I know its been quite a few months, but I'm sick and fucking tired of hearing (or rather reading on the internet) people making fun of Pseudo.com since it had to close up shop.
For the uninitiated, Pseudo was touted as the first (and as far as I could see it was) pure streaming media site. Now I don't mean that it had 400 different variations of the waaasssssup! commercial, it actually had shows. Movies, talk shows, sitcoms (sort of), and all kinds of creamy goodness you find on TV.
Now, it was one of those 'dot-com' companies that had foos-ball and pool tables in the breakrooms, half the staff were probably on coke 90% of the time, but hey, thats what happens when you give people in their 20's a billion dollars to play with.
The sad part is everywhere you find it mentioned today, its as if they never actually did anything, another company with no sort of 'business' aspect to them; another throw-back to when the dot-com was king, and day-traders made twenty-five grand a day.
I'd like to come forth and say I used to hit Pseudo all the fucking time. Of course, in its hey-day I was on a measly dial up connection, so it was even more enigmatic to me. Everytime I went to someone's house (or anywhere for that matter) I immediatly went to Pseudo.com to see if there were any new episodes of my favorite show: Shooters.
Shooters was a talk show about nothing but games (and not just first person shooters, don't let the name fool you), and had guests that ran down the rosters of the 'Rock Stars' of the gaming industry: Carmack, 'Lord British' himself, Paul Steed, and others. It was one of those shows that told inside jokes that only gamers understood, the kinda jokes that if you told around your normal friends, they'd just stare at you blankly.
Now I'm not saying that i have some sort of enormous sentimental attachment to Pseudo.com, just that it wasn't the pile of 'dot-com' shit that its been touted as whenever it's mentioned, another casualty of 'serial entreprenuership' in the internet economy.
And there you have it, a semi-serious post by me. Hope you read it and found numorous misspellings cause I'm pretty drunk right now, so pppttbb.
If you go to Pseudo.com all that's left is a page thanking all the viewers. As a sidenote, theres a site, PseusoLives, that gives links to where different people and shows went after the shutdown.
