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Snowy posted:Somebody dug something?!? I dig all the time. Mostly I find rocks and bones though. I went to Nola a couple weeks back to dig for some dude on the Q4T boards. Contrary o popular belief, some of us actually dig.
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burnstyle posted:I dig all the time. Human bones?
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BigBadSteve posted:Human bones? wrist bones.
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# ? Mar 9, 2018 19:48 |
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burnstyle posted:wrist bones. I like your podcast. it's good! keep making them!
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# ? Mar 9, 2018 20:55 |
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Urban Smurf posted:What if Byron Preiss buried beer? Please bury these at all the suspected cask locations.
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# ? Mar 9, 2018 21:24 |
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burnstyle posted:I dig all the time. Post some pics here?
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# ? Mar 9, 2018 21:45 |
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I'm disappointed that many of urban smurf's images are no longer available.
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# ? Mar 10, 2018 07:57 |
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Corky Romanovsky posted:I'm disappointed that many of urban smurf's images are no longer available. I didnt realize so many links were broken. I had everything in one big folder and decided to move pics to 12 seperate folders to be more organized. I'm not too attached to many old ideas, so most pics were obsolete anyhow. PM me if you have a specific link you're trying to find and I'll dig it up for you.
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# ? Mar 10, 2018 16:55 |
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burnstyle posted:
This was under-the-radar, but baller as poo poo: New Guy: I have a solve, but New Orleans says I'll get fined if I dig. Burnstyle: Pm'ing you. [2 days pass] New Guy: Okay, there was nothing there.
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# ? Mar 20, 2018 21:40 |
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Image 11, Verse 3 - Xie's TheoryPiggy Smalls posted:I’m all ears errrr eyes. Please post it. Viruswithshoes posted:Stop teasing and post it then!! We're pushing nearly 3 and a half years since the below information came into my possession and attempts to reach out to him on the matter have failed, so I feel I can post Xie's Boston theory with a clear conscience. There are some other folks along the way who have shared theories with me in confidence, and I would hope they can still feel comfortable doing that. I don't personally roll that way. All of my theories are out in the open for anyone who wants to look/ask. I am very into the spirit of cooperation on this, but I also respect (reluctantly) those who want to keep their information secret. I suppose that was the only reason I took some time to think about posting this. Let's get to Xie. His opening remark below about the Boston University castle has to do with my idea about the BU castle being featured on the box in Image 11. I'd be happy to discuss that again (I believe I have posts in this thread with most of the details on that). I think it is compelling as a location both for the content of the image as well as the information in the verse, but Image 11 isn't one I have spent the lions share of my time on. But this post isn't about me. I give to you, Xie's Boston solve (all of the links work): xie's Boston Theory posted:Nov 24, 2014 9:17 PM: Good luck! E: Is QFT down? Merlot Brougham fucked around with this message at 00:20 on Mar 21, 2018 |
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Merlot Brougham posted:Image 11, Verse 3 - Xie's Theory Woah he told me a totally different one involving a lamppost by the hatch shell. Either he was loving with me or changed the theory. asecondduck fucked around with this message at 13:27 on Mar 21, 2018 |
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lelandjs posted:Woah he told me a totally different one involving a lamppost by the hatch shell. Either he was loving with me or changed the theory. Weird. I got the first one. Also There's stuff happening in the Milawukee search https://www.flickr.com/photos/kkep/sets/72157691464823792 FACT: Someone found a killer lead in the final dig spot for Milwaukee, "first young birch" : In the Robert Frost short poem "Young Birch" there is a reference to it being *first* as small is a cane. There is a pipe by the "millstone" that kinda maybe looks like a cane FACT: There is a pretty big hole dug there FACT: People have been checking it out and finding pretty deec clay and plexiglass fragments from the hole FACT: The people who originally dug the hole left a drat mess. Didn't fill in the hole, left a buncha crap. So, there is a chance someone found out a decent solution for the puzzle, dug, found nothing, threw in some shards of porcelain and plexiglass, and are trolling. There's also a chance the puzzle may have been solved. Hard to tell because :911was a conspiracy: the q4t forums, the main place to talk about this, went down yesterday. It was 1996 tech, so, I dunno... hack? Solution overloaded the server (=31 people)? Make your own choices based on your own interpretations. I tend to lean towards the comedy option. It was a decent enough solve imo Posts from people who came across the site afterward: https://www.flickr.com/photos/kkep/40169911404/in/album-72157691464823792/ https://www.flickr.com/photos/156106511@N04/sets/72157694643003285/ Here's one I don't get at all, even more than these other pieces I don't get at all (all the other pieces) https://www.flickr.com/photos/kkep/39931820665/in/album-72157691464823792/
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They either found or placed a broken gravy boat and some garbage. You can see the top of the filigree to the right of the bird on some of the larger shots of the 'scorched' pieces (sorry, no comparison due to phoneposting), as well as the remnants of the handle base. Pissed Ape Sexist fucked around with this message at 05:21 on Mar 22, 2018 |
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It's not a casque. All of them are identical and that isn't even close.
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# ? Mar 22, 2018 11:32 |
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Re: Xie's Boston theory. That's one of the better theories despite some points which need to be verified for being "spot on" matches. He selects many suitable objects to develop the breadcrumb layer, but fails to explain the dig spot in a way that is most convincing. I think it's worth looking into as it has potential.
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# ? Mar 22, 2018 12:32 |
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That theory is more coherent than anything you have ever posted, and the only throughline is that it's equally unprovable. You are an utterly self-absorbed weenie
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# ? Mar 22, 2018 12:59 |
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I agree that it's coherent and better, much more than anything I've shared. Xie had good points. Recommending a closer look at his identifiers to evaluate the prospects. How thick is your skull, my weenie wants to know? E: thanks Merlot for sharing Xie's theory. Normally I'd be against sharing something outside of confidence. Maybe it's for the best, in the spirit of progress and all, that Xie's work and his wrist be freed by a "statute of limitation" after he went silent for more than 2 years. Urban Smurf fucked around with this message at 13:54 on Mar 22, 2018 |
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Pissed Ape Sexist posted:They either found or placed a broken gravy boat and some garbage. You can see the top of the filigree to the right of the bird on some of the larger shots of the 'scorched' pieces (sorry, no comparison due to phoneposting), as well as the remnants of the handle base. Good find. Thanks
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# ? Mar 22, 2018 14:09 |
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So for those keeping score, this is officially awesome: - Someone most likely planned a hoax: Dug a hole, got pictures of porcelain and plexiglass - They posted their flickr account with the pics, because they are idiots - Turns out they didn't clean up their hole and left a lot of litter, which is a fineable offense. MKE kinda hates people doing this, so there's a good chance they'll find them - Great prank, bro, here's a fine!
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Pissed Ape Sexist posted:That theory is more coherent than anything you have ever posted, and the only throughline is that it's equally unprovable. You are an utterly self-absorbed weenie That’s rude.
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Drunk Nerds posted:Weird. I got the first one. Do these people have morgellons because those photos have the same exact quality of crazy
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BigFactory posted:That’s rude. I'm a real gruff honcho and my leather jacket has a toothpick sticking out of its mouth Urban Smurf posted:How thick is your skull, my weenie wants to know? First off, your weird burn sucks. Second off, the issue isn't that you incessantly jerk off to the smell of your own farts-- after all, this thread is here for everyone to do just that. No problem. The issue is that when you're not generally chatting or posting lorem ipsum-rear end solves, you flip a switch and become Lord Dad of Next Steps, Addressor of Nobody in Particular who deigns to choose methods of completion regardless of the solve or city. Every single time for --years-- you have to chime in with exactly what folks should do next in order to solve these unsolvable (come on, let's be honest) puzzles, and it's as tiresome as it is seemingly inevitable. Reading even remotely realistic imaginative solves and listening to grassroots puzzle podcasts is the fun part of this fun thread! What's not fun is watching you catalog your judgements and recommended next steps for each iteration of each solve in each city for other people, and all with a tone that suggests you're waiting for the swine to take up the pearls before them. You are obviously a sharp, focused guy (100% sarcasm-free) but I don't know if you always come off the way you might intend. People working through the huge backlog of dumb poo poo themselves and then watching others do the same is the cool part, you know? All I'm saying is just let stuff breeeeeathe. Maybe I'm parsing things wrong and I'm genuinely sorry if that's the case, but I love and am defensive of this gay elderly thread. In fairness, I second the shout-out to Merlot Brougham for posting the Xie solve! The last four shortened GMaps URLs are 404s, but it may have been a Xie error or link rot or something(?)...
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Pissed Ape Sexist posted:I'm a real gruff honcho and my leather jacket has a toothpick sticking out of its mouth Super funny and clever .... and random! Hahaha so many lols.
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Crusty Nutsack posted:Do these people have morgellons because those photos have the same exact quality of crazy Yes! It really sucks that the Q4T forums might be down forever. Not only is there a lot of history, there, but it was a AAA place for mental illness tourism
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BigFactory posted:Super funny and clever .... and random! Hahaha so many lols. I was hoping for just a sarcastic 'dah-ha, dah-ha' frankly. Can you hook me up
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Drunk Nerds posted:Yes! It really sucks that the Q4T forums might be down forever. Not only is there a lot of history, there, but it was a AAA place for mental illness tourism Mark (the admin) didn't know it was Down. He's working on it.
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burnstyle posted:Mark (the admin) didn't know it was Down. He's working on it. That's great to hear, thanks! Think one of those more mentally ill posters hacked it?
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# ? Mar 23, 2018 20:15 |
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Server error. The hard drives failed. It's being restored
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# ? Mar 24, 2018 03:21 |
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burnstyle posted:I dig all the time. Whoa... maybe Cask= Casket?
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# ? Mar 31, 2018 00:49 |
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Just checking in: Q4T board is a cesspool, with most people there just stuck in their "omigosh this is the right solve and you are dumb for not getting it first therefore you are too dumb to criticize." It's a great place for getting extremely well-diagrammed insights into how a mentally ill mind works, but I fear it is not going to be a place for groundbreaking research for at least a few months. Several veterans and cool new people I talk to privately have said they are staying away until the crazy dies down. Travel channel is going to re-air the special, so get ready for an aftershock of short-sightedness infiltrating those forums. It's a unique sight I've not experienced since the heyday of e/n
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Apparently Josh Cornell posted an obscenity ridden meltdown on the SF facebook thread, which someone who might be slightly too obsessed with him (not me) clocked as 125 fb posts in one hour. If I had decent journalism skills I would have quietly capped it for here. Instead, I'm not even sure how to find the SF facebook thread. So there's plenty of people to laugh at, here.
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lelandjs posted:Woah he told me a totally different one involving a lamppost by the hatch shell. Either he was loving with me or changed the theory. Xie definitely changed his theory several times. One spot, unless I've confused it with QFT theories, was close to the fens, near the Storrow Drive turnoff overpass where it goes over Comm Ave. The others were all along the Esplanade, including the Hatch shell and (again, maybe a QFT thing) the round Charles River monument near one of the docks. The spot between the Longfellow bridge and the ballfields was the last one he talked about before going completely silent. I've been down to that spot and it's pretty unassuming and wouldn't have looked any more impressive back in the 80s, so I dunno. I think Xie realized that he liked theorizing more than he liked the thought of organizing and actually digging, but to be fair trying to get any kind of go-ahead from the MDC to mess up their parkland is probably demoralizing and discouraging.
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# ? Apr 11, 2018 09:44 |
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So does anyone want to talk about whatever-the-gently caress is the newest Secret podcast episode?
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# ? May 10, 2018 16:32 |
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Urban Smurf posted:I didnt realize so many links were broken. I had everything in one big folder and decided to move pics to 12 seperate folders to be more organized. I'm not too attached to many old ideas, so most pics were obsolete anyhow. PM me if you have a specific link you're trying to find and I'll dig it up for you.
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DeNofa posted:So does anyone want to talk about whatever-the-gently caress is the newest Secret podcast episode? We are giving away a first printing of the book. I was going to just give it away randomly, but the Facebook group wanted to do a mini puzzle with the winner getting the book. The puzzle sort of took on a life of its own.
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burnstyle posted:We are giving away a first printing of the book. Here's a suggestion for marketing the book. With each book include a miniature plastic treasure box with little plastic treasures in it, and a plastic hand shovel, so the buyer can bury the treasure box in their yard or a public place, and dig it up later. FREE TREASURE BOX WITH EVERY BOOK!! COLLECT THE WHOLE SET!!!
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BigBadSteve posted:Here's a suggestion for marketing the book. Nope. No can do. Too much legal fees as owners of the book break their wrists as they attempt to dig up the plastic boxes.
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burnstyle posted:We are giving away a first printing of the book.
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# ? May 14, 2018 23:06 |
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The good: Two prominent searchers held a puzzle contest to give away an original copy. The bad: After 5 cities were solved, the puzzlers shut down the hunt because... reasons. They gave away the prize, but one was getting blown up with texts all night and the other... didn't like how we were diligently following his rules, I still don't get it The funly: I'm running a puzzle treasure hunt based on the remaining 7 cities. It starts tomorrow at 7 PM PST, with prizes, and you don't have to be there live to play (it's a premade hunt so just check it out at your leisure.) Rules, here: http://mildville.proboards.com/thread/480/rules-secret-treasure-hunt Drunk Nerds fucked around with this message at 01:35 on May 28, 2018 |
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so I've been in this thread off an on for the last couple years. Has any more significant progress been made?
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