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Topic: Animism Part Deux
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thebruce
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Unfortunately I won't be attending fanexpo this year. No media pass, time, or funds... 
 Posted: Fri Aug 26, 2011 9:35 am
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Topic: [TRAILHEAD] Exoplanetary Research Institute (XRI)
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thebruce
Replies: 13
Views: 7300
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New launch, teased at ARGFest this year... I'm watching this one - I love sci-fi
Visit http://Exoresearch.com - I haven't dug in enough to see if there are any outstanding items to lead further,...
 Posted: Fri Aug 26, 2011 9:28 am
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Topic: [META] In the News
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thebruce
Replies: 4
Views: 2502
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Links to articles and coverage of the campaign Forum: Archive » Archive: General » ARG: Test Subjects Needed
This campaign's getting some attention. Seeing as we don't yet have a meta thread for linking to news articles and whatnot, I thought there should be one...
To start it off, I just came across this...
 Posted: Thu Aug 25, 2011 8:50 am
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Topic: [TRAILHEAD] The Darkest Puzzle
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thebruce
Replies: 213
Views: 47506
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My worry is the implication that we don't know what's real and what's not in anything that we uncover related to this 'game'. Being tied to real events this can very easily turn into false conspiracie...
 Posted: Thu Aug 25, 2011 12:19 am
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Topic: [TRAILHEAD] The Darkest Puzzle
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thebruce
Replies: 213
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Ok, after fixing the floppy disk sectors, I managed to retrieve 5 files without error, one with a bit of an error, and another virtually unreadable
see attached.
I hope the PMs can offer an a...
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Base of the image is corrupted |
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Entire image data corrupted |
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 Posted: Wed Aug 24, 2011 12:46 pm
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Topic: [TRAILHEAD] The Darkest Puzzle
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thebruce
Replies: 213
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Yes Genevieve is a transmedia/arg person, just one of the initial launch pkg recipients like me. Would be good to find out the contents of her disc though.
Additionally, yeah my pkg had the email and...
 Posted: Wed Aug 24, 2011 10:04 am
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Topic: [TRAILHEAD] The Darkest Puzzle
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thebruce
Replies: 213
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I also received my clue package last week, and only just got to trying to read the floppy disc. Holycrap it's hard to find a machine with a working floppy  All our office computers were just upgrade...
 Posted: Wed Aug 24, 2011 1:56 am
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Topic: [TRAILHEAD] Verus Investigations
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thebruce
Replies: 136
Views: 16431
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Also note the facebook page
https://www.facebook.com/pages/Verus-Investigations/140799709339528
eta: well, I went with 'Info'... let's see what info they send to prospective..contacts
 Posted: Tue Aug 23, 2011 3:24 pm
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Topic: Lava Puzzle
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thebruce
Replies: 32
Views: 6768
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| Beezlbub wrote: |
| lol thnx, im stuck on 40 -.-" |
soooo many people are! 
 Posted: Mon Aug 15, 2011 10:01 pm
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Topic: [PUZZLE|SOLVED] QR Puzzle
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thebruce
Replies: 234
Views: 32152
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Ok people, this QR has been solved, as has the puzzle this led to. We're now waiting on a countdown for the next location event (see...
 Posted: Wed Aug 10, 2011 10:26 am
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Topic: Summary of events
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thebruce
Replies: 33
Views: 22918
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Probably the reason we didn't solve it first. This is why I hate FB wall flooding.  |
This is why you come to chat 
 Posted: Wed Aug 10, 2011 9:48 am
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Topic: Summary of events
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thebruce
Replies: 33
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| A SomethingAwful member solved it using the file names we all thought were Morse code. |
We didn't all think they were morse code ;P
But it was certainly the loudest theory!
 Posted: Tue Aug 09, 2011 10:20 pm
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Topic: Image obfuscation (encryption method)
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thebruce
Replies: 3
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Aye, I've made a 4 channel puzzle before =) with 8bit RGBA, technically you have 8 bits per channel per pixel for the dimensions of the image. That's 32 bit planes of data. That's potentially an enorm...
 Posted: Mon Aug 08, 2011 6:26 pm
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Topic: Image obfuscation (encryption method)
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thebruce
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I like the latter extended version... altering the LSB (least significant bit) of each pixel in an image is a common (& simple) steganography process... but having the key image provide the bits in ea...
 Posted: Mon Aug 08, 2011 9:58 am
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Topic: Summary of events
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thebruce
Replies: 33
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| socalsteve wrote: |
| they rejected my picture because "it wasn't serious" |
Mine is smolderingly [url=http://s3.amazonaws.com/badges.prod.survivalcode.com/4d6b226b-1f4a-4634-8226-c11cfb024b28/pr...
 Posted: Mon Aug 08, 2011 9:43 am
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