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[Duckie]

[REFERENCE] Is that new site in game, or not?

[Cysa]

I'm not trying to argue that these sites are real, I just want people to spend or time looking into thing rather than just assuming something because some one else says OOG or Game Jack.

Yes we should question everything and hold on to our doubts, but seriously, its not like we have too terribly much else to research in this ARG. If someone posts a possible site, spend some time there, don't just look at it and say, I don't know bout this, then close your explorer and call anyone an idiot who references the site again. Far as I know none of you people posting are actually Abrams himself and he is really the only one who can tell you for sure if the site is real or not, well unless your the one who created the game jack then you can say your site is fake.

I'm sorry if people think I'm trying to slow down the progress with game jacks or what ever, but I see a lot of people on this forum dismissing everything for no reason what so ever.

A logical compromise would just be to stop calling things OOG before everyone has a chance to look things over and analyze information provided by the site. And I really do not care how long you have been playing these style games, someone tell me how they could tell right away that the slusho site was correlated to the movie. Because a character in a movie trailer was wearing a T-shirt for this company? I mean yeah after we searched and found out the company wasn't real and that the only other reference to the product was in the show Alias, then its pretty clear, but you had to do research to learn this(or followed alias fanatically, since it was the second episode this reference was made).

[i_c_weiner]

It's either JJ's been working on this for a long time or he likes reusing things. A Slusho reference in Alias just sounds like he likes reusing things. But when we saw that image from the Season One DVD for Lost that showed JJ wearing a shirt with the Slusho robots on it, I think that proofs he's been working on this for a little while. Yes, that'd be pretty crazy, putting subtle clues to a secret movie in your other products, but hey, this is JJ Abrams we're talking about.

What does this have to do with this topic? What I think is that the fact that he's been working on this movie for a while shows that the ARG stuff has been thoroughly thought out. The trailer lead us to 1-18-08.com and slusho.jp. From 1-18-08.com, we found the Myspace pages. It seems like JJ & Company have gradually setting up clues for us, like I Love Bees or The Beast. ILB was found from the trailer for Halo 2, a la Slusho with this trailer. I think if there's proof of something in the things that we know are official, like the picture website, Slusho, and the Myspace pages, then it's possible the new thing that's been found is official. If we have no clues from these sources that the new thing is official, it's probably not official.

In short, I pretty much agree with Duckie.

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[i_c_weiner]

Just to let you all know, I'm the guest that's name was (oddly enough) i_c_weiner. I finally got around to registering after lurking around since the trailer.

Yeah, I just noticed that the robots on the shirt weren't the Slusho robots, but the fact that there's six of them of different sizes harkens to the Slusho robots. Perhaps an early prototype, although that may be a stretch, like said before, considering how far back the photo was taken. The only way that the robots in the shirt were related to the Slusho robots is if the Slusho robots played a significant role in something, which they haven't thus far.

My point still remains that this seems pre-planned to some degree and is likely like previous ARGs where one clue leads to another. I don't think that they would have a secret website that nobody knows about until some random blog mentions it. It would have to be something from the confirmed sources and likely registered (I'm not going to say "definitely" registered, as something may come up during the process that the people behind this didn't see coming) before the trailer/before we found 1-18-08.com. Just because some random site says "IT'S CTHULHU!!1!" and has an image of a Cthulhu-esque monster in a destroyed NYC doesn't mean it is Cthulhu. (Even though I personally wouldn't mind Cthulhu...) Let's think a little before we start say something's in-game, and think a little before we completely write something off as OOG.

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It might be a Gamejack, if...

the Gamejack website contacts you to tell you they are not a gamejack