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RasGold
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Joined: 01 Mar 2010
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Location: Austin, TX, U.S.A.

Re: PRAGMA?
(Possibly OOG sites)

TrueJournals wrote:

RasGold wrote:

*****The only reason I posted these sites was due to the fact I could not locate any information on whether they are real companies or not.*****

I'm 100% sure these are out of game. Just check the WHOIS for both of them:
http://whois.domaintools.com/pragma.jp
http://whois.domaintools.com/pragma.org

Both of them completely different from the other known in-game domains. Both also registered WAY before the start of the game.

THanX! ...

I forgot totally about whois!

EDIT

But, I'm still wondering when (and if) the "description" was changed to "pragma" on the STIES site.

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Posted: Mon Jul 05, 2010 11:47 am

slusho
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Note

I still think there is more to this,as the water ripple photo is bent at the corner so you can see the writing better....I say better but I have no idea

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Posted: Mon Jul 05, 2010 4:44 pm

Headman
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Re: Note

slusho wrote:

I still think there is more to this,as the water ripple photo is bent at the corner so you can see the writing better....I say better but I have no idea

I do too, just not sure if it's the pic or the inventory list. The items listed look to me like:

Cream Flower Dress
White Swan
Red Sled

But like Slinkydge said:

Quote:

but it's not a white swan, it's blue.

It didn't even hit me until he pointed it out. Do my eyes only see the words as White Swan, Red Sled, etc because thats what my brain is telling it to see? Or is that what it really says and is intentionally there to point us in another direction? Why list White Swan when it's clearly Blue? And why is WHITE the only word in all caps?

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Posted: Mon Jul 05, 2010 6:01 pm

kobrosti
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Posts: 90
Location: Belgium

Re: PRAGMA?
(Possibly OOG sites)

RasGold wrote:

On the STIES "page info" the word "pragma" is listed under "general."

I've read STIES everywhere on this forum, and I still don't know what it means, can you guys help me pwlies? Embarassed

RasGold wrote:

http://pragma.jp/
http://pragma.org/

if you want to be sure,
number of pragma.jp = TEL ：03-5333-4546
couldnt find a number of pragma.org

;O

Posted: Mon Jul 05, 2010 7:17 pm

multipsychoapopheniosis
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Re: PRAGMA?
(Possibly OOG sites)

kobrosti wrote:

I've read STIES everywhere on this forum, and I still don't know what it means, can you guys help me pwlies? Embarassed

ScariestThingIEverSaw Wink

Posted: Mon Jul 05, 2010 7:36 pm

morrison42zero
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Re: Note
White? swan

Headman wrote:

Well, if the list does say "WHITE" swan, and I think it does, then here is your white swan. Blues invert to near white. Doing this to the images does make it easier to make out the writing. Not that I think its really necessary info for the game, though. Especially after wasting some time trying to make ABC or 123 appear by over lapping the images and so on. No go on that idea.

Posted: Mon Jul 05, 2010 8:16 pm

RasGold
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Location: Austin, TX, U.S.A.

Re: PRAGMA?
(Possibly OOG sites)

kobrosti wrote:

I've read STIES everywhere on this forum, and I still don't know what it means, can you guys help me pwlies? Embarassed

...

if you want to be sure,
number of pragma.jp = TEL ：03-5333-4546
couldnt find a number of pragma.org
;O

STIES ... Is: TheScariestThingIEverSaw
http://www.scariestthingieversaw.com/

I called the number and only get a message in Japanese.

Waiting for a response from my translator friend.

I'm still wondering why "description" changed to "pragma" on the STIES site!

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Posted: Mon Jul 05, 2010 8:18 pm

kobrosti
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Re: PRAGMA?
(Possibly OOG sites)

multipsychoapopheniosis wrote:

kobrosti wrote:

I've read STIES everywhere on this forum, and I still don't know what it means, can you guys help me pwlies? Embarassed

ScariestThingIEverSaw Wink

RasGold wrote:

STIES ... Is: TheScariestThingIEverSaw

omg, that i diddent notice that
Thx

Posted: Mon Jul 05, 2010 9:44 pm

TrueJournals
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Joined: 30 May 2010
Posts: 43

Re: PRAGMA?
(Possibly OOG sites)

RasGold wrote:

I'm still wondering why "description" changed to "pragma" on the STIES site!

I just decided to actually investigate this to see what you were talking about. I assume you're using Firefox, so you're looking at this:

I never looked at the page info for STIES before, but I'm assuming it used to list "description" instead of "pragma". Being a hobbyist web developer... let me attempt to explain what's going on.

What you're looking at is HTML "meta" data. This gives information to your browser about what's contained on the page and what to do with its contents. There used to be a "description" entry -- an entry that would briefly describe the contents of the page. This is often used by search engines. Ex, the little blurb from the page that Google shows might be the HTML meta description.

However, it seems that the webmaster of STIES has removed the meta description from the page. Why? Who knows. Probably because they realized that we already figured out what the site was, so it doesn't need a description anymore. It's also quite possible that it was just a mistake.

Now, we see the HTML meta data "pragma" which contains "no-cache". This simply tells your browser that it shouldn't store the page locally. In other words, it's a page that could be updated often, so your browser should check if it's updated every time the page loads. This makes sense -- they're going to update the SWF we're seeing, so they need to make sure we have the latest one, or we'll never find anything.

I hope that makes sense to everyone. I guarantee you this is no sort of clue or anything. It's simply a webmaster shifting some code around to make a page work differently.

Posted: Tue Jul 06, 2010 1:38 am

Xeno Lambrose
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Posts: 668

Headman, I noticed your comments referring to the list before being items Josh is selling. Seems like you also mentioned in an earlier post the numbers following the items.

The cursive is not clear enough for me to say one way or the other what words are there--I can see how you'd think they say as you've noted, but how do the number tie in.

And I don't know if you caught my earlier post re: the major differences with the clock posting on craigslist or not, but they seem just as, if not more so, than the all capitalized word, thought to be WHITE.

What say you?

Posted: Tue Jul 06, 2010 2:19 am

vapor
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Location: Dallas, TX ya'll

Re: PRAGMA?
(Possibly OOG sites)

TrueJournals wrote:

I hope that makes sense to everyone. I guarantee you this is no sort of clue or anything. It's simply a webmaster shifting some code around to make a page work differently.

The webmaster did just that on May 7th when STIES was still in countdown mode. Although I think the update included other methods of keeping users in sync with the STIES server, this change to the meta data may have been a part of that same update.

Posted: Tue Jul 06, 2010 2:30 am

Headman
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Xeno Lambrose wrote:

I find the time on the clock and the note on the cork board too odd to be in the pictures and it not mean anything. It's just subtle enough to be a hidden clue with all the attention on the items for sale as a distraction. I must admit that if the writing on the note paper or time on the clock isn't a clue then they sure missed an opportunity. With that said the photo's did in a way lead us to Josh Minker and HookLineAndMinker.com so they may have fulfilled their purpose. Maybe they were the distractions? Then again maybe not. I know I will continue to look over them while we are awaiting for something new to come up. Here are some close-ups if anyone else has any ideas.

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Posted: Tue Jul 06, 2010 3:43 am

ssx3master
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Location: New Jersey

Headman wrote:

I'd like to point out that the numbers next to the words on the white note clearly are a circled 5, 6, and 7. However, it would seem that we only have links to 6 CL postings. There might be another posting we haven't found yet? Or maybe the missing item is the "damned thing"? Thoughts?

Posted: Tue Jul 06, 2010 3:58 am

naptownbabi
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Clock
reflection in the clock

Was just looking at the clock n the pic above and the reflection to me looks like a Fish tank with it's lights on. Ive read through most of the threads b4 but this coulda probably been seen by someone else and i didn't notice their post. but jus puttin my info in after followin the threads for a while.

so yea clock reflection looks like fist tank with its lights on

Posted: Tue Jul 06, 2010 6:01 am

slusho
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Posts: 22
Location: U.K

ssx3master wrote:

Headman wrote:

Ofcourse! its a 5! ive been seeing an uncircled 6! but if you look at it as if someone has tried to circle it,its a 5.
Could it be:
Green flower/floral dress-5
WHITE swan (I know its not white)-6
Red sled-7

So we have green-5,WHITE-6,red-7

I have no idea what this means......anyone ?

Posted: Tue Jul 06, 2010 8:26 am

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