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[aphex000]

totally

[Pixiestix]

stop. Slack isn't bad, don't get me wrong, but if you want to play a game HERE, fraking play it HERE. Don't sign up for an account HERE and announce you started something in another platform for us to play on. Just play HERE!
(My views are my own, this was written as a long time unfiction member who doesn't want to leave unfiction,which used to be the ARG hub before the kids took over Reddit, and not as a moderator.)


Also, while I am at it, there seems to be a misconception that swamp pop game jacked in the first place - I'm QUITE sure they have permission to be doing whatever they are doing. It is still a marketing campaign of some sort, so I won't call it a grassroots game, but if there is anything happening at all from them, it isn't a game jack. The game jack is some asshat on Reddit getting shits and giggles out of detailing everything for this town amusement. Just like when someone posted here on unfiction pretending to be the PR person from SP. A game jack is not a cross promotional official campaign just because it isn't by the movie company. Jeezy creazy.....

[catherwood]

(emphasis added by me)

[gimlet]

Sooo... I was looking at Memory Lane again because I don't even know anymore and I noticed that under the arm of the sewing machine there's half a word. That word looks like it *might* be MYSTERY?

Lying on top of the sewing machine is a box or card that says "transistor radio" as well as two floppy disks (yellow and blue).

And listen: I'm VERY aware the puzzle could just be random retro nonsense that I am drawing connections to because thats what the human brain does...

But I also noticed there's mail, a crate of soda and boxes of puzzles collected in the lower lefthand corner. Which makes me think... Maybe this puzzle is called memory lane because when we look back at it, it's spelling out how this arg is going to go down?


If so, we're going to have to make a phone call soon, because Barbie is pointing directly at the Street sign, which is pointing at the Rotary phone.

Also know that I hate myself for being crazy theory guy :/

Edit: Gonna post a link to this itemization of a Wired metagame that ran in an issue guest edited by JJ Abbrams to prove just how obtuse he can be with these things. Might be useful for various reasons.
http://www.wired.com/2009/05/0514_metapuzzle/

Edit 2: The antique Sewing machine is an obscurer make than your average Singer called a "White Family ROTARY". Rotary like the phone or the dial on a Transistor radio. Both of which also appear in that area of the puzzle.

Edit 3: CRAP. Things like Enigma machines use multiple Rotary dials don't they? Rotary's can absolutley be used to encrypt information. Crap crap crap.

Edit 4: Oh, right, Mystery is a synonym for Enigma...

Edit 5: The antique cash register used rotors too! This feels like something!

[Troag Lee]

Jack or no jack?

There is a new biograpy at the QRZCQ site. It says UhG2mER, which when put into imgur leads here: http://imgur.com/UhG2mER

btw. Nice to drop by again after many so years!

EDIT to add text extracted (using http://www.onlineocr.net/) from the image.

Augsburg, 1W. August 2007
Sehr geehrter Hr. Flemingstein,
hiermit bewerbe ich mich auf Ihren Wunsch hin für den Posten als Ingenieurstaucher bei Ihrem Unternehmen. Aufgrund der hohen Sicherheitsvorkehrungen die es verhindern mir mehr über Ihre Firma mitzuteilen werde ich direkt auf meine Passion für das Tauchen eingehen. Schon seit meiner Kindheit war es immer mein Traum, an das Meer zu fahren und mit meinem Vater tauchen zu gehen. Das eine führte zum anderen und schon bald hatte ich meinen ersten Taucherschein. Im Urlaub verbrachte ich mehr Zeit unter Wasser als über. Nach meinem Studium machte ich mein Hobby zum Beruf. Sie wissen sicherlich, dass dieser Job kein großes Einkommen bietet. Dementsprechend wundert es mich sehr, das Sie mir eine solch hohe Summe anbieten. Ich bin bereit, die von Ihnen genannten Risiken einzugehen. Da ich mein Hobby bei Ihnen ausüben kann und dabei, wenn auch außer Landes, meine Familie so versorgen kann wie ich es alleine nie könnte, würde ich sehr gerne Teil ihrer Firma werden. Bitte teilen Sie mir, sofern sie noch Interesse an mir haben, rechtzeitig mit, wann ich das Land verlassen muss. Mir ist bewusst, dass diese Dinge schnell ablaufen. Denoch wäre ich gerne vorbereitet.
Mit fineundlichen Grüßen,
rhard Ploecker

2X Ninja EDIT to add google translation:

Dear Mr. Flemington,
I hereby apply to your request and for the post of engineer diver in your company. Due to the high security measures which prevent me tell more about your company I will come directly to my passion for diving. Since my childhood it was always my dream to go to the sea and diving with my father to go. One thing led to another and pretty soon I had my first diving qualification. On holidays, I spent more time under water than above. After my studies I made my hobby into a profession. You certainly know that this job does not offer great income. Accordingly, I am very surprised that you offer me such a high sum. I am willing to take the risks mentioned by you. Since I can exercise my hobby with you, thereby, albeit out of the country, can provide for my family as I never could alone, I would love to be part of their company. Please let me know if you have any interest in me, in good time, when I have to leave the country. I am aware that these things run fast. Denoch I would have liked to prepare.
With fineundlichen regards,

[catherwood]

[aphex000]

I am playing here

[gramma]

regardless that this is very unusual german regarding syntax and unnecessary usage of accessory sentences......

since when do deepsea / rig divers get a low salary so he is surprised they offer him so much money.....?

this is bullshit

[ljm]

[SquirrelNoises]

Doesn't the ham site trace back to the poster image from the official Cloverfield Twitter account? Therefore how can it be a game-jack? Is it just that there was a lot of text in the poster and someone extracted it and made a fake ham site named after the first line?

[ljm]

[SquirrelNoises]

[ljm]

[gimlet]

Ok something else from Memory Lane (I know I know)

The weird creepy doll next to Howdy Doody?

It's a something called a Cragstan Crapshooter. Its an automaton that shoots dice (it also came in a monkey - Monkee? - model).

It's a Japanese tin toy that was imported in the US in the fifties by a company called Cragstan.

Here's the thing about Cragstan: they also imported Robots. Hundreds of different models of tin robots. If you've seen a tin robot, it was probably imported by Cragstan.

http://www.google.com/images?q=Cragstan+robot

The EXACT SAME robots can be seen BY THE DOZEN in Bad Robots office.

https://www.instagram.com/bad_robot/

In fact, the Bad Robot logo *is* one of these toy robots.

[Ednanight]