#Something happened

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fossil lantern
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Thoughts?

cold gust
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yeah

fossil lantern
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Were the video tags ever checked?

summer wolf
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nope

brisk sage
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Gpt is horrible at ciphers. Don’t trust it

summer wolf
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Lulyeah, what do you use to check YouTube tags. I usually go into the source code and look at the metadata

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Because some webseries like slots have messages in it split over multiple tags, and some metadata scrapers have it out of order

fossil lantern
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Oh btw, i'm checking the 2020 video from CN19

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I'll update you with the codes. I can see some were decoded but there's stuff that's still unknown. But it seems pretty straightforward so just give me an hour to have a breakdown done lol

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oh btw there's nothing on the tags

fossil lantern
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OH BEFORE I SAY ANYTHING ELSE THOUGH

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I noticed that there's a way to differentiate between cycles / versions of CN and Define

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The skins are different. The "original" (or at least previous versions) have bands on their heads

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But the newer ones don't. That's really noticeable on Def2ne but not on CN19. He also has the band

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Idk if u can see the descriptions on the pics. But the CN19 with the band is the one from 2020-03-24 16-52-20.mp4

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Also something else of note is that 2020-03-24 16-52-20.mp4 uses 1.12. But on that date they should be using 1.15.2.

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So... maybe something special about 1.12?

cold gust
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you can see the lil brim of it too

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Both of them have basically the same hat with different colours, so maybe other players also have counterparts like this?

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They're kinda like dopplegangers if you think about it

crimson herald
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I can definitely see the hats

fossil lantern
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huh that seems right though

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okay it's code time

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This time around we have 4 codes, so we'll tackle them in order

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This is the first one

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68747470733a2f2f646f63732e676f6f676c652e636f6d2f646f63756d656e742f642f314c47764d5177482d6430576f59745a4f6a73487568565a454343336e3950574e4d394f7555417a6c5231772f656469743f7573703d73686172696e67

summer wolf
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it's hexadecimal

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let me check if anyone here has the code from before

fossil lantern
summer wolf
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It's still up

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imo I would make a copy of it

fossil lantern
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wait wat

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THAT'S THE CODE?

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OH SNAP

summer wolf
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Yo not gonna lie, I think we may need a google slide or something

fossil lantern
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Hahahaha NICE

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Maybe maybe

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Dang that's amazing, ACTUAL PROGRESS

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RING THE BELLS

summer wolf
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This is definitely a hidden gem left in the rough

fossil lantern
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There's another video inside the doc

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zxvgw://poa.ovhbsjkii.vgq/hzpx/sr2pd6qls97m9ki/wheivymgy.qr4/wmew

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Key: secret

summer wolf
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viginère omg

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or viginére

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I don't remember the accent

gloomy kernel
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vigenere

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oh and hey lul

fossil lantern
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Sup

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I've been making strides yo

gloomy kernel
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yeah so that's file's dead

fossil lantern
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oh fk

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@twin wraith dood we got the mediafire link. But it's deaderino

crimson herald
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Oh snap

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You're really making headway here

gloomy kernel
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"very important" yeah buddy, hehe, I don't think you warned us in time

crimson herald
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Happy to see Something Happened have its time in the limelight again

fossil lantern
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And there's 3 codes left and a video

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im spooked

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Also the doc explains the thing you can see in the distance in the first video

gloomy kernel
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is it possible that

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google lens screwed up one of the letters in hexadecimal

fossil lantern
fossil lantern
gloomy kernel
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oh

fossil lantern
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It goes like this

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Hexadecimal -> Google Doc -> Code with vigenere -> dead mediafire link

gloomy kernel
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dead

fossil lantern
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Yeah just check the google doc and go all the way down

summer wolf
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Is there a youtube playlist out there?

fossil lantern
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i think there was?

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it was called something happened but i didn't make it

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Here

summer wolf
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by dispensa

fossil lantern
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It's incomplete though

summer wolf
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omg I know that guy

fossil lantern
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lol

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But so far you only have to check CN19's channel and Def1ne's

summer wolf
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I swear there's an unlisted video or 2

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@crimson herald Mind if I make a new Something Happened playlist

fossil lantern
gloomy kernel
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well you guys have fun I'm going to sleep

summer wolf
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gn

gloomy kernel
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gn

fossil lantern
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gn

summer wolf
fossil lantern
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someone ring up @twin wraith WE FOUND YO LINK PLS FIX IT (might i reccomend just reuploading and editing the doc?"

summer wolf
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I am not sure if they made those videos public tho

fossil lantern
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Like

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How did u find em

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Also no one mentioned them in here so hmm

summer wolf
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might be misremembering

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time to dive into this

fossil lantern
summer wolf
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well cause dotty unlisted a LOT

fossil lantern
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yeah dotty do be like that

summer wolf
fossil lantern
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Oh yeah the OST

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I like it

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YO REEDOMU WAKEY WAKEY EGGS AND BAKEY

summer wolf
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I remember when reedomu would just trash talk the series at the beginning

crimson herald
summer wolf
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even though I'm pretty sure they are apart of it

crimson herald
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Mines been out of date for a long time lol

summer wolf
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gotcha

crimson herald
summer wolf
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mhm

fossil lantern
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Okay so

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Code 2

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I don't think this has been decoded yet, but i'll give it a try

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OH BEFORE THAT

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I noticed something else

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Right after CN closes the book with the code that we now know goes to a google doc, Def1ne appears

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Since he doesn't have the hat, it looks like it's Def1ne

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But his eyes are a different color. I'm pretty sure that's just Def2ne before he got the hat, which begs the question: wth is going on with those fedoras

gloomy kernel
summer wolf
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the pins

fossil lantern
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Def1ne's eyes are purple-ish. Def2ne's eyes are white with a slight blue tint. There's a very very clear difference

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summer wolf
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ok here's the thing. I completely forgot the whole timeline of all of these codes

gloomy kernel
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maybe it's _Def3ne

summer wolf
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soooo

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making a google slides right now

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along with the playlist

fossil lantern
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Just

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Keep it under wraps pls lol

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I'll dm it

summer wolf
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say less

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is it in spanish?

fossil lantern
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Yeah but google translate is pretty good lol

summer wolf
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spanishdict is my friend

gloomy kernel
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or DeepL

fossil lantern
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I'll translate the Galactic thing. Give me a moment

summer wolf
fossil lantern
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Thanks! That helps lol this is a weird font

summer wolf
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nah this is from a different code

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BUT

fossil lantern
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I know

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Another weird thing, in the code in the first ever video, the guy also misses the L in CYCLE

summer wolf
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hmm

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guess this guy can't take any L

fossil lantern
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That one was messy to decode but it obviously says cycle once you do some audio wizardry

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Or well

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CYC E

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The next one you actually decoded already lol

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Apparently it's in Base32

summer wolf
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accidental discovery 😎

fossil lantern
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KJSWYYLYFQQHI2DJOMQGG6LDNRSSA53JNRWCAYTFEBWG63THMVZA====

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Relax, this cycle will be longer

summer wolf
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base32?

fossil lantern
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yup

summer wolf
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gotcha

fossil lantern
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And someone decoded the last one but idk how lol

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double checked, this one's unsolved

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summer wolf
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who decoded it?

fossil lantern
summer wolf
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OH

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😂

fossil lantern
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.

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this one was burnt french fries

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this one isn't solved yet

summer wolf
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has anyone transcribed it?

fossil lantern
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NOpe

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I'm on it

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Oh crap wait

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6uO2nDfm1EBPD@"+EV:.Gp$m?Dg*=BF`JUGARfalFE9Yh8K`4qF_kS2BOQ!o+EVNEF*(i2F<G"0DffZ(EZek;@r,]

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i think that formatting is correct. had to fnagle it with the power of backslashes

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It's ASCII85

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It says

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Do you think they know our secrets? I would hate to start another cycle

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you know, i've been playing with this idea

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every time we see a conversation like this, the ciphers stay consistent

summer wolf
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oh yeah

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do you think it's multiple people?

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one person associated with one cipher

fossil lantern
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I mean: Whoever speaks in Galactic is always pretty robotic. In the first conversation decoded there were 3 codes but 4 phrases: Base32 got repeated and it seemed it was the same person.

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I believe that each code represents a character. And so far i think we have 4 people???? Not sure though. Galactic, ASCII82, Base32, Base64 (Maybe five if we count Def2ne with their hexes)

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I'd have to check every decoded conversation and stuff

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It's weirdly consistent

fossil lantern
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but yeah

summer wolf
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yeah true

fossil lantern
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The Galactic one has to be a computer though lol

summer wolf
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yeah

fossil lantern
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although no idea how a computer has hunches but it's a minecraft arg

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everything is possible

summer wolf
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the ghost in the machine

fossil lantern
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spewky

winter zephyr
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scairy..

summer wolf
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I will work on the description

winter zephyr
fossil lantern
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lol

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also there's the whole deal with the "something", Def2ne seems pretty spooked by em

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I'll have analyze more though since we just discovered that like an hour ago

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oh

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oh

summer wolf
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you know what they say

fossil lantern
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OH

winter zephyr
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def1ne moment

fossil lantern
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here

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this is the text in the doc

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I have no clue what it is, so I just call it “Something”
Most of the time they just watch, but they do move
Sometimes they “speak”, but who knows what they’re saying
Seems to be multiple of them, each one makes different noises

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Does that confirm it?

summer wolf
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oooo

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ok this is reminding me of a creepypasta, one sec

fossil lantern
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dude this ARG is rad

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I gotta tell you this thing is top notch

summer wolf
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yeah ikr

summer wolf
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like a new iteration

fossil lantern
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I really like how the gamerunner noticed that the first audio code got obscured by the minecraft noises and in all subsequent ones he eq'd them to a whole different frequency range

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@twin wraith you're clever i like u

summer wolf
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wait, there was audio in the first one?

fossil lantern
summer wolf
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oh smokes

fossil lantern
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Not anything too weird though but i did go and double checked

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It's umm

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1:43

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One of the Somthings is actually visible when the audio plays

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In the sky

summer wolf
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wait that's actually neat

fossil lantern
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i tell you this guy is so clever

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It says cycle uncompromised

summer wolf
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ohh

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imagine when the cycle reset, the audio also changed

fossil lantern
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i have no idea but ye

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well that was a bigger loredump than i expected

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Imma go rest my brain

summer wolf
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cya

fossil lantern
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We're still missing that mediafire link though

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And i still haven't checked out the last video

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So i'll be back

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With more info

summer wolf
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outside of that, what haven't you gotten to yet?

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alr gotcha

fossil lantern
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UHHHH

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No no i think that's it

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Ummmmmmm

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Let me think though

summer wolf
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did you do the 2020 and the confrotation vid?

fossil lantern
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No not Confrontation

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2020 we just did it but i haven't put it on the script

summer wolf
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gotcha

fossil lantern
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Oh there are 2 things

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That bug me

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1

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I concluded that it's just a hash and works as a key for the cycle but still weird

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2

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The Cycle Origin book containing that 64-character string, was made by someone that we have never seen

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It's signed

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"WakingSleep"

summer wolf
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interesting

fossil lantern
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U can see it on Preparing for Recontact

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I think that's it, if anything else comes to mind i'll let you know. I don't think confrontation is this lore loaded though

summer wolf
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I'm gonna check the audio

fossil lantern
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@twin wraith pls come back we miss u

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thx

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The codes sound like chirpy noises

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Reeeeally high noises

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and the time he encoded a whole screenshot it sounded like a robot party

summer wolf
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There's two spots that look promising but low resolution

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0:53 to 1:14

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actually the whole thing is like this

fossil lantern
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@summer wolf how are them slides coming along

summer wolf
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oh I thought you said you already had the docs for it

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😂 uhhh

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I'll work on this later

fossil lantern
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HAHAHAH

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I mean i do i thought that was just a personal project

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No pressure lol

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My script is done but it won't be publicly available

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I just think some slides would be quite useful if something is discovered down the line, or for any newcomers

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Well, i checked confrontation

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And i noticed that you can hear his keys clacking this time, right at the start

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Which throws me for a loop since i was going with the theory that the cycles are virtual and Def1ne and CN are AIs or something

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It's mostly an exposition dump but

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Uh

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Apparently no codes here

fossil lantern
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oh also, before i forget, there's something weird about that video called recursion

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A recursion isn't a cycle

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It sounds like a cycle but it's like... like fractals. Or the Fibonacci sequence

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It's more complicated than a cycle

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It's sequencial

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And has a rule that applies to itself constantly. In the Fibonacci sequence you add the last 2 numbers together, that's recursion

winter zephyr
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def4rt

cold gust
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This can go on forever

gloomy kernel
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hello liminal

cold gust
cold gust
gloomy kernel
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you mean iv

cold gust
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No

gloomy kernel
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Yes

peak cipher
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You

upper stone
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So true

winter zephyr
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oh crap! some thing Hapaned

peak cipher
winter zephyr
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run!

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it sThe Kids show

fossil lantern
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:(

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i hope the mediafire thing isn't lost forever

cold gust
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so unless def1ne sees this and reuploads it, we won't be able to do anything for a while

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nvm I think it's like

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Mediafire links expire after 90 days if no one has downloaded them

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Because there's like 10+ year old mediafire links that still work

gloomy kernel
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and also the alphaver ones

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and my old ones

mystic sonnet
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The a1.1.1 Semi-Preview one still works

summer wolf
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Odd

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Define might have removed tyem

fossil lantern
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welp

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the link is gone

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:(

summer wolf
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🫡

fossil lantern
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i'll be back whenever Def1ne is back. My script is done, so for now ig we done

summer wolf
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By the name of the file. I'm going to assume it's the video file of the first video, but audio is corrected

fossil lantern
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Only thing i found in confrontation is that they somehow constructed the alternate dimension to be somthing-proof, so og CN and Def2ne had some serious power in the server lol

fossil lantern
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hadn't considered that

patent nacelle
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thi is cool

worthy wave
winter zephyr
worthy wave
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about what

summer wolf
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Why is bro speaking in gibberish?

patent nacelle
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it was backwards

fossil lantern
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what did i miss

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ohno

summer wolf
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Someone was trying to gamejack 😭

upper stone
crimson herald
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it might not've been intentionally just for Something Happened, but someone was doing backwards code stuff

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they were doing it in a couple of other arg channels iirc

winter zephyr
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oh crapo something hapened!

clever coral
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Actually, nothing happened

crimson herald
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That's probably true

gloomy kernel
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but something must've happened

mystic sonnet
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Nothing did.

brisk sage
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I don’t know, something could have happened

winter zephyr
fossil lantern
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YO

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there's the video i made

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uh

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use captions

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also it's a massive collab with a guy with 5.8M subscribers so expect a lot of traffic to the arg

summer wolf
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time to me the only english comment

fossil lantern
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yay

peak cipher
summer wolf
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Probably near 5% lol

peak cipher
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hola?

winter zephyr
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def4rt

brisk sage
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Nice

brisk sage
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I think your chance is finally here

patent nacelle
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hey maybe a new contet creator

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role

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cuoild be gven'

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to him

crimson herald
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I thought I was further behind on Def1ne lore but I guess not

twin wraith
worthy wave
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bro returned 💯

twin wraith
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lmao

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Just watched the whole thing too

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Also the theory at the end was something 🥁

ornate sentinel
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Time for me to make a whole google doc for this

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Callign it "Something? ARG" because I dont know any specific name for it anyway

summer wolf
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"Something Happened" ARG

ornate sentinel
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Okay that works better

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By thw way is it just me or is it liek some special moments get lower quality for some reaosn? or does my internet just suck

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because this doesnt seem 1080p to me

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ornate sentinel
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I made the horrible mistake of hitting jump to present because I thought I wouldnt miss much\

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now I realise I missed a lot

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btw ill sedn the link to the doc

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should work out correctly

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BTW I know that I will lose interest in this thats why I set everyone with the link to editor, just so that if/when im gone, you guys can keep it going without me :)

worthy wave
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Something's happening

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something def1netly is happening

twin wraith
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@fossil lantern Appreciate the video but now all of my comments are in Spanish smh

summer wolf
twin wraith
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YouTube also has one but yeah

fossil lantern
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well now we just gotta get @clever coral to cover it and you'll be arg famous

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THAT'S WHAT IT TOOK FOR YOU TO COME BACK

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i had to get a 5m youtuber on board too smh

brisk sage
karmic grotto
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they gonn act like they don't know nobody

winter zephyr
cold gust
gloomy kernel
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also don't really ping rgn

worthy wave
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lulyeah doesnt need to follow rules smh 🗣️🗣️😤

brisk sage
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Rgn should be the one not pinging HIM

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lmao

noble pumice
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we sorry but also

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welcome

tepid crow
upper stone
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Archived? How cringe

brisk sage
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Something happened

winter zephyr
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something didnt happened

brisk sage
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Something didn't didn't happen

rapid vine
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Retro if you're watching this def make a video on it

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looks awesome

brisk sage
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And a lot happened

upper stone
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a

crimson herald
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Something happened

upper stone
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🥳

twin wraith
upper stone
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🎉 🎉 🎉

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It's been 3 minutes and there's already commenters 💀

summer wolf
crimson herald
fossil lantern
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Well u should

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I'll make a part 2 when theres enough material

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cough cough maybe plan stuff to be wrapped up in like 15 minutes worth of video? cough cough

winter zephyr
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something did not happen

near pendant
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I know this. Maybe its a assets numbers. i think we need to combine them?

upper stone
upper stone
cold gust
twin wraith
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Maybe

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Something Happened: The Movie

cold gust
# twin wraith

As Walter white, I can confirm that I was the one who did this

twin wraith
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😮

ornate sentinel
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okay so now that "Warning" came in, we know that something happened

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Apparently two people are looking for strange things

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and a nice mosquity flies past your ear

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they eventually find...

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and TeamJava says "ABORT"

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they teleport to the hub,

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with a microsoft logo on the wall

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so presumably, Microsoft caught wind of strange happenings, and is tryna investigate?

upper stone
ornate sentinel
twin wraith
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Since it gets louder as they move closer to whatever that thing is

summer wolf
ornate sentinel
winter zephyr
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Sonenthing happenned

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i Lpve blockbuster mod for 1.12.2

upper stone
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💀

tepid crow
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the se is clear

winter zephyr
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finish the captcha

static sequoia
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1203925462180304 227 217323473 20551731568
thats the wacky sound im unable to decode

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How do you even do that, could you demonstrate?

upper stone
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uh I forgor

static sequoia
upper stone
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maybe idk

static sequoia
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but

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1203925462180304 227 217323473 20551731568
anybody find an answer for this?

static sequoia
static sequoia
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"interesting, should continue"

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@fossil lantern Whats the spectogram you use, its very clear cut

static sequoia
patent nacelle
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oooh did something happen in the something happen arg?

brisk sage
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nothing has happened

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nothing will ever happen

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ever agian

static sequoia
heady gazelle
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Is this real or an ARG?

summer wolf
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Webseries

brisk sage
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webcomic

fossil lantern
fossil lantern
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@twin wraith shold i cover that last video? Is there enough stuff to make a video on it?

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Y'know what i'll check it out for the heck of it

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But tbh i'll cover it in a video when there's a resolution at least lol

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If i was the gamerunner i'd get another 3-4 videos up and wrap it up heh

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Just sayin

cold gust
desert stirrup
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lol

static sequoia
lofty tangle
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NOISE AGAIN:

summer wolf
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you are 5 months late lol

brisk sage
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What is are cycles?

desert stirrup
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Cycles, the geometry dash level

brisk sage
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Interesting

desert stirrup
upper stone
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He's talking about the cycles mentioned here tho

desert stirrup
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awwsw....

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I haven't watched it yet

fossil lantern
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It's not clear. But given that there are previous versions of themain characters, probably some kind of simulation cycles. Or something like that.

winter zephyr
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decayed Reference.....

maiden stag
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Marking.

near pendant
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im waked

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I think i slept for a year

winter zephyr
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wish i could do that

raven pivot
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it came back

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! !

upper stone
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hee hee hee ha

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that was quick lmfao

upper stone
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Bro this guy is spamming my dms over this 😭

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I have no idea where they're from

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please send help

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it's cause they noticed my old username showed up in the hub video

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for like two seconds

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@summer wolf a

summer wolf
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Just block them

upper stone
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Fair

upper stone
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Moral support

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Or smth

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The line between truthseeker and delusional is a blurry one

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Clearly

summer wolf
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Call reedmou and do a fusion dance

summer wolf
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Oh he literally just joined

upper stone
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I invited him 💀

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Since he was asking so much about def1ne

upper stone
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We should 😁

summer wolf
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How did he figure out it was you

upper stone
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MinecraftMan_A is my old username

summer wolf
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That showed up in define?

upper stone
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Yeah

summer wolf
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So he found your mc user. How did he find your discord

upper stone
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It's the same 👽

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As my new one

summer wolf
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Lool

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Can you just remove the name

upper stone
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I could but it's part of my legacy smh

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And there's only like two people who have gotten to me from this anyway

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Other one being a vaguely content farm type channel who wanted to work with me

summer wolf
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Lmao

cold gust
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Every day we wonder. Did something REALLY happen?

upper stone
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Who knows

twin wraith
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Oh yeah by the way I'm still alive

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I think

twin wraith
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also just made my first community post, but wha

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twin wraith
cold gust
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did you black out

twin wraith
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Yeah I don't remember any of that

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Except for the one bit before I did that weird turn

lusty vine
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everyone asks what happened, but never how happened…😔😔🥺🥺😭😭hayato🥺

upper stone
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Damn

tepid crow
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pfft okay now thats funny

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twin wraith
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See I'm not dead after all

summer wolf
cold gust
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I like the calm lil soundtrack

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also the nod to the inspiration for that is pretty funny

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Anyway define. Now your challenge is for something to happen on this channel

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clever coral
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Happened

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Past tense

upper stone
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😱

velvet terrace
upper stone
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It's like one video

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Though since reedomu deleted all his mc music they could use it for that

summer wolf
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Reedmou forever on his hating arc

twin wraith
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Let's go?

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also people are apparantly making edits of me

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that's cool

tepid crow
cold gust
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I don't know why someone thought that they should make an mcarg edit but they've been around

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tbf there are literally people who make edits of random GTA game dialogue with no punchline or climax so

mystic sonnet
upper stone
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Something happened 😱😱😱

summer wolf
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Actually?

mystic sonnet
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the cake

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it wasn't a lie

tepid crow
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im glad something like this didn't happen

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how do you even come to this conclusion i have not been following def1ne for a while

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something like that would NEVER happen.

summer wolf
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Where did reedmou go?

crimson herald
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woah

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something happened in the big 26

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I should catch up on it one of these days

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bAhhFIUnbZI found a youtuber covering it

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Skrilley
The Minecraft Player Cloned in an Infinite Cycle

The Minecraft Player Cloned in an Infinite Cycle

I discovered a Minecraft channel of a player loading into a singleplayer survival world, not only to find out they are not alone, but they are being watching by an entity. To uncover the story, codes have to be deciphered. This is a Minecraft ARG.

Socials - https://x.com/NotSkrilley

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twin wraith
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Two degrees removed