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Centipede
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 		Anyone know wehre I can find a copy of The Times in NYC?

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Alex Smith
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Centipede wrote:
Anyone know wehre I can find a copy of The Times in NYC?


You won't be able to. It's a British-only paper. Even if it was possible, there'd be delays due to the fact that the USA is seperated from England by this huge chunk of water.

Why do the Americans think the world revolves around them? Razz
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Alex Smith
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maxim wrote:
I seriously doubt they would leave any kind of precise message in an ad, since the typists can't even spell a web address properly. It's a miracle they didn't put a (.) on the end of the incomplete sentence. Sheesh.

I like the idea of piecing it together and revealing the story though - so far they do not seem to run on from each other.

And as for the ad above it... it does seem weird, but it's probably nothing.


Them not running together increases the suspense, as you don't know where the next piece fits. It's a subtle psychological trick, whether realised by the PMs or not.

The above ad is OOG. "Remember When" is an actual company. Their site is posted somewhere back through these pages... Smile
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Black Cat
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 		I tryed phoning the 0500520000 (a freephone number) from the ad above the PPC ad in the Times but its kinda late so i think its past closing time so there was no anwser, i only got an anwser machine. If i remember, ill phone tomorrow

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Black Cat wrote:
I tryed phoning the 0500520000 (a freephone number) from the ad above the PPC ad in the Times but its kinda late so i think its past closing time so there was no anwser, i only got an anwser machine. If i remember, ill phone tomorrow

BC


I can guarantee that the Remember When ad is OOG - that is their company name. I bought an old Times from them about two years ago for a present.

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Centipede
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Alex Smith wrote:
You won't be able to. It's a British-only paper. Even if it was possible, there'd be delays due to the fact that the USA is seperated from England by this huge chunk of water.

Why do the Americans think the world revolves around them? Razz


It's still a large paper isn't it? Then it should be available here.

Oh, and the world doesn't revolve around Americans, it revolves around NYC. Very Happy

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Mornington
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 		perplexedity
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When I type in www.perplexity.com it now auto-redirects me to www.perplexcity.com

Seems like they must be having a lot of trouble with typos.


Hey, when I go to perplexity.com it just says the site does not exist (dns error) or something. Anyone else?

Also, a google search turned up this http://tinyurl.com/67b92 (it goes to google cache). Though the domain is registered through Go Daddy same as the others.

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pneumatik
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Marrec wrote:

Mmh, yummy spec.

Edit: More Spec for maxim's question...

Maybe (as it's been said before methinks) they need the cube to travel between our two realities. They know where it is, (possibly because of some kind of radiation from it) but can't get to it because, ironically or coincidentally, it's stuck here with us.


Not to be a "Me, too!" poster, but I agree. One of the tricks with an ARG (or so it seems to me) is to come up with a way to get the players involved in a believable manner. IOW, the PM's have to answer the question of, "Why don't the main characters in the plot just solve the ARG themselves?" Having the cube be lost in this dimension while the main characters are stuck in their world sounds like a good way to accomplish this. To be a little crass, this works well with some sort of commercial tie-in, too. When the cube is found, it will provide an easy in-game way to introduce whatever product is being sold by having it cross over from the other dimension, or something.

NOTE: I thought I'd read somewhere that this ARG has "significant backing", or something like that, which many/most took to mean that it's some sort of advertising plan. Not that this is bad or anything.
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IOW, the PM's have to answer the question of, "Why don't the main characters in the plot just solve the ARG themselves?" Having the cube be lost in this dimension while the main characters are stuck in their world sounds like a good way to accomplish this.


How would you say they're getting things like the postcard through to our world then? Or are you spec-ing that they were brought here before the cube was lost?

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Marduk
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 		About the whole not being able to get The Times in the US...

Don't you guys over in Britain get the New York Times? It isn't hard to get international papers. I can go to my local Borders (a chain bookstore that's everywhere) and pick up a copy of the (London) Times, and I've even seen France's Le Monde and Guardian in certain bookstores. It's not all that uncommon.
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timeleft wrote:
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IOW, the PM's have to answer the question of, "Why don't the main characters in the plot just solve the ARG themselves?" Having the cube be lost in this dimension while the main characters are stuck in their world sounds like a good way to accomplish this.


How would you say they're getting things like the postcard through to our world then? Or are you spec-ing that they were brought here before the cube was lost?


Well, there is the idea that they might have a way of placing physical objects in our 'verse, but their living selfs wouldn't be able to travel through it without getting massive physical harm, possibly death. And that's just such a wonderful way of getting their own introduction to our 'verse.

Or, there's the prime-directive idea. They -can- get over here, but due to security reasons, or technological influences, they feel it's better that they have people from the dimension that the Cube is in, thus allowing people who know the areas better to look for it. Or, there is the final reason that I can see:

These people are smart, from the looks of it. They managed to steal the Cube, and with the cube, they could possibly use it to see what's happening - like, say...

"Oh, hey! Sente's coming here tommorow! Maybe we should, ya know, MOVE?!"

They -know- who's coming. Maybe they've got a way to tell who comes into our dimension. Maybe they've got good enough sentries to tell when they're going to arrive, and get out of the way. They don't know us.

Ooh, lunch.

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enaxor
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 		It seems the next ad will appear in the Feb. 28th edtion of The Daily Telegraph(Sydney), so I think this link will help for those of us who can't get a hard copy of the paper:
http://classifieds.news.com.au/ About halfway down the page you click announcements and then choose the publication you want and the category"Lost,found".

LA Times: http://www.latimes.com/ Click More Classifieds, then Lost and Found.

Edited: to eliminate a couple of steps, fix link, and to add LA Times link
I will edit as I find more links.
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Salkunh
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 		with regards to the trout advert; maybe there should have been an advert saying why the advert was a day late but because that nice man in NY emailed me back saying it would appear today it became a trout so they changed the advert to be a trout.

Or maybe I'm just thinking too much lol
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DJwoody
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 		Hmmm Not quite a red herring, but i think there is something a little fishy about that trout advert! Its probably nothing more than an honest mistake on the part of the paper, but i just can seem to let it go. Confused
I can see this game driving me slowly crazy. Rolling Eyes
It is an interesting point that the cube is refered to as biological though....
Does anyone else think that the theives disabled three different gateways?

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Marrec
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 		I'm in the corner that says the trout ad was a fan run thing. Like Fi³ said, clever and memerable... but otherwise useless. We all know what a trout is here and the PMs know that Unf is strickly OOG, so using terms that we throw around so readily in a game context doesn't seem like our PMs.
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