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RockLobster
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While the group may be closed, you can still try to apply. Now I don't know who did it, but someone confirmed my membership. I'm now a member of the group... so I have a feeling that someone is seill accepting members.

try for yourself?
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While the group may be closed, you can still try to apply. Now I don't know who did it, but someone confirmed my membership. I'm now a member of the group... so I have a feeling that someone is seill accepting members.

try for yourself?


Same here! That makes me very happy, that I can still join the community.

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LouMac
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Looks like Jane McG is behind World Without Oil:

http://www.gamasutra.com/php-bin/news_index.php?story=13182 (check out the end of article)[/list]
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thebruce
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Yip, it was plugged at ARGfest. We have high hopes for this one - lots of support behind it and very experienced PMs. (not a thick curtain though Wink)
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RockLobster
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Very exciting. That last bit of the article really gives you a glimpse into what is important for us to do in the next little while. I'm going to get AIM back onto my computer (something I should have done a long time ago).

Shall we get the ball rolling? the article really elaborates what we're supposed to do with the pre-game. Anybody been talking to characters over the last couple days?
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thebruce
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they seem fairly active on livejournal in the worldwithoutoil community and their respective personal journals:
gala_teah, gracesmominnh, illianaspeedstr, inky_jewel, mpathytest, tx_chuckles, yuckymuck
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coffeegirl18
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karathephantom wrote:
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While the group may be closed, you can still try to apply. Now I don't know who did it, but someone confirmed my membership. I'm now a member of the group... so I have a feeling that someone is seill accepting members.

try for yourself?


Same here! That makes me very happy, that I can still join the community.


Same here, so yep I'm in.
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coffeegirl18
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Mpathytest IM

Just a note to everyone, leave your AIM on when you aren't on the computer. I just received a message at 2am from Mpathytest.


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mPathytest (2:09:45 AM): I'm jealous... I wish I could sleep. but I can't stop thinking about something i saw today. one of the scenarios nico hinted at...

Auto Response from coffeenews18 (2:09:41 AM): Hey I'm off saving the world at the moment..

mPathytest (2:09:58 AM): it's in the current issue of the Atlantic Monthly. http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/200704/primarysources see if it keeps you up at night too...

mPathytest (2:10:04 AM): (I like your away message!)


So yeah that was kind of funny to wake up to this morning...

My away message started with a bit of a reference to Heroes (also playing the 360 game btw) and ended up being a reference to both. I was trying to get a response from on of the characters...

Oh and Mpathy's away message...

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dammit, can't sleep. something i read today... details straight out of one of Nico's scenarios. it's in the current issue of the Atlantic Monthly. http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/200704/primarysources but I think they've got one part wrong. It's not 2014... it's April 30, 2007


So about the same thing but it says the day that the game starts. I haven't had time to read it so would someone try to find the article and what it's about. Some of the info looks like the research papers I have to read and analyse.
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PostPosted: Wed Mar 21, 2007 11:42 am
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thebruce
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From the article:
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Iran's claim that it needs nuclear technology for power plants has always sounded fishy, not least because of the country's vast oil reserves. But a new analysis asks whether Iranian oil might run short sooner than we think. Estimates of Iranian oil exports project a decrease in coming years, and predicted growth in domestic demand for oil, coupled with the rate at which Iran is depleting its reserves, will necessitate an expansion of oil production. That will be difficult, however, since Iran's refineries are outdated and the government doesn't have the money to build new ones. The government subsidizes gasoline so heavily (Iranians pay only $0.34 a gallon) that the state could not hope to profit from costly renovation of its refineries, and its own officials claim it will be cheaper just to import gasoline and leave Iranian oil undisturbed under the earth. Unless Iran's oil sector becomes dramatically more efficient and the government warms to the possibility of exploration and extraction by foreigners, Iran could stop exporting oil as early as 2014—which means that when Iran claims to need nuclear know-how for its own power requirements, it just might be telling the truth.

mpathy's comment seems to be another reference to a world oil shortage on April 30, 2007... Iran would then stop exporting much earlier than 2014 Smile
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Ancheta
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Re: Mpathytest IM

coffeegirl18 wrote:
Just a note to everyone, leave your AIM on when you aren't on the computer. I just received a message at 2am from Mpathytest.


Quote:
mPathytest (2:09:45 AM): I'm jealous... I wish I could sleep. but I can't stop thinking about something i saw today. one of the scenarios nico hinted at...

Auto Response from coffeenews18 (2:09:41 AM): Hey I'm off saving the world at the moment..

mPathytest (2:09:58 AM): it's in the current issue of the Atlantic Monthly. http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/200704/primarysources see if it keeps you up at night too...

mPathytest (2:10:04 AM): (I like your away message!)


So yeah that was kind of funny to wake up to this morning...

My away message started with a bit of a reference to Heroes (also playing the 360 game btw) and ended up being a reference to both. I was trying to get a response from on of the characters...

Oh and Mpathy's away message...

Quote:
dammit, can't sleep. something i read today... details straight out of one of Nico's scenarios. it's in the current issue of the Atlantic Monthly. http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/200704/primarysources but I think they've got one part wrong. It's not 2014... it's April 30, 2007


So about the same thing but it says the day that the game starts. I haven't had time to read it so would someone try to find the article and what it's about. Some of the info looks like the research papers I have to read and analyse.


Yeah, I got that message too.

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shinything
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Oh man, I'm so excited for this!! I do RP at Livejournal, so making a journal for a fake person... old hat for me. Very Happy

I went ahead and made a journal: http://whistle4theboys.livejournal.com and signed up for the community. Let's see if they accept me...

I have a Vox for the same fake-me as well, http://whistlefortheboys.vox.com/profile/ , but I know nothing about Vox so I'll probably be leaning heavy on the eljay.

Just so you know, if a weird bitchy college student named after a Fratellis song friends you on LJ... it's only me. Wink
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coffeegirl18
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shinything wrote:
Oh man, I'm so excited for this!! I do RP at Livejournal, so making a journal for a fake person... old hat for me. Very Happy

I went ahead and made a journal: http://whistle4theboys.livejournal.com and signed up for the community. Let's see if they accept me...

I have a Vox for the same fake-me as well, http://whistlefortheboys.vox.com/profile/ , but I know nothing about Vox so I'll probably be leaning heavy on the eljay.

Just so you know, if a weird bitchy college student named after a Fratellis song friends you on LJ... it's only me. Wink


Yeah I'm super new to VOX too...It's a bit confusing actually. I like lj better. BTW If anyone wants to friend me go ahead...
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WolfHawk
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GAK!

I am SO not on the ball when it comes to blogs et all. I just sort of click around and hope something neat happens.

I think I am on vox as wolfhawk
I think I am on livejournal as mistralwind76 (also my AIM name but I am very rarely on).
Hopefully, I will get some use out of them?

I'm pretty sure I requested some of the IG folks as friends. We'll see.

Looks like this will be good.

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October
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I would LOVE to join in this. I've been reading over the source material uncovered so far, the wiki (nice wiki!) and all the rest.

I like the idea behind the game, too. I'm from Houston, TX, and I volunteered with the Katrina evacuees at the AstroDome and later went through the Rita evacuation (never again). I'll NEVER forget that autumn. I'm looking forward to seeing how the story portrays a sudden non-natural disaster on that sort of scale. I noticed the "remember > Katrina" note on the "Who Will Save Us?" rollover - I'm guessing that was one part of the PMs' inspiration for the plot.

Just a question - is it OK for me to add your (as in, all of you players') AIM/LJs/Voxes in addition to those of the characters? I'm not sure what is "form", since I'm still shiny new to the ARG world. Do you guys usually add each other to your "in-game" journals, and may I do so as well?

I'm on LJ, Vox, and AIM:
LJ: drkstar_october.livejournal.com
VOX: http://octoberdreaming.vox.com/
AIM: octoberdreamling
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coffeegirl18
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October wrote:
I would LOVE to join in this. I've been reading over the source material uncovered so far, the wiki (nice wiki!) and all the rest.

I like the idea behind the game, too. I'm from Houston, TX, and I volunteered with the Katrina evacuees at the AstroDome and later went through the Rita evacuation (never again). I'll NEVER forget that autumn. I'm looking forward to seeing how the story portrays a sudden non-natural disaster on that sort of scale. I noticed the "remember > Katrina" note on the "Who Will Save Us?" rollover - I'm guessing that was one part of the PMs' inspiration for the plot.

Just a question - is it OK for me to add your (as in, all of you players') AIM/LJs/Voxes in addition to those of the characters? I'm not sure what is "form", since I'm still shiny new to the ARG world. Do you guys usually add each other to your "in-game" journals, and may I do so as well?

I'm on LJ, Vox, and AIM:
LJ: drkstar_october.livejournal.com
VOX: http://octoberdreaming.vox.com/
AIM: octoberdreamling


Hey all you do is you can either PM people on here and ask if it's ok if you add them or on lj you can do the same. I'm adding you btw... I don't have an in game journal on lj, I just have my normal journal that I put everything on. Oh and my AIM name is coffeenews18 everything else is coffeegirl18.
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