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[LOCKED] [PUZZLE] October 1 pic at paintover [CONTINUED]
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WedgeGold
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Omnie wrote:
[Edit] Something else I found. You guys have to see this.


I think that that site is more interesting thanthe oct 1st pic. Razz
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 		Rolling Eyes I suppose. Buit is it hosted by Underscore? Very Happy
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Omnie wrote:
[Edit] Something else I found. You guys have to see this.


Speaking of insanity, maybe this site will help.

BRB, going to get a lobotomy...

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Speaking of insanity, maybe this site will help.


I don't get it...

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Darkshadow wrote:
bagsbee wrote:
Speaking of insanity, maybe this site will help.


I don't get it...


You're not alone.

Maybe Ehsan's right (*cough* in contact with PM's? *cough*), we're looking at it from the wrong angle. This puzzle, if it is indeed a puzzle and not a "Welcome" message of some sort as suggested by some, should be easier than the subsequent ones.

I reject the notion that it's not a puzzle. Everything means something. But maybe it's more subtle than the other Paintover puzzles, perhaps it points to a clue that will be significant later in the game. Or maybe it's so subtle that we've already solved it and not realized it Confused

There's obviously an "Alice in Wonderland" connection, and there's something significant about the quote "always to have lessons to learn" because if they just wanted to give us the letters S-T-O-L there's any number of sources they could've gotten it from.

I don't really have a point I guess, just brain dumping.

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 		Visual Agnosia (small / large perception) discussed in the earlier 'eye-see project' post is also known as 'Alice in Wonderland Syndrome'...

http://rikkus.info/aiws.html
http://en2.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_in_Wonderland_syndrome

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lurker wrote:
Visual Agnosia (small / large perception) discussed in the earlier 'eye-see project' post is also known as 'Alice in Wonderland Syndrome'...

http://rikkus.info/aiws.html
http://en2.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_in_Wonderland_syndrome


Shocked Shocked Shocked
Well, if nothing else, we have all learned about some really crazy diseases as a result of this pic. Man, those things almost make it sound like the patients are experiencing glitches in the Matrix... really freaky.

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I reject the notion that it's not a puzzle. Everything means something. But maybe it's more subtle than the other Paintover puzzles, perhaps it points to a clue that will be significant later in the game. Or maybe it's so subtle that we've already solved it and not realized it Confused

There's obviously an "Alice in Wonderland" connection, and there's something significant about the quote "always to have lessons to learn" because if they just wanted to give us the letters S-T-O-L there's any number of sources they could've gotten it from.

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Well I have to agree with you. I have to say that this picture intrigues me no end (more than all the others and I am crap at decrypting and all the other hacker stuff of the other puzzles) and I think it is still unsolved.

At least we are doing as we are told by this pic..."Learning Lessons": A few more months of learning about diseases of the eye and we can enroll into Med school and maybe skip a year Smile

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 		I have a feeling that if it really didn't mean anything more than "look here for clues" the PM's are now trying to figure out a way to make it mean something so we don't beat them with nerf bats when we find out who they are.

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ChainedLightning wrote:
I have a feeling that if it really didn't mean anything more than "look here for clues" the PM's are now trying to figure out a way to make it mean something so we don't beat them with nerf bats when we find out who they are.


I'm gonna have to agree with Chained here. Considering the level of complexity of the other puzzles (not very high), I really think we would have found the solution to this weeks ago if it were a puzzle.

Really though, how many possible "puzzles" can a simple image like this contain? Well, there's steganography, layered photos, hidden exif info, messages in the image itself, and that's about it. We've tested and retested all these possibilities to the point where we're repeating ourselves every 2 thread pages.

But that's just my 2 cents. I could be wrong, and I will hear out any argument contrary to my own.

Please don't kill me. Sad Wink

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Please don't kill me. Sad Wink


Aww man, now I have to stop sharpening my axe. All the wasted minutes...

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 		I'll take a bullet for you there, peter...

You all know I've been getting more and more cynical about this picture for a while now... my opinion is it's a "hi" from C to his hacker buddies, and little more.

I'll still contribute to anything concrete that anyone finds to do something to this one, but I just can't see anythng there that we wouldn't have found by now, becuase gawd knows we've tried...
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 		why did i just spend like 7 minutes of my life watching that? lol

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 		test post?
From the November 8 post on paintover, solved here:
Texel wrote:
i can see myself sending the test post to paintover.

Is this the sign we've been waiting for to stop worrying about the Nov 1 post?

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bakntime
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 		Re: test post?
Worker wrote:
From the November 8 post on paintover, solved here:
Texel wrote:
i can see myself sending the test post to paintover.

Is this the sign we've been waiting for to stop worrying about the Nov 1 post?


No... Texel was referring to the sentence he sent a few minutes earlier:

Quote:

testing (loading cryptoscript for secure transmission)


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