[MattSavinar]

How much you want to bet that if your reaction in the game is to buy a gun, buy some gold, take direct action against any corporate/government entity, that piece of info will end up in some homeland security database?

I guaran-damn-tee you Big Brother will be watching.

[shortonoil]

MattSavinar said:

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'H')ow much you want to bet that if your reaction in the game is to buy a gun, buy some gold, take direct action against any corporate/government entity, that piece of info will end up in some homeland security database?

I guaran-damn-tee you Big Brother will be watching.

[MattSavinar]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('shortonoil', '[')b]MattSavinar said:

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'H')ow much you want to bet that if your reaction in the game is to buy a gun, buy some gold, take direct action against any corporate/government entity, that piece of info will end up in some homeland security database?

I guaran-damn-tee you Big Brother will be watching.

[seahorse]

Our only hope is the Rove has lost, along with the 5 million other emails, all the data of all of "us" logging onto this website, all our many posts, all our many plans on the planning forum etc.

[SevenTen]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('MattSavinar', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('shortonoil', '[')b]MattSavinar said:

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'H')ow much you want to bet that if your reaction in the game is to buy a gun, buy some gold, take direct action against any corporate/government entity, that piece of info will end up in some homeland security database?

I guaran-damn-tee you Big Brother will be watching.

[jato]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('We're Preparing for a Crisis', 'I')magine eight people brought together by trouble: trapped together (with thousands of others) in the Denver airport by a blizzard. We had a lot of time on our hands. We talked. We bonded. Awww. How nice.

Now, here's the thing. We eight have come to believe that a crisis is coming – on April 30, to be precise. (An oil shock, or something to do with oil.) We have no proof – it's just something a guy said in an unguarded moment. He may have been putting us on. But we don't think so. We have decided to prepare.

[Narz]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('killJOY', 'H')ow about learning to ferment cabbage instead?

[Twilight]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('SevenTen', 'B')ingo.

This is not a simulation for us.

It's a simulation for them.

[MattSavinar]

Jato,

some good picks there. I'd like the guy who plays me to be a bit studlier though.

[shortonoil]

If you folks don’t think that there could be a crisis coming take a look at pupp55’s latest at Weekly US Petroleum and NG Supply Reports. It doesn’t look good, which is an unemotional way of saying; WE COULD SOON BE MIGHTLY SCREWED.

Coincidence? Possibly - but probability is not on coincidence’s side for this scenario!

[Newsseeker]

There might even be a market for apocalyptic peak oil role playing games. Scavenge and try to form communities while living in a time of extreme scarcity. Evade the roving bands and military patrols that will send you to government detention centers as you struggle to exist in this brave new world. In the event of peak oil, nuclear reactors will probably malfunction and shut down so there is the possibility of roving mutant insects which would add to the excitement, if not the futuristic realism, of the game.

It looks like the original post was deleted for this thread.

[Pops]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('MattSavinar', 'H')ow much you want to bet that if your reaction in the game is to buy a gun, buy some gold, take direct action against any corporate/government entity, that piece of info will end up in some homeland security database?

I guaran-damn-tee you Big Brother will be watching.

[KevO]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Zardoz', 'C')orrect me if I'm wrong, but I'm starting to get the impression that maybe there's a sort of peak oil underground out there that could be a lot more extensive than any of us realize.
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[Newsseeker]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('KevO', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Zardoz', 'C')orrect me if I'm wrong, but I'm starting to get the impression that maybe there's a sort of peak oil underground out there that could be a lot more extensive than any of us realize.
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[Leanan]

Maybe games are the way to reach people...

London, Tokyo Submerged by Rising Seas -- In "Second Life"

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', '
')Tokyo, Amsterdam, and the entire Mediterranean island of Ibiza were inundated with floodwaters today due to rising sea levels brought on by global warming.

Or at least, that would have been the headline if events in the virtual world Second Life mirrored reality.

A rolling flood temporarily swamped several areas of the online world as part of a campaign to illustrate the potential environmental and financial impacts of climate change.

"Our message was, You may have a second life, but [you still need to] offset your second life in real life," said David de Rothschild, a London-based environmentalist and adventurer whose nonprofit Adventure Ecology helped stage today's flood.

[Leanan]

Another article about it:

A world without oil, in a game

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', ' ')In a matter of days, gas prices will skyrocket, a dwindling food supply will rot, and the oil crisis will literally stop Americans in their tracks.

How can you and your loved ones survive a crippling breakdown?

Log in to "World Without Oil," a free alternate reality game that taps our collective ingenuity to stop a plausible crisis before it happens. Or at least prepare a post-Katrina nation to deal better with a disaster.

[JPL]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Leanan', 'A')nother article about it:

A world without oil, in a game

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', ' ')In a matter of days, gas prices will skyrocket, a dwindling food supply will rot, and the oil crisis will literally stop Americans in their tracks.

How can you and your loved ones survive a crippling breakdown?

Log in to "World Without Oil," a free alternate reality game that taps our collective ingenuity to stop a plausible crisis before it happens. Or at least prepare a post-Katrina nation to deal better with a disaster.

[MattSavinar]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('JPL', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Leanan', 'A')nother article about it:

A world without oil, in a game

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', ' ')In a matter of days, gas prices will skyrocket, a dwindling food supply will rot, and the oil crisis will literally stop Americans in their tracks.

How can you and your loved ones survive a crippling breakdown?

Log in to "World Without Oil," a free alternate reality game that taps our collective ingenuity to stop a plausible crisis before it happens. Or at least prepare a post-Katrina nation to deal better with a disaster.

[JPL]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('MattSavinar', '
')I stand by my suspicion that TPTB will be "jerking off" over our actions in the game if "data mining" now defines "jerking off."

[Sheb]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Newsseeker', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('KevO', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Zardoz', 'C')orrect me if I'm wrong, but I'm starting to get the impression that maybe there's a sort of peak oil underground out there that could be a lot more extensive than any of us realize.
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