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We had a thread about that, but now is the time to hear the Word Of God... if there will be one. Maybe it was something else, how can I know.
If I didn't make myself clear, I refer to the tweets Mr. A started to post sometime near the end of EC season 2 and after. I can remember "THIS IS UNACCEPTABLE" and "ALL INSTANTIATIONS BRACE" off the top of my head.

Speaking of the latter, I'll go make a thread.

Yup, that was about the Wall falling. Luckily, we knew it would fall pretty far in advance, so we were able to properly set up for it

So, the wall cracked much earlier than the ARG officially began?

Dryunya wrote:So, the wall cracked much earlier than the ARG officially began?

Yes. Nobody crossed over right when it happened, but that's because nobody tripped across the cracks immediately. Also, as the game showed, the cracks worsened over time. It's not clear if anyone could have crossed over immediately.

Rick Healey wrote:

Dryunya wrote:So, the wall cracked much earlier than the ARG officially began?

Yes. Nobody crossed over right when it happened, but that's because nobody tripped across the cracks immediately. Also, as the game showed, the cracks worsened over time. It's not clear if anyone could have crossed over immediately.

Weeell...

The Cabal probably came over pretty early. That's part of why their memories work differently than the others...and how they knew how to do things like hack a website when other fictionals could barely figure out how to start a blog on their own.

The precise dates of when things happened aren't known to the public. I believe it's implied from the tweets, though, that the cracking of the Wall was not a single event, but a series of experiments that started controlled and ended up getting out of hand. Only when characters started pouring through did it become a problem that needed to be fixed, and one which Mr. A could not simply fix himself. He needed real-world agents...

"Hmm, I accidentally the fourth wall so much that all the instantiations had to brace themselves.
I guess I'll chip off another piece. "

Dryunya wrote:"Hmm, I accidentally the fourth wall so much that all the instantiations had to brace themselves.
I guess I'll chip off another piece. "

In fairness, I don't recall anyone ever saying Mr. A was smart.

Distributed computing has its bottlenecks.

Tom wrote:Distributed computing has its bottlenecks.

I wonder if you have any clue how many times I had to try and explain that concept to people.... T_T

Sicon112 wrote:

Tom wrote:Distributed computing has its bottlenecks.

I wonder if you have any clue how many times I had to try and explain that concept to people.... T_T

Heck, I can explain the concept very easily, using a different metaphor.

It's like the Tram - at times, the combined brain power and effort is much more than you could get with each individual effort. At other times, it ends up working at cross-purposes, particularly when there's a key player that isn't acting in a particular fashion.

Hmm... I guess that would make the instantations a Shadow Archetype of the player base...

Rick Healey wrote:

Sicon112 wrote:

Tom wrote:Distributed computing has its bottlenecks.

I wonder if you have any clue how many times I had to try and explain that concept to people.... T_T

Heck, I can explain the concept very easily, using a different metaphor.

It's like the Tram - at times, the combined brain power and effort is much more than you could get with each individual effort. At other times, it ends up working at cross-purposes, particularly when there's a key player that isn't acting in a particular fashion.

Hmm... I guess that would make the instantations a Shadow Archetype of the player base...

What I meant was that everyone immediately latched on to the "infinite" part of Mr. A and ignored this concept entirely, meaning that they could essentially claim that anything that went wrong ever was all Mr. A's fault and if he had wanted to he could have fixed everything instantaneously.

Not instantaneously but...he could have fixed it after a point. He certainly could have prevented the situation from getting out of hand as it did.

Dana wrote:Not instantaneously but...he could have fixed it after a point. He certainly could have prevented the situation from getting out of hand as it did.

Well, I'm aware of that. But every time he would say he wasn't sure about something, and it didn't seem to matter WHAT, someone would ALWAYS say, "Well, he has infinite instantiations, so he has to know EVERYTHING! HE'S LYING!"

Huh, I never thought of the instantiations as nodes. I always pictured them more like drones.