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[EnsO]

[i hate these captchas]

worker power in video

[FadedOasis]

Re: worker power in video

[MrCthulhu2U]

Look Around You

[krystyn]

Those are so awesome. The one about ghosts is especially fantastic. I like the lady screaming in the kitchen. I also like the naughty ghost with the pipette.

[SilentObjector]

Look Around You is FANTASTIC. I love the Sulfur episode and the pilot (Calcium)

[BostonBeats4]

As soon as I saw TIMM I started telling my friends about this video that had a Look Around You feel to it. Glad to see I'm not the only one that made that connection

[atomicthumbs]

Ithought Look Around You was an Adult 斯莫。

Edit:

Adult Swim show. Freakin' IME.

[joshspazjosh]

OKAY so to get this back on topic...

I just wrote an email to four different blogs with a link to the trailhead, explaining our predicament about how the game is at a standstill and it would help if we could get TIMM on Digg or Reddit or get more FB friends for Lipps + Mars, etc. They were websites with audiences that I think would enjoy the video and thus want to help it go viral: BoingBoing, Kottke.org, Fimoculous and Videogum.

Maybe if we tip enough websites to the video with the intention of making it go viral, it can become a reality? I dunno. I guess it depends on the amount of credibility that high- or medium-profile bloggers give to user-submitted tips.

[skkorling]

New video on Synydyne's site

[dposse]

Re: New video on Synydyne's site

[skkorling]

RE: my last post

[bjaardker]

After seeing Synydyne's website now, I get the feeling this was all just a way for them to show what they can do. I think that they are going ahead with the ARG whenever they get around to it, just keeping it barely alive, hoping it goes viral some day. It's really feeling like they're just making it up as they go along and there's no real reason for it all.

Kinda disappointing.

[krystyn]

I am not sure I understand fully what "go viral" means in this case? If it's simply "oh, lots of people will see it and link to it and forward it and we'll all have a good laugh," that just seems weird to me, because it seems like there's more effort and care in this story/universe than that, you know?

"Go viral" just sounds like some weird status symbol that ... earns you a gold medal or something? A 2 minute spot on Letterman's Stupid Human Tricks segment?

I guess maybe I am a sunshiny idealist, but things don't really go viral unless there's someone pulling strings, or the content is really, really good, really accessible, and positioned in such a way to be easily digested and understood within seconds.

The initial video for TIMM is not really any of those things - it takes a bit of time and furrowing of the brow to grasp the absurdity of it all, and community to help everyone get up to speed. And while I love everything I've seen so far, I just don't get the impression that they're waiting on US to make them successful. I think they're just sorta waiting for us to solve a puzzle, honestly.

[joshspazjosh]

Frankly, I agree with you 100% on all of those points, krystyn. Normally I would just be satisfied with the enjoyment that this game has derived for me personally and just move on, but some of these in-game elements (like Mars' and Lipps' Facebook accounts and their "NEED FRIENDS" profile pictures) seem like basic social engineering puzzles that would only be solved if the game achieved a certain level of notoriety / virality. Just suggesting that while the game is at a standstill as we struggle over the penultimate diary entry, maybe we could solve these other loose ends the PMs have thrown us by pushing people towards the video (and Facebook accounts). Again, just a suggestion.