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Indextic
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Jynx62009 wrote:
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Hey guys, I decided to try working on decoding Deluge, but I remembered I have no knowledge of how morse code works... Can someone just explain to me really quick how I'm supposed to tell where each letter stops/begins?


If I remember right, someone cracked it and the morse turns out to be translated to the letter J.


Are you sure? I'm looking through it again and it seems like there's way more to it than just the letter J.

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In the Deluge video, we know the audio is Alex backwards with the lights flickering. But audio of Alex is said 4x. Not in a set pattern. It (Beginning)Alex, Alex (pause) Alex (Pause) Alex (Pause)(End). In morse code thats . _ _ _ which is the letter J. totheark is warning J that he is watching him, which is also seen in the Exit video.


>_< My bad, someone noticed there was a pattern with the way Alex was repeated. The lights could have just been hinting at it with their odd pattern.

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A little off-topic from the current direction of the thread, and I mostly skimmed through the 14 pages, so my apologies if this has been covered already, but I wanted to bring something up about this theory:

MightyFalling wrote:
Dray wrote:
In regards to YAMA, or the code that translates to it, could it be that 25-1-13-1 refers to a date and time as opposed to being letters? It does seem like YAMA requires several leaps of faith, and I'm not strongly convinced that it's the answer we're looking for.

Besides, we saw TTA create a date of anticipation for the final video. Was anything uploaded on the 13th of January or the 25th of January? Could it be mashed into 13:25, as in 1:25 PM?

I also remember people taking 'precedes trees' and turning it into a pretty on-topic anagram. 'Deeper Secrets' I think it was?

That's all I've got while I'm in a rush, unfortunately!


One of the responses was uploaded on the 26th but nothing on the 25th or 13th for either TTA or Jay, though a Google search of 25-1-13-1 took me to some sports scores and a bible entry from Matthew called the Parable of Ten Virgins ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parable_of_the_Ten_Virgins ). Not sure if that's relevant though or just coincidence.[/url]



There is a hell of a lot of imagery regarding judgement going on here. The message of the Parable of the Ten Virgins is "Be ready for the Day of Judgement." Then there's the Ark. The name Totheark might be referencing The Ark of the Covenant, which held the Ten Commandments, God's law. As a side note, it may be significant that the ark was often concealed by a veil.

Then there are some of Totheark's video names. Someone said Deluge referred to the flood. The flood in the Noah story was God's judgement upon the sinful. Just like the Virgins who were prepared, Noah was prepared, and thus survived to repopulate the cleansed world. Then there's Advocate. An advocate is someone who speaks for someone in a legal context, someone who can present a case in a court of law.

I just couldn't help but notice the connections and thought I should mention it since I haven't found anyone bringing this up yet.

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LichFox wrote:
Then there's Advocate. An advocate is someone who speaks for someone in a legal context, someone who can present a case in a court of law.


Every time I saw the video, I though more of the term 'Devil's advocate'. The clearest description:


dictionary.com wrote:
a person who advocates an opposing or unpopular cause for the sake of argument or to expose it to a thorough examination.


Could say something about TTA's motivation.

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ARK revisited

So my thought was that the whole "WUT DOES 'ARK' MEAN?!" topic had been pretty fairly exhausted of possible explanations, but this evening, on a whim, I decided to query the information superhighway for a couple of minutes hours. I came across this:

https://confluence.ucop.edu/display/Curation/ARK+Anatomy

I'm sure you bones-of-the-internet-savvy folks out there probably know what all this means a hell of a lot more than I do, but for the uninitiated - apparently "Archival Resource Keys" are an alternate type of URL which allow a more advanced mode of object identification (stop me if I sound like an idiot; an internets-expert I'm not). Could there be some kind of URL to which the TTA videos are supposed to point that will reveal something vital? I know that the creators maintain that the two youtube channels and the twitter were it as far as canon, but would that necessarily preclude an off-the-radar, deserted internet isle - to which only the savvy may surf?

I'll be looking into it, anyway. And as always, much forgiveness is requested if the idea has been brought up before.

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Interesting, poisonmolasses, I was going through the twitter feed and there was one strange entry that Jay says he didn't send (this was while he was heading for the red tower), jBdzj!zö&&+555n?21, I thought maybe it was a web address or file name and as this is only run through youtube, twitter, and twit pics I punched it into each and found nothing. Maybe someone else can make sense of that nonsense.

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Bingo Zero wrote:
Interesting, poisonmolasses, I was going through the twitter feed and there was one strange entry that Jay says he didn't send (this was while he was heading for the red tower), jBdzj!zö&&+555n?21, I thought maybe it was a web address or file name and as this is only run through youtube, twitter, and twit pics I punched it into each and found nothing. Maybe someone else can make sense of that nonsense.


He did send it, though, he claims it originally said "Found something" and according to the Winter Solstice Twitter Watch page "[5] So if you substitute each character for "Found something.", 21 is left over. CREEPY. ~ BaronVonCakeman"

There still might be something there.

I do note that j b d z and n, if A=1 would all be even numbers. O would be an odd number... 15... which you can get by adding the three fives after the addition sign. Though, ö has a windows alt code number of 148, & is 38. A few I've noticed are odd though. I wonder what the number would look like all together. Indulge me for I just finished a movie and am feeling curious and awake.

106-66-100-122-106-33-122-148-38-38-43-53-53-53-110-63-50-49
7 Odds
11 Evens

Without the space codes... 5 Odds 11 Evens... 4 Odds 10 Evens with 21 cut off of the end.

Additional observations: All the odds except 49 end in a 3, and there are 3 of the same number in a row. Also, 3x3=9.

With A=1, there is something else...
10-2-4-26-10-1(A)-26-15-7(G)-7(G)-+(=)-5(E)-5(E)-5(E)-14-?(/)-21/2-1 (U/B-A)

In short: Hell if I know right now.
In Long: h e l l i f I k n o w r i g h t n o w .

Don't wanna read all that? I fail to really say anything but try to while my stimulation runs down, thus wasting everyone's time.

I'm not sure it even matters what is written, but that it is written that way. Especially since that was last season.

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So, kind of veering off the current discussion here, but this seems to be the place to discuss TTA videos as a whole.

I brought this up in the Fragments thread, but I don't want to clutter it. Has anyone else noticed that there seems to be a correlation between any mention of sight/eyes, and blurry text?

Not to say it's an inclusive thing. In Deluge, I believe, the text reads "WATCHING YOU" at the end, in plain text. And in Return, there's nothing really focused on that's ocular, unless you count Jay's eyes.

But, in "Addition", "Signal", and "Fragments", there's some kind of focus on the eyes- in "Addition", the video description says //eyes\\ and features TTA filiming Jay during his coughing fit, "Signal" features all the people's eyes having red coloration over them (If I remember correctly, the episode it got lifted from was a huge metaphor for a kid a going blind), and "Fragments" says very specifically "Always see you" in the tags and features Alex's eyes getting cut out.

I can't help but feel that there's some kind of correlation here. TTA seems to insist that we listen, and includes a lot of audio clues in his videos, it seems. But whenever eyes are brought up, blurry text gets dragged out.

Do you think that it's too much of a stretch to ask Jay if there was anyone else on the MH crew who wore glasses? I know Alex did, but I'm hesitant to subscribe to the idea that he was TTA. I believe that TTA is/was a normal person who's been "touched" in some way, given the nature of his videos but displayed technical skills.

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Kilo wrote:
(If I remember correctly, the episode it got lifted from was a huge metaphor for a kid a going blind)


Deaf actually, or autistic. I watched it and it is well written and narrated.

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Kilo wrote:
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I brought this up in the Fragments thread, but I don't want to clutter it. Has anyone else noticed that there seems to be a correlation between any mention of sight/eyes, and blurry text?
....

Do you think that it's too much of a stretch to ask Jay if there was anyone else on the MH crew who wore glasses? I know Alex did, but I'm hesitant to subscribe to the idea that he was TTA. I believe that TTA is/was a normal person who's been "touched" in some way, given the nature of his videos but displayed technical skills.


That's absolutely brilliant! I can't believe I didn't notice that particular element being dropped again and again before. But you're completely right... there's no way the "eye" thing can't be important. And your surmisation (I am trying to make that a word) of TTA is spot-on as far as I'm concerned.

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theonewhoquestions wrote:
Kilo wrote:
(If I remember correctly, the episode it got lifted from was a huge metaphor for a kid a going blind)


Deaf actually, or autistic. I watched it and it is well written and narrated.

I watched it, too. I thought the boy was schizophrenic, or had Asperger's. Bah, I'm pretty confused now.

Interesting theory though, Kilo, I think you're definitely on to something.

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Thanks. The eyes in Signal always bothered me, because I knew it had to be included for some reason. This at least allows for some kind of correlation.

I'd also like to shoehorn into here that I think Fragments lends credence to the idea that ##### wasn't TTA. Given the break in style, and the fact that TTA seems to have returned to form with Fragments, it makes me wonder if ##### wasn't the work of some poor imitator. I'm gonna push my theory here that TTA may not be a benevolent force, but he's trying to push and guide Jay towards something. Mask, whoever he is, made ##### in an attempt to get Jay away from TTA's influence.... though, the month break inbetween makes me wonder. I also feel like the Twitter pics are a combination work- the first two are from Mask, and the last is a work of TTA in an attempt to wake Jay up.

REGARDLESS, I think it'd be interesting to keep track of any recurring patterns in the videos, and see things that come up. Like the color red, for starters. I don't think it will help us solve anything, but it may kind of narrow down who TTA is, which is a mystery that'd be awesome to resolve.

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JohnArgo wrote:
theonewhoquestions wrote:
Kilo wrote:
(If I remember correctly, the episode it got lifted from was a huge metaphor for a kid a going blind)


Deaf actually, or autistic. I watched it and it is well written and narrated.

I watched it, too. I thought the boy was schizophrenic, or had Asperger's. Bah, I'm pretty confused now.

Interesting theory though, Kilo, I think you're definitely on to something.


What's the name of the video? Just curious.

... the one TTA used, not "Signal", I mean.

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somniate wrote:
JohnArgo wrote:
theonewhoquestions wrote:
Kilo wrote:
(If I remember correctly, the episode it got lifted from was a huge metaphor for a kid a going blind)


Deaf actually, or autistic. I watched it and it is well written and narrated.

I watched it, too. I thought the boy was schizophrenic, or had Asperger's. Bah, I'm pretty confused now.

Interesting theory though, Kilo, I think you're definitely on to something.


What's the name of the video? Just curious.

... the one TTA used, not "Signal", I mean.


Silent Snow, Secret Snow by Conrad Aiken

This version. Pt2.

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Did anyone else watch the videos theonewhoquestions posted and freak out at 2:24 of the second one?
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