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SkyLarkin
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Joined: 05 Oct 2010 Posts: 132 Location: WA
Weird, I didn't get an email but they're following me on Twitter.
And I don't post anything on there like ever.
Posted: Tue Dec 28, 2010 10:56 am
cyng
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Joined: 10 Nov 2007 Posts: 366
here is a youtube video that explains the chinese room in an easier to grasp way than wikipedia
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FKS8pC0ROA0
however, i'm not convinced that is what he's talking about: he says he is using the chinese room and that's why you haven't been ferreted out; it really doesn't make sense in this context; how can he be using the Chinese room in that sense??? Unless in reverse: instead of an AI giving the pretense of being sentient, a sentient giving the pretense of being an AI?
as far as typos go: i'm not sure-- he uses hayward incopErated twice, suspansion -- it could relate to the Chinese Room in that it is an AI that doesn't fully grasp language, or a hidden message...however, it could be just a lazy PM (which would make me grrrrr)
A re sal of perpo: fool reappears/fools reappear
an edgar alan poe talks about mimes and seraphs (The Conquering Worm): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ERq6fnRqMQg
here is the text: http://www.eapoe.org/works/poems/cwormj.htm
2cd degree across 10 percent has me really stumped
Posted: Tue Dec 28, 2010 1:26 pm
CarnageBlack
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Joined: 30 Nov 2008 Posts: 548 Location: Chicago
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Bruce is underground right now. The water heater suddenly started acting like the Painted Springs. 2nd Degree across 10 percent.
I think that's reffering to something happening leading to 2nd degree burns across 10% of the body.
Also did a search on "Painted Springs", On the first page it's mainly a paint co, and a farm.
Posted: Tue Dec 28, 2010 1:32 pm
cyng
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ah that makes sense....so perhaps our other messenger is likely bruce?
Posted: Tue Dec 28, 2010 1:34 pm
CarnageBlack
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There is a good chance. I just wish I was getting some of these email.
Posted: Tue Dec 28, 2010 1:38 pm
Mops
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Joined: 24 Feb 2010 Posts: 174
I will be so happy if the Painted Springs alpaca farm is somehow involved here.
CarnageBlack wrote:
There is a good chance. I just wish I was getting some of these email.
You could try emailing them. Worth a shot, I guess.
"A re sal of perpo: fool reappears/fools reappear "
Sort of strange a title for an introduction. A guess "Bruce" doesn't have very good self esteem.
Posted: Tue Dec 28, 2010 1:46 pm
CarnageBlack
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Have you ever known Brucy boy to have any self esteem?
EDIT: I was thinking. I did a search on some of this mess and referring the new movie, Bruce burned may refer to his fight with Dr. Phosphorous, and received radiation burns. Underground may refer to a hospital for the wealthy where Bruce was treated but discovered by Hugo Strange. So now we may POSSIBLY have a story line to go along with. It'd be nice to see Strange again, he was one of, if not the first, reoccurring villain in batman.
Posted: Tue Dec 28, 2010 1:59 pm
Yamato
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Joined: 30 Jul 2007 Posts: 190
i find this unlikely to be related to TDKR as the movie doesn't come out until 2012. the arkham city video game seems a more likely choice (hugo strange was recently revealed as a villain in a trailer for the game), but as of right now i'm very skeptical of this being related to anything involving batman.
Posted: Tue Dec 28, 2010 5:27 pm
CarnageBlack
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Joined: 30 Nov 2008 Posts: 548 Location: Chicago
If that's the case, it'll make a good time killer.
Posted: Tue Dec 28, 2010 6:17 pm
distilled
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Joined: 18 Mar 2010 Posts: 732 Location: Midlands, UK
Yamato wrote:
i find this unlikely to be related to TDKR as the movie doesn't come out until 2012. the arkham city video game seems a more likely choice (hugo strange was recently revealed as a villain in a trailer for the game), but as of right now i'm very skeptical of this being related to anything involving batman.
That would be AWESOME! Although "Hayward Incorporated" not throwing up anything which even exists in the Batman universe would, to me, suggest that this isn't anything to do with Arkham city or the new film.
btw:
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"Bruce pulling a Mysteriou"??
"To: Will R. Knight"
Uh, guys... could this... be... TDKR-ARG?
I know, I know, but it'd be cool...
Will R Knight is just my name, so don't count it as ingame!
Also, whilst I'm here. I got the following email (again red will show whited out words):
Quote:
Information
Edward Glassford <edward_glassford> to will.r.knightSPLAT gmail.com
6:47pm
What's going on? Everything is not what it seems.
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Posted: Tue Dec 28, 2010 6:23 pm
Soleil
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Joined: 03 Oct 2010 Posts: 207
haven't been followed on twitter or anything like that, but I am keepin tabs on this with y'all. (jumpin on the wagon!)
Posted: Tue Dec 28, 2010 6:25 pm
SolDL
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Jumping on the wagon. I wouldn't make any assumptions about this being a Dark Knight thing. The only relevance appears to be a guy named Bruce. It could very easily just be an Evil Dead reboot.
Posted: Tue Dec 28, 2010 6:33 pm
distilled
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SolDL wrote:
Jumping on the wagon. I wouldn't make any assumptions about this being a Dark Knight thing. The only relevance appears to be a guy named Bruce. It could very easily just be an Evil Dead reboot.
I have to agree - I'd think that if this were a Batman (whether it be AC or TDKR) ARG then there would be more to go on, and we would see stuff cropping up which exists in the Batman universe. Plus, my name is not an allusion to the Dark Knight.
Btw, re: the chinese room, I believe that the philosophical idea of the room is exactly what our contact is talking about. "Talking from the Chinese Room" would mean that our contact has little idea what is going on, he is just giving us the information he has interpreted to be relavent - just as the person inside the chinese room does.
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Posted: Tue Dec 28, 2010 6:41 pm
CarnageBlack
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Ignore the Edward account. I sent that from one of my mules. I thought the knight address was the sender info. As for the white text, again, the sender used white text so they may respond to white text.
Posted: Tue Dec 28, 2010 7:27 pm
distilled
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Lol, fail on both our parts I suppose!
I responded to you with white text, Carnage, we could have created our own game together. It would have been beautiful!
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Posted: Tue Dec 28, 2010 7:34 pm
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