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DML1001
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(5/5/03 2:57 am)
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Woah... CC314 mentioned in Time magazine.
Hey guys. Not sure if this is common knowledge or not, I looked around here quiclky and didnt see any posts about this, so I am gonna go ahead and post it here. If its a dupe, lmk.
Anyway, i was thinking about Isis recently, and how I should get off my @$$ someday and convert my win32 worminator editor to work on Isis maps. I have also beein looking forward eagerly to The Matrix Reloaded. The latest issue of Time magazine has a cover story on the new Matrix movies, so I grabbed a copy and started thumbing through it. When I get near the end of the article, I find this interesting paragraph:
"The MatrixReloaded is sure to fuel avid speculation. Scholars will note that the Merovingians were a European tribe from the Dark Ages, and that Morpheus paraphrases King Nebuchadnezzar in the Book of Daniel. That strange number, 314: Could it refer to pi (3.14); or to Cerebral Cortex 314, the website for the Commander Keen computer game; or to the lifetime batting average of White Sox outfielder Bibb Falk? As for the Architect's apparently crushing revelation: Couldn't this be another lie—the biggest?"
If your too lazy to read all that, here is the important part:
"Could it refer to pi (3.14); or to Cerebral Cortex 314, the website for the Commander Keen computer game"
Woah, I never expected to find CC314 mentioned while reading an article about the Matrix Reloaded in Time magazine. Its a damn small world...
Way to go eK and the rest of the staff here. Any idea how this reference got in there?
The address of the full article on Time's website is:
www.time.com/time/magazin...38,00.html
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eK
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Posts: 1177
(5/5/03 3:43 am)
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Re: Woah... CC314 mentioned in Time magazine.
That'd be so strange if it refered to cc314... I really really doubt that's what it's refering to.
They obviously don't know that's keen's IQ, or they would have mentioned it rather than the site name.
I think they just did a google search on 314, and we were at the top (which we are).
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Scizor CT
Council Janitor
Posts: 451
(5/5/03 3:43 am)
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Re: Woah... CC314 mentioned in Time magazine.
Very odd, but also very neat. I have a feeling that he just typed 314 into Google and choose the most interesting results.
EDIT: Two second posting difference. Whee.
My Remixes: Here! Click here! Edited by: Scizor CT at: 5/5/03 3:45:13 am
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adurdin
Wormouth
Posts: 744
(5/5/03 9:07 am)
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Re: Woah... CC314 mentioned in Time magazine.
So is this reference in the printed mag? If so, cc314 ought to get a copy and scan the relevant page...
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KeenRush 
Garg
Posts: 3271
(5/5/03 2:51 pm)
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Re: Woah... CC314 mentioned in Time magazine.
Woah, nice thing!  Too bad they didn't say anything about Keen's IQ. 
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Grelphy 
Vortininja
Posts: 277
(5/5/03 9:03 pm)
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Re: Woah... CC314 mentioned in Time magazine.
Heh... I've started seeing 314's all over the place- room numbers, etc.
but to put it in Time? And actually mantion Commander Keen ?
 
You and all those other mental wimps deserve to die!
-Mortimer Mcmire in Commander Keen 3
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Flaose
Pooper, King of the Slugs
Posts: 999
(5/7/03 1:25 am)
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Re: Woah... CC314 mentioned in Time magazine.
Heh...I subscribe to TIME. I'll probably put a scan for those interested later this week.
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KeenRush
Garg
Posts: 3280
(5/7/03 2:36 pm)
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Re: Woah... CC314 mentioned in Time magazine.
That's great!
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NephariteofIlian
Vortininja
Posts: 131
(5/8/03 10:39 am)
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Re: Woah... CC314 mentioned in Time magazine.
ARGH! It's a conspiracy people! 
Ilian is the first of the Dark Apostles, the Mistress of the Void. Her realm is that of mastery of the Dark Arts, the powers of the Dark Symmetry. She is a powerful sorceress, and is believed to be the single most powerful of all the Dark Apostles, though her armies pale in comparison to Algeroth, and her siblings conspire to usurp her position in the favor of the Dark Soul.
Excerpt from Mutant Chronicles
"Beware of he who would deny you access to information, for in his heart he dreams himself your master."
Commissioner Pravin Lal, "Librarian's Preface"
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Retodon8 
Vortininja
Posts: 109
(5/8/03 8:17 pm)
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Uh?
I don't understand the last post... or is that a sig?
Retodon8
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0 UNFLEEXABLE 0 
Vorticon Elite
Posts: 625
(5/9/03 7:35 am)
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Re: Uh?
THAT'S DEFINATELY A REFERENCE TO CC314!
What an honour man! I mean... By TIME Magazine!
I wonder if they're here in Australia, i MUST get myself a copy!
I once had my face appear in 1995 on a woman's 'New Idea' magazine as the Weetbix Kid of the Month!
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adurdin
Wormouth
Posts: 749
(5/10/03 9:49 am)
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Re: Uh?
Weetbix Kid of the Month? How many do you eat 
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KeenRush
Garg
Posts: 3294
(5/10/03 12:37 pm)
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:)
Lol! 
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