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  • Undead ScottsmanUndead Scottsman Cybertronian Paranormal Eliminator Registered User regular
    edited March 2010
    I finally gave up and just looked up where the 26th transmission was, so achievement get!

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  • ImpersonatorImpersonator Registered User regular
    edited March 2010
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    Haha:

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    OK, full BBS streams:

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  • ThetherooThetheroo Registered User regular
    edited March 2010
    Hehehe, "Witchcraft will not be tolerated."

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  • GnomocideGnomocide Registered User regular
    edited March 2010
    Wow, the text from that BSS is hilarious!

    "I say, why not marry safe science if you love it so much. In fact, why not invent a special safety door that won't hit you in the butt on the way out, because you are fired."

    Mr. Johnson seems to be a delightful mixture of GLaDOS and Robin Walker.
    Panda4You wrote: »
    Dammit, when did this thread get resurrected? Pointer to page where this ARG shenanigan started in thread title ploz.

    I resurrected the thread, but didn't see that the OP was banned, and thus unable to update it. Luckily we're almost at 100 pages, so whoever wants to can just make a new and improved thread.

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  • Panda4YouPanda4You Registered User regular
    edited March 2010
    Gnomocide wrote: »
    Mr. Johnson seems to be a delightful mixture of GLaDOS and Robin Walker.
    I'd wager the text is all Glados. "She" is the only well-known entity in the game and the mood in the writing fits her very well.

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  • Jam WarriorJam Warrior Registered User regular
    edited March 2010
    Can someone copy/paste or link to a non eye straining version of the text in the above image?

    Much obliged.

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  • LewiePLewieP Registered User regular
    edited March 2010
    Have we considered that Chell might be an android?

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  • GnomocideGnomocide Registered User regular
    edited March 2010
    Panda4You wrote: »
    Gnomocide wrote: »
    Mr. Johnson seems to be a delightful mixture of GLaDOS and Robin Walker.
    I'd wager the text is all Glados. "She" is the only well-known entity in the game and the mood in the writing fits her very well.

    Well since it's "Filed under Cjohnson", and we know that he used to be the boss of Aperture Science, I think it's rather possible. That he would have influenced GLaDOS makes sense too.

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  • EdcrabEdcrab Actually a hack Registered User regular
    edited March 2010
    Stop that, Lewie!
    Can someone copy/paste or link to a non eye straining version of the text in the above image?

    Much obliged.

    http://forums.steampowered.com/forums/showthread.php?t=1170018 has a few of them collected.

    GLaDOS might have some lines in there but CJ definitely does too. Some of them match the dialogue from a script a while ago, back when Valve was seeking a voice actor for the part.

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  • Salvation122Salvation122 Registered User regular
    edited March 2010
    Bottom-leftmost image looks like a shot of the interior of the Citadel

    Top-rightmost looks like a view of the debris left over from GlaDOS's death, if I remember it correctly

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  • Undead ScottsmanUndead Scottsman Cybertronian Paranormal Eliminator Registered User regular
    edited March 2010
    LewieP wrote: »
    Have we considered that Chell might be an android?

    Stop trying to get a rise out of us. :P

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  • OrikaeshigitaeOrikaeshigitae Registered User, ClubPA regular
    edited March 2010
    Edcrab wrote: »
    Stop that, Lewie!
    Can someone copy/paste or link to a non eye straining version of the text in the above image?

    Much obliged.

    http://forums.steampowered.com/forums/showthread.php?t=1170018 has a few of them collected.

    GLaDOS might have some lines in there but CJ definitely does too. Some of them match the dialogue from a script a while ago, back when Valve was seeking a voice actor for the part.

    holy shit

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  • jonxpjonxp [E] PC Security Registered User regular
    edited March 2010
    LewieP wrote: »
    Have we considered that Chell might be an android?

    My uncle knows a guy who works with a guy who has a cleaning lady who cleans the houses for one of Gabe's neighbors, and he said Chelle was definitely an android.

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  • HeavyVillainHeavyVillain Registered User regular
    edited March 2010
    man where would we be without the internet working overtime t dismantle ARGs the moment they appear

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  • TK-42-1TK-42-1 Registered User regular
    edited March 2010
    probably being productive at our jobs instead of f5ing the shit out of everything

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  • WeX MajorsWeX Majors 8th Floor, MegashipRegistered User regular
    edited March 2010
    Out of all of the things that this ARG has managed to do (including get people to play a really awesome game again), my favorite is that we managed to take a thread from 2007, and move it into THE FUTURE!

    We're thinking with portals?

    Also, considering no one has mentioned anything about a cake, lies or science triumphing in almost two years...does this mean they're all retro-chic now?

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  • PeewiPeewi Registered User regular
    edited March 2010
    I've got the achievement, but all of this stuff is just too crazy for me. I'll just let others figure it out and read what they find.

    I'd like to point out that the sound the radios make when they go through the emancipation grid is kinda freaky.

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  • smofsmof [Growling historic on the fury road] Registered User regular
    edited March 2010
    I am totally confused.

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  • Quaz and WallyQuaz and Wally Registered User regular
    edited March 2010
    Someone just spoon feed me the answer.

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  • Flippy_DFlippy_D Digital Conquistador LondonRegistered User regular
    edited March 2010
    Keeping tabs on dis.

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  • ImpersonatorImpersonator Registered User regular
    edited March 2010
  • Quaz and WallyQuaz and Wally Registered User regular
    edited March 2010
    Nice summary. Thank you!

    All I had to do was ask.

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  • Jam WarriorJam Warrior Registered User regular
    edited March 2010
    Two thumbs up! I was waiting for a nice summary page to be put together.

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  • Quaz and WallyQuaz and Wally Registered User regular
    edited March 2010
    Every Goddamn time I'm about to start playing a non-Valve game, Valve pulls this kind of shit.

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  • Flippy_DFlippy_D Digital Conquistador LondonRegistered User regular
    edited March 2010
    Hey uh guys.

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    That image on the left... isn't that Kleiner's lab?

    4:30 ish.

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    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9aQ1RxCaM7Q

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  • GumpyGumpy There is always a greater powerRegistered User regular
    edited March 2010
    Not really seeing the resemblance :/

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  • LockeColeLockeCole Registered User regular
    edited March 2010
  • AneurhythmiaAneurhythmia Registered User regular
    edited March 2010
    Gnomocide wrote: »
    Panda4You wrote: »
    Gnomocide wrote: »
    Mr. Johnson seems to be a delightful mixture of GLaDOS and Robin Walker.
    I'd wager the text is all Glados. "She" is the only well-known entity in the game and the mood in the writing fits her very well.

    Well since it's "Filed under Cjohnson", and we know that he used to be the boss of Aperture Science, I think it's rather possible. That he would have influenced GLaDOS makes sense too.

    So, he's super crazy, and the GLaDOS AI was super crazy. It could be his direct influence on the development of the AI that leads to it going crazy. Or it could be an issue inherent to AIs, and when he overlayed his consciousness on their AI construct, it was bound to go crazy too. Maybe his AI supplanted the actual person a lot earlier than was known, leading to his crazy reputation.

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  • agoajagoaj Top Tier One FearRegistered User regular
    edited March 2010
    He's the guy that went from selling shower curtains to portal technology.
    He started pretty crazy.

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  • KazhiimKazhiim __BANNED USERS regular
    edited March 2010
    maybe you go crazy when you're trapped in an deserted underground facility for decades while the outside world goes to shit with an alien invasion

    artificial or real intelligence regardless

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  • IcemopperIcemopper Registered User regular
    edited March 2010
    Man, Valve is the best company.

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  • Flippy_DFlippy_D Digital Conquistador LondonRegistered User regular
    edited March 2010
    agoaj wrote: »
    He's the guy that went from selling shower curtains to portal technology.
    He started pretty crazy.

    I like what you've done with your avatar avatar avatar.

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  • mspencermspencer PAX [ENFORCER] Council Bluffs, IARegistered User regular
    edited March 2010
    I have school work I should be working on, but: are we convinced those slow scan tv images have extracted all of the information content available from those images? There's contiguous blocks of what looks like static in there. Either that really is static, or it's a different signal which should be read with a different method.

    Damnit.

    Please tell me other actual ham radio operators have looked at those signals and concluded there's nothing more to see. Or do I need to go look? X__X

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  • GnomocideGnomocide Registered User regular
    edited March 2010
    You need to go look. Somebody at something awful also mentioned the images possibly containing more data...

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  • Quaz and WallyQuaz and Wally Registered User regular
    edited March 2010
    If you print the images, trim them down to the static, and scan them into a Gameboy Advanced with an E-Reader, GLaDOS will appear on the screen and berate you.

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  • AneurhythmiaAneurhythmia Registered User regular
    edited March 2010
    mspencer wrote: »
    I have school work I should be working on, but: are we convinced those slow scan tv images have extracted all of the information content available from those images? There's contiguous blocks of what looks like static in there. Either that really is static, or it's a different signal which should be read with a different method.

    Damnit.

    Please tell me other actual ham radio operators have looked at those signals and concluded there's nothing more to see. Or do I need to go look? X__X

    There are versions of the pictures that are further cleaned up than the ones that have been posted in here. I think all of the signal noise was the sound data, but I don't remember what all was being discussed in different places last night.
    agoaj wrote: »
    He's the guy that went from selling shower curtains to portal technology.
    He started pretty crazy.

    Or he's an entrepreneur.

    An entrepreneur that lucked out when aliens started messing with out military industrial science programs.

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  • AneurhythmiaAneurhythmia Registered User regular
    edited March 2010
    And then the aliens drove him crazy.

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  • mspencermspencer PAX [ENFORCER] Council Bluffs, IARegistered User regular
    edited March 2010
    If you print the images, trim them down to the static, and scan them into a Gameboy Advanced with an E-Reader, GLaDOS will appear on the screen and berate you.
    I was talking about more like cut that part of the audio out, feed it into a PSK31 decoder, get a stream of packets out, recognize the packets are all GPRS position reports with date stamps well in the future, plot them all on Google Maps, and the lines between sequential updates look like a picture of GLaDOS, who then tells me I'm an idiot.

    Or something.

    OK yeah I'll go look.

    Actually I'll go look later. I really need to get these prolog programs done.

    Edit: actually maybe someday in the future I should help someone with one of these ARG's. Imagine what the internets would be saying if someone did that APRS trick, but made it so the GPRS track looked like a portal symbol centered over Washington DC or something. (Wait, what have I done? No, internet, nobody actually found anything about Washington DC. This was just a stupid idea of mine.)

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  • Fatty McBeardoFatty McBeardo Registered User regular
    edited March 2010
    The amount of radness of this portal stuff is reaching DANGEROUS LEVELS

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