#easter-eggs

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sick stone
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My gut is telling me Lyra>Orpheus

sweet narwhal
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Same here half_friend

timid solstice
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so this namatama was bowie related too? and crash test was for cassini crash as in cassini Ovals?

sharp flame
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my god

pure loom
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I gotta say, mostly I just have an overwhelming sense of relief

sharp flame
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and... also.. the Vesica Piscis

pure loom
timid solstice
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I thought we found this and yeah we did

sharp flame
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just to be sure we got it

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hehe

timid solstice
sharp flame
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oh the other one I'm thinking of is universal equation of an egg

pure loom
sharp flame
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Rob clearly has double meanings galore

timid solstice
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just checking, yup yup yup

slender lodge
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There was a lot of clues leading to the answer from the start

sharp flame
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0vif0rm doesn't seem like it could hold a double-sided secret

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like a Gold clue or anything

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I suppose the 137 in T1C's answer was just a part of the answer

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so maybe from 0vif0rm

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we can extract 'VIF'

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and maybe RM too

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and see if that connects to anything, like gold or something

timid solstice
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Okay, I'm going to eat some Spaghetti, see you tomorrow everyone!

sharp flame
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oh! if you look very closely... you can see something written... '0vif0rm'...

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I wonder what that means

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hehe

sick stone
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Hmm

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How much of the last image we got can we connect?

sharp flame
slender lodge
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Bruh

sharp flame
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👀

strong hare
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It is

sharp flame
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/s

strong hare
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Whaat

slender lodge
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Maybe zoom in more

strong hare
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It's true!!!

slender lodge
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You'll find the next tiers pass

sick stone
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What if… the last picture is also related to the next tier?

strong hare
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Zoom, enhance, zoom, enhance

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And you find all the tier answers

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Just with one image

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An image of an eye

sharp flame
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don't see anything...

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maybe I should zoom in further

strong hare
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I see!!!!

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I can see an I in the eye

strong hare
quiet silo
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Well now that we've solved this tier what else am I supposed to do with my day? My Job???

sharp flame
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okay, in seriousity

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here we had Ceres (first orbiting body (MPC no.1))
and the stripes are 4 and 8, 48 (0)

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I think 'oviform' woulda been impossible with what we had

pure loom
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like gotten onto "orbits" and that they aren't round

sick stone
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So that’s 100% some sound…

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Did it lead anywhere?

low summit
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1D SOLVED?

pure loom
strong hare
pure loom
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The pw was "0vif0rm"

low summit
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congrats EE folkhug_friend

hidden nacelle
hidden nacelle
sharp flame
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and in 404 and also the slashed 0 namatama

sharp flame
sick stone
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I need the audio, but rn I’m eating

hidden nacelle
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i dont think its anything as theres alot of these in the image

sharp flame
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yeah

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but I mean it definitely could be in a certain area of the image

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Rob hides his clues super well

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as he has just demonstrated

hidden nacelle
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see here

quiet silo
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His clues are almost more like bread crumbs that lead us to concrete clues that we then put together to get the whole answer. rob and dusty are really good at making this like house of cards of little and big clues

pure loom
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Can anyone fathom how 404 fits into this?

sick stone
pure loom
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not found - I guess so

sharp flame
sick stone
sick stone
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At least to me

sharp flame
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insane level of dedication required

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to measure each pixel height

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unless there's a software which filters out light pixels from dark pixels on a coloured image

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and transcribes it into a sound file

sick stone
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I think you can straighten it out then just run it through a image>audio program

sick stone
sharp flame
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would be a crazy find for sure

sharp flame
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48 = 0

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my bad

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47 was the slash

pure loom
# sharp flame 48 = 0

I've added this into the padlet, for the record, but noted it was after the pw was known

timid solstice
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I think next time we get those primary clues drilled down

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And split off from there

pure loom
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Probably the biggest lesson for me is to keep focused on the most obvious clues and fully flesh them out

neon stream
timid solstice
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Put what’s obvious

sharp flame
pure loom
sharp flame
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but I really don't remember

neon stream
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I think they were

timid solstice
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Nope

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Was seen as golden ratio

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Was only recently we said 4 and 8

neon stream
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☝🏻

pure loom
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or a fib number

pure loom
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was before the pw

sharp flame
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@prisma stump mentioned it within a few minutes of the first image and then nobody elaborated on it 😭

timid solstice
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I think fish mentioned it 4 and 8

quiet silo
pure loom
quiet silo
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Yeah it's hard to ignore your own interests and bias to find the most common denominator in all the clues haha.

timid solstice
sharp flame
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Rikta was first

pure loom
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I guess I can cross my underground Sydney creek off the list now ElonThonk

sharp flame
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and I think Rikta also mentions the other zeroes

timid solstice
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Ok ok LEITH ?

sharp flame
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Virginia Leith played a literal Brain In Vat
Rosemary Leith is TBL's wife

timid solstice
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Cecil

pure loom
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wtf... I just noticed this person was a resident in Leith, Scotland: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Anderson_(chemist)

Thomas Anderson (2 July 1819 – 2 November 1874) was a 19th-century Scottish chemist. In 1853 his work on alkaloids led him to discover the correct formula/composition for codeine., In 1868 he discovered pyridine and related organic compounds such as picoline through studies on the distillation of bone oil and other animal matter.As well as his ...

timid solstice
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Matrix

pure loom
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Thomas Anderson, like The Matrix

sharp flame
timid solstice
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So LEITH was a burrw clue

pure loom
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But Burrw is still another path right? For later

timid solstice
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I don’t think so

sharp flame
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I thought it ended at YMF292

neon stream
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Hmmm so what do you guys think the 3 "primary" clues were? 🤔

timid solstice
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Ovals

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0

sharp flame
pure loom
sharp flame
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all the binary stars

sharp flame
neon stream
timid solstice
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Double came later though

neon stream
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Matrix maybe? 🤔 for the cartesian coordinates, and origin 0,0?

timid solstice
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There has to be a 3rd from the start

pure loom
sharp flame
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Matrix = 0, 0 maybe

pure loom
pure loom
sharp flame
timid solstice
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Well from burrw we had oval thrown at our faces

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And sound chip

pure loom
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so Thomas Anderson could have been a quaternary or tertiary clue

sharp flame
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48 reference 👀 /s

timid solstice
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2 0’s

sharp flame
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imagine if after this tier

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Rob stops giving us 👀s

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because they were just referencing this answer 00

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and now we get no more 👀 help 😭

quiet silo
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I mean we've had his 👀 since the previous tiers too lol

sharp flame
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well yeah

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we also had those fiducial markers

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and 00:00:00

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in the images

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and the spectra lying in the corners

quiet silo
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They're like the Great Gatsby's Eyes of T.J. Eckleburg always there, guiding us, watching us, judging us.

timid solstice
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we could make a new emote, like in bfee we made this for egg man Niklas Astrand nikegg

hidden nacelle
quiet silo
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How do we not have Byzantine related emote??? lol

sharp flame
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literally called byzantine

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I just can't do it myself due to... Nitro limitations

quiet silo
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Ohhh I was looking in the finals emotes and didn't see it lol

hidden nacelle
sharp flame
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would be cool to get one for this server..

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at least we have this coin TFcoin

timid solstice
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Here are some others we made for nik nikjones Nik Jones

pure loom
timid solstice
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easternik One for Easter

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jurassicnik Jurassic nik

sharp flame
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I wanna point out another cool connection

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One of the most notable ships built in Leith is the SS Sirius, one of the first steamships to cross the Atlantic

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Sirius is the Brightest star in the sky.. for now.
it will continue to be the brightest star in the Earth's night sky for approximately the next 210,000 years, at which point Vega, another A-type star that is intrinsicly more luminous than Sirius, becomes the brightest star.

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so yeah, just on that Pole star path

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🥹

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Also, completely random

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the guy who deciphered the hieroglyphs came from the French commune of Vif

hidden nacelle
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this might be a reach but it looks like its making the number 28

sharp flame
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Vif from (0vif0rm)

pure loom
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The disrupted blue light on the bottle (and the previous 404) is still puzzling - maybe it just refers to disrupting the normal (i.e. replacing the o's in oviform with 0's)

sharp flame
proud minnow
sharp flame
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omw

sharp flame
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her?

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she starred in this

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she also starred in the series Solaris

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and Californication

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hehe

quiet silo
# hidden nacelle this might be a reach but it looks like its making the number 28

Rob as the AD for all these promo images and renders like "Alright guys they are still stuck on the 0vif0rm tier, I'm gonna need an octopus hugging an ospuze energy drink vaguely making the shape 28 with it's tentacles. I'm gonna need visual distortion hiding these 5 numbers and a long string of binary on the left that holds an anagram for letter o = 0."

sharp flame
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it must be admired by the masses

pure loom
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❤️ can be 831 remember?

sharp flame
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or like, just a bunch more people

proud minnow
pure loom
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"The number 831 is a cyber term used to mean "I Love You." Each individual number in 831 has a specific definition: 8 = The total number of letters in the phrase "I Love You.""

sharp flame
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I reckon it is the date, like Octopussy/Vulcan

pure loom
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711214831 doesn't seem to bring up anything viable though

sharp flame
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I don't think.. it's these

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a lot of disasters

timid solstice
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Golden Gate Bridge

pure loom
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A possibility

pure loom
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Golden Gate = GG

quiet silo
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Nuclear Test at the Nevada test sight too could be significant

sharp flame
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movie

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coincidency names haha

sick stone
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I’ve been looking at spectrograms. That’s also why I thought some of it looked like audio waveforms. Looking up waveform from image converter lots only brings up weird online discussions of people on Reddit who don’t know what sampling frequencies are 🥲 and people saying it cannot be done. It is doable, however the only valid points the basement dwellers had is that there probably aren’t enough samples for it to be audio. Standard sampling size for audio is 44.1kHz, and there are way less in the picture. I don’t think 0.1s if audio is going to help us

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So one could get sound out of it, but it would be low quality or too short for it to be usable

sick stone
sharp flame
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Rob: 'Gah! When will they realise they have to add the noise from every image together to make a 0.3-second sound saying 'oo'!'

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this is ngl not a good message

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but it did remind me to hydrate

sick stone
sharp flame
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also this just makes the product look badass

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the kinda drink that legends drink yknow

sick stone
sharp flame
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reach.the.finals

sick stone
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Theres nothing. Like it.

sharp flame
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I wonder if it will mean anything

sick stone
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I still feel like this is a thing

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It’s so “asteroid/planet/moon filmed through a telescope”-like

sharp flame
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^

sick stone
sharp flame
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oh, what was the binary?

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I thought that speck was going in and out to make the binary

sick stone
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I think that was the ./! In the bottom left

sharp flame
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I have them confused

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yeah sorry

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they were being talked about at the same time

hidden nacelle
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there's like a random sphere behind the tentacle, at the top

pure loom
sharp flame
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ngl I thought it'd be watership down haha

pure loom
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sick stone
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The “drops of color in water”-like bits would point to entropy and chaos theory again:

timid solstice
sharp flame
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always been there

timid solstice
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Yeah ignore me

sick stone
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Distortion like this is what we’ve had in the previous images

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This is different

timid solstice
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Ok this is actual goodnight from me. Well done everyone!

sick stone
timid solstice
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And Thankyou Rob and everyone from Embark for creating this hunt hug_friend

sharp flame
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By the way we are sure that someone sent the Tier verification email

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after clicking the link

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right?

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cause maybe nobody did it and we will be waiting for weeks 😭

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the good old days...

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🕵️

quiet silo
slender lodge
neon stream
slender lodge
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Tier 1a took 4 days

pure loom
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I've done it too - it seemed to work ok

sharp flame
pure loom
sharp flame
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if you think about it

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imagine us doing a tier in 4 days now

sharp flame
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it's automated

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and only takes the first person to send it

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so only one email goes through

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..maybe?

sharp flame
timid solstice
neon stream
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I think that the email thing is to prevent people from brute forcing the password, but Rob saw how we solved it

sharp flame
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😔

pure loom
sharp flame
pure loom
sharp flame
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just one?

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or both attempts

neon stream
quiet silo
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I just got one to go through now as well

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Manually readded the address and then it sent just fine

timid solstice
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He knows about the error

sharp flame
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yep yep

hidden nacelle
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i got a message saying choose a email

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and nothing came up

sharp flame
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we're gonna have to wait at least a day for this next tier

pure loom
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Yeah, we might have to wait until he's back in the office... first thing... waaaay before @cedar owl kek

timid solstice
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I want to know how he cheated

sharp flame
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maybe we will get another fakeout 404

sharp flame
quiet silo
timid solstice
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Racing to work

stuck surge
sharp flame
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cause the simple entering of the password might not be enough or something?

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to check if it's a human maybe

pure loom
sharp flame
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I do that too often

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this damn EE is eating into my sleep haha

neon stream
neon stream
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😂😂😂😂

neon stream
sharp flame
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autocorrect slacking

stuck surge
timid solstice
sharp flame
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I can see why people turn it off though haha

pure loom
neon stream
sharp flame
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if I'm talkin to someone and saying 'omw' and my phone turns that into 'On My Way!' I am throwing it into a pond

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I remember when phones used to do 'Laughing My Ass Off!' too

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gah, shuddering

neon stream
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Yeah, it's also more annoying when you have multiple languages on the keyboard 😅

slender lodge
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I was able to send the 3mail

sharp flame
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we are 4/6 through Tier 1 🥳

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(although the final two may take as long as the first 4 combined)

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and it is Tier 1 of 3 of level 2 of god knows how many

proud minnow
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You need to figure out better algorithms to find pixel-patterns… there are many cool ways… ._.

timid solstice
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I use photoshop, I am the algorithm

pure loom
fallen jasper
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I scale the images up 500% and then push my face against the monitor. I'm down 4 monitors but it hasn't failed me yet.

proud minnow
neon stream
sharp flame
timid solstice
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Yeah I could do that

neon stream
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if(isClue) print(clue)

timid solstice
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But takes the fun out of sliding levels around manually

sharp flame
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0vif0rm incoming hehe

wary verge
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I'm confused just looking at everyone solving the clues, I couldn't imagine how confused I'd be if code started being dropped

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I think my brain would overheat

proud minnow
neon stream
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So... T1E should not be difficult, right?

pure loom
sharp flame
neon stream
timid solstice
neon stream
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😂

sharp flame
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you know what, this tier was just a fluke

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let's get back to 4-day solving

pure loom
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I don't mind hard, but I would like a normal word as the password 🙏

sharp flame
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shall we?

sharp flame
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we will never see them in these passwords again

neon stream
sharp flame
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unless the answer to Level Two is just like 'acutary'

neon stream
timid solstice
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Burry me

sharp flame
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I honestly think the c0mmence was pointing towards this answer

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but idk maybe he did actually name it that not in reference to this tier

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however replacing the O with 0 is literally only in this tier

neon stream
sharp flame
timid solstice
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Right after oviform and 0 clue

sharp flame
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💀 😭

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gosh I wonder how this woulda helped

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This picture has an oval hidden in it as the gif did.

sharp flame
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oh you're right!

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I think I see it on the right

timid solstice
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Yeah was mentioned

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00?

neon stream
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(we solved the tier)

sharp flame
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Wait what?

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When?

sharp flame
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around an hour ago

neon stream
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A few hours ago, Resk found the answer

sharp flame
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the password is
0vif0rm

sharp flame
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they found 'burrw' too

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What's that?

sharp flame
proud minnow
sharp flame
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and we had to remove the O for that one

sharp flame
timid solstice
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Too obvious

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Ha

neon stream
sharp flame
proud minnow
neon stream
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We are all in sync here @sharp flame

sharp flame
sick stone
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The worst part is

sharp flame
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🥹

sick stone
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I know I tried vifrm as a password

proud minnow
# sharp flame 😂

you had eyes on oviform on 3-4 places… and then “0 instead of o”… soo close.

sick stone
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So close

sharp flame
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and there was also that A?

timid solstice
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Namatama is super helpful

sharp flame
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VIFRM A--?

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just lying around, an extra A

sick stone
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We tried “oviform”, I myself tried “vifrm” the only ones we didn’t try was “øviførm” and “0vif0rm”

sharp flame
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I think I actually tried øviførm 💀

proud minnow
sick stone
neon stream
sharp flame
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nope

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not even sure why I tried

timid solstice
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Yeah extended

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Pretty sure

sharp flame
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yknow I realised that

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but didn't have the sense to try 0

neon stream
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@proud minnow is ASCII extended included? 🤔

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😇

sharp flame
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I don't think we'd ever need it...

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but it would cut down on guessing outlandish password types 😂

sick stone
# neon stream is ø ASCII?

In this context I don’t think it matters as it seems most likely it was pointing to “empty set” as in the o’s missing from “vifrm a”

neon stream
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I know, I just want to clarify for the future 😂

sick stone
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It appears the only one with sense is @latent peak

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@proud minnow Is it possible to start working on the next tier with what we have already?

timid solstice
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Too many rabbit holes, we get lost

neon stream
sharp flame
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you guessed A AND B correctly due to the collective intellectual efforts of the participants of this channel 👌

sick stone
timid solstice
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Clues don’t find themselves

proud minnow
timid solstice
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And neither do we sometimes …

sharp flame
timid solstice
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How about spaces in the passwords?

sharp flame
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space is ascii

timid solstice
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Wasthateverclearedup

sharp flame
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but passwords don't have spaces

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like, ever, I don't think

timid solstice
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Yeah you can do that

sick stone
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Can someone here point out the clues from previous tiers that Rob has refused to clarify? Those would likely be clues that have multiple uses (perhaps for the next tier?)

neon stream
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Most of them, except the ones pinned, I think

timid solstice
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Everything in previous yeah

neon stream
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This was a good breakdown we got

timid solstice
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This is the first time we’ve seen behind the curtain

sharp flame
sharp flame
proud minnow
sick stone
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Like the 1404E210DDFD 4FA5E227933D2 1A3DC

timid solstice
proud minnow
neon stream
sick stone
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“%” in URL’s tho?

sharp flame
neon stream
sharp flame
sharp flame
neon stream
sharp flame
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but I'm sure he will let us know

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after we solve the level

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and we don't have to worry about that

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for about a year or two

proud minnow
neon stream
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NIIIIICE!

sharp flame
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damn, it's gonna be like some of the Battlefield ones which are unsolved to this day 😭

hidden nacelle
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bf ee's were very good

sick stone
sharp flame
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cause I'm sure we will have to drop off at some point, and not be able to continue

neon stream
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I wonder how many of Rob's EEs have never been found... 😅

proud minnow
hidden nacelle
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megladon ee? 👀

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It's solved

sharp flame
hidden nacelle
sharp flame
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but I just know there are plenty which has never been found

timid solstice
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UFO ?

proud minnow
timid solstice
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Karelia audio..

sharp flame
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Some IRL....

sick stone
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Because “%20” signifies space in URL’s, but is consisting of ASCII letters that aren’t spaces

neon stream
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@timid solstice see you in a few weeks with the candles and SR again 😛

timid solstice
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They are back in the cupboard for now

sharp flame
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gah if TF EE ever goes IRL idk what I would do

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neon stream
sharp flame
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Should I start trying to find secret doorways?

sharp flame
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it might even be easier than trying the current TF tier haha

sick stone
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I guess we won’t have “%20” in any psw either then

timid solstice
sharp flame
timid solstice
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I’m up for a Monaco hunt

neon stream
sharp flame
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wait yeah the maps are in REAL PLACES

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so if there is a locked door in-game

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go there IRL to find the clue inside the real room

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🗿

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sick stone
sharp flame
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time for a field trip...

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I would love a global stat counter that keeps track of the total cost of all destruction inflicted in the gane.

sharp flame
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🤯

timid solstice
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Let’s go to Pisa, I’ll bring a step ladder and check up here

sharp flame
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okay but don't get me wrong, I would absolutely love a reason to go visit Korea and visit some rooftops haha

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Definitely no awesome EE's to find.

timid solstice
proud minnow
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Thank you for not giving up during this tier, it’s been extremely fun (and frustrating, haha) to follow your progress.! Now it’s time to sleep, take care, get some rest and good sleep tonight… see you sooooooooooooooooon.!

sharp flame
timid solstice
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17 o’s ?

sharp flame
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new QR ..?

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or is it the same amount as before

neon stream
timid solstice
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Idk, eyes are to blurry to count

neon stream
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yeah 17

timid solstice
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Genius

sharp flame
neon stream
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Ok... now I want to see RHB's video about the tier. I'm curious if there will be a new style for the thumbnail... 🤔

sharp flame
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We might need to tidy up the documentation with the hindsight of the answer, eventually

timid solstice
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I’m just happy mars stadium was actually a connection

solar glade
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what a journey, sorry i couldn't contribute much!

timid solstice
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RHB has a sixth sense for clues I swear

sharp flame
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mathematically at least

timid solstice
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Can you stitch it?

hidden nacelle
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ye so... (the end)

timid solstice
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The whole thing!

sharp flame
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and after all that, the answer was 0vif0rm

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lmao

timid solstice
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It’s missing the last images too

pure loom
neon stream
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Yeah, the last image doesn't show any of the clues 😂

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we were too lazy to finish it 😂

sharp flame
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we have recaps in this chat though

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just need to transcribe them

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into boxes

boreal trench
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It's days like today that I regret that I have this insistence on reading every message before posting. Nice work on solving the password 🙂

sharp flame
boreal trench
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Next tier I want to start a Trello from the start with all the clues

sharp flame
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was talkin about how this was an awesome contribution earlier hug_friend

boreal trench
sharp flame
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and how we probably woulda gotten 48 = 0 sooner if we'd listened to Darnoux saying 4 8 haha

boreal trench
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I was happy that Rob pointed out the David Bowie link

sharp flame
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why is it that the most vital interpretations get missed the first time round haha

hidden nacelle
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the lightning bolt clue

sharp flame
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💀

neon stream
sharp flame
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I just think it's really funny

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how we always have someone getting something right

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and it gets glossed over instantly and we talk about something else

tulip matrix
neon stream
sharp flame
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and we just left that there

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or at least I did

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I went straight to the statue lol

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sometimes the best interpretation of a clue

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is the most simple

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Occam's Razor 💪

neon stream
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As Giriko would say: "Occam's razor" 😛

sharp flame
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no way

neon stream
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still in sync 😂

sharp flame
tulip matrix
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wasn't gracious but he hit his target tbf

sharp flame
neon stream
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I want to play TF 😭

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TF = The Finals 😛

sharp flame
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I see something...

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okay I'm actually seeing things I need to sleep

tulip matrix
neon stream
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It's 00:05 in your timezone, right? (fish)

hidden nacelle
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its 00:05 for me

sharp flame
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0:07

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🕵️

neon stream
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I don't even know where that is, I just saw the time difference in the images from a few hours ago 😂

timid solstice
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🇬🇧

neon stream
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Are you British fish? 🤔

sharp flame
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maybe...

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maybe not...

neon stream
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😂

strong hare
sharp flame
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in reality... I am from the sea.

timid solstice
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You flew far east for Xmas break

hidden nacelle
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🇮🇪

sharp flame
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._.

pure loom
sharp flame
pure loom
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Or Chad...ian...

tulip matrix
sharp flame
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okay you know what The Finals should have:
popup Ads

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between rounds or menus

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slightly invasive ones actually

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use ones like this

tulip matrix
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and Telemetry! :D

neon stream
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I think they should have highlights of the match too, to add to the game arena experience

sharp flame
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Do a Nuketown

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the whole map is destroyed in a big blast at the end of the round

tulip matrix
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Ospuze tsunami

sharp flame
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timer is counting down from 15 seconds, you see a masssive tsunami approach the map

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or a massive comet

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or hurricane

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or sandstorm

pure loom
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A giant easter egg clue

tulip matrix
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As many as 40 wild hogs stampeding

sharp flame
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big NamaTama rolls around the map

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crushes buildings

tulip matrix
timid solstice
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In game eggs are gunna be so fun

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Here’s the doc I made for this weekends BF2042 egg

pure loom
timid solstice
hidden nacelle
neon stream
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He left DICE during BFV, I think

neon stream
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Oh, true, I didn't even notice it was for the last BF. I just looked for BF easter eggs 😂

timid solstice
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Yup that’s me. breakaway maps before the rework

pure loom
neon stream
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Yeah, I saw some of that too

timid solstice
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Is that the Morse rock?

pure loom
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an example

timid solstice
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And the chairs and parasol?

pure loom
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Yeah, as well

neon stream
# pure loom

I tried to find that in-game, but I couldn't 😅

sharp flame
# pure loom

Why does that look like a clickbait thumbnail 😭

sharp flame
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Conspiracies this early on are bound to complicate things for our future selves

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and any newcomers from beta

sick stone
neon stream
# sick stone No comment, I see.. hmm

Giving a more serious answer to that now:

If it's like with previous tiers, we won't have anything that could lead directly to the answer without additional information. This tier will probably won't relate too much to the previous ones, based on the nomenclature of the other tiers, at least

sharp flame
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We will have one image of a gun and be talking about the corpuscular theory of light within 10 minutes 😭

sick stone
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My point is hints like Yamaha YMF292 didn’t really get us anywhere

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It might be worth looking into it while we wait

neon stream
sharp flame
sick stone
neon stream
sick stone
sharp flame
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Yep yep, sonic is out of the picture for now

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this is a sound chip

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right?

sharp flame
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also sonic = to do with sound

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but again not in the hunt

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These diamond clues could help us later as well

sick stone
sharp flame
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we haven't looked at sound yet

sick stone
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Sonic as an adjective might be

sharp flame
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in the real clues

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so maybe sound will be next tier

sick stone
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Yeah, maybe

last dragon
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what if the sound video has A HINT?!?!?

hidden nacelle
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we thought of that

sick stone
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Hmm

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Ohhh

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Wait a sec

hidden nacelle
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there was 2 circles

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in the video

sick stone
hidden nacelle
last dragon
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it was in an abondoned russian factory right?

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something like that

sick stone
last dragon
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so what if the location which is oddly specific a hint

hidden nacelle
slender lodge
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Guys I think the password had to do something with 007 hmm

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Been looking at it for a while

sick stone
pure loom
slender lodge
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I think it may point to the Byzantine empire

last dragon
sick stone
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Yup

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Has to be

last dragon
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what if james bond?

sick stone
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And 0=o

slender lodge
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Nah

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Too meta

last dragon
sick stone
slender lodge
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o7

sick stone
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o7

last dragon
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o7?

slender lodge
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o7

last dragon
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why

slender lodge
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Because

sick stone
last dragon
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o7

slender lodge
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<o/

sharp flame
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`\o_,
|
√ \,

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star pose

slender lodge
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Fish pise

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Pise

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Pose%%%

neon stream
slender lodge
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=}

quiet silo
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Well I'm off to bed but congrats once more EE team a little over three months of time spent on it but that tier is toast! Good job everyone! hug_friend

neon stream
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Gn!

slender lodge
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Goodnight!

sick stone
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So who’s down to learn image processing in python together?

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Not that I’m a coding wizard or anything

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My greatest achievement is probably some JS stuff with snake (game), Mandelbrot set depiction and Langton’s ant on a torus.

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In python the most I’ve done was make a quadratic formula solver which takes full formula as input and spits out solutions (floats, not fractions) which I made in school

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I need to learn more.

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I've wasted too much time.

sick stone
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My Mandelbrot set calculation drawing used too much power over 400x400 pixels. So it just kind of froze for a while at anything beyond that. It would get there, but 15min load time for a page in web browser is 90s talk

upbeat badge
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Disappointment...

sick stone
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Would be cool if people were interested. We could have a EE-hunters code camp channel where we learn image processing together to break down EE-images to find more clues

upbeat badge
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Teach me image processing

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😄

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I was trying to find an app so I could invert the colors on the gif and Soda ad.

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@sick stone Any suggestions for an app?

sick stone
sick stone
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😉

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Any learning I can do is awesome.

sick stone
pure loom
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Ok, I have a question - Rob said there were 3 primary clues for this tier - I think two are: 1. ovals and 2. replacement of o with 0. What is the third primary clue? (Or do you think I have 1 and 2 wrong?)

sick stone
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pure loom
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See, I would put egg-shape and ovals together

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The clues are the hardest part for me to grasp because I got here after they were given. 😦

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Wish I was earlier...

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Glad to be here anyway!

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: D

pure loom
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"oviform" is egg-shaped, so maybe it was egg-shaped and replacement of o with 0, but then what is the 3rd one we had to have to solve it?

sick stone
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Yeah, I wonder how 404 and missing works out there

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Because at that point, if we got oviform then the o’s wouldn’t be missing

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So the 404 clue actually only fits with our current understanding as of new year namatama

pure loom
sick stone
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Which is what makes it weird

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The only reasonable way to interpret it if it is pointing to the null set is if “0”=“ “

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I suppose it could point to “Null” which in turn points to “0”

pure loom
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Yeah, it's a bit confusing

sick stone
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I did just find something weird. Looking at 1404 E210 DDFD I thought to myself “what if 1404 is backwards” so I went with 404.1 thinking I’d get some sub status code for 404. When I tossed in the rest as in “404.1 E210 DDFD” I get a page whose first line is “a list of vocabulary in Homer, not only in the Iliad and the Odyssey, but also in many other poems” the page doesn’t display properly, so I don’t know where the 404.1 connects, but the fact that homer, the odyssey and the Iliad showed up was a bit strange

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Huh

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That is a book that was created in Heidelberg in 1604

sick stone
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Which is where we were to get “oval” from

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So we had egg shape, o=Null and orbit

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So we would then connect the oval Null to be 0

pure loom
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hmmm... I'm not sure why we would need both egg-shaped and orbit though. Maybe together they make "oviform"

sick stone
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While the egg was pointing at “oviform”

pure loom
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In which case it was not supposed to be read as empty set, but rather “Null set”

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It might’ve been easier if all we got was o=Ø, haha. We could have went null set>null>Zero. Instead we went 0(“Null/zero”)=>Ø(empty set ) and got lost

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Especially since we got 404 as well, pointing to computer interpretation of “no data”=Null

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Well, I suppose 404 in hindsight had 2 interpretations, “Null” and “void”. One of which was correct.

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#easter-eggs message just going to leave this here before I go to bed. @upbeat badge has shown some interest already. Hopefully we can get a couple more as well❤️

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Would be pretty sweet

proud minnow
# sick stone It would lead straight to “oviform” + “o=0”

All you needed was hidden on the first image. o=0 is actually written in a couple of different ways in the first image, actually even the numbers 111 205 48 are there (hidden in a pretty cool way).

Several clues to oval were hidden, 3 different ones I think. BTW did you ever figure out the link between René Descartes, Euclid and Jean-Dominique Cassini.?

Looking at the first image there are 2 Primary Clues presented oval and o=0... and by using one of the chifer keys that have been used in all tiers and levels so far you had 0vif0rm day one. But again, it would be boring and not a great hunt if you would solve it in 30 minutes, therefor as always 20-25 secondary and tertiary clues are also in there all pointing towards and linked to the primary ones ofc... ._.

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BTW didn't anyone get the direct connection between Saturn and ∅..?? That was my "Leaning Tower of Pisa and /" of this tier... ._.

slender lodge
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Yess iirc someone did connect ø to the side view of Saturn

boreal trench
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But it was more related to titan than Saturn haha

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Rip hedgehog tho

proud minnow
# slender lodge Rip hedgehog tho

I never said the hedgehog is dead, there might still be a place for a cute hedgehog in this ee-hunt, that's for sure, but not on this tier... (only that I steered away from anything that could linked to SHH)

pure loom
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Google doesn’t seem to show anything

sharp flame
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Don't think I can connect Saturn to our answer yet....

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how does Saturn even play in?

pure loom
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Yeah, I think we connected Ø and Saturn, right

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But Saturn didn’t lead us to Ø

sharp flame
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Is it the Ring which specifically was representing the Oval and 0?

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We mentioned that a few times

pure loom
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I think it was the O=0=o=Ø clue that first brought Ø into it

sharp flame
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I fear we will never find Rob's 'creative' ways of hiding clues haha

latent peak
pure loom
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Yeah, analysis greater than PS is beyond me, but maybe others are good at that

sharp flame
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'One of the cipher keys that have been used in all tiers and levels so far you have 0vif0rm day one.'

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???

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we were using that?

pure loom
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I can’t think of what key he means

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Tap code?

sharp flame
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I don't think it's a literal cipher

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he says by using the keys

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we had 0vif0rm day one

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however

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the specific word OVIFORM

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No way we coulda gotten that

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I think I know the Cassini Euler Descartes connection but I'll double check

proud minnow
sharp flame
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Which connected to the later Oviform equations

proud minnow
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In geometry, a Cartesian oval is a plane curve consisting of points that have the same linear combination of distances from two fixed points (foci). These curves are named after French mathematician René Descartes, who used them in optics.

In geometry, a Cassini oval is a quartic plane curve defined as the locus of points in the plane such that the product of the distances to two fixed points (foci) is constant. This may be contrasted with an ellipse, for which the sum of the distances is constant, rather than the product. Cassini ovals are the special case of polynomial lemniscat...

sharp flame
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Yeah haha, I remember we got that

proud minnow
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So these three names gave you OVAL in the first image and then o=0

sharp flame
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still, Oviform is quite an irregular descriptor

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not very common hehe (I guess that's the point 😅)

proud minnow
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and then add the "cipher key" and you have 0vif0rm

sharp flame
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Haha I'm excited for what comes next...

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👀

proud minnow
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You should all relax for a short while, do yourself a favor, don't hunt any EE-eggs today... ._. ❤️

timid solstice
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I ate eggs for breakfast, I’m full.

sharp flame
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happy_friend Nama left uncracked.. for now

proud minnow
sharp flame
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shoulda called it THE PR0MISE

timid solstice
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Ad was posted in #official-art, the name changed to THE_FINALS_OSPUZE_AD_bonus_candy - I guess to differentiate from Promo_Extra_OSPUZE_Candy

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Hi.! GLHF dear EE-hunters, hope you will like this little extra candy from one of our sponsors.! From Embark with love.!

solar glade
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thanks for a good backread hug_friend

boreal trench
boreal trench
sharp flame
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Rob's 'today' ends in 18 hours haha

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(when he is online again the next day)

unkempt crypt
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Yes, that was a great joke, thank you.

hidden nacelle
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new art today? 👀

quiet silo
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Same art correct meta data

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Rob told us nothing EE related today though

hidden nacelle
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😔

stuck surge
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You've got to love the art work.

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Do we know what we actually do with the passwords?

hidden nacelle
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we are on tier 1E now

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5 more to go

stuck surge
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Thanks Eoin. I'll check it all out now

hidden nacelle
stuck surge
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Should I be able to put the password in 1D?

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Keeps say error

low summit
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mayb they just didn't have the time yet

low summit
hidden nacelle
stuck surge
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Keeps saying error to me

hidden nacelle
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for 1D

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works for me

low summit
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me aswell

stuck surge
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I'll try again

timid solstice
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we need to wait, the page will be updated

low summit
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can't upload files on mobile for some reason but I got the email prompt

low summit
sharp flame
stuck surge
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That worked I just had to wait

sharp flame
stuck surge
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Am going to try to have a look at it all.

sharp flame
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We have recaps in 📌 pinned messages

stuck surge
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I've seen how hard the last one was ha

sharp flame
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should speed it up a lot

stuck surge
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Am just looking at it now 😂

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You all did well to get that last password

low summit
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I wanna get involved in EE hunting as well but it'd take long to catch up and I couldn't contribute that muchsad_friend

sharp flame
stuck surge
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Am sure any opinions help.

sharp flame
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I hope we can document it well enough to get over this eventually

sharp flame
stuck surge
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Some of the gun skins are quality

stuck surge
sharp flame
neon stream
low summit
sharp flame
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I think it is just hard to know where we are at

neon stream
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It is! We have a fresh new tier right around the corner

sharp flame
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An infographic containing a few key points goes a long way

low summit
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One thing for sure, i'll be lurking around way more frequently than before even if I can't say that much

sharp flame
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as we've had in chat before, they were super helpful

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the recaps

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There will be A LOT more new people in the Beta period

neon stream
sharp flame
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which I assume will fall within this tier

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we really should consider the onboarding of newer hunters

low summit
neon stream
neon stream
low summit
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mentioning rockhound, I should watch his vids covering the hunt so far

sharp flame
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but yeah

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A field guide type thing

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2-3 pages of text boxes and info in a concise format

neon stream
sharp flame
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what any overall recap should do at least

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Whether a video or an infographic

neon stream
neon stream
sharp flame
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I suppose we can say those can be found in the main chat

stuck surge
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Be difficult. One of hardest bits would be to make people understand what you try to explain ha

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Could get confusing really quickly

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But I like the idea of a video to help

neon stream
low summit
low summit
fallen jasper
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Speaking of zoos

low summit
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Oh yea I've got the voluntary RTFPD thing to do as well

fallen jasper
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I've gotten a timeline up for ARC, THE FINALS, and now also the Creative Playground

low summit
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so I'll probably be helping mods in a more informal, meme-ish way

fallen jasper
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The playground one is fairly small since well, there hasn't been much going on

quiet silo
# neon stream Yeah, I hope <@336329234878300180> can create an introductory video for these hu...

I think the harder thing with these long hunts, at least from my experience with this one, is right after the beginning of this tier work picked up for me and I couldn't contribute for about a month or two. When work did have lulls I would come read up on the padlet and everything but it becomes hard to draw connections the longer it gets drawn out, you fear drudging up past connections or accidently spinning people in circles on dead ends we already worked out. It can for sure feel like a herculean task for outside people or people who took a break to sort through what was 60-70 days of collaborative information without feeling like you might accidently knock over that "house of cards" for lack of a better term. I think this issue will compound in the near future as we bring up "diamond" clues as they are found. IDK how we fix this issue but I think getting some concise info on what will be important in the future, unsolved leads, etc. would help us onboard new hunters.

neon stream
quiet silo
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i could do a video on the EE-Hunt as well fiend

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at least introductory

solar glade
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updates on it are really hard

timid solstice
timid solstice
hidden nacelle
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i was in the cod zombies community which had alot of easter eggs, i have some experience

fallen jasper
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I would help a bit more than I do but I've gotten enlisted

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🫡

timid solstice
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army?

neon stream
timid solstice
fallen jasper
neon stream
fallen jasper
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I've written a document that covers the first level of the EE hunt

timid solstice
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G'day SPEAR here!

solar glade
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i think the best way would be to keep it high level and make people curious – those who wanna dive in will do it on their own

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(for an introductory video i mean)

quiet silo