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(Trailhead?) "@TutorialHacks" new ARG or just weird novelty?
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haydencct
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Tutorialhacks & 2074_073C: The Megathread
A thread dedicated to the current ARG surrounding Twitter user @Tutorialhacks.

THE ARG THUS FAR

We begin with a person named @tutorialhacks, who posts odd, vapid tutorial/lifehack tweets, many of them being horribly obvious, such as telling his followers to press the tweet button to tweet, and that eating helps you survive. On June 11, he began putting odd tags in his tweets, such as #HELPME and #helpmeplz. At this point, it becomes obvious he is not alright, and his tweets are probably being monitored if he needs to hide his pleads for help. His tweets progressively get more odd, as he begins to post binary, and his calls for help intensify. It is also noticed he is following an account called 2074_073C (i call him 2074 for short). It posts a lot more cryptic tweets then tutorialhacks, and claims to be an A.I, and somehow associated with NASA. Currently, we are hard at work trying to uncover the mysteries of this young ARG. If you find anything, feel free to discuss below!

-Hayden

PostPosted: Sun Aug 28, 2016 10:35 pm
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Zobot257
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So we MIGHT have our first in-game website. Assuming this is an ARG, which it's looking increasingly like. I had a conversation with our friendly lifehacker, and he gave me a link to a website, and... well, I'll let the conversation speak for itself.

Quote:
Zobot257: Are you gonna get a website to show off your awesome life hacks on soon?

tutorialhacks:D: Yes I will!! I also found a website about me as well! But I didn't make it...

Zobot257: A website about you? Could you share that website to me? I'm actually pretty curious. Like a silly cat! :3

tutorialhacks:D: XD silly goose. Gooses are white. I will try and look for the link!! #website #silly #XD

tutorialhacks:D: https://weirdinternetusers.wordpress.com
27m 27 minutes ago

Zobot257: Sure! I can be a silly goose if you want me to be. Quack! Smile Thank you for the link!

tutorialhacks:D: Of course! #sillygoose #blessed


That being said, the website itself is pretty threadbare. The only article I could view is about this individual, and the person on the website seems as confused as we are. It COULD be an in-game website, or it could be just the PM trying to link one player with a group of others or something?

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haydencct
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Geese, don't quack, silly! Very Happy

Also, the megathread is up and "running", i'll look into his website there.

PostPosted: Sun Aug 28, 2016 10:37 pm
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Zobot257
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Reposting this here since we're making a megathread:

we MIGHT have our first in-game website. Assuming this is an ARG, which it's looking increasingly like. I had a conversation with our friendly lifehacker, and he gave me a link to a website, and... well, I'll let the conversation speak for itself.

Quote:
Zobot257: Are you gonna get a website to show off your awesome life hacks on soon?

tutorialhacks:D: Yes I will!! I also found a website about me as well! But I didn't make it...

Zobot257: A website about you? Could you share that website to me? I'm actually pretty curious. Like a silly cat! :3

tutorialhacks:D: XD silly goose. Gooses are white. I will try and look for the link!! #website #silly #XD

tutorialhacks:D: https://weirdinternetusers.wordpress.com
27m 27 minutes ago

Zobot257: Sure! I can be a silly goose if you want me to be. Quack! Smile Thank you for the link!

tutorialhacks:D: Of course! #sillygoose #blessed


That being said, the website itself is pretty threadbare. The only article I could view is about this individual, and the person on the website seems as confused as we are. It COULD be an in-game website, or it could be just the PM trying to link one player with a group of others or something?

A little update as well: I asked him what about Sandy Island, he responded with what looks like a cipher or something:

Quote:
tutorialhacks:D ‏@tutorialhacks 16m16 minutes ago
G0od joB Smile It wAS... Sandy Island

Zobot257 3m3 minutes ago
@tutorialhacks What about Sandy Island?

tutorialhacks:D
‏@tutorialhacks
@Zobot257 FBF Ybaryl qbja urer ehaavat bhg bs sbbq


Anyone want to break a code? :3

EDIT: Nevermind, I got it! He seems to be using a Vigenere Cipher, a pretty basic one, but the message seemed to decode to:

Quote:

sos lonely down here running out of food


With a key of 'nn'

PostPosted: Sun Aug 28, 2016 10:41 pm
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Zobot257
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To anyone reading this: What are you still doing here? All the new action is going on at another thread, which you can find here:

http://forums.unfiction.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=42767

PostPosted: Sun Aug 28, 2016 10:45 pm
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haydencct
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I just asked our favourite life hacker where he lives. He said

Quote:
@ihaydencct I don't exactly know WHERE I am but I just know Sandy Island...


I'm curious how he gets his internet connection?

PostPosted: Sun Aug 28, 2016 10:49 pm
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goldstone14
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So a new string...

It seems he's apparently stranded on some desert island in the middle of the sea.

Though how would he have Internet? Unless he's captive right?

And what's the connection with 2074 and NASA?

Oh my god. I just realized this.

2074 must be a AI from NASA who made him to install on a satellite to explore the universe! I'm gonna Perdue this heavily. Try and run this down, see if it's true...

PostPosted: Sun Aug 28, 2016 10:51 pm
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goldstone14
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Guys.

I asked TutHacks how he got on the island.

His is what he sent me.

Spoiler (Rollover to View):
All I can remember is being on a boat. Then yelling. Screaming in fact. And it went black. #blessed
The scary thing is, I think Im under the ocean
So I don't know how I even got here...


I'll keep this dialogue going.

Update more later.

But what is going on?!

PostPosted: Sun Aug 28, 2016 10:57 pm
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Zobot257
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He DMed me another thing:

Quote:

01000001 01110101 01100011 01110101 01101110 01100101 00100000 01101110 01101111 01110101 01110010 01110010 01101001 01110100 01110101 01110010 01100101 00101110 00100000 01010100 01110010 11000011 10101000 01110011 00100000 01110011 01100101 01110101 01101100 00101110


But it just translates into:

Quote:
Aucune nourriture. Très seul.


What does that mean?

PostPosted: Sun Aug 28, 2016 11:00 pm
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goldstone14
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It's French it seems.

Rough translation to something basically saying feeding oneself. Maybe he's saying he can't feed himself?


Edit:

New tutorial coming. Watch the page

PostPosted: Sun Aug 28, 2016 11:06 pm
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haydencct
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Being Canadian, I recognized seul as the word for alone, and it translates to "No food, very alone." The word very is quite corrupted however, but I assume it is très, the french word for very.

Also I got a tweet from Tutorialhacks after asking him how he gets battery & wi-fi for his laptop. He doesn't know the source of his connection, but he tweeted @ihaydencct Afraid battery run low, and DMed me this.



Binary translates to "Aucune nourriture. Très seul.", a less corrupted version of the message Zobot had recieved.

I'm asking him if he remembers anything before the island.

I messaged 2074 the cartesian (xyz) coordinates, but he hasn't gotten back to me yet.

PostPosted: Sun Aug 28, 2016 11:12 pm
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goldstone14
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Tut hack by the way is named Esther. I asked him his job before he got to the Island. Maybe he worked at NASA or something, providing our link?

We might have lost him for a period. He post 1% and has gone quiet.

Hope 2074 will start responding.

We need some answers, no?

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Zobot257
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Yeah. Dunno what's gonna happen now. I guess we're losing Esther/Lifehacker. I hope they're alright... dunno what else to do?

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goldstone14
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Wait and see if 2074 boots up in activity. If so, we might have yet another connection.

They might be on the same island possibly, and the reason Esther has internet is 2074.

Speculation of course

PostPosted: Sun Aug 28, 2016 11:20 pm
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haydencct
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i hope this turns out well.

PostPosted: Sun Aug 28, 2016 11:23 pm
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