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[TRAILHEAD] Martin Aggett is a Liar

[sakai23]

So i'm delving into this already.
Found a few things, First off his phone #.

[Caseys_Mom]

Martin's links

[diszaster]

Wow, I want to post, but it's really hard setting the collective hive-mind on someone I consider a friend....

[sheridan]

I'm a freelance photographer, so I think I'm going to initiate conversation with him about that. Could be interesting...

Edit - I've friended Martin on FB, and commented on one of his pics. He has also commented on a status message I have up saying that I am going to go shoot some photos this weekend. He asked me to post some when I can. We'll see where it leads from here.

[Caseys_Mom]

Since Martin is a "fictional" character, I thought I'd post here that I received a free gift in the mail from him. It was because I had signed the privacy policy thing when it was first made available. He sent me a nice mouse pad. I got it in the mail Saturday.
I didn't see anything unusual about it. It was ordered from Funnel Productions Cafe' Press stuff, and had the Sticky Itcher's logo on it. But since Martin is an arg character, thought I'd post a pic of it.

[Ziola]

Hmmmm....here's my problem with Martin. I haven't been involved in "his" game and due to time issues most likely will not, but it bothers me that this character plays other games. Puts a bad taste in my mouth and makes me wonder about any interaction that he and I might have. Does that make sense? I'm not trying to be a jerk, it just rubs me the wrong way

[Pixiestix]

[diszaster]

Since I got no issues here, had dinner with Martin Aggett last night in DC and had a great time. He looks and talks just like he does on that thar tv.

Well, actually, because of the show, I thought he would be enormously tall (like 6'5"+), but no, he's normal-sized.

Some random info:

-- before going freelance, Martin used to do photos at a Baltimore newspaper. he didn't like it cause he was low on the totem pole. you know, sent out every year to photograph the kids sledding down federal hill in the snow.

-- Martin will be traveling to Hawaii in November to photograph surfers. I think there's another trip to DC sometime in November too.

-- did you know there are about 100 of these QR codes "out in the world" right now?

-- Martin does not like bananas OR plantains. He likes sugary drinks. For some ungodly reason, he got a strawberry fanta at dinner. i didn't even know such a thing existed. Martin does not do spicy food.

We talked games (incl. the games we're both playing), technology, random stuff, like normal real people. No alien overlords popped out of his head, and everything was totally cool. I would totally do this again.

[Ziola]

[Caseys_Mom]

Any actual "clues" yet?

[thebruce]

It's a very interesting dynamic set up here... it's like it's a challenge to people to not see every little thing as a game, which it feels like anything mentioned here at UF has now become. It's almost considering backstory to a character just that - backstory, filler, character development - not clues or puzzles or game content itself. A lot of that might get thrown by the wayside, forgotten in the future. here, I think with MA, our challenge really is to begin to feel as though he's a real person, with a real life. If and when the 'game' begins, it certainly may be hard to distinguish from his 'real' life, at first at least.
Now I'm not saying this is good or bad, but it seems to me that the whole intent of this is really, truly 'blur the lines', as it were. As a result, he's had to overtly have Martin and RemixFiction recognize their fictional nature, but at the same time, he really and truly exists in our reality (as far as actions and events go, even if the name isn't real).

Clearly that's where the tension rises, because he's then asking people to develop real relationships and friendship with him, allthewhile recognizing that he's not real. I don't think everything should be considered 'game' as much as it should just be considered Martin.

Maybe it's like he's creating an LG15 v2 or something. LG15 was a character who for all intents and purposes was real, blogged about life, and not everything was a game..just..interesting. (ymmv). Here, Martin effectively is a real person, a character coming out of the screen and sharing our world.
So, while his life isn't a game, his life is the game. =P

It would be far too much work to track and log every single thing he does and says, but sure, something might happen or hint at some bigger event that only a couple of much closer friends may notice; and I think that's the intent, as opposed to basically announcing to the public "hey community, there's a game puzzle happening right here!" If his intent is to be a relational character, then I'd think whatever happens will be geared to those relationships. A different kind of player.

So yeah, I don't think we need to "watch" per se for clues and puzzles and whatnot, but we'll see whatever happens play out in his life, and our involvement will be proportional to the relation we have with him. Stressing about every little thing I think will just make us more upset about it =). And who knows, it may turn out that no one ends up caring about him, otoh it could turn into another fanatic LG15-type following. heh

For now, I think the best thing is just to treat him like any other person. Let the character develop. He's not asking to be probed, he's asking to be friended.

love it, hate it - YMMV

[diszaster]

[sakai23]

Martin and I have had conversations on Facebook. He's nice, for a character. He told me about himself a little and we talked about ARGs along with Remix Fiction.
Just thought I'd throw that out there. I should've saved the convo...

[Nighthawk]