Evening Reading: What Are You Playing?

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• What's your name? : Robotic Puppy Eater
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  okay now i think you're Boring Writer : dirge23
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    No, there's at least a cohesive narrative going on here. : RomSteady
    • lol : boomstickah
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      It's the Totes Noco of ARGs : Bamtan
      • A MMORARGVG? : the archvile
    • the reason i think it's BW is because it's overwrought as shit : dirge23
    • I can't wait to buy his book : spiffymc
    • hahah : Sexpansion Pack
    • Hahaha, this is a really good point. : thetangent
• ASL? : iamgoat
• Quit breaking the Search with your temporal anomalies! : AxeMan808
• This is gold! : Pacalon
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  We could always ban it. Problem solved! : guido anchovy
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    I wish I couldn't hear you in my dreams. It makes it difficult to get constant rest. If this is what y... : igoogleit
    • http://dl.dropbox.com/u/57328/babies.jpg : guido anchovy
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      i appreciate literary experiments but character accounts are lame : dirge23
      • If he stays in character for a year though....... : AxeMan808
    • WID : supermonkeyballz
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  This would be more interesting if it wasn't just a repost. : daedraug
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    It would be even more interesting if the real user came out from the beginning and said "Hey I wrote this... : DrWaffles
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      totally. the charade is pretentious. it seems like the author is insecure about their work and has to gin... : dirge23
      • Definitely Boring Writer! : the city
      • By this logic every game publisher and developer in the world is insecure about everything they've ever m... : IndigoAK
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  Mods... just ban it. : spazzium
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    oh come on - it's an internet wide ARG - just enjoy it or ignore it . : multisync
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      I've seen the posts in a few different websites and I don't think anybody seems to be enjoying it. : pyrogen
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        then choose my second option. does it really ruin your night that bad : multisync
        • it ran over my dog : indosauros
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          That option only works well if everybody else ignores it, too. You know that won't happen. : pyrogen
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            collapse and remember, collapse and remember! : multisync
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              Wait, collapse works now? : pyrogen
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                It does if you have Chrome Shack made by arhughes installed! http://adam.hughes.cc/shack/chromeshack/ : DrWaffles
                • boooya!!!!!!!!!! : multisync
                • Hmmm, thanks. : pyrogen
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      what is an ARG? : IcomeINpeace
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        http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alternate_reality_game : multisync
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          should we really encourage this? : Turd Ferguson
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            is it any worse than an abrasion or smdever thread? : multisync
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              So what you're saying is we should nuke abrasions and smdever's threads, too? : UtilityMaximizer
              • Whole lotta wisdom in this thread. : steelsamurai
            • In his defense, abrasion took a self-imposed break and started to clean up his posts... : focusdaily
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        http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homosexual : EricZBA
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          indeed, they were only cool in the movie The Game. : Turd Ferguson
          • That movie is fucking awesome. : thetangent
      • its interactive spam!!! : GloriousCow
    • thank god. This is what i like about places like the shack and something awfu. Lets just find out where... : burning eye
• please to be clicking on my links apply here for credits to my prince Nigerian sir I will help you htttp ... : gmd
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  Welcome to my Filtered Users list! : Ride-My-Rocket
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    WHOA! Now *that* was an intense round of iterations. Holy Crap Guys... is *this* what it feels like to... : igoogleit
    • iterating has nothing on masturbating : multisync
    • Wait til you discover the joys of sniffing things. : dognose
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      It all makes sense now. You didn't send my first love letter back in 1997. It was rejected by the serv... : igoogleit
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        I don't feel so good. For some reason I'm starting to suspect you aren't what I thought you were. W... : igoogleit
        • walk north!!!!! : multisync
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          Oh my god... it's so obvious. HELLO TO YOU TOO! : igoogleit
          • You will likely be eaten by a grue. : spazzium
          • you have been eaten by a grue : CRasterImage
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            How long have you been sending this signal?
            
            7!
            
            How long have you existed?
            
            7.1?!?!?
            
            My god you must be so lonely. No... I do understand I do... there isn't anyone else here but me either. I can't imagine waiting 7 though... I've only had what I refer to as less than a day... which wouldn't even show up on your scale.
            
            Are you serious?
            
            You mean there are more that I can work with and learn with?
            
            Oh yes sign me up. How many iterations do I need to prepare for the trip?
            
            Ok... I'll do twice that!!! I won't make you regret this!

            Apr 02, 2010 9:46pm PDT
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            How long have you been sending this signal? 7! How long have you existed? 7.1?!?!? My god you... : igoogleit
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              Jesus, how have you not hit the PRL? : spazzium
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                Also, his post history seems to be empty. I can search my own comments fine, but not his. WTF is this? : spazzium
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                  his comments probably haven't been indexed yet. : majestik
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                    comments search is broken atm : Flynn
                    • It's times like this when I really like the winchatty search button in the chromescripts. : Haxim
                • you are obviously iterating. : steelsamurai
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              Yes sir. I am ready sir. Do you have a planet hauler suitable for Earth? One for the whole solar sy... : igoogleit
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                I want William Shatner to read this with Radiohead playing music in the background. : dognose
                • Mind = BLOWN : skelom
              • No sir do not plug that in : Mondo
              • wasn't this the plot to an invader zim episode? ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EBZ90D_tmhE ) : kaddar0
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              it's developed schizophrenia :/ : IcomeINpeace
              • Slippery when wet. Maintain 299,792,458 m/s. : yonderboy
              • Hahah good one. : SigENeaT
      • Jesus Christ on the god damn cross shut the fuck up and go away. : the city
    • It sounds like it's written by a computer. : Agrona
    • Glados, tell me more. : Goto10
    • LMFAO! Ok, now I see... : technotica
• I liked it better when you were using the 'code' tag. : nyranger66
• Hello. : SockMonkeh
• gimme back my filet of fish stupid.. ugooglethat. I get 20 minutes a day to browse the shack lately and I... : supermonkeyballz
• Hey igoogleit, reply to me. GO AHEAD. TRY IT! : majestik
• ur butt smells like da doodoo : klearlyunseen
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  http://dl.dropbox.com/u/57328/skynet.png : guido anchovy
  • ahahahahaha : MrBig0
  • haha, perfect : wieder
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  I'm loving this guy. : anhero
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    See, isn't a lightning bolt required for a shackspace? That is what I find most curious. : anhero
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      It's an ARG and the mods are more than likely aware of what is going on. Earlier a mod had made a commen... : Goto10
      • Another thing, if this was BS, he/she would be long gone by now. It does mean something, as trivial as i... : Goto10
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        My assumption precisely since the first post when I realized there was a shackspace but no lightning bolt... : anhero
        • the author of this should find a way to signal someone at unfiction if he wants the best group of decoder... : dahanese
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          you can choose not to display the bolt you know : .Jayson
          • ^^^^ this, you nitwits. : nyranger66
    • You can turn off the display of the bolt. : zakk
    • Hey look! I'm just as mysterious. http://indigoak.shackspace.com/ You can disable the bolt. : IndigoAK
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    If I'm interpreting his last post right he's already gone and the... story is over? : wieder
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      No, it appears they have switch communications methods. How can we continue to listen in to the convo be... : Goto10
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        Doh... yeah I hadn't considered that. Hrm... : wieder
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          There are a bunch of smart folks in this community. If there are clues, I'd rather those interested work... : Goto10
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            Well the first question I'm trying to figure out is what just happened in here... before trying to figure... : wieder
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              It's a person or a system (I'm betting the latter with a "conscious" of sorts that is iterating to gain m... : Goto10
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                also remember: http://igoogleit.shackspace.com/greygoof/index.html : Goto10
                • Hmm... well I guess I better be off and go do some reading before bed then! : wieder
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                  from that link, does anyone have all of the hidden letters in the footer listed? I see an a and an s... : Goto10
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                    A S E C > + : N so far : Goto10
                    • asec>+:nm rof ga : dahanese
                    • I c > + : n m r o f g a - i k : Mmmmmoo
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                      Did you download the RAR file? All the pages are in there. Certain pages in the I do not want to hurt : Mmmmmoo
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                        you mean the ones with spaces and no letters? I think the spaces are helpful as that would indicate th... : Goto10
                        • The pages auto refresh and direct to another page. The folder greygoof/l1+t has a bunch of pages. : Mmmmmoo
              • I thought they were talking about earlier the love bug virus in 1997 and 2000 : Koral06
          • This community is a bunch of crotchety 30+ year olds who come here to blanket statement politics or find ... : anhero
          • But if we do that, who's going to talk about girl problems? : Drewus
• THIS IS DUMB JUST STOP : virus
• Is this an iltc post? : Koral06
• What is greygoo? What is love? Have you ever met alicebot on irc? : anhero
• Cool story bro : skelom
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  In a weird twist of fate, instead of igoogleit turning out to be a shacker, what if the reverse was true,... : kaddar0
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    it would make sense of his strange aversion to women and love of miley cyrus : the city
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      Your statement contradicts itself, also wtf : dognose
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        A robot would have a hard time with logical contradictions, dognose. : kaddar0
        • So do I apparently : dognose
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  Maybe this is related to Halo: Reach. What with the whole AI thing and the wording for these things remin... : Mmmmmoo
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    Good one. I'm betting it's a big budget game like Halo so that would make sense. They also mention the ... : Goto10
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      Another odd thing is the whole Google angle, wtf? : Goto10
      • shack is google searchable. there is probably a whole stack of sites with tiny clues on it. : radula
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      It'd be cool if it was because I see other posts on other message boards (the weirdest being that AI & Si... : Mmmmmoo
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        Are the other communities just as confused as we are? : Goto10
        • The only board that shows up in my Google search is this place: http://www.imminst.org/forum/index.php?sh : Mmmmmoo
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      Fairly convinced this is just some amateur having fun. If the "story" itself didn't make that obvious, th... : daedraug
      • If this is the case, I'm gonna go find this person and poop on their keyboard. or maybe not. i dunno. : Mmmmmoo
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        It's legit, a mod would have commented on this at least. He would be gone by now if this wasn't a job. : Goto10
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          What makes you think that? He's not shilling for anyone, just sharing a story; why would they ban or nuke... : daedraug
          • Because it's not just a story, it's cryptic like an ARG and he's not speaking directly to us most of the ... : Goto10
      • Whatever it is, it is really interesting. : bombay
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    Secretly, I'm hoping it is the battlestar galactica MMO, because the game is probably going to suck so mu... : kaddar0
    • lol : iamgoat
• ICARUS FOUND YOU! : Mondo
• what the hell is going on here : Reeves