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[Wittgenstein]

a friend of mine sent me the sl website before either of us knew it was an arg-ish thing. he just thought i'd like it because i have a great interest in cybersculpture and hypertext poetry.

[kafkaguy]

i discovered silverladder by chance in 2002 and was immediately sucked into the bad scary place which i traversed for years before the current silverladder experience began... i was contacted sometime in i believe late august or september via myspace with a simple note regarding 11/11 and a message of CHANGE IS COMING. after discovering the uF community i've been doing my best to take part in any way i can.

[Wolven Ancestor]

I first heart about Cloverfield, I don't even remember how anymore. I was following the viral marketing and eventually found out about uF. From that point on I was looking through the forums and noticed one of the ARGs called Silverladder. The name intrigued me so I took a look and was pleasantly surprised by the Alice in Wonderland theme. I've been hanging out in IRC ever since.

[scaremongerR]

i first discovered ARGs with "majestic", and after that ended i forgot about ARGs for several years. a couple of years ago i started casually lurking uF, but never found something that was just starting up. i found silverladder by michele's post(which i lurked for a few days at the beginning), and started interacting after a week or so.

[Ashra26]

I'm new here. But I became interested thanks to Numb3rs and an article in Game Informer magazine. Then I found you guys thanks to ARGN. And I became hooked after reading your posts and interactions. Who could not want to be a part of your teamwork and this fun?

[analogwatch]

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[eranmane]

[Clementine]

I feel slightly silly, but I just remember being lazy and reading up on the Halo back-story one night so I could know half of what was happening as the third (and final) game came out. Saw a little thing about 'bees' and it snow-balled from there.

Granted, I'd known about The Beast long before all of this while still in high school (saw those flashing red letters at the end of A.I.'s trailer and just knew somethin' was up). Never pursued it though. Wish I had.

What finally pushed me out the door though is Thomas Pynchon's novel The Crying of Lot 49. It's literally all about an ARG. (random trivia: Radiohead uses the name for their merchandise -- W.A.S.T.E.).

Anyway, I read it for a class and we discussed it. Came to the conclusion that 'the search' our main character goes on is not necessarily about finding a prize at the end, but rather a primal search for knowledge; being a part of something bigger than yourself along with others that may or may not be as intimately involved as they do or do not appear (are they in on it too? and etc.) It's an escape from an everyday-life that she finds to be limiting. Best part was the ending -- we never truly find out if it was all real or not. Maybe she was on drugs, maybe it was a hallucination, maybe it was a personification of the 60s. I just thought it was awesome.

/end long-winded post (I swear I'll break this habit at some point; haha!)

[analogwatch]