“Everything Will Be Fine” Episode 4: “Mel Gibson Is Right About Everything”

“Everything Will Be Fine” is an enlightening mini-series by ForkLog and the developers of the gaming metaverse Undeads. Explore a post-apocalyptic world, survive, and earn in this new AAA-class Web3 game.

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Edmund never returned from his foray in search of food and weapons. Crushed by grief and loneliness, Alexander invents an imaginary friend—Ed, the long-read editor of ForkLog magazine. As the undead attempt to breach the shelter’s barricades, our survivors reminisce about peaceful times. Their nostalgic conversations are interrupted by the hum of a clay refrigerator… Listening to it, Ed and Alexander begin to suspect they are caught in a time loop.

Books, Films, Games, and Other Artworks Mentioned in the Episode

• “Arrival of a Train at La Ciotat Station”. A masterpiece by the Lumière brothers, considered the first film in cinema history.
• GTA:SA. “All you had to do was follow the damn train, CJ.”
• Louis Aimé Augustin Le Prince, “Man Walking Around a Corner”. Likely the first film in cinema history, shot nine years before “Arrival of a Train.”
• Paul Virilio, “Speed and Politics”. An essay by the French theorist and practitioner of speed, often overlooked in discussions about TPS as not the most important metric. 
• Jean Baudrillard, “The Gulf War Did Not Take Place”. A series of articles by the author of the term “simulacrum,” provocatively suggesting that owls are not what they seem, and mass human casualties are merely an illusion. 
• “Kin-dza-dza”. Ku! Yet, in reality, this tulip bulb parable by director Georgiy Daneliya and screenwriter Rezo Gabriadze is much deeper. 
• “The Adventures of the Yellow Suitcase”. The terrifying clown Popov appears in an ambiguous cameo in Ilya Frez’s immortal film. 
• Marcel Duchamp, “Fountain”. Art or not? Looking at this urinal, every viewer has been pondering something personal for a century.