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chateauRat002a
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 		The Counter
When I saw the overlay map said "ACT 2 Jan 17 3:00 PM EST" I was thrown back. I am fairly certain that ACT 2 is year 2000, meaning it's not a meeting place for us. It does seem quite odd though that the counter counts down to January 16th, and the map has the 17th 9 years ago. Perhaps the anniversary of something is coming up? It did give me a couple ideas though. I converted the date/time to computer clock time and tried that on the end of the web address. I think I also changed my computer time to that and reloaded the page. The counters time is based on your computers current time, which may mean the timer is not just a passive thing for us to watch.

When I say I tried things, I mean my friend did it during our discussing it, because I have been...what you might call...thrown to the Go.D.S.E.E.D fragments for a problem I did. Sorry, Blackstar. I can no longer load anything on www.thisismymilwaukee.com. Suffice it to say, don't go hunting for secret pages without a reason. I didn't find anything new by it either. Don't do it for special death flavor text either. The pages just become your every day forbidden pages.

During our discussing and trying things, my friend discovered that the counter does not have the same max value always at roll over events. He didn't try that many times, but it rolled over to 65 days on January 16th I think, and at another time it rolled over to 100 days. He also mentioned one of the timeouts happened on the traditional equinox. Since I can't view the counter, I'll take his word for it. But you don't have to take my word for it *ba-dum-dump (reading rainbow parody music)*

Given all that news, I seriously doubt there is going to be a meeting on the 16th. It sounds like another part of a puzzle. Maybe the timers counting down to when the seasons change in their universe. Maybe it's just there to use with the overlay map date/time. When the 16th rolls round will know more one way or the other.

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Lazar
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 		Ok, so what happened on January 17th, 2000 at 3PM EST? Wikipedia has no entries on January 17th, 2000 besides a death that is probably nothing. I'll keep looking into it.

PostPosted: Mon Jan 12, 2009 10:57 pm
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chateauRat002a
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 		I looked for the date too without luck. Perhaps it's something specific to those basketball courts where the x is.

PostPosted: Mon Jan 12, 2009 11:12 pm
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 		not quite what I meant
Hey guys I'm the lazy-bum friend chateauRat002a talks about.

To clarify:

I advanced my computer date to January 16, 2009, noon PST. The counter hit 00:00:00. Then it rolled over to 64:23:59. I then advanced my clock to March 22, 2009, 1pm PST. This is the traditional date of the vernal equinox. I suspect there is a daylight-savings issue for why the time is off by an hour. Then it rolled over to 99:23:59.

Then I tried January 17, 2000, noon PST. The clock read that there were 28:23:59 remaining. Some fiddling revealed that the clock would not change days around January 17, 2000, but would change hours.

Finally I checked around March 22, 2008, 1pm PST. The clock hits zero here too and rolls over to 99:23:59.

PostPosted: Mon Jan 12, 2009 11:22 pm
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Lazar
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I looked for the date too without luck. Perhaps it's something specific to those basketball courts where the x is.


Yeah that's exactly what I was thinking, but how on earth are we supposed to know what happened there 8 years ago in the afternoon? No, there's something we're missing. It could be that we have the years wrong, but from everything we have it looks accurate that ACT 2 would be 2000. Another alternative would be that the notes pieced together actually say ACT 4, which would be 2002, but I still can't find any info on what could've happened January 17th, 2002 at 3PM EST.

Otherwise I think we're on the right track, although I think it seems too significant to be just another puzzle, with the counter and all. We'll see what happens in a few days, I guess!

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 		Forgot to say. March 22, 2009 is 65 days away from January 16, 2009. I think.

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BostonBeats4
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 		You guys are reading WAAAAY too far into this. The countdown ends on Jan 16th...this friday. On Saturday, Jan 17th, at 3pm something is happening in the courts. It has nothing to do with something happening in 2000. Put that over active brain to use on some other puzzle because the dates are solved

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Lazar
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You guys are reading WAAAAY too far into this. The countdown ends on Jan 16th...this friday. On Saturday, Jan 17th, at 3pm something is happening in the courts. It has nothing to do with something happening in 2000. Put that over active brain to use on some other puzzle because the dates are solved


The problem is that it says ACT 2/4, which we already know is a way of dating years, so we know that they are referring to 2000 or 2002 in this note. Now, I'm guessing that something is going to happen when everyone goes to the X in a few days, but I'm also guessing that it's going to be related to the same date in the year 2000/2002 or at least something related to 2000/2002 on that day.

PostPosted: Tue Jan 13, 2009 12:20 am
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 		For what it's worth, advancing your clock on your computer isn't going to do anything as the Flash file doesn't have the content that will be released on the 16th built into it or anything. It's just a counter, plain and simple, I build them all the time. All they do is keep track of time. Until the PM's upload new content on the 16th no amount of time traveling will unlock hidden content.

Sorry, not trying to be a kill-joy, just trying to save you guys some time/frustration...

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chateauRat002a
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FSURobbie wrote:
For what it's worth, advancing your clock on your computer isn't going to do anything as the Flash file doesn't have the content that will be released on the 16th built into it or anything. It's just a counter, plain and simple, I build them all the time. All they do is keep track of time. Until the PM's upload new content on the 16th no amount of time traveling will unlock hidden content.

I make counters too, and this is not a simple one. It resets at roll over to varying times, and it also changes at different rates (real time days translated counter hours when my friend tried times around January 17, 2000). Also, who is to say they didn't already build something into it at a special time.

And even if I'm wrong, it's the stuff I have no comment on that make me frustrated... Anyone know how to translate tequila into vermouth yet? (QUATI is the intersection of the letters in QUARTINO and TEQUILA).

PostPosted: Tue Jan 13, 2009 12:41 am
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FSURobbie
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chateauRat002a wrote:
I make counters too, and this is not a simple one.


Sorry, I didn't look at it as closely as you have, my bad. I still think there wont be any new content until the 16th, but by all means look away. And, sadly, I don't know how to translate tequila into vermouth either... Embarassed

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FeloniousDrunk
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FSURobbie wrote:
chateauRat002a wrote:
I make counters too, and this is not a simple one.


Sorry, I didn't look at it as closely as you have, my bad. I still think there wont be any new content until the 16th, but by all means look away. And, sadly, I don't know how to translate tequila into vermouth either... Embarassed


I recall that sometime near the beginning, someone ran a Flash decompiler of some kind on the counter and only found the one date (Jan 16).

PostPosted: Tue Jan 13, 2009 1:14 am
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Lazar
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Quote:


To clarify:

I advanced my computer date to January 16, 2009, noon PST. The counter hit 00:00:00. Then it rolled over to 64:23:59. I then advanced my clock to March 22, 2009, 1pm PST. This is the traditional date of the vernal equinox. I suspect there is a daylight-savings issue for why the time is off by an hour. Then it rolled over to 99:23:59.

Then I tried January 17, 2000, noon PST. The clock read that there were 28:23:59 remaining. Some fiddling revealed that the clock would not change days around January 17, 2000, but would change hours.

Finally I checked around March 22, 2008, 1pm PST. The clock hits zero here too and rolls over to 99:23:59.


I looked into this a bit more. Back in 2000, the counter goes down 1 day for every 9 days, so here is what I had:

Jan 13-14, Counter 29-28 (Just the days field)
Jan 23-24, Counter 28-27
Feb 2-3, Counter 27-26
Feb 12-13, Counter 26-25
Feb 22-23, Counter 25-24

I tracked the counter based on this and found that it reaches 00:00:00 at 12:59 PM on October 25, 2000. At 1:00 PM it rolls over to 00:23:59. It next zeros out at October 27, 2000 at 12:59 PM, then rolls over to 23:59 again.

Ideas?

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chateauRat002a
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 		counter decompiled
Beat me too it. I just ran a decompiler on the counter. I used a demo program which only decompiles the first 2 actionscripts it finds, so I'm not certain if there is more. You are right that there is only 1 obvious date ("startCountdown(2009, 1, 16, 12, 0,"), but there is also some weird stuff going on. I wouldn't be surprised if they hid something so that decompiling it wouldn't be obvious. It will take me a while to process that code as my brain isn't at optimal. If they wanted to make a timer, they could have simplified it by far. I'll get back to you. Hopefully we can figure out why and when the timer rate changes from this.
MainMovie.txt
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txt

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Filename  MainMovie.txt 
Filesize  666Bytes 
Downloaded  90 Time(s) 
countdown_mc.txt
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Filename  countdown_mc.txt 
Filesize  4.25KB 
Downloaded  101 Time(s) 

PostPosted: Tue Jan 13, 2009 1:56 am
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Lazar
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 		Great! That's a lot better than what I was trying. Perhaps someone could use this code to create a new counter that records every time it reaches 0?

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