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[RedHatty]

[konamouse]

I have to agree there. The thrill is in the chase, the puzzle, the little orgasm that occurs when it clicks and the solve hits you in the gut.

Dangling a carrot can make some people get secretive and competative and nasty. Especially when the chances of actually winning something is pretty slim.

So don't go to these "events" expecting to get something for nothing.

Events are the opportunity to interact, to participate *live*, to be part of something big. If you do win something, that is just the sprinkles on the iced cake you got just for being there.

And I'm pretty excited that they are doing this around the globe (and not just CES). Las Vegas is going to be the guinea pig for the followup events - but you never know with 42 - they may change things up as time goes by....especially since there are some places that are on the same day (can Loki really travel around that much?????). I remember Jane & Kiyash had to travel to various Graveyards all over the US but they had a week between each place.

[KingCliff]

Yeah sorry, i guess i worded that rather badly.

I already know there isnt going to be a brand new vista-integrated laptop or anything, i just mean i'll be disapointed if nothing new is figured out through the trip.

I have no problem with spending as much money as is needed to get there and check it out cause i'm rather curious as to what awaits and if there is nothing, then hey i get a weekend to London, i cant complain ^_^

Two 16 yr olds on a trip to London what could be better

Sorry for the previous post, didnt mean to sound spoilt or anything.

[SirQuady]

I am Soooooo going to the Toronto event! Oooo Yeah!!!!!
Finally, a live event in a nearby city of a game i'm actually playing! My dreams hath come trueth! (yayayyay!)

Now we just need to figure out exact times. And search for more keys.

Soapbox is invite only, eh? Anyone want to invite me? Perhaps with more of us looking at Soapbox, we can find such videos. I seem to recall Loki saying that if we got stuck we could just "look for the tag vanishingpoint online". My first thought was Flickr, but maybe Soapbox would be a wiser place to search?

Something else: Now that we know a bit more, it appears to me that http://vanishingpointgame.com/biography/ was written by Loki herself. That would mean that "A certain large corporation" would be Microsoft. Kewl.

[BrianEnigma]

[KingCliff]

Whilst we wait for the next little clue ive taken to trying to solve more of the video.

Loki appears to be packing some sort of magicians outfit.
There are four pocket watches put into a box with what looks like a red screwdriver.
Two paintings are on the wall with what look like numbers on them.
There is the notebook with the math scribbles and stuff on.
A book containing a family tree.

Might aswell use my time creatively so I'm going to try and figure out each of these little quirks that pop out of the movie.

If anyone else has already got any answers on them then please let me know kay?

[MariusOnFire]

Hello everybody. I've been following the topic here and at neowin with the name Accipitridae. One more thing to look for in the video that we noticed: At 00:34 seconds there is a funny pixelation corresponding almost perfectly to the word "timeless." If any of you know anything about video encoding, this might be worth looking into. We don't think it's simply a compression error. Thanks and keep us posted! This is going to take teamwork!

[KingCliff]

Yeah, if unfiction and Neowin are working together then that makes the situation alot easier on both sides.

And as for the video and the pixelation i dont think its an error either...it
just seems to well timed with what she is saying.

Does anyone have any idea how to make something out of it cause even
though i think it was purposeful i have no idea how something can be figured from a fuzzy video image.

[SirQuady]

[labfly]

[KingCliff]

Haha yeah that would be rather comical ^_^

I surely hope it has no link to the movie though, very bad ratings indeed.

[yanka]

[SirQuady]

[KingCliff]

Arg....

The global countdowns are bugging me now....

I've been trying to hunt down any microsoft events happening in the corosponding cities at the countdown times but I cant find them.

This means that the other venues dont follow the same link as the vegas one cause we know there is something going on there.

Could just be my lack of searching skills but if we can link some event to each of these cities then it will make a meeting place easier for each of them.

[RedHatty]

Also look for Acer & AMD events - I think this has more than one company behind it