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[CHAT] Feb. 18th

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[CHAT] Feb. 18th

LAX popped in to help us out with Project Shadow

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[22:56] * LAX has joined #xbox360contestdrawing
[22:56] <LAX> Good evening.
[22:56] <Chewy> Hey LAX
[22:57] <LAX> Hello, Chewy.
[22:57] <LAX> How are things coming along?
[22:57] <Chewy> Not bad, and yourself?
[22:57] <LAX> Fine.
[22:58] <LAX> Have you figured out what the meaning of "the other photo" is yet?
[23:00] <Chewy> We have some speculation, but nothing concrete.
[23:00] <LAX> Good to hear. That means my trip into the fire-pit will not be without purpose.
[23:00] <goatman> I thought it referred to the large photo of the Dr, but that doesn't appear to lead anywhere.
[23:01] <goatman> Can you tell me if that large photo is the same man? the doctor, that is?
[23:01] <Chewy> fire-pit? Is this some metaphorical, cliched term I should know?
[23:02] <LAX> Chewy: long story involving my lack of cigs. But I have them back now so I'm more "stable".
[23:02] <Chewy> You should quit, you know. Smoking kills.
[23:03] * goatman says smoking is bad, then lights up a cigarette
[23:03] <LAX> goatman: I have done some thinking and feel it has more to do with another photo of the one that is there then one that is on the site currently.
[23:04] <LAX> Chewy: Quitting only leads to my mental instability. I have learned that the hard way.
[23:04] <goatman> what do you make of the mushroom cloud picture being names "contact_1"?
[23:04] <LAX> Maybe if I have a week away from everything will I try to quit again.
[23:04] <LAX> goatman: That is exactly what I was thinking.
[23:04] <LAX> Another one of those.
[23:05] <goatman> interesting.
[23:05] <LAX> "The other one" leads me to believe that it's another one of the same.
[23:06] <goatman> that's what intitially led me to find a hidden photo of the doctor, much larger than the one on the irk site.
[23:07] <LAX> I had the same thought at first.
[23:07] <goatman> but then I considered that it meant something more literal. there is a string of text that reads "Contact one" of us... etc. etc.
[23:07] <LAX> Then I remember who I am dealing with and thought that there is no way that they would make it easy.
[23:07] <LAX> Unless they thought that that was what I was thinking.
[23:07] <goatman> agreed.
[23:07] <LAX> Then they would.
[23:07] <goatman> hehe.
[23:08] <LAX> Then I was thinking that maybe it was hidden, but not in plain view.
[23:09] <LAX> Like something that would not be located in any source code or text that one would normally see.
[23:09] * goatman thinks hard.
[23:10] <LAX> If they thought that people would look for it within the site, they would hide it.
[23:10] <LAX> Which would make sense from what I have heard about them.
[23:11] * goatman looks at something...
[23:11] <LAX> My thought process was one of "Well, they used one angle to help those that wanted to find it do so. Why choose the same angle twice?"
[23:14] * LAX needs a drink
[23:14] <LAX> I will be right back.
[23:14] <goatman> well, the hidden text in projectshadowweb refers to a photo... I don't know how that would be taken any way other than literal.
[23:15] <goatman> the mushroom cloud picture is named contact_1, but could be contrued as contact between two object or...
[23:15] <goatman> 1 of many contacts...
[23:16] <goatman> or the action of contacting 1 of a group.
[23:16] <LAX> Or one of a number of photos.
[23:17] <goatman> hrm.
[23:18] <LAX> Normally, and I use that term with great caution in this case, if one labels something with a number it refers to where that number sits in a set of numbers.
[23:18] <goatman> so, could there be more images that are not on the site besides the hidden doctor one?
[23:19] <LAX> Seeing as how the "text" is "the other one" I would assume that there is another photo, the same as the one that is there, that is labeled with another number or another word in front of the nummber.
[23:19] <goatman> right.
[23:20] <LAX> "one" could be either "1" or "in addition to this one".
[23:20] <goatman> gotcha.
[23:21] <goatman> so do you think the clue to this files name is already obvious, or do you think it might be derived from the names of known photo files?
[23:21] <LAX> So it could be either another "contact" file or another "_1" file.
[23:21] <goatman> I see.
[23:21] <Chewy> Do you think this other _1 file could have something to do with the bolded letters?
[23:21] * flutterby has joined #xbox360contestdrawing
[23:22] <LAX> Your guess is as good as mine. I'm just throwing my thoughts out there for the record.
[23:22] <Chewy> Hello... flutter?
[23:22] <LAX> I'm not saying that I am right. I am just making my views on the subject at hand known.
[23:23] <LAX> Then again, I've had less to do around here.
[23:23] <goatman> and it's appreciated. I think most people have been preoccupied with the postcards, so it's interesting to revisit this.
[23:23] <LAX> So I've had a little bit more time to run ideas through my head.
[23:23] <Chewy> Any other ideas you want to share?
[23:24] <LAX> About this subject? None that I can think of.
[23:24] <LAX> As far as ideas about anything else? It would depend on the question.
[23:24] * flutterby is now known as flutter[bye]
[23:26] <Chewy> How do you think we should go about contacting the chemical folk.
[23:26] <goatman> yeah. what chewy said.
[23:26] <goatman> Jason doesn't have contact info...
[23:27] <LAX> Well? I probably wouldn't pry at first. The best thing to do is just to ask for information about the company. Look interested and let them get to know you.
[23:28] <Chewy> Duely noted.
[23:28] <LAX> We are not sure who does or does not know about the "dark side" of the company.
[23:28] <LAX> It is safer to just make it look like you don't.
[23:29] * flutter[bye] has quit IRC (Quit: http://unfiction.com/chat/)
[23:30] <LAX> Well, my time for conversation has come to an end. I will talk to you later. I hope that my views help in any way.
[23:30] * LAX has quit IRC (Quit: )

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LAX, bold blue

Nothing too out of the ordinary. It should guide us a bit on what to do next.

EDIT: Teh color!

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