If you wern't at PAX (this happened, but I still <3 you.) then you would have missed out on an awesome display by the Bioshock 2 Guys. There's this little website you guys may have heard of called theressomthinginthesea.com. If you live under a rock, when you go there you are greeted with a pretty unassuming office you can explore, owned by a man whose daughter was abducted by the Big Sister. This awesome teaser came to life at PAX (and E3 as well, apparently.) Everything was meticulously crafted from the books on the shelves, the cork board of evidence of abductions, there was even a reel-to-reel recording machine that played some creepy monologue about a man in prison.
Anyways, there is a puzzle that the people monitoring the booth were encouraging everyone to solve. To get an idea, imagine a picture swapping puzzle, and then put 5 sides on it, and you kind of have an image of what I had to deal with. Since I wasn't leaving the booth until I got my Johan Vasquez print that day (that's for another post,) I decided to pit my hungover brain against the puzzle at hand. It didn't take very long, once you got the basic idea behind the puzzle, but it was impressed upon me that it's mind numbing difficulty proved too much for people to handle.
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Old school member of Dtoid, professional IRC lurk, aspiring intellectual, gentleman, and a scholar.
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Making fun of things in IRC.
Failing at Blogging.
Team Fortress 2.
Bioshock.
Demigod.
Fallout.
Examining current trends in gameplay mechanics and theorycrafting more effective methods for their conveyance.
Plants Vs. Zombies.
Drinking.
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This is sweet, man! Thx for sharing!
Nice stuff! Can't figure out what it all means though XP
I saw that book, pretty freakin crazy. Have you noticed how more and more people are referencing Alice in Wonderland lately?
Alice in Wonderland is awesome croc, but yeah, it seems to be getting mentioned more than normal.
Awesomesauce. 3D puzzles like that always drive me NUTS.