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[SPEC] What I Think Is Happening In The Game
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The Barmaid
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 		I was just basing it off JJ's previous methods. For Cloverfield, we got the trailer during Transformers and Jason's Slusho tshirt led us to Slusho site and the trailer date led to the promo site all in mid July.

But with Slusho site, there were a couple of odd "typos" but the site didn't do anything and all of it wasn't accessible for a month, then someone noticed "they" had corrected the typos and a couple spots became active. This was about the late middle of August. Then the 1-18 site updated with another photo....so given that, I just figured the similarities for this game were too familiar and if they're using the same general template, it should be mid to late June before anything really kicks up.

I still think there's another way in that we're missing. Just what we got leading to two sites - one of them gave us the 2nd inactive site - we're basically stonewalled. Would they take that risk of player disinterest if that's all they 'intended' to do for months?

I do not believe, given both of their methods that there is just one eruption hitting a wall indefinitely. I think there is a more subtle way in to some other area of this game...another door, another angle, another egg somewhere that we've not discovered. In Cloverfield, we got Slusho and 1-18, but then we *also* got the myspace pages on the characters, the secret Jamie/Teddy site and videos, and then Tagruato and that story.

Just think there's more out there still...



ETA: http://cloverfield.wikia.com/wiki/Viral gives a little refresher on the MO and what they did there. I think they'd handle their 'mistakes' better this round... ;-p Clover fans will recall that Abrams did acknowledge that some of the stuff was found way too fast, he'd underestimated the players considerably, but then later, he acknowledged there was still stuff out there nobody ever found.

I can't believe he would forget the players' ability to root out the most obscure clues and root out more eggs in record time...and I also don't feel he -they would put out something that's not really ready...it'd be too easy to lose control that way. So what IS out is supposed to be out...just think there's something else too.
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The Barmaid wrote:
I was just basing it off JJ's previous methods. For Cloverfield, we got the trailer during Transformers and Jason's Slusho tshirt led us to Slusho site and the trailer date led to the promo site all in mid July.

But with Slusho site, there were a couple of odd "typos" but the site didn't do anything and all of it wasn't accessible for a month, then someone noticed "they" had corrected the typos and a couple spots became active. This was about the late middle of August. Then the 1-18 site updated with another photo....so given that, I just figured the similarities for this game were too familiar and if they're using the same general template, it should be mid to late June before anything really kicks up.

I still think there's another way in that we're missing. Just what we got leading to two sites - one of them gave us the 2nd inactive site - we're basically stonewalled. Would they take that risk of player disinterest if that's all they 'intended' to do for months?

I do not believe, given both of their methods that there is just one eruption hitting a wall indefinitely. I think there is a more subtle way in to some other area of this game...another door, another angle, another egg somewhere that we've not discovered. In Cloverfield, we got Slusho and 1-18, but then we *also* got the myspace pages on the characters, the secret Jamie/Teddy site and videos, and then Tagruato and that story.

Just think there's more out there still...



ETA: http://cloverfield.wikia.com/wiki/Viral gives a little refresher on the MO and what they did there. I think they'd handle their 'mistakes' better this round... ;-p
i didnt play cloverfield nor liked the film so the refreasher ill def check out to see if it helps me but i dont think intrest would be lost if it to a month or more and ive seen it happen in other args but i have no prob believeing there maybe something we are missing or havent got to or found yet but im still sticking with the mail in coupon was the key but eevkeep looking and throwing ideas and hopefully we will find something but i dont mind waiting either as long as its worth it
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 		Re: posted on super 8 news
comadarkvale wrote:
i dunno that this is anything of importance nor if it will help but i did find it interesting
it was posted on super 8 news which alot of what is posted is pure nonsense but again i thought it was interesting

21. SS says:
May 27, 2010 at 6:26 pm
I think I just figured out what the 6 Rocket Poppeteers represent on the newspaper page stand for.

There are five pointing upwards, ready to launch, or flying around out there. Within that same space in the advertisement, it mentions that there are Six of them.

There is a sixth Rocket Poppeteer on the page. This one is laying sideways, as if landed, or more appropriately, crashed. Another interesting tidbit is that this crashed Rocket Poppeteer is pointing at, or heading into the maze. At the exit is a planet. In a maze, you are searching for a path, or means to your goal. Once the first page is inverted to decode the second, that crashed Rocket Poppeteer is angling upwards, as if ready for launch. The planet is now far overhead.

So we have one of six ships that crashed, and whatever crashed is looking for a way or a means to get back home.

Reminds me a bit of E.T.

Wait a minute, In E.T. there is a child helping the alien to try and get home. Partly the alien working through the child, but hardly with malicious intent in that movie.

In the Rocket Poppeteer logo, the child is holding a Rocket Poppeteer towards some celestial body. A child with what looks like a Grey alien hidden in the back of his shirt. The adult does not have one. And for as much as Captain "Coop" Cooper loves them, he doesn't have one either.

While I'm at it, the advertisement mentions that Coop loves Rocket Poppeteers. His suit also looks odd. Sure, the vertical and horizontal lines make sense, but the double diagonal lines don't seem to make as much sense. They aren't symmetrical.

So I got to thinking, what if they're a map? A series of intersections of roads, and the double diagonal line is a set of railroad tracks. This makes me think that whatever location that map describes, the relative location of the nozzle is of importance.

Another thing to add about Coop, his helmet. The more I look at the reflection in it, the more it looks like the scene reflected in the Super 8 camera lens. This might just be my eyes playing tricks on me, but if that's true, then what we're seeing in the middle of the Super 8 lens is of importance.

So given all of that, I'm throwing another theory out there. My mechanical creature theory earlier doesn't look as appealing. And with the additional Grey references, it may actually be the outlines of Greys that we're seeing in the flashes of the trailer.

My theory starts with what's going on in the trailer. A group of people, one being an astronaut or a potential astronaut, and a few kids, are contacted indirectly by five alien beings (and it is unknown that they are aliens). These aliens are trying to rescue their sixth member, which is now in an unsecured train car being transported. The astronaut, possibly the only one who really knows whats going on, drives his truck into the train to derail it, resulting in his death. One of the group of kids, after seeing the train wreck, picks up a somewhat intact Super 8 camera to film the wreckage while the others help to rescue whoever it is they're supposed to. What those kids see and what that camera captures is the scariest thing they ever saw: the alien creature escaping the train wreckage.

Next we fast forward a few decades to when the actual movie happens. The kids have all gone underground, being hunted by the government for the film they may not even have anymore. Or it could even be the aliens hunting the now adult kids, wanting their existence to be shrouded in secrecy.

Knowing JJ and Steve, the aliens will be seen very little in the actual movie, and yet influence events directly or indirectly. Cloverfield had the whole movie taking place during a giant monster attack, though only showed the monster a few times. Lost managed to hook people with thousands of mysteries and questions, giving few answers until further on. Both Jaws and Close Encounters took the same approach, with Bruce barely being seen (yet causing so much tension), and the alien ships and aliens themselves being only fully revealed at the end.

Slightly unrelated, but it almost looks like there is a ray shooting out of the adult's finger at the moon in the Rocket Popetteers logo. Strange. Plus, it almost looks like the glow surrounding the moon edge is actually something behind the moon


what do you guys think?


I like it! Very well thought out.

But if these aren't Aliens then I'll..............Well I don't know as of yet what I will do but they sure as heck look like Aliens to me.



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 		Step away from the repeat button ;-p

UF should look into this blanking out business on hitting post. It's getting frustrating.

I fixed the dupes - E
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The Barmaid wrote:
Step away from the repeat button ;-p

UF should look into this blanking out business on hitting post. It's getting frustrating.
ah dont stress the small stuff Smile they look like aliens to me
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 		OOPS! Shocked

Sorry, Embarassed

*Note to self, post comment, click submit, wait for blank white page, back out*

Didn't know UF was acting up. Thought it was my PC.

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Headman wrote:
OOPS! Shocked

Sorry, Embarassed
no worries now on to the important stuff lets say they are alien images hidden in there what are we suppose to b finding in there with them if anything at all
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Headman wrote:
OOPS! Shocked

Sorry, Embarassed

*Note to self, post comment, click submit, wait for blank white page, back out*

Didn't know UF was acting up. Thought it was my PC.
mine did it for about a week then stopped yest working great now but others are still having the issue
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 		For what it's worth, the alien on the shirt and the lens pics looks like the Greys to me.
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The Barmaid wrote:
For what it's worth, the alien on the shirt and the lens pics looks like the Greys to me.
yes i agree with greys as well but some ufo theorys is the greys work for the draco or reptilion race (its where the V ideas stem from) and reptilion race are hidden on earth after a great war and control us and are gov (g w bush was thought to be one lol by some) some greys rupposedly work at underground dulche base with our gov . not my theories but honest beliefs of some so who know what ideas could be used in this film but everything so far looks lile greys to me
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 		Lost But Not Forgotten
I nominate this as the official Super8 Song

Too bad I can't find a copy of the audio anymore...it was a fun song...

ETA:

Here's the link after all, thanks to drizjr who got it off the wayback machine - so adding it here, via tinyurl so it would post. It's the direct .ra (real media) audio...and I officially nominate this one as our (resurrected) Super 8 anthem ;-p

Quote:
The Ballad of the Greys Lyrics
------------------------------

Please Lord if I'm abducted, don't let it be the Greys,
the short little guys with the big black eyes from a galaxy far away;
I've heard the horror stories, being taken in the dead of night,
laid out on a table like a Christmas turkey,
I'm afraid I'd die from fright.

They can paralyze you with their eyes and levitate you out of bed,
pull you right up through the ceiling and start messing with your head;
Now if they would just stop at that I wouldn't mind too much,
but I've heard they'll probe you up and down and you won't like
where they touch.

The witnesses say they're a humorous bunch and by that I'm quite
surprised, do they watch all the reruns of I Love Lucy and
The Best of Saturday Night Live?
I don't wanna be a live experiment; father children in a place unknown,
but they'll splice your genes and make grotesque things;
leave my tadpole guys alone.

Please Lord if I'm abducted, don't let it be the greys,
the short little guys with the big black eyes from a galaxy far away;
I've heard the horror stories, being taken in the dead of night,
laid out on a table like a Christmas turkey,
I'm afraid I'd die from fright.

When Eisenhower signed the treaty, he never thought they'd stay,
maybe hang around long enough to mutilate some cattle and they'd
be on their way;
We built them underground bases and they're feelin' right at home,
like that Dreamland in Nevada where the antelope and aliens roam.
And Art Bell knows what's going on, they probably give him rides for free; for
all we know he's one of them, that's why he's on radio... and not ... TV....
(think about it).

Please Lord if I'm abducted, don't let it be the greys,
the short little guys with the big black eyes from a galaxy far away;
I've heard the horror stories, being taken in the dead of night,
laid out on a table like a Christmas turkey,
I'm afraid I'd die from fright.
Laid out on a table like a Christmas turkey, don't let me die tonight!

...(nanoo-nanoo my foot!)


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 		Re: Lost But Not Forgotten
The Barmaid wrote:
I nominate this as the official Super8 Song

Too bad I can't find a copy of the audio anymore...it was a fun song...


Quote:
The Ballad of the Greys Lyrics
------------------------------

Please Lord if I'm abducted, don't let it be the Greys,
the short little guys with the big black eyes from a galaxy far away;
I've heard the horror stories, being taken in the dead of night,
laid out on a table like a Christmas turkey,
I'm afraid I'd die from fright.

They can paralyze you with their eyes and levitate you out of bed,
pull you right up through the ceiling and start messing with your head;
Now if they would just stop at that I wouldn't mind too much,
but I've heard they'll probe you up and down and you won't like
where they touch.

The witnesses say they're a humorous bunch and by that I'm quite
surprised, do they watch all the reruns of I Love Lucy and
The Best of Saturday Night Live?
I don't wanna be a live experiment; father children in a place unknown,
but they'll splice your genes and make grotesque things;
leave my tadpole guys alone.

Please Lord if I'm abducted, don't let it be the greys,
the short little guys with the big black eyes from a galaxy far away;
I've heard the horror stories, being taken in the dead of night,
laid out on a table like a Christmas turkey,
I'm afraid I'd die from fright.

When Eisenhower signed the treaty, he never thought they'd stay,
maybe hang around long enough to mutilate some cattle and they'd
be on their way;
We built them underground bases and they're feelin' right at home,
like that Dreamland in Nevada where the antelope and aliens roam.
And Art Bell knows what's going on, they probably give him rides for free; for
all we know he's one of them, that's why he's on radio... and not ... TV....
(think about it).

Please Lord if I'm abducted, don't let it be the greys,
the short little guys with the big black eyes from a galaxy far away;
I've heard the horror stories, being taken in the dead of night,
laid out on a table like a Christmas turkey,
I'm afraid I'd die from fright.
Laid out on a table like a Christmas turkey, don't let me die tonight!

...(nanoo-nanoo my foot!)

never heard of it
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 		Heh, you can find that song for downloading at this archived site:
http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.mufor.org/audio/ballad.ra
(You'll have to copy & paste the link. I guess the forum's php doesn't recognize the asterisk.)
Once on the internets, always on the internets... huh? It makes me want to be more thoughtful about what I post.
I didn't scan this funny song before listening, but you all might want to do that just to be safe. It played fine for me on "Real Player". Enjoy it!

And just to be on topic, I think that not enough is going on in this game when there's a player digging in the archives for an old UFO song. Very Happy

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drizjr wrote:
Heh, you can find that song for downloading at this archived site:
http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.mufor.org/audio/ballad.ra
(You'll have to copy & paste the link. I guess the forum's php doesn't recognize the asterisk.)
Once on the internets, always on the internets... huh? It makes me want to be more thoughtful about what I post.
I didn't scan this funny song before listening, but you all might want to do that just to be safe. It played fine for me on "Real Player". Enjoy it!

And just to be on topic, I think that not enough is going on in this game when there's a player digging in the archives for an old UFO song. Very Happy
lol
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 		@drizjr

You totally rule....

I looked for awhile - never even thought about the way back machine...I thought it was gone forever ;-p Thanks for the link!

Just added the link to the original post...
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