Shoot Club...

[Saam]

Not sure if this has been mentioned or asked before, is Shoot Club purely fiction? From what I've seen and read in other threads here, my assumption is that is it indeed fiction and none of it has ever taken place, but damn it's funny and entertaining! Not to mention that a lot of that really takes place in my gaming memories..

Just finished reading through all the previous archives as I'm relatively new to reading Shoot Club. Great work.

PS: When is the next one coming, Tom?! So anxious I am...

[Anonymous]

I assure you, it's at least in part real. The stuff about Tom is sorta made up, but it's all based on actual events. Tom is just a character I came up with - sorta reflects the Jack/Tyler relationship from the movie. Likewise, I'm real, and Tom is an aspect of me that I was startled to become aware of late one night.

I used to really like video games, but I'd find game boxes in the trash in the morning sometimes - stuff I'd never play. Flight sims, strategy games, that sort of thing. I kept wondering why I was tired all the time, like I wasn't sleeping nights. Then the checks started showing up... from Wired, Next-Gen, PCGamer... all addressed to "Tom". But there is no Tom... or is there? So, I started discovering that my perception of reality wasn't quite what I thought it was. Hey, the money's good, so I've learned to live with it.

Imagine my shock when I saw myself in a B-Western! Apparently, I'm an actor while unconscious too.

[DavidCPA]

That's pretty funny.

[xahlt]

You must not be on the email invite list, all the forum regulars get invited over to Tom's.

[Alan Au]

You must not be on the email invite list, all the forum regulars get invited over to Tom's.
You mean Trevor's.

- Alan

[Saam]

I'm still confused...

(it's late, I have an excuse to be!) ;)

[Anonymous]

Very funny. But should we be talking about this?

[Alan Au]

Saam, have you seen Fight Club? This whole mess only really makes sense in that context. Oh, and don't trust the skull. :P

- Alan

[Saam]

Yeah, I've seen Fight Club. And I understand how it sorta relates to that in that a 2nd persona is taken up, but.. still, it seems too believable to have it be the "Jack/Tyler Durden" type of narration!

Oh well, here's to wishing Trevor actually existed. ;)

[Troy S Goodfellow]

Oh well, here's to wishing Trevor actually existed. ;)

Yes, Saam, there is a Trevor. He exists as certainly as Mountain Dew and Cheetos and power-ups exist, and you know that they abound and give to your life much entertainment and many late nights. Alas! how dreary the world would be if there was no Trevor! It would be as dreary as if there were no Sid Meier or Will Wright. There would be no childlike awe at the size of a manual, no tank rushes, no elves in pointy shoes to make tolerable the work day.

No Trevor! There might as well be no creepy guy behind the counter of EB. You might break into Tom's house and see no Trevor, but what would that prove. Nobody sees Trevor, despite his size, but that is no sign there is no Trevor.

Trevor is us. At our weakest and geekiest we draw stares from the bewildered masses. "Still playing games? At your age?". But from Trevor comes our strength to play on, our conviction that rail guns only work in a certain way and the confidence that if someone doesn't know Quake, they're not worth knowing.

You are Trevor. Trevor is me.