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Hosted Projects - FS2 Required => Silent Threat: Reborn => FreeSpace Conversion => Phoenix => Topic started by: Announcements on January 12, 2009, 02:50:34 am
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[error: database corrupted; message no longer available]
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... What? "Messages" in Rybak's acccount is still inaccessible, Deneb III still contains nothing but the readme.
Let the speculation begin...
EDIT - the first message number I saw was #58547, now it's #1181422. I wrote this here before, but either I pressed the wrong button or it's been removed by someone (likely, since the "new posts" picture showed up next to this thread, while there was only mine) ... In which case the first number could have been a mistake by "Announcements"... Or maybe not...
EDIT2 - Hey, board 179 is gone now. Could someone check Deneb III? I've been locked out again.
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Hmmm, strange. The "Estimated" synchronization offest" counts down. Still about 78 or 79 days left. I wonder what's going on. I have a feeling that the 179 board isn't gone without a reason - seems that the Grand Prize is getting near :)
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I wonder what tag he used to get that countdown to work.
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Woah, weird...
Could 1181442 refer to a particular post somewhere? And if so, where would we start to look for it? There's no thread with the tag 58547 on the boards, at least not that we're able to access. The text of the post makes me think that whatever temporal anomaly allowed Aadarsh's posts to find their way to us has managed to de-sync itself, at least until that counter runs out.
You gotta love which particular account posted this, though. :D
(Out of random curiosity, I wonder if we could convince Goober to nix the IP blocks on the Holonet. I accidentally locked myself out again after grabbing the readme, but I'd like to be able to poke around the general info again.)
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Yes, 11181442 looks right to be a post, but we need to find the right thread first.
http://www.hard-light.net/forums/index.php/topic,60358.msg1189901.html#msg1189901 is this post (mine)...so...
topic,[topic].msg[number].html#msg[number] is how you link directly to a post...lets see...
Nope, can't access 58547
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http://www.hard-light.net/forums/index.php/topic,58547.msg1181422.html#msg1181422 goes nowhere either. I think thread 58547 is somewhere in the STR internal... Or in board 179? If this was in board 179, it would "explain" its disappearance.
And I do hope we won't have to wait another eleven weeks (the countdown timer) before the grand prize is there. Or maybe it's worth the wait?
Anyway, since the number #58547 is gone now, it might be a dead track, caused by a mistake by "Announcements". Maybe msg1181422 is not in that thread. Somebody could try all threads from the past month or so, and look if msg#1181422 is in it? Guess you'd need the right software to do that.
EDIT: Rybak's account seems to be gone.
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Hmmm. don't know if it helps, but looking at Messages 1181415 and 1181432, both found here: http://www.hard-light.net/forums/index.php/topic,58546.0.html (http://www.hard-light.net/forums/index.php/topic,58546.0.html) I'm assuming that the post we're looking for was made sometime between those posts.
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Where the hell is the scrambled "Delete last fokker Triplane" or whatever thread?
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Nice catch, Joshua. According to my browser history, thread #58547 was indeed "Timoke. No, delete last Fokker Triplane. No", which has disappeared.
Message #1181422 may just be the first post in that thread. Does anyone have it cached or saved?
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I don't have it cached, but I kinda remember the text of the post. It was something like...
You damn, okay. Whew. Jackpot! Rybak's password is "fortune favors the bold"! Log in, download everything you can...
...and I don't remember the rest, except that there was a massive jumble of symbols at the end. I figured it wasn't anything important, but hey, considering how this whole thing has gone, it might have been another coded message or something.
Also, I don't know if this means anything, but the countdown in the first post will reach zero a little over 76.7 days from now.
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Also, I don't know if this means anything, but the countdown in the first post will reach zero a little over 76.7 days from now.
April Fools' Day...
About 0500 GMT.
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Hmmm...the plot thickens yet again...
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The Holonet seems to have rolled back, as the newest news articles are gone. Maybe the "Phase variance" means we're supposed to be locked on to what was the past before, the offset being how far back we are from where we were before. :doubt: That didn't make any sense :p, hopefully my diagram makes more. If I'm right, we have a chance to get into the holonet before the lockdown. I'm probably barking up the wrong tree though.
[attachment stolen by Slimey Goober]
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Where the hell is the scrambled "Delete last fokker Triplane" or whatever thread?
I have no idea if it's of any use but I saved that webpage. Aardash's post is below.
You damn, okay. All right. Whew. Jackpot! Rybak's password is "fortune favors the bold"! Log in, download everything you possibly can, and tell everyone you know. Tell the press, tell your friends, tell the ham radio operators, tell anyone you can so they can't cover it up. It's the only way we can OSHI-!↓♠bÄ<╥º↕☺╥⌡}R;ôAIf#ó/▌éx►M9y▀¼√┌x┌┤X@║¼Θf♣╙Ö#á╦ö╦▲,"S4%┴►mgw┴▼>f╨₧☺í╒»¡>\@═¡ΦV¥H8Fn*╚(LE¢ë▀»8`Å=≤CδSm█L·^û╡3Æ¢■î2♥2≡EF5├v≤¬/↑Ñ‼╕g2:↨◄%╤E⌡oU╓*Y8êC╜>∟╤v(d*§É₧i╒¶╢╥╢ö╚uâFº3s<╖wæe≥▄[UuálP>VXñ4┌╪<gè'sNO CARRIER
That final sentence could just repesent his last message getting garbled up when he was finally disconnected.
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[...] It's the only way we can OSHI-
As in "Oh ****"? Was he discovered while writing this?
NO CARRIER
Loss of signal?
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[...] It's the only way we can OSHI-
As in "Oh ****"? Was he discovered while writing this?
NO CARRIER
Loss of signal?
Well, as there is no verb I can think of that begins with oshi, and one does not pronounce OSHI!!! in a way like something really bad happened, I do think that he indeed was discovered.
I think when times reaches zero, Aadarshes time-stamp reset will be undone. I think we need to look at rescheduling more closely.
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It's possible that there is some meaning in that garbled bunch of characters (I wouldn't be surprised if there was...), but I know of no information that would lead to deciphering it.
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So now I find it :sigh:
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So now I find it :sigh:
Heh, welcome aboard... I got here late too, but it looks there might still be a few secrets left to figure out. "Might" is the key word though. Aadarsh was caught, and we don't really have much of a lead now, since it looks like Rybak's account on the Holonet no longer exists.
Honestly, the fact that the timer will end on April Fools' Day at 0500 GMT (which is midnight in Virginia, where Goober lives) is making me wonder if we're just pursuing nothing here. But hopefully Goober's not quite that evil.
By the way, lostllama, were you able to figure out if the Fokker Triplane post was message #1181422?
EDIT: Forgot to mention, I looked at that jumble again, and it looks kind of like the mess you get when you try to open random programs in Notepad that aren't text files. I don't know of any way to figure out where it might be from, though...
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We've already been promised something big at the end of the tunnel; in fact, the previous end offering, the preview of the full campaign on the currently-defunct "You Win" board, was a consolation prize, since the real reward wasn't quite ready in time. I'm guessing this whole time reset was intended to take us back to before that time, so that we can get the final prize when we were originally supposed to. (Fun fact: the Vasudan word of the day archive seems to be the only item on the Holonet that wasn't pushed back.) What I can't tell you is whether there's some sort of puzzle here that can lead us to that reward...or whether we're just supposed to sit tight and wait until that counter runs down. Regardless, it's better late than never for you guys; at least you beat those who will be stuck outside until this whole thing (possibly) goes public at the end. :p
As for the end of Aadarsh's final message, if I had to guess, I'd say it was just random gibberish, since his signal (and maybe his life) was seemingly in the process of being forcibly cut off. There always is a possibility that there's something hidden in there, though.
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By the way, lostllama, were you able to figure out if the Fokker Triplane post was message #1181422?
Yes it was, the address for that post is below (obviously it's not working).
http://www.hard-light.net/forums/index.php/topic,58547.msg1181422.html#msg1181422
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Here's my two cents to you FSPort guys, if you're reading this:
THIS IS NOT TRANSCEND.
:p ;)
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Does anyone remember what Ardash's real name was? It could give us another user name for the holonet.
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We've already been promised something big at the end of the tunnel; in fact, the previous end offering, the preview of the full campaign on the currently-defunct "You Win" board, was a consolation prize, since the real reward wasn't quite ready in time.
Ahh, okay. I assumed the early release would have counted as the ultimate prize... and when I found out the counter was going to end on April Fools' Day, I got the impression that this post was just nothing. (Maybe I've read that one thread in the Classics section one too many times...) But if there's something more at the end of the tunnel, then there probably is a bit more to this.
And McMad, I don't think we ever found out Aadarsh's real name... he gave us the names Isaac Stone and Andreas Rybak, but he's someone else.
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We did see Aadarsh's real name in the security alert that came up when using Rybak's account, but I can't recall what it was.
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Someone had a screenshot of it in the Fokker Triplane thread.
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Found it. I'm not sure how to do the accent, so I've attached it instead.
[attachment stolen by Slimey Goober]
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Live from #162 (yes, it's alive once in a while :P )
<FSF> Is there a puzzle we haven't found yet?
<FSF> Like, in the rubble Aadarsh posted?
<Goober5000> the gibberish at the end of the message is line noise
<FSF> Nothing but that?
<Goober5000> ya
<FSF> So, all we can do is wait?
<Goober5000> ya
<FSF> Till April Fools... I keep thinking we're being fooled though :P
<Goober5000> no comment :p
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<FSF> Does Aadarsh's name mean something? Or is it just a name?
<Goober5000> it's just a name
<Goober5000> he had an Indian handle, so I thought I'd pick a name that wasn't Indian
<Goober5000> and also you don't usually hear of Portuguese astronauts
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<Goober5000> well, actually, I did pick Estevao for a reason
<FSF> Oh?
<Goober5000> ya
<FSF> Which reason?
<Goober5000> well, if you want a puzzle, there it is :p
<FSF> x_x
<FSF> Can we have something to start off with?
<FSF> Please?
<Goober5000> no, you need to keep yourselves busy until the counter reaches 0
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lol . . . Goober thought about this a lot
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Estevão Figueira (I just post this here for copy and paste purposes)
Well, Figueira is portugese, alright. THere is a province in portugal with that name (Figuera da Foz), and there is also a Santiago Figueira named computer scientist, although I do believe that is just a coincidence.
Santo Estêvão is more intresting. Really more intresting. It is the spanish/portugese name for Saint Stephen. SInce it is a religious thing, something tells me we should look there.
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It reminds me of Speaker for the Dead and all that. I think that was Estavao Ribeira though.
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maybe 3.610 comes out when the counter reaches zero? but on April fool's?
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Maybe "Announcements" will tell us what's gonna happen early if we offer it some cake :drevil:
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:bump:
Less than a minute left...
EDIT: So did anything happen?
EDIT2: I can't seem to find any way of viewing a specific post without referencing a topic. Is there any way?
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I am reading -9988 not a minute.
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Odd. The counter hit zero for me...
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*anticipates Goober deleting his screenshot within minutes*
[attachment deleted by evil Tolwyn]
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And for me, zero is still ~32000 seconds away.
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Odd. The counter hit zero for me...
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*anticipates Goober deleting his screenshot within minutes*
what time/day is it where you live?
it's about 6:26pm tuesday here.
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I'm reading -2090, it must be relative.
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Odd. The counter hit zero for me...
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*anticipates Goober deleting his screenshot within minutes*
what time/day is it where you live?
it's about 6:26pm tuesday here.
It hit zero pretty close to 3:00 PM on the 31st.
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For me, its going to hit zero at ~09:00, April 1st.
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-8800 or so here. If I did my math right, that would correspond to midnight GMT.
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Mine will end in 25 minutes, or 5:00 in my time zone which is General Mountain Time. Weird.
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ohh snap! look at this!
Found it. I'm not sure how to do the accent, so I've attached it instead.
[attachment stolen by Slimey Goober]
anyone know what was in that attachment?
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Going by the context, I'd guess a screenshot with Aadarsh's real name on it.
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My counter's at -38685 and counting.
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38 000 seconds left... :nervous:
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Synched. And now the penny drops. Question is, what kind of penny is it?
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I wonder if it has to do with how early you posted in 162...
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I posted in some of the earlier threads. I think it has to do with your time zone and Goob's time zone
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ok...mine is at "-Synchronized.s"
Whatever that means...
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Weird. I still have 32 660 seconds to go.
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mine be synchronized.s as well
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ok...mine is at "-Synchronized.s"
Whatever that means...
Yeah, I'm there too. Hmm.
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function setTZCountDown(tz)
{
var toDate = new Date(1238544000000);
toDate.setMinutes(0-(tz*60));
var fromDate = new Date();
fromDate.setMinutes(fromDate.getMinutes() + fromDate.getTimezoneOffset());
var diffDate = new Date(0);
diffDate.setMilliseconds(toDate - fromDate);
return Math.floor(diffDate.valueOf()/1000);
}
Javascript used to calculate the time offset. If it returns less than zero, "Synchronized" is displayed.
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I still have 24 000+ seconds to go before synchronisation. What in the world is going on?
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WARNING
WARNING
CONFLICKER HAS BREACHED THE FORUM
DATABASE CORRUPTED
CONTAINMENT FAILURE IS IMMINENT
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:eek: :nervous:
-5654
-5653
-5652
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Still 26 000 seconds...oh wait...I said 24 000 seconds just now... :confused:
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Hmm it's gonna hit 0 at 3am for me...not midnight.
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19 900 seconds remain.
...so that's five point five hours to go!
/me nods head sagely.
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<Khan>Time's up, Admiral</Khan>
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It's Sync'd now.
???
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It's Sync'd now.