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[Gogo]

red herring?

[drpfenderson]

[thebruce]

Re: red herring?

[Atropanocturna]

@drpfenderson
Basically the trailhead is the beginning of the game. It could be a website, an email, or a text message...etc....

Someone posts the trailhead in the news and rumors section of the forums and we all try to figure out if it's a ARG or not. Depending on the scale of the game (the number of players and posts..) the game might warrant being moved to the CF with potential area....that way we don't have to go through pages upon pages of posts to get information about a particular aspect of the game. Some games are small enough to be played entirely in News and Rumors (like Lif3, which just ended). If the game gets even bigger we might even get our own forum for it....

I hope this makes sense....anyone correct me if I am wrong about something. This is just what I have gathered thus far....I have not been around too long myself.

[thebruce]

yep that's about it. fairly streamlined. there may be exceptions, but it's essentially up to the mods/admins to make the final calls, of course. It (typically) takes a large ARG to get its own forum... usually that's when sorting threads into larger categories is helpful, or there are too many threads and it convolutes other games being played out in the CFwith potential forum.

[drpfenderson]

[SubGothius]

PO Boxes

[drpfenderson]

Sorry - last feed post...

This is for the people collecting all the clues who want to keep up easily - and thoroughly. I have spent the last couple hours creating a Yahoo pipe that compiles and tags information from sources all around the net (currently this forum, thebruce's wiki, and Chuck's Twitter page) and outputs it in a simple easy-to-follow format. You can subscribe through RSS, phone, email, etc.

http://feeds.feedburner.com/TimmSuperpipe

I will attempt to update as often as I can with new sources. Suggestions would be awesome.

And as I posted last time: the other, simpler forum-only pipe can be found here:
http://feeds.feedburner.com/TimmUnfictionForumThreads

Hope these help someone. Last time I'll post like this. Sorry to interrupt!

Edit: I updated the feeds as FeedBurner links for redundancy, flexibility, and statistics. ^_^

[Grue]

I'm surpised no one mentioned this famous quote by Voltaire:

"If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him."

Which is exactly what Blackstar did.

[thebruce]

What I love about that is it's not an either or. Even if God exists, some may still feel the need to invent him. or any.
Blackstar invented one anyway

[MochaPixel]

[mikm]

I'm not sure if this has been mentioned yet, but I just saw a commercial on the SciFi channel. It was the words "January 16" (the day the countdown seemingly goes to) on a blank background and the voice of a boy saying "Come on dad, let's get out of here before they find us".

I figure it could be related.

[morningcoffee]

[samspade]

[thebruce]

hmm...

Sundance Film Festival is January 15-25, 2009