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Erisadvocate
Kilroy
Joined: 28 Jun 2016 Posts: 1
Spectacular Organic Corporation I honestly don't know So somebody mentioned this to me on Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/ARG/comments/4qc3ec/could_this_be_an_arg_weird_ad/
and an email to the company took me to http://spectacularorganiccorp.tk/. I am looking through this site and it looks like an ARG, smells like an Arg, and walks like an ARG. Then I get into the questionnaire and am a bit weirded out by it wanting honest to god medical records. Anybody know anything about this? I am a bit afraid to give some of this information away.
Posted: Tue Jun 28, 2016 8:59 pm
Kaliel
Decorated
Joined: 06 May 2011 Posts: 230
Well for what it's worth I went to check out the site and my work's websense (program that blocks people from getting to fun websites) blocks this as being in a category of 'Elevated Exposure'.
That's defined as
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Elevated Exposure contains sites that camouflage their true nature or identity, or that include elements suggesting latent malign intent.
Granted 'camouflage their true nature' might totally be valid for an ARG. But then I can get to almost any other fake ARG website I've tried, too.
If you already think it's iffy though, I'd be careful.
Posted: Wed Jun 29, 2016 11:43 am
mmhernley
Boot
Joined: 01 Jul 2016 Posts: 19
If you haven't already, I'd revisit the r/ARG thread - seems to look like the big trailhead everyone's talking about/on. Does anyone know if this has a subreddit...? This is the most interested I've been in anything like this lol
Posted: Fri Jul 01, 2016 1:48 am
GuestUser17
Entrenched
Joined: 22 Feb 2011 Posts: 812
Very personal data being requested but I signed up on the mail list for now.
Posted: Fri Jul 01, 2016 4:30 pm
njberry
Entrenched
Joined: 23 Aug 2012 Posts: 778 Location: southampton, england
hmm this is interesting, but can someone point out what has been found etc, i saw somthing about morse code but i can never understand stuff wrote on Reddit, the layout of that place kills me
Posted: Sat Jul 02, 2016 9:01 am
GuestUser17
Entrenched
Joined: 22 Feb 2011 Posts: 812
There is a single frame in the "Why GM Juice?" ad that has this at 0:21 in the top left corner. The morse code is:
... ..- .-. . .-.. -.--
- .... .
... . -.-. --- -. -..
-.-. --- -- .. -. --.
.. ...
.- -
.... .- -. -..
This translates to:
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SURELY THE SECOND COMING IS AT HAND
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Posted: Sat Jul 02, 2016 3:23 pm
mmhernley
Boot
Joined: 01 Jul 2016 Posts: 19
Inspired by GuestUser17, I too decided to go frame by frame in the video.
During the flash right before the text slide, there's something inside the middle bottle for a single frame: [img]http://i.imgur.com/AamUuPF.jpg?1[/img]
I thought nothing of it unt-
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HOLYSHITISTHATAFUCKINGLABRAT?!?!
What the fuck[/youtube]
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Posted: Sun Jul 03, 2016 2:16 pm
dustybygones
Boot
Joined: 09 Apr 2016 Posts: 54
I got an email saying they're doing a lottery for the product on July 4th, they also gave out a Twitter account: https://twitter.com/SpecOrgCorp?lang=en
It looks like morse code has been appearing and disappearing from the blog posts on the site. People have seen it and translated two of them, but no one has taken screencaps of it yet. The twitter's first post was on July 1st and only says 58 days. There may be a countdown.
Edit: Someone on Reddit got an email saying they were eligible for the product and put into the lottery. Their email listed Meitnerium as a key ingredient, and they looked it up. It's a highly unstable and radioactive synthetic compound. So someone's going to get mutated I think, or poisoned at the least.
Posted: Sun Jul 03, 2016 10:33 pm
GuestUser17
Entrenched
Joined: 22 Feb 2011 Posts: 812
Analysis of Lottery Announcement Video A quick run through showed two interesting things. I'll post here and update as time permits.
The first is the other tabs that are open when it shows their web page.
The seconds appears towards the end of the video in the cloud scene. It was very faint so I did my best to improve the visibility. Looks like a beetle to me.
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Posted: Wed Jul 06, 2016 1:07 pm
dustybygones
Boot
Joined: 09 Apr 2016 Posts: 54
One of those tabs leads to a Catholic answer site: http://www.catholic.com/tracts/who-can-receive-communion
An organic website: http://www.organicitsworthit.org/make/organic-recipes
And this site: http://www.swann.com/us/security-cameras
They were all on the first page of Google, and easy to find. So I wonder if the pages themselves mean anything or if it's just what they represent that might have bearing on this.
Posted: Wed Jul 06, 2016 1:39 pm
njberry
Entrenched
Joined: 23 Aug 2012 Posts: 778 Location: southampton, england
i think its a scarab beetle.
this one looks like it
Sacred scarab beetle (Scarabaeus sacer).
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Posted: Wed Jul 06, 2016 1:58 pm
njberry
Entrenched
Joined: 23 Aug 2012 Posts: 778 Location: southampton, england
they have uploaded a new video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gCLI545DvAI&feature=youtu.be&a
Posted: Fri Jul 08, 2016 2:35 pm
mmhernley
Boot
Joined: 01 Jul 2016 Posts: 19
Lots of water and waves going from the first tv spot to the second...
Posted: Fri Jul 08, 2016 3:46 pm
Syfrix
Greenhorn
Joined: 08 Jul 2016 Posts: 8
Definitely looks like an interesting ARG to join in, been looking for an opportunity like this for a bit. Just registered to be able to participate here as well (aside from the reddit topic), and to subscribe to the topic.
Posted: Fri Jul 08, 2016 4:40 pm
GuestUser17
Entrenched
Joined: 22 Feb 2011 Posts: 812
When the scene changes there is a single frame again that shows the following morse code:
..-. --- .-.. .-.. --- .-- - .... . .-.. --- -. --. .-.. .. -. . --- ..-. ...- .- -.-. .- -. - ... .... --- .-. . -....- -- . . - ..- ... - .... . .-. . .-.-.-
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Translates to FOLLOW THE LONG LINE OF VACANT SHORE - MEET US THERE.
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Posted: Fri Jul 08, 2016 5:21 pm
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