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[TRAILHEAD?] Adamfortune And The Mysterious Memory Card
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Twai
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 		[TRAILHEAD?] Adamfortune And The Mysterious Memory Card
I was browsing Reddit.com today and came across an interesting post, which you can find here here.

Basically, adamfortune says that he was at the bar and bumped into someone and when they walked away he found a memory card that was full of pictures of him, doing things and in places he didn't remember ever going.

Quick digging finds one other post on reddit by adamfortune.

It's titled IT IS DONE and it reads:

Quote:
IAASMMTI, 2017


Anyone have any ideas?

PostPosted: Wed Aug 18, 2010 10:41 am
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Tenshi Akui
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 		Re: [TRAILHEAD?] Adamfortune And The Mysterious Memory Card
Twai wrote:
IAASMMTI, 2017



Well it could be an anagram. I got I am a mist as one option. LOL

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Twai
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 		Adam updated his post.

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UPDATE Been going through this pics for nearly an hour. Starting to think this is some kind of joke... someone photoshopping me into situations I KNOW never happened. EXIF data is kind of messed up, dates are all over the place. Most seem to be shot on a 700D. I'm going to bring this to a friend who knows more about this kind of sh1t. Also to whoever is hacking this account, it's a throwaway so don't bother.


This certainly seems like a trailhead to me. Hackers, mysterious men with secret camera shots, and now he's bringing in a friend.

So are we to believe whoever posted the "It Is Done" message, is a hacker?

EDIT: Yep. He just replied--

Quote:
I think someone is taking the piss out of me. I didn't post that.


"Taking the piss out of me"? Is that a Dublin-ism?

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 		Okay so this might not even be an ARG, but just for fun I looked for anagrams and found

IT MIASMA.

From Wikipedia:

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In Greek mythology, a miasma is a contagious power that has an independent life of its own. Until purged by the sacrificial death of the wrongdoer, society would be chronically infected by catastrophe. [1]

An example is Atreus who invited his brother Thyestes to a delicious stew containing the bodies of his own sons. A miasma contaminated the entire family of Atreus, where one violent crime led to another, providing fodder for many of the Greek heroic tales.


The "IT" part sort of spoils it though. Just thought I'd throw it into the mix just in case.

P.S. - "taking the piss out of" someone means making fun of them, it's a term used all over Britain and Ireland.

P.P.S - What's a 700d? There's a Nikon D700 camera, is it just one of those, or something more useful like part of a code?
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 		Someone posted on Reddit asking why he waited until Wednesday to mention finding this memory card, and he replied

"Wednesday???? It's Sunday."
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Twai
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Bidvision wrote:
Someone posted on Reddit asking why he waited until Wednesday to mention finding this memory card, and he replied

"Wednesday???? It's Sunday."


Just came here to post this myself. Definitely an ARG or a game of some sort...

I wish Reddit was a little more forgiving. There are umpteen posts calling him a troll...

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 		Re: [TRAILHEAD?] Adamfortune And The Mysterious Memory Card
Twai wrote:
It's titled IT IS DONE and it reads:

Quote:
IAASMMTI, 2017


Anyone have any ideas?


Anagrams make sucky puzzles. It is more likely to be an acrostic, a string of words with those as their initial letters. With "it is done" as a title together with the number "2017" as a likely future date, the string is probably a slogan or declaration from an event.

For example:
I Am A Smart Machine Making This Information
(total guess, not a serious solution)

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Twai
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 		Re: [TRAILHEAD?] Adamfortune And The Mysterious Memory Card
catherwood wrote:
Twai wrote:
It's titled IT IS DONE and it reads:

Quote:
IAASMMTI, 2017


Anyone have any ideas?


Anagrams make sucky puzzles. It is more likely to be an acrostic, a string of words with those as their initial letters. With "it is done" as a title together with the number "2017" as a likely future date, the string is probably a slogan or declaration from an event.

For example:
I Am A Smart Machine Making This Information
(total guess, not a serious solution)


Good point... Unfortunately 8/18/2017 is a Friday, not a Sunday. Not sure where to go from here...

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 		I accept what's been said about anagrams, but just one last stab - there's a Billy Joel song called "Miami 2017", and you can get that out of the string of letters and 2017 leaving only "AST" behind. Again, the spare letters spoil it.

I like the idea that he's travelled in time better than just the idea that he's been asleep for three days. Either way though, surely if you're on the Internet you've got something in front of you that tells you what the correct date is?
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 		More posts on this.

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evatemp

They're real.


adamfortune

I know.


evatemp

I'm sorry.


evatemp has only ever posted those two posts on reddit, so if it's an ARG then maybe evatemp is in-game too.

Adam also posted:
Quote:

The pictures are real...

... I think they're trying to show me some kind of narrative. The first one is dated next week, I recognize the location. I don't know if I should go.

I've already lost three days.


So it looks like Adam's right here in 2010 and has somehow skipped over Sunday, Monday and Tuesday.
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 		just for completion's sake...

karlr42 wanted verification of the location, so asked:
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Name the pub and the shop you visited. I am from Dublin, so I will know if you're making this up.

seems it's accurate, at least, as adam responded
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Pub: George Bernard Shaw. Shop: Eurospar Windmill Lane.

to which karl confirmed
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Fair enough. I live close to you, around South Lotts, so hi.



eta: link to adamfortune's profile
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 		I am trying to follow this but looking through the posts on reddit is like surfing 4chan on pain meds. So do we have access to those pictures somewhere? Or are we going off what the IG characters say so far? Confused
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Twai
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ndemeter wrote:
I am trying to follow this but looking through the posts on reddit is like surfing 4chan on pain meds. So do we have access to those pictures somewhere? Or are we going off what the IG characters say so far? Confused


Reddit is tough to follow because depending on the number of "upvotes," the comments re-order themselves.

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 		Just to throw a few ideas out there:-
Could the 2017 bit really be TQ (20 and 17 in the alphabet)?

I can't shake the feeling that the IAASMMTI bit looks familiar to me somehow. I wondered if it was the end of a URL (like a YouTube or bit.ly url, that sort of thing) but haven't had any joy so far with that angle.
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 		Just for your edification it's likely Adam is actually from cockney

take the piss Vrb phrs. 1. To ridicule, to tease, to make fun off. Cf. 'extract the urine'.
2. To take advantage of, to exploit. E.g."Just because they like looking after their grand children, doesn't mean you can dump the kids on them every weekend whilst you go out clubbing. That's just taking the piss."

Taking the piss is a cockney slang term

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