Originally posted by I think Im normal
Each number for each part is different. now wouldn't this number just represent a folder? if so why are each of the slide shows in different folders? wouldn't you place them all together just for the sake of consistency and ease of organizing your content?

4220575/Blackjack.html
4315740/Blackjack---Part-2.-A-slideshow-story.html
4515126/Blackjack---Part-3.html
4590866/Blackjack---Part-4.html
4613223/Blackjack---Part-5.html

no those one have to do with url rewriting and database, they manage their content via a web app that creates automatically those numbers. they aren't folder name but an id number to look for by the system in the database to find the required info to display to the user;

they can be changed/manipulated by accessing the database manually with the appropriate permissions (not by the CMS people that post the slideshow use)

If this hasn't been brought up perhaps let me;
Does Semis refer to Nat'lGuard since they are part time soldiers?
Just a thought...

I honestly can't see this beeing an ARG. If it is, as stated before, it is quite a tasteless one for the current timing.

Not to mention the fact that to create an ARG for a video game that attracts conspiricy theorists, isn't exactly a good choice of target market, is it? Especially with E3 just happening a little over a week ago.

Anything from Tom Clancy pretty much = market gold, so why the hell would they go through this trouble? The whole ARG aspect makes no sense, however, this does play similar to something I forgot about some time ago.

A year or two ago there was a website known as eon8.com that acted as a social experiment. There was very little information given and by the end of the day there were password databases, some strange images, and a foreshadowing of the end of the world. It culminated with a timer and had millions of viewers as it counted down to zero only to be revealed as a mass social experiment to see how people would react.

While this is certainly similar in many ways, the things that still hangs me up is the fact that it was posted on a news website. I couldn't fathom what exactly they are trying to accomplish with this, especially if it would turn out to be the same kind of test as eon8 was. The major difference is that everything about this countdown is laid out before use with exactly what is "supposed" to happen. Eon8 simply had us make up our own minds.

I guess time will tell. I'm not ready to throw this out as hoax just yet. It seems like too much trouble to be an ARG and I would suggest at the very least that people have their BOBs ready to go... just in case. You can never be too ready

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[edit on 18-6-2009 by gwydionblack]

I always thought "semis" referred to trucks as in semi tractor trailer's or Semi Trailer Truck. Everyone I know just calls them semis, it would make sense to say be on the look out for semi trailer trucks with sun logos on them, as in they are the ones transporting that bad isht.

Honestly, what is with this link to Tom Clancy? seriously there is no information on a Tom Clancy game called Blackjack anywhere other than unofficial blogs. Tom Clancy has two games coming out, Hawx and Endgame, and there is information for them everywhere, games don't just come out of nowhere, why would websites like IGN have no idea this game was in the works? It comes out in a year, and nothing has leaked until now? Also, why mention it's release in Romania of all places? Seems like disinfo to me.

edit to fix wrong there and add this:

Teardrop Glass eye is a plan mentioned operation blackjack.

as for the corrupt code, I saw that as well, dunno.

EDIT # 2:

What if the 01 and 02 at the beginning of the two countdowns stand for Event 1 and Event 2, then days/hours/minutes/seconds

wouldn't that make it

event one =June 22nd
event two- September 12?

my math was done in haste, correct me if i'm wrong.


[edit on 18-6-2009 by coincidence_theorist]

[edit on 18-6-2009 by coincidence_theorist]

Originally posted by gwydionblack
I honestly can't see this beeing an ARG. If it is, as stated before, it is quite a tasteless one for the current timing.

Not to mention the fact that to create an ARG for a video game that attracts conspiricy theorists, isn't exactly a good choice of target market, is it? Especially with E3 just happening a little over a week ago.

Well, I don't see it as especially tasteless, a Clancy game is likely to have some terrorist stuff in it or some war that might coincidentally happen, or would appear tasteless to some people.

On the question of targeting this at conspiracy theorists, maybe if it is an ARG, sites like this would be a good seeding ground, if you throw in a few conspiracies, people will get worked up about it, and want to figure it out. I think it would give them the initial buzz they need to get the ball rolling.