All Things Superman: An Open Discussion - - - Part 40

[N7 Joseph Shepard]

If all we can do is wait, we might as well fill the thread with pointless gifs, right?

 

[gomez147]

So it's 6:00 pm on Monday -- is that eastern? pacific?

Central

 

[J_Howlett]

Damn you static screen!

 

[Torrente]

Dear WB:

 

[Kal-El.9859]

Has anyone thought that this:

Might just be an HD version of this??

 

[craigdbfan]

That would be really disappointing. Hopefully they just release the trailer.

 

[rashad]

Has anyone thought that this:

Might just be an HD version of this??

Umm...No.

 

[X Knight]

ok, I'm back.

any change??

anything exciting happen??

 

[gomez147]

ok, I'm back.

any change??

anything exciting happen??

Just look!

http://manofsteel.warnerbros.com/

 

[J_Howlett]

Has anyone thought that this:

Might just be an HD version of this??

Haha wow, I actually see it. You can almost see the exact face in the static.

 

[gomez147]

I want to see the damn trailer already!

 

[GreenKToo]

I see what looks like a face, and while its in a similar pose as cavill, it looks different to me.
If its even a face that is.

 

[Mysteryman]

if it is a face, it must be Zod.

 

[shauner111]

It might be Zod.

 

[shauner111]

 

[Mad Love]

It's just static.

 

[X Knight]

nothing's changed!!! why have the marketing gods forsaken us??!!

...........is it just going to be static through the whole weekend??

seems like a waste of the site's resources..........

 

[GreenKToo]

Could be jor-el.

 

[Kal-El.9859]

Haha wow, I actually see it. You can almost see the exact face in the static.

Has nobody mentioned that??

Don't see it at all

 

[Gee]

You guys are just seeing things. It's like those Jesus/Marie face toasts...

 

[GreenKToo]

I *think* it just changed again.

 

[Dark Sentinel]

You guys are just seeing things. It's like those Jesus/Marie face toasts...

Who the hell is "Marie"?

 

[STARMAN]

If I look at the static long enough I start to see Kate Upton.

 

[jasvll]

Well I just noticed this:

If you use Google Chrome, go to

view-source:http://www.manofsteel.com/

I saw this:

That long number is a countdown, it changes every second. I don't know... It's kinda weird, but if you convert that value to hours, you get 73.6 hours, so that countdown is going to end in Monday at 18:00

Interestingly, inside the javascript function that uses that variable...90000 (seconds?) is immediately subtracted from the value of deltaT (the parameter is dTL inside the function). This would translate to -25 hours. I'm still studying the code, but it's possible that 0 could get here a little sooner.

Also, I noticed if you're using a mobile device, you get a looping gif of the static, rather than a video:
http://www.manofsteel.com/transmissi...9/incoming.gif

Here's a link to the javascript if anyone else wants to check it out:
http://www.manofsteel.com/js/src/transmission.js

A couple of other things:

The transId variable determines the URL the video and audio come from.

The deltaT (- the 25 hours) variable eventually gets stored in a value called tRem. I'd wager that's short for 'time remaining'.

I also think that as things get closer, we'll end up with a visible countdown. There's no need to have javascript counting down on the client side...unless you want to show the client how much time is left, either explicitly, with an on screen countdown...or 'covertly', with exposed javascript that you didn't bother to obfuscate. So, either it's a visible countdown...or they WANT us to poke around in their code and come up with the answer ourselves. Or I'm wrong.

 

[gomez147]

It changed! t: