slainte
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Post by slainte on Dec 11, 2006 7:58:30 GMT -5
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Post by milowent on Dec 11, 2006 9:46:00 GMT -5
uh, what does this all mean, then? that tachyon video shows gemma walking into a building, which looks more like LA than London.
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slainte
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Post by slainte on Dec 11, 2006 10:34:27 GMT -5
Dude....Don't rain on my parade!  Gemma walks into a bulding that in the front is Lucy's apt (whitewash walls). The back is the same red brick pattern Gemma stood in front of wich is the same red brick pattern in the alley DB and Bree were "warwalking" in and wonder of wonders finds a signal... and hey isn't there a man with a badge up on the grassy knoll? there's more I just know it if not, at least my blabbering is buried down here in a sub-subfolder right? right!? |
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flwright
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Post by flwright on Dec 11, 2006 11:20:35 GMT -5
Hello Fellow Hog, Into everyone's parade, a little rain must fall. OpAphid shows a video of a woman walking into a building. It is not Lucy's apartment. Although it has a similar entry, the stairrails and entry door are different and the parking location is different. The brick "wall" in Gemma's video is really a brick pier. The pier is part of a fence. The fence is a mix of brick and black painted metal. It is not part of a building. The red brick building and whitewashed concrete building shown in the picture of Daniel in the alleyway have nothing to do with Gemma or Lucy. I hope this doesn't make you blue, FLWright |
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slainte
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Post by slainte on Dec 11, 2006 12:52:13 GMT -5
Friggen Architects!  FrankLyodWrong damn Just wait! You'll see...then you will know that I am really really smart. Besides I don't care about stupid conspiracy stuff anyway becasue I have a girlfriend...You don't know her cuz , she doesn't go to this school, she goes to Shelbyville, but I 'm taking taking her to the their Christmas dance. God. (kicking the dirt) and besides my mom said I ws smart to figure that out so... |
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Post by Terryfic on Dec 11, 2006 14:04:19 GMT -5
FLWright, this post gave me goose bumps. It reminded me of way back when we use to breakdown these videos for every tiny thing, every frame, every background noise, all just to try to solve a real life mystery, one that couldn’t be retconed or simply abandoned, or where we had to wait for the ‘clues’ to be hand feed to us. We the audience were truly in control of the mystery back then, since everything in the videos were either a real clue or a fake one used to throw us off. The mystery was outside of the story so we didn’t have to rely on anyone else to help it along. That was an incredible time and I don’t think it will ever be captured again.
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Post by hyemew on Dec 11, 2006 15:10:05 GMT -5
I agree with Terry. What we experienced in August and September was unprecedented, and I don't think can ever be replicated. We will never experience a thing like that again far as I can tell, nor be part of such an exciting mystery.
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Post by hyemew on Dec 11, 2006 16:03:19 GMT -5
We didn't force anything!
When I found lonelygirl15 in late July it was NOTHING! I was shocked, a series gets hundreds of thousands of hits and with a website as good as blank! After a little while they finally started posting links to each new video, though often quite delayed. The forum was a joke. I started it up, people started talking, and then things got going. But they made no attempt to even touch the website until we started talking there in August, and even then ignored our cries over and over until we finally split off in September to form Anchor Cove.
One would have thought all of June, July, August would have been plenty of time to get something comprehensive running. The revamped site didn't appear until September and Lord knows it hasn't been smooth sailing there either. I don't blame us, the Creators had plenty of time but frankly for an internet-based series they seriously neglected the webpage aspect of it.
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Post by jayhenry on Dec 11, 2006 16:26:24 GMT -5
What were Mario and Luigi's overalls made of?
Denim denim denim.
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slainte
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Post by slainte on Dec 11, 2006 16:29:29 GMT -5
Wow! I feel like I'm in a bar full of jilted lovers and forgotten war heroes. The smoke is thick and the room is dark. A 50 year old hag is sitting at the corner of the bar hitting on some trucker that just wondered in of the highway. At the other end of the bar is some old wrinkled wild haired semi-toothless waste of a man in a wrinkled brown suit, his old white shirt yellowed with stains and a thick 1970's vintage tie with a know the size of the truckers fist hangs loosely around his neck. He's watching this mating dance wiht the eye of a botanist watching a praying mantis slurp and smack the life out of its last lover. He sits there nursing his beer becasue the urine he splashed on his pants when he was in that third circle of hell also known as the toilet in this abyss. He has no idea why he knows this shit about bugs and hell and poems. He has no ideas at all There's an old guy sitting in the corner leaning back in his chair with his feet propped up on the table and a beer mug dangling from his fingers. When he drops the glass and falls from the hair, some wretched old woman laughs but it sounds like the banshees when they screamed the night Connor Larkin lost his life at the Tower in Connaught running guns against the protestants in 1916. At the bar you keep glancing left and right and eying your rear approach in the cracked mirror. the mirror speckled where horrid liquids - some booze most not - have made contact with the with the resin of a thousand million ciggarettes. Behind the bar is a man, or what used to be a man; now just the sagging skin hanging limply off the bones that once supportedup powerful arms, biceps and shoulders as they flexed passionatelay around the back of a woman only now recalled by the faded tatto gouged into his forearm colored with the unmistakeable blue black ink of a jailhouse tattoo mixed up using ashes and spit and embedded with a nail pulled from the wall and sharppened on the cement floor. Ask him who she is...he don't know...and he doesn't she's lost to him liek all the other thooughts he ever had; thoguhts and memories that poured from his ears and eyes when he took that last punch, tjhat last pucnh that started as an easily dodged swing from some has been to a tough kid and ended as finishing blow by a young kid this man could 't dodge. GO ahead ask him he can't hear you because between the voices of his mom and the uncle that touched him when he was a kid, is a constant humming, a tone like a busy signal that just wont stop. geeze look at the time, wow I gotta go home and walk the dog. Lighten up you guys I'm glad you all had a good time wiht the secrets and stuff but hey I want some too, even if it is old stuff. Christ I'm 50 years old (today thank you) I go to work, I eat I f around on my PC. My local football team is the Redskins! Throw me a bone for god's sake! cheers all  I dig hanging out here. |
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Post by hyemew on Dec 11, 2006 16:30:29 GMT -5
I didn't support things like people posting Kenneth Goodfriend's address all over the forums, but at the same time it was in the public domain. If they didn't want that info out there they either shouldn't have copywrited LG15 like they did or not used his services. Use a big name instead with a well-known location which wouldn't be a big deal if made public.
Everyone should realize the internet is a public domain place though, and so if you don't want information or pictures out there then don't post it there. If someone else posts it without your knowledge that's different, but far as I know all this stuff was found through public means.
E-mail stings and such are different, but none of us were a part of that. What was truly fun was all the investigating, I was quite sour on the phorum3 because they were so secretive about what they were doing and yet (mainly Jessica) was so forceful in us believing it all as gospel. Don't peg us with underhanded things perpetraded by Jessica, we dislike her as much as I'm sure you do.
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Post by Terryfic on Dec 11, 2006 16:58:16 GMT -5
Hye was wrong, the DB vid today wasn’t the most exciting interesting thing to happen recently, this thread is But I brought up the old times at the phorum a little bit to reminisce, but more so to try to figure out why I find no satisfaction from the current ‘mysteries’ in the series. The idea that we were truly solving a real mystery (and it has tons and tons of precedents Hye, we are not the first detectives in history) was very very fun. I haven’t been able to get into trying to solve the fabricated mysteries in LG these days as we don’t even truly know what to solve. The cult doesn’t exist outside of the videos so we can’t really investigate it. I would rather talk about IMS more abstractly and just use LG as an example to try to figure out how to capture the feeling of really uncovering a hidden truth in the world, or if that can even be fabricated. I would really miss you Jay, you are one of my most favourite people at the Cove and I say with no exaggeration that I think and look at the world a little differently for having spent time with you. But I do agree that the Cove has become less and less a place of intellectual discussion. I’m not sure if the phorum is much of a change, they have the occasion really well thought out interesting post, but the flood of people that like to hang out in the party thread tend to make the site too frustrating for me. |
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Post by noasinger on Dec 11, 2006 17:00:53 GMT -5
Just as FYI, several posts have been deleted; my sparking off an argument was certainly unintentional, and I would rather keep friends than lose them in attempting to make insipid "points" that don't amount to much.
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Post by hyemew on Dec 11, 2006 17:07:32 GMT -5
(and it has tons and tons of precedents Hye, we are not the first detectives in history) I know, I just mean unprecedented in the TYPE of mystery it was. Nothing like this had ever happened before nor likely is it possible to happen again because of it. I just meant there will never be one quite like this again, and definitely not involving us. The way things came together and all that investigation was a perfect storm, if anything like this ever happens again I highly doubt we'd ever be part of it like we were this! |
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Post by Terryfic on Dec 11, 2006 17:21:10 GMT -5
I'm not totally convinced that type of mystery was unique either, but I will definitely say it was a unique time and place. Youtube/LG Aug/Sept is something that will never happened again, and it was really cool to be a part of. I'm convinced there must be a way to stage such an event/ARG/Mystery without it ending up totally contrived and really let the audience investigate something. Don't trap them in the box that they have to solve the mystery only using the clues you mean to give them. Force them to find your mistakes and use those to solve the mystery.
All the drops in ARG seems silly to me, if the person making the drops knows the answers why not just tell you instead of making you jump through hoops. Instead of them giving you the answers you should be forced to take them when they aren't looking.
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FrankLyodWrong damn 
I dig hanging out here.