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[tc]

Hi

I have been sending e-mails to various different people in Japan and making comments in people's blogs.
One guy in Japan kindly agreed to put a Satoshi add into his blog.

[AndyAndyO]

I've been fascinated by the background to this guy, and by some of the thinking of hunters earlier in this thread.
Does Satoshi realise the extent to which his photo and name are being spread around the world? Did he realise the potential for worldwide recognition when Mind Candy enlisted him for this challenge? Did he initiate the exercise himself? (there doesn't appear to be any puzzle architect) Or is he oblivious to all the fuss?!
Might his particular role in this exercise be linked to his job or background – for instance there are some interesting Satoshi's in the field of sociology. Has he some kind of vested interest in testing the Six Degrees of Separation theory?
Has he gone into hiding to make the exercise harder? Or is he bound to release more clues as we get closer to identifying him? Has he been briefed in any way – like some people suggest he may have an answer – but what if we find him and he has no idea about Mind Candy or Perplex City?
Has anyone thought about maybe pooling our ideas about the Satoshi's it isn't – i.e. people called Satoshi who clearly aren't our man. (Yes, I know there's a lot of them around!)
Maybe some kind of spreadsheet of false leads could be built up. We must have already built up quite a lot of Google hours between us.

[ixalon]

Well I think he's informed about the whole thing. Fiona at MC said in an email that they're "being quite careful about the whole thing." I'm sure they'll have obtained his consent or they'd be in a rather messy legal position if anything happend to him because of this.

[Cabbage]

This is wide spec some of which I posted on another Fred, so I'm sorry for the repetition, but this has been bugging me:

Could Satoshi be in-game? This would solve the "Does he know the scale of what is happening to him?" problem. What with Card 256 being the last card (of the original 256), I have a feeling that it might give it more significance than other cards. Maybe finding Satoshi is key to finding the cube? Of course, knowing my past history of spec I will be wrong so immediately discount this idea.

No wait, just stay with me for a moment. If this were to be right and he is in-game then either:

a) he wants to be found, he may or may not have had input into the cards (e.g. the Find Me message) and should be trying to help us find him if he is at all able and not prevented by some evil powers which would make our job easier

or

b) he does not want to be found in which case he may be on the side of the evil powers and will be actively hiding, covering traces, also (if he is from Perplex City) he probably would not have a past Earth history which is what some of our enquiries have been trying to dig up

or

c) maybe I should get out more.

I don't know if this takes us any further forward. Anyone tried Friends Reunited?

Cabbage

[ixalon]

I'm with you on the 3rd option

When talking to Fiona about the wording on the billion2one site, she said:

[Cabbage]

Okay, okay. It was just like that woman's bra that I once tried on, it was something that I had to get off my chest

Cabbage

[BrianEnigma]

[Cabbage]

You can get them, apparently, for the well-upholstered male (as you well know).

[Ruuku]

BURN!

[Cabbage]

Burn my bra?

Cabbage thinks its time for us to get back on topic. Quick, someone say something intelligent about Satoshi

[Mindez]

[sus]

We're going to be overthinking this aren't we?

I bet Satoshi works in a well known burger and fries outlet

Maybe, in order to solve this, we need an almost completed map. If we're going with the pxc link then maybe there is a clue there. I always wondered what the map was for.

[Agent Lex]

[Curlytek]

[themandotcom]