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[OOG/GAMEJACK] MAJOR FIND?!
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bnkr
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[OOG/GAMEJACK] MAJOR FIND?!

I might have stumbled across something.

Youtubed "Rocket Poppeteers". Comes up with this video titled "Rocket poppeteers" and added APRIL 19th 2010 - WELL before we knew anything of rocket poppeteers. The guy who added these is "GVYRUS"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jm5bDnWvqro

Now i checked out this guy's other videos.

One is the original slusho commercial:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7y4MMoEAIfE

Another is a video with a rocket like we see in the Poppeteers' logo as well as a moon in the same phase:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vlrPGLoSsko

Another is a video like the above with a different rocket like thing:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0zcf8CJ9HxM

Both the rocket videos were added on May 16th - when we found Rocket Poppeteers stuff?

FURTHER: at the end of the rocket poppeteers video, we get a link to

http://www.les50ansdugeantvert.fr/

A site about the "giant green" in French. Confusing at the moment, but maybe this is the next clue?

Miscellaneous: OVNI is Objet Volant Non-Identifié - UFO in French.
ALSO: the tags for the first video include "JJ ABRAMS" and "SPIELBERG" and other relevant stuff.

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EDIT:

It looks like this guy changed the title of the video to rocket poppeteers confuse us all, the original video was titled "Ho Perché - Le HoHoHo le plus nombreux"

/edit: tagged the title -ndemeter

PostPosted: Sat May 22, 2010 9:52 am
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mkiehn20
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Well, that link is to the Green Giant brand...definitely OOG.

But the rest? Who knows.

PostPosted: Sat May 22, 2010 10:00 am
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James M
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The video with the rocket and moon
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vlrPGLoSsko)
is the same moon, but mirrored.

Also, Green Giant is a food company:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green_Giant

PostPosted: Sat May 22, 2010 10:01 am
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bnkr
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mkiehn20 wrote:
Well, that link is to the Green Giant brand...definitely OOG.

But the rest? Who knows.


I'm pretty sure it's the next step.

http://www.geantvert.fr/saga-geantvert.aspx

Look there - there is something about the first film publication/advertisement on tv in 1979 - that year rings a bell...

I hope this does not mean there is a "green giant" aka the Hulk in the train.

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count cupid
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Looks like he made the video for some kind of contest for Green Giant. Also, even though the vid may have been uploaded on that day, I'm pretty sure you can change the title of your videos at anytime. Good eye though.

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bnkr
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count cupid wrote:
Looks like he made the video for some kind of contest for Green Giant. Also, even though the vid may have been uploaded on that day, I'm pretty sure you can change the title of your videos at anytime. Good eye though.


Yeah that seems to be the case. I googled one of the persons named in the description and that leads to various videos titled "Ho Perché - Le HoHoHo le plus nombreux".

It seems those rocket videos were coincidentally? added on the same date, and he added the slusho originally to confuse us?

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bnkr
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I believe this movie is about the incredible Hulk.

"In The Science of Superheroes, Gresh and Weinberg see the Hulk as a reaction to the Cold War [6] and the threat of nuclear attack, an interpretation shared by Weinstein in Up, Up and Oy Vey."

from wikipedia. This explains the strength of the creature and the jfk speech in the newspaper.

PostPosted: Sat May 22, 2010 10:36 am
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YouTube video titles can be changed basically whenever you want. Considering the rest of his videos were uploaded following our date of discovery for the RP site (May 13) I'd say the poster just changed things to try to mislead us into thinking this is IG.

Basically, this is just another gamejack.
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Yes, this seems to be a gamejack:
never ever would a PM place in his ARG a parts from another ARG, even if they are working for the same Producer.

But the idea about changing videos titles post factum is pretty cool (why I haven't thought about it earlier?..)

/going away with subversive PM ideas
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kosmopol wrote:

never ever would a PM place in his ARG a parts from another ARG, even if they are working for the same Producer.


That's not entirely true. Adam Brackin teaches his students at ArgLabs a Circular Model of ARG Development in which "Adjacent ARGs" share game elements and even characters. He even envisions "ARG clusters" and "Inclusive ARGs" which quite frankly make my head want to aspolde.

But I agree that this is not that and is most likely a gamejack. One of the first of many I suspect.

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kosmopol
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@vapor
Oh, that sounds awesome and scary in the same time. I'll check out the scripts, thank you for sharing.

P.S. Actually, I know I was wrong saying this. I was for example using a character of one ARG I'd played in an ARG I've made. And after it, PM of the ARG whose character I was using in my ARG, made a third ARG together with me, with many elements of our both ARGs. I should re-act my memory Smile
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