#easter-eggs

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sharp flame
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There was a clue which could be interpreted as pointing to the company Polestar, which makes cars (subgroup of Volvo)

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Also a bunch of magnetism stuff = Poles

balmy fog
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Oh I remember Polestar!!!

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I was here

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We were talking about the north pole

sharp flame
balmy fog
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huh

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right

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ok

sharp flame
turbid tinsel
sharp flame
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yep

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that was for before

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Rob was dropping Latin phrases constantly

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we were really dumb to not try numerals sooner 😭

balmy fog
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yeah it means patience is a virtue

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or something like that

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basically saying be patient

jade citrus
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i still dont get how latin points to roman numerals lol

balmy fog
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well

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Ancient rome

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used latin

balmy fog
sharp flame
balmy fog
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Did we ever used Vega ever again?

turbid tinsel
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did you guys ever link vega to virgin mary?

sharp flame
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that's what those messages are about

balmy fog
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that's odd

turbid tinsel
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or was vega what you guys used for the virgin Mary link?

sharp flame
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Vega was not used for anything

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there were just links TO everything

balmy fog
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Mhmm

sharp flame
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Rob says we have a long way still on the Vega path

turbid tinsel
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wasnt the virgin mary supposed to be a clue or something?

sharp flame
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meaning it's not supposed to come up yet

sharp flame
jade citrus
turbid tinsel
balmy fog
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borrowed from Medieval Latin Wega, Vega, altered from the terminal syllables of Arabic al-nasr al-wāqiʽ, literally, "the descending eagle,"

turbid tinsel
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Vega has three diferent origins and meanings. One is a title for Mary, the mother of Jesus, as “María de la Vega”. Here Vega refers to a meadow. This word has a pre-roman origin, and is strictly non-latin, maybe one of the elder words in Spanish.
The second origin is a secularization of the first meaning. So the name “Vega” alone sugests the freshness of a wildflower meadow.
The third meaning is the name of the star Alpha Lyrae or Vega. This comes from the word “waqi” in the Arab expression “an-nasr al-waqi” that means “falling eagle” or “descending eagle”.

timid solstice
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Which we worked out right before solving it haha

sharp flame
jade citrus
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latin_numerals Latin numerals, Roman numerals, same thing

Latin numerals

The Latin numerals are the words used to denote numbers within the Latin language. They are essentially based on their Proto-Indo-European ancestors, and the Latin cardinal numbers are largely sustained in the Romance languages. In Antiquity and during the Middle Ages they were usually represented by Roman numerals in writing.
Latin numeral root...

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just now figured that out

sharp flame
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hahaha

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Roman = Latin

balmy fog
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If this is accurate

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Vega has three diferent origins and meanings. One is a title for Mary, the mother of Jesus, as “María de la Vega”. Here Vega refers to a meadow.

sharp flame
turbid tinsel
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thats what i just linked above lol

sharp flame
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yep, the Vega in Las Vegas means Meadow as well

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checked a long time ago

balmy fog
river flame
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try it

balmy fog
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that's a big ass rabbit hole

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no

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lol

river flame
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try vega

balmy fog
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well yeah ok

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It is odd

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that rob says patience is a virtue regarding the Vega thing

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also points to the north pole wich was used as a tool of measurements and navigation

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mhmm

sharp flame
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there have been just as many Gold links as Egg links

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I think we're done with both

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I think what we're looking for is a specific thing which connects EVERYTHING

hard current
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that’s what I was thinking

sharp flame
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not any Rabbit holes

hard current
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I went back through all the padlets

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and I couldn’t see one single connection unfortunately…. but it’s gotta be there

balmy fog
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Vega does connect everything

sharp flame
balmy fog
hard current
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I know Rob said we missed like.. a LOT of prior clues, I wonder if it would hinge on that? But then again if we didn’t have the necessary information already I doubt rob would have said this is a walk in the park

sharp flame
balmy fog
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DEF was latin based

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So is Vega

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He said it was easy

hard current
sharp flame
hard current
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borrowed from Medieval Latin Wega, Vega, altered from the terminal syllables of Arabic al-nasr al-wāqiʽ, literally, "the descending eagle," originally a name applied to the three stars α, β and γ Lyrae

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same;)

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Vega is the brightest star in the northern constellation of Lyra. It has the Bayer designation α Lyrae, which is Latinised to Alpha Lyrae

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but then again, it’s ONLY connection to DEF is the latin

river flame
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I don't think it's vega

hard current
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but DEF was heavy on the egg thing…

river flame
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you're digging too deep

hard current
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eggs, gold, latin, roman numerals it’s like an impossible “find the similarities” game lol

balmy fog
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I tend to agree with fish on this one

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maybe we're too focused on GOLDEGG

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Let's not forget this is the end of level 2, not the end of GOLDEGG

sharp flame
balmy fog
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We'd have to include everything that we got from level 2

sharp flame
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but goldegg is just incredibly easy

balmy fog
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while at the same time being in a simple password

sharp flame
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like gold and egg were pretty "hidden" connections

hard current
sharp flame
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the final answer to this tier isn't just combining the last two answers

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we ARE actually gonna have to find a single clue

balmy fog
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I really love the path @coarse dagger was taking with the pixels size of the image

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Christianity

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it actually somehow links to Vega

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if you think globally

hard current
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my only question then is why are the two hints named ques and tion respectively, in my brain that means “combine”

balmy fog
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the file names are 🥲

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maybe the question is ''What correllates all of Level 2''

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It's large, too large

hard current
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we can all agree we’ve probably analyzed these images to hell and back right? in terms of color and components etc

balmy fog
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Yeah the symbols one would take days

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even weeks

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you can tell there's shit written in the back layers of the symbols

sharp flame
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I don't think there is "a question" unless it's been obvious the whole time

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I think it's the idea of a "question", or "question mark"

balmy fog
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Could it somehow be linked to a promise

hard current
balmy fog
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like did the romans went on a promise

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Like the Romans promised land or some shit like that

sharp flame
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this is the only real question I can think of

image.png
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that, or ARE YOU READY

hard current
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what about “do you promise”

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don’t see how that ties into the previous tiers still

sharp flame
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question mark seems pertinent though

hard current
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when rob first started he said ONE and little little little

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someone though of connections between three little pigs, I thought it meant “one little question”

sharp flame
quaint wing
sharp flame
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"golden clues".. final tier.. that's this one!!!

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and Rob said he wouldn't help us this tier... that explains a lot...

hard current
hasty anvil
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just to make sure, diamond clues are different to these 'golden clues'?

sharp flame
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and there were 8 at the time of him posting on the 20th of December 2022 💀

hard current
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if we combine all tiers we have 8 yeah

sharp flame
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20th of December 2022.. 2022... 😭

quaint wing
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Another day, month, year 😢

sharp flame
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we will solve it after a whole year of that message haha

hard current
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wait Rob did say he was months.. scratch that years ahead of us

sharp flame
hasty anvil
hard current
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wait wasn’t 2022 still part of level 1

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are the golden clues in level 1?

daring kelp
hard current
sharp flame
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Question marks... Riddler reference?

jade citrus
sharp flame
jade citrus
hard current
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maybe that’s why Rob isn’t saying anything… we already have everything we need

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but maybe we missed something relevant to gold

jade citrus
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the way rob says it in his message makes me think there are 8 golden clues in T1D alone

turbid tinsel
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If you want a reference to ? and a park. there was mysterion from south park who was voiced by matt stone lol

hasty anvil
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so maybe 2 in each

hard current
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should we start a thread to try and gather all these golden clues in one spot?

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I’m thinking that the inclusion of “so far” means there are other golden clues past T1D

turbid tinsel
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does the finals take place in 1948?

hard current
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what makes you ask

sharp flame
turbid tinsel
hard current
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look what swa said right after SadMan

sharp flame
turbid tinsel
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man the Riddler made his first appearance in 1948

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Riddler#/media/File:Detective140.JPG

Riddler

The Riddler (Edward Nigma, later Edward Nygma or Edward Nashton) is a supervillain appearing in American comic books published by DC Comics. The character was created by Bill Finger and Dick Sprang, and debuted in Detective Comics #140 in October 1948. He has become one of the most enduring enemies of the superhero Batman and belongs to the coll...

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during the "golden age"

hard current
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@fallen jasper could we get this pinned? relevant to the current status of the hunt 🙂

turbid tinsel
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So i went back and looked at Eureka stadium that got eyes awhile back. It was The first permanent oval used by the North Ballarat Football Club.

tulip matrix
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Excuse me I am human kekleo2

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oh nvm my reading comprehension was turned off ignore meeeeee

timid pebble
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Also, this might be unrelated, but i've seen some people quote Saturn earlier in the hunt, and I have to say the saturn symbol resemble a little bit a Question mark

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yea this is probably not it tbh 😂

hasty anvil
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worth referring to, maybe we have them already, maybe not

hard current
sharp flame
timid pebble
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Did we try any password related to the Sun also? It's symbol also resemble an egg lmao ☉

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Isn't too far from Golden Egg,

balmy fog
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Been away, any new shit popped up?

hasty anvil
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the clues we need are in past tiers we think

fallen jasper
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Ayye Grats on the green

balmy fog
balmy fog
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Does this mean im an old hunter now, even tho I haven't been there from june to october

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I'm about to do the whole 1 skin = 1 clue thing again.... I swear

sharp flame
hard current
sharp flame
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like Rob's old clues about THIS tier

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@balmy fog old stuff is GOOD stuff trust

balmy fog
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''Ohh, and then there are there are 8 “golden clues” so far in total that leads directly to the final tier of Level 2 - The Promise.''

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Mhmm

hard current
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yes that

sharp flame
balmy fog
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the final tier of Level 2 is 8 stuff combined into one

hard current
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My thinking is that it means at that time in that tier (tier 1D?) there were at least 8 golden clues, and more in the coming tiers

hard current
sharp flame
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2 per tier perhaps

sharp flame
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and definitely not combined

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they just "lead"

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so a culmination of clues

balmy fog
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2 per tiers would be a nice equilibrium

hard current
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yeah he said they point right to the final tier

balmy fog
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Welp

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That doesn't help does it bois

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It's worse

hard current
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so I think my plan this evening is to start from square one and look for “golden” clues… my only question then is are these golden clues literally related to gold or are they just “golden” in the sense that they are the final clues

balmy fog
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What I tought was a narrow path is now a much wider path

hard current
balmy fog
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We still truly haven't figured anything about the C64

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Other than the fact it was the C64

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The crosses, Robs clue to the mountain gun, etc. etc etc

hard current
balmy fog
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I hope your ready

hard current
balmy fog
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It was made especially for us in a time where we were stuck

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I asked rob

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I'll do 1 skin

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if you give me 1 clue

hard current
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1 skin?

balmy fog
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I used to do skin

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when i was here

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back then

hard current
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oh I see

balmy fog
hard current
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so what did he end up giving you?

balmy fog
hard current
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and this was never fully utilized in any passwords? as in, it was given but didn’t help for that tier?

balmy fog
hard current
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man… I’m going insane

balmy fog
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Wanna see the one clue that got me into hunting?

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I remember that shit like it was yesterday

hard current
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yeah

balmy fog
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this image

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8 months ago

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had this

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but white

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I added the colors

tulip matrix
balmy fog
jade citrus
hard current
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nothing ever came of it?

balmy fog
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Nothing

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@sharp flame

image.png
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lots of Ice in that tier

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and doubles

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To conclude, re-watching the whole tiers and re-making connections with rabbit holes is going to take

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well

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long ass time

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especially since lots of us weren't there for the whole time

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I guess its ''easy'' if you've been there all the time

jade citrus
balmy fog
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or

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if it means that

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it's because it's simply obvious for old timers

hard current
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is there a place all these analyzed images are stored

turbid tinsel
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lol might be to many though

jade citrus
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uhhhhh

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it looks like someone tried to delete the whole thing lmao

balmy fog
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Tier answer summary

Tier 1A - 1064 (Oct 6th - 11th, 5 days)
The password for tier 1a was “ 1064 ” which came from the date that the Pisa Cathedral started construction, which was according to the Pisan calendar at the time https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pisa_Cathedral and also the asteroid code for 1064_Aethusa https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1064_Aethusa. The clues for this tier were the Pisa Griffin that once stood atop the Pisa Cathedral and artwork with a cathedral as its main focus being hit by meteors. There were hidden Greek letters that made the word Aethusa scattered and Aethusa plants too.

Tier 1B - lxxix (Oct 11th - 30th, 19 days)
The password for tier 1b was “ lxxix ” which is lowercase LXXIX - Roman numerals for the date AD 79. The main clues were the movie “ 79 A.D. ” which was released in 1962 and directed by Frank Kramer; searching for this date shows it in Roman numerals. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AD_79. Other clues included or were connected to 79 such as the song ‘My Sharona’ released 1979 and Beethoven's Piano Sonata No.25, Op.79.

Tier 1C - 5f137s2 (Oct 30th - Nov 17th, 18 days)
The password for tier 1c was “ 5f137s2 ” which is the electron configuration for the element “Mendelevium”. The main clues were the Luna 3 far side of the moon mission and album cover of Pink Floyd’s Dark side of the moon, hinting at spectroscopy and one of its founders Anders Ångström. Also were Angstrom units and atomic configurations, the 118 clue was for the periodic table and Dmitri Mendeleev. The morse for “F” hinted at looking at the F block in the periodic table and the element “Mendelevium” named after Mendeleev. Later clues were atomic orbitals and electron configurations, this all pointed to using the code “5f137s2”.

Tier 1D - 0vif0rm (Nov 18th - Feb 22th, 96 days)
The password for tier 1d was “ 0vif0rm ” modified from oviform which comes from the latin words “ ōvus ” egg and “ forma ” shaped. The main clues were ovals/egg shapes, the cypher o=0 and perhaps 0,0 or double 00. Ovals/egg shapes were presented in many different ways; visually, as equations, metaphorically, landmarks, artworks and orbits, also as letters ‘vifrm’ themselves. The cypher o=0 was hidden as ascii equivalent or U+ keyboard codes. 0,0 or 00 was hinted at with ‘The Matrix’ and the Cartesian system, also with James Bond clues.

Tier 1E - cacoiii (Mar 27th - Jul 1st, 96 days)
The password for tier 1e was “ cacoiii ” modified from CaCO3 which is the chemical formula of calcium carbonate and roman numerals.

Tier 1F - vit3llus (Jul 3rd - Sep 17th. 77 days)
The password for tier 1F was “ vit3llus ” modified from the latin word for the yolk of an egg vitellus.

turbid tinsel
hard current
balmy fog
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All I see are holes

sharp flame
balmy fog
jade citrus
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marked as a "suggestion"

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I made a copy for myself so I can see everything properly

balmy fog
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Did it occur to us that Rob might be playing in our files and adding clues for fun

hard current
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that's pretty annoying

balmy fog
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😂

hard current
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I highly doubt it

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especially cause he'd have to request edit access, which by then flex wouldve said something

balmy fog
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Oh

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Right

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My b

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Also where’s Swa

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I haven’t seen him

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@slender lodge

sharp flame
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Retired from EE a long time ago haha

hard current
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aw man why'd they retire

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ee hunting is so fun

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I used to do it for another thing I was apart of... it wasn't quite this difficult tho lol

sharp flame
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there was a dry period of about several months tbf

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and it gets hard to follow if you miss out on some messages

hard current
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@balmy fog check dms 🙂

balmy fog
hard current
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yeah I've basically been nonstop learning the last few days to catch up

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which is why this method of looking for golden clues feels so daunting...

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is there no padlet for T1A?

slender lodge
balmy fog
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Sadge

timid solstice
slender lodge
timid solstice
jade citrus
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kinda deserved imo

hard current
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going through the padlets now.. my brain is going to melt trying to find golden clues

timid solstice
jade citrus
clear steeple
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Someone try to delete it?

hidden nacelle
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yep

jade citrus
clear steeple
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Always have to ruin the fun CryingEyes

jade citrus
clear steeple
timid solstice
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fixed now 🙂

pure loom
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yeah, I noticed that too! A little Rob-ism thrown into the game there.

undone socket
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woah what happened?

bleak field
undone socket
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the padlet?

bleak field
undone socket
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wild

turbid tinsel
undone socket
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happy hunting y'all, back to work :(

pure loom
bleak field
turbid tinsel
pure loom
turbid tinsel
jade citrus
balmy fog
jade citrus
pure loom
balmy fog
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I swear these AI's are getting crazier

hard current
jade citrus
jade citrus
pure loom
balmy fog
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I swear, Fiverr voice actors are scared right now

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took me 3 tries to have a great version

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anyways

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this isn't ee hunt related

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lol

pure loom
timid pebble
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Might've found something, not a huge break through but wtv.
You know the official art on which we had hidden text on the bottom part that B0kb tried to solve?

I'm pretty confident there might be two msg in those pixels
And I believe I found the font of one of those two msg, so this could make it easier for us to uncover what it is.
https://imgur.com/xTl8nMf

pure loom
timid pebble
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Might just be a coincidence, id need to try and make it fit with other islands

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The font in question is Gabriola

jade citrus
hard current
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this one?

timid pebble
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yea

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This is a mess to solve ahahahha

coarse dagger
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Was Zorro confirmed? I was reading through all the links to Zorro in the past, but didn't see anything connecting to the password or anything eyed....

timid pebble
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Also, in the screenshot that I sent, it seems like the n is using a ǹ maybe that would be worth looking into? idk

balmy fog
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YOUR TELLING ME THATS TIMES NEW ROMAN

coarse dagger
balmy fog
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wELL

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Well

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Serif fonts

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short story

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the first time I ever analyzed

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this image

hard current
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have you seen the reocurring mn?

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oh you beat me to it

balmy fog
coarse dagger
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Maybe we should make a thread for the footer analysis? It's quite the rabbithole

balmy fog
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Doing it rn

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Rabbit for the Footer Hole

pure loom
timid pebble
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one day ill be a rising star 🥲

spring tusk
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You'll be there soon enough, you only need to be lvl 3. You can check out your lvl there #🏆┇rank-check

sharp flame
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The other connection was with the Batman origin which was confirmed

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(Batman Issue #404 - Year One, Mark of Zorro was the movie his parents watched before they were killed)

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The link to the password was probably Zorro = Western = 79AD (film)

pure loom
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Yeah, so hints around it, but never confirmed

undone socket
jade citrus
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someone just posted this in general and i saw an easter egg

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the guy's shirt has the skull on it

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Robert Sammelin, Embark's Art Director

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hidden nacelle
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ye its also on the face mask in game

jade citrus
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yeah that's been documented in the wiki already

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this one hasnt so i assumed it was new/undiscovered

pure loom
jade citrus
pure loom
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with the hug_friend

tulip matrix
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numbers, letters, leet and roman numerals

pure loom
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it could be either is all I'm saying

pure loom
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glad to see you back in the ring though @tulip matrix hug_friend

tulip matrix
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Yeah I'm trying to be helpful lol

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It's hard after being away for so long

half holly
hasty anvil
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Looking through padlets I can see one thing that could be ‘golden clue’ which is parallel

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Parallel lines on whiteboard, parallel rainbows on t1e and the ? Can be looked at as parallel

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Otherwise I’m clueless for golden clues lol

jade citrus
pure loom
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Just had a bit of an idea. We know we have this pattern thing with the "tion" ? image - but so far the "ques" ? image remains unused. Maybe we can use some blend mode between them, then move the "ques" gold ? around over the top of the "tion" pattern and it will reveal something - almost like one of those cipher cards that you put over a page that has letters all over it.

balmy fog
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Using the golden ? As a magnifying glass

pure loom
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yeah, kinda like that

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or it acts as the modifier

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real Indiana Jones like

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that would also be a metaphorical way for the GOLD and EGG clues to come together as one

river flame
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alchemy

quaint wing
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I think someone might've tried an overla. I remember trying to throw that out there for the PS enthusiests, don't remember if I got an answer.

river flame
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evioldviold

balmy fog
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Welp I tried

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Doesn't work @pure loom

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Unless im not doing right

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but I tried to apply all the layer styles

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didn't work

quaint wing
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This might be stupid, but, are the colour profiles inverted from one another?

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As in, when you look at the values Lulz pulled, and you invert one, does it coorelate to the other? I don't know if that would help in any way, but it might help get rid of some noise

balmy fog
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idk but this is odd

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the ? isnt the same heigh

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height*

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if you remove the bevel

quaint wing
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Yeah. It's almost as if it was extruded out

balmy fog
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the white is 370px high

quaint wing
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It doesn't fit in there perfectly, but it does kinda look like it was beveled out a bit, then big bevel around the edge

balmy fog
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as the gold one is 360px

quaint wing
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You're talking internal gold, right? Without the little bevel/big bevel?

balmy fog
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yep

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i dont know if thats just an error

quaint wing
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I'm trying to think of other things that can be done to mitigate noise in one of the pictures.

balmy fog
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Nothing

quaint wing
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Or how we can use one as a key to unlock shit properly.

balmy fog
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Noise is deadly

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There's one thing you can't really undo its noise

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Unless you go with AI

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but again, we can't rely on AI

quaint wing
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There has to be a way to use both for each other, or there's something special no one's thought of yet

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No way we'd get one useless image, and one that's just hard as hell to navigate

sonic mantle
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One is gold and one is egg colored

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Background black vs background white

river flame
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two characters

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ge

sonic mantle
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One has a noisy background and the other is clear

quaint wing
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What if the gold background, inverted, gives colours we can remove from the white one to show things a bit more clearly?

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Or something along those lines. I'm not the photoshop person, just thinking out loud if anyone's able to make sense of my ramblings and actually put them to good use.

timid pebble
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Bringing this back,
'' An egg of Columbus or Columbus's egg (Italian: uovo di Colombo [ˈwɔːvo di koˈlombo]) refers to a brilliant idea or discovery that seems simple or easy after the fact.''
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egg_of_Columbus

jade citrus
tulip matrix
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maybe title of level 3 is THE QUESTION

balmy fog
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You can tell letters behind the symbols

unborn bone
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What is this channel about

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There's too many pins to go through

quaint wing
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-egghunt

wet leafBOT
balmy fog
quaint wing
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Lovely honestly

balmy fog
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this has been ticking me

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YOU 55 062

quaint wing
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Are all of those ligher white pixels the same value?

balmy fog
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Wym

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Oh I can remove them

balmy fog
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in ASCII

quaint wing
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Brubru is typing a short story. I hope it's the answer.

pure loom
balmy fog
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I can remove the symbols

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hand by hand

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but its gonna take forever

timid pebble
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At this point I have a tendency to think that for sure in this tier, golden is gonna need to be used in a metaphorical way and we should stop looking for anything gold+egg related, but way more into an expression, an event, or a place, which could of made sens in every last tiers and that may have had a link to egg.

balmy fog
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what is TSI?

pure loom
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Another option is to line up "tion" with a copy of itself - so maybe parts of it will mask other parts of it to reveal a message

balmy fog
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oh

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fuck

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I think I know

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if this TSI thing is right, wich I don't doubt

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TSI was a C64 game based off a labyrinth

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basically like snake

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what if its a labyrinth

pure loom
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maybe moving copies of the "tion" image around on itself can line up the completely black sections, so they make a maze? That would also be a "walk in the park" in a way

balmy fog
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no clue

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Im trying to see if I can find any other messages like TSI

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I did find 69

silver finch
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nice

balmy fog
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7up

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6?

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top of a ?

image.png
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wait

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thats odd

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1065

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why not 1064

junior swallow
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What image is this for

balmy fog
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b5
big?

image.png
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palindrome

Palindrome

A palindrome is a word, number, phrase, or other sequence of symbols that reads the same backwards as forwards, such as madam or racecar, the date and time 12/21/33 12:21, and the sentence: "A man, a plan, a canal – Panama". The 19-letter Finnish word saippuakivikauppias (a soapstone vendor), is the longest single-word palindrome in everyday us...

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are extremely presents

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in the photo

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like

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69

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25

silver finch
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when you sent the 69 i also thought of cancer ♋︎ which is also kind of a palindrome

balmy fog
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A9

balmy fog
balmy fog
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hen

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also this 01101101 = m = in binary

image.png
junior swallow
balmy fog
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this small portion alone

image.png
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there's binary, letters in negative space, symbols, idden texts

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I mean

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It just feels lik Rob's board of clues

junior swallow
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Yeah

balmy fog
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and that's only like 1/12th of the actual image

junior swallow
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Oh damn

balmy fog
junior swallow
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What if we treat the mostly positive spaces as 1s and negative spaces as 0s? (Sorry if it’s already been tried, I just want to contribute to this so badly)

balmy fog
# balmy fog

this is just oddly looking like Portal 2, wich is a puzzle game

balmy fog
junior swallow
balmy fog
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This is a small area sample

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but look

junior swallow
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I see

balmy fog
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you can see stuff written behind

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this is a Y

image.png
junior swallow
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So you’re trying to discern as much as possible

balmy fog
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it's impossible

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or atleast

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its not impossible

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it can be done

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but it'll take forever

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like hours

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im saying this but Ill probably do it this weekend

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pretty sure, like 70% sure it says Can you reach the Finals tho

junior swallow
balmy fog
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If the question is Can you reach the Finals

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we're fucked

hard current
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if it’s that we’d still be stuck at square one 😔

junior swallow
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…

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Pray then that it’s not that

balmy fog
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this is what tells me its can you reach the finals

hasty anvil
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There must be something you can overlay onto it

silver finch
hard current
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@balmy fog just to make sure, have you tried checking an image with a white background against this to see if you’d get the same thing

silver finch
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goose...

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golden goose...

balmy fog
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yeah same thing

silver finch
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drat already been there

balmy fog
hard current
# balmy fog <@224404447298584576>

see that’s my concern is if you get these same random markings from a completely unrelated image with a white background… it might just be because it’s white:/

balmy fog
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No

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Im sorry

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I misunderstood

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No you do not get these patterns at all

hard current
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oh… hmm that’s strange

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but good too

balmy fog
hard current
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means it might mean something

balmy fog
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this can't be made up lol

hard current
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could you send me the full image of this? I wanna mess with the colors/pixels

balmy fog
hard current
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there’s a grid

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someone mentioned that before

balmy fog
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zoom in

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its not really a grid

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looks like it but itsnt really

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it just badly looks like a c64 game

hasty anvil
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I mean like remember the crosses from a past tier, it might make a sort of map like rock hound suggested

silver finch
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oh god i just had a horrible thought

balmy fog
silver finch
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what if we're supposed to rearrange the "grid" pieces like a puzzle

balmy fog
hard current
hasty anvil
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Not enough of us are ps experienced enough lol

balmy fog
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the puzzles isn't the key here lads

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it's the letters behind im pretty sure

hasty anvil
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For a walk in the park we are crawling

balmy fog
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you can tell this is a U

hasty anvil
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Maybe it’s a maze and there’s a path to follow

balmy fog
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but the symbols are in front

hard current
balmy fog
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wich kinda sucks

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it's also full of binary

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like

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everywhere

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litterally everywhere

hasty anvil
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It’s basically a mess lol

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There needs to be a better way to read it

balmy fog
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Rob's brain

hasty anvil
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Cause it will take days like you said

balmy fog
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Robs ''final'' masterpiece

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It is a walk in the park, if you think about it, we have binary

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we have negative letters

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symbols

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if those are the clues it was a walk in the park to found them

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but decoding them is not walk in the park

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unless we find a way to separate everything, wich we can't, because the damn image is native black and white

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so once you go down to those pixels, there's no way to truly separates them (I think) because they are all shades of gray

hasty anvil
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Is it possible it’s just a section repeating?

junior swallow
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There might be an array of questions in the image which would also be annoying

balmy fog
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its always the same letters repeating

junior swallow
balmy fog
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all letters fits with CAN YOU REACH THE FINALS

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im pretty sure it isnt that, or if it is, well, we're screwed

hard current
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playing devils advocate, is your brain searching for patterns that match what you believe (CAN YOU REACH THE FINALS) or is it truly randomly those letters? i.e. can you convince yourself you see other letters as well

balmy fog
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nah

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look

junior swallow
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Well, good luck. Going to bed

pure loom
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Ok, an update on the overlaying thing. I was able to produce this pattern by repeatedly creating layers and moving them each a single pixel to the right until there was only one colour of line left.

tfee_tion_mapped-92_layers_moved_one_pixel_to_the_right.png
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that is 92 layers blanketegg

balmy fog
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problem is

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letters are, sometimes distorted, sometimes stacked on top of each others, sometimes narrower, sometimes wider, it's a mess

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like this

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we can clearly see there's an H

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But also a T on top

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whats funny is, the layer he stacked over the letters (layer of symbols) is not 100% opacity, its like, 90 so you can see the edge of the letters

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here's an easier one

silver finch
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just waiting for there to be an amongus hidden somewhere

balmy fog
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also no specific orders to them so

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yeah

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its a mess

balmy fog
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Just saying shit

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At this point I’d take any confirmations lol

pure loom
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I'm gonna work away at the overlapped layers idea and see if I can get anything out of it.

young vigil
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How do your guys got the pattern ?

pure loom
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I'll report back if I find anything or if I go insane first kekCry

balmy fog
balmy fog
turbid tinsel
# balmy fog

Did you decide what this is in the background? Before I post something that's already been confirmed

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Because I may have found something

balmy fog
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Other than bunch of symbols and negative space letters nahhhh no clue tbh

hard current
balmy fog
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I’m all eyes

turbid tinsel
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What symbols did you find because I found some pretty distinct ones

hard current
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I'm all ears

balmy fog
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Oh I found bunch of em

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Portal box

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Cancer symbol

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Huhhhhh

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Space ships

turbid tinsel
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I've found a spade, arrows, and some letters

balmy fog
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Oh yea?

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Show meee

turbid tinsel
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Ok one sec

balmy fog
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Haven’t seen it

turbid tinsel
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I didn't scan everything yet, just looking at it on my phone, but for sure that's a spade one the first pic, and a left arrow and up arrow in the second, maybe an H and A as well and but not 100 on thise

balmy fog
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Yeah it’s stacked with symbols

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That’s how much I know it is so stacked that rob actually put 7up in there

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That’s how stacked it is lol

faint rivet
# turbid tinsel

Zooming out, looks like you can see some letters. This hunt is playing tricks on me. Lol

ripe cloud
# balmy fog

IS there a version of "ques" edited to be like this? I dunno but trying to view it like a magic eye kinda makes it look like theres a few layers of...something...behind the question mark. Maybe im missing the other half. I know someone is trying to do the same with layering but corssviewing might be easier...seeing the bigger picture and all

hard current
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yes, in ques you don't see anything really

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try stegonline or forensically

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and you can achieve similar results

ripe cloud
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ah kk.

hard current
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I tried removing certain colroed pixels in that image @balmy fog @turbid tinsel but nothing came of it, looked even worse when removing any one layer of color

turbid tinsel
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There's 2 other spots I can't unsee, to the right it looks like another box with a 2 in it. And on the left there looks to be an outline with possibly a "USEV" or something when read on its side.

Screenshot_20231121-002759.png
hard current
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if you look at the black

turbid tinsel
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This stuff is all probably irrelevant honestly

hard current
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yeah... probably

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but we have no clear path yet so, anything could be a win at this point

turbid tinsel
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I also swear I keep seeing the number 25 but idk

hard current
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there's gotta be something so simple that we just aren't noticing

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I'm sure for the egg hunters that have been here a long time, they might see it but it seems a lot of people are on hiatus

coarse dagger
jade citrus
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I thought it was a bug at first, but I just now realized that it's a callback to an Easter Egg in Battlefield where opening a door will have a rare chance of playing a funny sound effect

hard current
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lmfao I love it

split forge
hard current
split forge
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Also damn easter eggs seem confusing

hard current
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yeah this newest one is throwing everyone for a loop I think

split forge
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Where's the image even from?

hard current
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I only joined last week but caught myself up mostly

hard current
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-egghunt

wet leafBOT
split forge
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Ah

pure loom
pure loom
pliant owl
tame bramble
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Hey I’m a big fan of the game and I’m interested In helping crack this code can someone help me catch up I’m just finding out about this

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Nvm I see now 😅

pure loom
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Part of me suspects that the patterns we see are gonna be largely meaningless and that the overlay patterns are what will be important.

hard current
jade citrus
quaint wing
wet leafBOT
hard current
quaint wing
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Y'all are doing so well. Goddamn. I will be useful again, at some point, probably

coarse dagger
carmine silo
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one arrow pointing left another pointing up and a backwards ha is all im getting from this

timid solstice
jagged ore
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Still nothing new on the padlet or any eyes?🥲

timid solstice
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lets go back to basics

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Gold ( foil / wrapped / embossed )

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Egg ( shell / white / calcium )

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Question ( question mark / ? / ?? / 003F / %3F )

balmy fog
pliant owl
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I might've thought of something, couldn't see it in the whiteboard rabbit hole thread so I'll drop it here

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Oh snap I can't post images yet 🫣

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I'll try to explain

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If you flip the whiteboard the broken piece with a question mark kinda looks like a question mark pointing down to the repaired broken pieces

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Kintsugi has been mentioned before so the above might point to that?

bitter mauve
bitter mauve
pliant owl
bitter mauve
pliant owl
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Also there's something that looks like #A0 or A=0 or whatever way you could see it, but I don't think that's anything tbh

tacit fable
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What are people speculating about atm

pliant owl
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Atm I think everyone's pretty stuck 😂

warm arrow
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Heyy, I´m interested in joining the egg hunt puzzles, is there any way to catch up?

balmy fog
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Sure

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-egghunt

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Jesus

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-egghunt

wet leafBOT
bitter mauve
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lol

balmy fog
bitter mauve
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yup but we still haven't have all the pieces of the puzzle yet

balmy fog
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I loved the Bolshevik rabbit holes

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It was really fun to read

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They stole 11 000 000 000$ worth of gold

formal nebula
# balmy fog

This pattern looks like directional pattern of the JPEG discrete cosine transform with excessive quantisation, clamped very tight to make those patterns stand out

But If that’s the case, I doubt it wasn’t deliberate

balmy fog
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Welcome to the Easter eggs

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There is messages hidden in those patterns

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Oh wait I’m sorry

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I misread you

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Indeed it could be that

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I know that DCT’s can be converted in letters

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For those of you that wonder what DCT is

hidden sand
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Egg nerds, my people

balmy fog
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I don't think any of us can use DCT tho, as it is high-level maths

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Rob saying walk in the park I doubt he meant DCT

pliant owl
balmy fog
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I found a way to separate atleast 1 layer of the image

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Computer at work so don't judge

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but basically

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?2a

jagged sage
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this is very thought out

split forge
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I really am sorry

balmy fog
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I think your like the 7th one to say AmOnGuS

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lmao

tulip matrix
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New phone wallpaper, who dis kekleo2

Screenshot_20231121-092757.png
balmy fog
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Ok this might be a reach

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but by applying the fourier system filter on the image, you get stars

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well

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1 light

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1 star

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this is the white image ?

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this is the black image?

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I've never truly used fourier so I don't know how it works

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also pretty sure something is written there

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ing iog? im not sure

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log

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idk

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ios?

pliant owl
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The Finals for the iPhone confirmed?

vapid yoke
balmy fog
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Also the whiteboard featured some X and Y

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Those values could be used in this scenario, maybe

image.png
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again the ? gold you can see 7A ? maybe ?

image.png
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might just be me

pliant owl
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I haven't really been part of most of the previous tiers, so I don't know how unclear some of the text based hints in screenshots were, but I feel like there's sort of a confirmation bias with seeing letters/numers in these pixelated parts

balmy fog
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Also this, wich looks like TEM or CEM?

pliant owl
# balmy fog

Okay scratch that I can clearly see TEM here 😂

balmy fog
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prob is artifacts

pliant owl
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You can probably see whatever your brain wants you to see in there xD

balmy fog
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of course

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TEM is pretty obvious tho

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TEM or CEM

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idk

balmy fog
pliant owl
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I felt like I saw a rabbit symbol in your edited "tion" image 😂

balmy fog
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atum could be related to Tem, the god of gods in ancient egypt

Atum

Atum (/ɑ.tum/, Egyptian: jtm(w) or tm(w), reconstructed [jaˈtaːmuw]; Coptic ⲁⲧⲟⲩⲙ Atoum), sometimes rendered as Atem or Tem, is the primordial god in Egyptian mythology from whom all else arose. He created himself and is the father of Shu and Tefnut, the divine couple, who are the ancestors of the other Egyptian deities. Atum is also closely ass...

coarse dagger
balmy fog
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''Several writings contradict how Atum (Tem) was brought into existence. According to the Heliopolitan view,** Atum originally existed in his egg** within the primeval waters,''

balmy fog
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''In the beginning, all was darkness. Then the Ogdoad awoke, Nun and Naunet, Hu and Haunet, Ku and Kauket, and Amun and Amaunet. Together they caused a hill to rise out of the first waters. On this hill was an egg, and from this egg, the god Atum, the all-father, was born.''

pliant owl
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#easter-eggs message This also made me think of these mosaic images.. like one image that consists of multiple smaller images

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Maybe mosaic is a theme?

balmy fog
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could also relates to this https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pyramidion

image.png af1be7ff2a9d2190f376a25ed34c64fa.png
Pyramidion

A pyramidion (plural: pyramidia) is the capstone of an Egyptian pyramid or the upper section of an obelisk. Speakers of the Ancient Egyptian language referred to pyramidia as benbenet  and associated the pyramid as a whole with the sacred benben stone.Pyramidia were usually made of limestone, sandstone, basalt or granite, and were sometimes cove...

balmy fog
pliant owl
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Took me a second so see what you meant but that's interesting as well

balmy fog
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Basically, Atum created the world

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he rose from an egg

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He's the god of all gods

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Anything Ancient Egypt is Atum related (atleast on Wikipedia) if you search Atum, any major things that happened is linked with Atum, also, ''Universe'' is linked with Atum

river flame
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That's deep

balmy fog
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Indeed but it links with gold, with Velga, with egg, with ancient rome, basically it's a large subject

river flame
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You go with that, I think it's a lot simpler

pliant owl
balmy fog
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It's written on the image

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Tem = Atum

pliant owl
balmy fog
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Tem = Atum is simple tho 😉

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You type Tem on Wikipedia, gives you Atum right away

turbid tinsel
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kinda seems like a stretch ngl.

river flame
balmy fog
river flame
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Ok

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Well

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I think it's at most a clue

turbid tinsel
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The "t" still has the same colored pixels that go up so its not really a "t" imo. and if rob wanted us to actually put that together as the clue there wouldnt be that big gap inbetween

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thats just my observation

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but if you wanna go down this hole thats on you lol

balmy fog
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Might be far fetched but fuck we got nuthin

sharp flame
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but I do say we should dig in either way

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cause if we are "seeing things" or not, we should get to the conclusion of the rabbithole

balmy fog
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It's weird tho

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It's dry

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Like I mean

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We have, no paths, at all

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nothing confirmed

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no intuitions towards where to go

river flame
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Maybe it's a combination of every tier

balmy fog
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anybody can give me the native ? images

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I dont have them and can't access the website at work

river flame
balmy fog
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nah

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these are not it

river flame
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?

balmy fog
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these are 1000x533

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the natives one are 1449x635

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or something like that

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1149x635

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the ones from the actual website

timid solstice
balmy fog
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Thanks

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We haven't looked a ton upon the 1149x635

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It's a weird size

river flame
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Yeah

balmy fog
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As normal 16:9 is 1280x720

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I GOT IT

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HAHA

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text: is the layers

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that's the symbols or so

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b4,abgr,msb,xy,prime.. text: "?3?3?3?3"

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this is somewhere on the white image

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2,r,msb,XY .. text: "DUUUUC\r_O"

hasty anvil
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niiiice

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but im lost haha

balmy fog
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b3p,r,lsb,XY .. text: "E%%%%%%%&JJFOIJJJJJJJJooo"

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basically

balmy fog
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its the top layers

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b3p,r,msb,XY .. text: ["R" repeated 8 times] these are probably the background letters I was talking about

hasty anvil
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what is MIT scheme?

balmy fog
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ITS THE FUCKING PATTERN

hasty anvil
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hahaha it is

balmy fog
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AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH

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WE FINALLY FOUND SOMETHING

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FUCK

hasty anvil
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nice

balmy fog
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@sharp flame

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''b3,abgr,msb,XY,prime.. file: PGP Secret Sub-key -''

sharp flame
balmy fog
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ok so

balmy fog
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the history of the layers

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in photoshop

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per example: b3p,rgb,msb,xy .. text: ["[" repeated 16 times]

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text: ["[" repeated 16 times] = [ is 16 times in the image

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b3p,abgr,lsb,xy .. file: MIT scheme (library?) = this is a FILE added

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by the name of MIT scheme

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Scheme is a language

balmy fog
balmy fog
hasty anvil
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MIT scheme (library?), RDI Acoustic Doppler Current Profiler (ADCP), SoftQuad DESC or font file binary, floppy image data (IBM SaveDskF, compressed).

balmy fog
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so now

hasty anvil
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these look to be important from what i can see in the text

balmy fog
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let's try to formulate the question

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because

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this

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b5p,abgr,msb,Yx .. text: ["?" repeated 12 times]

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is 12 times

sharp flame
balmy fog
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Zsteg

hasty anvil
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steghide: could not extract any data with that passphrase!

balmy fog
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Is to detect hidden data within an image

sharp flame
balmy fog
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Yes

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Basically, just like you can extract colors code

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You can extract Zsteg

sharp flame
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like what is this

image.png
balmy fog
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Layer text ''W'' repeated 10 times

hasty anvil
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good job i think this is it

sharp flame
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?

balmy fog
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Nah

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On photoshop if you put a text layer and type in ''WA''

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it'll say ''WA'' LayerText

quaint wing
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WWRD - what would rob do