Black Swan's Identity Plucked
In picture - Evil has a new face: Hans Van Eeghen, aka Hack Swan, Black Con, etc.
Does anyone recall the Family Guy episode where Peter complains to his teacher about the difficulty of his test, and the teacher replies "you stood up to me... that was the test!" and then Peter smiles and has a lovely 80s style cheer outside. Tried finding it on YouTube, but to little avail. The idea is always amusing, that the test is not the real test - and we're all guilty, particularly if you take Psych like I do, of thinking that you're being played and that the real test is something more covert. Well, apparently, this mind-**** has been used with Dharma Wants You, as we move into the final test.... The integrity, honor and honesty assessment!!! *Gulp*...
So what do you have to do for Test 7... well, nothing. Click it and all that happens is this lovely Dharma video where Hans effectively throws us back into kindergarten, scolding us for cheating. It turns out that HE is Black Swan, and this whole testing procedure has included home-made cheats so he can gauge how honest we all are in the face of corruption. As you can probably guess, the results are undoubtedly not so good amongst our peers from what I can gather. However, recruits caught cheating will not be expelled, but this will be considered in the final dossier (to be released no earlier than December!! - so does that mean ARG cyber silence after the recruitment time ends on October 7th?). Rest assured, I imagine justice will be swift with Hans the sociopathic social scientist in need of some ethics at the helm. Wonder if we're all going to end up as Work Men like I theorised last week....
Anyway, groups are pretty quack and dry this week (an audible groan at that lame attempt at a pun) - you're either a white swan for not cheating, or a black swan for being dishonest (good to see TPTB don't care for silly political correctness). I found it interesting that Hans talked about how the Dharma Initiative had been betrayed before - finally a little bit of Lost crossovering to get us geared up. Will next week yield any other big revelations after today's surprise? A mention of the big betrayer that is Ben? Could Hans be lying in the face of sheer embarassment over a hacker making cheats for all his tests, thus incorporating it as though it were his plan all along - out there, but hell it wouldn't be a Lost ARG without a similar "is Persephone actually Rachel" double-bluff debate!!! I don't understand why Hans would, as Black Swan, give us all his voicemail account, diss himself in source code, etc etc. As seems the theme this year and for the upcoming Season 5 of Lost, time will tell.
8 comments:
I don't think that this was part of their plan from the beginning. No way! They are just trying to keep their name clean, like "We are Dharma! No one is able to hack our system." Would you want to work for a Company that is always late, not able to keep their Website clean, or the information on it secret. I wouldn't if this wouldn't be a part of the ARG. And that's why I think they want us to believe that they are a serious and safe Company and they were so clever they could make us believe whatever they want! But I don't care anymore! I'am Black Swan, so I'am out. Namaste!
Of course it was planned, it's the most transparent test ever. Since the beginngin, people have have been saying that the cheats wouold probably disqualify you. At this point I'm very glad that I kept my main account clean!
It's also pretty much in character for the Dharma we know from the show.
"Pushing the button in the Swan is of the utmost importance."
"The people in the other stations you are observing believe their tasks are of the utmost importance."
The funny thing is there is a way around that outcome too!!
You can create a new account and go directly to test 7 and you will instantly be white swan then go and take the tests and cheat if you like
LOL I gotta love all our lost buddies that come together in a time of need and solve all the problems
Now there is talk that there might even be a cheat code in that final test
I can't wait!
I went ahead and opened a new, cheat-free account and encountered a couple of interesting differences between my previous cheated-on account and this new 'virgin' one i completed.
1. just like lostgirl mentioned the cheated account displays 'Black Swan' for the Test 7 group, the clean one displays "White Swan"
2. All other Test groups are different except for the 'Helios' I received for Test 4.
3. The biggest revelation I stumbled upon was that the Best Score percentages for Test 1 and 3 for my 'White Swan" account reset themselves from my original 65% and 40% to perfect scores of 99% and 100% respectively. By playing fairly, those two tests reaps the benefits of using the cheats without the punishment.
I DID cheat and yet I was still put into White Swan. Kinda blows the theory.
I DID cheat and yet I was still put into White Swan. Kinda blows the theory.
I believe though, that the Black Swans will definitely be the critical people. Why? Because they will lie, cheat, beg and steal, ala Ben, Mr. Friendly and Patchy.
The rest of us that did not cheat, will be the WorkMen!
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