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[UPDATE] New website: PERPLEXCITYSENTINEL.COM (21st March)
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 		Yes but if a museum were to burn down it could be described as a waste of cultural heritage. i maybe wrong but it doesn't state anywhere why it has helped their history or heritage! it may just be scribed with glyphs!
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 		Re: London
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If you look in the Sentinel Masthead section you will see that the sports editor is Antony Clapham, I wonder if this a clue to point us in the direction of the skyline picture, I still think there is somewhere in London we need to visit for some reason.


You could say the same thing about 'Gwyneth St. Paul' in the Crispy Heaven article. Personally I think all it means is that the PMs drew alot of inspiration for character names from London places.
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 		Re: Hrmmm...
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The paper seems really biased. I've gathered from the "ads" that PPC is an intellectual sort of place. Most intellectuals try not to be biased.


The three people who have had letters published in the Sentinel seem to display a good deal of intelligence:

Ian Shivuto has a little anti-capitalist stab at holiday consumerism (and I wholeheartedly agree with him). Kylie Sharp complains about the Sentinel's superficial and unnecessary coverage of celebrity clothing. And in contrast Emile Farrow congratulates the Sentinel for good foreign news coverage.

If PPC has a political structure then does this paper lean towards the left?

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Thanks for doing such a great job with your series on foreign relations, and how they directly impact our lives here in Perplex City. I never understood before how important it is to keep track of world events, because I never really saw how they affected me. What a great service the Sentinel is performing in educating the public this way!

Emile Farrow


This extract from the letters page seems to point to the fact that there is a greater world outside of PPC. But it also seems to point to PPC being a fairly self contained city with different values than the rest of the world. Maybe even a different date system, which would explain why we see examples of both on the website.[/quote]

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 		Re: Hrmmm...
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Ian Shivuto has a little anti-capitalist stab at holiday consumerism (and I wholeheartedly agree with him).


What i found particularly interesting was that Ian seems generally anti-Cubist, and that the loss of the Receda Cube is actually a good thing. This is a stark contrast to everything else we have seen in this game previously (please correct me if I am wrong?) where we were led to believe that the loss of the Cube was a massive blow to PPC. It seems not all people see it that way.

As i pointed out a little earlier, it makes me sympathetic to Ian's POV and actually wonder whether I should be helping Sente find this cube at all?!
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 		It is interesting that the name of the park mentioned in the article on the bottom left of the main page translates to "Independent" park in Armenian.
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 		I think it should be noted the similarities between the articles that are current news in their world and what is happening in ours. Remembering that the Project Syzygy pregame primer stated that "clues would be al around us"

Note these things:
PCAG Ejects Nuru = MLBA steroid scandal
City Opens Northside = ANWR opening for oil drilling
Crispy Heaven Closed = Krispy Kreme lawsuit possible
Corolla Trial Adjourns = Robert Blake or Michael Jackson trials

Maybe there are others but I havent really looked at todays news in depth
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Artist Randal Tokei, winner of last year's Academy Founder's Prize for Art, is seeking a permit for a public performance of his new work, "Construction and Destruction," in Azad Park. The performance piece "examines the ways in which the loss of the Cube has blinded us to the presence of the Cube all around us," according to his application.

could be like The Gates in NY?
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terminalskeptik wrote:
I think it should be noted the similarities between the articles that are current news in their world and what is happening in ours. Remembering that the Project Syzygy pregame primer stated that "clues would be al around us"

Note these things:
PCAG Ejects Nuru = MLBA steroid scandal
City Opens Northside = ANWR opening for oil drilling
Crispy Heaven Closed = Krispy Kreme lawsuit possible
Corolla Trial Adjourns = Robert Blake or Michael Jackson trials

Maybe there are others but I havent really looked at todays news in depth


Interesting theory. Athough this is possibly coincidence, did anyone else notice that 'Sentinel' is a synonym of 'Guardian'? So perhaps further clues exist inside todays Guardian in stories which closely resemble those in the Sentinel? I don't have a copy, although I may pick one up on the way home.
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 		I think that the Guardian could be behind this.

They got the final piece of the first puzzle, which lead to the new site and the next part of the game. The name of the next site is "Sentinel" and also the Abbey road film festival (which happened to be on the same day, in the same place as the meeting with dinah) is sponsored by The Guardian.

http://www.abbeyroad.co.uk/

The logo is bottom left.

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I was just wondering if anyone is expecting any more emails in response to the address you put in at perplexcity.com. I put mine in about a month ago and recieved nothing


yes I am expecting more emails. In the only email I received, Sente told us he would be "in touch again soon." While that could mean he would be in touch in other ways besides email, the fact he wrote it in an email leads me to assume that he will be emailing us again.

In a vague hope of getting an answer, I emailed Sente at his public box and asked him about the key for the subscription. But, "point your key" sounds like a browser to me. At least we are slowing starting to accelerate towards take-off here.

By the way, anyone spec that this isn't a "real" perplex city paper, but just something created as part of the "expensive" quest to find the cube?

As for any moral objections to finding the cube because of religious beliefs, I suggest that everyone needs to follow his or her own conscience. If your beliefs extend to not helping another culture find a valued object which may seem to possibly have some religous significance--whether that culture is real or not -- then I am sure everyone here would respect that.

And I searched for "Micheal Corrolla" and didn't find anything except what is in the letters section of the paper. I take it that he is a new character and that we don't know anything else about his murder trial.
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How does this compare to UK papers?

Seems like perplexcity is pretty darn big if one of it's papers is outselling (in one city) the highest selling paper in the UK by quite a long way!


The Sentinel is the only paper. So that's completely pausible.

Perplex City Sentinel wrote:
Innes ran the paper at a loss for the first 10 years of production, mainly owning to the large-scale puzzle contests he personally bankrolled and successfully put the Vanguard out of business. It was during this period that the Sentinel ran its infamous "Girls of the Academy" series, in a further attempt to boost sales. In 107 the Vanguard and the Sentinel merged, although the Vanguard name was swiftly dropped from the masthead.


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Very interesting entry on the letters page:

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Why is it that nobody is talking about how great it is to be living in a post-Cube world? I, for one, am glad that we were able to have such a subdued holiday season this year, soft economy or no. The overcommercialisation and consumer frenzy every year during the holidays has made me sick for decades, now.

We in Perplex City are a sophisticated, educated society. It's time we threw off the shackles of superstition the Cube has held us with for so long, and begun to view the world around us with eyes of pure science.

Ian Shivuto


This Ian guy seems to be echoing alot of my own thoughts on religion. Being a devout atheist as i am, i know have a real quandary - do i actually want to help them find the cube?!?


I personally find it hard to justify religion these days, I'm not sure it any longer holds a place in our world. However, I am more in favour of free will, so if it is really a persons choice to practise religion then I have no problem with it (and you have to be careful, because sometimes that person's free will isn't really held up, such as a child's). Materialistic society is a danger also, and it would seem that some of the Perplex residents have a dangerous love for the object, and so returning it to them like that could do more harm than good, as was demonstrated by the murders when it was stolen, and to a lesser extent, Sente's search for it. I think we ought to be careful not to forget the real 'human' side to this, even if it is a bit of an adventure.
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 		Not sure if this is the right thread to post this in but, the top image on the page is named frontpage.png. However, it cannot be opened by Fireworks as such, "unknown file type" error. Anyone have photoshop they can open the image with?

edit: opening it up with notepad showed it as a GIF. I have it open now
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terminalskeptik wrote:
Not sure if this is the right thread to post this in but, the top image on the page is named frontpage.png. However, it cannot be opened by Fireworks as such, "unknown file type" error. Anyone have photoshop they can open the image with?

edit: opening it up with notepad showed it as a GIF. I have it open now


yeah, it is a gif file, but named with the png extension, now why would somone want to do that...?
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 		PCAG - just to clarify, I read this as Perplex City Annual Games. Kinda like an olympic type thing, but more often and with mindgames instead of physical sports.

Just adding my bit, I am a The Three Balls after all! Very Happy
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