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ramiles
Unfettered
Joined: 28 Aug 2003 Posts: 362 Location: Chicago
You Know If You're an ARG player!! You Know If You're an ARG Player if:
1. You're constantly checking your email, to see if a in game character contacted you.
2. You use your cell phone as the contact number, and you leave it on all night expecting that 1am threating call.
3. You create your own ARG game just to kill time till a new ARG comes out
4. You get bored and IM in game characters through Yahoo or AIM.
5. You get excited when you get a IM or Email from the game and stop talking to your friends online to converse with the in game character.
6. You still have the Majestic Interface installed and talk with you character or people you met while playing
OK guys lets see what else we can add to this list and how long we can keep it going
_________________The TRUTH lies beneath the LIES
The Consparicy Theorist
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Posted: Thu Aug 28, 2003 3:26 pm
Varin
I Have No Life
Joined: 02 Dec 2002 Posts: 2456 Location: South of where I used to be
you can still chat with the majestic software?!?
7. Your significant other complains that you spend more time talking with the game characters than with them.
8. You rearrange real life plans so they don't conflict with ingame events.
9. You drive 3 hours one way to pick up an ingame artifact.
_________________"I still miss him to this day and probably always will." - Todd Keeler, Chasing the Wish
"meta meta meta, I made you out of play..." ~ j5
Posted: Thu Aug 28, 2003 4:06 pm
bill
Unfettered
Joined: 25 Sep 2002 Posts: 614 Location: Tampa
10. After receiving the same spam 12 times, you finally realize there is, in fact, no puzzle present requiring your attention.
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Bill
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Posted: Thu Aug 28, 2003 4:12 pm
Varin
I Have No Life
Joined: 02 Dec 2002 Posts: 2456 Location: South of where I used to be
11. In your letter to your mean old landlady telling her you are moving out, you hide a special secret message just for her that can be found by taking the first letter of every word and putting them together.
...
...
Or maybe that's just me
_________________"I still miss him to this day and probably always will." - Todd Keeler, Chasing the Wish
"meta meta meta, I made you out of play..." ~ j5
Posted: Thu Aug 28, 2003 4:56 pm
MageSteff
Pretty talky there aintcha, Talky?
Joined: 06 Jun 2003 Posts: 2716 Location: State of Denial
More grist for the mill 12. You imagine your Boss becoming the next missing character in the game.
_________________Magesteff
A small group of thoughtful people could change the world. Indeed, it's the only thing that ever has. - Margaret Mead
Posted: Fri Sep 05, 2003 11:34 pm
terminalskeptik
Unfettered
Joined: 05 Jun 2003 Posts: 351 Location: Onboard the Groovy Purple Derigible
13: While in traffic, you are constantly trying to decypher
license plates, to uncover the governments conspiracy
or maybe thats just me
Posted: Wed Sep 24, 2003 1:36 pm
Simulacra
Veteran
Joined: 17 May 2003 Posts: 123 Location: Down the rabbithole
14. You can't tell the difference between in-game and off-game
15. You find yourself writing a "You know if your a ARG Player if..."-list
_________________The truth is out there, but it's keeping itself well hidden.
Posted: Thu Jan 08, 2004 11:53 pm
cyberjoek
Boot
Joined: 09 Dec 2002 Posts: 17
16. Your the only person you know (besideds other Cloudmakers) who liked A.I.
17. Jennie Salia is on your Chirstmas Card List.
18. You remember a phone number from a game that has been dead and burried for more than six months
19. You watched Push, Nevada
20. You take a magnifier to movie theaters to see things on the posters
-Joe Kavanagh
Posted: Thu Feb 05, 2004 1:41 am
vpisteve
Asshatministrator
Joined: 30 Sep 2002 Posts: 2441 Location: 1987
21. The name "Kendra" still makes your heart go pitter pat.
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Posted: Thu Feb 05, 2004 3:02 am
konamouse
Official uF Dietitian
Joined: 02 Dec 2002 Posts: 8010 Location: My own alternate reality
cyberjoek wrote:
20. You take a magnifier to movie theaters to see things on the posters
-Joe Kavanagh
After watching Paycheck, Dia & I hung through all of the credits, looking for clues (she was convinced there was an ARG potential with this movie). Then in the lobby we were pouring over a publicity cardboard cutout poster - it mentioned a contest and we were hoping it was ARG related (turned out to just "use your Regal Crown card to see the movie and be entered into a drawing" type contest).
_________________
'squeek'
r u a Sammeeeee? I am Forever!
Posted: Thu Feb 05, 2004 12:36 pm
Nursie
Boot
Joined: 05 Nov 2003 Posts: 64 Location: London, UK
cyberjoek wrote:
20. You take a magnifier to movie theaters to see things on the posters
-Joe Kavanagh
When stumbling drunkenly home from the pub you stop and spend half an hour studying the "Matrix Reloaded" posters on the London Underground 'just in case'.
_________________Signatures suck.
Posted: Fri Feb 06, 2004 9:29 am
jamesi
Sentient Being
Joined: 25 Sep 2002 Posts: 2195 Location: Canadia
73. When you've read this thread 34 times, hoping for an update.
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Posted: Fri Feb 06, 2004 9:50 am
MageSteff
Pretty talky there aintcha, Talky?
Joined: 06 Jun 2003 Posts: 2716 Location: State of Denial
25. You find yourself standing at the curb at O'god early going through the trash on the morning the Trash Truck comes, to find that piece of bulk mail that you dismissed and tossed because it looked just like the last one you received not to long ago. A day ago someone commented on how different the contents of the envelope was this time, and wouldn't you know it, within a day five other people had received it too. And you find yourself hoping that it arrived after the last trash truck run, as you dig through the coffee grinds, banana peels, bits of scrap paper, and other unitentifiable goo.
_________________Magesteff
A small group of thoughtful people could change the world. Indeed, it's the only thing that ever has. - Margaret Mead
Posted: Fri Feb 06, 2004 3:11 pm
The Watcher
Unfettered
Joined: 29 Jul 2004 Posts: 493
26. You get so into your character that you use your made-up name in conversation with real people.
Posted: Mon Aug 02, 2004 5:28 pm
Nightmare Tony
Entrenched
Joined: 07 Jun 2004 Posts: 824 Location: Meadowbrook
27. You show the story of where.gif to everyone in sigh, mainly at your work....
_________________For this is the place where dreams and nightmares are birthed and bred
Nightmare Park
Posted: Tue Aug 03, 2004 2:22 am
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