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[dusty2229]

Don't you think it'd very odd that this site uses actual photograhic images of people rather than illustrations elsewhere. I thought photography was old hat to Perplexians. I can't find the reference to the actual discussion as to why photographic representation is no longer used in PC (there is SO much info here now) but if it is no longer used why do we have it on this site in particular?
Any ideas?

[StarryNight]

Scarlet said that using drawings was trendy. It could be that using photos is considered more traditional and formal, which is what a site like this would be going for.

[Scott]

This thing about photos has been discussed to death. Absolutely to death. No, I dont fFind it odd. Useful, sure. Noteworthy, even. But not odd at all.

[Seej]

Well, I dunno about the rest of you, but the first thing I could think to do was to volunteer for the drug trials. Said I'd try pretty much anything and gave them a potted medical history (though I put it more formally than that). Only got the auto reply so far but I'll let you know if they send me some drugs (and then, of course, I'll set about solving all the puzzle cards in double-quick time).

[DogsHead]

It's a very solid site, isn't it? Everything's backed up on regular pages (see Leeravitz) and the 'Special Projects' page returned some interesting experimental medical sites from

[DM]

I completely agree, there's something off about the site. I get the feeling that there is some major importance about Cognivia.

[Leeravitz]

Purely OOG - so you can look away now if you want to:

For a long while, the only photographic reproductions that we knew of on -line were those that accompanied the Sentinel as adverts...and these were adverts for Ceretin/Cognivia.

A number of these pictures are reproduced on the site proper. Now, what this may mean is that those pictures have been available to MC for a lengthy period (the Sentinel has been running the adverts for a long time).

What that may, in turn, imply is that the work for the site was actually done a fairly long while ago - maybe it was one of the earliest sites created, because MC were aware that it would prove so labour intensive - maybe they even scaled down the operation once the Cognivia website had proved to be prohibitive in terms of cost (actors/models would have been required) and background researching. I'm not saying that other websites have been created suddenly - but the chances that, say, the Brotherhood's site could be put together fairly swiftly are much greater.

So maybe it's all got more to do with OOG than IG considerations.

Which may not really be in the spirit of this discussion, but I thought worth pointing out...

[dopefiend]

Just to add my 2p,

It doesn't look like they hired actors to me- those pics are probably bought from an image library of the sort used by advertisers/magazine editors all the time. For example, here's a search i did for "human eye" on the Getty Images website - some of these could almost be ceretin ads themselves!

[GuyP]

The attention to detail is impressive, but not necessarily KLOOworthy. You might want to bear in mind that... (spoilered for those who like their ARGs extra-immersed, hold the meta, lots of mayonnaise)

[erekose]

[GuyP]

[DM]

Some of the stuff about PPC has me confused, as well. As it has been stated, they have amazing technology and science, but their commerce seems dead.

But then, this is an "Anti-Earth" we are talking about. I have been thinking about it for a while now, and decided it was right with the release of Cognivia. Here on Earth, what is the focus of the world? Sports. People are obsessed with physical entertainment. Best example of this, is the Olympics. The PPC side of things is, instead, intellectual. The PPC games is all about smarts. Just like we have steroids here for quickly buffing up, they have Cognivia. Though, it seems unusual that, as a city of intellectuals they would allow something like performance increasing drugs to be used in events.

It interests me, though, as to what side-effects that this drug just might have, and why it is so popular. While sport is popular here, steroids-or any sort of performance increasing drug, for that matter-are not all that popular as PPC's version seems to be with both the general public and their 'athletes'.

[Scott]

[DM]

[oliverkeers13]

I agree, they have the feel of Sable & Shuck about them.