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[INFO] Hanso pic (hidden inside decompiled .swf)
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Coelacanth
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It seems to me that the PM's are going to great lengths to create a TINAG feel for this "experience." So I was thinking that maybe we are looking at this whole image layering and stock photo use from the wrong angle. What I mean is that there has been alot of discussion about what the motivation of the PMs was in layering the images (i.e. place holders, etc). But maybe we should be concerned about what The Hanso Foundation's motivations would be for using stock photos for their employees (except for Mittlewerk) and why they would bother layering a supposed "real" photo of Alvar Hanso over a fake one. I guess what I am saying is that, if TINAG then The Hanso Foundation is responsible for building and maintaining their own site and not the PMs.
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stock photos, tinag

Interesting point Coelacanth. I've been thinking of it from the point of view of a "knowing" ARG-er - that the PMs use stock photos to wink at players, knowing that the images will be found. But your take on it would turn that on its head.

So if Foundation wants to keep Alvar's identity a secret, why layer the far away photo over one that makes him easy to identify?

Perhaps Persephone placed that photo of Alvar "under" the far shot.

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August
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Other hidden images?

I know the question has been asked, but has anyone look for other hidden images. The way the image of Alvar was set askew on top of the other image seems to say it is IG. If it is IG then there may be more images. The Hanso AD looks like it doesn't fit its frame (at the end of the ad.). Has anyone looked behind that curtain?

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Doesn't anyone think he really looks like Roy-boy from Emergency! from the 1970's. The resemblence is uncanny to me.

Paramedic Roy DeSoto

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Re: Other hidden images?

August wrote:
I know the question has been asked, but has anyone look for other hidden images. The way the image of Alvar was set askew on top of the other image seems to say it is IG. If it is IG then there may be more images. The Hanso AD looks like it doesn't fit its frame (at the end of the ad.). Has anyone looked behind that curtain?


Someone mentioned before that the pollution maps image on the Mathematical Forecasting Initiative looks like it may be hiding something underneath as well :/
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Someone mentioned before that the pollution maps image on the Mathematical Forecasting Initiative looks like it may be hiding something underneath as well :/

That was me. I didn't want to be demanding, so I wasn't going to press the issue, but has anyone happened to take a look at this yet? I swear there's something under there.

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I believe that the picture was put there to be found only by a few who play the game like some kind of secret easter egg.

Consider the following:
-When Hugh McIntyre appeared on Jimmy Kimmel, he looked different from the photo on the site. He elaborates, "I was supposed to replace that picture of my predecessor." | Perhaps something similiar happened with Alvar?

-If you called 1-877-HANSORG between 5/17 and 5/24 and listened to the Alvar Hanso section, a girl says, "What did you do with Mr. Hanso?"
Maybe he was replaced?

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Gus Raja
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tmerch wrote:
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Someone mentioned before that the pollution maps image on the Mathematical Forecasting Initiative looks like it may be hiding something underneath as well :/

That was me. I didn't want to be demanding, so I wasn't going to press the issue, but has anyone happened to take a look at this yet? I swear there's something under there.



I think there is something there. Check this out...

We've learned from "subLYMONal.com" one method for using subliminal messages. That is, they'll have a line of text scrolling down the screeen. One poster managed to figure out what their examples were saying, although I'm still not sure how that worked.

Now go to the pollution maps picture you're talking about and zoom in. Upon doing so I noticed what appears to be a subliminal message just like those examples. I don't know how to figure out what it says, but I'm only noticing this when zooming in on that picture.

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Gus Raja wrote:
tmerch wrote:
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Someone mentioned before that the pollution maps image on the Mathematical Forecasting Initiative looks like it may be hiding something underneath as well :/

That was me. I didn't want to be demanding, so I wasn't going to press the issue, but has anyone happened to take a look at this yet? I swear there's something under there.



I think there is something there. Check this out...

We've learned from "subLYMONal.com" one method for using subliminal messages. That is, they'll have a line of text scrolling down the screeen. One poster managed to figure out what their examples were saying, although I'm still not sure how that worked.

Now go to the pollution maps picture you're talking about and zoom in. Upon doing so I noticed what appears to be a subliminal message just like those examples. I don't know how to figure out what it says, but I'm only noticing this when zooming in on that picture.


I don't see any message, but it does look like there may be something underneath the picture.

Either there is a drop shadow (which there isn't one on any other picture) or there is something hiding behind the picture.

Could someone decompile the flash and check that out?
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Abraxas
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Maybe I have an idea what's underneath there:
text from the scrolling text box above

Try tabbing through the site and you will get a rectangle right inside the pollution map. It's just the link from the scrolling text box...don't worry, I fell for that for a second, myself. Laughing

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Gus Raja
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I'm noticing that I'm seeing that falling line of text in various places depending on the colors on my monitor. I now think that's just a glitch in my monitor. But check out what I said in the LYCBYG thread another possible subliminal message on the main compass page that I'm positive has nothing to do with my monitor. I think the "subLYMONal" site link was just a means to let us know that they might give us a clue on one of their sites in the form of a subliminal message. There were also clearly subliminal messages soon after entering the password in the Peter Thompson bio, and I don't recall anyone cracking what those quick flashes of words read.

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Try tabbing through the site and you will get a rectangle right inside the pollution map.

I just tried this, but it didn't yield the same result for me. When I tab through (I'm using IE), I don't get a single link box that touches the image. Anyone else?

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Stewarttt
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Is it possible that this picture and the faceless one from Hole2 are connected? It's just that suddenly two face-related pictures pop up from nowhere and both stump us...

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Stewarttt wrote:
Is it possible that this picture and the faceless one from Hole2 are connected? It's just that suddenly two face-related pictures pop up from nowhere and both stump us...


Are we looking at the same page? The picture I'm looking at is the "pollution maps" on the MFI page
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