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[OT] Staying on top of the endgame
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Slam
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[OT] Staying on top of the endgame
ideas for keeping up to date

So I've been stressing out about the endgame.
My worry is that the final reward will be something very wonderful and very limited (like tickets to an early show like The Dark Knight had with their ARG), and that many of us will see the update once it is too late to receive said reward.

I'm curious to how the people here without smart phones stay updated? If there is nothing simple that I am unaware of (which there very easily could be) then I have a suggestion:

I will create and update a list of users' cell phone numbers. each user will be responsible for texting the two or three users ahead of them (two or three to prevent getting screwed because the person before you is at work or something) and letting them know the pertinent information.

Just an idea I had. Please let me know your ideas or methods for staying up to date.
Thanks!
Sam

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Broklynite
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I have a smartphone, but I dunno how people stay updated with it. I subscribe to the RSS feed and check it throughout the day. Sometimes I mis the beginning of the puzzle. Sometimes, it just tells me that there have been 200 posts since I last checked on people just chatting. ::shrugs::

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Gazbot
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I have flynn lives set to my home page so it's the first thing I see in the morning, and then I hit up facebook several times a day. I work form home and so have access to my computer all day. Also Twitter occasionally helps, but I don't check it as much.

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MasterLuke
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i'm on all day at work

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Waterborn2o2p
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shhh, I keep an eye on things from work as well, but don't tell anyone. Wink
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velocity
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Twitter sends me updates, you don't even need a smartphone for it to send you texts, you just have to follow OperationTron for updates from them whenever they releases them. I also pop in here after I finish breakfast and after dinner just to make sure I'm up to date.

I'm also going to switch my homepage to FL, that is a brilliant idea Gazbot.

My question is whether or not there is a way to set up a twitter that all of us can post to so if one of us notices something they could tweet something like "Check FL" or something and then we'd all know.

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OU812
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velocity wrote:
Twitter sends me updates, you don't even need a smartphone for it to send you texts, you just have to follow OperationTron for updates from them whenever they releases them. I also pop in here after I finish breakfast and after dinner just to make sure I'm up to date.

I'm also going to switch my homepage to FL, that is a brilliant idea Gazbot.

My question is whether or not there is a way to set up a twitter that all of us can post to so if one of us notices something they could tweet something like "Check FL" or something and then we'd all know.


I was thinking something similar, but I'm not sure how it would work.

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KevinG472
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I am following Flynn Lives & Operation Tron on twitter, pop into FL.COM a couple times a day, and check into here frequently throughout the day (mainly updating the poster thread). Bad thing is I can't help out much at work, especially when puzzles are flash based. Flash isn't updated on my work computer and I'm not going to ask IT to update it so I can...ummmm.... yeah work LOL

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I'll be doing my best to keep @wikibruce updated for the remaining events, but I'd wager you have a great chance of being almost immediately informed if you track the #flynnlives hash tag. Heck if there's a big final event, expect a live feed akin to the Encom press conference event =).

But, probably the best way would be to subscribe to the "flynnlives"'s twitter RSS feed and check it every few minutes for new tweets in your reader (no need even for a twitter account).
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madopal
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UF also has the ability to be checked as a feed for updates. I check the FL for topics as well as certain threads. Because, honestly, the first thing most of us think to do is post here, so it's pretty much the guaranteed ground zero for any activity unless you stumble upon a FL update yourself.
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rodneyfaile
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It's "Tron Tuesday"
What's up?

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Christien
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I think the Tron Tuesday prize was the video about the vehicles.

His is a link to it via UGO:
http://www.ugo.com/movies/tron-legacy-vehicles-video

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eolith
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madopal wrote:
UF also has the ability to be checked as a feed for updates. I check the FL for topics as well as certain threads. Because, honestly, the first thing most of us think to do is post here, so it's pretty much the guaranteed ground zero for any activity unless you stumble upon a FL update yourself.

the only problem with that is there are lots of posts that aren't actual updates, so it's not that reliable. I just added a flynnlives column on my tweetdeck on my android phone (thanks for the suggestion, bruce, makes me wonder about myself sometimes), and my friend stinji does a good job texting me with updates.

That being said, any chance of an unfiction twitter feed?

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unfiction's last 2 twitter updates were in May and July.
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eolith
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should have looked, but lack of mention here made me think it didn't exist. Followed anyhow.

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