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[SPEC] PCBC Bank

**Posted:** Tue Apr 19, 2005 12:51 pm

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Buceph · Veteran Joined: 17 Apr 2005 Posts: 96 Location: Ireland

I think someone said elsewhere that PCBC is also a real world bank. Maybe they're one of the sponsors of this. I have a feeling that they are trying to set up this ARG as a lead in to "Keys". Like paypal but also like a car key.

**Posted:** Tue Apr 19, 2005 12:57 pm

JebJoya · Unfettered Joined: 13 Apr 2005 Posts: 679 Location: UK

PACIFIC CAPITAL BANCORP has the stock symbol PCBC, but it's not what they call themselves... As has been mentioned elsewhere, their logo is also similar to HSBCs, but was that just the inspiration for the PMs and means nothing?

Jeb

**Posted:** Tue Apr 19, 2005 1:19 pm

arieh · Boot Joined: 13 Apr 2005 Posts: 35

PCBC = Perplex City Banking Corporation.

both perplexcitybank.com and perplexcitybankingcorporation.com are parked at Godaddy.

**Posted:** Tue Apr 19, 2005 1:52 pm

JebJoya · Unfettered Joined: 13 Apr 2005 Posts: 679 Location: UK

but parked on different dates to the other perplex city stuff if i remember rightly... someone was saying pepl...itylibrary.com and ceretin.com are parked with dodgy front pages with the right dates, so maybe they're our best options?

Jeb

**Posted:** Tue Apr 19, 2005 1:55 pm

POTUS

I've got a list of over 40 GoDaddy domains 'associated' with PC. Whether they will all be used is anybody's guess - I doubt it. They most likely just want to stop OOG stuff from happening.

I still think we are meant uncover corruption in PC. Do some anagrams of the first letters and see what I meadn - "total saps." Wink

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Rob_Riv · Unfettered Joined: 17 Feb 2005 Posts: 350

over 40... does anyone have any ideas on how much that would cost?

**Posted:** Tue Apr 19, 2005 7:29 pm

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Morning_Star · Boot Joined: 16 Apr 2005 Posts: 19 Location: London

Maybe this whole thing is secretly an advert for 'Godaddy'...hehe

Morning_Star

**Posted:** Tue Apr 19, 2005 7:49 pm

JebJoya · Unfettered Joined: 13 Apr 2005 Posts: 679 Location: UK

**Posted:** Tue Apr 19, 2005 11:03 pm

Seej · Unfettered Joined: 30 Nov 2004 Posts: 614

**Posted:** Wed Apr 20, 2005 11:51 am

Scott

this touches on something i've been wondering fFor a bit now, tho:

How long are those adspaces rented fFor? the sentinel has only 2 advertisers, each having only, what, 5 ads which have run fFor the past month, straight. That kind of advertising on any other site -- such as cnn.com -- would be marvelously expensive. dont they have other advertisers?

also, a good newspaper in our world is constantly in conflict of balance, meeting ad-volume with story-volume, about 50/50. There can be as many story itemsas people want, at fFirst, but it's not unthinkable a newspaper would have to trim content in order to print more ads. Of course, this is not necesarilly the case with a online edition. YMMV.

**Posted:** Wed Apr 20, 2005 12:27 pm

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Rob_Riv · Unfettered Joined: 17 Feb 2005 Posts: 350

[quote="Seej"]

**Posted:** Wed Apr 20, 2005 1:57 pm

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[PCGF]dbarnett · Boot Joined: 19 Apr 2005 Posts: 20

**Posted:** Wed Apr 27, 2005 4:42 pm

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DogsHead · Veteran Joined: 11 Apr 2005 Posts: 142 Location: Sydney

Keep in mind we have already been told that this version may be different from the PXC edition (it's on the banner and in the recent article

**Posted:** Wed Apr 27, 2005 10:20 pm

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Scott

But that doesnt seem right either, dogshead. If they were targetting the ads just fFor us, wouldnt they use ads which are directly aimed at Earth users? I'm not sure what that would be. Other websites, maybe; ads fFor the academy, maybe. Not consumer merchandise like ceretin, tho. No, in this early phase of Earth exploration, i imagine they hadnt really worked out the whos and hows of marketting things. I'm pretty sure the ads we see are whatever is normally running on the sentinel. which doesnt entirely make sense either, eh.

so what i'm saying is, there is something really fFishy about these advertisers. why do they never change?

**Posted:** Thu Apr 28, 2005 3:40 am

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Balance of Powers is a game whose only rule is: There must be a political party.