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[SPEC]Connections Between Slusho! and Myspace?
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That is a fantastic find guys, now we need to figure out any clues in their blogs that might give us some clues as to how much/what ingredients we need to add in order to get something out of the slusho site.

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Has there been any update to the Slusho! site since the one on July 27th? I don't visit often, so I can't tell if anything's changed.

PostPosted: Thu Sep 20, 2007 4:51 pm
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Great work, Red Walrus. And, awesome presentation! The Lena connection is the only one that seems a bit weak, at least compared to the others, which all stand out as being close connections to the respective bots. But, given the relative certainty of the others, Lena works as yellow, simply by process of elimination, if nothing else.

Now, I know people have decompiled the flavor page (or whatever the technical term is for viewing the code) and found nothing hidden - I'm pretty sure that's true. So, no combinations of bots will yield anything special, right? If that's true, what could the connection be between each myspace character and the bots?

One possibility is that the codes actually work both ways - stuff on myspace may help us decipher stuff on Slusho, but stuff on Slusho might also help us find things on each myspace page. For example, what if there is a 'correct' final combo-bot we need to find by combining the right percentages of each bot; and, when I say 'correct', I don't mean that something will happen on Slusho, but that the percentages used to make that particular combo-bot can then be used to find something on each respective myspace page, e.g., 20% blueberry bot means look for the 20th word on Hawk's blog - or, something like that. When we put them all together we'd get a seven word sentence, or a seven letter word. Maybe?

The problem with this, of course, is that we don't get numbers for percentages, but only a 'progress bar' under each bot. Is there a way to translate that to numbers by viewing the code?

Or, another thought - maybe there are clues on each person's myspace that give a 'correct' combo-bot for each person; then, we'd get SIX numbers/percentages for each character, so that might be a different kind of code, i.e., a line-word puzzle (as in 6th line, 12th word; 10th line, 20th word.. etc.). Again, though, this would assume we can translate those 'percentage bars' into numbers.

Also, this general idea of (Slusho --> Myspace) isn't limited to the Flavors page - the cups, hand signs, the cheese/mitten/hammer madness, etc., - some, or all, of these might have meaning b/c they give us a code to deciphering something on a myspace page, rather than the other way around. Just a thought.

And, Shutaro, maybe the voice in the roar is a guy announcing the arrival of "TEN CHOCOLATE CAKES!" and then the monster holding all the cakes falls down the 'stairs' and destroys New York. Smile

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Thanks.
If you go to the Lenadia page it is the only background which is a full picture, so it is clear in essence, so the yellow framing stands out as most prominant color added.

This may be a wierd coincidence but Beth Mcintyre - Mikan, Mcin=Mikan same sound.

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I see what you mean about Lena's page - works for me. She's yeller!

Also, anyone recognize that picture in the background of Lena's page, w/a woman adjusting her shoes/heels?

I just noticed that the woman in that picture has SEVEN bracelets on her right wrist, and TWELVE (or 11 + 1 b/c of how they're arranged) on her left wrist. Hurm...

Gotta be a coincidence... right?

Also, though, in that picture we can't see the woman's face - and, Lena's face keeps changing in her pics. Another coincidence? I dunno. Confused

And, yeah - the Mikan connection is curious. I can't see a similar connection w/anyone else's name though. Also, Beth's Kylie Minogue vid. says "RAGE." So, Beth's myspace stuff seems to generally point to the flavor page...?

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Melampus wrote:
Also, Beth's Kylie Minogue vid. says "RAGE." So, Beth's myspace stuff seems to generally point to the flavor page...?

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It is also possible that the Slusho site has been updated. It has been at least a month since I decompiled it. Who's to say the flavor page wasn't updated last week. I will decompile when I get home this evening.

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You can't Drink just six
sideways connection

I'm thinking the Slusho slogan is telling us no one survives. It's a stretch, but it works for me.

MySpace gave us seven characters, and of these we expect some to not make it to 1-19-08.

Slusho says six isn't enough (You can't drink just six), implying what ever it is (deaths, explosions, magic power rings etc.) we/they/It need more than six of it.

So, if we (or It) needs more than six, and we expect some of the known characters to die; I think they all do.

I guess it's not as well laid out as I'd hoped, but thats what I get from just thinking about the slogan.
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Maybe this is a little easier to look at than my other picture.



Lenadias' border is more bright yellow than this picture shows.

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I think, personally, that perhaps Lena might be the Secret Ingredient (which would make her the central character of the movie). And that HUD is Banana Anime. Since the colors don't really seem to line up as well as the others, I guess we could swap them without punching holes in the theory. The reason I think this is that Lena's profile is black, which is often used as an analog for black and The name of the yellow robot, Banana Anime makes thematic sense (comics and anime - or I guess manga? is that the right word?). Just throwing that out there.

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TaninimBait wrote:
I think, personally, that perhaps Lena might be the Secret Ingredient (which would make her the central character of the movie). And that HUD is Banana Anime. Since the colors don't really seem to line up as well as the others, I guess we could swap them without punching holes in the theory. The reason I think this is that Lena's profile is black, which is often used as an analog for black and The name of the yellow robot, Banana Anime makes thematic sense (comics and anime - or I guess manga? is that the right word?). Just throwing that out there.


Hud has a white background for sure. I agree, Lenadia is the weakest for the colors but hers has a full picture background with lots of colors but her yellow borders are prominant. Is my memory wrong or didn't Lenadia have a different picture for a short time when they were found? Anyone have it saved if she did?

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I decompiled the site and as far as I can tell it is the same as it was 3 weeks ago.

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So maybe we're just missing something...

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Re: [SPEC]Connections Between Slusho! and Myspace?

Melampus wrote:

- "You can't drink just six" always seemed to me to point to the number 7. I mean, if you can't drink just six, then, how many can you drink? Ans.: Seven. Or, at least 7. To put it another way, the basic 'serving size', or 'unit' of Slusho consumption is Seven (according to their their motto anyway).
- on the Slusho! home page, there are six bubbles to click, i.e., six other pages to access. That means that the total number of pages is SEVEN. There are six pages, plus the home page.
- on the flavors page, there are 6 bots PLUS the lotus flower or secret ingredient. Thus, seven total (possible) ingredients/flavors.

I had been mulling around the idea of that slogan implying something about the fact that there's 7 total ingredients you can use to create the drink. When people have options of flavors, they tend to want to try each one. Most of us would think of the 6 named flavors, but you have to have one with none of those flavors and just the deep sea ingredient in order to have properly fulfilled all possible variations, thus 7. Yes, the page will let you make it that way. I've wondered what that slogan really implies, and I have a feeling that the answer may be very important to the movie. I just don't know if we are meant to find out what it means as a part of this experience, or during the movie.

I think the comparison of the 'flavor bot' colors with the MySpace profiles is VERY interesting, and if it's not intentional it's an amazing coincidence. Something we should all keep in mind when it comes to such things is that humans tend to act in patterns like this that reflect something about their own character - and often subconsciously.
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I noticed the possible color connection, too, awhile back...but couldn't quite fit Lil in there. Yeah, she's got *partial* red on her MSP, but many other colors, too. So her page doesn't quite shoehorn into the pattern, either...

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