Sample 1:
(Collected by Brad Rhodes, Fall 1996)
The setup:
Four people Albert, Bob, Charlie, and Dan (the names have been changed to protect the
guilty) are playing a "Duke Nukem 3D" game in the same room. Duke Nukem is a 1st
person perspective game much like the popular Doom game. The players are divided into two
teams, with the sole goal of killing the other team-members as many times as possible
(when a player dies, he simply resurrects immediately in a new location).
For the following exchanges, Albert and Bob are teammates, and Charlie and Dan are
teammates
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Discourse #1
- Albert
- Wo=ah!/\ (2.5) You Ba^stards.
You guys are travelling in packs, aren't you?
- Bob
- Yeah why don't we try to like team up here Albert
I can't even tell where everybody is. I'm just kindof like running around just killing
people.
- Dan
- Oh you're right our colors are up top!
- Bob
- ((Bob runs into same area as Albert)) Hello.
- Albert
- Oh. Hello. (.7) Alright Bob.
- Bob
- Hi is that you?
- Albert
- Where are you? No.
- Bob
- is that you?
- Albert
- I am -- I am where the astronaut is.
- Bob
- OK. (1) Now we know where each other is.
- Albert
- ((shoots at opponent))Now he knows where I am too.=
- Bob
- Oh, whoops.
- Dan
- That worked!
- Bob
- Don't throw a pipe bomb and then walk on top of it.
- Dan
- And don't set it off when you do, that's for damn sure!
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Discourse #2
- Albert
- Where the fuck are you guys?
- Dan
- we're we're we're playing in the halls
- Albert
- [((bob starts shooting)) [Hey Bob! (1.5) Who's the bad guy here?
- Bob
- I don't know
- Albert
- The red guy -- shoot the red guy Bob. Allright-hey stop that! [The RED GUY: (Dan's
character)]
- Dan
- No no you don't have to shoot him now.
- Bob
- mmm I
- Albert
- [Where'd you go Bob?
- Bob
- I'm underwater, because like, it's safer there.
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Discourse #3
- Dan
- Allright these guys are being smart, they're like (2) we're like packed together
- Bob
- [well we're we're finding the cool items and like killing you with them
- Dan
- well that too.
- Albert
- where you at Bob? That's you don't do that. (Note "That's you" as a substitute
for "That's me." -- extension of "I see you, therefore the person in the
room with you is me"?)
- Bob
- so you're green
- Albert
- yes
- Bob
- I wonder what kind of armor this is oh there it comes good armor
- Charlie
- [oh man]
- Bob
- I heard that -- gun being cocked
- Charlie
- How the heck do you open the doors?
- Bob
- space
- Dan
- [space]
- Bob
- what's this?
- Albert
- That you Bob?
- Bob
- uh yeah what is that thing I just walked over
- Albert
- I donno follow lets go.
- Bob
- I can't pick it up
- Albert
- bad guys!
- Charlie
- [where ah fuck
- Albert
- ((sung)) [da da da da /da da da squirt ha ha ha h=a\
- Dan
- where are you? where are you?
- Charlie
- I'm in the main room.
- Dan
- that's uh right OK
- Bob
- gee I don't know which of my weapons to shoot you with
- Charlie
- oh I hate it when they have time to decide these things
- Dan
- that's just because they've been playing a lot longer than we have
- Bob
- yeah, this is kindof an unfair matchup
- Albert
- woo /hoo!\
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Discourse #4
- Albert
- Allright Bob I've got a big gun let's go -- there they are
- Bob
- [I see Dan I see Dan
- Albert
- ((kills Dan with an RPG))Oh/\!! that was parse! Oh my god was that parhse.
- Dan
- that didn't work at all
- Albert
- someone comming -- oh yes! Two pixels wide and I hit you! @
- Bob
- I'm gonna stay away from you you're dangerous.
- Albert
- That RPG rules. I like the RPG. I'm gonna get a new RPG.
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New game.
Bob and Charlie are teamates
Dan and Albert are teammates
Discourse #5
- Dan
- where are you Albert?
- Albert
- I'm shooting the blue guy
- Dan
- cool/\! I'm with yah.
- Albert
- so you're red. ((Dan and Albert both kill Charlie)) Oh! caught in the crossfire
- Dan
- grab the weapon
- Albert
- I did what allright
- Dan
- [he's above you! he's above you! on the balcony!
- Albert
- I don't see him.
- Dan
- he's in
- Bob
- [that was fun!
- Charlie
- where the hell did you go Bob?
- OBSERVER
- wouldn't this make more sense to use your own names? @
- Bob
- Yeah, I guess so. What's the fun of using your own names though?
- OBSERVER
- Well you could tell who's who at least
- Albert
- [Yes!
- Dan
- I love it when that happens! [need context]
- Albert
- I got him pipe bomb!
- Charlie
- fuckit
- Bob
- run!
- Albert
- pipe bomb coming his way
- Charlie
- im running
- Dan
- ok I'm getting out of the way
- Albert
- ah missed. He was too fast.
- Charlie
- Oh/\ pipe bomb. I'm happy.
- Albert
- oh I've got a big gun. Someone hiding in here. ((Albert blows himself up with the big
gun by shooting a wall)) Ups.@ I was a little close. A little close to be using that gun.
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Discourse #6
- OBSERVER
- You want some yogurt, Ken? ((Ken is another observer))
- Dan
- Ken I've got half a sandwich in -- that's Me! (2) no never mind that's a mirror. I'm
talking to myself. ((Here, Dan interrupts himself in an out-of-game conversation to make
an informative comment on the game)) OH, NEVER MIND...:
- OBSERVER
- @
- Dan
- OK, so I'm a dumbass.
- Albert
- right behind you Dan, don't get in my way. -------------------------------
Discourse
#7
(time with little talk)
- Dan
- That's me/!
- Albert
- Oops!/ Sorry!/\
- Dan
- you bastage! OK, let's go kick some ass.
- Albert
- woops. alright - Dan! CONTEXT: here, dan's character had started to move away (out of
lin -of-sight with Albert). Calling Dan's name here wasn't to get the player's attention
(which he already had) but rather to get the character's attention (and thus Dan's visual
attention).
- Dan
- Yo!
- Albert
- I'm just gonna fill up this place here ((proceeds to start laying pipe-bombs down))
- Dan
- oh fuck!@ do you want me to do one too?
- Bob
- ll go look at his screen and tell me which place that is huh?
- Charlie
- actually I try not to cheat
- Albert
- now let's
- Bob
- [why? @
- Albert
- now let's just wait.
- Dan
- alright I'll try and guide someone over or something. Ah! Fuck! Albert
- Albert
- what?
- Dan
- he's over past the revolving door. Just on the other side of it.
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Discourse #8
- Albert
- Yikes!
- OBSERVER
- Woa!\/\
- Albert
- Dan - behind you!
- Dan
- Yup yeah I'm I'm here. (.8) Oh you mean Some^body's behind me! EXPLANATION: dan gets the
inference wrong -- he thought Albert meant Albert was behind, not an enemy. Note stress on
"some." Note also that the response to what he thought was "I'm behind
you" is "I'm here."
- Albert
- Oh I got him. Oh the RPG layed down a salvo.
- Dan
- [oops
- Bob
- nice shot.
- Dan
- [allright I blew myself up because I'm a dumbass.
- Bob
- did I hit anybody with my shrink-ray?
- Albert ah fuck.
- Dan
- [no I blew myself up
- Albert
- I'm dead
- Bob
- Oh, you're dead? Hey, I'm floating in the air now.\ (2) I died.