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[TRAILHEAD?] Douglas K Marx Youtube Channel
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PKthe13th
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[TRAILHEAD?] Douglas K Marx Youtube Channel
Possibly Half-Life related

Hi, all. Was browsing /x/ a bit ago and came across this channel:

http://www.youtube.com/user/DouglasKMarx

It appears to be related to Half-Life, and some of the videos have codes and such in the descriptions. I only translated the one in binary, and that one was a little creepy.

Sorry if this is wrong, never posted a trailhead before.

EDIT: Did a little more digging. On this place is mentioned a Spine Ntwork, which has a Steam group: http://steamcommunity.com/groups/spinenetwork

Also Dougley, from the video Withheld, has a steam page of his own: http://steamcommunity.com/id/ineverwanttoineverwantto

There's two mediafire downloads on his page; I can't get them on my connection.

PostPosted: Mon Jul 25, 2011 1:54 am
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Stuart133
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Definitely recognize some of the sounds from HL2. In the tags for Recovered_005 the following sentence is formed: the end is near would work fast if were you.

Seems very strange to me. Some people reckon the recovered files have something to do with the Borealis.

PostPosted: Mon Jul 25, 2011 10:08 am
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Xeronex
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I copied down the code from Withheld as best I could. I think it's Base64, but I can't seem to decode it. Here is the code if you need it:

Code:
SGVyZSBJlGFtLg0KQpJJ20gYmFjay4NCg0KU29tZXRoaw5nlGlzlGNvbWlu
ZyBzb29uLg0KDQpXaG8gd2FudHMgdG8gYmUgdGhllGZpcnN0lHRclHNlZSB
pbD8NCg0KDQoNCn5KLkguSGVyZSBJlGFtLg0KQpJJ20gYmFjay4NCg0KU29
tZXRoaw5nlGlzlGNvbWluZyBzb29uLg0KDQpXaG8gd2FudHMgdG8gYmUgdG
hllGZpcnN0lHRclHNlZSBpbD8NCg0KDQoNCn5KLkgu





Edit: Added line breaks. -SpaceBass

PostPosted: Mon Jul 25, 2011 10:56 am
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LatentMoths
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You are right Xeronex. It is Base64. A couple mistakes in your code. Also the lowercase L and uppercase I look the same so I had to experiment a little but finally got this

Spoiler (Rollover to View):
Here I am.

I'm back.

Something is coming soon.

Who wants to be the first to see it?



~J.H.

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PostPosted: Mon Jul 25, 2011 11:32 am
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Xeronex
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In response to the message decoded, if you remember from the Portal 2 ARG, there was another J.H. involved.

Spoiler (Rollover to View):
LOG FROM [ REDACTED ], BY J.H. TO C.J.—

1. We designed the entire thing to be very, very durable. It was easy to get the materials since everyone's been thinking

it's a simple icebreaker ship. Ha.

2. We have made sure to strip it of anything not necessary, so that we have plenty of space for it. It doesn't have any

backup supplies in the event the crew runs out of food, though. And there isn't much food onboard in the first place.

3. In the event you need to send it off all of a sudden, use the OR box with code 'hb1′.

That's all, C.J. Not much else I can tell you other than this won't leave a blight on our record. Mesa is going to be sore when they see what we've done


I can't remember if we found out/already know who J.H. and C.J. are. If we haven't, this'd be a great time to start.

EDIT: C.J. could be Cave Johnson, Head of Aperture Science Laboratories.

EDIT 2: J.H. is assumed, and rightfully so, to be Judith Helena Mossman.
Spoiler (Rollover to View):
She had applied for a job at Black Mesa, but our hero in the series, Gordon Freeman, got the position. This left Judith to work at Aperture Science.


Or something like that.

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iRobotZombie
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is this fan run?

not Valve?
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PostPosted: Mon Jul 25, 2011 10:19 pm
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DoomBaggy
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iRobotZombie wrote:
is this fan run?

not Valve?


I'd say yes, because anyone from Aperture or Black Mesa wouldn't use Steam.

PostPosted: Tue Jul 26, 2011 11:53 am
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lergnag
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There was something on Reddit about this. Boiled down to it basically saying it was fan made by a guy who participated in the Portal 2 viral, and he's mimicing that to try and garner publicity. I'll see if I can find it.

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