easter-eggs

[sharp flame]

cmon 🤣 😭

[neon stream]

I applaud Rob's creativity

[sharp flame]

the mental leaps and bounds I would've had with Nurse being a "name" hahaha

in hindsight is so obvious..

[proud minnow]

If you flipped and overlay the images you would get an X on the center of Nama Tama... whats in the center of our Nama Tama... YOLK...

[neon stream]

https://tenor.com/view/mindblown-gif-19396419

[fallen jasper]

Rob are you okay

[sharp flame]

my god...

the game would've come out in 2018 but Rob wanted to make this EE hunt first 🪦

[proud minnow]

PRETTY obvious right...?

[neon stream]

I said this multiple times: All the games are excuses for Rob to make these EE hunts 😂

[sharp flame]

but there are 4..

[sharp flame]

ahhh

ahhhhhhhhhh

[timid solstice]

meaning...

[sharp flame]

3

[sharp flame]

I promised myself I would never get crazy enough to start drawing lines all over the image like a madman..

[fallen jasper]

Padlet's been updated

[sharp flame]

but now I see.. it is the only way...

[fallen jasper]

It's now the hip way to do things

[proud minnow]

aaaaand sooooo on...

[neon stream]

hmmm 5 As and Os 🤔

[sharp flame]

6 actually

but yeah 2 5s

wonder why there's a square here in the loading gif

[proud minnow]

haha IGNORE THAT

[neon stream]

Rob, with all due respect, we can't ignore anything you say 😂

[proud minnow]

T1_F contains: 87 clues pointing to:

• Yellow
• Yolk
• Mirrored/Flipped
• Latin
• Three (3)

And:

• 5 Clues hinting on future maps
• 2 Clues to diamond clues

[fallen jasper]

Seoul but in 1842

[sharp flame]

did we find any of the 5?

[fallen jasper]

Seoul but in 79ad

[proud minnow]

Yes, 1... ._. (BUT no one has connected the dots...)

[fallen jasper]

👀

[neon stream]

Good question! 💪🏻

[sharp flame]

Dande? nah..

it must be on the padlet

[sharp flame]

but it's just 1 dot..

unless it's like multiple clues

[neon stream]

Yellowstone map, ez

[fallen jasper]

I mean

Given how much space has came up there's probably a map set in space

[proud minnow]

Darn... you are too clever...!

[timid solstice]

Biodome future map

[proud minnow]

Did you ever figure out the clues in this:

[sharp flame]

yolk

ez

[fallen jasper]

Didn't we find a connection to the structure things that make those up

#easter-eggs message

[sharp flame]

we found some 3s too

but yeah that's about it

[timid solstice]

found not figured out this #easter-eggs message;

313.82.444.84.576.110.112.264.231.292.444.232.
313.82.444.84.576.110.112.264.231.292.444.232.
313.82.444.84.576.110.112.264.231.292.444.232

[neon stream]

Imagine a map in an space station, that all the teams have also the common goal of not destroying it, because they all die and lose if they do 😂

[proud minnow]

Again, amazing teamwork, and happy that you enjoy this little hunt.! Relax for a couple of days, get some rest, and prepare for the real challenge..!

[fallen jasper]

Space map comes in Year 5 of THE FINALS because they have to spend that time making a comprehensive Zero-G system

When you jump off the ground, it turns off your gravity IRL.

[sharp flame]

probably not far off at all..

[fallen jasper]

Anyway

Padlet's been updated, Bulletin's been posted.

🙏

[sharp flame]

can't wait!

[proud minnow]

Strange cursor...

[fallen jasper]

Damn CNS making the loading cubic

[sharp flame]

the answer to T2A is SQU0VIFORM

then I will start seeing squares everywhere in my dreams

[neon stream]

Hmmm, maybe we should figure out the displacement of glitch in the letters?

[sharp flame]

would be impossible with that blur..

[proud minnow]

Dont spend time analyzing that gif... I actually have not hidden anything in there

[neon stream]

I'll trust you because it's Sunday 😂

[sharp flame]

no way.. Rob just made something which looks cool?!

[proud minnow]

(but it IS a strange cursor, I wonder why)

[sharp flame]

THE FINALS OS

[proud minnow]

THAT IS A GREAT IDEA..!

[timid solstice]

looks lile a portal

[pure loom]

W3LL DON3 3V3RYON3!!!

[sharp flame]

now replace all the Os with 0s

haha

Level 2: TH3 PR0MIS3

[pure loom]

I didn’t want to overdo it

[fallen jasper]

W3LL D0N3 3V3RY0N3!!!

[sharp flame]

you can use computers in THE FINALS to play THE SEMIFINALS

the real challenge is waiting 5 hours for the game to download ingame

[pure loom]

THE OCTOFINALS would have been a cool name. 🐙

But too many rounds

[pure loom]

“According to Roger Bates, a young hardware designer at ARC under Bill English, the cursor on the screen was for some unknown reason also referred to as "CAT" at the time, which led to calling the new pointing device a "mouse" as well.” interesting

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cursor_(user_interface)

“Cursor is Latin for 'runner'. A cursor is a name given to the transparent slide engraved with a hairline used to mark a point on a slide rule. The term was then transferred to computers through analogy.”

LOADING RUNNER

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lode_Runner

https://tenor.com/view/the-dark-knight-joker-batman-here-we-go-gif-3430376

Oh… also interesting: “In most command-line interfaces or text editors, the text cursor, also known as a caret,[4] is an underscore, a solid rectangle, or a vertical line, which may be flashing or steady, indicating where text will be placed when entered (the insertion point).”

Caret

💎

“In situations where a block was used, the block was usually created by inverting the pixels of the character using the boolean math exclusive or function.”

[fallen jasper]

youre insane

[sharp flame]

what's new...

[fallen jasper]

touché

[pure loom]

A block cursor was also used in overwrite mode

[sharp flame]

Did we find any of the Diamonds.. probably not..

[proud minnow]

no

[sharp flame]

short and sweet 😂

[timid solstice]

could be shorter
y for yes, n for no

[jade citrus]

Great job everyone! I was actually kinda close with my one contribution this tier lol #easter-eggs message

[sharp flame]

super relevant find, yeah

[daring bluff]

i gotta wonder what the map hints were

didn’t someone use chatgpt to find to find words in this

and i know chatgpt is banned but the cat’s out of the bag now

for this clue

[jade citrus]

someone used chatgpt but it made up a fake answer that wasnt correct

fish found the actual meaning of these numbers

[sharp flame]

oui

[daring bluff]

hmm

ic

[sharp flame]

AI makes things up, like, a lot

especially when it comes to things you can't just search up

[neon stream]

AI: 0
fish: 1

[south granite]

Ggs on the solve, i tried to help some but didn’t really contribute 😅

[neon stream]

We all contributed! 💪🏻

[sharp flame]

Is okay! The more people contributing the more hope we share haha

[neon stream]

Even if someone comes here to just talk and keep the chat active, that's an amazing contribution, it's moral support! 💪🏻

[south granite]

I’m glad!

[jade citrus]

📉 📉 📉

[sharp flame]

It's all downhill from here 🙏

[fallen jasper]

thank god, i don't like the hike up

downhill i can just roll down

[sharp flame]

working on my photoshop.. have no idea how to get this Ucua visible..

it just won't seem to come out..

it's so clear on rob's..

[cedar owl]

Oh, I missed all the excitement! Great job, hunters!!

[sharp flame]

[pure loom]

For morale, do not add a trend line to this

[low summit]

CONGRATS HUNTERS

[fallen jasper]

[pure loom]

Maybe unsharp masking?

[pure loom]

5 clues to future maps. We should try and work those out

[timid solstice]

so did Lithium just point to yellow?

or for a diamond clue

[pure loom]

3 I think

[neon stream]

Yeah all the Lithium/Lion clues pointed to 3

[pure loom]

I spent so long on the modifier path thinking it was the answer path 😂😂

I needed a clue that deciphered read “turn the 3 E around idiot”

[pure loom]

We should still work on what the dots are

[timid solstice]

dots meaning the morse code?

[neon stream]

Hmmm could be

[timid solstice]

also, did we ever actually look at the exact book of this?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/10th_edition_of_Systema_Naturae

https://linnean-online.org/119965/#?s=0&cv=98&z=-1.0117%2C-0.1588%2C3.5812%2C1.7146
Image 99

[sharp flame]

Leo

[timid solstice]

So we did get to Lion from what we could work it out to be anyway

also... this is in Latin

so was a double clue, Primary being Latin and tertiary/quaternary being Leo -> Lion -> Li ion -> 3

[sharp flame]

Also Leo constellation

like Centauri

[timid solstice]

meaning what?

[sharp flame]

Give me a sec to come up with something

[sharp flame]

All I know is constellations are connected

since we have them in the first few images

• the Alpha and Beta repeated clues

• Orion's belt and the symbols

[timid solstice]

Fried Egg Nebula maybe

[sharp flame]

Alr deconfirmed no?

[timid solstice]

deconfirmed?

Fried Egg Nebula was eyed, the Egg nebula was not

Fried Egg Nebula showing a yolk

not gunna lie I feel scared for the next tier if this was the easy one

[sharp flame]

quite the coincidence in naming, too...

[neon stream]

Yeah, both 79 and 137 😅

[south wyvern]

Congratulations everyone! & Welcome Romaniagames

[south wyvern]

Kinda remind me of Aesop's Fables.

[daring bluff]

future maps

were there any leads we found that seemingly didn't go anywhere but were definitely intentionally placed

[pure loom]

There was a romance/love path which doesn't specifically fit in - maybe Paris?...

@full cypress will be up the Eiffel Tower

[daring bluff]

probably not paris since there would be an expectation to include the eiffel tower but it's probably too big to realistically feature in the game

also what are the diamond clues

[pure loom]

I think there are licensing issues around the Eiffel Tower too - there's some weird usage thing around it.

[daring bluff]

yeah

[pure loom]

We didn't find/work out any of the diamond clues

[daring bluff]

er sorry like what are they for

[pure loom]

Oh, like why do they exist? They lead straight to the final level of the entire easter egg puzzle - we have only uncovered one so far

Like a year ago

[daring bluff]

ohhh

thanks

[pure loom]

#easter-eggs message

January, not quite a year

[daring bluff]

oh this

so that's basically confirmed to be a diamond clue related thing, no?

[pure loom]

There were a few centaur clues which might have been pointing to yellow stars, but could also be a map clue - like the Centaur statue at Pompeii. Pompeii has appeared a few times along the way. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Centauro_by_Igor_Mitoraj,_Pompeii

We could get an historical map

[daring bluff]

Oo

and I'm assuming all the CNS stuff is more lore related, but did it/could it generate any paths?

[pure loom]

Yeah, it could be diamond clue-related, but maybe more overarching lore-related

[neon stream]

I think this is the only CNS thing we have confirmed so far:

[daring bluff]

also looking at the padlet, did we figure out what 4242 meant, and also the 3/17 date?

it did get eyed by rob

[pure loom]

Thanks for the reminder! 👍

[neon stream]

Hmmm I don't think we did

[full cypress]

I would love to

[sharp flame]

I would literally blow up the Eiffel Tower to get you down from there

👆

[south wyvern]

For future note: I mixed this #easter-eggs message with diamond.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diamond_type
https://www.diamonds.pro/education/g-color-diamonds/

[shrewd loom]

:( If you meant the answer I deleted, it wasn't chat GPT. But yes, I do have small brain like AI apparently

[pure loom]

Is eyeballs for all of it?

[daring bluff]

i was talking about when someone found “DECEMBERISCOMING” but it was supposedly fake

[fallen jasper]

I mean CNS being a group trying to shut down Discovery Corp does make sense.

[shrewd loom]

💀 oh thank god, the only thing worse than finding out I was horribly wrong would be everyone thinking my brain is AI

[pure loom]

maybe we all are

https://tenor.com/view/morfeo-matrix-the-matrix-real-the-construct-gif-21089246

https://tenor.com/view/real-world-gif-22845509

When I see CNS I think of this

[daring bluff]

corporate network security

[pure loom]

But we do have eyeballs for the central nervous system - because we've mentioned the idea of it being a group before and never got eyeballs

[fallen jasper]

My big brain conspiracy theory is that Discovery Corp is obfuscating what exactly is going on with Earth since I'm like 90% sure both games share the same universe.

[daring bluff]

^

[pure loom]

I agree - the odds are now highly in favour of that

[daring bluff]

also first i’ve heard of discovery corp… is this the organization that runs The Finals game show?

[pure loom]

unless it's THE FINALS and another unannounced game, but ARC Raiders would make lots of sense

[pure loom]

All the weapons have that name

[fallen jasper]

Yeah

It's probably the company that runs it but we're not entirely sure

[daring bluff]

i keep saying it would be a total power move for Embark to somehow release both games simultaneously and make their lore highly connected and public

like technically they are both slated for release this year

[pure loom]

And THE FINALS working name was Project Discovery

[fallen jasper]

It might just be a reference to the project name being discovery- yeah

[pure loom]

or both

[daring bluff]

arc is called the pioneer game and the finals is discovery

[fallen jasper]

ARC probably isn't coming out this year but I would not be surprised if there were references or if the games had a shared universe with direct connections.

[daring bluff]

oh yeah absolutely

definitely not going to come out this year

but would be cool nonetheless

[pure loom]

Maybe we are in game 3 now

Project Egg

[daring bluff]

but it would strain their resources to launch 2 games at once

[fallen jasper]

Considering the first trailer for arc took place mainly in what looks like a weird rocket launch area, I wouldn't be surprised if there are people not on the planet anymore.

[pure loom]

yeah, "not in the same quarter" is the official (Nexon) word

[daring bluff]

the real universe is Embark’s Creative Playground and AR and TF are simply nodes in the matrix of that game

https://tenor.com/view/the-universe-tim-and-eric-mind-blown-mind-blown-meme-mind-explosion-mind-explosion-meme-gif-18002878

[pure loom]

https://tenor.com/view/keanu-reeves-whoa-matrix-bro-neo-gif-12028915

[fallen jasper]

We still don't really have any evidence they're connected at least

Besides like one piece of concept art right

[pure loom]

Yeah, it's all circumstantial because it fits nicely with a matrix-style lore

[fallen jasper]

Volpe was on the side of one of those rocket buggy... speeder... things in a concept art right lol

[pure loom]

Anything could just be an artistic 'nod' at this stage

[daring bluff]

i remember something like that yeah

some logo

they at least looked very similar

[pure loom]

There might be something in the cursor - this is the luminance gradient image from Forensically adjusted a bit

Pretty indistinguishable though

There are select pixels that are 100% black on the image

[fallen jasper]

[pure loom]

Lengths: 7, 2, 1, 5, 1, 2, 3, 13, 1, 51

[daring bluff]

didn't rob say he didn't hide anything in it😅

[pure loom]

https://tenor.com/view/fawlty-towers-manuel-basil-gif-9560814

I am an idiot

[daring bluff]

but the cursor definitely means something

[pure loom]

Yeah, I posted a couple of things on cursors that might be possible paths

[daring bluff]

i think he's talking about the flashing square, i haven't heard of that being referred to as a cursor before
might just be me

(obviously)

[pure loom]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CURSOR

[daring bluff]

this is like if arc raiders and the finals had a baby

[daring bluff]

oh shoot wait this 100% means something

or will mean something later on

[fallen jasper]

https://padlet.com/Kyne/the-promise-t2abc-8cpusy9qx4ectl24

All the regular peeps have been invited. If you didn't get an invite lmk and I'll send you one.

[coarse dagger]

What about your Amiga clues...? Those pointing us to them? 👁️ 👄 👁️ ❓

Just want to point out that ABC are kinda related looking solutions

As are DEF

Are we just not good enough at photoshop or are we failing to get the highest quality images from somewhere?

[coarse dagger]

Ohey. I was trying to X-OR things previously and rob was saying I was almost right

Did we ever figure this out...? Just...? Yellow?

I suspect Tier 2ABC/DEF will be connecting things together from T1ABC and T1DEF respectively

Did we figure out the blue lines message?

And this got THREE reactions out of Rob... Just... gold -> yellow -> yolk?

[opaque kiln]

what tier are you guys working on?

I would love to help yall out

since im on holidays now school is almost over

have you guys done this one?

[timid solstice]

Correct! We are just waiting for Tier 2 to start now

[opaque kiln]

bet

[timid solstice]

Worth checking the tier page to see if it has refreshed a few times a day

We were told it might be a little break until it changes

[timid solstice]

Nope

[opaque kiln]

is there an app you could use to help with this stuff?

[south granite]

Glad to start with a fresh slate lmao, when you havn’t checked for some time you check in this channel and you’re so lost 😂

[sharp flame]

Very understandable

[neon stream]

Yeah, I think the combination of those clues were meant to point to yellow

[neon stream]

I agree with you. I mentioned this a while ago, but SR hasn't eyed any of the messages, which I find weird 😅

#easter-eggs message

[neon stream]

I'm guessing Rob didn't eyed this in Tier 1B, because we needed more information before we could make the Gold connection, so it would have sent us in the wrong path 😅

#easter-eggs message

I think fish found the Gold connection when we were trying to solve Tier 1C, which helped us to confirm we needed to find things that related in Tiers 1A-C and Tiers 1D-F 💪🏻

[wanton sundial]

Just catching up now, omg, what a wild find, congratss

[opaque kiln]

guys how do you guys find easter eggs? i know its on the wiki but what can help to find them in images and stuff?

[neon stream]

Many hunters use Photoshop to uncover hidden things in images, but some things are also hidden in plain sight

I'd recommend you to check the #egg-hunt-onboarding channel, there are a few useful guides

[neon stream]

RockhoundBlack's guide on how a Tier is solved will give you a good idea on how these things work

[opaque kiln]

i dont have the money for photoshop

thats why i love the finals being free

anyways thank you for helping

[neon stream]

There aro other tools as well that help with that

[neon stream]

If you want to manipulate images, you can use tools like GIMP thay are free. You can also find hidden things using 29a.ch (a website)

[neon stream]

But you don't need to find the hidden things in the images to participate in the hunt, there are multiple ways to contribute

[opaque kiln]

ok thanks

so like i do researching stuff insted?

[fallen jasper]

Most clues tie into concepts you cound find on Wikipedia or Famous Landmarks

[opaque kiln]

aight

[neon stream]

Yeah, I'd recommend watching RockhoundBlack's video, it shows you what kind of things to look out for, and how connections are made, by using Tier 1D as an example

[opaque kiln]

are yall on tier 1D?

[neon stream]

No, right now we are waiting for Tier 2ABC

[opaque kiln]

ill do this all tmr since in australia its like almost midnight

ok cya

[fallen jasper]

Hello Detect-eggs. We've done a little bit of thinking about T1F and credits:

Since previous tiers were solved by a single hunter finding the password and confirming it was correct, before sharing it with the rest of the group we've realized we needed to account for a scenario in which mulitple people ultimately find the answer with each other at the same time. T1F will have Roman, fish, and Flex credited. Roman realized the password could be Yolk in Latin. fish & Flex made the connection to type 3 instead of E; and showed him where to input the answer. Ultimately it doesn't matter who got the password right, as it is a team effort that enables our hunters to be able to guess it, but we do want to make sure, for posterities sake, that we have whoever solved it credited.

[neon stream]

Congrats @reef breach, @sharp flame and @timid solstice for finding the answer to T1F! And to everyone who contributed! Teamwork is the most important part of this hunt!

[sharp flame]

Yippee

[worn badger]

[sharp flame]

Can't wait for the new tier!

[sharp flame]

#easter-eggs message shameless self promo

[fallen jasper]

This is not the first time. Nor the last.

[sharp flame]

anyway I don't think anyone was stressing about being the password solver ever

at this point it's just like "thank god it's over" 😭

[south granite]

Hahaha

[timid solstice]

S LIES

[sharp flame]

wut

[timid solstice]

I am DETERMINED to find my first password
#easter-eggs message

[sharp flame]

F LIES

[timid solstice]

😘

[sharp flame]

shush

I don't count

[timid solstice]

ah yes, you are a fish

[fallen jasper]

This new wiki layout is letting me be a little funni dude

[sharp flame]

hehe

[fallen jasper]

Also I got bored and updated the EE transition pages

[pure loom]

We’re definitely not good enough at photoshop. There are clues that Rob revealed that we still haven’t been able to show using photoshop. He has decades of photoshop experience. We need a Rob on our team.

Unfortunately, you can’t search YouTube for “show me the photoshop technique that I don’t know I need” 😂

[fallen jasper]

I've been trying to raise more interest in the channels I have but right now the only people I really can reach are people already deep in the community and Embark peeps

[pure loom]

Yeah, another reason - besides documenting history - that I make the vids about it. I’m hoping some of the BFEE peeps or similar might join us.

[sharp flame]

🤣

when the game comes out there will be floods

[fallen jasper]

tbf

Getting 70 people to follow me while tweeting exclusively pictures of random cute eggs is pretty good

[pure loom]

Then we’ll be like “who are all these strangers?”

[fallen jasper]

https://twitter.com/EmbarkBulletin/status/1703433067350642712

[pure loom]

https://tenor.com/view/get-out-my-house-squidward-spongebob-patrick-gif-14754536

[fallen jasper]

Rock

How did you legit scare me with that

[pure loom]

https://tenor.com/view/peachcat-boo-cute-scare-gif-23421242

[fallen jasper]

I was waiting to see if the tweet embedded and then I got

[pure loom]

Lol

[fallen jasper]

Don't be too close to your monitors kids

[pure loom]

https://tenor.com/view/yuumi-cat-lick-monitor-gif-24703683

[reef breach]

https://tenor.com/view/desktop-monitor-working-long-gif-15029019

[south granite]

I mean I did a graphic design study where I basically used it daily. I can try to give it a wirl next photo

[pure loom]

That would be great!!

I’ve used it a bit but not really professionally on a day to day basis

[neon stream]

@south granite we still haven't solved that thing I explained there, in case you want to try 😛

[south granite]

I’ll give it a shot!

[coral wing]

OHHH MY GOD

YES

[south granite]

ok so I'm not sure what you guys have found but I just post everything here that I found.

this was around the area of the screenshot

[coral wing]

JUS READ IT ALL, CONGRATS TO EVERYONE SO PROUD

yall are actually a different breed

[neon stream]

You should be able to reveal that clue

No one has figured out how to reveal that 😅

[south granite]

ooh ok

I'll see

so you did find the weird scribbled thing in the bottom of the image?

[neon stream]

It's the teamwork that made it possible! 💪🏻

[neon stream]

It was a long time ago, not sure what you mean 😅

[south granite]

You guys prob did but just in case

[neon stream]

We might have, for now I'd recommend to just focus on that clue, since it's the one we cant get

[coral wing]

seriously. big shoutout to everyone though. its super cool to hop into something and see it get solved, even though this is only the start ;-;

[neon stream]

Yeah, we did

[sharp flame]

which one?

[neon stream]

@sharp flame that one

[south granite]

So I can clearly see there is a message there, I’m just wondering if it’s possible to get the message out at that exact quality

[neon stream]

As long as you can read clearly what it says, it's good

[proud minnow]

To be honest, sometimes I can't eye things until you have figured out more things since it would just drive you nuts and throw you down the wrong rabbit hole...

[proud minnow]

There are other free programs you could use... The only reason I use Photoshop is because I used it since version 1 so I'm just very used to PS, many open source programs are as good as Photoshop (and in some cases better)...

[tropic raptor]

gimp, for example, just uh, make sure safe search is on for that program

[proud minnow]

This is why I love this community, and this is why I love making games.!

[tepid venture]

[pure loom]

yeah, this is the benchmark, in a way. If someone can reveal this clue then that's a breakthrough and they will be showered in champagne

https://tenor.com/view/lando-norris-norris-lando-spray-champagne-gif-19738816

Still loading. This must be a big file...

The Apple II had a square blinking cursor like this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CxJwy8NsXFs&t=61s

The blinking cursor was invented by Charles A Kiesling

He also served in the navy: "As a crew member of the USS Collette DD 730, he was part of the Sitting Duck Squadron at Inchon during the Korean War"

https://tenor.com/view/large-duck-cute-giant-duck-huge-duck-gif-17586378

"'The original Apple II surprised many people by not supporting lowercase letters,' said Hertzfeld, but designer Wozniak says blinking the position of the letter input is more important than lowercase letters. We made a trade-off, 'he told Inverse with a laugh."

Interesting that "LOADING" is in all caps

This computer has the same text colour (also check out the acoustic coupler they used!): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6zBvYs5Zej0

[timid solstice]

True

[pure loom]

Not necessarily related, but this 1980 doco is pretty amazing to watch. Surprising how many people in the doco realised the potential of PCs before the internet existed: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v_fTS3BO-cE

@proud minnow Are they talking about you here?? haha: https://youtu.be/v_fTS3BO-cE?si=cHdV_6yTkt9NRws-&t=1269

[south wyvern]

Definitely will be watching these tonight

Also I was cleaning the tabs

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contents_of_the_Voyager_Golden_Record

[opaque kiln]

good to know thank you

[opaque kiln]

has anyone found anything on the blueprint namatama?

[opaque kiln]

Rock you got anything? I have no idea what im doing

[pure loom]

Nothing that hasn't been spotted before, I think

Just numbered the arrows

Also, that texture on the shell, and around the edge of the shell is curious

[opaque kiln]

yeah fr

[coarse dagger]

I'm wondering if we need the ocassional "Join the easter-eggs channel!" post in #official-art. So many people are reacting to the images, but I wonder how many of them know about the EE hunt 🤔

[fallen jasper]

👀

[coarse dagger]

One trick I realized recently is if you have access to a student email (even if you've graduated) you can get access to Photoshop (or the whole Creative Cloud) at student pricing.

It will ask you when you finish your degree... I just put June of the latest year it offered (2032 I think?)
They never actually verify that you're currently pursuing a degree.

🤫

@winged marlin recently finished up her residency which had been giving us free access to Creative Cloud... I missed it too much

[reef breach]

Did we figure out what the number mean ? In the right down corner

[south granite]

The dot has to be something

[timid solstice]

yup

So thats what really indicated to use a '3' instead of an 'e' as the key

[south granite]

Oh damn

[neon stream]

Yeah, maybe each time a tier is solved, they could make a small server announcement

[wanton sundial]

Will pitch it and see what happens!

[sharp flame]

Wouldn't it be so cool if one of the new images was like in a new map or something

[neon stream]

I wonder how the next map looks, and if they'll add it for the next beta

Hmmm it might be this one 🤔

[fallen jasper]

I completely forgot about that

[neon stream]

Hmmm is this in Seoul? 🤔

[sharp flame]

Assume so

[fallen jasper]

Think it's a old version of the Data Center park

[neon stream]

Oh yeah, you're right

[fallen jasper]

👀

Now it's your time EE hunters

Please write the recap to T1C and T1D so I don't have to

[neon stream]

...and T1E...and T1F... 😭

[fallen jasper]

That comes once we've written T1C and T1d

/j

[neon stream]

We can just transcribe RHB's video of the tiers /s

😂

T1C wiki:

"G'day Rockhound Here!!

....

.....

Everybody knows...

..."

[sharp flame]

at that rate we will have several pages of wiki taken up!

maybe we can just ask Rockhound to send over his video scripts

[fallen jasper]

Well

For now the style for the pages is this

[sharp flame]

next tier =

[pure loom]

I can if you want? You could use them as a starting point.

[sharp flame]

haha just joking

but maybe if it gets dire 🤣

[pure loom]

https://tenor.com/view/not-funny-its-not-funny-fake-laugh-kanye-west-not-amused-gif-4050289

Has 2ABCDEF loaded yet??

https://tenor.com/view/why-is-it-taking-so-long-curtis-payne-lavan-davis-house-of-payne-tyler-perrys-house-of-payne-gif-18557837

[sharp flame]

let them cook 🔥

[fallen jasper]

ABCDEF U and you mom and your-

That song is bad I apologize for referencing it

[sharp flame]

now do we have any loose ends?

probably more than we do clues

but still

[neon stream]

Maybe we should create template for the Tier pages, and a list of things we should gather during the hunt, so at the end of it it's easier to just fill in the blanks 🤔

If we later want to edit the page, and add more things, that's fine. But we'll have a solid base to build upon

[fallen jasper]

Technically the way I've written the earlier ones you could do that

I am very lazy today though and couldn't bring myself to start writing more lol

[neon stream]

Imagine if we started writing the EE pages in Latin 😅

[pure loom]

https://tenor.com/view/stop-it-get-some-help-gif-15058124

[neon stream]

I'll try to create a template from that in the next few day 👍🏻

[fallen jasper]

Salve Rockhound loqui.

Nescit...

[neon stream]

That's the kind of joke Rock would make in the video 😂

inb4 Rock's next video starts like that 😂

[neon stream]

Salve! Rockhound hic! clears throat G'day! Rockhound here!

[sharp flame]

🤣

[south granite]

So I've tried everything I know and can't uncover the message on the arm, I'll keep trying though. I come really close but it's not really readable.

[fallen jasper]

Funny how it translates Hello. Rockhound speaking. Everybody knows....

To that

[pure loom]

https://tenor.com/view/matrix-the-agents-know-dont-gif-18536773

[fallen jasper]

Can one of you add to this a bit

https://www.thefinals.wiki/wiki/Diamond_Clues

[coral wing]

rock this is free real estate you must lol

[pure loom]

https://tenor.com/view/falling-house-gif-17963290

[sharp flame]

waiting patiently

[timid solstice]

LOADING

[sharp flame]

LOADING_

[daring bluff]

LOADING_ ▢

[neon stream]

https://tenor.com/view/24hours-24hours-left-24hours-to-go-24hour-countdown-gif-11434948

[neon stream]

(Doesn't need sound, you hear the beep still)

[sharp flame]

real and true

[coral wing]

I am being the upmost patient i promise🙇🏻

[fallen jasper]

I am no longer waiting patiently

I am waiting aggresively

[coral wing]

Okok since someone else said it im all impatient 😠

[pure loom]

https://tenor.com/view/mr-bean-waiting-still-waiting-gif-13052487

[neon stream]

😛

[sharp flame]

guys.. lets just wait

Rob still has to think up all the clues that we will never end up finding 😭

[hidden nacelle]

pretty sure he already has all them done

[fallen jasper]

Considering it takes us on average 70ish days to do a tier

If he didn't have all of them done already he's got a couple of months to work on it

[pure loom]

Need to change it to SOONING™️

[inland bloom]

What are we waiting?

[south granite]

We are sooning

[neon stream]

https://tenor.com/view/incredibles-something-amazing-gif-13336521

[pure loom]

We solved tier 1F and are now waiting for this page to update for the start of tier 2ABC/DEF: https://www.reachthefinals.com/t1-f

[inland bloom]

Wooo

[neon stream]

Hmmm, you think both will open at the same time...? 🤔
I always thought they wouldn't, but that also makes sense

[inland bloom]

Which was the password? And how did we solved it

[jade citrus]

vit3llus

(yolk in Latin)

[inland bloom]

Oooh

So next one will be milk in Latin? Or cow?

[neon stream]

We don't know, but we think Tier2ABC will combine the asnwers for Tiers 1A-C (so something Gold related) and Tier2DEF will combine the asnwers for Tier 1D-F (so something Egg related)

And then Tier 3, Gold + Egg

[pure loom]

It's not impossible. But I think that would mean Rob is milking the same type of answer a bit too much.

https://tenor.com/view/teambestb-gif-20183486

[inland bloom]

So the yolk? Since it's the gold part of an egg

[neon stream]

If you want, you can ask @pure loom if he recommends any video to catch up on the hunt, but you might get him banned for self-promotion 🤷🏻‍♂️

[fallen jasper]

I will pretend I did not see the EE channel if he does

[pure loom]

https://tenor.com/view/wanna-watch-every-single-one-of-them-miranda-cosgrove-carly-shay-icarly-wanna-watch-each-of-it-gif-21994211

[fallen jasper]

🙈

[inland bloom]

I Ve already watched the video, but I didn't really get anything

[pure loom]

https://tenor.com/view/guy-in-corporate-suit-swimming-in-money-starfish-in-money-rich-dreaming-gif-11884590

[neon stream]

Yeah, it could be, or a Golden Egg, like some Fabergé Egg

[inland bloom]

I'm just stupid, I'm pretty sure the video was clear

[pure loom]

To be fair, there's nothing like just jumping in at the start of the next tier to get an understanding of it all

[inland bloom]

I would not say it since that's more diamond and other gems

[fallen jasper]

I still don't understand any of it and I'm the one upkeeping most of the way we collaborate on it

So no worries

[pure loom]

https://tenor.com/view/one-could-argue-none-of-us-do-shea-brennan-sam-elliot-1883-no-one-is-worthy-gif-24553345

[fallen jasper]

Well I did understand it back when we were still focusing on Thomas Teleford

[inland bloom]

I ll search info about gold and egg then even if I think it could be yolk again xd

[fallen jasper]

That being a while ago lol

[neon stream]

We don't have any of those things confirmed, so it's better to wait until that tier, and the images release

[inland bloom]

Okok, even if I already have an idea xd

[fallen jasper]

It'll have elements of the last tiers in it, probably not a wholesale reuse of it.

[neon stream]

That Tier 3 is a hypothesis build with the assumption other two hypothesis are correct, so... yeah... it's not very solid yet 😂

[fallen jasper]

No need to get going down a rabbithole and see that the first clue has elements of Chinese history in it instead of anything else

[inland bloom]

If anyone ever watched the first puss in boots could understand xd

[frigid hornet]

Me when I get a killstreak in the finals (I went 2-15 last match)

[potent fractal]

found this with pure luck, first though that was made for goodies then i found this channel

https://www.reachthefinals.com/cart

[granite moth]

this is huge

[daring bluff]

yooo

[potent fractal]

lol

[daring bluff]

this is where we will buy moolah plushies eventually???

[potent fractal]

[jade citrus]

🇸 🕯️ 🇷
🕯️ 🕯️
🕯️ 🕯️

[pure loom]

Yeah, it's been there since the website went up.

[sharp flame]

How did you find that lol

[olive jewel]

Are these easter eggs for fun or do they unveil some interesting info about the game? Like potential release date, patch changes, maps, new items, etc?

[daring bluff]

there are 5 confirmed clues pointing to new maps but we have only found one of them, but we don’t know which one we found🙃

so yes theoretically we could figure out the new maps right now i guess lol

but Rob is a wizard

alas

[timid solstice]

but looking at my board, hmm I would say it is a little bit easier than 0vif0rm… but the clues are more complex and starts further out from the center this time…

I think Rob was talking about egg yolk, that was a clue @sharp flame 😂

#easter-eggs message

[sharp flame]

Ahhhh

[potent fractal]

magik

[potent fractal]

oh ok

[timid solstice]

#easter-eggs message

[potent fractal]

didnt know that 🤷‍♂️

[neon stream]

🇸 🕯️ 🇷
🕯️ 🕯️
🕯️ 🕯️

[sharp flame]

Any day now

[hidden nacelle]

...

[sharp flame]

Rob nagging the server guys to update the website (they have it #52 on their priority list)

[timid solstice]

Rob is the server

[neon stream]

Maybe we're not praying to SR enough... ._. 😅

🇸 🇷 🙏🏻

[pure loom]

What’s the odds on Rob popping in here to say “how are you going with solving the ‘loading’ clue?” 😂

[sharp flame]

a greater than 0 chance.. which scares me....

[fallen jasper]

Does one of us want to ping the Saint and ask

[last dragon]

I will

[fallen jasper]

[last dragon]

actually I won't, I might get banned

I just remembered

[fallen jasper]

[hidden nacelle]

@ saint

[last dragon]

@saInt

[hidden nacelle]

i think rob might be cooking

[neon stream]

@proud minnow, Kyne asked us to ping you and ask... 😇

[neon stream]

(jk, he's not to blamed for my stupidity 😛)

[fallen jasper]

Just for that

[sharp flame]

🇸 🕯️ 🇷
🕯️ 🕯️
🕯️ 🕯️

[neon stream]

🇸 🕯️ 🇷
🕯️ 🕯️
🕯️ 🕯️

[coral wing]

Daily SR prayer instead of “I LOVE THE FINALS” 🤔🤔

I think thats better ngl

🇸 🕯️ 🇷
🕯️ 🕯️
🕯️ 🕯️

[south wyvern]

🇸 🕯️ 🇷
🕯️ 🕯️
🕯️ 🕯️

[strong hare]

🇸 🕯️ 🇷
🕯️ 🕯️
🕯️ 🕯️

[daring bluff]

🇸 🕯️ 🇷
🕯️ 🕯️
🕯️ 🕯️

[sharp flame]

watching serp do this live is a thing of beauty

still loading™️ tho

[inland bloom]

What if the question is "loading?"

And we had it all this time under our eyes?

[sharp flame]

perchance

[pure loom]

https://tenor.com/view/lock-and-load-lock-load-arnold-schwarzenegger-guns-gif-7977879

[pure loom]

It's the prequel to "reloading?"

[inland bloom]

Lmao, this now have to be the new password but in Greek not latin xd

[daring bluff]

…which is the prequel to preloading

[prime urchin]

You guys arent dissecting the LOADING... gif?

not committed are we

[timid solstice]

Instructions to not dig to deep

[sharp flame]

yep, #easter-eggs message

[jade citrus]

figured you guys might enjoy this video: https://youtu.be/WaqUTQf6i1M

[daring bluff]

he didn’t specify if he was talking about the loading gif

[proud minnow]

is

[proud minnow]

it

[proud minnow]

already

[proud minnow]

for

[proud minnow]

real

[proud minnow]

actually

time.!?

[south granite]

🇸 🕯️ 🇷
🕯️ 🕯️
🕯️ 🕯️

[strong hare]

SR has spoken.! Follow his voice.!

If he says sushi I'm melting

[coral wing]

OH MY OH MY

IM GETTING ALL WORKED UP STOP IT GUYS

[pure loom]

https://tenor.com/view/waiting-hurry-impatient-gif-22696825

[neon stream]

I think I added too many reactions...I cleaned up already...😂

[pure loom]

More candles than Balder's Gate 3...

[south granite]

That’s a mess 😂

[neon stream]

"It's just overkill" - Colin Hay 😛

[pure loom]

"Goats appear and fade away" - also Colin Hay

[neon stream]

It can't be unheard 😂

[sharp flame]

👀👀👀

[reef breach]

👀

[timid solstice]

https://tenor.com/view/lurk-peek-sneak-george-clooney-gif-17585314

[spring sentinel]

Ready?

Why is noone jumping around analyzing the gif?

[hidden nacelle]

Cause rob said there is nothing in it

We have to wait till new image

[spring sentinel]

Yeah, he said that to the loading one...

[hidden nacelle]

It’s the same thing, ready meaning ready for a new image

[spring sentinel]

Will there be a set too?

[hidden nacelle]

Set?

[spring sentinel]

Like "Ready,Set, Go" or something

I don't really see the point of changing the gif if we are still waiting for it to "load"

[neon stream]

We've had "loading" gifs before. There seemed to be a few hidden things in this one, but the clues usually start after an image is posted

Like this one

[spring sentinel]

Okay, but this was between levels

Have you seen a ready loading gif?

[neon stream]

The 404 wasn't

[neon stream]

Yeah

[proud minnow]

I'm with gyuri on this one, haha... ._.

GLHF

[neon stream]

Oh, mb, I didn't 😂

[spring sentinel]

I still can't send pictures :/ Please insert the so it begins meme

[neon stream]

https://tenor.com/view/so-it-begins-raining-rainy-day-théoden-lord-of-the-rings-gif-16521230

[hidden nacelle]

I’m not home rn

[reef breach]

Maby loading,ready,run ?
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/LoadingReadyRun

[south granite]

see that would be interesting

[spring sentinel]

There are definitely weird shapes in the background

https://imgur.com/zPG60fU

[sharp flame]

Wait it's already started?

Damn...

Oh the page is open!

https://reachthefinals.com/t1-f-1

Wait why's it called that

[fallen jasper]

[south granite]

wasnt it supposed to be l2?

t2*\

[sharp flame]

And why is there
https://reachthefinals.com/t1-def

Exactly!

[tidal mulch]

Wait password

Do we know the site password

[sharp flame]

That's the goal!

[fallen jasper]

No

^

[sharp flame]

It begiiins!!

[tidal mulch]

Any clues

[fallen jasper]

Not yet

We'll probably get a image in the next 1-5 hours though

[south granite]

Turn the colors around to positive colors?

[sharp flame]

The ready gif has some stuff

[south granite]

maybe that does something

[fallen jasper]

Whatever we find in there will tie into the previous tiers

[fallen jasper]

Oh

Deadass didn't notice it changed from loading to ready 💀

Do we want another Padlet for T2DEF

[spring sentinel]

y_y_y_y_y_y_y_y_y_y_y_y_y_y_y_y_y_y_y_y_y_y_y_y_y_y_y_y_y_y_y_y_y_y_y_y_y_y_y_y_y_y_y_y_y_y_y_y_y_y_y_y_y_y_y_y_y_y_y_y_y_y_y_y_y_y_y_y_y_y_y_y_y_y_y_y_y_y_y_y_y_y_y_y_y_y_y_y_y_y_y_y_y_y_y_y_y_y_y_y_y_y_y_y_y_y_y_y_y_y_y_y_y_y_y_y_y_y_y_y_y_y_y_y_y_y_y_y_

[fallen jasper]

I didn't think both of them would open at the same time so I only made T1ABC

[sharp flame]

It's not T2 yet tho

it's t1-f-1 and t1-def

lmao

[tidal mulch]

Something to do with this?

[sharp flame]

on mobile rn but someone turn the exposure up on the gif and post it

[fallen jasper]

If T2ABC and T2DEF leads to 1t-f-1 and t1-def then I'm going to go with what the website says not the url

[spring sentinel]

Text in the gif

[fallen jasper]

Mainly because I will cry if I have to write 1tf1 as a tier

[sharp flame]

But what if we solve 1-f-1 which opens up A B C

Into their own separate passwords

[fallen jasper]

Then rob is a bully and I will have words with him for making it harder to document

Until we see its not T2 we'll be using abc and def lol

[last dragon]

Where is the OG image?

[fallen jasper]

(Also did squarespace update at some point to make it so you can't easily grab images from the site anymore?)

[sharp flame]

1032 x 432

[sharp flame]

Yep

[fallen jasper]

I love that

[sharp flame]

1032-432 = 600

600 in Roman Numerals = DC

[spring sentinel]

almost, but the left top is two different colors

[spring sentinel]

like in this

[south granite]

Do we have the last one?

Maybe that fits within the missing pieces in some way

[spring sentinel]

Last what?

[south granite]

The one that said loading or whatever

[spring sentinel]

That didn't have anything. Rob said so (And I checked anyway)

[fallen jasper]

Pompeii was founded in 600 BC

[spring sentinel]

There are also miscolored pixels, it may be noise tho

Ohhh... I can do that? :wow:

[fallen jasper]

https://padlet.com/Kyne/the-promise-t2def-36w4albolfhdnojz

It's been shared with the normal peeps. If you want access just lmk your padlet name lol

[spring sentinel]

Please add a link to the previous tablets for each tier

I mean for t2def add t1d,t1e,t1f padlet links

[fallen jasper]

If you click on my name you can see all of them

[neon stream]

That makes like three of us, if it wasn't for gyuri, we would be here waiting for an eternity...and a half 😛

[south granite]

I've not used this before please fill me in

[spring sentinel]

observe: https://padlet.com/Kyne/the-promise-t1f-e13p6j3z8rtoabls

[fallen jasper]

It's a board we post the images on, and the connections we make with the content of the images.

[last dragon]

What if it’s some kind of spectrum on a radioactive scale or something… just throwing that out there.

[south granite]

Awesome, Aupathix is my name if you're willing to add me

[fallen jasper]

Added

[sharp flame]

We might be on our own now..

so maybe we need to find a webpage

to get more info or a new image

reachthefinals.com/something yknow

Maybe t1-def is a combination of d, e and f answers?

and they were all egg-related so who knows

[spring sentinel]

Should we create a padlet retrospectively for T1-A?

[fallen jasper]

We have one for T1-A and B

I just took it over after B

[spring sentinel]

Ohh okay

[fallen jasper]

https://padlet.com/duhmeistertv/tfee-level-2-the-promise-t1a-jn8pzep2feryjhm6
https://padlet.com/Kyne/the-promise-t1b-6rm15bnzz7zu9mvs

Or

I forgot I had one for B lol

[sharp flame]

150 114

just counting pixels

76x156

[spring sentinel]

Theory:
Tier 2 DEF url=t1-def -> so it is connected to tier 2 d,e and f
Tire 2 ABC url =t1-1-f -> so it is connected from tier 1 all the way to tier 2 F

Ohh its actually t1-f-1

[fallen jasper]

I think it's just a typo ngl

[spring sentinel]

How?

[fallen jasper]

T2DEF leads to T1-def

T2ABC leads to t1-f-1

lol

[sharp flame]

Not a typo

Assume it isn't a typo

Rob will correct it if it is

but it isn't

t1-f-1 is just as crazy as t1-def

[spring sentinel]

I mean, that's not a typo 😄 That's getting a stroke mid writing the url

[fallen jasper]

[fallen jasper]

https://tenor.com/view/the-joker-arkham-city-that-actually-is-pretty-funny-funny-joker-gif-21887750

[sharp flame]

Yes, I'm batman

Kyne is the Joker

with that damn laugh

[fallen jasper]

I'm da joka baby

[sharp flame]

wait yeah we already have an image of Rob as the Riddler 😭

[sharp flame]

😭hahha

The password pages don't work in mobile

The ABC and DEF don't open password pages

[fallen jasper]

kynelaugh.mp3

[sharp flame]

@spring sentinel can you post the two frames of the gif? The raw images

[spring sentinel]

The two frames or the two layers?

[sharp flame]

Two frames, as PNGs or something

(on mobile rn)

Thanks, will analyze soon™️

but I already know that the sizes (in pixels) of the shapes in the backgrounds will mean something

so I will get on that if no one's done it in 2hrs 🙏

Au revoir

[hidden nacelle]

all i see is this rectangle, 🤔

[last dragon]

Kinda reminds me of the construction Seoul map

The tower

[fallen jasper]

ISEUL-T Tower

[last dragon]

Yes

Maybe

Probably

[hidden nacelle]

i dont see anything, i might be blind

kind of looks like the word 'ready' has another word behind it

with that glitch effect

[south granite]

reminds me of how a taser looks lol

[hidden nacelle]

ye i was thinking that aswell

[south granite]

This is maths all over again lmao

But it's interesting that those 2 sides on top are not the same size

[hidden nacelle]

HUH

i guess you add them or multiply?

[sharp flame]

Could you break up the line on the top?

The 256 line seems to have to pieces which are a pixel different in height

[spring sentinel]

Yes, that's the correction for, it is actually 18 pixel tall, if there were no pixel differences it would be 17 pixel tall

[last dragon]

anyone know the gradient difference between each colour? If it’s constant it might be worth it to note down

I’m not on pc so I cannot tell

[sharp flame]

Ik but I mean there is a height change which happens somewhere along the 256 line

[spring sentinel]

Yes, but that is only a defect impo

[sharp flame]

It's on mine too

And all I did was turn the exposure up a bit

and robs clues usually rely on them being pixel perfect

[spring sentinel]

It didn't happen when we altered the image, it happend when it was exported

[spring sentinel]

In that case there are multiple issues with this polygon

[sharp flame]

Mine doesn't seem to have any artefacts

did you open the gif in a new tab before downloading

[spring sentinel]

Yeah

Ohh f*** I downloaded the wrong gif, the one that was resized by squarespace

[south granite]

bruh lmao

[spring sentinel]

Disregard the pixel counts

[sharp flame]

Yep

[spring sentinel]

All of the pics I have sent are wrong 😭

[sharp flame]

Probably good if you delete the old PNGs and post the new ones 😭

can't wait to dissect this stuff

1032+432 = 1464

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1464

[south granite]

https://www.redfin.com/WA/Chimacum/1464-Egg-and-I-Rd-98325/home/57164389

[fallen jasper]

The Byzantine clues are dead

[spring sentinel]

try 2

Here are the gif frames again

#SPECULATION#
Altough I was looking at this picture for the whole day, I think there are no clues inside.

[sharp flame]

There have gotta be some clues

Rob said GLHF

I assume this is all he's leaving us with for now

[fallen jasper]

[spring sentinel]

#SPECULATION#
I think the color gradient at the background and the polygon around happened while creating the gif.
It was cut and pasted from somewhere else and put in place of the original loading text.
The different hues of black are there only becuase of a gradient background, and the cuts are made to this shape because of things around the original text.

[fallen jasper]

If this is all we got we're up a creek

[spring sentinel]

#SPECULATION#
He already did, with the name of the tiers and the excess of clues in tiers before

I think as of now we are supposed to cross reference the tiers ABC and DEF and find the common theme.

[sharp flame]

This is t1-f-1

It could be an extension of the previous clues

[sharp flame]

ABC is gold, DEF is egg

[spring sentinel]

It could, but I think otherwise

[spring sentinel]

Yes

That's for sure

[sharp flame]

1064 is melting point of Gold, 79 is atomic No. of Gold, 137 is Golden angle

0vif0rm is egg-shaped, cacoiii is egg-shell, and vit3llum is egg-yolk

[spring sentinel]

Rob said that tiers 2ABC and 2DEF are actually pretty obvious (or at least that was in rockhounds video)

[fallen jasper]

Rob is the riddler thinking his death games are simple

[coral wing]

wait we have new gif?

on webp?

[sharp flame]

yep

[coral wing]

i see now

going to bring it to AE

im trying to figure out a sitemap tho ;-;

unless we feel thats "cheese"

[sharp flame]

make sure it's the highest quality possible

[coral wing]

wanna help me w that? i just right click saved

should i open new window> save?

[sharp flame]

think so

EE hunters:

https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62d66fa29e72c560f8efc020/fe19ed08-4ef2-4038-bd55-a9e25b07f9b8/ready_.gif?format=9999w

https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62d66fa29e72c560f8efc020/fe19ed08-4ef2-4038-bd55-a9e25b07f9b8/ready_.gif?format=9999w

the format number (XXXXXw) at the end determines the quality of the gif

https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62d66fa29e72c560f8efc020/fe19ed08-4ef2-4038-bd55-a9e25b07f9b8/ready_.gif?format=99w

https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62d66fa29e72c560f8efc020/fe19ed08-4ef2-4038-bd55-a9e25b07f9b8/ready_.gif?format=99w

see the difference haha

[coral wing]

ahh i see

[fallen jasper]

We're about to see some next level detail

[sharp flame]

https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62d66fa29e72c560f8efc020/fe19ed08-4ef2-4038-bd55-a9e25b07f9b8/ready_.gif?format=99999999999999999999999999999999999w

[coral wing]

looks like there is a cap lol

[sharp flame]

that's what I've been doing for the previous gifs

[coral wing]

i wonder if the oversampling will mess anything up? probably not but

[sharp flame]

so yeah, 1032x432 is the max

[sharp flame]

https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62d66fa29e72c560f8efc020/fe19ed08-4ef2-4038-bd55-a9e25b07f9b8/ready_.gif?format=1032w

https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62d66fa29e72c560f8efc020/fe19ed08-4ef2-4038-bd55-a9e25b07f9b8/ready_.gif?format=1032w

here is the exact limit

the 'perfect' one

if we're worrying about oversampling just use this one

[coral wing]

lines are different colors in the background box, could mean something

teal fuschia and blue in my eyes

could be the oversampling on my end now tho

[sharp flame]

i know it's probably an illusion but the lines splitting the word 'ready' seem to have a slight gradient

[pure loom]

The letters in LOADING and READY both have offsets (fractures in each letter which appear uniform within each word, but not between them). Maybe we should measure those offsets?

[pure loom]

Yeah, I think this is a good line of enquiry

[sharp flame]

how the hell

[fallen jasper]

I have a lot of things saved lol

[pure loom]

Your house looks like my house

[fallen jasper]

[pure loom]

TFEE Hoarders

[sharp flame]

it's even bigger than mine..

[fallen jasper]

Well my desktop is just whatever I need at the moment

[pure loom]

“This room contains all the diamond clues. I’m going for a minimalist look.”

[sharp flame]

how you get the RTF ones

you wiki people have connections..

[fallen jasper]

https://tenor.com/view/dont-ask-questions-you-arent-prepared-to-handle-the-answers-to-mrs-puff-sponge-bob-battle-for-bikini-bottom-gif-24579077

[fallen jasper]

My one drive is a bit worse

[coral wing]

trying different blend modes with the ready and loading sitting on top of each other has produced whole column color blocks

so now instead of the lines i was talking about we see the color

will continue until it looks actually like something ;-;

[sharp flame]

surely when Rob says 'READY' he means THE FINALS is READY and he will release it tomorrow..

[pure loom]

Maybe try the two cursors lined up as Rob made a point of saying that the cursor was strange.

[pure loom]

You cut yourself on Occam’s Razor

[coral wing]

cursor as in the "."?

[pure loom]

The flashing square cursor

[coral wing]

got you!

[sharp flame]

are the cursors visibly different?

[pure loom]

Maybe we compare the two of them

[coral wing]

sam looks like

off

on

[pure loom]

Maybe try the “difference” blend

[sharp flame]

is the cursor actually in the exact same spot in both GIFs?

[timid solstice]

https://tenor.com/view/raven-nervous-chewing-thats-so-raven-gif-11706293

[coral wing]

i mean the difference blend makes me want to believe something is here, but alignment must be off 🤣

[fallen jasper]

Not really

[sharp flame]

yeah the glitch effects are different on each

look how the A is different

must be something

[pure loom]

The gap looks wider.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kerning

Kerning. Everyone’s favourite pastime.

[coral wing]

arrow pointing downwards inside the L on Loading?

could be a brain moment but

[fallen jasper]

[coral wing]

nah nvm

its in the I too and is just from oversharpen

[pure loom]

Possible anagram: “LOADING READY” = “NAGOYA RIDDLE”

[coral wing]

nah these have to be arrows pointing down... but he said he didnt do anything to the loading gif on its own so....

[fallen jasper]

That's too many things to ignore

Maybe he meant don't dig too deep into it for now

[sharp flame]

88x228

88+228 = 316

228-88 = 140

[coral wing]

length?

[sharp flame]

yeah

[coral wing]

okok

[coral wing]

the background layer looks like some sort of key man

that C shape on right side is too out there to not be anything ;-;

and the gradient from light to dark

[sharp flame]

more counting done

here are the areas

therefore the total missing area is 11856 + 1404 = 13260

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/13260_Sabadell

here is an asteroid

[coral wing]

i like the thought of this

but i dont thgink the top would be excluded like you deleted 🤣

i think you were onto something!

[sharp flame]

nono I did it wrong

[coral wing]

ooo

well still, i dont think the top would be excluded

[coral wing]

i mean you guys have gotten somewhere from doing dimensions like this in past right..?

[sharp flame]

yes

[coral wing]

then its 100% plausible

[sharp flame]

there was one obvious one we never got tho

as in it was a pretty clear rectangle, X by Y pixels

we just never figured out what the numbers meant

[coral wing]

ahhhh

[coral wing]

im going to try and go off of this for now

helps my brain relax because after hour now i cant seem to find anything in these gifs

🤣

[sharp flame]

hehe yep

1404 is close to the 404 thing

and I looked at 1404 (the year) a bit during the 404 era

[coral wing]

https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62d66fa29e72c560f8efc020/2ebfaf34-2700-40fa-abd3-1bd049247374/Website_404_Update_opt.png

the 404 image^

just incase

[sharp flame]

not sure what to do with this

150 114

1501 / 1 / 4?

here: 17x150 = 2550 and 18x114 = 912

the overall large shape, with all the gradients, (not including all those cutouts)

is Width: 752, Height: 253

Added together is 1005

Subtracted is 499

multiplied together is 190256

https://www.onthisday.com/date/1902/may/6

birthdate of Harry GOLDEN