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[The Game Breaker]

So much sass in this damn forum. Wake me when someone finds a solid lead...

[kosmopol]

[kosmopol]

According "official" lead (Twitter => Ham radio)

[gimlet]

Man, how cool would an ARG using all analog tools be though? Like, codes hidden in the inside repeating edge of a record, or hunting down an anolog antenna for a tube tv? Like, cold war spy arg.

Speaking of which, as I went to google analog I got distracted by the Google doodle about John Baird. He invented the analog mechanical tv, and apparently it has rotors inside it too. And the first transmission was a creepy dummy who looked not unlike Howdy Doody. Coulda sworn it was a Mickey Mouse doll.

Man that puzzle is getting inside my head. Sigh.

Anyways, interesting tidbit. I knew About Philo Farnsworth, but not Baird.

[kosmopol]

[Jane Smith]

 Still waiting but going back into the fold

[Animaniac]

Up above when pixie linked to John Goodman's IMDB that lead me into 10 Cloverfield's listing. I noticed there now 4 cast memebers listed:

[kosmopol]

Re: Still waiting but going back into the fold

[Kajisan]

 

[gimlet]

Yeah, definitely to your sidenote. It's a pattern I've been noticing with participation in these args over the past couple years. It's like the internet is losing it's ability to function as a hivemind. People's attention spans are getting to be so incredibly short these days, people are off in a billion directions and lose interest overnight. It was frustrating being an observer of whatever the Holidays Steam Sale mystery was. There was absolutely *something* there but Redditors are so impatient they convinced themselves there wasn't.

On the other hand, i agree with the advent of mainstreaming cryptography skills the puzzles in these things are getting more and more obtuse and I think puppet masters are not doing a good job keeping things identifiably in game and feeding out bread crumbs over time. And with the attention span of the average Redditors, these game mechanics are needed more than ever. Seems like people have even lost interrest in Cicada - for years now their last uncrypted missive has sat, unsolved.

Bad Robot has an especialy bad track record with these things though, I have vague memories of the Lost arg that went nowehere and then down a similar game jacking path.

And yeah, I'm not sure I would call what you're describing as an full on arg - more like interactive theatre, all though when you get to projects like Jeff Hull's, I guess there gets to be some overlap. But it is limiting, you're right. I can't just hop on a plane to San Francisco, let alone wrangle an invite to whatever the Latitude was, for example.

Although there's still a nice, not so prohibitively expensive idea in using exlusively analog tools - much analog tech is easily available, and cheaply so at your average thrift store, or grandparent's basement. Imagine getting Redditors to have start digging up cathode ray tvs and finding degaussing rings.

[Magus00]

Of Dreams and Args...

[gimlet]

[kosmopol]

[kosmopol]

[gimlet]

There was about 3 more names than that. An older woman, older man, younger woman (pictured) and younger man. Could probably find them in the Wikipedia edits. There was some legacy effect where they used to pop up in a gallery when you googled search 10 Cloverfield Lane evn after the trailer dropped, but I guess the links updated. They're mostly pretty small name people though. Likely extras.