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Aurigan
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Parallax may refer to a few things. I wasn't sure it was IG at first, but this might be more of a clue, no?

PostPosted: Mon Nov 26, 2007 6:04 pm
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heytheyfoundabody
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eliwein wrote:
I'm really not convinced. akaparallax doesn't mention tagruato anywhere. Besides that it's very unprofessional, theres no reason to assume that a site against big oil is IG: there are many real ppl in the real world who hate big oil too. by this logic, www.kicktheoilhabit.org is IG too, cuz they hate big oil, too. so the argument that it was created before tagruato was found is moot, unless it mentions specifically tagruato or yoshida.
The server thing is ridiculous. I can't remember it exactly, but there was this story about a company, or maybe a blog, that was hosted by the same server that hosts a neo-nazi site. People started speculating (like we're doing here) and criticisizing and the owner of the site/blog said that that server holds thousands of different sites; they have no connection to the neo-nazis, nor any control over who's on the server.
And the auto reply probably means that AKA Parrallax googled themselves to see where they are on the google result page, found uF, followed along and then tricked us. Again, i keep stressing this, think as if they're in game; if the Cause wanted to contact us, wouldn't they say something significant, instead of just repeating what we can see for ourselves?
And the "weird songs" thing, i'm not even going to address.


Not any different (although less productive) and just as much speculation as my post in support of this site. These ARGs (AREs) give us clues and we are meant to search through and find what they all mean. Many people spend (waste) all of their time discrediting every idea/website/document/opinion as OOG for the sake of not wasting time on these gamejacks. Looking through the forums I have seen lots of things people assumed were false and/or gamejacks that turned out to be key clues in the game. I personally believe that this site is IG and think it would be in everyone's best interest to follow this site. Although neither of us can prove that this is IG, all of my points are stated facts about the site that all seem a little too coincidental to ignore. All of your counter points are assumptions and hypothetical. nothing personal I would just hate for people to ignore this possible clue

PostPosted: Mon Nov 26, 2007 6:16 pm
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carlosos
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IS THIS WEIRD?


I followed the idea of one of the posters of Parallax refering to a superhero.
It caught my attention that the Auto reply was only working for DUMBO. Then I saw that Dumbo corresponds with III. Coincidently Parallax is somehow the third "shape" of that superhero.

So I thought in sending emails using the words found in the image from the hacked tagruato page and the different names this superhero has had, and this is what i got:

tanner(a)alanscott.com

irukandji(a)haljordan.com

dumbo(a)akaparallax.com

ogre(a)spectre.com

I couldn't find a fifth form of alan scott to match with ocean, if someone knows it would be useful.

So I sent the emails, and guess what? Those accounts exist. I haven't received any failure notification yet. But I did receive them when trying to send them to emails I invented.

What do you think about it?

PostPosted: Mon Nov 26, 2007 7:09 pm
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gypsy songman
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carlosos wrote:
IS THIS WEIRD?


I followed the idea of one of the posters of Parallax refering to a superhero.
It caught my attention that the Auto reply was only working for DUMBO. Then I saw that Dumbo corresponds with III. Coincidently Parallax is somehow the third "shape" of that superhero.

So I thought in sending emails using the words found in the image from the hacked tagruato page and the different names this superhero has had, and this is what i got:

tanner(a)alanscott.com

irukandji(a)haljordan.com

dumbo(a)akaparallax.com

ogre(a)spectre.com

I couldn't find a fifth form of alan scott to match with ocean, if someone knows it would be useful.

So I sent the emails, and guess what? Those accounts exist. I haven't received any failure notification yet. But I did receive them when trying to send them to emails I invented.

What do you think about it?


Good thought, but all three of those other sites are already registered, and the first two are definitely oog. The third I haven't had time to vet yet... perhaps we're missing a few sites?

PostPosted: Mon Nov 26, 2007 7:13 pm
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rhesusmonkeyboy
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 I think OOG, because of all the mention of BP
Universal wouldn't bad mouth a potential sponsor

I don't think a company such as Universal would have an IG website bad mouth a real-life company ( read $pon$or ) ... they mention it a few times.

I tried to follow the trail that led to AKA parallax, but the link no longer exists.

PostPosted: Mon Nov 26, 2007 7:15 pm
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Ashmodean
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Hi, I've been lurking around these forums since the teaser came out and I have to say this is now the first place I go for Cloverfield info, you guys are awesome! I wish I knew this site back when I was into ilovebees. Anyway back on topic...


Not to sound condescending but it seems like you guys may not be understanding what parallax means. To put it simply that "20" on the 20 dollar bill that changes colour depending on the angle that you look at it is a perfect example. This is a bit random and could be way off but maybe we should start skewing the image from the hacked Tagruato site? Or maybe even that strange glasshelmets pic.

Just an idea.

PostPosted: Mon Nov 26, 2007 7:19 pm
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carlosos
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Ok, but I won't cheer, perhaps I get the failure messages all together tomorrow.

PostPosted: Mon Nov 26, 2007 7:26 pm
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Falco
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so the keywords for AKAParralax are: aka, parallax, birth, death, rebirth

could possibly reenforce the hal jordan theory? a quick search of hal jordan on wikipedia shows us that the grea lantern was most famously known as hal jordan.

He became a supervillain known as paralax...his birth

he then died and became the spectre

he was reborn in 2004's Green Lantern: Rebirth as the green lantern once again.

here's the wiki link in case someone missed it when iconsumer put it up http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hal_Jordan

EDIT: to Ashmodean...i think that that your right in that our viewpoint is what makes something seem the way it is

in the case of everything going on.....from the cause's viewpoint...tagruato is evil and destroyin our oceans...from tagruato's viewpoint, they are simply helping the world. the same action has two vastly different meanings (appearences) from where you stand

PostPosted: Mon Nov 26, 2007 7:29 pm
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eliwein
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heytheyfoundabody wrote:
eliwein wrote:
I'm really not convinced. akaparallax doesn't mention tagruato anywhere. Besides that it's very unprofessional, theres no reason to assume that a site against big oil is IG: there are many real ppl in the real world who hate big oil too. by this logic, www.kicktheoilhabit.org is IG too, cuz they hate big oil, too. so the argument that it was created before tagruato was found is moot, unless it mentions specifically tagruato or yoshida.
The server thing is ridiculous. I can't remember it exactly, but there was this story about a company, or maybe a blog, that was hosted by the same server that hosts a neo-nazi site. People started speculating (like we're doing here) and criticisizing and the owner of the site/blog said that that server holds thousands of different sites; they have no connection to the neo-nazis, nor any control over who's on the server.
And the auto reply probably means that AKA Parrallax googled themselves to see where they are on the google result page, found uF, followed along and then tricked us. Again, i keep stressing this, think as if they're in game; if the Cause wanted to contact us, wouldn't they say something significant, instead of just repeating what we can see for ourselves?
And the "weird songs" thing, i'm not even going to address.


Not any different (although less productive) and just as much speculation as my post in support of this site. These ARGs (AREs) give us clues and we are meant to search through and find what they all mean. Many people spend (waste) all of their time discrediting every idea/website/document/opinion as OOG for the sake of not wasting time on these gamejacks. Looking through the forums I have seen lots of things people assumed were false and/or gamejacks that turned out to be key clues in the game. I personally believe that this site is IG and think it would be in everyone's best interest to follow this site. Although neither of us can prove that this is IG, all of my points are stated facts about the site that all seem a little too coincidental to ignore. All of your counter points are assumptions and hypothetical. nothing personal I would just hate for people to ignore this possible clue


First of all, lets keep this civil, before it gets angry.
Second of all. personally, i think the burden of proof is on you. I wouldn't consider something possibly IG unless i have solid evidence (specific references to something found after whois date, e.g.). The doesn't apply the other way around: one can consider something likely OOG just because of the lack of definitive proof.
I don't think this will disappear any time soon, in any caes, so even if i call it OOG, and it ends up IG, the uFers will remember all of the facts surrounding it.

PostPosted: Mon Nov 26, 2007 7:35 pm
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PANIC HISPANIC wrote:
Bacon Army wrote:
Okay, just listened to the IOPD song on akaParallax, and I don't know if my ears are playing tricks on me, but at around 4:37, and again at 4:49, and again at around 5:00, I swear something that sounds suspiciously like our Cloverfield monster can be heard in the background - I think it may even be ol' Grumpypants, though it is a bit of a stretch. I don't think it's just, as heytheyfoundabody said, a large creature. Can others check it and see if my ears do not deceive me?
i definitely hear it, maybe the cause is the reason this monster is created. maybe their plan backfired


I do not see an MP3, how do I play the song or songs?

PostPosted: Mon Nov 26, 2007 7:43 pm
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Wait... what? You're basing this on an email auto-response?

In order for a site to be considered "in game", there has to be a path TO the site, not from it. I can create a GMail account with an identical auto-responder; does that mean GMail is "in game"?

Until something leads TO this site from an existing "in game" site, it's OOG. Learn to accept that until proven otherwise, people.

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Ok, this site is...confusing. Its hard to decide whether its OOG or IG. By default im assuming its OOG, but I wouldn't be surprised if it turned out to be IG.

Well, anyway lets go through some stuff. The site itself appears not to be a gamejack, no mention of Tagruato or anything cloverfield related, plus if im correct it was made before the mention of 'the cause'.

But then the thing that gets me is the email, and the obscurity of it. Why would the site put in an auto-response email like that? Possibly to gamejack, and also possibly to direct people to their site, more hits.

The way I see it, if it was a Gamjack they would have made it easier to find. But having an auto-response email on Dumbo(a)akaparallax seems very...well...obscure. Its not exactly something obvious, neither is it something that people would check up on, well obviously someone did, but it wasnt exactly a high chance. So it odd, if they wanted to boost hits, or to create a gamejack, surely they would have made something more obvious? Obviously, this isn't proof its IG, but its lends to that theory.

So, its all very confusing. Its also possible that the anti-tagruato group is simply pro-environmental and that Tagruato is one of the companies on their 'hit-list'.

So I label this site PIG (Possibly in Game).


P.S: Its possible the music is made by the Glass Helmets, not much of a connection, but several songs use guitars, as do the Glass helmets. Not a very concrete connection, but a connection none the less.

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Ashmodean wrote:
Hi, I've been lurking around these forums since the teaser came out and I have to say this is now the first place I go for Cloverfield info, you guys are awesome! I wish I knew this site back when I was into ilovebees. Anyway back on topic...


Not to sound condescending but it seems like you guys may not be understanding what parallax means. To put it simply that "20" on the 20 dollar bill that changes colour depending on the angle that you look at it is a perfect example. This is a bit random and could be way off but maybe we should start skewing the image from the hacked Tagruato site? Or maybe even that strange glasshelmets pic.

Just an idea.


That's what I was thinking... If you notice on the website for akaparallax some of the Flags specifically Japan, Great Brittain and the United States of America Have the white parts removed and in it's place it is either yellow or blank (Allowing the yellow background to show through). This is not NORMAL, especially considering they left the other flags intact all of which contain the color white. I think that some of our resident photoshop guru's need to get on it lol Possibly skewing as AShmodean said or even stacking the images on top of one another the gaps may show us something

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W-Three wrote:
Ok, this site is...confusing. Its hard to decide whether its OOG or IG. By default im assuming its OOG, but I wouldn't be surprised if it turned out to be IG.

Well, anyway lets go through some stuff. The site itself appears not to be a gamejack, no mention of Tagruato or anything cloverfield related, plus if im correct it was made before the mention of 'the cause'.

But then the thing that gets me is the email, and the obscurity of it. Why would the site put in an auto-response email like that? Possibly to gamejack, and also possibly to direct people to their site, more hits.

The way I see it, if it was a Gamjack they would have made it easier to find. But having an auto-response email on Dumbo(a)akaparallax seems very...well...obscure. Its not exactly something obvious, neither is it something that people would check up on, well obviously someone did, but it wasnt exactly a high chance. So it odd, if they wanted to boost hits, or to create a gamejack, surely they would have made something more obvious? Obviously, this isn't proof its IG, but its lends to that theory.

So, its all very confusing. Its also possible that the anti-tagruato group is simply pro-environmental and that Tagruato is one of the companies on their 'hit-list'.

So I label this site PIG (Possibly in Game).


P.S: Its possible the music is made by the Glass Helmets, not much of a connection, but several songs use guitars, as do the Glass helmets. Not a very concrete connection, but a connection none the less.


I love it! [PIG] The mods have to ad this to the tags!!!!
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Akaparallax has now 6 flags. They seem to be active now...

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