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Turns out the people who know a ton about cryptography and love solving bullshit puzzles aren’t necessarily politically motivated. Once the thrill and mystery is gone, they lose interest.
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Hrist posted:And the original intention was some sort of political movement. But it turned out everyone recruited was very disinterested and lazy. Ah, anarchists 
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CaptainViolence posted:you can't actually revive aeris but it turns out you don't need to because there are two aeres, one taller than the other. unfortunately it's virtually impossible to tell the difference unless they are standing next to han solo  I dunno, she's pretty big. 
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Hrist posted:I saw something earlier in the year about how 1 or 2 people have come forward about passing whatever was going on. And basically it just gets you invited you to an irc (or something to the same effect or a hidden forum, I forget). And the original intention was some sort of political movement. But it turned out everyone recruited was very disinterested and lazy. Around 20 members were there when the person that explained it showed up. So nothing really ever got done. Reminds me of the weird Chinese panopticon themed ARG that posted on SA a few years back. Goons solved the first round because "holy poo poo someone posting an ARG in 2018(?)", then a year or so later when the ARG dude came back nobody could be hosed because it wasn't novel anymore. Eventually the poster got banned on a few accounts (mostly for making GBS threads up the simpsons memes thread, which they apparently loved), tried to get reddit interested, and never gained any traction.
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Zamujasa posted:
Thats bigger aeris
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Pretzel Rod Stewart posted:Ah, anarchists It might as well have been. I forget the point they had. But it was something along the lines of, "We don't like [thing] about [branch of government], so we need people with very specific high computer and programing literacy to help us change it over very many years." And then the people who looked up that thousand year old book with only one copy lef t in tact known to man, so they could read the word in page 69 paragraph 3 logged into the cicada super forum and said, "What?" and just didn't do anything.
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Hrist posted:I saw something earlier in the year about how 1 or 2 people have come forward about passing whatever was going on. And basically it just gets you invited you to an irc (or something to the same effect or a hidden forum, I forget). And the original intention was some sort of political movement. But it turned out everyone recruited was very disinterested and lazy. Around 20 members were there when the person that explained it showed up. So nothing really ever got done. Huh, in my hours of deep dive I didn't know there was a in-person meet up. Best I could gather from what I could find - if you've ever seen the Aronofsky movie Pi, it's about a mathematician who discovers the magical equation to predict the stock market perfectly. Hasidic Jews chase after him because they believe he had in fact found the secret number of God. Eht Nahum is nearly 10,000 webpages of a guy believing he's also found the secret number of God, except that number happens to be just 9.
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I also found 9
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Cubone posted:I also found 9 9 can't be the number of god. Everyone knows, 7 8 9.
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For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Nine, that whosoever believeth in Him should not perish, but have everlasting numbers.
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Now, when we read the evocation at 3:00 on the 9th of September, is "AZAZAZISISISIS" spoken as individual letters or as, like, a spaceship sound? e: evokation? looking through this stuff really does result in a weird kinda feeling. burial fucked around with this message at 03:49 on Sep 1, 2023 |
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Incorrect Username posted:
I fuckin' love this theory.
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Skeletome posted:There's actually two 'secrets' like this, but they mostly feel like little worldbuilding easter eggs. Within Pyramid Hill there's a maze made of shipping containers that works like the Lost Woods in Zelda. One of the rooms has a hole you can go down to find an old, traditional Amsterdam building and the only tree in the game. There is actually even deeper lore here. Originally the game was going to be like Jet Set Radio mixed with Zelda. Some of these places, like the Lost Woods maze you explore are actually early concepts of the gameplay and spaces.
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Sillybones posted:There is actually even deeper lore here. Originally the game was going to be like Jet Set Radio mixed with Zelda. Some of these places, like the Lost Woods maze you explore are actually early concepts of the gameplay and spaces. Oh wow! I didn't know that. Do you have any links at all for further reading?
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I am afraid this is source: trust me bro.
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Sep 7, 2023 03:24
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I hugely enjoyed this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1xhhql_gpDY
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Oct 7, 2023 22:44
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Yeah that just owned. Great storytelling and the theming was great, the whole thing seemed like it was made with a lot of heart to it. Edit: I do recommend watching the explanation companion video if you have the time, it makes it really clear how this video is seriously all heart. 
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hazel makes real cool stuff
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If you liked that (or you have an affinity for old Pokémon glitches, which I assume is most of you) you should definitely check out this video, which Hazel mentions as an inspiration for hers and is laser-pointed directly at people who spent at least some of their childhood on jank Angelfire sites trying to find MewThree and Pikablu. https://youtu.be/a9M5X7Vyj78?si=1GiJwwXbIYSaokdQ
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Anyone playing Shipwrecked 64? It's a game done by an 18 yo furry who seems to have grown up playing FNAF and its fangames, and looks like it's heavily inspired by Catastrophe Crow https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eP-c_0RWqxo
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I’m sure you meant it from a place of novelty and not malice, but why I gotta know guy’s age and hobbies?
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p much every piece of software was built on the backs of furries.
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zimbomonkey posted:p much every piece of software was built on the backs of furries. ultima? dr. cat doom? john romero
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The Saddest Rhino posted:Anyone playing Shipwrecked 64? It's a game done by an 18 yo furry who seems to have grown up playing FNAF and its fangames, and looks like it's heavily inspired by Catastrophe Crow I hadn't heard of this before you posted so I took a chance and bought it. I've only played a very small amount so far, but it's interesting. It's going hard on trying to be a very off, strange N64 game, and succeeding very well. I can't tell if it's on purpose and it's really well designed or if it's not on purpose and it's actually bad. Like, you don't get any kind of menu. You walk the character around a little house going into doors for New Game and Settings and Quit to Menu. Quit to Menu goes back to a menu where you can't do anything but press A to start. There are three settings, CRT filter on/of, analog stick camera or not, and some kind of online function. Is this because the dev can't make more options or because it's aping N64 games? Does this 18 year old really understand what N64 games were like and why? I'm not sure yet. It's interesting enough that I want to keep playing and find out. Maybe the stuff I find fascinating I only do because I'm old. Maybe a couple hours in the intended reveal will appear and it'll just be "You were the cartoon beaver that killed your wife all along!".
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Lol I didn't know mentioning the dev may be a furry (who goes by the name "squeaks d ' corgeh") is a divisive thing but I will chalk that as my fault. I mainly note the age because it appears the game is done by someone who may or may not have grown up with some nostalgia for the Nintendo 64 games or aping their style based on fan games, and the fnaf thing because the mascot horror chase element of fnaf is a huge factor once you reached the "actual" game. I've reached a couple of layers and personally I'm not a fan of the heavy reliance on number pad codes and playing on the deck makes the browser popup gimmick less intuitive but I'm interested to hear what others get from their experience
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The Saddest Rhino posted:Lol I didn't know mentioning the dev may be a furry (who goes by the name "squeaks d ' corgeh") is a divisive thing It's not. People are telling on themselves.
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I’m saying it’s not important enough to mention in the first place and I was worried that it was leaning toward a LOOK AT THIS FREAK kinda thing. But I’ll drop it.
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i just wanted to make a joke about john romero's infamously luxurious mane
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Arivia posted:i just wanted to make a joke about john romero's infamously luxurious mane I appreciated it.
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And Dr. Cat does rule. “Yeah we’re gonna put my fursona on the opening screens of ultima 7. Who’s gonna stop me? Garriot?”
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having weird sex is fine, wearing costumes in public outside of a convention is not
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Cosmik Debris posted:having weird sex is fine, wearing costumes in public outside of a convention is not who gives a poo poo
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Yeah I really don't know why I'd give a poo poo. We let dumb assholes dressed like cowboys out in public.
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The difference between a furry and a guy who painted himself blue to go to a football game is that the furry is my IT admin
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The blue guy is in management.
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Cosmik Debris posted:having weird sex is fine, wearing costumes in public outside of a convention is not What is clothing, if not socially-acceptable costume?
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Arivia posted:ultima? dr. cat This is one of those interesting quirks of language where "furry" can mean two distinct things. Dr. Cat is an aficionado of anthropomorphic art. John Romero is someone's fursona.
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Zamujasa posted:who gives a poo poo Stop involving other people in your kinks
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The Saddest Rhino posted:I mainly note the age because it appears the game is done by someone who may or may not have grown up with some nostalgia for the Nintendo 64 games or aping their style based on fan games ???? My man, the N64 came out almost three decades ago, if the dude is 18 like you said he was born around the time the Wii came out, and probably played most of his games on the Wii U Feel free to have your arthritis set in right about now
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just wanna say that I only played the Ultima that was available on the Game Boy, and IIRC, it featured Dr. Cat as an NPC. The game has a real homemade feel to it. With the Game Boy, you could often tell the games that were made by serious professional houses in Japan, and those that were programmed with considerably less finesse in the US. The dungeons in Ultima: The Runes of Virtue sometimes have these set pieces that, even to the 13-year old me, felt like they were rooms where they were testing out game mechanics, and left them in there as fun little toys or just low-effort content. There's this teleporter-conveyer maze room where you pop all over the place and have to figure out which path is going to get you out. There's another room where you throw several levers to spawn monsters that, instead of fighting you, they fight each other in an arena. In the latter, an NPC mouse named Sherrie In one area, I think you can find Dr. Cat hiding somewhere, and he congratulates you on finding him and gives you an address where you can send a SASE and he'll send you back an origami dragon. All of the above are memories of mine and may not be completely correct.
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