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Title: What does it all mean?
Post by: Melvin on July 20, 2012, 07:51:42 PM
Last time around HTC put "This space for rent" on the opening clipboard. Not long after they moved locations.

Now they have "Ready Player One".


Certainly we have some amateur (or pro) codebreakers in the community who may (or may not) be able to decipher the cryptic meaning (or meanings) of this latest message.

I fear that they are on the verge of throwing their hands up and letting the game fly from the orbit of simulation and drift off into the vacuum of arcadia.


 :noid
Title: Re: What does it all mean?
Post by: Lusche on July 20, 2012, 07:55:54 PM
You are asking suspicious questions, player number 356...  :noid
Title: Re: What does it all mean?
Post by: Ten60 on July 20, 2012, 07:57:41 PM
Interesting...  I'll pay attention when it reads "All your base are belong to us"
Title: Re: What does it all mean?
Post by: RTHolmes on July 20, 2012, 08:02:05 PM
I'm sure ive seen "All your base are belong to us"


then again that may just be a glitch in the matrix :noid
Title: Re: What does it all mean?
Post by: bortas1 on July 21, 2012, 08:48:55 AM
 
You are asking suspicious questions, player number 356...  :noid
:salute oh no its the prisoner :uhoh  :cheers:
Title: Re: What does it all mean?
Post by: Melvin on July 21, 2012, 09:06:37 AM
Give it up smoove, ain't no tellin when I'm down for a jack move.



EDIT: Nevermind, Nina Gordon is crazy as f*ck.


Check out the straight outta compton vid if you are over 18


EDIT2: And yes, I will bust yo tulips like I's Bryant Gumble?
Title: Re: What does it all mean?
Post by: ozrocker on July 22, 2012, 04:50:50 PM
You are asking suspicious questions, player number 356...  :noid



"We want information, information, information."
 "Who are you?"
 "The new number two."
 "Who is number one?"
 "You are number six."
 "I am not a number, I am a free man." :noid
                                                                                                                       :cheers: Oz
Title: Re: What does it all mean?
Post by: doright on July 22, 2012, 07:13:24 PM


"We want information, information, information."
 "Who are you?"
 "The new number two."
 "Who is number one?"
 "You are number six."
 "I am not a number, I am a free man." :noid
                                                                                                                       :cheers: Oz

I've miles and miles of files
pretty files of you forefathers fruit
and now to suit our great computer
you're magnetic ink

I'm more then that, I know I am
At least I think I must be
Title: Re: What does it all mean?
Post by: bustr on July 22, 2012, 07:28:02 PM
You guys are not "Book" readers or very often RTFM.

Ready Player One is a science fiction novel by Ernest Cline.

The year is 2044 and the world is in near-ruins. The Great Recession has taken its toll on the world's economy, and resources are scarce. The Internet and gaming culture have evolved into a creation known as OASIS, a massive multiplayer online simulation game created by James Halliday and Ogden Morrow of Gregarious Simulation Systems (GSS), formerly known as Gregarious Games.

Halliday, with no heirs or other living family, dies suddenly and leaves a video will to those in OASIS and a book that was dubbed Anorak's Almanac, which purports to be a volume written by James Halliday's avatar Anorak in OASIS. The video says that whomever can collect three keys (Copper, Jade, and Crystal) that are hidden throughout the universe of OASIS and pass through the matching gates will receive his fortune and controlling stake in GSS. This becomes known as the Hunt and people immediately begin the search for Halliday's "egg," a reference to the first "Easter egg" in video game culture in the game Adventure.

The First "Easter Egg" in gaming:

In 1980, Atari programmer Warren Robinett set about making a video game version of the original text Adventure. In the depths of the black castle in Games 2 and 3, which required special tools, direction, and a certain amount of know-how, players could maneuver to a room by the catacombs that had a single-pixel gray dot, the same color as the game's background. The dot would allow players access through a wall to a superfluous area with the text "Created by Warren Robinett" running down the middle. Robinett was partially motivated by the fact that, at the time, designers weren't given credit for their games.

And so he claimed his own. Given the size of Atari games, this little screen ate a substantial portion of the memory (at around 5 percent), although Robinett has claimed that he created it only after the game was finished. Reprinting the cartridge without this screen would have proved to be too costly for Atari, and given the relative obscurity of the egg, it was left in for all future printings. These days, Adventure is almost as notorious for fathering the first Easter egg as it is for its innovations in action adventure gameplay.

Title: Re: What does it all mean?
Post by: titanic3 on July 22, 2012, 07:30:25 PM
You guys are not "Book" readers or very often RTFM.

Ready Player One is a science fiction novel by Ernest Cline.

The year is 2044 and the world is in near-ruins. The Great Recession has taken its toll on the world's economy, and resources are scarce. The Internet and gaming culture have evolved into a creation known as OASIS, a massive multiplayer online simulation game created by James Halliday and Ogden Morrow of Gregarious Simulation Systems (GSS), formerly known as Gregarious Games.

Halliday, with no heirs or other living family, dies suddenly and leaves a video will to those in OASIS and a book that was dubbed Anorak's Almanac, which purports to be a volume written by James Halliday's avatar Anorak in OASIS. The video says that whomever can collect three keys (Copper, Jade, and Crystal) that are hidden throughout the universe of OASIS and pass through the matching gates will receive his fortune and controlling stake in GSS. This becomes known as the Hunt and people immediately begin the search for Halliday's "egg," a reference to the first "Easter egg" in video game culture in the game Adventure.

The First "Easter Egg" in gaming:

In 1980, Atari programmer Warren Robinett set about making a video game version of the original text Adventure. In the depths of the black castle in Games 2 and 3, which required special tools, direction, and a certain amount of know-how, players could maneuver to a room by the catacombs that had a single-pixel gray dot, the same color as the game's background. The dot would allow players access through a wall to a superfluous area with the text "Created by Warren Robinett" running down the middle. Robinett was partially motivated by the fact that, at the time, designers weren't given credit for their games.

And so he claimed his own. Given the size of Atari games, this little screen ate a substantial portion of the memory (at around 5 percent), although Robinett has claimed that he created it only after the game was finished. Reprinting the cartridge without this screen would have proved to be too costly for Atari, and given the relative obscurity of the egg, it was left in for all future printings. These days, Adventure is almost as notorious for fathering the first Easter egg as it is for its innovations in action adventure gameplay.



Sounds like an interesting book.  :aok
Title: Re: What does it all mean?
Post by: JimmyC on July 23, 2012, 12:40:44 AM
well they have unleashed the AI pilots have they not....

I thought the last one "space for rent" ( rooms to let 50c...king of the road)
was cos WOT front page was littered with ads and they where better than that...I dunno

Title: Re: What does it all mean?
Post by: Slate on July 23, 2012, 08:47:30 AM

(http://i665.photobucket.com/albums/vv15/d0nwaters/readyplayerone.jpg)

(http://i665.photobucket.com/albums/vv15/d0nwaters/readyplayer1.jpg)