no people killing themselves, no end of the world vibes.
Neat
bummer
I thought he literally remade war of the worlds-esque radio news reports to trick her into believing an invasion was imminent
That would be impressive.
I’m not looking to date myself or offer others my abhorrent methodology, but this is what I took inspiration from.
What does the titular WotW reference mean here? I haven’t seen the movie.
I assume it’s in reference to the 1938 radio adaptation of the novel The War of the Worlds, which was framed as though it were a legitimate news broadcast being periodically interrupted by reports of an alien invasion. What we might consider “found footage”-style nowadays if there had been, you know, actual footage. Story goes that a non-zero number of people didn’t get the memo that it was a radio play and thought Martians were actually invading.
Thanks. I knew the book came first and probably had other adaptations but the movie was the first search result.
BTW I live in one of the few countries that still produce radio plays at volumes comparable to their heyday.
I was going to ask which country but your username outed you haha
are they all in Czech or are some in English?
The English website of the public broadcaster Czech Radio, which produces almost all radio plays made here, only seems to feature 2 relevant articles (radio program scripts):
Václav Havel - ‘Guardian Angel’
They say it was their first English-language production of this kind (2004). The full audio used to be available at two links
that come from a “playlist” file from a 20-years-old copy of the article and even if Internet Archive scanned the file for links, it would not try to archive audio streamed over RTSP or PNM. Maybe you can contact Czech Radio to have it reuploaded.
Prague theatre to stage English-speaking live radio plays
Recordings have been made but only excerpts seem to be available online. They said they would upload the full audio if the technical side worked so you can nudge them to follow up on their promise.
Also, I can’t fail to mention:
Audio plays were incidentally invented by Victorian-era Czech genius Jára Cimrman even before the invention of the radio (which he also inspired when accidentally meeting Marconi but whatever). His short audio play Tma jako v pytli (“Pitch Black”) would be staged as a replacement whenever power was cut at his theater. It is now played during the introductory seminar before his cca-1910 play Záskok (“The Stand-In”) whenever featured at the theatre named after him. An English version that presumably also features Pitch Black is available in the Cimrman English Theater but they don’t publish recordings nor their painstakingly translated scripts.
ahhh that’s so cool! thank you so much for sharing so much info!
I will definitely be checking these out they sound very cool.
Czechia/CR (what do you call it?) is definitely on my travel list, chasing bohemia is something that I think my soul needs. the idea of bohemia has always resonated with me massively.
Guess what, Charles University Faculty of Education student Bc. Šárka Nygrýnová actually wrote her master’s thesis on her translation of the Záskok play and the history lecture that precedes each staging. The audio play’s script is on pages 15 through 19 of the thesis.
Still, it seems Cimrman English Theatre uses a different translation based on the trailers I saw.
Your joke is excellent but my nose is bleeding and I blame you.