#Neuro ARG
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we're here to have fun, yes?
if i didn't have exams soon i'd be more willing to do funny audio stuff
don't sweat it, gotta prioritize
bred's gonna rewrite all of my python to rust 
dw this is still happening, just in the background
but think about the 🚀 blazking 🚀 fast 🚀 fearless 🚀 concurrency🚀 🚀
fun 
you don't have to force yourself
no im just joking 
it is super fun learning all the stuff so far

Does this now return a 404?
https://www.youtube.com/feeds/videos.xml?channel_id=UCqOK_pl0LS0e8Lp7HMRDZsw
ok might be temporary, seems like this has happened in the past before (edit: it's back)
A pronunciation mistake during "Last Night, Good Night" song, someone discovered before? Just "kimi to" mistaked with "kimi no"(if you compare it with the lyric)
from karaoke 56:34
hamming distance between real lyrics and sung lyrics is clue

claiming it's dog and giraffe before the tool completes
yeah it predicts the future now
yep no changes
tool passed, it's dog and giraffe 
also it runs realtime on github actions, albiet it starts a minute slower due to cold boot
https://github.com/neuro-arg/arg-monitoring/actions/runs/8403862351/job/23014829319
logs for whoever cares (imagine caring)
off by 1 \n 
has there even ever been a new qr on a collab? I feel like it'd be a "waste"
don't think so. the only collab thing was a new video after the miyu collab iirc
right, there could still be something after
imagine my happiness when i saw this 
never trust a single source 
proof?
Trust me
new _neurosama video
smh we wont get any clues
we have to work with what we have
but thats impossible here
Yeah hold on let me call matpat real quick
i'm currently rushing for something atm, but the tool failed to detect the streamer
am running a bypass atm, but boy do i need shortcuts to those bypasses 
anws after bypass scores look good, that's dog and giraffe
oh wait, is it because the stream is darker or something today?
if we don't know how to solve, then the best we can do is monitor and document and refine our information such that someone who comes along might find a solution more easily. That and taking it chill. Wigging out won't get us anywhere :p
can't really check
no idea, it looked normal to me
nothing to report feed-wise, just another (youtube-shenanigans) timestamp update on Study
last stream pink color RGB is 254,127,197. current stream is 252,130,196 
SHE ASKED IT
god damn it
SHE ASKED ABOUT MEANING OF LIFE
CLUE

i heard numbers
Hi
How are you doing ?
I don't know English, sorry for that
I can speak through an interpreter
hi
hi
we are waiting for another clue
How did you sleep?
makes me happy
I'm just wondering how it is here
I just thought of coming here without any bad intentions
Strokes your head
If I make mistakes, can you correct me?
I'm glad to hear that, but this is not a chat for casual conversations
everything is fine
Sorry
maybe I can explain some things in direct messages?
Where is the main chat?
I will be grateful
of course!
Thank you

when his bitch ass stops whining about everything that goes on here its when arg will get solved
Bro chill
with enough oxycotin anything can happen
surely we will get a clue for the birthday stream 
Yes they will definitely do it for the line evil said that ended up being a clue 
What You Guys Talking About
he nearly forgot her birthday because he was busy cooking the next clue 
idk the thread was made 2023-05-27T18:17:33.971Z (<t:1685211453>)
on v2's birthday (which was definitely may 15th as we all know)
Monday, spring bank holiday??
planning to pop a pint on that day
maybe i'll just do one for each day
celebrate in spirit
you know there's only a single 1..n..366'th day this year. Should probably celebrate each of them
sadecs
happy shiro's birthday
do you come here to taunt us or give us clues
april 27th is our monochrome girl's birthday
aite i guess i'm doing 2 rounds
screen frozen
bro that's evil, the background window isn't moving
why is it when i watch a stream, discord is fucked
are you using hardware acceleration
ye
Morse?
i forgot sound
well then you'ret probably using your gpu more
The tnt is kinda sus
Lol, not even tetris
guys if the tool fails it's actually not my skill issue for once
oh you're right. It's frozen AND it's the wrong background for tetris
Nah the tnt is just moving with the beats
the screen just refuses to work
surely a clue today
That’s new


can we access the stream's video early? To check where it stopped
yeah
share your ancient secrets, bred
if you're talking about the screen
guys it isnt tetris today 
wow, super secret
yeah it really hasnt moved
ok, so it was broken from the very start
surely 
vedal would never have broken anything 
on the bright side
:hmmmmmm:
How did he even broke that 
watch if move & display a qr code on the last seconds :trol:
Isn’t that literally with the screen
it's (probably) unity doing some shenanigans (maybe)
only real facts and logic here, no speculations
just like all our solutions
dark, calm bro you're spamming :p
clam

It’s pretty funny ngl
its boring typing it all in one message smh

3:25 clue 
3:25 

oh wow guys, all of the thresholds failed, noway
funny numbers:
[0.24039360281341726, 0.14369392562489156, 0.16179541440284714, 0.1779481837669882, 0.09079437347350654, 0.19341060161023652, 0.0996210720376323, 0.06450688173890186, 0.15155133324727388, 0.14473882889384995, 0.06596020058536095, 0.11711304255709669, 0.059375013914609476, 0.19310028496289444, 0.2062297866482695, 0.22052107145715438, 0.1606203594213572, 0.04431511085313251, 0.10472762064515927, 0.11611064652017138, 0.02184862920491649, 0.07753750974774799, 0.07292423235856099, 0.041655253355696815, 0.2644375993782677, 0.0828877231889325, 0.23069253323750494, 0.11705039785154568, 0.04596268767839159, 0.43855201235090685, 0.16635015893992297, 0.14367485994509485]

Wow no clue 

there's still time...
She’ll surely drop one mid stream 
someone check 3:25 on the video tho
you could do it yourself instead of asking :p

next clue on 23/5



It has been no progress for 2 whole months.



Look at the bright side. There is no regress for 2 month, either
there's no other cyclic shifts of the hashlike that decode using reverse numbers
let me try reversing and cyclic shifting
nope nothing
maybe the halloween stream qr leads to soundcloud? ok i guess that wouldn't make sense because preparing the qr code for the stream same day as the stream itself (when the song was uploaded) would maybe (?) be hard
Looks like there’s nothing?
imagine, same ol' giraffe dog
Oh i forgor there is a stream today
this is why we have automation, looks like gh actions kicked in
Seems plausible to me idk
Uh oh
Just chatting stream's background color is the same as intro stream's gear 
how long can a github pipeline run? 
imma just do github some good and kill the script, ripbozo
we will get a clue soon 
Not big bell, just an interesting event. At around midnight today, the tool detected a change in Hello World's subtitles. The contents were empty, but the timecodes for when the missing subtitles would be displayed is still present.
After checking the video, I reran the tool and the integrity was restored.
Here is the commit for those interested: https://github.com/neuro-arg/arg-monitoring/commit/821b129acc65894b1f19d80c458921631f9231a0
In particular, this is what the subtitles were at midnight:
WEBVTT\nKind: captions\nLanguage: en\n\n00:00:00.060 --> 00:00:01.550 align:start position:0%\n \n\n\n00:00:01.550 --> 00:00:04.249 align:start position:0%\n \n \n\n00:00:04.249 --> 00:00:07.130 align:start position:0%\n \n \n\n00:00:07.130 --> 00:00:08.330 align:start position:0%\n \n \n\n00:00:08.330 --> 00:00:10.549 align:start position:0%\n \n \n\n00:00:10.549 --> 00:00:13.370 align:start position:0%\n \n \n\n00:00:13.370 --> 00:00:14.240 align:start position:0%\n \n \n\n00:00:14.240 --> 00:00:14.250 align:start position:0%\n \n \n\n00:00:14.250 --> 00:00:24.370 align:start position:0%\n \n\n\n00:00:24.370 --> 00:00:27.500 align:start position:0%\n \n \n\n
Lowkey the tool is picking up YouTube shenanigans more than real ARG clues 
makes tool to monitor arg stuff
finds out how youtube works instead
lmao
i rewatched the video and the subtitles are more fucked than before
you can actually notice the massive delay now
also this :trol:
call Elliot Alderson
Bro the background is stuck again
Surely background stuck means clue in the future 
guys i found a clue 
It's not a bug, it's a clue 
all thresholds failed (obviously) btw, so no panic if feed updated
at this rate you might as well code in recognition for the broken screen 
Same subtitle shenanigans happened to numbers 2 today
You guys don't know it yet but the ARG is secretly discontinued or something 
Arg being discontinued is a clue

Still nothing huh
We're making progress in spirit
I REFUSE to believe this.
imagine expecting args to constantly have results 
genuinely believe that if the arg ever gets fully abandoned, a community member will pick it up
All of our conversations will still be here, and so will the docs, so yeah there'd definitely be plenty to pick back up
I thought something like this has already been brought up here before and it did. so i still stand by this
#1112082183235047506 message
Would he tho?
He can do it himself so why waste money to hire someone
It could go to the 18th lambo
a?!
Why hire if you can do it for free?
The money you need to hire could go to the 18th lambo man
I deny these allegations 
jokes asides, it would make sense. No matter how skilled, every person only has 24 hours in a day. Just a matter of cost vs gain
Vedal hire me to write lores for you, just paypal me 100usd and I’ll start writing 
Yo schizo gang its been while how is arg going? 
It's been great! There's been so much progress!
I love you all
I see, any news on that phone number or the qrcode star 🤔
Don't trust the crazywagon, check the timeline since you were last up to date
its... been going great-
yep
as always
sees an early 20th century movie omg is this a neuro arg reference
We must research early UK entertainment for clues
Subtitle shenanigans happened to numbers 1, study and hello world today.
Numbers 2 didn't recover. I'm assuming youtube changed something about how auto captions works
For reference, the only offical videos with CC are meaning of life and psv, both of which still haven't been impacted (yet)
I would assume they change something all the time. Youtube sits atop a goldmine for speech to text training data. I would think they might just update the auto captions while they're running their tests anyway
Interesting, just experimenting to see if I can fix things:
youtube-dl --skip-download --write-auto-sub https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wc-QCoMm4J8- This gives me the real automatically generated subtitlesyoutube-dl --skip-download --write-auto-sub --sub-lang en https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wc-QCoMm4J8- This gives me a subtitle file with only the timecodes. Every other language works, though
Both produces Numbers-wc-QCoMm4J8.en.vtt on my machine
some part of me wants to check what youtube-dl's doing when it doesn't get the --sub-lang flag, but if it works it works 
quick update: fixed on latest commit apparently, so I'll just update youtube-dl like a good boy
Subtitle integrity for all videos restored 👍
neat!
Hey guys... i finally made a freaking Mimi sentry animation....
Song used - I don't want to be an engineer - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zMlH7RH6psw
MODELS NOT OWNED BY ME. I DO NOT OWN ANY RIGHTS TO TF2 OR THE MIMI SENTRY CREATOR

Lets asks the mastermind directly 
Yo can you give us a new clue @undone whale 

actually an account 
All that remains is for the YouTube channel to be linked there?
what if vedal published a clue as a prank that'd be epic ngl
haha nah surely that wouldn't happen
(not me who reran monitoring just in case)
i didn't even know this server had a _neurosama account
in response to alexcheeser yesterday
No More arg?
We solved the ARG 

this is definitely not the end 
arg tea party 




I started looking at the whole arg thing back and I remembered that every time Study Girl appears you can always hear loud breathing at least once.
nothing is a coincidence but well since there is nothing new for now, it is good to review everything again
I have this breathing sound but I only used it once
Like in my first test song
I think I was experimenting
interesting to overlay this on top of the AI-generated art and "stuck between real and artificial"
well a human inside a computer could count to that
as always using SOMA as example
your mind always interprets reality in a way its programmed too
with computer...it gets a little complicated
because its hard to determine how the mind would behave and interpret surroundings
if you're mind can't interpret any information, you're basically stuck in a void
if you're mind can generate a body or feeling of a body
well then you're still stuck in the void but can at least feel your own body and breath
third option, it can interpret the information and create some sort of view
so now you're not stuck in the void anymore
but its hard to say how the world would look like? bunch of static? a 3d render?
Again hard to guess how the brain would react to raw input without proper interface
but mind is also great at adapting, so potentially you could adapt to understand the surroundings
however only how much tech stuff and nature allows you to
oh and you would have to not succumb to madness first
which is probably very easy when your senses are either blank or complete gibberish
no stream is clue
Currently there are many meaningless things that are useless or that do not lead anywhere or that there are no solutions such as dead ends or loose ends, or so some might think, if they are there it is for a reason, the fact that they are not useful now is something else. Everything has a solution, whether we have realized it or not, it is different.
That's what i think
i don't think we've declared anything meaningless yet
we're just stuck, we dunno what to do
Modern problems require modern solutions
Here, I doxxed the mastermind
Now we're sure to get a clue

damn inb4 wrong side of the globe
it's okay, if we don't find anything we can just check the other side later
I know, I only said it to give an example.
🐶 🦒 ?
i predict that's dog & giraffe 
oh it froze
Bro aint no way

QR is cake 
i love cake
so what have we learnt, he can just turn off the background? 
you make it sound like it isn't 99% surely a bug
What other emojis were there?
but it moved at the start 
Looked like the normal ones.
https://www.twitch.tv/videos/2108887567
There's even a lag spike when it freezes 
Still have not patched Just Chatting detection square problems (I have an idea as to how I'll do it, but I'm lazy) upstream, but here are the SSIM scores:
[0.964575237544615, 0.9427796768463222, 0.9105182071244261, 0.9327161333882144, 0.9430643160334596, 0.9307008395936472, 0.9431305167703564, 0.9385777062930485, 0.9268944023568132, 0.9463379988428461, 0.9434025115763335, 0.9492134230209421, 0.905363823128198, 0.9269978957305592, 0.9360723018738962, 0.9414148449663514, 0.9412239653341131, 0.9395509674026439, 0.9414060684106218, 0.9267221415062017, 0.9300274870779376, 0.9377238218532269, 0.9385701964791809]
Two of them fail the threshold, but otherwise everything else passes. From the 1 time exposure, that's dog and giraffe 

CLUE :schizo:
damn who was she referring to when she said that
couldn't be us
wait how do equalizers work
i wonder if that knowledge could help with [filtered] audio
ah yes, layman's terms
or, i could assume all sounds have resonance? is this a safe assumption? idk...
actually, i could just create a program that lets me visually remove resonance so i can experiment with parameters
looks like some random Ukrainian guy
this is a shit move yeah, and vedal doesn't even have a company so if he wanted to take it down he'd have to use his real name
i think the song author can contact the publisher via https://onerpm.com/contact-us asking for a takedown, that way it'd be handled privately
I have already sent a complaint to this channel and they will probably block it soon since I even posted the link to the original channel _neurosama 
User complaints 
There is a clause where the author impersonates another person and you need to send a link 
I think I wrote everything now I’m waiting 
Although I think that all Neuro ARG need to punish him and report him
For me, this is an attack on the family, so I can’t turn a blind eye to it. 
Ok so uhmmhmhmhmhm like i saw that yall solved the arg in the chat earlier but i assume that was a joke
it's true, the final solution led to this URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X_8Nh5XfRw0

few days late
Volodymyr Panamerov..
The only thing I found was some tiktoker...
"he" 
Wow, I even registered on this site. Five minutes ago...
the transfer function just tells you how much each frequency is boosted/attenuated by the filter
(it also tells you how much each frequency gets shifted in time, i.e. phase shift, but that's usually much less relevant)
Well, I hope this thief gets banned and his account deleted
idk if any of yall found this but theres a new stuff thats getting shown when you google this
bb ce td ht eft ggd, sgfi dqj ie br vtye b sbs
thats the chinese wiki
and i cant understand korean so
does it contain any info tho?
We provide science about the natural hazards that threaten lives and livelihoods; the water, energy, minerals, and other natural resources we rely on; the health of our ecosystems and environment; and the impacts of climate and land-use change. Our scientists develop new methods and tools to supply timely, relevant, and useful information about ...
aight imma head into a information dive be back when i find some stuff
unless he claims otherwise, because as we know youtube manages that shit great
and takedown the site that contains all details about the lunar orbiter project
also i need a raw file reader
idk
lets hope its takes down anyway, and better to watch out if the originals will be claimed
im trying to find out what it is

mp4?
hmmmm
a sound file?
one sec let me export it as a png for yall
.ogg also sound f
it loads in photopea because there's a raw editor
though these might be seperate channels interpreted incorrectly
looks like lunar surface alright

damn
is there a chnce we can correct it?
i mean yeah but im not confident that they are seperate colours
oh they are actually mildly different to each other
m4a this is a file from a voice recorder
mp3 audio, ogg, wav.
Video mp4 and webm
dont document this alright we aint sure if this is arg sht or something the government hides
It seems there are other formats, but I don’t remember which ones.
anyways if you want to explore this site there's a directory listing at https://pdsimage2.wr.usgs.gov/
though as i've said i doubt this is much
from ARG to uncovering national conspiracy, this feels like warthunder forum 
gonna be honest i have no clue what the strips could mean

did we just found a node server for the lunar orbiters???
probably multiple exposures for different wavelengths or something
i mean its public
I also thought the photo was from the moon
looks like you can fin the viewer for the files at https://pds.nasa.gov/tools/about/pds3-tools/nasa-view.shtml
though they're a little old 
by the looks of it
it might be
cause i just found the names of orbiters in the index
it was a skill issue
i had the res wrong so they did that
bruh
similar to one of the arg videos 
and i thought it was rally 4k
idk maybe im shcitzo but is that a eye peeking out of a strip????

yeah im just schitzo
ah yes i remember doing this
E
E E E E
Lmao after some searching, that’s a random satellite photo of the moon 
It’s orbiting the moon so it’s a stripe
Similar to Apollo’s moon images

…
Everything's fine in 1984

i definitely understand this

woah i just realised study crossed 500k views 

Make a sequel and reap that youtube money
so uh... r the videos that got uploaded by someone else still up?
stopping copyright infringement is not trivial if you're not a big company, so yea, probably (heck it's difficult even if you're a big company)

inb4 24 hours intensive steganography analysis
ok so i've been playing voices of the void and it reminded me of [Filtered] because of how one of the gameplay aspects
i wonder if we have to do something similar to "listen" to filtered
Docs, timeline
ill try and elaborate on this a bit later but essentially top right is a "signal" you get, bottom left is the spectrogram
but like it doesn't look too dissimilar to [Filtered]
though that is yet another shot in the dark
(obviously some amount of this is enhanced for the game, but surely the idea can carry over to some level)
I have a hunch like
I think the next clue is going to be dropped at SoundCloud
Cause of that ghost track
They made a game for arg?

the clue is already out there
we just dont wanna look for it :trol:
ill keep saying it, if you dont put time into the clues you wont get anywhere
yeah who would ever be writing code to try and test their theory right now 
you said you wanna make this fun, probably by not working at all
bred
its not just you that needs to try
i am too dumb to do anything 
but i know the clue is already out there
whee
hmm
ok this might not be it perchance
I think this approach is less effective than expected
i mean we already know it has video
encoding audio on top of the video would be quite hard
^ see here
this is what I thought it might possibly be
(but like, video -> audio instead)
no i meant that the [filtered] video contains video data
havent we already "decoded" it? to the pictures
if we were to do further processing, we'd have to get rid of the picture to get a clean version of the noise
did you see the method 
yes, isn't it interpreting pixels as frequencies?
not the one for the pictures
that's some cursed guessing about rotation amount for each line of the image
but it works, any change shows very clear discrepancies, there's a very notable difference between the rightmost and leftmost pixels, and the image looks fine otherwise
it does count as decoded to some extent at least imo, even if we have no idea about the audio and how the video noise was generated
idk I feel like we're still missing something about the video part
sure, but we'd have to look into the noise, not raw data
because the raw data is very clearly hiyori (with shifted lines)
it would usually taint other interpretations of the data
of course its theoretically possible that it's some miracle algorithm that can encode a sound in a picture just by shifting lines, but imo there's more going on than that
I'm gonna try the inverse of this when I get home
while all previous puzzles were solvable without programming, we're stuck here, so some of us are attempting to write programs that interpret what we have in various ways
interpreting audio, video, noise/glitch patterns
so far [filtered]'s hiyori picture is basically the only thing that's been found with such methods i think
The weird part about the video is that it's clearly not entirely random, you can see Hiyori in some frames between the random noise, and at least a few frames seem close to the frames next to it
It also seems to be horizontally segmented somehow, but it's unclear how to get any data out of that 
we have unshifted it to get hiyori already, but the noise patterns don't seem entirely random yeah
see here also

ye bred already made a deinterpolation(?) program for it and its crazy. The video for it is in the drive im pretty sure.
Wasn't that kinda "cheating" by taking averages from many frames? The goal here would be to understand how exactly Hiyori is embedded in the video so that we could get a better reconstruction and separate it from the noise. We should be able to do that if the noise isn't actually random.
yea 
Still have to work on the key addition thingy 
haven't had any time yet.
the images are an average of every shifted frame
no, it's "proper" by shifting each line using an algorithm that separates each line into chunks and counts "light" chunks
proper is in quotes because while the algorithm is correct, it's unknown why it is that way
I mean, do we know that the algorithm is correct?
It seems to have an above average rate of success at aligning the edge of the Hiyori stock photo with the edge of the video, but we still can't do that successfully for just a single frame, right?
At least it proves that there's some horizontal movement going on.
if you play with the algo just a little it's very clear it's correct
a better question is how is the noise generated
Maybe I should look at that algorithm again and see if it can be further improved somehow, it's been a while now 
Still not convinced that it's correct though, IMO the average has too many artifacts for that, if we have the right algorithm it should look a lot cleaner
the averages in the google doc are before the unshift i think?
anyway again see here
the pixels at the rightmost column are exactly the same on all frames after unshifting
Isn't that just because of how the unshifting works? It has to be aligning something
It being a wider column (instead of just a single column of black pixels) makes sense since the entire video seems to be split into such columns
what if we plot the line shifts
I think that happened already, I remember grayscale images that were generated from that.
They had some weird lines, but I don't think we got anything more from that
Oh, yeah it's in the doc
Error correction diagram
Y-axis is line height
X-axis is time
Pixel brightness is how far the line was rotated at the given time at the given line height
hmm given the fact there's only one frame i found which has a part that perfectly overlaps the previous frame's part, maybe we could do better

There could be something in a single frame of [Filtered], we won't properly know if we don't find a way to clean it up in a proper way. The best we have now is bred's edge detection system, but it's my impression it makes mistakes at least some of the time. We will either have to figure out how to correctly rotate, or rotate manually.
One thing we could try is to rotate a few frames manually until they're perfect and see if the rotation amount has any patterns either in the same frame or across frames
ok well problem one is i was creating the wav file incorrectly 
why do they do that
what is this, again?
take each frame, read it left-to-right, line by line
convert each pixel to a 0-255 value
make a wav file from that
(cropped to avoid the black bars)
oh, right. So what's wrong in the picture?
usually your waveform is centred on the line in the middle
you just said it yourself, tho
0-255. The first frames are dark, gradually getting brighter
share a clip (maybe make it a little quiter, so we don't blow someone's ears out)
this might be very loud
I sat on the piano for 8 minutes and played with 4 fingers.
but this is what i used to get it from the wav file
Typical me
you're gonna blow someone's ears out..i'm not even joking

problem here is each frame has like 20 seconds of audio
spectrogram is unsuprisingly pretty useless
it would be absolutely insane if that was something
it'd be insane even then! :p
you could try higher bitrates if each frame takes too much time
its already got a sample rate of 48khz
problem is there's 1229040 samples per frame and 2565 frames
which is actually almost eactly 2^16 seconds at 48khz 
so? max is 4.3 GHz
breadth my hearing only goes up 20 to 20khz
i mean i guess it'd make a neat spectrogram
no no, get a dog to listen to it 
last time i checked dogs can't listen to wifi
imagine if it was supposed to be interpreted as wifi, that'd be bonkers
throw it over the rf spectrum and cause hell
windows did not like the 2^32hz sample rate
what about VLC? It plays anything
i threw it at mpv and it closed instantly
"hi and goodbye"
i did the inverse to the audio on the video
each image is about 25 seconds of audio
ok so fun fact if you convert all of the frames of the video's centre into a long binary file you get a suprising amount of valid strings
Is ultraedit still a thing? I used it like a billion years ago for very large files
but also, i think exact binary wouldn't work because of the compression
i had a look for any links in the file
or well, any obvious links starting with http
hmm, again, wouldn't that require the data be lossless?
ish?
actually yeah probably would need to be completely lossless
also no matches for neuro
also here's all the data put into an image (then resized down so its viewable)
i assume the big visible lines are from the brief viewable sections
yeah, but i mean like this (the black line between the two red)
ah
i would send the full image but its a gigabyte big and crashed the windows photo viewer
gigabytes? I'm sure discord's image server would love that 
1gb is less than 100mb right
1 < 100, lgtm
i also tried interpreting it as rgb and rgba but it looks basically the same
which is weird but meh
the only really surprising thing here for me is how long each "run" of a given colour is
you mean like the lines? #nowInColors
in colour it still looks like this
which implies that the rgba values are all pretty similar
this is the differences between pixels for the 100th frame and the first small negative jump at datapoint 569 and the major jump at 1137 (i realize now this is the end of a line as each line is 1138 long
)
but a lot of the pixels are very similar
i think i might be on the wrong track 
that makes sense. Similar values are bunched next to each other in the black&white version, so in color it'd be close to grayscale

here's that graph for the whole frame
this is the longest valid string in the file, surely a clue 
Malbolge 
just using this channel as a bookmark, don't mind me https://arxiv.org/pdf/2212.12372.pdf
i shouldnt have opned it
my brain hurts
Dead
We're being starved
Well, not dead
But it's certainly not thriving at the moment
Hello mr trial mod
Can't believe someone remembered this thread exists

this thread exists? 
Once there were 4 nations....

I wonder where's a new clue
👨🍳

new clue 
We’re doomed 

i hope the intro is normal today, won't be around to baby the script 
don't worry, we'll all be counting tetris blocks
ordinary tetris day
bro is trying to throw us off
no lavalamp is a clue 
i triggered the script from my phone just in case
We’re so dead 
wat
aye at least the background works today!
it was a one (several) time thing after all 
surely one of the songs will be a clue 
another mili song? we already got one last karaoke 
we always get a mili song
no background, must be a clue 
thresholds look abit iffy on gh actions btw, but i'll trust breadth on the tetris
[0.8105158099426887, 0.8659329623083019, 0.9018293234014707, 0.7237561184144495, 0.8918794488454577, 0.8819716043204892, 0.8971830611582737, 0.9218621629755958, 0.7799615803895131, 0.7994801262203532, 0.944607384284784, 0.9077472688921219, 0.9486538551567297, 0.7337221169831096, 0.876165440787278, 0.8637428544522635, 0.8707534518525173, 0.9340923175940086, 0.9263455777697175, 0.7709844521673132, 0.9587838723729082, 0.9047195337032318, 0.9485105744754477, 0.8888531883139527, 0.8087383696974612, 0.7783996609086051, 0.8639025560745545, 0.8899821503267503, 0.9163456961120041, 0.8131337207863631, 0.9365327526708717, 0.8994119908736055]
what do the numbers represent, again? I get that it's a certainty score, but are there more of them?
They represent the maximum similarity throughout the intro to each square (in order) found here: https://github.com/neuro-arg/arg-monitoring/tree/main/feed-generator/src/sources/twitch_source/evil
oh, i thought there'd be way more squares
ah, i see, you're only looking for the QR codes, i thought it was the entire screen
yep. There's a speed limit proportionate to the number of square we have
i mean, you've got at least a day to process each intro and not fall behind 
I suddenly want to squish him

not even vedal remembered the arg
we are the real forgetten child
We'll get something soon 
I think it's time we hang up the coat lads.
yeah vedal never acted like the arg didn't exist before
99% of gamblers quit before they hit it big
idk didn't he pull the same antics before the Halloween stream aswell
here's what i think are possible states of the ARG right now
- vedal forgot the ARG existed
- vedal is having trouble managing both a streamer and an ARG
- vedal is still doing ARG activities, but is refraining from releasing anything until we figure out something what we missed
- vedal is working on the next ARG thing and is not ready to release it yet
personally i think it's 3, though i do recall that he released one of the videos to tip us off to something hidden in one of the earlier videos
We'll be fineeee
I thought about that too
ngl, i think its a combination of 2 and 3
he had managed them before previously, though
maybe i should add a 5th one, for burnout
if he's burnt out though then that implies he's been putting a lot of effort into the arg
in regards to story or quality or something
or music
schizo idea: MoL is a hint for [Filtered]

Confirmed bro forgot the arg exists
num 1 num 1 num 1 num 1 num 1
Classic ved 
It's possible he's delaying for a more suitable date
How do you mean "suitable"?
Could have been delayed to 27 April, for example
what happens on april 27?
who is monochrome girl?
, but 27 Apr is also the publish date for both study and numbers 1
oh, that's right. That was a month before v2 release/arg start

Birthday party we must

20 more days tho
the last clue will almost be half a year ago by then
that's crazy
surely today we'll get a clue 

ok i will definitely make that static background part of monitoring now ig
nope
wiat no
not frozen
He fixed it
came back 
new
Nah?
istg it's a toggleable thing
he's doing it on purpose to mess with your script 
did one of the Zs cross the vertical center of the gear
that has never happened before, it terminated my script reeeee
because it thought the intro was over?
anyways that's dog and giraffe, all the thresholds passed
yep, altho i ought to make it slightly more robust
maybe give it a window like 5 seconds
i was thinking to do a static square and a dynamic square
When the stream starts, the static square figures out the streamer. Then, I capture the top left square and do exact comparison / ssim until the scores no longer match
a window is also a good idea
Clue?
Lavalamp just exploded 
Wait
No it wasn't
Oh
The lava lamp is the reason why the background doesn't work
Nope I'm schizo
Love the shades of darkness and white in this lava lamp
Is there a chance that arg girl related fanwork will appear today 
ok so, the cyphertext we got isnt aes 128
AES 128 has to be a multiple of 16, which the text isnt
It is
It's 304 bytes long
You need to convert base64 -> bytes and count the number of bytes
in this case we have 19 blocks
but anyways it does not mean it's 100% aes-128
oh nvm theres so many i didnt have the correct one
it just means you can't rule out aes-128
theres like 100 keys i copied the wrong one
ill be trying out stuff alone since none of you wants to
how do you know none of us are trying stuff out
New cluee?
yep
we are still trying stuff out
just cuz we try, it doesn't mean we will get progress
darkeew's going to try bruteforcing?
What's your plan then?
trying stuff is very possible without being loud about it :p
This alive wow
no way, he beat the ARG
im sorry bros im gonna have to resign from the ARG now that im a mod I know all the answers to all the problems 
the answer all along was 6 
(this is a joke dont take it seriously, I knwo nothing)
becoming mod is clue?
nothing still huh
my hopes for a new clue are on the anniversary
im so lost rn
lost how
Is he referring to the bb ce text? seems those attempts to ask chatgpt to decrypt text
very obvious troll
Vigenere is a substitution cipher, but neither the location of the spaces nor the amount of letters matches the allegedly decoded text

just use rot 42
meaning of live = 42
I mean we know that these aren't the solutions for numbers 2
so either troll or they asked chatgpt
(+ what is base64 masked in ASCII even supposed to mean
)
bro's decryption method might as well be an ouija board frfr
wouldn't be the first
at this point I wouldn't be suprised if someone tried arguing against docs because GPT said something different
okay yeah
100% misinformation or GPT
Let him cook guys
im getting him
be civil about it yeah
i'll just quote the docs
Oh nyoooo ToT
Also uhm
We should def try to locate the place in the "meaning of life" if possible at all
Might give us answers
We should enlist him.
quite civilized
I love that
One question, is there a backup copy of the entire doc? because sometimes it happens that a funny guy comes and starts touching things and changing them
there is
Ok
Yeah, some of us have Google drive backups. Minimally BreadTh has some backups of the drive
that calms me down
We've discussed this before, which is why we now have a locked docs to prevent griefing
Can someone check numbers II comments and see if mine is still there?
idk if youtube didn't detect the binary as some malicious link and nuked the comment
doesn't show up for me
fucking youtube man
augh.
I'll just write it again
without the binary
and it got deleted again ffs
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
either ARG by big letters is filtered
or word "discord"
probably the second one
welp now to wait
good instincts
it probably detects attempts to get people to go places, yeah
i think i saw tetris
yup

was out, here are the scores
[0.8298565878071437, 0.8743456126034825, 0.9077935999072891, 0.7255165390053225, 0.8892089552069503, 0.8931913016131574, 0.8965604051321944, 0.9245283704581583, 0.6659820027699949, 0.8102186414204225, 0.9476968867469043, 0.9069175922548046, 0.9445289739330182, 0.6493402440024038, 0.8810154258017998, 0.8748007860788375, 0.8765821460752923, 0.9290008879489031, 0.9230895514281183, 0.7810570019942574, 0.9624212056735661, 0.9045860166871703, 0.9497854470211342, 0.8795425611873718, 0.8306339157272644, 0.7872163086584356, 0.8536698489485706, 0.8834895519506286, 0.922410478411637, 0.8080316182833474, 0.9383689891291708, 0.9028226271803859]
I probably have to pick better reference squares
hello people, new to arg here, is this arg still active? where do I start?
google doc is where we write down remotely useful stuff
If you want the true experience go to normal neuro starting soon and find something there, otherwise you can go to docs timeline and go through everything that happened step by step
anyway
its been so long without a new video
so I truly believe we are waiting for the 27th
like, if there's new video why not wait a week or two longer for the anniversary

watch it actually happen but its just a re-upload of the last video, no changes 
watch nothing happen
Man yall dont jinx it
Guys, come on.

vedal foten doesn't break ARG immersion
HOWEVER if it was stopped
he would said so...probably
so we're not just chasing shadows
actually
27th of april
is there anything special on that day?
The start of the arg?
*I've thought about it 
Jesus man
We're onto something
vedal likes to bait and provoke
Hmmm
there was no new qr code
Does neuro have a schedule or something?
not a stable one, no
pattern is monday is dev, tuesday is either offline or chill, wednesday karaoke,
Fuckin hell so we dont know shit on whats about to happen in april 27
we can't know
Tbh thats the whole point ig
HOWEVER keep in mind
videos were uploaded on 27th
but we were supposed to find them on v2 debut
month later
in may
so its either 27th
Or in may
or the V2 debut anniversary
yep
either of those
anyway we are certain to get something
Bruh
Also can i ask?
Can you hide osu maps from the beatmaps listing?
Yeah cause












