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Xanatos · Boot Joined: 29 Apr 2005 Posts: 13 Location: London, UK

[META] It all begins with AADAA...

**Posted:** Sat Apr 30, 2005 8:15 am

asda213asd · Guest

I'm also hoping that the trading cards are one big mind-screw.

Maybe the leaderboard site will get 'hacked' by cubists who don't appreciate Sente's game. ("Our sacred cube?! On a trading card game?!?!")

BTW, what does AADAA stand for?

**Posted:** Sat Apr 30, 2005 9:52 am

SilentAvenger · Boot Joined: 23 Oct 2004 Posts: 44

AADAA is the first codeblock for a cipher that tuned out to be a pseudorandom stream of letters from the book Cryptonomicon by Neil Stephenson.

I hereby recommend that book to you Smile

**Posted:** Sat Apr 30, 2005 9:54 am

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

AADAA is a crypto reference to something meant to be meaningless. Put there to confuse you, IIRC. It now means that it's subject is irrelevant.

**Posted:** Sat Apr 30, 2005 9:56 am

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now thats the first good idea i've heard about these cards yet

**Posted:** Sat Apr 30, 2005 10:10 am

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with regards to point number 3, i dont think the cards will be sold in actual physical retail outlets just because, frankly, i'm unsure how big the market would be for them. i think they will just be sold online at a few sites similar to firebox (and possibly perplexcity.com itself?), thus elminating the possiblity of someone stealing whole boxes of them.

nice spec though, i'd like to hope it turns out to be true Very Happy

**Posted:** Sat Apr 30, 2005 10:15 am

djrazz

i think it would also be good to sell bulk packs at a lower cost
like 15 paks for 20

or i'm just cheep and broke

and starter kits like the ones sent out with the maps and all

**Posted:** Sat Apr 30, 2005 10:18 am

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hannah

**Posted:** Sat Apr 30, 2005 10:21 am

Salkunh

**Posted:** Sat Apr 30, 2005 10:31 am

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I really hope this turn's out to be fake also becuase I really don't want a card game from all of the hype that has been building for this game over the last year.

**Posted:** Sat Apr 30, 2005 11:17 am