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[UPDATE] June 22nd - Sentinel - 2 New Articles

[sledgecallier]

Well, no real surprise at the news of Joya dumping her prospective husband at the alter...

However, slightly confused about the article on "The Lab" and it's reference to the PCAG. They are saying that at 38, Ryman Gardner is getting too old to ever be a contender for the championship, but my understanding was that the games were puzzle based and so age would not be an issue?

[number9dream]

THe continued insistence of older people that 'schooldays are the best days of your life' is evidence enough that mental powers decline as one gets older.....

[DrPiranha]

Pirates?

I assume this is another rowing reference, or sport at least. So they do have non mental activities that are highly regarded.

And possibly pirates too, Yarrrrggghhhh!

[sledgecallier]

Yes, there is evidence for sports in Perplex City. Scarlett is a football fan (although it doesn't qualify whether this is Soccer or something like American Football?) and the Sentinel contains another article about rowing. Still not sure what the professional Wheel season refers to? I'm guessing a non-Earth based sport?

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[cassandra]

Perhaps Joya's secluding herself at the Recon compound

[Leeravitz]

Paranoia alert #398 in a series of 702: Collect 'em all...

I was just thinking, having been suitably intrigued by HitsHerMark's latest puzzle over in the other thread, that the reference to Hearts and Cups in that Sports article is oddly...apposite. A clear indication, OOG, that the PMs *are* assiduously lurking on this board and noting what's being discussed, or just a coincidence?

In other news: I quite like the in - joke that their version of 'reality TV' employs the assorted ranks of theoretical physicists and epidomologists, rather than post - operative transsexuals, gay men who are camper than the proverbial row of tents, and people with IQ's in single figures.

Granted, the theoretical physicist could still be a post - operative transsexual and the epidomologist a camp lesbian, but I think you get the point. I still find it utterly dismaying that a 'super advanced' society like Perplex City has to plug this sort of thing, however.

Wheel turns up quite a lot in Perplex City, but it's hard to know exactly what the hell it actually is - it always strikes me that it seems to have more in common with American type sporting set - ups and thus the league set - ups etc. are more reminiscent of American Football, Baseball and so on than they are of, say, well...anything English, really, but that doesn't take us very far. Wheel is clearly highly popular in Perplexian society (and its popularity *does* give the lie to the idea that they are *only* committed to the life of the mind), and the same goes for whatever 'Pyramid' is (I like to think it's Jenga by another name, but there you go). It's even contributed to the vocabulary of the City - there was a nice moment in the article (many moons back) on Alejo Jackson's arrest when someone was heard to use the metaphor 'he tipped his wheel' as a reference to another guy getting Alejo riled. But, other than that, who the hell knows?

[Mosestrotsky]

I envisaged Wheel as some vast potentially interlocked complex like a clock where players are placed on a variety of ones.

Each are spinning at specific rates whereby the players have to compete to solve puzzles - a sort of Krypton Factor in Motion. If one team completes the puzzle it either makes the other spin faster or connects to other wheels until the end of the game.

Its either that or people on a vahicle of some kind nicknamed wheels zoom around a track with a ball to throw into a net.

Nothing based on any facts - just ideas

[Scott]

i'm thinking the "Wheel" game is something really banal like nascar. in this article sorta paints wheels in a less than perfect light. It's noisy. It's fFairly obnoxious. It attracts lots of people who lots of money almost mindlessly. So I'm picturing something like Drag racing, or people turning left fFor hours on end.

[leakingpen]

triple wheel stadium? three courses, or is the wheel something bigger...

uhh oh. i really dont like where my mind is going.

/think mental gladitorial games...

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[lotusflower]

Re: [UPDATE] June 22nd - Sentinel - 2 New Articles

[Scott]

Re: [UPDATE] June 22nd - Sentinel - 2 New Articles

[Seej]

All the Lab contestants are academics, which implies it's a little more cerebral than, ooooooh, Celebrity Love Island (which was brilliant, incidentally). So yeah, why does being old mean you're less able to take part? In our society someone who's 38 can be perfectly capable of keeping themselves in the sort of shape necessary to kick the ass of a 20 year old all up and down the street. PPC seems to have even better health and medical programs so surely it would be even less of a worry, and since the mental faculties of a person shouldn't really be failing when they're that young I don't see how this is an issue.