1) Waffle.
All my videos are fully timecoded with meaningful descriptions, making it very easy for anyone to skip the bits they don't want to watch.
The thing I've learned is you can't please everyone, for every person who says I waffle too much, someone else says they like the detail I go into or the little extra stories I tell, and TBH since I've started fully timecoding the videos I think the former camp have little to complain about, literally just look down the video description and click on the bit you're interested in. Some sections I even label as 'Pub machine memory waffle' or suchlike.
There was another story I could have used for the section in the Mental video, which I will include here.
It was one of my first forays into 'satire' using the PC the school had, it was brand new and there was one PC in literally the entire school, probably a 286. It had a DTP package on it and it was a year or so after the Hungerford massacres, and the book we were studying was The Plague Dogs, plus there was a bit of moral panic at the time about dangerous dog attacks, so I decided to smoosh them all together in a (ahem) 'satirical commentary' on the hypocrisy of gutter publications like The Sun.
Because time on the PC was precious I would stay after school to work on it, with the full blessing of my amazingly incredible English teacher, Mr Marks.
So the headline on the front page of my newspaper was:
HUNGERFORD PLAGUE DOGS MASSACRE
And the picture was a load of clipart dogs wielding shotguns gunning down women and children in the street, with accompanying text trying to juxtapose the terrible shock of it all with 'TURN TO PAGE 4 FOR MORE PICTURES OF DEAD BODIES AND DON'T FORGET THE TEENAGER'S TITS ON PAGE 3'.
The story's point would have been, 'My excuse is I was a child, what's Nolimit City's excuse?'
2) Sepia.
Yes I understand
why it's sepia, my point is that like the rest of theme of the slot, it totally falls on its arse as far as I'm concerned. There are other slots that use B&W themes or similar, but they juxtapose that with some colour at certain points, like Starstruck at 3Dice or Charlie Chance In Hell To Pay by PnG.
This slot isn't Schindler's List, so let's not get too carried away about its artistic pretensions.
3) Lobotomies.
You can argue that they were 'treatment' (or at least intended as such), but the context of the slot given its graphics (man tied to a gurney with a ballgag, anyone?) is clearly that of torture, and with the 'Autopsy Free Spins' round we're not left in any doubt as to how the patients end up. (And indeed death was a common result of actual lobotomies.) And lest we forget they were still being performed not that long ago, although rarer, they were still performed in some countries as late at the 1970s and even early 1980s.
There are many things to choose to theme slots on, for my money this isn't a good choice.
4) Slot mechanics.
Cheers, that makes more sense now. (But also feeds into my point that the slot is often a confusing mess to look at.)
My conclusion remains that this is a poor slot wrapped up in a crap theme.
- A Tina Turner songs springs to mind!
