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second?
wow, the last thread has to be the shortest yet!
first post, top ten?
top 10?
weez, that or it's hard to find... like in the real world?
Such an amazing podcast! Your best work EVER! Really excited about next week's podcast.
i missed the podcast.
Fantastic! The podcast is good too!
im listening right now.
I'm listening now... glad the podcast is back.
From the end of post for clue #91-
oodles: vis-a-vis your theories on the island and time - I'm with you. Thanks for clarifying it for me.
jeremy,
where did you find it? It doesn't load for me.
morning all...
doesn't load for me either
i don't, actually... but the TLEC admins posted that as the source, and someone posted in the comments here yesterday that it was from a post on that site...
new code: 90vdhohu
joann: thanks, but that's #27, which we already have... now we're on the hunt for #28!
yeah, I went thru all the posts there yesterday too and never came on that one... And for awhile some of the links were broken. The text seems to be the same as one I'd been to before, but the image wasn't there when I looked at it.
cooooool, kinda nice there are glyphs on random sites that most of us won't frequent... gives others a chance to feel more involved
opps... I skipped right over Clue #92... got all excited when I saw there was a new podcast. BTW... podcast was good you guys! Good luck searching for #28. I'm off to work so will check back later.
marigumi-That was glyph m6xy398, although that is a different picture of the same flyer where the code was found.
Hi all, I have been just a lurky-loo up to this point, but now I'm ticked off. I spent considerable time yesterday putting all my fragments in order, and I saved it about five times just to be safe. Today when I logged on to plug in this morning's installment, all but eight of my fragments were back up in the holding area and I have to start all over again. Argggg! Does anyone have any suggestions on how to best save their configuration besides just using "save"? BTW, thanks mucho to everyone here for all the effort put into sharing and communicating together, and for the awesome laughs as well. I also happened to think a few days ago about what will happen to this "community" when all of the game is said and done. I just retired from "Big-Blue" (finally!)this Spring, and following the game and this TLEC and blog have been a great way to spend my first summer in retirement. Ciao, and thanks in advance for any help on my "save" problem.
Morning all: Great podcast, guys and thanks for the big shoutout for Jamaster and my Lost Grand Theory! I feel like I'm writing a dissertation! It's a work in progress, and all comments/suggestions/corrections are welcomed.
Great job, too, Fenris.
capcom-I share your frustration. here is what I had to do to finally get my sequence to save. Warning it is a process, but I haven't lost a sequence in 3 days now!
1. I put all of my clips in order.
2. I hit save and click my sequence link.
3. I go to view the sequence and if it says anything other than the correct amount of clips/#released (today would be 27/28 as an example), I go back to sequence edit.
4. Back at the sequence screen I individually move each clip from it's sequence slot to storage and back again, then re-save, and re-check until the #sequenced/# of clips is correct.
I DO NOT close HE.com until the number is right.
It is a pian but it has actually worked!
I have a question....
Why can't we really buy the DJ Dan t-shirts? I know I would if I could!
capcom,
I've been keeping a separate list of the order I think the frags go in so in case mine get jumbled by HE.com I don't have to go back and figure out where each one goes. With the glitchiness of that site, it's better not to rely solely on it . Some people are also downloading the clips to their hard drive and arranging them themselves in a playlist.
Copy that ange, thanks! I will try out that system for saving. It's still far fewer steps than sorting the entire sequence all over again! :-p
Thanks to you also, nitesea. I started keeping a list too, but did not finish writing it down last night before I logged off HE.com, my bad. Unfortunately, even though I worked at a computer company for 32 years, I don't know how to download the clips yet, I'll have to see if my nephew can help me out there. Ciao and thanks again for the tips.
Thanks for that tip, Ange! And I will be taking lots of pic on my trip! Tomorrow is the big day. I'll probably check in one more time in the morning, and then it's cold turkey!
#28 could be on p7 of Entertainment Weekly.
Other possibility:
OtherGirl mentions watching "Dr. Who" in her latest post. Whatshisname send an e-mail to the admins/podcasters hinting at Billie Piper from Dr. Who.
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capcom: Yes, I'm keeping a separate typed list of the frag codes/scene description/dialogue and I update it as new frags are found. I used to number the clips, but that was getting to be a pain, so I just stopped that. That way I have a master list to work from if anything happens with that frigging HE! It makes for a good reference tool.
Last I checked, Billie Piper is not a "him".
Very well put Marcus!
Thanks, Marcus, for bringing our little theories over to this thread. I'd love to continue developing those.
So I assume we are waiting for the 28th to be given out, or are we complacent now?
I am going to start trying word verifications as codes!!!
korijane,
The EW front page (August 4) is shown on the net and in the right hand corner it says blablabla LOST p.7
Since the glyph has been out for hours and no one has found it I thought it might be in the magazine. Take a close look!
I know I for one have become complacent Thrasher. I have looked at the usual suspects for glyphs this morning , but the pattern seems to be one easy one (on an in-game site like DJ Dan or GaryTroup), then one in a randomly weird place like a foreign blog or in an actual location that is nowhere near where I am at the moment. I figure since the DJ Dan one is out there then the next one will be the obscure one that we will need a further clue to get. My theory may be wrong, but it seems like that is how it is going so far.
Marcus/Oodles/Thinblue: I have been "lurking" over your lively and informative discussions about the crash, time and location problems. Everything is so well-laid out and presented elogently. Great points are made and backed up. The 2004/2006 issues has always bothered me. It's an easy out for TPTB to just say time is not what it seems on the island. Well, time will tell how this is all dealt with.
But thank you all again for all your thought and work.
LOL lostmyid...my heart actually jumped when I saw your avatar...things are getting desperate!
Are there other foreign country Lost forums we should be checking like the Korean one used yesterday?
So we were spoiled the other day when we had like 4 out of the gate! Lovely!! Well it is Friday so they must want to get out of the office early...hoepfulyl we will get it soon....
I actually had a dream that the black smoke was chasing me...weird!
hey, megaprime: Thanks. I guess I'm just anal. LOL I do like to keep on top of everything that's going on, and the Lost Grand Theory is a great outlet to see how everything is coming together. Of course, it's just an educated guess Theory, and we thank you for all your comments.
marcus- I always have trouble with the podcast on iTunes, an I subscribe too. I have resorted to saving it from the main page (right click/save target as) and moving it to my iPod manually.
jussup: I second that. I was a lurker for a long time and when I first posted, didn't know quite what to expect. It's a real good group of folks here.
This is the BEST place to play the game, IMHO!!!! It was my first place I came to, I have never left. Don't even plan to!! There are great minds, and all around people here! All are wlecome!
jussup, sawdust and ib4uc: Yes, TLEC is the best place. I, too,started the game back in May by just lurking (telling myself I'm just going to read everything and that's it). After getting up the gumption to post one or two times, it just sucked me in! LOL This is best group of thinkers and people devoted to this game. Keep posting!
Marcus - I am just keeping the monkey for today! Over on the Chat room Fenris, Pzy and I were talking and the monkey came up...it was comical...so it is for there benefits if they show up and see it...
It will be back to Prime tomorrow...
sawdust: Re new DJ Dan video -- it's an announcement about the live broadcast Friday, August 11th. No other info other than that. Yet.
OK ange, I give up. I've been using your saving/check-sequence tactic, and it NEVER saves my sequence correctly now. And the last two times I did it, it says that I have "00/00"!!!!! Frappitt. It's just not fun if I have to sit here and save/check the sequence 139 times before it gets it right. I wrote my code sequence down this time, but I've had it with the HE site, I can't get it to work for me anymore and I barely have the patience to sort all 70 of these things as it is, let alone when the site is acting buggy and fighting me. I'll just do it vicariously through you all if you don't mind. Raspberries! :-P
Is there any more info about the Korean Lost Experience website? Is it in-game? Should we be looking in other international websites? I've checked RTP website, the portuguese channel that broadcasts Lost (and the Hanso commercials), but didn't find anything... Is there any possibility that there are other countries releasing glyphs?
I too have a pointing monkey avitar. Ha!
Thanks for the shoutout on the podcast guys, and for playing the track and thanks to everyone else for the compliments.
Considering the lack of activity it was actually a pretty good podcast. I was particularly impressed with the Fresh Prince bit. That was sheer class. It's funny what people can get up to when trying to fill up the space.
Plus I think you dealt with the disapointment over Act 3 pretty diplomatically. I know a few people in the chat room that have had much harsher things to say about it.
lost- There are so many foreign Lost sites. I think that the catseye glyph was posted on a French site, and if true one yesterday was on a Korean site. I spent some time googling official Lost sites this morning, but wasn't really having any luck. I'm taking a wait and see stance at this point. Maybe finding out which countries broadcast Lost would be a start if you want to invest the time, then go from there looking for official foreign forums.
Any idea on the 28th code?
Maybe we were supposed to do something to find it...we are being complacent I think?
Fenris - Mine has a wiggling pointing finger! So double HA!
Or maybe the actualy glyph will be on a timed release over the weekend, to make it seem like something is actually happening.
That'll be cynical mode then.
He is an angry Joop Monkey!!!!
Okay, we really have nothing to talk about do we?
I am going to go and read Maven and Jamsters blog....again!!
I actually set mine up last night, but neglected to post, damn it! Now you've outdone it with the animation too, but I'm so stubborn I'm going to keep posting with it so triple Ha!
Ange: Here's the list of countries that broadcast Lost --> List
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I give up. I have tried looking at as many Foreign lost sites as I could find. I can't read any of the languages, and there are no obviouse glyphs.
I also tried to use Google and Yahoo to search any page that had a link back to HE.com. But that didn't go anywhere (nothing found)
Thrasher, if you can come up with any other lead I am up to look, but until then I am officially complacent.
the catseye glyph was found by playing the hatch computer "game" at this Asian tv site
For what countries air Lost (and I'm pretty sure with links to the channels thatair them) see Lostpedia
I am officially with you Volsnvikes...complacent is the way to go it seems at this point!
Fenris - I was not even looking today and I was sent it by a friend of mine...so ipso facto, here it is...
I am going to change it back tomorrow...unless it begins to grow on me...
thrasher (and anybody else too): After reading Maven and Jamsters blog, don't forget you can write down your questions on ange's Unanswered Questions message board . It makes me feel like I have an outlet for all the stuff floating around in my head.
TVM, DHARMA, island stuff:
I think it's entirely possible that TVM and Alvar Hanso aren't on the same side of things. Something happened that caused Alvar to disappear. TVM took over but may not have been let in on all the secrets Hanso had. I hope that we'll get to see some kind of drama happen between them.
lost and lavenda- thanks for those lists. I quickly clicked on the official links for each country, but didn't find anything on the main pages. Anyone up for a more in-depth search? Although, if there are things on the main pages that give hints I wouldn't know on most of the sites due to language, and translators being poor. I think I'm with Thrasher...getting more and more complacent.
Oh, sorry, the unanswered questions list is a *thread* on TLEC message board. (Still learning how to do this.) Like you indicated, jamster, it's better for keeping thoughts organized than the comments.
(Hi, ange!)
Hi Twinkle:)
Thanks for posting the link for the thread! To anyone interested I did add a few questions today about whether the ARG will link to the show. Also, I just want to mention again, that ZSGhost in the message board did a TREMENDOUS amount of work starting the thread on unanswered questions which he can not update due to being away, I have simply piggybacked on the great work he started. That said, I can not believe how many unanswered questions that there really are at this point!
Good night all...
I will be on tomorrow since I am stuck working!! Gosh!!!
Maven, Jamaster, Ange - All cool things to check out and take part in whilst being complacent...I promise to add soem of my looney thoughts to each tomorrow...
Don't forget losties, there is still the research blog...I know that my posts are a little out dated and could use some input on sprucing them up...
Bye!
Peace & Namaste!!
Just missed ya Thrash, but I vote you keep the pointing monkey, it's cool. I googled for my monkey pics but didn't find any animated ones, so hats of to you (or the mate that sent it to you). Actually I think we should all get pointing monkey pics as an anti-hanso protest!
maven, in case I miss you later... have a fantastic holiday!
Hey, lavenda. Thanks. I'll probably be online until 10AM (pst) tomorrow morning. I'm really looking forward to leaving tomorrow, but I'll miss you all!
Hehe, nice one Crossfade, that's the spirit.
Hi again,
The only thing resembling a hint I've seen + heard today is OtherGirl going on about watching Dr. Who (a VERY popular UK Sci-fi series - I've never seen it though) PLUS an e-mail by a guy called Daniel to the admins in todays podcast who said he reckoned OtherGirl might sound like Billie Piper from Dr. Who (leaving the podcasters a bit at a loss it seemed).
That cannot possibly be a coincidence.
BTW Speaker also mentioned Billie Piper back in June for some reason.
The only bit of news today on the Channel 4 site that mentions Billie Piper is http://www.channel4.com/news/content/news-storypage.jsp?id=25756020
Smack in the middle of it is an ad for a music event: XBOX LOST & SOUND
If you click on the ad you get to a flashy flash site. Go to the "Tour caravans" and under 'gaming caravan' it says "Take in the unique decor & discover some hidden treats". Right underneath are links for downloading wallpaper (taking in decor?). I downloaded both hoping to find a glyph inside but no.
The xbox lost & sound caravans are visiting Rip Curl Boardmasters in Newquay from 31st July-6th August, so maybe there is a real-life glyph in the gaming caravan? Anyone in Newquay UK?
hmmm, I went through the play.com site that Other Girl linked to, but only looked at Lost stuff (well, ok, a little POTC...). Maybe look through the Dr Who stuff there
And peeps should go watch Dr Who now! Not that I have seen any of the latest series, but... Dr Who is classic :D
so has anybody been checking out the websites for the foreign Lost TV stations? (Lostpedia link given earlier)? If not, are there people on here that speak some of the languages on those sites and would be able to understand what they're looking at, rather than having to rely on a free translation site?
I don't even know where Newquay is and I'm in the UK. Lol.
I'm shocked people don't know of Doctor Who. To be honest this last season was disapointing, largely because they ruined the Cybermen. Plus they laid on the romantic involvment between the doc and his assistant a bit too heavily. But regardless, it's worth a watch. The first of the new versions seasons (save for the finale) was excellent.
Anyway, I digress. I'll keep my eye out for Doctor Who related stuff this weekend. Even though it's obvious tOG will be giving out links to real life clues, I still find it hard to pay attention to her. I don't know why. I think maybe it was because she kept going on about Big Brother (for me, "Big Brother" is ironically what is in my personal "Room 101", if you catch my drift). I am betting she isn't Billie Piper, so either it is a clue or just some wierd co-incidence.
I've always felt it was wrong to call Oranguatangs monkeys, they may take offense. Lol. But anyway, My Monkey is called "Spider". How confusing is that?
Too bad my digital camera is in the shop or I could dress the kids up as j00p-itos.
fenris: I've been following Dr. Who through Ain't It Cool News and Sci-fi Channel's sci-fi wire. We'll probably get it on DVD when the price drops a bit more. That's how we're handling not getting cable, save the dough to buy our favorites on DVD. I'm glad Lost is on our super cheap-o cable.
Selene,
Cool, I'm working on the German one right now.
Any takers on the Spanish sites?
Nothing on the German Lost forum... looked around most their site too and didn't see anything that might point to glyphs. They haven't even started on Season 2 yet, though, so it seems they wouldn't be much involved in the ARG, not even knowing what's down the hatch, let alone who THF is (though they do have a THF commercial with a German voiceover on the site). So maybe we can narrow down the countries we look at based on who's into the 2nd season...?
Just got here, to much to read but did anyone find frag. 28?
That's freaky about Billie Piper. However, I kinda suspect there is nothing in this, at least not directly to do with Billie herself. Just because Doctor Who is *VERY* BBC, and I can't see Channel Four doing any kind of link up likely to publicise a rival channel. Of course Billie has left Doctor Who now, but as far as I'm aware she's not due to start doing anything on C4. It's a bit random. There could be something going on at a music event though, that would be very C4. But getting anyone to there may not be so easy.
Before I sign off...
Marcus, looks like I'm missing out on a good series but Dr. Who simply hasn't aired in Ireland yet, or at least not on the four channels we get out here.
Fenris, it's interesting that you say a music event ('hosting' a glyph) would be very C4. After all, it's called Lost & Sound and the site talks about a 'hidden treat' in the gaming caravan.
That must be it.
I think Newquay is in Cornwall?
Marcus,
The 'catseye' glyph was released on the 24th, found on the 25th, and finally 'delivered' to us by Ninja on the 26th.
The AXN East Asia site was last updated on the 24th so I guess that shows the glyph was out there on the web alright but on a site that none of us knew about. Catseye probably just doesn't frequent the US/GB/AUS blocks.
ps
yep ROI (but I watch too much telly as it is... it'll come along one day)
The only thing I found weird about the glyph on the Korean site was that the image didn't link to HE.com like the rest of them have so far.
marcus- Did you see on TLEC clues main page where they had the link to the Korean glyph with a picture under clue #91?
nitesea- Not all of the glyphs we have been given have linked to HE.com...3 that did not are:
-The first Doc Jensen one on EW
-The most recent one on Channel 4 linked through Rachel Blake and The Hansos
-The one on garytroup.net
It is very likely that the Korean glyph was legit even if it didn't link.
My question, why wouldn't there be glyphs on non-english web sites?
ack! mad scramble to the various forums!
awesome, frogg3r--thanks!
"...have verified this figure"?
yes, marcus, at least that's what I think he says
note to self: go to a bookstore and check all entertainment mags before going on a wild foreign-website goose chase...
so... do we think this goes somewhere before vou8vpnps5x?
man I knew I shuldn't have gone to bed!!!!
my son was checking for the LOST mag today and I told him...Those have been found, don't waste your time! He said, it may be in a different one...should have listened to him, mom!
mikey-
Yeah, that bugs me too. At first I thought they would be some kind of key or hold a hidden message, but with as many as we've gotten without pictures, it's not looking like that's likely anymore...
So I thought this site was supposed to automatically update when a new code was saved in a sequence...
Mikey-
It says at the top of the page: "The following table is automatically updated when new fragments are released and the codes themselves will automatically be shown once users begin to add them to their sequences."
The way I understood it was that when a new glyph is entered, it will track the saved sequences and find anything it doesn't recognize as having been there before...
well we'll have to keep our minds open from now on to other publications they could be in .. I'm betting TV Guide will have something one of these days...
well now that an exhaustive day of searching has finally ended with some payoff, I think I will head to bed... g'nite all!
Morning all,
Great find, Froggr!
Marcus, korijane has correctly stated why I suspected EW magazine, not realizing that was last week's cover (it said August 4).
While #28 obviously wasn't hidden away in that xbox Lost & Sound gaming caravan in the UK I still have a notion there could be something there (later glyphs I mean). That particular event at Newquay runs until Sunday 6. The music stage and gaming caravan move on to other events in the UK. (see xboxlostandsound.com)
Great job frogger! I just want to vent for a moment on how obnoxiously annoying it is that this code , NANITE, was found in a magazine without a glyph. If you say they are going to be in glyphs then put them there for goodness sakes! Clearly frogger was able to find the glyph without any clue to go on and using a little guess work, but for a phase that is already glitchy, frustrating, and a little slow, could they PLEASE just stick with the program! I would be much less irritated if the People code was in an actual glyph. TPTB need to pull it together!
Boy that's wierd about the NANITE code. Why did they change tactics? Does that mean the glyphs themselves aren't important and the names won't amount to anything once we're done?
Anyway, here's this for our Saturday between glyphs:
Q: What is in the middle between Act I and Act V?
A: Intermission
frogger- You should maybe e-mail Belly, Thrasher, or Admin. David too to have them update the main page:).
Either that or the cast is on a smoking break... ;-D
Excellent work frogg3r!
What I like about this glyph-hunt is that it took a while and required a bit of thought and hunting to get there. When was the last time it took us all day to find something? So, yay to TPTB for making it a little harder.
BUT, I'm with Ange. If TPTB are going to lay out the ground rules, we're going to follow them. This glyph hunt had NO GLYPH. What? And what was with Rachel telling us she couldn't trust the mainstream media to help get her message out? Yet she uses PEOPLE magazine to hide a code? C'mon.
I think what's making this part of the game so frustrating is that we're being knocked around like pinballs...search the web, watch the blogs, fragment released but not activated for hours, handouts from Speaker, Ninja just happens to stumble across one, look in People magazine sprite ads? It's just too random for many of us who enjoyed researching and working the puzzles and being rewarded for our hard work with a new clue/video. We got used to one set of rules and now it just doesn't seem like there are any.
Morning all! (one more "session" before I leave for 3 weeks)
Gosh, this latest code is so aggravating. Great work by froggr! I had gotten my People, but immediately packed it to read on the plane! Imagine flying 30,000 feet and seeing that clue! LOL In reality, I would NEVER have noticed that! I agree with you fasten and ange: TPTB keep changing their rules! Maybe that's part of the game...but it's not fair to tell us one thing and bein to do something completely different. I'm almost glad I'm leaving the game for 3 weeks. The hunt for the rest of the "glyphs" is going to be so frustrating...I'm alsmot relieved to leave it to you guys. I feel sorry for all of you! This is not fun now!
Well put fastenyourseatbelts. Totally agree.
Morning/Afternoon/Evening All.
Marcus - Well, I was speaking strictly in the Orwellian sense of Room 101. So there isn't a list as such, just one thing and that thing is the worst thing imaginable. Which for me would be being strapped down with my eyes glued open, kept awake with drugs and forced to watch an entire series of Big Brother from start to end live. I wasn't really a fan of reality TV to begin with. It was a bit of a novelty and now it has been drawn out endlessly (pressumably because it's cheap to make) and really it isn't something capable of developing, at least without it becomming something terrifying ("Next up! We grab someone randomly off the street and torture them to death! Tune in!"). It is really a step in the wrong direction for television and has pretty much set creativity in entertainment in general back a good 25 years IMHO. Fortunatly there are still shows out there that are both quality and popular enough not to be axed that are stopping TV from completely destroying itself. But Reality TV is here to stay, for Channel Four it's been a licence to print money and a bigger thing then their movie company, which has on the whole been very good. But interestingly enough seems to have had less development and doesn't seem so cutting edge anymore and that is something that seemed to devlope about when C4 decided to invest more in reality TV. Co-Incidence? I don't think so.
Anyway, you got me ranting now. Lol. If I was doing the list thing there would be a lot to choose from, so if you seriously want one I'd have to come back to you on that!
Oodles - Yeah I think your right. But there is no way I could get to Cornwall this weekend (infact It'd be kind of too late to do it now anyway I reckon) and I certainly wouldn't go just on the off chance. We can only hope that there are some festival goers that are also Lost Experience fanatics that will check it out.
Marcus - I'd have to debate you on the new Doctor Who being better. Okay special effects wise maybe, but there was a *lot* of classic doctor who. Three and a bit decades worth. Sure the last two docs (6 and 7) went a bit downhill (largely due to slipping production values) but it was class before then. The Second doctors episodes were astounding for their time and I still say his cybermen were 100 times more scary then the new ones. Battlestar Galactica was class for it's time too. A lot better then Buck Rodgers anyway, and had some pretty interesting stories and angles. I wasn't sure about the new one (too many obvious productions decisions) until about half way through the first season then it really did start to grow on me and Season 2 was fantastic. Good to see that series actually get's better as it goes along rather then Doctor Who whose novelty seems to be running out about as fast as the writters run out of ideas. Lol @ The Debbie Gibson quote btw. Now that really is retro (playboy shoots aside).
No One - I guess a new thread is imminent so I better hurry up my catch up! Lol. Nanite indeed. That's an odd one, are we going to start getting words now? Once again we see that anything you see anywhere, plug into HE before you even breath a word about it.
So this is a BIGGIE then, because it seems to verify this is all about the countdown until the end of the world and that the Autistic Savants at VIK were running over the equation. Apparently just to doublecheck? That one is a little odd and does still leave it open for the numbers being the answer and not (part of) the question, although I'm still in the question camp.
Are TPTB going to back off on their no nanobots thing or was this a shout out? There's other types of nanotechnology besides nano-bots (tiny metal robots). Or are they giving us another mixed signal to keep us guessing?
Grats on finding it at least Beachy.
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Do not stop the podcast I love it
I think this podcast was real good though I love the singing KEEP SINGING The Freash Prince of Bel-Air
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