Joseph Matheny's Blog, page 15

In this action-packed episode of FAILED STATE UPDATE, I break out a certain conspiracy theory-themed trivia board game (“Conspiracy Theory” by Neddy Games) and host an action-packed competition between four fascinating dudes. Come for the conspiracy questions! Stay for the learned discursions! With internet celebrities Joseph Matheny, JG Michael and Jon Marsh (and one international man of mystery, Kirk ‘Mad Dog’ Cooke).

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Show page: https://anchor.fm/failedstateupdate/episodes/27–Paranoids-Game-Night-emipo4/a-a3s6k0a

Conspiracy Theory by Neddy Games: https://shopneddy.com/products/conspiracy-theory-trivia-board-game

Jonathan Marsh on Twitter: https://twitter.com/erieforage

Jon’s Construction Dorks podcast: https://www.constructiondorks.com/

Joseph Matheny homepage: https://josephmatheny.com/

JG Michael on Twitter: https://twitter.com/ViewsParallax

JG’s podcast, Parallax Views: https://parallaxviews.podbean.com/

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We welcome back some friendly faces, Matheny reveals he’s involved in every weird story we can bring up, and we discuss why the internet isn’t fun anymore.

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Featuring: Ken Eakins, Joseph Matheny, Joe Nolan, Lil Ray, and Ted Heistman.

Show page: https://sittingnow.co.uk/coincidence-control-network-file-100-the-centennial/

Links:

Mexico’s devil castle overrun by Satanists

Quantum Jumping Cup Method

Books Matheny recommends:
Walking Through Clear Water in a Pool Painted Black by Cookie Mueller
Pale Horse Rider: William Cooper, the Rise of Conspiracy, and the Fall of Trust in America by Mark Jacobson
In our Place of Quarantine by Joseph L. Flatley

Youtubers are retarded. Randonautica. + retardation ken

Sex Drugs and Chess – The Queen’s Gambit and Deep Blue Down the Rabbit Hole

Also, The Great Chess Movie, and Bobby Fischer Against the World

Also this article about chess and insanity 

3Pac Documentary is live

Werner Herzog on chickens 

Black Tapes podcast
The Case of Charles Dexter Ward podcast

 
Coincidence Control Network

In this fragment of SCHISM we interview the creator of ‘Ong’s Hat’, the first Alternate Reality Game, and ask what his experiences can teach us about the rise of QAnon. Is it possible that the ability to co-create and distribute our own narratives about reality could be altering its basic fabric? And has Noam Chomsky’s concept of ‘manufactured consent’ produced by centralized authority and corporate media now been outmoded by a new era of ‘manufactured dissent’, powered by networks, meme culture and supercharged shitposting?

LINK: https://youtu.be/brijcd-8oWE

Episode sponsored by Joystream, the video platform DAO: https://joystream.org   Support us on Patreon https://patreon.com/schismfilm   Credits, references & more http://schism.film/illusorytruths   Help share this episode, earn goodies: http://mop.to/schism3          

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Back by popular demand, this episode features more dirt on Ted Gunderson. It starts out pretty straightforward, with digital forensic investigator Ed Opperman talking about his experience with the disgraced former FBI agent. Then public satanist Lucien Greaves talks a bit about his investigations into the Satanic Panic, including his experiences with ol’ Ted. Finally, Joseph Matheny comes on for a wide-ranging chat about QAnon, the Finders as metaprogramming, the gameplay-theater-ceremonial magick nexus, and more! Things start out pretty down-to-earth, but by the end of the episode, there is plenty of esoterica for you to chew on. Get ready to have your mind blown, then press play…

But for chrissake, if you haven’t listened to the previous episode (24), please be sure to, so you don’t get too lost…

Listen now: https://anchor.fm/failedstateupdate/episodes/25–More-Gunderson–Finders–QAnon–et–al-elcm3k/a-a3k0etn

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Justin sits down to talk with ARG pioneer Joseph Matheny about politics, conspiracy theories, games and the future of America.

Haps Discussed: Independent art production, marginal voices in marginal spaces, propaganda, misinformation, QAnon, social media, owning your data, Rockefeller Republicans

Books Discussed: Henry Miller, Charles Bukowski

Games Discussed: Ong’s Hat, Majestic, Counter-Strike, Half-Life, Myst

Links

Paralax Views Podcast episode Adrian Hon: What ARGs Can Teach Us About QAnon Conspirituality Podcast

By Tom Dove

Link to the entire article: https://medium.com/@illexical/this-is-not-a-game-44142be5ff2c

Ong’s Hat.

A funny little name. A name on a map of a town that can’t be found.

Emerging on the nascent public internet at some indeterminate point in the late nineties, Ong’s Hat was the prototype for what would become a genre of participatory literature called the alternate reality game, or ARG. An ARG is part adventure story, part puzzle, part esoteric mystery, part scavenger hunt, part online community, all quite weird. They are mostly played on public forums, to capture the widest audience, but their content often spans multiple platforms, and typically multiple media. There have been many thousands of ARGs now, tiny and massive, but one of them was first, and it was wilder than the rest.

Ong’s Hat was by turns surreal, goofy, cosmic, and sinister, drawing heavily on classic counterculture and conspiracy theory lore. In the very early days of the worldwide web, it was doing something in a dispersed form that Mark Z. Danielewski would shortly be hailed as a postmodern genius for doing in the novel House of Leaves: playing adeptly with our ideas about how and why we find things to be true. What makes us believe a thing is real? The course of the game, its story, exists only in inaccurate second-hand reports and archived materials stripped of context now. By accident or by design, all the original online content has long since subsided into the digital sands, but the ghost of Ong’s Hat haunts us still.

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This week we’re talking about one of the very first internet mysteries, and a complicated puzzle still waiting to be solved.

Show Link: https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/none-of-this-is-real

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Ong’s Hat WAS a place set deep in the Pine Barrens of New Jersey.  The 17th-century town was more of an outpost with just a few buildings.  It was known as a rowdy place.  The town got its name from a man named Jacob Ong who after a fight with a woman threw his beloved hat up in the air.  It become stuck in a tree and he never retrieved it.  But Ong’s Hat may have served a different purpose in more modern times, it may have been a place where fringe scientists and cultist gathered to travel into other dimensions.

Link to Show Page: https://shows.acast.com/small-town-secrets/episodes/celebration-fl-ongs-hat-nj

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Nod to David Metcalfe for alerting me to this.

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LINK: https://www.facebook.com/weeklyworldnews/photos/a.164051496982/10158840304436983/

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New Jersey is quite a strange place in America. Especially in the Pine Flats area where a nuclear spill nearby a place known as Ong’s Hat. This is probably the most egg heavy episode you will ever get. Prepare for intense science theory and a surprise ending with this episode.

Episode 169: An Egg In These Trying Times

LINK: https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/cults-cryptids-and-conspiracies/e/76951755?autoplay=true