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Offline Rick James

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Pbbt. Hardly. Metallica sucks anyway.

Back on topic. If I might refer to my earlier post:

Oh, and after looking at the Anagram thing posted by Androgeos Exeunt, I picked out the letters A, G, and E to spell "Age". Then I put the remaining letters into the generator and one of the results I got was "Wars Truce". Possibly "War's Truce", as in a reference to the cease-fire signed between the GTA and PVE? An Age of War's...Truce?

Thoughts?

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Offline Mars

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Speculation is pointless until we have something more to speculate about

  

Offline Mongoose

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The anagram thing was just a red herring, if even that.  That whole password was needed to open up a file in the archive-disguised-as-image in the first post of this thread.

And you're clearly not metal enough to be in here. :p

 

Offline Androgeos Exeunt

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Oh, Goober used .ARG? .RAR works as well.

The anagram thing was just a red herring, if even that.  That whole password was needed to open up a file in the archive-disguised-as-image in the first post of this thread.

And you're clearly not metal enough to be in here. :p
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Quote: Tuesday, 3 October 2023 0133 UTC +8, #general
MP-Ryan
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* Androgeos Exeunt headshoots Mongoose. :snipe:

Thanks, dude.

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I'd ask what sort of music you'd suggest to use as the key to getting in here, but you'd probably earn my scorn whatever you answered, so let's leave it at that. :p

 
Why are there two sathanas class juggernauts on that render ShadowGorrath posted (not the blurred image)?

(is probably not related to puzzle, but I am still curious)
« Last Edit: October 18, 2008, 10:06:55 am by -Joshua- »

 

Offline ShadowGorrath

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Same reason why there's a Shivan Comm Node. I believe Setekh wanted to show the Capella era Shivans in their enviroment.

 

Offline General Battuta

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Do we have any unsolved puzzles at the moment, or are we just waiting for Goob to unveil the next one?

This is awesome.

 

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We don't have it.

Goob's giving the next piece of the puzzle next Saturday.
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Quote: Tuesday, 3 October 2023 0133 UTC +8, #general
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Offline terran_emperor

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I could see the words HUGE SECRET in the code...

[Edit] If you anagram the capital letters you get AUG SECRET WAR

[Edit2] Does this mean that ST:R is comingout next August? (Silent Threat = Secret War?) Doubtful with the planned christmas release...
Or was there a campaign released in August called "Secret War"

Or am i just seeing patterns where none exist?

« Last Edit: October 25, 2008, 09:34:33 pm by terran_emperor »
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Probably.  They've already said the release date was Christmas.

 

Offline Mongoose

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And we already know that that phrase was used to decrypt the text file in the archive-disguised-as-image.  Goober and Galemp may have thrown in the scrambled letters as a red herring, or they may just be a funny coincidence.

 

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I tried the image/archive trick back when i found this place, didn't work for me :confused:

Also has anyone tried thinking if Aadarshs name has any significance?
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-TBP Fortune Hunters (I think?)
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(Others lost to the mists of time and no discernible audit trail)

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Nope... Though ... it might ...
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Offline terran_emperor

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An anagram prehaps

Edit:
Just tried it out:
The only results that seemed likely were
as a hard...
&
hard as a...

These could be parts of a phrase...Or i could just be grasping at straws
« Last Edit: October 26, 2008, 12:19:24 pm by terran_emperor »
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Offline faxi

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Goober had already stated that for this stage there is nothing more, but still I wanted to make sure that nothing is hidden in the probe image.

Since somebody had posted the original rendering, from which the "probe image" was created, I just used a graphics program to compute the difference of these two images. The probe image is derived from the complete the upper part of the original rendering before the logo starts.

The difference between both images just yields what looks like random noise. Of course it's pretty impossible to know whether anything serious could be hidden in that noise but at least there seems to be no meaningful pattern in the noise. So basically, it seems that really just some noise has been overlayed to create a "dirty-looking" image, without that image having any relevance for the puzzle. (Or Goober has used some way to encode the data digitally into the noise, which would be impossible to know without further hints).

I post the diff image so that you can also get an idea what has been overlayed/changed to come from the original rendering to the probe image.

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