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[UPDATE] New website: PERPLEXCITYSENTINEL.COM (21st March)
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RobPal
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 		OK, Lots of thoughts
Today has been quite exciting with the new site to explore. Lots of theories eminating from lots of articles and other Sentinel info. It's great!!!

Just thought i'd add my thoughts to the pot:-

1. The bank advertised on the site may be the way in which we can accrue some Lecks (PPC Currency). And I spec that the 24 digit number from the postcards could help us when we finally get to visit their site or hack their site (whatever!). This stems from some research I did on 24 digit numbers. It turns out that Hungarian banks use 24 digit numbers to hold all the info for an account, split down as follows
A 3-digit bank code.
A 4-digit branch code.
A check digit.
A 15-digit account number.
Another check digit.
N.B. for our friends across the atlantic, i'm thinking check in this instance is not referring to what we in the UK call a cheque. I don't want to sound patronsing, but thought it would be better to clear that up to avoid any confusion down the line.

2. Perplex City is a self contained place in a world similar to ours. Possibly a bio-domed kinda place where people have chosen to live in a world according to The Cube and therefore maintain a yearly cycle based on the discovery of The Cube. However outside of this dome, the calendar that we use is still being used by non Perplexians. The whole thing about a shared history would support this and the letter in PPCS from Emile Farrow also describes a wider world, but one that is not really talked about within PPC.

3. The Key that is referred to on PPCS is some kind of biochemical id that distingiushes you from anyone else and could only be used by people in PPC as a result of technology gained by studying The Cube. This links to a database with all the details of your entire life, e.g. what subcriptions you have, any criminal convictions, past and present addresses, etc...

That's all for now. Any thoughts?

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wintermute_au
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So I'm thinking it's got to be an inside job because only an Academy member would know of Earth to take the Cube here.


well, cpl options there... we don't really know how the Cube got to Earth (or for that matter, if its actually here and this isn't part of some elaborate plan of Sente's to get us to steal the Cube for him...). But assuming it is here:

a. Someone in the Academy sent in here
b. Someone from earth stole it
c. a religious cult stole it (and sent it here either on purpose or accidentally, various motives possible for both)
or d. The Cube came here on its own....

..oh and have we decided where PPC is yet? cos i was mulling over the other planet idea and it suddenly hit me that "other side of the curve" could refer to the curve of the galaxy's spiral arm....

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Mima
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 		Perplex City also has a legal system that must be similar to the American one, Centrifuge is an Inc., which would be similar to a UK Ltd.

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Scott
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 		reply to yanka a fFew pages back :)
yanka wrote:
Does it feel weird to anyone else that their entire universe seems limited to just one city? We really only heard of Perplex City from Sente's one letter, and then that press release, so I just assumed that there was no need/reason to mention other locations yet. However, now, there is a whole newspaper, and it doesn't mention any other cities, as far as I can tell. No other countries, either. It's like their whole world consists of just Perplex City Confused


I have thought about this. I believe many local papers fFocus heavily on the place they are reporting fFrom. a newspaper in New York City, such as the Village Voice fFor example, may not mention anywhere except NYC in most of its pages.

One the other hand, This is not a small local paper like the voice. It is read by 5 million people daily. That approaches a global scale of readership, I believe. So to not mention anywhere except one city is quite unusual indeed.

I suggest one of three solutions to this. Either, it is a starWarsian planet-city like Coruscant; or it's some sort of inter-computer city like in Tron. Or something else entirely, such as we see in the comic books Transmetropolitan, where there is one giant city referred to as simply, "The City", and little else is of terrible consequence to people outside the City. I'm kind of liking that last synonym, just now.
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 		Re: reply to yanka a fFew pages back :)
Scott wrote:

Either, it is a starWarsian planet-city like Coruscant


so glad i'm not the only one jumping on the starwars idea
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Mima
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 		Under: More Headlines: Halley Peace Accord Signed under front page. Halley predicted in 1705 the comets orbit (before the split with us), but I wonder why he is linked with a Peace Accord (if this is named after him), and if Perplex City is a city state, who they need to make peace with?

Could this have been a religous war? Maybe triggered by the Cube (thinking of the religous sites in the Middle East).

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RobPal
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 		I hate to keep repeating myself, but I think that some people here are not considering the evidence against the theory of a Star Warsian city in the sky type place for PPC.

There is a letter in the PPCS that clearly indicates that there is a world of some sorts outside of the borders of PPC.

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Thanks for doing such a great job with your series on foreign relations, and how they directly impact our lives here in Perplex City. I never understood before how important it is to keep track of world events, because I never really saw how they affected me. What a great service the Sentinel is performing in educating the public this way!

Emile Farrow


IMHO this is extremely strong evidence, but maybe i'm missing something. If so, please feel free to open my mind.

Cheers! *tries to make light of his comments to not offend*

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Listacorta
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 		What I've tried
I've sent a slew of emails to a variety of perplexcitysentinel.com addresses..

essentially, I assumed that the phrase "Point your key" is equivalent to "email", so "please point your key to News at the Sentinel" = newsSPLATperplexcitysentinel.com..

I have gotten nada, zip and zero back...

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Swanneh
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 		also worth pointing out that the key is not a users email on any major messanger programme Laughing

I was bored ok,,, Very Happy

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 		[Spec] I'm thinking that the key that is being referred to is a product of Key Surity. Perhaps it is a web browser or other IM type software. Does anyone remember the little program that you had to have in order to play the Majestic subscription game? Something like that is what I'm thinking. It would keep all your cookies and keys or whatever so that you can interact with the sites at the right time and in the right order. I imagine that the technology would not be that difficult to replicate. Perhaps EA even sold the rights to it.[/Spec]
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lhall
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 		Re: What I've tried
Listacorta wrote:
essentially, I assumed that the phrase "Point your key" is equivalent to "email", so "please point your key to News at the Sentinel" = newsSPLATperplexcitysentinel.com..


A key is surely more than just a password of some kind. It's obviously some kind of interface that Perplexians use...that's how it can deal with sending letters, but also pass along phone calls and identify authentication information.

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Porka25
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For all other purposes, link to the Sentinel with your key and a customer support representative will help to direct your call.


Could suggest that the "key" is some kind of identification number, like an IP address, which could be linked to calls and can be "pointed", no?

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 		Futures... Speculation
I'm not convinced PerplexCity is a strange and distant planet. I get the feeling that it's this Earth (hence use of our names for Months etc), but different culture. Definetley a paralell dimension though.

The Futures page, and the use of the same day of the month to seperate each of the Horoscope style predictions, reminds me of the alternative system for dating that we on Earth could have used, had the Romans not had their way. Namely the 13 Moon calendar. My point is that use of different horoscopes doesnt neccesarily indicate another world. I think these people are much closer to home, maybe they live amongst us but we can't percieve them apart from certain glitches like the one we are witnessing now.

I'm thinking of that BBC series that was on about 7 years ago now, "Neverwhere", about the mysterious underworld version of London where the strange names of places had literal meanings... could it be this kind of deal?

Thats all the postulating from me for now. Trout me and be done with it.
Cheers... Toby

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Demontague wrote:
Ian Shivuto has a little anti-capitalist stab at holiday consumerism (and I wholeheartedly agree with him).


What i found particularly interesting was that Ian seems generally anti-Cubist, and that the loss of the Receda Cube is actually a good thing. This is a stark contrast to everything else we have seen in this game previously (please correct me if I am wrong?) where we were led to believe that the loss of the Cube was a massive blow to PPC. It seems not all people see it that way.

As i pointed out a little earlier, it makes me sympathetic to Ian's POV and actually wonder whether I should be helping Sente find this cube at all?!


whether you look at it from a religious point of view or not, it seems clear that a lot of ppc's society relies on the cube in one way or another, the economy is down because of bad sales on the holidays as a result of the cube going missing, which may possibly have led to the conservational site being sold off. there are lots of other references to the cube in other articles on the sentinel site, showing it has a much wider secular cultural influence than just a religious one.

also, someone mentioned about possible weekly updates, it seems the futures section at least is updated weekly rather than daily.

i agree with whoever mentioned discworld, it was discussed on the IRC that the history bit sounded very ankh morpork, but also the worldview they have seems very similar.

one last thing, the furniture thing in the html probably relates to the idea of page furniture (such as page numbers, bullet points, spacers, divider bars etc.) that you get in the layout of newspapers and magazines, and the programs (i.e. quark or indesign) you can use to do such things.

rach =)

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RobPal
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 		Crikey! The more I look at this new website, the more ideas and spec's I get. I can't possibly type as fast as my brain is thinking. Arrgghh!!!

Anyway, I noticed on the article about Jackson Nuru, that his appeal hearing is in 1 week.

Quote:
Nuru was unavailable for comment, but his publicist did assure the Sentinel: "These allegations are completely false, and we trust that Nuru will be restored to his place in the competition upon appeal." A hearing on the affair is scheduled for March 28.


This could yeild some more useful info via another article about what happened. But that means more waiting!
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