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[Abraxas]

@BigBlizz
Thank you for your - very long! - reply...I felt a bit strange about all of this.
I can understand that getting answers gets easier by the minute if spoilers are posted, but there are some points I'd have to say:
a) first of all, getting the final answers through a search engine isn't that accidental as you make it sound...it's one thing if it destroys the complete google procedure, but another if the availability of spoilers is tempting some people who otherwise wouldn't be...that's entirely their own responsibility...but I guess some of the spoilers slip through the cracks and it can become a problem...
b) so far I can't find any of the spoilers here on Google even when I type "clever waste of time level x"...I guess they need time to arrive at the search bots, but I don't really know much about the whole process
c) the comments made by members of CWOT were unprofessional and came across with the arrogant we-won't-even-begin-to-discuss-this-with-losers-like-you attitude...personally, I couldn't quite understand the attitude of some members - I won't get to name-calling - and I still think they are...well, I'm not saying they know about their issues, I'm sure...none of this is your fault, of course, because they are as you already said individuals and responsible for what they said

Now, I certainly don't want to keep the war going by mentioning all of this again. To the contrary...I'm glad to see that this has been resolved. I'm still playing, anyway. I gave it some time and was optimistic that you would say something. Or perhaps I'm just addicted...

[glenda]

[me]

saddo's

[miss_seph]

Not to miss the bandwagon, let me just throw in my support for the "post answer once in spoiler tags and leave it" method. Infinitely less frustrating than the "send hundreds of PMs to the only person that's solved it" method. The answer is there if you want it but you don't have to read it if you don't want to.

Also, Google results all come with a title. In none of these headings will you find a spoiler from the unforums, because in our case, our Google results headers are our Forum Thread Topics. Usually entitled "View Topic......".

I would merely suggest your readers just ignore any google results entitled "View Topic - x". Simple.

[doommaster]

I need help on 63. I am sure I have the answer I added the shadowed numbers and got

[Stumped]

I'm at level 20 where it shows the value of pi on the calculator. When I added pi.htm to the url, it brings me to another page which says "BUT..... NO! try being a weee bit smarter!" I'm stuck. Help anyone?

[tel]

[abstraction]

level 18

[abstraction]

level 18

[smibbo]

I played until about level 12 checking my answers in the spoilers each time. Then I saw the source code say "personally I'd use CS but that's just me" and the title "alt_ctrl_i"

I tried a few things but no go. So I looked at a spoiler, which obviously gave me the wrong answer because I get the whole mean-spirited "if you're one of THOSE people" blahblahblah

Yes, I admit it, I'm one of those OTHER people who just recently got interested in online puzzles and ARGs. Translation: I have no idea how most of this stuff is done. I used to program in BASIC, Pascal, Machine code and COBOL but I don't know all the whiz-bang stuff that can be done these days. So I'm looking at the source code thinking "what the hell is 'CS'? what am I supposed to do with THIS?"

Well if no one can tell me, I'll never learn it. So yeah, I'm one of those "pathetic" people who can't solve some of this on my own because I wasn't BORN knowing all these little tricks. I can do integral and differential calculus, write a 1000 page thesis about the sociological impact of flooding in a hunter-gatherer tribe in Africa, clean behind a toilet until it's antiseptic, read 500 pages in one night - standing up, paint a picture, play guitar violin and drums as well as read music, write a 75 page play based on my life after running away from home at 15, raise three kids - one with Autism - fight a two year long lawsuit and win with only about $2000 and i can cook a ten course meal for 20 people, get my EQ2, WOW, CoH and GW characters past level 40...

But oh, hey I'm pathetic because I don't understand how to solve your puzzle without help. Heck I don't even know what your little oblique clues mean because I'm old old old and pitiful and don't know about every shiney little amazing thing this japanese wonder-box can do.

Forget this trail... and I seriously hope most other ARGs aren't anything like that... I've got plenty of other things to tackle in my life that I haven't tried yet and i'm pretty sure most of those hobbies don't involve being told I'm pathetic just because I'm starting out.

[Cross_]

[smibbo]

True, it is just a game - aka diversion, pasttime, pleasurable time-waster etc

If I do not get entertainment, knowledge or relaxation out of a game, i'm not going to play, that's all.

I also had a minor flame-war with one of the less-polite makers of this trail. I sent him the exact same thing I posted above and received a lot of vitriol which actually cracked me up and my replies were much softer.
In fact, his two emails were much more entertaining than the puzzle itself.
Mostly though, after seeing the attitude of the people who make it, I felt pretty sure I am not interested in mingling in any kind of group like they are garnering. Not my type of people, not my style of play. I'm a group-player and I'm not interested in competing at all, for anything. I misjudged this trail and now I know better, that's all.

[npronfan]

Can someone help me with T5? I am at the part with

[Phaedra]