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[Kerrisis]

Ok. After an initial exchange with Skynet Embedded Network (And ratting you all out; don't look at me like that, I'm British! We're ALWAYS the bad guys! ), the Network asked me for recommendations for targets to terminate. I replied with this:

[jlr1001]

re: Kerrisis



So much for everyone coming to some consensus on how to continue...

Warning... Meta Rant... Meta Rant...

We're working under the assumption that we have to Forrest Gump our way into saying the right thing to one or more of three parties? It always seems as if we always only have one point of entry into interacting with this game... And we ultimately end up bottlenecked.

It's obvious that there's a common link between Skynet, Enitech, and the Resistence. Whether that link is the collective us or someone(thing) else, I can't help but marvel at how all three parties seem to know all the same information... Why, then, are we even part of this conversation?

We're told to warn people who seem to already know the threat, pass false information to an intelligence that knows it's being lied to, and aid a resistence that seems more content with sending emails from the shadows rather than actually *resist*...

Other than our OOG knowledge, we haven't been given a real reason to act. Well, there are the photos, but they could easily be faked... Why hasn't anyone from the resistence gone out of the way to explain, point for point, why we need to stop Skynet?

Also, the "game" hasn't led us to assume that we should cross the line between in-game and oog information.... So, vis-a-vis the classical piece heard in the last episode of SCC (Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata), we have no reason to assume that our knowledge of that episode should be linked, in-game, to happening to hear a piece of classical music in Anna's video...

Why should we assume, at this point, that we're supposed to make that connection?

Okay, enough of a rant (for now).



-jlr1001

[ckuchy]

New blog post

http://enitechlabs.com/blog/?p=117

[Kerrisis]

MWAHAHAHAHA!! Sleep well, JLR1001! Sleep lightly!

I agree though, it is kind of hard to differentiate what we are supposed to know in game and out of game. I think part of that comes from the fact that these forums are strictly OOG. Is all the information we share to be taken as known IG by everyone? If not, how much is known IG? The same with the TV show, like you said. We know everything that's happened so far OOG, but would we know what the Connors and Cameron are doing IG? Saying "John Connor's just broken a resistance fighter out of a prison transport van and vapourized a T-888 with Thermite!" to the SEN seems more than a little wrong.

I get the impression that the various groups seem psychic for ligitimate reasons though. It's been known for a while that the Resistance has been in contact with Enitech, so anything they learn they might have shared. The Resistance knowing (pretty quickly) that there was a fifth columnist in our ranks could be explained by them having alternate ways of monitoring the Skyned Embedded Network. There are explanations for a lot of it if you think about it. It's really just a matter of suspending your disbelief.

[thebruce]

Well considering we got a message "The Turk is not dead" from the Resistance, the happenings of the TV series (which occur in 2007, BTW) are in-game. The Resistance contact also referring to "another" terminator unit, as the first one we knew (in disguise because he had no skin - like Cromartie in the show, but a different T).

And the latest episode showed us that there was a Resistance -team- sent back, most likely who we are conversing with now. To me, the connection seemed much more distinct after this week's episode.



As for recent news, here's the email I sent - just a compilation of what's been discussed, put into a single theory:

[jlr1001]

[enaxor]

[thebruce]

aye, and let lone having an AI communicate via email which isn't even coded the way a machine might do it, but via free email hosting; and communicating by printed binary on a note on a billboard which is one of the easiest things to decode relatively speaking by anything other than T unit... =/ very strange.

Sure, accessibility is important, for fans of the show, but you can only go so far before people just end up going wtf? Players think realistically and expect things consistent with the characters, but we're mainly getting argish content that players have seen time and time again -- at least as it pertains to in-game communication. Enitech itself is a nice entity, as well as the idea of tachyon photos... when the live communication began though, I think it lost a bunch of people.

*shrug*
I'm still enjoying it.
It's like going to a movie that reviews have are really bad, yet come out still having enjoyed it because you lowered your expectations.

It's no Beast, no Sammeeees... though I didn't play either . Sector7 was similar to a degree - not a lot to do, but a lot of stuff fed. Ocular Effect was similar in a way as well, the only puzzles really being the beginning of chapters with the oculus, the rest being interaction and story being fed.

*shrug*
I'm still enjoying it.

[jlr1001]

[celina63]

New SkyNet email:

[MrToasty]

From the Resistance:

[Nighthawk]

No wonder my machine's been acting goofy today... damn you, SkyNet!

Of course, I could throw SkyNet in to a logic loop that would cause it to self-destruct... or worse...

Maybe I caused Judgment Day by confusing SkyNet?

[Nighthawk]

Received:

[RoseKittyEllie]

Nighthawk - Your avatar is soooo very appropriate this very moment.

[thebruce]