101 Love Letters: An LGR Valentine's Day Thing?
🕑 Added 2020-02-10 15:26:58 +0000 UTCOh, hello there. What's a patron like you doing in a place like this? You come here often? Here, have a love letter I've written to you even though we don't know each other *WINK WINK*
Sooooo yeah, this is a thing. 101 Love Letters, a Windows PC application from 1995 by Great Bear Technology. Because uh, other things weren't ready yet and it'll be Valentine's Day when this goes live.
And yes, it really is just a piece of software dedicated to writing love letters. Or to be more specific, it's a badly-made piece of software dedicated to providing pre-written love letters that you fill out like a Mad Libs page.
I've had this thing lounging on the shelf for the better part of a decade so it's been on the back burner for long enough. Enjoy the general protection faults and dividing by zero! Doesn't get much more romantic than that.
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Chris Rogers
Clint, here's an extremely relevant article from ComputerLife in 1997: https://imgur.com/a/cimDxzZ
Elizabeth Sullivan-Burton
On the subject of "let's talk about STDs" letters, I get the "For both our sakes I feel we should go and be tested" and "We each live with a past and mine..." letters. But what on EARTH is the "Things were never to go this far" letter??? Also I question the need for software to write a flowery letter when you're angry. EDIT: Eugh, showed a clip of that letter. "You are an egocentric [fill in a noun]" indeed.
Kirk Northrop
Thank you for putting so many jokes in the letters. Had to pause to read each one. Even my girlfriend, who wouldn’t normally enjoy LGR found them funny.
Tim
Why in the world was the first category all about...AIDS?? Is that love letter material? Maybe that's where I've been going wrong all these years.
The amount of sex puns is almost exceeding The Sims 3 master suite stuff (btw one of my fave video to go back to). Anywho great video as always!
LGR
I tried to call you before but I lost my nerve, I tried my imagination but I was disturbed.
LGR
As a great poet once said: She had dumps like a truck, truck, truck Thighs like what, what, what
LGR
The nineties were a heckuva time.
LGR
There's a download link in the video's description, feel free to give a shot and see :)
LGR
Seems I was a poet and didn't know it, may as well show it and onto the internet, I throw it.
LGR
Ha! Now that's tempting. Even at a $30 tier.
LGR
Many thanks, happy to hear that :D
LGR
Oh MY
LGR
Or "Let's Get Romantic," like a Sims 4 game pack
LGR
Here ya go! https://archive.org/details/101loveletters
Tktagmedia
My love for you is like a _TRUCK_, _Berzerker_....
Skoddie
Omg Clint the sex puns are KILLING me today 🤣🤣🤣
Mat Cooper
AIDS, Disease and Love... when no other category will cut it... ><
Lennart Sorensen
Hmm what date is your machine set to? Y2k problem? Screen resolution problem? Crappy software problem for sure. :)
Jared
Any chance you can upload the software to Archive.org? I'm curious to see if it works without crashing on my HP Vectra running Win 3.1.
JennaKay
Dear LGR, Our love was pushing up roses. But your PICKLE JAR of a letter has brought me back to my senses. Lets go on a Duke's Quest together! Call me, 867-5309
Frederic St-Georges
LGR this week means : Love Give Romance...
Anders Enger Jensen
Hahaha when you’re Angry in love and need help expressing it! This is solid gold, Clint! I’ve never laughed so hard of your videos before, this was one of the very best! Thank you for making my day! Also, your poetic skills are 110% 😂
Alyxx the Rat
I like my disks with high density, thank you
Tim J
I don't think I've laughed this hard at one of your videos since Ninja Nanny. And wow, I assumed you had written those AIDS letters as a background gag. What a program.
Ian Spence
New Patreon reward tier! Pledge $500 a month and Clint will send you a custom love letter on lovey dovey stationary.
Ryan Yoder
Made me smile. Job well done. Thanks.
avfusion
Sounds like the software was its own love letter to a version of windows it'd never meet normally.
Zachary Outen
You should send your Patreon subscribers some love letters since you love us so much😉 seriously though these letters are hilarious, so cheesy
Gary Leigh
So, this is what inspired Fallout 76.
I really miss system requirements being a thing. I was always anxious and a little excited to read system reqs on boxes. Especially when I still had a 386 and games were needing a 486DX2 or DX4 or *gasp* a Pentium. I'd then flick through magazines at the prebuilt systems and components and dream about what it would be like to have such a powerful system.
LGR
Best 'roses' poem so far 😁 Thank you!
Happy Valentines Clint! Roses are red, jazz Jack rabbit is green, LGR channel is the best I've ever seen
LGR
They're more along the lines of "I have a transmittable disease and thought you should know before things go further."
Vlaphor
Did I read that wrong or are there several form letters for "Sorry I gave you an STD"?
LGR
Just what I like to hear :D I always take the opportunity to densely pack these kinds of videos with silliness. Anything that lets you input your own text is a content gold mine.
LGR
Haha. I am already anticipating an inordinate amount of "love letters" sent to me as a result of this video, largely consisting of quotes from letters shown.
LGR
Yeeeaaah the entire concept of canned form letters for the purposes of romance is a tad inauthentic. Or at the very least uninspired.
LGR
Indeed, it's hard to find any information about it whatsoever! Just some basic info on EliSoftware and a couple listings in the back of an old magazine or two.
LGR
Please do, haha. It deserves love.
LGR
No kidding. Who knew retro tech YouTubers would get so many highly forward proposals! Half a dozen marriage proposals as well, so that's... a thing.
Joon Choi
L O L
Peter Metzger
This video and software are fantastic. I hit pause so many times to read the letters 😂
Vladimir Vyun
Wow, I feel the weight of your sweetness... ahem, sorry. I mean, what a weird program.
Luke Herbert
Wouldn't a printed out love letter feel a whole lot less romantic anyway? Let alone not even writing it yourself.
John Piscopo
Now I'm curious to know if ANY of these discs ever worked on Win 3.1 machines..but hey you got it installed on Win98, so yeah who knows maybe the program got recalled and you got one of the leftovers...could just have been a corrupted floppy but dang..probably there isn't any archives of it anywhere online...too obscure.. cool that you got a letter ro print out though..
There are more than several benefits to total anonimity.
AlexPeaks
I love that friggin' printer. Going to write it a letter
maxM@x
I feel like wrapping yourself a weighted blanket while eating from a heart shaped box of chocolates and watching Cheesey movies would have been a more healthy way to deal with crippling loneliness than sending out form letter spam. Did the software break because the inputs didn't come from an excel contacts list? 😉 I guess if tinder is too personal for you than you can use something like Mail Merge. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mail_merge Here's a free Google docs how to do it if anyone actually wants to learn how to personalize modern spam. 🤣😜https://developers.google.com/docs/api/samples/mail-merge
LGR
Poetry of steel!
Steve Lovelace
Roses are red, woodgrain is brown Notes to Duke Nukem turn my frown upside down.
LGR
I made it myself, it comes from the heart ❤️
LGR
This does have a similar air of silliness around it, haha.
LGR
👉👌
LGR
Ahh, 1995.
This is true, by the way. She really is a pastry chef.
The only reason why I got married was to wake up in the delight of her pancakes. She's a pastry chef.
Pablo Rodriguez
A love letter dedicated software? How can it possibly go wrong? (notices the first word in the list is Aids) Well...
Kamira
Roses are red, violets are blue, Clint's in my head, now I'm creeping on you!
Iron Arse Hands
Wow that video contained almost double the double entendres i'm used to seeing in your videos! Steamy.
Seth C
Hilarious as always! Great video! This make want to watch the cheesy pop star equestrian and mall games videos again.
Adam Christensen
Oh, Clint. You shouldn't have! 🥰