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[Caterpillar]

Curious Question

[Caterpillar]

Yeah I did hear from others that there were lot of refs to other earlier ARGs as well, but since I wasn't around for those games I didn't want to attempt to list them, lest I get something wrong.

Thanks imbri...it does help to know I'm not imagining this...lol

~cem

[dmax]

random babbling

[Caterpillar]

Well, not having been around for the early games, I don't have the same fond memories. Example...to me the_pythia is a new character, I have no memory of a prior Pythia. Is this a disadvantage....maybe...because I am a little more naive when it comes to differentiating (possibly tongue-in-cheek?) refs to charcters/events/styles of bygone games.

I enjoy the CTFM puzzles....but was starting to feel a little like all games were imploding in on one another in my brain. Hence feeling like it was better to ask if I was imagining this and what others thoughts were on it.

Also...the refs to the Unfiction Boards were disturbing because they went against everything I've been taught here by you guys. So here I am trying to figure out/reconcile what means what.

And maybe it would be okay to create something that "strings" all else together....it's got me wondering that's for sure. Again I wasn't around for "Celia/Cecilia?" (sorry can't recall which it was). But I read the interview with her. So does that sort of thing go on often...? Are we experiencing something similar with Titania/CTW? Or is it just a player having fun?

I dunno...lol...

~cem

[Caterpillar]

Ah well then I don't feel so lonely.... Thanks imbri.

What about the other question regarding links given in-game to out of game resources? Like the link given in CTFM to the CTW interaction forum? I'm interested to hear opinions on it....

I guess technically it's not the same game (AFAIK) so it's not like CTFM has given a link to CTFM threads....so could someone in a game be playing another game...

Ackkk, now you know why I was getting confused. This along with the other stuff I posted have been swirling around and around in my head...lol

~cem

[Wolf]

[dnbmathguy]

Exocog was the Minority Report game that was actually a game, right?

Anywho, most of the similarities can be traced back to PMs drawing from the same roots. I know that Mythosphere in CTW was discovered when the Mythos stage in JMX was still going on. That was about when I became completely confused between the two. That being said, there are a disturbing amount of references in Capture the Flagmonkey. Maybe it's an ARG spoof? The "Airplane!" of ARGs, if you will.

[konamouse]

dnbmathguy wrote

[aliendial]

No reason we can't have multiple spoofs, is there?

[Ozy_y2k]

some of us ARE multiple spoofs.

[Caterpillar]

Well whatever it is or turns out to be ....I'm enjoying it immensely!!

~cem

[Martavius]

/me spoofs Ozy, then begins work on the Ozy files
cem - for the record, it was Celia Fair.

[Wolf]

[PaleFigure]

[Karmic_Crimewave]

Personally, I tihnk it would a brillaint stroke if PM who were behind more than one game managed to interweave their particular worlds into one straight continuity (i.e. - the ChangeAgents: Out Of Control, and Chasing The Wish).

Imagine my good buddy Brad Dunn trying to figure out what the hell is going on.

Of course, maybe I'm just looking for an excuse to write some more irritating e-mails to Brad. Everyone's got to have a hobby.

As far as CTFM goes. I'm personally of two minds. While they are taking alot of other people's work, they seem to be doing it in a very interesting and entertaining way. Of course, I'm looking at it from someone who has done very little svae to lurk since coming in at about the halfway point in Lockjaw, so the vets here might have a different take.