Pure Pwnage: Teh Movie

Hello, Jarett. Thanks for sitting down with us. It's been eight years since the first episode of Pure Pwnage and four years since the end of the web series, so would you like to describe the show to those who might not have been familiar with it?

So Pure Pwnage—I hate to say it was the first [web show] because out there someone might say “No, my little brother had this thing before,” but it was the first internet series way back in 2004, so pre-YouTube and pre-streaming media. Back when you wanted to distribute that kind of data, that kind of content, you had to use files—we used BitTorrent back then. But it was a long-form, T.V.-style show that we made very cheaply, me and Geoff Lapaire, about our own culture at the time, which—when the show first started we were both addicted to Command & Conquer Generals.
I played it competitively, like in clan wars, and he played a lot, but not competitively. I'd just moved to Toronto, so he was my only friend and we would get together and all we would talk about was C&C Generals And then we wanted to make a show where we would talk about C&C Generals, sort of like, you know, the modern equivalent of podcast or something. But we were going to film it and we were going to just distribute AVIs to this forum called C&C Replays and instead by accident we took some footage of me pretending to be a huge douchebag from the forums and we put that on the web after when we thought it was funny.
We posted it the forum site and they thought it was funny and hosted it for us, and it sort of took off from there. So it sort of just organically grew into this internet television show that we hadn’t set out to make in the first place.
It was just a show about our own culture, about C&C Generals and then we expanded into other cultures that we knew or we used to be in or start to becoming into as we got out of Generals, like getting into World of WarCraft or Counter Strike, and we brought in some of our friends who wanted to be actors and stuff and made them into characters and so we organically developed a T.V. show and it got way bigger than anyone, especially us, could have predicted.

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You're the main character in the series -- a fictional professional gamer who lives the life of someone that plays games and hangs out with his girlfriend all the time. Why the name 'Jeremy' and who's idea was it to wear the bandana?

The show essentially started by accident; there was zero planning put into Jeremy's initial wardrobe. That Ubergamer shirt was a gift from a friend prior to moving Toronto and was my favorite shirt. I happened to be wearing it the day we filmed our 'test footage'. I was wearing a bandana because I had longer hair then and used it to keep the hair from falling in my eyes while pwning n00bs in Generals. I ddn't usually wear it outside of the house unless I hadn't showered in a long while and wanted to hide the grease. Such was the case the first time we filmed. Gross but true.

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