International Space Station improv sitcom

Johannes from Monochrom sez, "This is the 2nd episode (and frickin' good one) of Monochrom's ten-part improv-reality-sitcom about living and working on the International Space Station. The four actors playing the ISS crew must develop strategies on the fly in response to surprise situations, which are loosely based on actual ISS data uncovered by Monochrom. In space no one can hear you complain about your job. This episode was recorded in front of a live audience on April 15, 2011."

Monochrom's International Space Station Sitcom: Episode 2 (Thanks, Johannes!)

I write books. My latest is a YA science fiction novel called Homeland (it's the sequel to Little Brother). More books: Rapture of the Nerds (a novel, with Charlie Stross); With a Little Help (short stories); and The Great Big Beautiful Tomorrow (novella and nonfic). I speak all over the place and I tweet and tumble, too.

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Is that supposed to be you on the right, Cory? Needs more red cape.
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  Well, no. That’s Angus Slernotzki (born 18 October 1973 in Otorohanga, New Zealand). He is a New Zealand-American video game developer, who with Jesse O’Falk is considered the co-father of the first-person shooter genre. He is one of the founders of EgoManic Software. Slernotzki and O’Falk met through game designing for Heartdisk, a computer magazine that appears on diskette. Together they developed games for Heartdisk, and with “SLURP-U” they start the enterprise EgoManic Software Inc., which made its name and achieved cult status with “AntiGerman 3D,” “Dorm” and “Quaker” (parts 1â€“3).
  
  Today the company is considered the founder of the widely popular first-person shooter genre. After the publication of “Quaker 3,” Slernotzki founded the firm Iron Storm for the purpose of developing the first-person shooter game “CortexCrusher.” The ambitious project was propelled by extensive marketing hype, but the development of the game itself proved problematic. After almost a decade of production work it capsized disastrously. Nevertheless, Slernotzki is the richest game developer in the world.
  
  Hobbies: chess-boxing, miniature steam engines
  
  Mission: On 4 June 2010, the company Space Adventures announced that Slernotzki would fly as a space tourist to the International Space Station (ISS).
  
  But yes: Angus likes Cory.
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Anyone else having problems playing the embedded video? Works fine when I visit the link.
tartar

Awesome!