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[Q] Date of Attack
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Lupinicus
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If the temperature was so important, global warming and all that, why didn't it appear in the widget?


If it isn't so important, why did they remove it? As in, why did they feel the need to change it if it didn't matter? If the date of the attack isn't really that important, what's the deal with the temperature?

It's not that I'm really obsessed with the temperature from the teaser. It's that I don't understand why they, in my mind at least, screwed up so badly. I guess I assumed that everything in the teaser was very purposeful.

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Lupinicus wrote:
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If the temperature was so important, global warming and all that, why didn't it appear in the widget?


If it isn't so important, why did they remove it? As in, why did they feel the need to change it if it didn't matter? If the date of the attack isn't really that important, what's the deal with the temperature?

It's not that I'm really obsessed with the temperature from the teaser. It's that I don't understand why they, in my mind at least, screwed up so badly. I guess I assumed that everything in the teaser was very purposeful.


Hate to bring it up, but during the 9/11 coverage did you see the temperature during the news reports?

Generally the temperature's there for a regular newscast. But when they have "breaking news" and have to interrupt regular programming, they're not going to bother with the temperature.

I think the original trailer had it because it was based on a common news report; it didn't have the look of a "special report" or program interruption to begin with.

Question: I'm sure we have some people that have been through it... when an earthquake of high magnitude hits California, assuming you still have power, what happens on TV?

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Nighthawk wrote:
Lupinicus wrote:
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If the temperature was so important, global warming and all that, why didn't it appear in the widget?


If it isn't so important, why did they remove it? As in, why did they feel the need to change it if it didn't matter? If the date of the attack isn't really that important, what's the deal with the temperature?

It's not that I'm really obsessed with the temperature from the teaser. It's that I don't understand why they, in my mind at least, screwed up so badly. I guess I assumed that everything in the teaser was very purposeful.


Hate to bring it up, but during the 9/11 coverage did you see the temperature during the news reports?

Generally the temperature's there for a regular newscast. But when they have "breaking news" and have to interrupt regular programming, they're not going to bother with the temperature.

I think the original trailer had it because it was based on a common news report; it didn't have the look of a "special report" or program interruption to begin with.

Question: I'm sure we have some people that have been through it... when an earthquake of high magnitude hits California, assuming you still have power, what happens on TV?


You have a good point. Again, I was just hoping they thought about all this while creating the teaser. I don't see it as a big leap of thought for the average person to think the movie occurs on 1-18-08, so why didn't they? I thought it was really cool that this ARE/G/whatever was a timeline leading up to the 18th, and I'd go see the movie and feel like this actually happened to New York earlier that day. All this just makes me a bit disappointed.

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Maybe they were trying to tell us that it obviously didn't take place in january by the 63 degree temperature. Instead, we forced the temperature into january and tried to come up with theories for why this would be.

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If the attack happened in say august/september, dont you think it woulda been mentioned in-game?

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TallulahBelle wrote:
If the attack happened in say august/september, dont you think it woulda been mentioned in-game?

How would it have? The only things that point to january are the photos on the site. I still think it should take place on 1-18-08 since the timestamps on the photos present a huge continuity error, but i don't see how it would have been mentioned as being in aug/sep IG.

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Jamie still had to open her gift in December right?

And with other elements of this ARE timing is important (opening dates, deaths, TIDO hack etc.)

So time is relative here, perhaps it does take place in 18th Janurary 2008.

-m0r

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I don't understand why people are so upset about the time stamp thing.

From the beginning, it has been stated by many of us here that there's no way the movie was taking place on 01-18-08. Someone here even gave very reasonable explanations for the issue (can't remember who,)which was brushed under by the louder ones here.

This issue has always been over analyzed and, I can't quite believe it, still is.
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suckaH wrote:
Maybe they were trying to tell us that it obviously didn't take place in january by the 63 degree temperature. Instead, we forced the temperature into january and tried to come up with theories for why this would be.

Except that they took that reference out, so that suggests that the opposite is true. If they had meant to force us into it NOT being in January, I'd expect them to have left that detail in.
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If people are worried about the time stamps and stuff like that then i really dont understand the Picture of the 2 girl's faces on the website. Im preatty sure they did not say "OmG MoNster attack lets take Myspace pics " and turned the camera around and made scared faces. And i dont think Some 1 would get that closed to there faces and take a picture. I think the pictures are just showin parts in the movie to give us some clues.

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First of all this is a silly thread. Secondly i dont think there will be a set date for the attack. I think it is supposed to be in the past at some point, seeing as how they found the tapes and we are watching them now. As in 1-18-08 is teh day the government released teh tapes to teh public. So its like the Blair Witch Project in that regard. Or maybe the opening will simply say. On Oct. 26 2007 A monster attacked new york city. What you are about to watch are the tapes form that evening. These tapes are teh only known video footage of it to exist.

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Euchre wrote:
suckaH wrote:
Maybe they were trying to tell us that it obviously didn't take place in january by the 63 degree temperature. Instead, we forced the temperature into january and tried to come up with theories for why this would be.

Except that they took that reference out, so that suggests that the opposite is true. If they had meant to force us into it NOT being in January, I'd expect them to have left that detail in.

Maybe because boneheads like me kept thinking that it was a type of clue that it was 63 degrees in january. Maybe the viral campaign marketers thought "these people are idiots, just take the temperature reference out and they'll understand on jan. 18 how stupid they were for forcing this date onto the temp."

To anteros, what exactly was your theory? I remember reading about it back in the day (good days those were), but don't remember the entirety of it. I'd be interested to hear it again.

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I think Reeves was misquoted. He seems to spout off more about how the movie was never going to be called '1-18-08'.

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InAFieldofClover wrote:
I think Reeves was misquoted. He seems to spout off more about how the movie was never going to be called '1-18-08'.


Yeah, I was thinking that its going to happen on January 18. Why would they have a bunch of pics and Tagruato and Tidowave all moving towards that date. They are all of sudden just gonna skip ahead.

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StayPuftMarshmallowMan wrote:
InAFieldofClover wrote:
I think Reeves was misquoted. He seems to spout off more about how the movie was never going to be called '1-18-08'.


Yeah, I was thinking that its going to happen on January 18. Why would they have a bunch of pics and Tagruato and Tidowave all moving towards that date. They are all of sudden just gonna skip ahead.


Either he was misquoted or there's going to be a huge continuity error. There's no possible explanation for why this all wouldn't happen on 1-18-08. I could buy into the fact that selected photos were taken of the camera found, but the inscriptions on the back were obviously made by the characters. Hell, on one, Jamie even writes in the top right hand corner of the photo "JANUARY '08".

I'm sticking with the theory that Reeves was misquoted. Another theory I saw was that the whole viral marketing campaign, in terms of the ARG/E, is over and everything's been disregarded. But that can't be it since we're still getting new updates, be it by Tidowave or memos being sent via e-mail. I have a feeling that we'll get a clarification on the quote sooner than later.

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