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[Gus Raja]

Upon going there and playing the webcast I noticed that the my CPU usage was being maxed out. Even when the broadcast ended and I closed out of the browser, it was still maxed out by "iexplore.exe" which I had to then "end task" on. What in the world are they doing to my computer at sublymonal.com? Are we sure this is a safe site?


At any rate, at the end of the podcast he mentioned an interview with someone at THF that he claims resulted in the government taking away a military contract from them. I foung that wierd because I thought Hanso deliberately pulled away from doing stuff for the military back in the 70s. Anyways, he mentioned...

[AnonymousUserguy]

I understand the need for ABC to offset some of the substantial development costs of this endeavor by bringing on corporate sponsors, but as a long time ARG player (one of the first handful of players of A.I.'s The Beast) I gotta say that I lost a lot of interest in this thing after this update.

The game is just starting to feel a bit contrived and forced. While there's been a touch of difficultly, the vast majority of the clues we have been given have been given in really obvious ways, and now they're not only being given to us in obvious ways but they're tied into huge amounts of advertisements.

I mean, the sublymonal.com screen just flashes codes at you. The whole survivor guilt thing. The persephone URL in the PDF. With the exception of a few things here (still don't know what's up with the pic at hole2), there's not a lot of real "puzzles" here. It's all style and not a lot of substance, although they certainly excel at style.

I think back to Eliza's Tearoom in The Beast and how difficult and unique some of those puzzles were and how much teamwork was involved in solving them ("Toad in the hole" anyone?) and then I look at this and think, "Seriously?"

Of course maybe there's more to sublymonal that hasn't been found yet, but even so, the amount of blatant corporate sponsorship is kind of removing me from the experience. Again, this game is costing them millions (this is California, we're talking about the web dev vendor they've got working on it, plus the payroll for their employees focusing on the project, ad buys, etc.) so corporate sponsorship is the way to go. But the Jeep/Chrysler thing was cleverly integerated. The Sprite thing most certainly was not.

I'm still interested to see where it all goes, just because I'm curious, but I wasn't interested in digging through sublymonal.com at all, I think I'll just fall back into observer mode for a while and see where things go.

[catherwood]

[julian]

Sublymonal Updated -

[catherwood]

Re: Sublymonal Updated -

[Huginn]

The ad was just showed on Cartoon Network.

Mmm... Not sure how I feel about this, or if Grassroots have just spoiled me

[kete00]

[julian]

Oh well, trout me! Thanks folks...

[RPGgame]

[amlocke]

Probably trouting, but didn't see any posts on it.

Sublymonal is now linked to wikipedia and does some type of sound overlay. Type in some words that are common and see whwat happens.

[apcfreak]

lol, i put shutup and it told me off.....