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thebruce · Replies: **469** Views: **64102**

nice site rogi... quick js update though, as I'm getting an error (browser compatibility).

change:
f.finalbearing.value=parseInt(f.zodiac.value) + parseInt(f.degrees.value);
to:
f.finalbearing.v...

thebruce · Replies: **1272** Views: **187860**

aye. I noticed a few comments from people who hadn't heard of it until their post-game (relatively) revelations... but I guess that's the end word.

Maybe we can entice them to a pot-game chat or i...

thebruce · Replies: 10 Views: **43308**

ah yes, good point, thanks for noticing. Even the translated text included reference to Noriko, along with a translation of her real blog entry with the video. hehe.
It's out now. All the b...

thebruce · Replies: 48 Views: **10131**

it's believed at this point not... but it's still debated. Some say it's a player just helping promote the game. There's no trusted in-game refrence to that entry at least. No response has b...

thebruce · Replies: 17 Views: **3907**

[quote="catherwood"][quote="thebruce"]The Lost Ring, so far, isn't outright advertising anything - rather it's building a very big backstory, developing characters, getting people to cross language an...

thebruce · Replies: 17 Views: **3907**

[quote="Zaranai"]Ehhh. I think The Lost Ring counts as a marketing thing too...Though it's not obvious marketing like being connected to a tv show, it is designed to draw attention to the games, make ...

thebruce · Replies: **469** Views: **64102**

no the problem though is that one navigating by the omphalos won't have a flat map of the earth. If they're in Stephenville, they can face 24 degrees off scorpio, and continue in that direction for 3...

thebruce · Replies: 10 Views: **1766**

and yup, entry's up

thebruce · Replies: 48 Views: **10131**

yup, that's pretty much the core of today's clue...

preliminary analysis (spoilerish):

- seems they're all 26 characters, likely code strings for future reference.
- the first letters are phone...

thebruce · Replies: 10 Views: **1766**

I'd expect a blog post forthcoming also...

thebruce · Replies: 77 Views: **19686**

hehe check it out
Dent campain in Chicago was cut short...

thebruce · Replies: **469** Views: **64102**

3788km from Stephenville, NL is Stuartfield, Scotland - yes, the place of Jorge, in Monica's uncle's story!

Only problem is google earth shows a 54 degree angle at that distance... could s...

thebruce · Replies: 89 Views: **11902**

I was just about to say... perhaps we've had the wrong idea from the start... "Find the lost ring" - perhaps we've already found them, but that doesn't mean they're not still 'lost'.

If we've foun...

thebruce · Replies: 48 Views: **10131**

people who got calls had signed up for the contest before the date including a phone number. nothing special. pretty much exactly what the email notificatin was anyway

thebruce · Replies: **469** Views: **64102**

actually I'm pretty sure the interface uses dynamic images - it's a call to a .GIF file with querystring parameters - that can only mean the server is generating a GIF on the fly based on those parame...