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Igpajo
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 		TheMatrixIsReal.com
Hey, Haven't been around here since the Metacortex game. I'm from TheMatrixCommunity.org and we've got some discussion going on about something I think maybe a trailhead. If you go Here you can check out the thread that was started at our forum discussing this.

The website being discussed is TheMatrixIsReal.com. I don't know if you want me to discuss what we've discovered yet, or if you want to find it out yourself. I'll post what one of our members discovered as spoiler text though so if you want to figure it out for yourself, you can. But I don't know if it's really a spoiler as not much has been learned. So far it's led to some AIM conversations that hint at something much larger in the works. Okay, here's what's been figured out so far:
Spoiler (Rollover to View):
When you go to that website I linked to above, you'll see some numbers at the top with "Phase 7" highlighted. Down below that you see "Time is of the Essence" flanked on the left by a Blue dot and a Red Dot on the Right. Think Blue Pill, Red Pill. Of course you'll want to click on the Red Pill. (Clicking on the Blue pill just gives you a saying about the sleeper not knowing how truly precious sleep is until awoken.) After clicking on the red pill, you'll be presented with a text box that says "Contact Info" and below that is a box for inputing text. It doesn't really matter what you input. Some people, like me, think the intent is for you to submit an e-mail address. But so far nothing's been recieved by anyonw who has done so. But no matter what you type, hit submit and you'll see the following: A square will will form and the following phrases will show up in this order: Rabbit Run, Rabbit Go, Human chase, Human follow". Then those will fade and a picture of the white rabbit from "Alice In Wonderland" will appear. He's looking at his watch. Click on it. When you do you'll see a black page with numbers and letters flashing. The number sequence that flashes are the numbers 1 through 12, then it repeats. The letters flash one at a time in the same space, and spells out the sentence: If you aim at truth, you may find yourself expressing "Oh Verisimilitude". Someone figured out to try using AOL Instant Messenger to IM the user "OhVerisimilitude". And it worked. There have been a lot of discussions between whoever, or whatever, is behind that IM name. I say Whatever because some folks think it's a bot. Other's don't. I don't know if a bot can be written for AIM messenging systems though so I'm pretty sure it's a person. I haven't talked to them yet, but someone named "frostproof" posted some of their conversations on our board and you can check them out Here.
In those conversations it's revealed that the website will undergo 7 phases, counting down backwards to 1. Right now it's on phase 7 with the next phase almost ready to be revealed.
Like I said, I haven't played around with the AIM conversations. But there's talk of this maybe looking like a new ARG.


So anyway, that's what we know. Has this been discussed here before? I searched and couldn't find anything. I'll check back soon to see if anyone else thinks this might be a new ARG starting or just some yahoo playing around.

Thanks for your time.[/url]

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Idran1701
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 		I had an extended conversation with Verisim myself, which I've uploaded here.

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FlanInTheFace
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 		here's the whois info

*edit* which gives us nothing

Quote:

Registrant:
Domains by Proxy, Inc.

15111 N Hayden Rd., Suite 160
PMB353
Scottsdale, Arizona 85260
United States

Registered through: GoDaddy.com (http://www.godaddy.com)
Domain Name: THEMATRIXISREAL.COM
Created on: 01-Aug-04
Expires on: 01-Aug-05
Last Updated on: 02-Aug-04

Administrative Contact:
Private, Registration THEMATRIXISREAL.COMSPLATdomainsbyproxy.com
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15111 N Hayden Rd., Suite 160
PMB353
Scottsdale, Arizona 85260
United States
(480) 624-2599
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(480) 624-2599

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FlanInTheFace
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 		Oh, and "Toodle-oo"? What's up with that? That's what OhVerisimilitude said when Idran finished talking to him/her/it.

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yanka|tage
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 		I tried to poke around that site; the only thing I could find was http://www.thematrixisreal.com/cgi-bin/

not that that^ is particularly interesting, of course

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Idran1701
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 		I was confused by that too. You don't expect a cryptic, philosophical guy to end his conversations "Toodle-oo!"

But anyway, after this I'm pretty solid in thinking him not a bot. I didn't see any repeated responses with frostproof's conversation, and times when it could have repeated them in mine it instead went with a slightly different phrasing. AIM bots are definitely possible, by the way, the best known one of which is SmarterChild, I believe.

PostPosted: Sun Oct 03, 2004 1:55 am
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yanka|tage
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 		They took the flash offline, it seems. There is now a "404" page. It has some strange javascript that generates the top message, it seems (Sorry. This page cannot be found.)

If you scroll far enough down the page itself, you'll see this note:
Quote:
System Note To Admin:
System Infiltration Detected.

Action Taken:
-System Halted
-Files Encrypted
-404 Page Generated


Confused

PostPosted: Sun Oct 03, 2004 12:57 pm
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yanka|tage
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 		Sorry, I left out one line at the bottom. So, the full text is
Quote:
System Note To Admin:
System Infiltration Detected.

Action Taken:
-System Halted
-Files Encrypted
-404 Page Generated

Awaiting Administrative Directive.


PostPosted: Sun Oct 03, 2004 1:08 pm
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yanka|tage
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 		The internet wayback machine has a record of thematrixisreal for 2003.

I'm not sure I like that Confused The e-mail addy is thematrixi at yahoo dot com Rolling Eyes

You can r-click on the counter image, and if you view it, it will count upwards with each time: 2201, 2202, 2203 etc.

That's about all for now.

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 		Don't triple post.

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Wishi-san
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 		KevDude: You can't edit if you are a guest. There is no rule against posting multiple times.
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New2This
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 		Is it possible for an a.i. program to talk about God?
I've seen a couple other places where this OV dude is talking about God. Is that possible for an A.I.? I mean, I'm sure it is to mention it here and there, but they're saying OV is really getting into these discussions about Islam and Christians and all sorts of stuff... Just wondering!

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Igpajo
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 		I still haven't spent much time on this but it seems to be the opinion of several of the folks looking into this at TheMatrixCommunity.org that this guy may just be some jesus freak attention whore. It if turns out to be that and not an ARG, I apologize in advance for wasting your time.

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New2This
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New2This wrote:
I've seen a couple other places where this OV dude is talking about God. Is that possible for an A.I.? I mean, I'm sure it is to mention it here and there, but they're saying OV is really getting into these discussions about Islam and Christians and all sorts of stuff... Just wondering!


Ok, what I said in my earlier post is somewhat wrong. After talking with a couple of people who say he was talking about God, they say he was actually very hesitant to enter into that conversation in any great detail. So I figured I'd ask it/him a couple quesitons, I don't think he's going around evangelizing for any particular faith. Forgive my hastiness in speaking earlier. Smile

I just had a conversation with the guy/boy/whatever and he/it seems level-headed, just a bit too... *something*... I can't put my finger on it.

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GloryFish
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 		The site is still down. Could there be an actual OOG "security breach?"

fixed tag - varin, gloryfish:thanks
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