easter-eggs

[hard forge]

please 🥺

[lament linden]

curious voice line

Maybe we'll get a "correct" version of it in the future?

[sand rune]

https://youtu.be/k5zV9J6J1Mc?si=vO84cQmSvRwivDFX

New vid

[lament linden]

ooo

[sour needle]

maybe they made a similar one an cns changed it

[dull marsh]

The lore is that this was a map that was not finished yet, and CNS used that and added their own stuff to it

[sour needle]

ah ok

[eternal violet]

that video was on first boot up in season 2

[lament linden]

Not finished yet
Reinforces my idea

[native onyx]

Been thinking about the 4111 and everyone kept looking at the angel number(which I kept finding it at as 411), but what about in more of a modern sense like the information directory
If you google 411 definition Oxford has it described as " the Relevant information or the truth"
Seek the truth coincidence maybe?
Does the extra 1 completely disqualify that?
Either way loving following this

[hasty anvil]

🇸 🕯️ 🇷
🕯️ 🕯️
🕯️ 🕯️

[fresh quiver]

Im not a fan of angel numbers. So I think as it has something todo with science you could be right

🇸 🕯️ 🇷
🕯️ 🕯️
🕯️ 🕯️

[hard forge]

🇸 🕯️ 🇷
🕯️ 🕯️
🕯️ 🕯️

[fresh quiver]

Does anybody is already working on the new video they released on yt? Just got home

[dull marsh]

Wasn't that ingame video on S2 release?

[fresh quiver]

Not sure if I even watched the ingame video for s2 release.

But even then I’m not sure if this is this video you meant xd

[dull marsh]

Yeah yeah it's the same

[cloud wyvern]

i could. i'm sure there is something to find in most of em. that one just caught my eye. i'll try to get em all a bit later if i'm feeling up to it (depressed)

[solid jay]

This is all very interesting.

We were told to pay RESPECT to Danielle Bunten Berry and Pluto

The word respect keeps coming up

[cloud wyvern]

also Season 2 :v

[hard forge]

press F

[solid jay]

#1213500600117891122 message

(but I have to give it to them, they are good... Not "FLT-Horizon-RZR1911-TSL-Crystal-good" but still really good, so RESPECT to any hidden CNS-members in the channel)

#easter-eggs message

reply from rob to the above message
#easter-eggs message

You are spot on, but how does this fit the big picture...?

But no eyes.

So how does something this close fit into the big picture?

[hasty anvil]

I keep seeing crystals/crystal structures come up

Also diamond and rubies

[sour needle]

i mean the tier 3 clue was also a rubie i think

[solid jay]

So by default the interact Key is E in the finals X on PS5 and A on Xbox. I don't think this is relevant I just wanted to note it.

[sour needle]

so maybe it is important

[solid jay]

but to pay respect in CoD it's F

[torpid willow]

Wtf

[hasty anvil]

I'm not sure of the relevance of ruby to this tier, Rob pretty much gave us that
#easter-eggs message

Which either means its super important, or was used for another thing

a bunch of 'what is...' stuff got eyed really on as well

[solid jay]

I agree but the Burrw.gif could be a diffraction seen through a ruby?

[solid jay]

Mogok in Myanmar (Burma). Batman Dark Knight reference. Alfred discovers a boy playing with "a ruby the size of a tangerine"

Mogok is known for their gemstones and we have Namabatama.

[minor tinsel]

Does Scotty still Plays? 😄

[unkempt dune]

He made lithographs, which are made with lithographic limestone (CaCO3). One of them remind me of the reflective sphere from SYS$Horizon
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hand_with_Reflecting_Sphere

[solid jay]

Kinda looks like it could be a trophy.

[unkempt dune]

he has a few of them like this https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three_Spheres_II

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

[solid jay]

has Lapis lazuli around the base

depicts the Greek goddess Nike

Interesting to note:

Brazil was awarded the trophy in perpetuity following their third title in 1970, prompting the commissioning of a replacement. The original Jules Rimet Trophy was stolen in 1983 and has never been recovered.

[unkempt dune]

Sphere Surface with Fish

Sky and Water I

Magic Mirror has a few griffins

[cloud wyvern]

thought i had before falling asleep last night RE: "combind"

• eggs are generally used as a binding agent when baking/cooking
• there are also some academic papers about binding protein to gold when you do a google search

eggs being a known source of protein

"egg binding" is when a bird is unable to pass its eggs

conclusion: the answer is PROTEIN you're are welcome.

[solid jay]

just adding to this from earlier

When I google this string "FLT-Horizon-RZR1911-TSL-Crystal" as a whole I am sent to what looks like an Amiga preservation site.

If I click image search though I am shown a telescope.

[alpine junco]

what if paul klee isnt ab ovo

[solid jay]

well i tell you one thing for sure, we are unable to pass tier 3 right now😭

[acoustic canyon]

Didn't ab ovo get eyes?

[shrewd fog]

yes

[alpine junco]

yeah nvm i just checked

lol

but i mean he has other egg paintings

[shrewd fog]

faz 🙄 🤣

[solid jay]

but ab ovo was specifically eyed

[alpine junco]

did anyone ever say any other egg paintings?

[cloud wyvern]

he has one painting with a literal easter egg in it

[shrewd fog]

we already have everything we need

[cloud wyvern]

^

[solid jay]

i'm sure they did you'd have to check also egg is a binder in paint

[acoustic canyon]

I'm pretty sure we looked through most of them when the Klee signature was discovered

[alpine junco]

this one is "with the egg"

[hard forge]

@cloud wyvern welcome back

[cloud wyvern]

im back to give myself psychic damage

[solid jay]

https://tenor.com/view/big-deal-psychological-damage-im-crazy-gif-14210741

[mental cairn]

RZR1911 is another nod to the warez scene https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Razor_1911

[solid jay]

Also adding to this

High refractive index: This property gives Burmese rubies exceptional brilliance and sparkle. The characteristic softness often displayed in rubies comes from them having minute, light-scattering inclusions, called ‘silk’.

[alpine junco]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Latin_phrases_(A)#ab_ovo_usque_ad_mala

[solid jay]

i'm literally chasing three strings right now i need a break lmao

[hard forge]

1911 which translates to 777 in hexadecimal.

[mental cairn]

And another warez group: FTL https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fairlight_(group)

[hard forge]

I know someone from that group.

[acoustic canyon]

yeah weve had hints about fairlight before

[mental cairn]

HORiZON as well, maybe something worth mentioning. warez groups have a repeating pattern of using a lower case i with their naming convention

[remote marten]

he was one of the finalists

[dreamy lotus]

i love how this game has so many references to the old Tron

[civic trellis]

Did anyone see the dematerializer inspect animation?

It’s like special lens

[dull marsh]

Just as a heads up, those have been found quickly if you go back to Rob's original message and scroll down a bit 😉

And Rob was part of one of these groups back in the days... (I don't remember which tho)

[bright ruin]

iNSANE under the name TmX

Did art for Fairlight though

[worthy nimbus]

i see Julius caesar mentionned on the padlet, but no mention of the Ides of March (date of his assassination), which happened on the 15th. beyond the release of s2 in certain regions due to TZ fuckery, anything happening on that front?

[worthy nimbus]

worth noting that Brutus minted coins, some (very few) of them gold, celebrating his successful assassination https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ides_of_March_coin

[worthy nimbus]

i have spent too much time.
in red forwards, in blue backwards of each cannon.
there is a spot in hotels but it's wide and in the middle of a play area, but maybe worth further investiagtion.
i don't play enough to know this well enough, but would the south cannon on royal plaza have actually a pretty good chance of hitting an eventual duck south of cathedral?
https://i.imgur.com/ZQcJMrF.png
i also took the liberty of overlaying it on a real map of monaco (did you know the map was very similar to real life?). original map in the dotted square.
https://i.imgur.com/fi7TWFb.png
some things of note on a real map:
west of the cathedral, there is a courthouse.
in the Villas area on the game map, there is a software developper office called "null island". probably unrelated but it's on-theme.
around where "hotels" is written on the game map, there is a place called "Sainte Barbe". it's a place of worship. the plaque there reads "here previously was a chapel dedicated to St Barbe, raised in the first half of the 16th century. Prince Louis the 1st of Monaco ordered it rebuilt in 1680 for the religious offices of the french garrison. The plaza's cannoneers celebrated their eponymous celebration. it was put into disuse in 1793"
in the north, the monaco circuit. this doesn't seem very connected to anything.
notable misses by the cannons:
the oceanographic museum (since we're having a science theme, though more space-wise really)
circled in magenta, south south west: a pond called "the duck garden" upon which i stumbled randomly while on google maps which seems oddly on-theme.

[ancient drum]

I'm not really sure if this is relevant, but the headpiece of the mercenary set is called Descartes' demon, and in Rene Descartes book Meditations on First Philosophy, Descartes describes a scenario in which god is not an all loving creator but rather a demon that attempts to deceive him and convince him that everything that he percieves is false. This passage is actually the origin of the line "I think therefore I am". Could this be the demon the mask is referring to?

[full token]

-egghunt

[wet leaf]

New to the hunt?

Check out #egg-hunt-onboarding
Catch up with this great summary: https://youtu.be/XaU6Fo2utBY
Follow the ongoing progress through Padlet: https://padlet.com/Kyne
Good hunting! 🥚

[jade citrus]

at the end of the credits

[hasty anvil]

#easter-eggs message
Cade had a bit of a look at this before

[alpine junco]

anyone down to hunt?

[hard forge]

@worthy nimbus and @ancient drum welcome to the hunt. We have resources/guides in pinned messages. Feel free to ask questions.

[hard forge]

too late for me

[alpine junco]

well imma be in Team 4 vc if anyone wants to join

[storm pumice]

Tf

[dim totem]

i'm there if there's a lobby going on

[alpine junco]

https://discord.com/channels/1008696016318513243/1219436426043850833

[dim totem]

🕯️ 🕯️ seoul map summoning🕯️ 🕯️

[jade citrus]

🇼 🕯️ 🇷
🕯️ 🕯️
🕯️ 🕯️

[dim totem]

still haven't procced seoul in like 20 games

[alpine junco]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ORF_(broadcaster)

[hearty meteor]

did they take seoul out of rotation

[dim totem]

https://tenor.com/view/theoffice-michael-scott-jim-halpert-gif-27622036

i literally can't find seoul ever

[random bramble]

Yeah I'm noticing that, I get Seoul once in a blue moon, a lot of Skyway & the new map, occasionally Vegas and Monaco.

I've got Seoul probably twice since S2

[hearty meteor]

ok so not out of rotation

[limpid yarrow]

ive had soul alot but hardly vages

[random bramble]

Which sucks because it's the only map I can reliably test the UP Cube and the Demat due to a lot of cashouts not having a room above them we can set up in that isn't immediately destroyed.

The strat I wanna try is use the up cube to lift the box to the ceiling, then demat the floor and remat it after the box comes through, but I swear every time I get a cashout where that's possible the floor above gets deleted before we can try, Seoul would be good because there's a lot of multistorey buildings that the cashout spawns in

[gloomy anvil]

alrighty let's solve the T3 password

[hearty meteor]

[bright ruin]

Have we tried asking Rob to solve it?

Erase his memory and put him through the hunt

[hard forge]

Should we document CNS leaks/Posts?

[limpid yarrow]

#1213500600117891122

[hard forge]

I mean just the contents and findings

because #1201288968562552863 message

[gloomy anvil]

Latin mirrored (literally) is a solution used for etching of metals, especially for revealing the microstructure of carbon steels.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nital

although I don't see much relevance. Samras mentioned it too a while back.

it's also

Gold Egg + Birth / birthdate

• Nobel?

major spitballing

we found JBB by her birthdate

[limpid yarrow]

whats the birthdate of the finals ?

[hasty anvil]

That’s a good thought, by that same logic, I wonder if T9 was a clue by itself too

[hard forge]

Rob used "00" again yesterday

but in the main chat

[gloomy anvil]

I'm trying to find a secondary source for nital meaning birthday because Google might be trolling

[bright ruin]

I guess that would require knowing what counts as the birthdate. Reveal date? Launch date? First Beta date? Typically its launch date but sometimes people or companies count it differently

[alpine junco]

00 i X and things in 3

[hard forge]

ahh this reminded me of the red and blue pixel he sent

mirror

0000FF and FF0000

[alpine junco]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gamma-glutamyltransferase

or could just mean Good Game Tactics

the number 12 is also used in the meteorite event and in sys$horizon map when June is commentating

who joined vc and said i suck

[turbid tinsel]

what is green? for like an rbg

[hard forge]

00FF00 - RGB

[hasty anvil]

15 07 1943 was JBB DoB
FIND PSW: XXXX-XX-XX would be 3491-70-51

Or maybe we need Caesar's DoB

[gloomy anvil]

I was going to mention this a while ago but might've forgotten:

In the S2 CNS teasers we got, the red and blue channels distorted away too the sides, while the green channel remained stable in the center.

I sort of dismissed it since it sounds like what a distortion filter would normally do, but maybe it means something.

[hard forge]

also F, 6

[gloomy anvil]

1307100 -> ieotioo

:nama_shrug:

Caesar's birthday is recorded as either the 12th or 13th of July (off by one)

[hard forge]

tioo*?

ahh nvm

[gloomy anvil]

nah you're right I messed up

ieotioo or ietioo

Wikipedia and other sources use 12 July 100 BC but it's debated

[hasty anvil]

What was found from CNS posts for this tier? I missed all that stuff

Trying to look through the thread but there’s so much

[gloomy anvil]

afaik, nothing besides the S2 content itself

[hasty anvil]

Strange we didn’t find anything after Rob said CNS would help us from this

https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/1213500600117891122/1213531429619896361/orbiting-around-the-sun.gif

We had this idea, which could relate to wavelengths and orbit

More specifically, the image represents the sun, which has a bunch of egg/yellow/ latin god/ G type star connections

And the solar system tattoo as well

[gloomy anvil]

I think we might get somewhere with the birthdates btw, and Caesar like Wig suggested. Worth a shot.

[hasty anvil]

'FIND PSW: XXXX-XX-XX' - This being unused and easy to find really makes me think it's part of this password

[hasty anvil]

Just bare in mind all other clues and information we have and how it could connect

[turbid tinsel]

so all 3 combined would just be FFFFFF lol?

[bright ruin]

Which is white

like an egg

or "tion.jpg"

Note, idk if the white in that image is actually FFFFFF though

[turbid tinsel]

viviviiviviv

[hasty anvil]

wasnt CNS images like fooo and ofoo or something

[hard forge]

Rob also mentioned:

• 0FC
• Off - topic
• press F

Also F=6 was eyed in the past

[turbid tinsel]

what if we took ff0000 and 0000ff and 00ff00 and ran them as binary or something

[bright ruin]

just replace the f with a 1

that's your binary

wait jk

was reading this hex chart wrong

[hasty anvil]

Just had a flashback to the christmas stockings unsolved clue
#easter-eggs message

[hard forge]

#060606 is the background of "ques"

[hasty anvil]

Also had carpe diem colour code #e4943d

[hard forge]

and ce2029 🚒

[alpine junco]

press f to pay respect

[alpine junco]

Ullr Euler

yule

[cloud wyvern]

https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/original/000/722/759/8ed.png

[alpine junco]

nice embed

[gloomy anvil]

This might come off wrong but I wonder if that's been holding us back?

When I read old tier wiki entries, it's apparent how many clues were only pointing to one small thing.

Pikachu was a clue in T1F, afaik just as a hint towards yellow (yolk). Imagine trying to connect every other T1F clue to Pokemon.

[coarse dagger]

Probably a coincidence, but your comment made me realize geocache fits in the number of Xs there:
GEOC-AC-HE

[cloud wyvern]

i wear my i dont know how to use discord badge with honor

[hasty anvil]

Yep I understand that as well, people might stop at the right place cause it doesn’t fit another clue

[alpine junco]

has anyone tried this?

[hasty anvil]

Haha I’ve noticed this and messed with it too, I prefer ehcacoeg due to mirror +Cac03 lining up, but couldn’t get it anywhere.
GEOC-AC-HE
630C-AC-H3
HECA-CO-EG
H3CA-C0-3G

Yeahhh not too sure

[hasty anvil]

No ones properly looked at it yet/ mentioned they have

[turbid tinsel]

does f=5 or does f=v?

[alpine junco]

is there a highres image of the posters or are in game ss the best

[hasty anvil]

Just in game

[coarse dagger]

Crash test dummy numbers were brought up, but not really investigated, so good job bringing them up again!:
#easter-eggs message

[turbid tinsel]

mt-db-ds-md-fi-og-au all of the elements by numbers on pte

[coarse dagger]

GEOCACHE?
Gold(en) Egg C... A... C... H... Euler

[gloomy anvil]

Caesar / Calcium ?

[alpine junco]

Gold
Egg
Open your eyes
Calcium
Ab ovo
Caeser
Holtow
Euler

[turbid tinsel]

should holtow be relevant, what would H convert to, 8?

[alpine junco]

isnt holtow related to burrw?

[turbid tinsel]

not sure, but burrw is a diamond clue so idk how relevant it is in this tier tbh

[cloud wyvern]

i still dont want to dismiss anser/goose yet either

"the answer is anser" is stuck in my head on repeat

living there rent free

[turbid tinsel]

looking over that image the other day, seemed like alot of the blurred spots standing out in the base image were almost in some cases supposed to be "=" signs when i was altering it in different ways.

[cloud wyvern]

the most fun thing to do is to make 3 separate R G B layers and toggle them on and off

[alpine junco]

in gimp this works as well

tbh a majority of background have a spiral

[cloud wyvern]

here are the battlepass backgrounds as promised from before

i adjusted the B/W points on all of them to remove some of the haziness.

[daring bluff]

this is fire

[alpine junco]

monaco

[unkempt dune]

here's another way of looking at geocache:

E H / CACOE / G
g u   CaCO3   o
g n           l
  t           d

[turbid tinsel]

that poster in the battle pass background looks so familiar for some reason.

[turbid tinsel]

what if the password is as simple as doing the keys backwards, so like instead of g=vi, its vi=g or 6 now?

[dull marsh]

About the history of Easter Eggs

In 1290 the household of the English king Edward I bought 450 eggs to be coloured, covered in gold leaf and distributed among his royal entourage.
https://historiesoftheunexpected.com/magazine/the-unexpected-history-of-easter-eggs/

[upper sonnet]

is there a rule for the letter f?

where did this come from? f=0?

[unkempt dune]

you know the whole ACDC thing from last night? It definitely could be intentional considering Chuck Peddle (from the F11251937.gif) worked at General Electric at one point, which is a company related to the current wars (alternating current and direct current)

[dull marsh]

It's Euler equation to know if an object is convex I believe?

Faces + Vertices - Edges = 2

[upper sonnet]

hmm i may try that if f=6 doesnt pan out, f=6 got eyed and there was 6ly me 6riendly hint.

[unkempt dune]

the five truths could be meant for an acronym like:

G old
E gg
M irror
L atin
S pace

General Energy Model for Limited Systems (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_modeling)

[gloomy anvil]

I just remembered Urania's Mirror has 79 constellations and I'm sad again that it didn't get eyes

@earnest wagon hope you're doing well btw!

[unkempt dune]

Draco and Ruby stuff could be programming language related (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amiga_programming_languages)

[hasty anvil]

Was just thinking of vvv again. The mirror would be reflecting namatama, the egg. So maybe we only mirror egg. So then I thought we would get 663

I search 663 in discord

#easter-eggs message
Last tier, we got our g=6 clue in frame 663 of the video…

[lyric umbra]

What’s going to happen if we get all the codes in?

And how close are we to finishing?

[turbid tinsel]

https://www.reachthefinals.com/tfee-level2

and another level to grind through

[turbid tinsel]

also if we just took took all of the roman numerals from def we would get vi,iii,vi, or in otherwords g=6, iii=3=e, and g=6

which spells egg

if re-ordered

[hasty anvil]

Agh so it’s possible to have egg, geg and gge, and link to Latin

That messed my thought up haha

[turbid tinsel]

this might be nothing but if you try to convert viold into leet, vi=6 o=0 l=1 and d=4 (d being 4th letter) you get 6014, which is the first password we got (1064) just re-ordered.

[unkempt dune]

1064 can be considered ab ovo

[upper sonnet]

has anyone tried this in their passwords?

u, m, n and r = + = e0f or 306?

ive been trying to make a palindrome out of 'ovum anseris aurei'

[turbid tinsel]

im personally not sure palindrome is related. it may contain a palindrome inside the password itself like ivi but that word itself has not gotten eyes. which makes me think its irrelevant as a whole.

[upper sonnet]

bro my eyes are gunna bleed if i look at anymore iviivivivi's tonight

ill take a break and get back to it in the morning, figured id share if anyone else wanted to try something. I dont think we have any other leads on what to do with UMNR, and this cleanly makes them numbers.

[turbid tinsel]

i think we need a sys command for the c64 imo.

[unkempt dune]

Looks like 1064 is associated with screen memory for the C64

By default, the 1 kB of screen RAM or screen memory resides in memory at 1024-2023

1064 is the start of the second row

[coarse dagger]

Been there done that. We had a good theory too.
#easter-eggs message

Never went anywhere though

[spring plover]

I feel like we need to think more like this when solving the diamond clue, atleast this is the kind of stuff im getting from the whole season

[worthy nimbus]

Second to last image feels a lot like a cypher key of some sort

Like yeah I get that we have a very outrun theme going on with grids everywhere, but this one specifically says "i'm binary represented as a grid" to me. Maybe related to the c64 memory grid?

I was bored and the first 2 lines can be interpreted as 7-bit ASCII as 'y' and 'z'. Groundbreaking.

( I should mention this is on interpretation, because I deliberately chose the interpretation that maps cleanly onto printable ASCII. If I didn't do that, I'd end up in the control characters, which is usually counterproductive, except the c64 was actually controlled by these control characters somewhat, moreso than modern computers)

[weary coyote]

are we still doing c64 business?

[turbid tinsel]

i dont think we really dont know where our business is, i think were just grasping at straws with what we have and what we think are leads.

at least thats how im feeling

a lightbulb has to go off for someone at some point lol

[weary coyote]

so we have a text on that poster that is c64 drawing chars? have you tried using the original keys on the keyboard instead?

[turbid tinsel]

are you referencing the screen and color memory map or the poster from the s2 battle pass?

[weary coyote]

that thing #easter-eggs message

[turbid tinsel]

i am not sure to be honest.

[turbid tinsel]

not sure how much you may or may not know about the password, but say your an outsider looking in. Where would your thought process make you look?

[weary coyote]

i know absolutely nothing about this stuff

(the password that is)

but i was just thinking about these symbols there . the lines and curves etc, if you look at a physical c64 keyboard, you can see that they are also sitting on a physical key (on the front side) and you would get them by pressing a modifier key

i used to have a c64, so it game me instant flashbacks ,)

[velvet narwhal]

rob did eye these c64 keys so it's probably important #easter-eggs message

[velvet narwhal]

He also said this after lulz brought it up again: #1201288968562552863 message

No that is a "very obvious" clue on that image... ._.

@weary coyote What did the colors (BLK, WHT, RED,...) on the numbers do? Did they change the color of the text?

Here's a good image of the keys

[velvet narwhal]

On here are also symbols that I can't see in petscii. They could be a mixture of multiple characters.

[weary coyote]

yeah, i think so

https://www.commodore.ca/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/c64-users_guide-05-advanced_color_graphic_commands.pdf

[velvet narwhal]

It could be this with another symbol but I can't find the other symbol

[velvet narwhal]

That's cool! If I grew up with them I'd have spammed them to get a disco party on my screen. (I don't even know if you were able to change the color of already written text.) (The more I know about this machine the greater is my desire to own one)

[weary coyote]

it was a neat little box for sure

since rob was harking about his swedish version, maybe the keyboard layout of the codes is different on the swedish model?

[velvet narwhal]

His c64 was a german one with the QWERTZ layout but that doesn't change much except the placement of y and z #1201288968562552863 message

[weary coyote]

ah, still a different one

[hard forge]

he also said this.
#easter-eggs message
@weary coyote

I think it's important if he pointed that out

[velvet narwhal]

ah missed that

[fresh quiver]

Back in the days, Commodore 64’s were modified to accommodate other keyboard layouts with special character sets – like Spanish, Swedish or Danish.

[dreamy lotus]

the third one looks exactly like a scene from the old Tron

[weary coyote]

never seen one of those! i think mine was actually us layout, despite being in germany 🤔

[hard forge]

#easter-eggs message

This led to Chuck Peddle
#easter-eggs message

[dull marsh]

Kinda, Chuck Peddle didn't receive eyes tho

[velvet narwhal]

but rob wrote

You are spot on, but how does this fit the big picture...?

[dull marsh]

Yes yes, means that it is very closely related but probably not a clue per say

[velvet narwhal]

A message like that is > or = to an eye imo

[worthy nimbus]

The chuck peddle wiki page has a see also about "group coded recording", a method for encoding data on magnetic media, which has a commodore-specific encoding (on mobile, can't link but you can find it easily). It could very well be a codec for some data we already have

[alpine junco]

I’ll try to go into last vegas and get a better ss

[worthy nimbus]

Also not written in the wiki article: chuck peddle invented the scheme that flash storage uses to refresh bad pages with fresh ones, for USB drives and now what has become SSDs

[grizzled hollow]

I'm impressed and scared of this community. just catching up is exhausting

[hard forge]

impressive

[worthy nimbus]

Reading more, this method is specific in that it never has 2 consecutive 0's. If we ever have binary like this we know where to look

[hard forge]

my opinion is that chuck Peddle is a pointer to 6510.

[worthy nimbus]

Very likely. I'm mainly just surfacing second-order info so that someone else than just me is aware of it should it become needed

On that note, he had (he died in 2019) a bunch of patents to his name on flash memory tech. Not that relevant, but keep an eye out for patent numbers

[solid jay]

Okay caught up, glad we kept going on the C64. I'm wondering if the gif here is meant to lead us toward alt modifiers, which we would then use to build the password or the passwords cypher.

These are the related keys with each part that makes up the gif
#easter-eggs message

If we take the letters K, J, I, U we have 11, 10, 9, 21. It would also be worth looking at the space in memory for those letters. Each character would take up 8 bytes of memory. You can also change the character sets you used.

https://www.c64-wiki.com/wiki/Character_set

[hard forge]

not to detail the c64 discussion, but I stumbled upon something which could be of interest.

IRF is Swedish Institute of Space Physics

Continuous measurements of the following are made at IRF:

• the magnetic field of the Earth
• aurora
• cosmic radio noise
• ionospheric parameters

these came up before too.

SOURCE: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swedish_Institute_of_Space_Physics

[solid jay]

We have light spectrum as a clue and you could change the colour of the characters it would change the address in memory.

The code to do so was
POKE 53270,PEEK(53270) OR 16

[granite bough]

Holtow website got bigger

https://www.holtow.com/

[solid jay]

I'm wondering if we could get some spectrum analysis of this stuff to see what that leads to?

[solid jay]

We know aurora are related to magnetic fields and that earth is a dipole

[velvet narwhal]

bigger? I see no change

[granite bough]

or Maybe it's my error in chrome

[white flame]

Has the weird black cube been mentioned yet?

[velvet narwhal]

Which one? Do you have an image?

[solid jay]

If you have an image you'll have to post it on Imgur for us to see

[white flame]

I thought it was a glitched anti gravity but it didnt go away

Can i dm you i dont have imgur set up

[solid jay]

Ya go ahead

[white flame]

I should have gotten a clip instead of a screenshot, it had red and blue particle effects around it

[solid jay]

Aurora Borealis is caused by electrons from space colliding with gas molecules and atoms in earth's upper atmosphere. Might there be a few gasses on the PTE that we haven't considered yet?

[solid jay]

That's weird ya but looks like it could just be a rendering bug?

Does it move?

[white flame]

Its a gateway isnt it🤦🏽‍♂️

[solid jay]

Ah maybe

[white flame]

No

[solid jay]

I haven't seen them yet

[white flame]

Ok so it looks like its an unlinked gateway

They dont turn white until theres two

Thats my bad

[solid jay]

All good! Thanks for keeping an eye out!

[hard current]

we never gettin out the trenches

[hard forge]

there are too many nodes we have to consider

[tired aspen]

the numbers nodes, Mason, what do they mean?

[limpid yarrow]

is there a new annocer as there seems to be a new voice in the data reshaper video

[dull marsh]

Most of all, we need 🕯️ 🇸 🇷 🕯️

[slim reef]

Found some stuff in the new holtow website gif. Seems to be a repeating shape and there is also "",8,1 in another single frame

https://i.imgur.com/67mxLA4.png

Nevermind, yall are way ahead lol

[velvet narwhal]

Nice find! But we've already found that. Here's everything we've found https://www.thefinals.wiki/wiki/Holtow_Website#Hacked_Version (and your imgur link doesn't work for me)

[slim reef]

He says stuff on the new map as well

[worthy nimbus]

Piling on, I'm researching Chuck Peddle. One of the MANY things he did was found Sirius Systems Technology, designed a 8088-based computer there, and when Sirius went bankrupt it was bought by a swedish company called datatronic AB

Apparently the Victor 9000/ACT Sirius 1 (same computer) was the most popular 16-bit machine in Europe, because IBM delayed selling the PC there.

[haughty stone]

Has anyone analyzed the spectogram for the sound that the gateway makes?

On the equipment screen

[dull marsh]

Sirius is also a binary star btw

[worthy nimbus]

At this point my entire research boils down to " SWEDEN MENTIONNED 🇸🇪🇸🇪" so maybe I should stop

[dull marsh]

Nah keep going, we need new angles and this can be an interesting one

[keen hinge]

Not really an easter egg, but there's sure some big influence from the short movie Kung Fury in the game... expect triceratops teammates and vikings for season 3

[hard forge]

@cloud wyvern I think your PS skills will be helpful in analysing MultiCo Leak Document. You should take a look at it, if you are interested #1213500600117891122

[worthy nimbus]

I tried researching computer-science related awards to mirror the Nobel prize (no Nobel prize in computer science exists), but he hasn't won any, even smaller ones.

[dull marsh]

Not sure at all about that, both are just taking a lot from vaporwave. Sure there are a skin or two that might be nods to Kung Fury, but this movie didn't invent that style

Although the dinosaur riding would be cool af I admit

[keen hinge]

Yeah, still this movie is pretty fun and the exagerated action going on has something comparable with the gameplay

[plucky kettle]

yeah

[keen hinge]

Sabers, guns, robots, crazy jumps and shooting...

[hard forge]

does the tattoo have Euler?

[worthy nimbus]

On the padlet, the image labelled "split up images, combined" near 70.68.71.67.72.png is interesting to me for 2 reasons:

1. it's clearly just some parts of 70.68.71.67.72.png that have been cut out, but you knew that already
2. it looks like ROM contents, displayed as an image. I'll try to look for an example, but to me the bottom part looks like maybe wozmon and the reset vector and other parts can be other parts of a 6502 OS? has this been approached at all?

[alpine junco]

yeah iirc

[hard forge]

the name is solved,

#1204573219894468648 message

[worthy nimbus]

I'm not talking about the name

I'm specifically talking about the "split up images, combined" imagz

[hard forge]

mb

[worthy nimbus]

I can't find an example image, and this is gonna be nerd shit so sit down and have a drink

Imagine you took a dump of a 6502's entire memory space, and then displayed a single pixel per byte, using that byte as the color.

Then for a lot of simpler 6502 computers (esp apple 1) the image would look a bit like "split up images, combined" except not bisexual lighting and more random-colored in the parts that are colored, but the overall structure of the image would look the same, with a bare ones OS like wozmon at the end (bottom right), the main OS at the start (or RAM) and memory-mapped peripherals in the middle of the address space

(this isn't that obscure of a technique btw, I realize I made it sound like I just invented that, it's a thing you can sometimes do)

[twilit forge]

Was this ever considered with geocache in mind? I tried searching, but don't see any reference to both geocache not being done and this list missing something
#easter-eggs message

[alpine junco]

is there a link to the geocache?

[twilit forge]

ya its the second link

at the end of the message

[twilit forge]

Or are you saying, what is the connection between them?

[alpine junco]

no like the geocache part

[crimson niche]

why was lxxix 79 but vit3llus 3? shouldn't vit3llus have been like 63100 or 109?

[twilit forge]

sorry, not sure what you mean here

[alpine junco]

i wasnt here for the geocache part of the EE

[bright ruin]

Because one is roman numerals, the other is vitellus where e=3

[twilit forge]

oh, neither was i, but from reading it was the very first tier, and we aren't done with it

#easter-eggs message

^rob eyed message saying we arent done with it

[alpine junco]

https://www.reachthefinals.com/geocache

found it

[twilit forge]

oh

i'm dumb, i get you now

[alpine junco]

lol

all good

[wraith torrent]

Is there a good starting point for someone trying to aid in the hunt? Been playing for awhile n just joined due to the PC giveaway, didn't even know this was a thing and am quite intrigued to help 🙂

[twilit forge]

https://discord.com/channels/1008696016318513243/1100745453206786078

its quite a bit to catch up on, but you'll get the bug and won't be able to stop 🙂

[eternal violet]

this bugs me a lot when people talk about numbers in passwords. dont know how you got yours, but vit3llus should be 63 or 6 3

[earnest stream]

Egg

[alpine junco]

what exactly isnt done with the geocache?

[twilit forge]

thats the question

was trying to see if there was a link to us "missing something"

[alpine junco]

becuz the padlets are outdated and have too much extra stuff

[twilit forge]

Rob does say everything a lot, and we get a lot of clues leading to a beginning

[dusk trellis]

yo real talk idk if this is a lore thing or I missed something but what the fuck is wrong with scotty's voice

not the glitching effects or anything like that it just literally doesnt sound like scotty anymore at all

[crimson niche]

I don't think that's an accident

but that's just me

I have nothing to back that up

[alpine junco]

they changed his voice pitch

same with june's

[dusk trellis]

why does it sound so shit thou

[alpine junco]

it's not as excited anymore

[alpine junco]

i guess they are trying something new with the AI voice model

[ivory garnet]

Yay eggs

[crimson niche]

anyone unlock the twitch gun charm and inspect it yet? I wasn't aware of the drop

[bright ruin]

Just a twitch logo

nothing to it

[crimson niche]

I figured the front, wasn't sure if there was anything on the back

[wraith torrent]

Man this rabbit hole goes deep, fascinating stuff though! Amazing how long this has been going on

[snow walrus]

2022

[wraith torrent]

Well seeing as I just got here I can't really do much, tried to do some spectrogram searches and look for codes within in game items as a starting point but turned up empty handed, will keep my eyes open though lol

[snow walrus]

-egghunt

[wet leaf]

New to the hunt?

Check out #egg-hunt-onboarding
Catch up with this great summary: https://youtu.be/XaU6Fo2utBY
Follow the ongoing progress through Padlet: https://padlet.com/Kyne
Good hunting! 🥚

[snow walrus]

also check pinned messages

https://www.thefinals.wiki/wiki/Easter_Eggs

[wraith torrent]

Oh yea had a look through there and caught up on progress made, will have a look at pinned messages

[twilit forge]

Yeah, I just lurk until I feel I can add something

[snow walrus]

welcome to the hunt, hunter

[silk wolf]

I had a dream within a dream last night and for some reason I woke up from the first dream excited because I saw a glimpse of a page from a book that was mirrored

All I remember from the book was the letters dee or dde

[worthy nimbus]

"how did you solve tier 3" "the answer came to me in a dream "

[upper sonnet]

It required a direct manipulation of the subconscious to solve.

its actually plausible that of all the things we "don't see" our subconscious is still noticing, and it could re-appear in a dream.

[gloomy anvil]

If I'm understanding correctly '4111' is from the S2 credits? I haven't watched them yet.

I noticed that 4111 is William Crossing's birthday (November 14th) mirrored. 11/14 -> 41/11

[gloomy anvil]

'FIND PSWD: XXXX-XX-XX' (date mirrored)
JBB's birthdate was on the mirror in vvv.png
4111 (WC birthdate mirrored)

[haughty stone]

Has anyone analyzed the spectogram for the sound that the gateway makes? Its kinda weird and to my eye there could be somming there

On the equipment screen

[worthy nimbus]

found this image which isnt great but is a good visual aid for my point https://live.staticflickr.com/966/40345158250_89331d0c0d_b.jpg

[worthy nimbus]

it is from the credits yes

[pure loom]

Great spotting!

[scarlet drift]

Wait, where's Rob? I can't find/tag him?

user error, disregard

[bright ruin]

In what was is it weird beyond the intended sound design of it intentionally being that way

[bright ruin]

Why do you need to tag him?

[hasty anvil]

His username is rob_embark if you want to search his messages, but usually you shouldn't tag him

[scarlet drift]

no need/desire for me to tag him really, I just love keeping up on his messages and can't seem to look him up anymore

this isn't EE related so apologies, just curious since he's usually active here

[hasty anvil]

yeah sometimes discord search doesn't show his name, just type that username in

[haughty stone]

I mean, the sound overall was kinda weird (even that it is supposed to be Ik) and idk if other equipment do this but the sound carried to the lobby. + The spectrogram did seem to have some letters or somming atleast to my eyes. Prolly nothin but couldn't hurt to throw it out here

[bright ruin]

It caries to the lobby because that's a bug

same thing happens on the low-grav cube

[haughty stone]

Fair

[bright ruin]

It's also incredibly difficult to get clean in-game audio, ontop of not knowing if any of the audio is being converted on compilation of the .exe

I see what you're referring to in a spectrogram, and it is reminiscent of letterish shapes but it's more likely pareidolia. The pattern repeats identically on other frequency bands pointing more to it just being the FX plugins used to process the source audio

[plush lily]

idk if it’s an easter egg but the signs on the monaco loading screen change text

every round

[unkempt dune]

if you look at 7481-41-11 as a math problem, you'd get 7429, which would point to NGC 7429, which was discovered by John Herschel (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Herschel). He was an "experimental photographer who invented the blueprint and did botanical work."

botanical work can be related back to the botanical stuff from the cathedral artwork from earlier this level

blueprint can be related back to the blueprint from the spotlight event

he used a reflecting telescope (which used a curved mirror) for astronomy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reflecting_telescope

[plush lily]

😱

[hard current]

another callback to the beginning heh

[pure loom]

yeah, and Rob did kind of confirm that it was a valid callback

as in the fact that there is something about going back to geocache that's important

[hard current]

yeah my thoughts too

that and the coincidence of caco being in geocache backwards

[twilit forge]

do you think geocache could have been missing from that list rob said was beautiful?
#easter-eggs message

[hard current]

actually.. potentially

we know the first passwords correlate to gold, and the second part of the passwords SEEMS to point to egg, but in the old message @pure loom sent that rob eyed, there may be a second meaning to the “egg” passwords, they all seem to be transformations for “geo”

but operating off that assumption, my mind then says “gold geocache”

“gold geo” “gold earth” “golden planet” etc

[hasty anvil]

egg could represent birth, where DoB comes in from

[hard current]

so then, would it be looking for the first golden geocache? the birth of geocaching?

[hasty anvil]

There could be a specific famous geocache we need

[twilit forge]

would fit in with FIND PSW XXXX-XX-XX
#easter-eggs message

[hard current]

could be worth looking that way

sorry I’ve been MIA for the last week or two, sooo many new faces I couldn’t focus on a thing lol

but seems things have slowed a bit

I still pop in to read 🙂

[pure loom]

I'm guessing this gold oval on the Monaco map has been noted before?

[twilit forge]

The more I look at this, not sure. Might be too early for FIND PSW to be related
#easter-eggs message

[pure loom]

I've been a bit like that too haha

[gloomy anvil]

and Rob eyed Ab Ovo. "from the beginning, the origin, the egg" (birth?)

[snow walrus]

i remember this has been mentioned

[gloomy anvil]

plenty of the oldest geocaches listed here http://www.firennice.com/oldest-active-geocaches

I wanted to check the 79th but only the 80th is active/listed. "no walk in the park"

[sharp flame]

being like one of the only notable things we ever found on Monaco

[worthy nimbus]

"golden egg" is the name of a rubix-style puzzle in the shape of an egg (page is in french sadly):https://fan2cube.fr/goldenegg1.php
i'm not a cuber, but there might be value in the algorithms needed to solve it, though that seems far fetched

[pure loom]

FiSh Lies! haha

https://tenor.com/view/fish-pet-gif-8955417

[unborn pilot]

The image with the FIND PSW XXXX-XX-XX clue also had another date on it.

[sharp flame]

S Lies?

L Lies!?

^
Nobody:
MultiCo document:

[unborn pilot]

Yeah. It appeared to be a part of the princes emblem

But I do wonder if it’s a hint of some sort. Gold metal oval. 15 diamonds & a crown.

[bright ruin]

15 is a common number

1+2+3+4+5=???

[worthy nimbus]

what does "deo juvante" mean? it's latin

[gloomy anvil]

was this date/number already solved?

[snow walrus]

did u know this

https://www.google.com/maps/@49.3746175,10.1800726,3a,75y,182.01h,82.55t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sP1yyU75tvVDDh2UAZyV-GA!2e0!7i16384!8i8192?entry=ttu

[hasty anvil]

They were given 5 namatamas for tier 1E, we have 1 for this tier 😭

[gloomy anvil]

13 0 10 3

For the sake of it, mirrored is 3 01 0 31 --> 30 10 31 ?

or read backwards: 3 10 0 13

[unborn pilot]

I don’t think so. I think I made some progress when I first saw it. There’s a period after the first 4 numbers but not the 5th.

13.0.10.3.3

I found that’s Mayan Calendar date format

Comes to exactly 2023-01-01

[dull marsh]

One eye sees, the other feels.
Paul Klee

OYE

Oh I didn't know Paul Klee was born in 1879

Actually I knew but forgot hehe

We need a stronger Paul Klee connection than just "ab ovo", that's too weak to be a direct clue from an image from Rob

[gloomy anvil]

maybe an early final tier clue that pointed to "beginning" ? a bit like Ab Ovo does. not sure.

[unborn pilot]

Maybe. Beginning of a new year.

[bright ruin]

Strangely, the ZSteg on the gold question mark (Ques.jpg), which technically shouldn't have zsteg data because that's for pngs, had zsteg data that read across two lines:
b=bit (binary 0-7), colors, least/most significant bit, xy indicates left to right

b4, rgba, lsb, xy
"fofofofofofofo..."(continuing)
&
br, abgr, msb, xy
"ofofofofofofof..."(continuing)

They're mirrored/flipped. It's super strange and certainly intentional if Rob made these as PNGs and then converted to jpg after ZSteg on the png (therefore we can't extract the payload from those coordinates sadly)

Thinking about colors last night and how they hid clues in these images (ques & tion) #0f0f0f is (15,15,15) Gray6 according to color-hex.com[appears black, websafe color is #000000 or pure black] & #f0f0f0 (240,240,240) is Gray94 [appears light gray, websafe color is #ffffff or pure white)
Those are both 15 away from either side of the color value range (0,0,0 & 255,255,255)

That's great and all but those are the colors of the images, but they're close, and are another source of the number "15".
Which if o=0 and f=6 those become both #060606, the color of our "ques.jpg" background... and #606060, an ashy grey. Has a websafe value of #666666

I have 0 clue what to do with this information, but it feels too strange not to point out

[gloomy anvil]

Read some of the older T1 wiki entries. Lots of clues only have small connections.

I mentioned this yesterday too but Atsuko Nishida (creator of Pikachu) was a T1F clue. Afaik only pointed towards the color yellow (yolk)

(basically not everything has to have strong direct connections with everything else)

[bright ruin]

The interesting thing being that, in both instances, you get a websafe value based on splitting and combining the similar numbers/letters

#0f0f0f & #f0f0f0 = #ffffff & #000000
#060606 & #606060 = #666666 & #000000

Assuming this isn't a totally far fetched idea

maybe we aren't combining Gold & Egg like Gold Egg

But instead needing to pick out what's similar from gold and egg and that will point toward the password? (By similar I don't mean in the words gold and egg, I mean from the tiers, like we've been trying to do with linking things)

As in gold egg isn't in the password at all?

[unborn pilot]

T1F also had Yellowstone that pretty much only led to "yellow"

But I think there's more to it too. Rob said T3 was a walk in the "park" and well right there we had Yellow Stone Park

T1F also had the word "lapis" hidden which means stone

[hasty anvil]

T1F also had the marble nama with Veni Vidi Ludere on it, kind of links to this too

[bright ruin]

that wouldn't point to lapis lazuli for any reason would it?
lazuli means sky or heaven

[hasty anvil]

and he said this difficulty is 4/6, idk if 4/6 was a clue of itself, but that's how hard he said it was

[bright ruin]

a stone from the sky or a stone from the heavens

[dull marsh]

Stone from the sky: asteroid, planet, moon, comet

[bright ruin]

exactly

I believe lapis lazuli was used in the tombs of egyptian royalty and kings wasn't it? Making up the "blue" on it
I'll fact check this

[dull marsh]

The Adventure Easter egg: "Created by Warren Robinett"

[bright ruin]

Ancient Egyptian plaque with an Eye of Horus; 664–332 BC; lapis lazuli; length: 1.8 cm, width: 1.6 cm; Metropolitan Museum of Art

[dull marsh]

Considered to be the first Easter Egg

[acoustic canyon]

warren ROBinett

[dull marsh]

Might be about the beginnings of video games, and their golden age

Adventure was a hit upon its 1979 release

[hard forge]

yes rob said this exists in the EE universe

[unborn pilot]

I thought maybe Yellowstone was to make us then think about Goldstone which led me to this radar system and observatory. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goldstone_Solar_System_Radar

[hard forge]

here #easter-eggs message

[solid jay]

Maybe beginning of everything.

[solid jay]

Ooo I read about this before but completely forgot about it.

[bright ruin]

I see lapis Lazuli was previously discussed

Since it contains Calcite (CaCO3) and Pyrite (Fool's Gold)
And the name meaning "Stone of the Sky/Heaven"
Seems like something to keep on the clue board to tie into something?

[dull marsh]

This EE is also part of Ready Player One's plot

[solid jay]

Ahhh I've only watched parts of RPO beginning. I should really watch it sometime.

Staying on topic though

[gloomy anvil]

https://tenor.com/view/ready-player-one-delorean-dmc-delorean-back-to-the-future-racing-gif-18121416

[acoustic canyon]

much bigger part of the plot in the book rather than the movie

[solid jay]

Yeah seems a rare thing but when it pops up I take note of it.

[dull marsh]

The final game uses nearly all of the available memory (including 5% of the cartridge storage for Robinett's Easter egg), with 15 unused bytes from the ROM capacity.
Holy sh!t that's close, also 15 mentioned

Adventure game is about bringing an item back to the Golden Castle, and there a 3 dragons

[fresh quiver]

the things from zsteg has nothing to mean. ZSteg just give things out. Even "phantom" things

[snow walrus]

The kingdom is guarded by three dragons—the yellow Yorgle, the green Grundle, and the red Rhindle—

interesting findings gj

[bright ruin]

Oh yeah, I found that stuff too (the first easter egg stuff)
I didn't see the additional info that you listed though, that's some promising stuff

[dull marsh]

Could also look into Tennis for Two, considered as the very first "video game" per say

Which then led to Pong

Which is related to Chuck Peddle

[gloomy anvil]

assuming I can calculate correctly,

in terms of Tama images per-day of tier duration, T1E beats T3 by 640%

[worthy nimbus]

Adevnture is an atari 2600 game, which runs on the MOS 6507, a 6502 derivative invented by Chuck Peddle

[solid jay]

Not to derail the video game thread here but there could be some interesting links to Quantum Foam, the beginning of everything and the VERITAS telescope.

[dull marsh]

Oh my bad, pong is only related to MOS, which made the first processor for this game (game from Atari)

[worthy nimbus]

MOS is chuck peddle.

[solid jay]

I'm on mobile for a little bit so can't dig too much

[worthy nimbus]

how is pong related to MOS at all? if you want the link to chuck peddle you only need to look at the atari 2600, but pong itself didn't run on a MOS chip, in fact it was a dedicated circuit, not CMOS logic

[dull marsh]

Yeah, MOS Technology did the chip for the Pong game, not that it was a "MOS chip"

[solid jay]

Maybe we need to look at the birth of Amiga or C64?

[dull marsh]

So in a way MOS is at the origin of the whole video game industry, with the MOS chip, which was then used to create most (if not all) personal computers

Including the Amiga

It was at the origin (ab ovo) of the golden age of video game 🤔

[solid jay]

Someone who can fact check me here but Robert Norman invented the MOS chip

There is also a Robert Norman who discovered the earth's magnetic field

[dull marsh]

Many chips (including the MOS 6502) have gold in them

[worthy nimbus]

ok i see that, i'm pretty sure that they sold atari custom chips after pong was made. peddle wasn't even at MOS yet so irrellevant but still interesting

[bright ruin]

Pong custom chips were developed when they were making the jump from arcade to home console era

[worthy nimbus]

not as a significant component. chips are made of silicium, gold is not a semiconductor

there might be some gold bonding wires in them but it's more of an oddity than a common thing

[worthy nimbus]

the 650X family of processors that brought the golden age of computing to the home, were invented by a tead lead by chuck peddle

[dull marsh]

Sirius, founded by Chuck Peddle and Chris Fish (hi @sharp flame )
Logo looks like a binary star (just like actual sirius star)

[cloud wyvern]

there is also some sort of eye disease where you get a "gold yolk" in your eyeball

[worthy nimbus]

#easter-eggs message

[solid jay]

That's some vaporwave looking logo 🤔

[dull marsh]

I mean, 1980 😄

[bright ruin]

jaundice

your sclera turns yellow

[worthy nimbus]

Robert Norman invented MOS integrated circuits, (metal-oxide semis) but the MOS chuck pebble worked for is MOS Technologies, the now-defunct corporation.

[cloud wyvern]

• Best vitelliform macular dystrophy (BVMD), more commonly known as Best Disease is the most common bestrophinopathy

• Best disease is categorized by the appearance of a vitelliform lesion (Latin for ‘egg-yolk’) on the macula

its nothing

[solid jay]

I was looking into neurochemistry thread at one point. Lead there by the 5 senses = 5 truths and that light is refracted off the human eye.

[dull marsh]

Technically there are many more than 5 senses 🤓

[cloud wyvern]

i think that what is similar between gold and eggs is a good route to explore

[worthy nimbus]

if anyone has a few hours to waste, the entire thing about chuck pebble: https://archive.computerhistory.org/resources/access/text/2014/08/102739939-05-01-acc.pdf

[cloud wyvern]

which sense is the impossible easter egg solving one because i dont have it

[solid jay]

Lol true, and I'm still waiting for my magneto telekinesis to evolve.

[dull marsh]

I see that you have a developped sense of humor 🤓

[solid jay]

I'll have some time later tonight if no one gets to it before me

[sharp sentinel]

Just read the entire Easter egg section on the wiki, very cool stuff! Keep up the good work(?)!

[alpine junco]

wish rob made a list of things that are on other maps like he did with monaco and seoul

[dull marsh]

He only did once we found some of the stuff I think

[alpine junco]

but didnt we find stuff on skyway and vegas?

[dull marsh]

I don't really remember anything significant no

At least nothing like the graffitis or WR

[alpine junco]

what about the G in Magma not being lit up

[hasty anvil]

Nothing found on skyway but he said somethings there, vegas has the constellation so far

[alpine junco]

the blood moon is something

but it lead to nothing

[dim totem]

the weekly update is tomorrow right? new bundles and intro videos?

[bleak wharf]

in 2 days with new challenges

[hard forge]

does anyone have good quality pictures of Euler identity on tattoo?

[gaunt kiln]

So I noticed something odd on the default gun skins. Can't really determine if this is simply a shader bug or a texture bug. But I thought it was worth sharing.
https://youtu.be/ezgpsGYsy0k

It looks like the markers were given depth. Now I know a LOT of the art decisions in this game are made on purpose so It struck me as interesting that this is visible behind most the yellow textures on weapons.

[worthy nimbus]

wierd indeed

it made me think of the EURion constellation, which is definitely not the same thing but we're having a space theme, apparently: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EURion_constellation

[gaunt kiln]

Yeah, all this talk of stars and constellations I'm always sorta on edge when I see anything that looks remotely like them.

These are best viewed when inspecting weapon decorations.

[hard forge]

@unborn pilot sorry for tagging you. Do you have a better version of this #easter-eggs message

[worthy nimbus]

see also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Machine_Identification_Code

this is what i was thinking of, since it's made of yellow dots

[hasty anvil]

Even that 0 looks like saturn

[hard forge]

exactly

that's why I wanted a better picture

but anyways

Saturn is important again

and Pluto

[hasty anvil]

also Euler's identity, inside a circle. more Pi

[hard forge]

also in the image, it was inside a circle

[worthy nimbus]

oh hey saturn is the 6th planet from the sun

[hasty anvil]

yeah that's what i meant haha

[worthy nimbus]

i head 6 is like, an important number or something

[hard forge]

very

[cloud wyvern]

that is weird.

[worthy nimbus]

this does feel like a shader bug tho, do you have raytracing enabled?

[hard forge]

∅ is connected to c64 too

[gaunt kiln]

I do.

[worthy nimbus]

is it still there with raytracing off?

[gaunt kiln]

Now, I'm a slave to society, here's a closeup of that tattoo in a slightly higher resolution.

https://imgur.com/a/8DDQ0wm

[worthy nimbus]

because it looks like denoiser artifacts

[gaunt kiln]

That's the highest the textures go in this game and as close as I can get without rotating my monitor into a 90 degree setup

[worthy nimbus]

i might be able to cook something up for ultra hd screenshots but not tonight

in linux i can set my monitors to be whatever my heart desires

[hard forge]

#1204475718747029535 message

[worthy nimbus]

i would crash upon joining a game, but don't need that anyway

[hard forge]

(mandatory question: which distro do you prefer?)

[worthy nimbus]

debian

[gaunt kiln]

Tragic, it's a raytracing visual bug.

[worthy nimbus]

thought so

[worthy nimbus]

RVS on and RVS OFF turn on and off "reverse video characters", in which the color of text and the color of background were swapped, essentially like a dark mode

example from wiki:https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7a/Visicalc.png/250px-Visicalc.png

[hard forge]

ahh so that's what they do

[dull marsh]

Sun = 0
Earth = 3
Saturn = 6

[worthy nimbus]

in thephoto above , text is normally green on black, but the "TOTAL" line is in RVS on mode

[hard forge]

GEO refference 630

(for search)

[dull marsh]

Binary stars, 0 and 1 maybe?

Or 0 and 0 (0vif0rm)

[worthy nimbus]

i think the fact that i'm trying to see when the sun, earth and saturn are aligned on a solar system map is a sign i should go to bed

byee

[dull marsh]

OYE, 0Y3, what links up the Sun and the Earth is a distance of 1 Astronomical Unit, or 1AU (AU = Gold)

Oooooh, the white ? could be the planet itself and the gold ? could represent the rings around it?

Saturn has a radius of 9.449 earths (palyndromic number)

A mass of 95.159 earths (palyndromic once again)

A surface gravity of 1.065g (1064 + 1)

Atmosphere is 96.3%±2.4% hydrogen (96.3 seems interesting)

It's been mentioned before but saturn north pole (where there are auroras) is hexagonal

It's located bout 78deg north (almost 79)

Between 2012 and 2016, the hexagon changed from a mostly blue color to more of a golden color.

Study of Saturn’s auroras began in 1979 when the Pioneer 11 spacecraft observed a far-ultraviolet brightening on Saturn’s poles

[hard forge]

Interesting finds @dull marsh

this looks promising

[dull marsh]

Oooh, the asteroids we're getting in the hints might point the the asteroid belt, which makes a "ring" around the sun, just like the rings around saturn

Hmmmm

If one began a numerical sequence at 0, then included 3, 6, 12, 24, 48, etc., doubling each time, and added four to each number and divided by 10, this produced a remarkably close approximation to the radii of the orbits of the known planets as measured in astronomical units

[dull marsh]

Scientific consensus is that this is a coincidence tho, as Neptune doesn't fit at all in there

Saturn

He was described as a god of time, generation, dissolution, abundance, wealth, agriculture, periodic renewal and liberation
Saturn's mythological reign was depicted as a Golden Age of abundance and peace

Sounds like beginning and golden age...

Saturday being the 6th day of the week

Saturnalia is a roman festival

The renewal of light and the coming of the new year was celebrated in the later Roman Empire at the Dies Natalis of Sol Invictus, the "Birthday of the Unconquerable Sun," on December 25.

Another interpretation puts it on december 17-23

Saturn is the father of Jupiter, Neptune, Pluto, Juno, Ceres, and Vesta

And he famously devoured his children (press F for Pluto)

[hasty anvil]

Think there was a Saturn's rings reference in the SSSH image

[dull marsh]

He was sometimes regarded as the first king of Latium or even the whole of Italy

The temple of Saturn at Rome

The present ruins represent the third phase of the Temple of Saturn, which was built after a fire in 360 AD

His temple housed the treasury, the aerarium, where the Roman Republic's reserves of gold and silver were stored

He was considered the ancestor of the Latin nation as he fathered Picus, the first king of Latium

The Golden Record was on Voyager spacecraft

There are only 5 object that achieved escape velocity to exit the solar system

The first two are the twin probes (makes me think of binary stars) Pioneer 10 and Pioneer 11

[turbid tinsel]

do the lines on the right flipped upside down match the cns text file wave looking lines?

[bright ruin]

no

Peaks of those are even/aligned

[dull marsh]

Pretty sure the golden record has been mentioned without being eyed tho

[bright ruin]

CNS .diz is not

[dull marsh]

Damn, Pioneer 10 was sent to go through Saturn's rings to test if it was a safe route for the soon to come Voyager spacecraft

Pioneer 11 imaged—and nearly collided with—one of Saturn's small moons, passing at a distance of no more than 4,000 kilometers (2,500 mi). The object was tentatively identified as Epimetheus

[bright ruin]

I think we're all about ready to go through Saturn's rings at this point, to be honest

[twilit forge]

super soonish
#1216788595373899877 message

[hard forge]

umm guys #📕┇lore message

[dull marsh]

WHAT

I FEEL BETRAYED ROB.

[bright ruin]

He said it looks like something to do with the lore, so maybe we shouldn’t get too sidetracked by it

[dull marsh]

Yeah I'm not gonna bother with that

We got enough on our plate already

[bright ruin]

For real

[sharp flame]

I AM..

It's nice to have things be a bit easier to solve than this whole mess we made for ourselves here 😭

Plus lore is cool

[dull marsh]

Lore is cool, but there isn't enough yet for me to have much fun with it

Gonna be honest I don't wanna solve a whole thing to discover that Sophia ate potatoes for lunch 😅

[alpine junco]

cubes

[dull marsh]

Rob literally said it seems related to the lore tho

[hard forge]

We can check that out later.
We need to solve T3 first

[sharp flame]

Totally agree

Just need to evaluate where we are with T3. What we need to combine to get a password

Golden Eggs have not gotten us much fruit

[alpine junco]

lore = ee

[dull marsh]

Huh no?

[alpine junco]

🧌

[dull marsh]

The EE hunt overall is linked to the lore

T3 and lore are very different

[alpine junco]

wanna ee hunt

for the lore

[dull marsh]

I am EE hunting over on wikipedia

[alpine junco]

im joking

[sharp flame]

I mean you practically do the same thing for EE and Lore hunting

[dull marsh]

Saturn Devouring His Son by Goya (a bit graphic) ||https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Francisco_de_Goya,_Saturno_devorando_a_su_hijo_(1819-1823).jpg||

This interpretation of the painting sees it as a reference to the Roman myth (inspired by the original Greek myth), in which Terra (Gaea) foretold that one of the sons of Saturn (Cronus) would overthrow him, just as he had overthrown his father, Caelus (Uranus). To prevent this, Saturn ate his children moments after each was born, eating the gods Vesta (Hestia), Ceres (Demeter), Juno (Hera), Pluto (Hades), and Neptune (Poseidon). His wife Ops (Rhea) eventually hid his sixth child and third son, Jupiter (Zeus), on the island of Crete
Jupiter is the 6th child and 3rd son of Saturn 🤔

[sharp flame]

Jesus thanks for the warning

[dull marsh]

Sorry XD

[hard forge]

EE = theoretical physics
lore = applied physics

[sharp flame]

There is definitely merit to this Jupiter/Kronos line

[dull marsh]

Isn't it the opposite? 😄

Lore is real, EE hunt is pure theory

[sharp flame]

but my god if 6s and 3s together are EE now then we are screwed

[hard forge]

let me fix that

[dull marsh]

Heh, I mean ? -> 6f -> 63...

[sharp flame]

I really don't think we can be going as far as connecting single digits and using that as any sort of potential connections

63 = 6th child and 3rd son, rob would be truly cruel to have it fit like that 😭😭

[dull marsh]

HEY YOU'RE ON A HIATUS, YOU'RE NOT SUPPOSED TO CRITICIZE!!!1!11!!!! /s

[sharp flame]

I'm just trying to cut the fluff away haha

[hard forge]

@sharp flame i am gonna join you on your hiatus

[sharp flame]

We need to really purify our theories before we put too many out there

People were doing theories on 6 6 6

[dull marsh]

I don't know, it could fit as it's related to a painting and saturn 🤔

[sharp flame]

And just searching up 6s and bringing up astronomy and agriculture and random maths notebooks 😭

[dull marsh]

I'm more looking at interesting stuff and when I see 6 and 3 or 63 appear I put it here

[sharp flame]

Like "there are 6 tenets and 6 scriptures, and the article was published on the 6th month of the year"

[dull marsh]

Not the other way around

[sharp flame]

Unfortunately doesn't narrow it down

[dull marsh]

Fair

[turbid tinsel]

not sure if this is supposed to help us in any way or not

[dull marsh]

But what am I supposed to do with my 6's and 3's then? 😭

[hard forge]

in future

[sharp flame]

we also have no clue if 6s and/or other ciphers are also used as genuine clues

[hard forge]

but but but g=6 says 10mil image

[sharp flame]

Like we know G = 6 and O = 0 and etc.

but you really can't go from G = 6 to 6 6 to "two sixes appearing in a related article means I should post the wiki page and extract"

not if we want to figure the password out sooner

same as 3 = E

[turbid tinsel]

something else i noticed, rob says OKi a decent amount, there is a memory chip producer for the c64 called OKI

[sharp flame]

or people posting about satellite space mirrors because "mirroring" was a clue before and space stuff is just kinda related

[gloomy anvil]

I find it funny that I unknowingly added a mirrored question mark to my username before I joined T3

[sharp flame]

My personal belief is that more often then not the wiki pages and etc we've been posting have actually sent us on side-tangents we've never needed

Which is how all these months slipped away

like have we actually made any tangible progress on T3 since S1 launch

and I'm not counting things Rob just straight gave to us

like progress on the actual clues which relate to the password

The bigger things that have come up in previous answers, that connected them

like the Latin, or letter substitution ciphers, or mirroring and then Gold Eggs and some other connection/cipher/usage we didn't think of

But, whatever it is, it's not gonna be the System 6633B which has a gold-ish hue 😭

[dull marsh]

The two furthest Saturn rings named by letters are G and E

[sharp flame]

what happened to F

[bright ruin]

F became 6

[dull marsh]

They're named by order of discovery

F is the ring that was discovered by Pioneer 11 in 1979

[sharp flame]

yeah our numbers have become meaningless

I no longer feel joy seeing 79 pop up

[dull marsh]

Kinda same

"eh, another 79..."

[hard forge]

I blame myself for not documenting T3 when I joined.

[bright ruin]

I no longer feel joy seeing 79 pop up

New idea, delete all the current info, disappear for three months, let a bunch of newbies start from the beginning. Profit

[hasty anvil]

This is my personal WIP scramble of base clues we have, with a few tiny theories and attempts to make connections

I think we need some organised way to place base clues and connect them somehow

[dull marsh]

Methone /mɛˈθoʊniː/ is a small, egg-shaped moon of Saturn
It's in the E ring

[hard forge]

missing ad astra

[gloomy anvil]

we are the newbies

[hasty anvil]

ad astra, veni vidi vici, in omni scientia. I kind of just placed under latin as i know them all now lol

[bright ruin]

Shhh, no one had to know

[hard forge]

in 3 days I will complete 3 months on this server

[dull marsh]

Ok, we're watching you.

There's a saturn moon called Eggther lmao

Sounds a bit like Rob has created a wikipedia page to mess with us...

I solved it all: Saturn isn't real! It's only part of the lore!

It was a prank since the beginning hahah

[bright ruin]

Then issue with egg is that so much shit is described as being egg like or egg shaped or what have you

Omg I’m red

[dull marsh]

Oh you're red

Congrats!

[bright ruin]

I’m one step closer to peak suffering

[dull marsh]

The worst suffering of your life... yet!

Sega Saturn (some possible link to retro gaming)

[hard forge]

what was its audio chip called?

[bright ruin]

YMF292

SCSP

Saturn custom sound processor

[dull marsh]

Did we have a clue linking to that?

[hard forge]

burrow

[bright ruin]

Yeah, not particularly t3 related though

[hard forge]

we are progressing but backwards

[dull marsh]

Maybe I'm already finding Level 3 password 😎

[bright ruin]

Thing is, that’s the Saturn home console. It was also used in the Saturn arcade cabinet

ST-V

[dull marsh]

Also called Titan, a moon of Saturn

[bright ruin]

I’m trying to figure out why the chip would be important. Other than Sega consoles being know for their Yamaha FM chips as opposed to what Nintendo used on the SNES which was primarily sample based

FM Synthesis for those who don’t know stands for Frequency Modulation Synthesis. As the name implies, waveforms are changed by modulating its frequency

[hard forge]

#1178137622359593043 message

[bright ruin]

Yes I know just trying to determine if it has ANY connection to T3 but I’m coming up dry

[hard forge]

I don't think so

[bright ruin]

But we have had some things related to Saturn (the planet) for T3? Or is it just discovered and not actually related to t3 and more likely to burrw?

[alpine junco]

the burrw gif has two sets of numbers

[hard forge]

I am going to watch RHB vids again.

[alpine junco]

Rob made that clear

[bright ruin]

Oh? So we only found one?

[alpine junco]

the burrw gif we have is the low res one

we have to find the high res one

[bright ruin]

There was a 7 in it wasn’t there? That’s not in ymf292, where does the 7 apply

Though not linked to t3 so probably best to put this all in the burrw chat

[alpine junco]

yeah

the 7 was in the middle of the first frame

[dull marsh]

Ok not necessarily relevant but it's an interesting idea an I prefer to put it there

[alpine junco]

#1178137622359593043 message

[dull marsh]

There is a butterfly called Zeuxidia aurelius, or giant Saturn https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zeuxidia_aurelius

It's a bit interesting as a butterfly is very symmetric and kinda fits the idea of mirror

Oh wait, the Saturn is also a family of rockets, especially the Saturn V which brought the Appolo program to the moon

[unique spruce]

i have a feeling whatever this is in the image is our answer

also reminds me of the broken pieces on the whiteboard

[dull marsh]

What's the name and description of that item?

[dull marsh]

Oh lol okay, I thought it was a charm 😄

[bright ruin]

It is

[turbid tinsel]

it is a charm, unlockable using the dematerializer enough

[dull marsh]

Ok gotcha

[bright ruin]

You know what’s peculiar about it though

Look at the colors

A white shell. And a yellow inside

I wonder why

Shell = border as well in this case

[dull marsh]

The colors actually seem to match lmao

I'm getting a saturn-brain right now 🫠

[ancient drum]

That charm is actually called Fragmented Reality, and its description is "For contestants who master the art of disappearance, turning obstacles into opportunities with a flicker"

[dull marsh]

Thanks!

[ancient drum]

And to add to the whiteboard comment, the exclamation point shown above the fragment is the same as the one on the sticker Erasure Expert

[bright ruin]

Oh?

[solid jay]

Cronus the being that is devouring his son in this image was considered a Titan; precursors to the pantheon only Greek gods.

The problem with Greek leads is that we had Caesartama as a clue and thus Rome is more relevant.

Even though they are basically the same thing.

[dull marsh]

But it's still titled as Saturn tho 🤔

[solid jay]

Roman Cronus is Saturn

[dull marsh]

But I see what you mean

[shrewd fog]

pretty coincidental that sticker Erasure Expert displays, "Attention", "Warning", then "Achtung" which is German for "danger". Why would the sticker have 2 english words, then randomly a German word?? 🤔

[versed pelican]

bingo

[wraith torrent]

Hey, forgive me if this has already been brought up or is a dead end, but has anyone investigated some of the numbers and odd formatting on the right side of the Easy Anti Cheat Popup? When you launch the game you get that "initializing" screen with each seasons cover art, does that mean anything? Couldn't find it on the padlet and dont really know where to find a better quality image. 🙂

[humble swan]

Are there any hints within game Easter eggs that hint at the new gadgets for the future?

[bleak karma]

Quesadillas

[marsh marsh]

Anyone tried the practice range glitch to get past the border on any of the maps? Would be interesting to see if there’s any spots it works

Especially on the new map

[bright ruin]

That is not easter egg related

[solid jay]

Stop nothing outside the maps is EE related and you could get banned for abusing an exploit in a real match for doing this.

You keep pushing this out of bounds exploit narrative and it is 0% helpful toward the EE hunt.

[marsh marsh]

I’ll wait until actual devs say something on this, rather than larpers. Until then I’ll try it for myself and report back. Never know until you try 🤷‍♂️

[bright ruin]

@desert glacier I hate having to ping over something dumb like this but, this is getting pretty annoying to the point of it being a troll. This guy won't stop talking about exploiting a glitch in the game despite being told multiple times to stop, this isn't relevant here, and is not intended thus is an exploit. #1203859365610922036

Would you mind weighing in

[solid jay]

If you can SEE something from within the confines of the map that is out of bounds that is one thing, but to actually go there is an entirely other and it is an exploit.

[wraith torrent]

^^^^^

Out of bound easter eggs are often in single-player games yes, but not in multiplayer games as this would almost certainly incentivize people to go out and look for them, in both public and private lobbies

[marsh marsh]

You guys keep talking like you know with 100% certainty nothing is to be found outside any maps. Nobody knows anything lol, let people play the game how they want and explore. You’re literally causing more issues by getting so triggered about this. We need to spread out as far as possible to find EEs. Gatekeeping and pretending to speak with certainty is only hurting the EE hunt. And especially acting vile towards me it’s not fair. Nobody knows anything. No EEs have been found yet. So maybe you guys have absolutely no idea what yall are talking about

[bright ruin]

Pointing out your ignorance is not acting vile

[marsh marsh]

Following me around threads and “stop/no” reacting to everything while trying to say I’m a troll for disagreeing with you

[wraith torrent]

My man idk why your getting so angry about it, look for and help investigate the MANY clues that are probably still WITHIN the map

[bright ruin]

We interacted in one thread my guy

[solid jay]

You are literally telling people to find in game exploits that will get them banned if they get reported.

[marsh marsh]

Where has anyone said we would get banned for glitching out of bounds

[wraith torrent]

Bruh...

[solid jay]

Literally any ToS you ever blindly clicked accept on.

[wraith torrent]

Explioting = Cheating, if it were made public, bad apples could VERY EASILY utilize it for cheating lol...

[marsh marsh]

Show me where it says that

[bright ruin]

You should really learn to read sometime https://id.embark.games/support/faq/44-anti-cheat-faq

[wraith torrent]

Rule 9: No talks on piracy, leaked content, cheats, or exploits.
This also includes but is not limited to mentioning the use of any of the above or sharing links to access this type of content.

EXPLOITS IS LISTED

[shrewd fog]

I noticed at the end of the new video on youtube, this frame looks in game, my first thought was it was an easter egg you can trigger on the new map??

[bright ruin]

From the anti-cheat faq:

6. Exploiting bugs and glitches to gain an unfair advantage
   Exploiting refers to using known or unknown bugs, glitches, or unintended game mechanics to gain an unfair advantage, including map exploits or unintended item duplications.

[bright ruin]

I'm not sure I follow.... are you saying that frame looks different than in game?

[marsh marsh]

Thank you this is all you had to show me this entire time lol

[shrewd fog]

not different, but was taken from in-game, so it's a light player POV and they triggered the EE whatever it is on the map, and that's like a one second piece of what happens. I'm going to check the map in that spot at night

[bright ruin]

YOU agreed to the terms. We aren't responsible for babysitting you. Open a browser and look this up yourself, stop wasting our time

[solid jay]

I mean this is common sense.

[marsh marsh]

The “seek the truth beyond the walls” seems to imply finding a way out of bounds

[shrewd fog]

Also in that frame is the new space invaders, which is a new event that happens, it's pretty cool

[solid jay]

We don't cheat our way to our goals. It's not in the spirit of the hunt.

[dull marsh]

What EE are you talking about here? Everything looks normal to me in that frame

[bright ruin]

See if you can get the same frame SS in game? I'd be curious to know

[bright ruin]

Not even close

[shrewd fog]

Just a possible map EE on the new map, not linked to anything else. Maybe I should've posted in a diff thread or the #🌍┇maps channel

[marsh marsh]

Did we ever figure out what it referred to?

[bright ruin]

No because it's #📕┇lore not EE

[solid jay]

It's likely just a way for them to tease SYS$Horizon map

[dull marsh]

All I see is the rays of light that go up, which happen normally on the map, and the Invasion 82 game event 🤔

[solid jay]

there might be some underlying stuff to it but it will be more Lore related not EE

I think that's part of the problem we are having with solving T3

We aren't keeping an appropriate layer of separation between the two

[marsh marsh]

We know this 100%?? It can be dangerous saying things with such conviction and potentially throwing out major clues. Just want to make sure

[dull marsh]

Now that that situation is solved, let's all show a bit of love and put a emoji

[solid jay]

I mean the new map literally takes place in an unfinished game space between map loading sequences.

[bright ruin]

Dude, NOTHING in here is ever going to be 100% until rob says so, and that rarely happens. This whole "it has to be 100%" thing is a horrible approach

It's not important right now, therefore focusing on it is a waste of time and resources

[shrewd fog]

oh thanks! i didn't know that was a normal thing on the map, my bad

[marsh marsh]

But you don’t know what to focus on is my point. Nobody knows anything lol

[solid jay]

I can't be 100% certain about it, but I can say it's unimportant and not related to anything we've had in T3 which has been largely based on things in the real world.

[wraith torrent]

Let's instead focus on the clues and hints that guaranteed haven't been found INSIDE the map which will contribute to the hunt effectively

[bright ruin]

You're pretty much coming off as actively hindering us by throwing terrible takes that do nothing but derail us

[solid jay]

You are literally trolling at this point. Being obstinate or ignorant for the sake of it.

[marsh marsh]

But you don’t know what terrible takes are. Everyone has thrown terrible takes. That’s literally how you narrow it down

[dull marsh]

Everyone please let's keep things cool please, we don't want that chat to become a warzone, that should only happen in-game

Honestly y'all just walk away from your keyboards for a bit

[wraith torrent]

Agreed, lets move on

[bright ruin]

At this point, he's trolling, and it's quite obvious, so I'm ending my discussion

[solid jay]

Agreed and we've been trying to move on.

[bright ruin]

sigh

[dull marsh]

https://tenor.com/view/lets-get-back-on-track-colin-jost-saturday-night-live-lets-focus-anyways-gif-25441397

[marsh marsh]

Has there been any new hints since VVV?

[bright ruin]

I'd appreciate review in #1178137622359593043 for a moment please. Not T3 related but I want to make sure my findings are on track

[dull marsh]

I have a theory which sounds very interesting

We might just need to take our string -> convert to PETSCII -> rotate the characters clockwise or counterclockwise -> convert to ASCII

Not sure when to apply the G=6 E=3 stuff tho

But a lot of clues point toward the idea of rotation:

• LIGO: neutron star or black hole merger which spin really fast

• JBB Nobel prize for discovery of first radio pulsar which spin very fast

• Binary stars spin around each other

• Planets spin around the sun

• Euler equality, i and pi are about rotation

• PETSCII characters almost all have all 4 rotation variants

• Even Caesar cipher is about "rotating" letters

Also rob said that he just added one more layer of encryption, which might just be that, applied to a variant of "gold egg"

[fresh quiver]

OYE was also just a letter "rotation" in the beginning.
Rob took EOY and made OYE out of it.
So first letter is now shifted to the back

[dull marsh]

Y rotated to the left on PETSCII keyboard is E

[bright ruin]

What was EOY?

[fresh quiver]

holtow.
5.15.25 apparently.

Just needed to look where it came from myself
#easter-eggs message

[fresh quiver]

And it got eyed

[bright ruin]

I’m not entirely sure how 5.15.25 became end of year

But the rest makes sense

So does that still make OYE open your eyes or is that Of Year End lol

[dull marsh]

Number to letters in the alphabet

5 -> E
15 -> O
25 -> Y

I actually noted that the other way around like "hmm interesting these are all ending by 5" a few days ago 😂

[cloud wyvern]

i'm on the same page as you right now

[bright ruin]

It’s funny because they’re all evenly spaced by 10

[cloud wyvern]

i'm also thinking that V = X in regards to the string found in 70.68.71.67.72

the V petscii character in tion.jpg is the most prominent and screams to me "x marks the spot"

[bright ruin]

Idk petscii by memory so I’m just gonna believe you. Only thing I’ve ever seen in tion is that U near the lower middle,

Oh that’s it LOL

[dull marsh]

Where?

Oh I only see a U

Not a V 🤔

[cloud wyvern]

when looking at PETSCII U and V, the character in question on tion looks more like a V to me

but i know this is a hard sell

i say "X marks the spot" because i think with it being the most prominent character that can be seen with little manipulation the idea is to start finding repeats of it around the image, and layering them over it.

so to me, that screams V, which is used to create an X symbol on the C64 keyboard

both roman numerals, coincidentally 🤔

and yes there are instances where i can see that flipping or rotation would be required to match up some of the other Vs on the image

[cloud wyvern]

i've also seen this symbol appear between ques/tion/VVV which also felt like a marker to me. also X

there are also combined (combind) symbols on tion.jpg that could indicate groups of characters/letters that correspond

like this could possibly be BGH or BTY

i've been writing notes in my journal and i am so excited for whoever finds it after i die and seeing zodiac killer levels of scribbling

[timid pebble]

"He was such a quiet guy, really kept to himself. We never suspected he could be so twisted"

What the finals does to a mf

[cloud wyvern]

also like, just a completely random thought, but i just remembered how The Secret of Monkey Island had DRM of sort in the form of a physical wheel you had to manipulate to get the correct answer to input into the game before you could play

http://www.oldgames.sk/codewheel/secret-of-monkey-island-dial-a-pirate

since rob seems to mention the game a whole lot, and the topic of cracking groups has been talked about since the new update.

going to bed now supposed to be awake in 7 hours

[random bramble]

Sticky note gun is full of EE references:

Probably worth a thread, there's a fair bit

Memo Mayhem Bundle

[sharp flame]

Wdym "whatever this is"

[worthy nimbus]

Wasn't there a character that looks like > that we couldn't find in petscii? Was it simply a sideways V?

[crimson niche]

what's up with the THIS -> 9π e + 1 = 0

9 could also be a question mark there, not sure

sorry don't have permission to chat in threads

[alpine junco]

euler

identity

[crimson niche]

with the amount of reading I've done in the last 10 days catching up on this, you'd think I'd remember that. think things are leaking out of my ears