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April 12, 2005

all your colonies are belong to my AIM name @06:26 PM

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So, funny story. Sitting at home, logged into AIM, when ~50 people start IMing me with questions about this "Enzo" character. At first I'm annoyed, as I typically don't like random encounters with people who I have no idea how they got my screen name.

So, I was mildly aware of this ARG out right now called our colony, which most believe to be a promo thing for the upcoming release of the xBox 2. Ok. So people keep asking me about Enzo and our colony, asking me if I'm the gamem8ker. I start off responding in the typical way: no, not the gamem8ker, etc.

Then I run into this guy called iamjeremytheblack or something. he keeps prodding me. By this point, I've started playing along, giving people shit about it, etc. But this jeremy guy is really demanding, asking me to change my profile, etc. So I come up with some silly little profile about how I'm not Enzo and what-have-you, and he gets a little steamed, demanding that I change my profile to say "Enzo shall return shortly). And this was definitely SHALL, not WILL return shortly.

Ok, so at this point, I'm betting he is affiliated with gamem8ker in some way, so I decide to play along, and he proceeds to give me directions about how to proceed, when to change my profile, and what to change it to.

So I've basically, because of my pretentiously nerdy screen name (w01110111 = w^2) become a puzzle piece in this game, which is really awesome. I envision ARG's starting to become less scripted, and start integrating random people into the puzzle/story.

Here is a link to part of the chat (kept it in a movie form) with iamjeremyblack (or something). Good stuff.

movie of chat

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this is hilarious will!

Posted by: susana at April 25, 2005 10:06 AM