My Dropbox was reported by Joshua "IcyGamma" Liddle

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even if the biography makes him look like an absolute idiot, i must say it is interesting to read.

it is very interesting, especially because i pop in a few times.

love you icy <3

it is very interesting, especially because i pop in a few times.

love you icy <3

Welcome back

it is very interesting, especially because i pop in a few times.

love you icy <3

tom is love
tom is life

Liddle? Sounds like a name eepos would make up.
"joshua liddle"
"liddle anarchist"

"liddle"

I still totally stand by what this is.

The PDF itself isn't particularly exciting. Its essentially a spoof of the Steve Jobs book which is written as though the clans, videos, etc are real companies, television shows.

There is no secret that the PDF was a fraud. I revealed this pretty early on, but the likes of Boltster and whatnot decided to not believe what I said and have been purposefully burying it since.

Its essentially propaganda to fuel what was going to be a machinima. Sure, there is an element of "hey, remember when I made this ---" in it, because I liked the idea of having server stories like some others were writing, but this PDF really is just a overwritten, ridiculously cynical document about fluff builds to garner attention (and insult Seventh Sandwich due to popular demand).

The Blockland movie itself was never even half made for a few reasons. The mystery "writer" of the book was going to be a voice actor, who would narrate it as though he was talking about meeting the Icy character in the movie. But unfortunately I could never find the person to do it. Swholli used to do a lot of voicing for me but he stopped being available. I couldn't do it myself because that would be stupid.

The plot was going to be that my character dies and then his son and the writer of the book go back in time, using a hidden Blockland eventing machine, where they move through the different versions of BL to find the things that happened in the book. The characters would end up trapped in the v8 version where the eventing system didn't exist, and they'd have to find the "old me" to rebuild a time machine using Space Guys event system. Yes, its a little bit "Back to The Future" rip off but it would have been fun.

The end wasn't settled on but it'd have been something warmingly corny like "oh, somehow IcyGamma never died in xxxx" and then the last copy of the bio, as it was written and released on the forum, would reveal he was still alive and the end shot would be it in a book store or something silly. Originally I was going to write that I died in the Bio, but I took it out because there was a fear it might be reported as an elaborate "leaving post".

There were multiple types of the bio; one was a "IcyGamma diary" that was themed to look like an old leather back and it was written like "Day 1:  We sold our computer for the first time today." but it was a little too contrived and about two times as long as the bio. I had also just finished reading Steve Job's book and I thought it'd be the most recognizable spoof.

I've used techniques like this before to float videos and projects through drama. The Isar Tower was another project where I had taken a Blockland story and turned it into a machinima. Isar Tower was only interesting to people because there were multiple dramas attached to it over "save stealing" and other things.

If you believe the Bio is some kind of realistic portrayal then you must also believe that The Taking of Isar tower really happened and I died in a terrorist incident.

Although I don't really get any positive mileage out of it anymore, I think there is something unique about how even a year and a half later, the interest in what it was and what it meant still burns on. This is my most enduring Blockland project, nothing else I made while playing the game has ever managed to capture the curiosity of people for so long. And I still think that is neat.

Everyone has their own theory as to what it meant. I've explained the reasons behind it before, and nobody has to accept my version of why the Bio exists. But I mean, that is it, and I've already told people before. Maybe you will find that more exciting than the made up reasons people have posted. Maybe you won't.



i ain't reading that
it's super obvious that icy did this and really i don't know why he's bothering to write another book claiming he didn't lol

i ain't reading that
it's super obvious that icy did this and really i don't know why he's bothering to write another book claiming he didn't lol

But he's not saying he didn't write it?

There is no secret that the PDF was a fraud. I revealed this pretty early on, but the likes of Boltster and whatnot decided to not believe what I said and have been purposefully burying it since.

i'm having trouble believing that, though it fits previous happenings well..
why would you release the bio before the machinima was even half way complete

lotsofwords

Your trying to use Blockland as a professional medium and it aight wokrin'

i'm having trouble believing that, though it fits previous happenings well..
why would you release the bio before the machinima was even half way complete

There is no movie without the book. 

The builds were ready and the script was done. It was just a matter of getting a voice actor and pulling some randoms off RTB chat to be the "physical" actors. Same thing I do with all my movies.

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The obvious conclusion here is that while you were away from the forums for 10 months, you wised up to the fact that your autobiography, identity, and videos are complete rubbish. Yet instead of quietly leaving, you're trying to act like your autobiography and your pathological narcissism are some farce you cooked up to 'make a machinima'. I really hope you don't expect anyone to believe this bullstuff.

Obligatory:

The obvious conclusion here is that while you were away from the forums for 10 months, you wised up to the fact that your autobiography, identity, and videos are complete rubbish.

Uh no, I revealed this a lonnng time a go.

Its really not as interesting as you wish it were.

I'm still a little confused, did we finally settle that the "mystery writer" was indeed IcyGamma?

I'm still a little confused, did we finally settle that the "mystery writer" was indeed IcyGamma?
this was settled when it was originally posted

The books not bad, don't see why everyone hates it

i <3 u icy too