I have been listening to Escape Pod for about 6 months and PodCastle since it started. I frequented the old BBS scene, played Zork, and spent hours playing Legend of the Red Dragon. I was one of the earliest users of Mozilla browsers on the East Coast, back when only Universities really had access to the net. Plus, I play forumwarz which draws heavily on these types of themes. For all of these reasons, I should have loved a story that brought back these memories.
However, this story was by far the worst I have heard. Steve narrated great, and I liked the intro, but Stan was a completely unlikeable character. He was a disgrace to nerds everywhere because he let stuff happen to him. He had no particular ambition or marketable skills. Sheila was a gold digger waiting for her chance and clearly had no feelings for Stan. What kind of "Fairy tale" is that? The epilogue was needed, though. It was rather like getting to hear the jury pass a unanimous verdict of guilty for all characters involved in the story, who had committed fictional homicide against the characters that could have been. Justice in a way...
That being said, characters like these people are celebrities in reality TV these days. Its no wonder I hate reality TV so much.