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Gnash
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weakandwounded wrote:
The new email doesn't make any sense. If this person's life is on the line, why would they be using an identifiable email address? Why would the protagonist post the message instead of trying to get more information from the sender? Why would the lockbox tape be such an issue? It wasn't any different from the other tapes. And most bothersome, how the heck could the person have heard of DNC?


That email is strange, I'm not sure what to make of it either.

MyDadsTapes did say he has more info he can't post yet so maybe he's trying to get more out of the sender.

The sender seems to know something about how the dad got the tapes.

I wonder if his dad meant for him to see any of the tapes at all, maybe he was never supposed to?

Also the sender says the dad knew DNC. Maybe DNC contacted the dad the same way he's contacting the son? DNC is looking for an apprentice Shocked

PostPosted: Sun Oct 09, 2011 4:30 pm
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Mrfont
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The woman in the winner-winner DNC video is very similar to the one in the photo strip. I downloaded the pic mydadstapes posted to Twitter and then grabbed a frame form the Apple Store/Winner-winner DNC video. Then I did some work in photoshop to overlay various parts of the image. I flipped the Apple Store image because they were looking in different directions. Then I scaled the photos. Note the following similarities from the composite image (attached and noted with overlays in upper left):
1-The distance from the center of the chin, to the shoulder.
2-Distance between the eyes and width of the nose bridge.
3-The lower lip size.

In the lower left you will see a perspective corrected composite image. Where the face from the film strip was placed atop a perspective adjusted screen capture from the DNC video. I've tried to adjust the perspective to correct for her head tilt in the DNC video.
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PostPosted: Sun Oct 09, 2011 11:05 pm
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weakandwounded
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New follow-up email.

If we like the capitalized words then the first email said, "DONT! STOP! UNCLE."
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PostPosted: Sun Oct 09, 2011 11:36 pm
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iceygray
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New tweet from dnc:

Quote:
89≠90 60≠30 29≠60
http://pic.twitter.com/sIfeLfT6



PostPosted: Mon Oct 10, 2011 12:11 am
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weakandwounded
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The picture is considered the confession of The Lipstick Killer, William Heirens.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Heirens

Edit: DNC used "impersonate" instead of "kill," though. The handwriting is beautifully matched.

Edit 2: I emailed him, saying I thought we had solved everything he had given us and this is what he said in reply:

is the world
so self
involved?

With the link http://tinyurl.com/thesimplestoftasks which leads to this:



PostPosted: Mon Oct 10, 2011 12:17 am
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Gnash
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I can't help but feel that the Magic Word has something to do with the number on the lockbox. It's strange to me that DNC chose it as an avatar.


EDIT: Just checked my emails and he sent me a message too. After reading the email he sent to weakandwounded I asked if he had to pick one of the girls because someone had survived some accident in Inglewood.

He said-

some r luckier than others.

There was this link-
http://www.seattlemet.com/assets/0004/5657/bingo_card_chips.jpg?1282515423

PostPosted: Mon Oct 10, 2011 1:53 am
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weakandwounded
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Well when he posted the image and said a fan should decide which girl to kill I tweeted him and said the blonde.

So we're supposed to be trying to find the magic word. I don't know if this is a word that we tweet to him or what. I thought maybe it was a tinyurl. I found tinyurl.com/twoprettyprettys and tinyurl.com/noonewillwin .

DNC said that someone wants to play with him, and that they emailed him the link and picture for tinyurl.com/noonewillwin. In other words DNC didn't create those. He said he didn't sign his last tweet, so I guess we're supposed to assume that anything without his symbol isn't his. Here's his message:

i want
2 play
with him
or her.
amusing
is not it?

i didnot
sign it
on twitt'r

all i did
was solve
it so he
or she
knows i
want 2
PLAY


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I have no idea if this is part of the game or people being idiots and gamejacking or what. But we have been lead to believe that DNC didn't write any of the remailers, and now that his last tweet and the last picture he posted were created by someone else. I don't know if this is standard for ARGs or what, but I'm pretty lost as to what's happening most of the time. And now it seems we should be contacting DNC every time a new message to MyDadsTapes pops up to check if it's really him and part of a puzzle or something. The bottom line is that I think more of you should be emailing DNC. The only reason I get messages and codes and hints and whatnot is because I email him pretty much everyday.


PostPosted: Mon Oct 10, 2011 9:36 am
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votarist
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You are incorrect in your assumptions. You were not the fan.


Your SECRET Pal,
v∞tarist


P.S. I feel it in my bones. You ache to know my name, and so I'll clue you in... But, then, why spoil the game!

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weakandwounded
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You should probably read the TOS, since posting as characters is forbidden, as well as multiple accounts/usernames, and if you really are the PM/behind-the-scenes then this entire thread can be thrown out.

PostPosted: Mon Oct 10, 2011 11:15 am
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iceygray
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THANK YOU WEAKANDWOUNDED!!!!!!

Quote:
votarist wrote:
P.S. I feel it in my bones. You ache to know my name, and so I'll clue you in... But, then, why spoil the game!


Look at this link, it is from a halloween card the zodiac killer sent to police. Uggg ~l:[
http://www.zodiackiller.com/HalloweenCard.html

This game is starting to frustrate me. There is serious game jacking going on and I dunno what to think is facts from the game or not at times since i'm so new to this. So anything signed with the 0 with the / through it is legit right? I have just been emailing back and forth with dnc lately, nothing interesting yet... The zodiac killer stuff is really starting to piss me off, there are tons of similarities and clues pointing to zodiac, but nothing that ever gets anywhere. I don't think zodiac has anything to do with this, dnc is just a poser. Yea, i'm totally calling him out.

PostPosted: Mon Oct 10, 2011 11:21 am
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votarist
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I do not understand why you continue to assume this as an alternative reality game. This is not a game.

Do not be upset it was not you. You are just too dull. You do not have my shine!

Yours,
-v∞tarist

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weakandwounded
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I'm in full agreement with you, Icey. I'm losing interest since things seem to be continuing this way.


votarist wrote:
I do not understand why you continue to assume this as an alternative reality game. This is not a game.


Then why are you posting on a forum dedicated to ARGs? Ridiculous.

PostPosted: Mon Oct 10, 2011 4:10 pm
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Gnash
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I still think it's interesting. I'm just going to ignore the game jackers.


I'm still at a loss with the whole Magic Word thing though. I don;t know if I have enough info and I just can't see it, or I just don't have enough to find it yet. Mad

I have a list of stuff I have no answer for and it keeps getting longer.

PostPosted: Mon Oct 10, 2011 4:37 pm
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iceygray
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mydadstapes just tweeted this,

Quote:
"In response to numerous emails, I am not posting anything outside of YouTube or Twitter.


Thank God. Now I can easily know who to ignore. Let's just use the forum to discuss what we are given, and not be losers and game jack.

weakandwounded, got a noob question for you. When I quote someone, how do I get the bold part to say who is quoting before the body of the paragraph instead of just "Quote"?

PostPosted: Mon Oct 10, 2011 4:39 pm
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Threadbare
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Since this is phpbb, there are two ways that are basically just one. If you're just going to quote a single message from one person, you can use the Quote button directly below each forum post, down and to the right.

One you do this, you can see how this works. If you use the bbtag like [ quote="some guy before me" ] Said this [ /quote ] (no spaces), you can have text quoted by whoever you wish. That extample will give you something like this:

some guy before me wrote:
Said this


Since you can put whatever you want after the "=", it's pretty useful to quote external sources, for instance.

Also, @Mrfont: great work with the image analysis.

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