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May 26, 2023Liked by Alexander Ipfelkofer

Your voice was made be listened to! 😊

Perfectly fits the video and vibe. Gave me chills through my headphones.

Amaaaazing work at crafting something believable.

Those renders are super impressive, too.

Need to go hunt that Easter egg.

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May 26, 2023·edited May 26, 2023Author

Thanks, Nathan. Glad you enjoyed it. We did put a bit of time and effort into this, so it's nice to hear you like it. And there's more to come! Although, I used the same Audio Track on the second video.

Good luck with the Easter Egg Hunt, you will like it.

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May 26, 2023Liked by Alexander Ipfelkofer

🙏

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I want this pod right now!!!

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That’ll be 99,999 credits. Thank you for shopping at GAIN Labs, where the future happens now.

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LAWL. Can we come to some kind of understanding? I can pay you with poems about Lilith and looking at the bright side of life!

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I am afraid that will not be sufficient, however, we have attractive instalment plans which might interest you at various rates, with the GAIN Neural Payment Mod allocation of your neural clusters will pay for the pod in no time, 99 years to be precise. Shall we commence the draft?

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I couldn't say no! Maybe finally my great grand-daughter will get to enjoy this!

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GAIN thanks you for your service. Welcome to the ArcHive. Your home for the next 99 years.

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Obviously, these are spoilers and concepts from the novel SPHEREAN, and we'll leave it at that. 😎 Thanks Nadia, for playing along!

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Hahaha. That's what I do! Love this. Also the video is amazing.

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May 26, 2023Liked by Alexander Ipfelkofer

The commercial is shockingly good. Fantastic match with the visuals, voice, and music.

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Thanks, Chevanne. Much appreciated. I wonder who will be the first to find the Easter egg and claim the surprise prize. 😎

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I’ve passed it on to my son who’s a game printer, designer in the UK. Nice to be here.

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Excellent. Thank you. Hope he likes the design!

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Dammit. Saving up. Subscribed anyway. See you down on the beltway.

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Thank you, Niall! And welcome to the Defrag. Glad to have you here. There is a podcast as well on the design process of the pod if you are interested. More to come! If you have any questions or feedback, don't hesitate to drop me a line.

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May 26, 2023Liked by Alexander Ipfelkofer

The world building you're doing on Tales from the Defrag is next level. I love that you're pushing yourself to create unique material to flesh out the world.

Not only are you experimenting, but you're making the landing. The trailer you put out for The Man Who Wouldn't Die was awesome, and this is even better. Making this stuff is hard work, and I just want you to know that it's definitely helping me get a feel for this world.

Also, loved the way you said "future" at the beginning of the ad. So good!

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Thank you, Taegan! I feel like it's mostly experimenting at this stage but I am loving it, Joe was very passionate about the project as well, and I think it shows. I never expected the level of commitment he showed once he got started, the energy was crazy. I love that. I miss that, ever since the office closed and my team got let go, well everyone, so I am funnelling all my attention into this now. Still have loads to learn, looking at Unreal to do some better unveiling videos (Gran Tourismo style maybe) in the future. But first and foremost, I will need to give more background and lore on the world, which I have all written, but I want to pace myself, avoid revealing info that might spoil too much. We'll talk about characters and pods and the state of the Earth when the story takes place. Bit by bit.

Ahh, the "future" as a whisper! yes. Funny thing, I had an Alt take, a very aggressive sales pitch overall throughout but I didn't like it. I wanted something more along the lines of Bill Murray in Lost in Translation. For relaxing times, make it S-zer0 times, ;)

Again, thanks so much for your support! SPHEREAN needs you. Everyone. And hopefully, enough people will want it, too!

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