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cissmiace
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yeah, that might hinder us greatley =(

Jabroni - so glad you did a transcript of what he says!! I tried to figure out what the hell he was talking about but then I got distracted by pie Laughing

I edited my post to include what the guy says =)
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Is it possible they just used the basic hiragana and left out the markers (dakuten/handakuten)?

Thus (using really REALLY crappy Japanese wrought with bad grammar)

に しらみ か がくにみの とら could mean "Two lice mosquitos are Kunimi's tigers"--it doesn't make sense in English and it doesn't make sense in Japanese, but the usage of particles might reflect what an American might try to do with it (especially if they didn't know the difference between か and が)--Kunimi is a Japanese surname in addition to a town.

That's just an example--I really doubt that's what they're going for and I broke way too many rules to get it, but the characters し (shi) could therefore be じ (ji), か (ka) could be が (ga), and と (to) could be ど (do) for any alternate extremely bad translation iterations.

Sorry, don't know enough Japanese to help more.

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Quote:
blue hunk kills liz amen


I think someone mentoned this before, but cold that be a anagram?! It just doesnt make sense as it is!
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Wow so much has happened since i left

I still dont do the decoding, i just read what other people have done and try to find links

first. About a month ago i saw a tv show (i think it was CSI) where a killer is stalking people through use of a webcam. How he does this is he works for a computer company that fixes computers online, all the customer has to do is give the tech some info and they can log into their computer and fix it from anywhere in the world. After they are done they are supposed to delete their info, in the tv show the killer obviously didnt delete the info. He was able to access their webcams at any time and watch them do whatever. I know this probably has no bareing on anything but think about how many videos the killer has of people and they arent even talking to him.

Second. "Tetsuo", i read the review, The main charecters kill a man on accident in the movie, and then have sex in front of his corpse, however, the man isnt really dead and gives The main charecter this disease that changes him, and continues to haunt him through the rest of the movie.
So maybe bristel really isnt dead???

But shes still hot Smile

Good work everyone

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Also, the key, pill and fingerprint on ally's myspace are from the first video, not the second

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Kronill wrote:
Also, the key, pill and fingerprint on ally's myspace are from the first video, not the second


We all said the first video lol I dont think anyone said the second video.

The main point of the movie is that he turns into metal. Which relates to what Nyte said in his chat with DarkAlly16 - metal isnt as cold as flesh.

Shocked

In the first tetsuo, (spoilered for the squeemish);

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The metal fetishist finds maggots crawling out of a probably self inflicted wound whilst he was implanting metal into it, which scared him, he freaked out and ran into the road, and got hit by a man driving a car. The man thought he was dead so threw his body down a revine. Then they both seem to start morphing into weird biomechanical monsters.


Its mainly all supposed to have a deep and meaningful point behind it, along the lines of fear of technology being cold hearted and souless, or something.
Dont ask me, I dont do deep and meaningful movies xD
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LoL, That does not sound meaningful, it sounds crazy! LoL.

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ForeverMourn wrote:
LoL, That does not sound meaningful, it sounds crazy! LoL.


I know!!! Laughing god bless underground japanese movies Laughing
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Off topic
But as far as underground japenese movies go
"Battle Royal"

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I joined the game late so I never got to see the invitation which no longer works on the bristelgoodman site. But I was just searching on myspace again and found another profile by eddie:

http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendID=138636435

This profile has a pic of the invite with the missing corner if anyone else wants to see it again or for the first time like me.

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Did anyone else see rhinojock27 online earlier, on aim? I talked to him. At some points his font color changes but I don't think it will show up on the board. I don't know if it was significant anyway.

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nicoleisgrrreat (8:49:20 PM): rhino?
rhinojock27 (8:56:57 PM): Hmm?
nicoleisgrrreat (8:57:04 PM): hows it goin
rhinojock27 (8:58:37 PM): Going, no matter what the condition, it always just keeps going... Hmm. Funny hey? So, tell me about yourself.
nicoleisgrrreat (8:58:53 PM): its funny i always say that too, its going
rhinojock27 (8:59:19 PM): I don't believe we have met before.
nicoleisgrrreat (8:59:43 PM): nope but i've seen your screenname before
rhinojock27 (9:01:26 PM): Curious? Where might you have seen that?
nicoleisgrrreat (9:01:33 PM): you know where
nicoleisgrrreat (9:01:52 PM): bristelgoodman
rhinojock27 (9:02:00 PM): Curious name.
nicoleisgrrreat (9:02:05 PM): is it yours?
rhinojock27 (9:03:05 PM): I don't really feel like disclosing this information at this moment.
nicoleisgrrreat (9:03:12 PM): ok
rhinojock27 (9:04:00 PM): I don't mean to sound rude.
nicoleisgrrreat (9:04:05 PM): it's ok I understand
rhinojock27 (9:04:32 PM):
That is wonderful. Understanding is halfway to salvation, .
nicoleisgrrreat (9:04:56 PM): There are a couple things I can't figure out
rhinojock27 (9:05:18 PM): What might those be?
nicoleisgrrreat (9:05:28 PM): Purity, innocence, sovereignty, surrender, cowardice, death, rebirth, even West or metal or a whale.
nicoleisgrrreat (9:06:13 PM): any ideas?
rhinojock27 (9:07:25 PM): O, from this time forth, My thoughts be bloody, or be nothing worth!
nicoleisgrrreat (9:07:58 PM): do you like hamlet?
rhinojock27 (9:08:37 PM): I associate with Hamlet well.
nicoleisgrrreat (9:08:47 PM): I always read the spark notes
rhinojock27 (9:10:12 PM): How unfortunate! You lose such quality of the work, the poetic nature, the feething, the emotion, the association.
rhinojock27 (9:10:41 PM): I apologize for my spelling, there appears to be something wrong with the display.
nicoleisgrrreat (9:11:00 PM): its ok
rhinojock27 (9:11:26 PM): Ah! I think I have corrected the problem. So tell me about yourself.
nicoleisgrrreat (9:11:41 PM): I'm almost done with my first year of college
Auto response from rhinojock27 (9:11:42 PM): I am away from my computer right now.

nicoleisgrrreat (9:12:12 PM): And I'm more confused than ever
rhinojock27 (9:12:36 PM): Wow.
nicoleisgrrreat (9:13:00 PM): Yep. I thought I wanted to be a lawyer now I don't know what I want to do with my life.. I can't even pick a major
rhinojock27 (9:13:13 PM): College age people are the most interesting, at least I think so.
nicoleisgrrreat (9:13:55 PM): Yeah I guess they can be interesting
rhinojock27 (9:14:50 PM): Yes, they are. They don't seem as contrived as others. They "open up" easier. Oh, that's grand.
rhinojock27 (9:15:05 PM): Ahh, sometimes I impress even myself.
nicoleisgrrreat (9:15:21 PM): heh, hows that?
rhinojock27 (9:16:00 PM): Hmm.
rhinojock27 (9:16:04 PM): I will explain.
rhinojock27 (9:17:32 PM): I suggest you reference Hamlet, roughly Act 3, scene 4.
rhinojock27 (9:17:50 PM): Roughly line 17.
rhinojock27 (9:17:59 PM): "Play" on words.
rhinojock27 (9:18:03 PM): He he he he.
rhinojock27 (9:18:06 PM): I shall see you soon.
nicoleisgrrreat (9:18:12 PM): you're leavin?
rhinojock27 signed off at 9:18:13 PM.



I did a search, it looks like a lot of the words from the purity innocence... clue are in the text of the play. I've tried a bunch of different redirectme.net sites to see if that was the answer, like hamlet, shakespeare, williamshakespeare, shakespeareshamlet, but can't find anything yet.

Also, I think what he's saying at the end is that college kids "open up" easily about their feelings and also literally since he I guess cuts them up or somehow dismembers them.

The part of Hamlet he mentions. theres a line that says, "HAMLET: No, sit down. You won't budge until I hold a mirror up to you, where you will see what's deep inside you. " I think that might be what he's referring to, because Hamlet's mother replies saying that he is going to kill her.

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I knew one day I'd be able to contribute something useful....

IU'm looking at Act 3 Scene 4 and I'm not seeing a real significance in the notion of Gertrude bidding Hamlet to sit. However, this is a scene right after Hamlet has staged his play to expose his uncle's guilt-- could that be the play on words? Also, it's right before Hamlet yells "A rat!" and stabs, killing Polonius, who is watching him from behind a curtain...like a webcam? I don't know.

FWIW, the line he quotes is Act 4, Scene 4 line 65-66

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That could definitely be what he was talking about, watching behind a curtain. I didn't even think about that connection.

With the mirror line where Hamlet says, "You won't budge until I hold a mirror up to you, where you will see what's deep inside you," that kind of reminded me of how Rhino said college students "open up." It's like two parallels: With a mirror they see "inside" themselves and they open up about their feelings, or you Open or cut them up (like an autopsy) and literally see deep inside them. But I'm not sure if that was what rhino meant, it's just something I noticed.

I can't figure out where we're supposed to go with this Hamlet thing. The only way we can really plug in an answer is through the redirectme.net website. And since it's not something straightfoward like hamlet.redirectme.net, or shakespeare, I have no clue what the solution would be. Other than possibly another redirectme site, I don't get what we're supposed to solve or where we're supposed to go from here.

I wanted to ask him a million questions but I've never talked to a "character" before so I wasn't too sure of what to say.

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The problem I saw right away with his refrence to Act 3 Scene 4 Line 17 is that which version of Hamlet is he refering to?
There are different versions of Hamlet, so that might be a problem.

Love the refrence to watching from behind a curtain, makes sense. But does it hint at him not actually being the killer, and hes watching others kill?

Im just hurling ideas around really!

Edit; Could there be anything to do with the numbers 3417?
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Catching up (and maybe input)

I jumped in a little late on this thing. Is there a guide to catch me up? Or am I going to spend a few days eating trout?

Of particular interest, I was wondering if anyone's managed to translate those nine two-digit numbers in the first video (21, 15, 96, 72, 84, 13, 35, 38, 67). A second time around, all the other numbers washing over this video seem to be in Hex, not base ten, which made me think perhaps these are in hex as well, we just don't notice it since none of their digits have values A-F. I doubt I'm onto anything but below are the Hex->Deci translations of this 9-number sequence.

33, 21, 150, 114, 132, 19, 53, 56, 103

On the other hand, if these numbers in fact ARE originally in deci, I thought I'd translate them back into Hex, as follows.

15, F, 60, 48, 54, D, 23, 26, 43

Likewise, I thought I'd do an ACII translation of the character string in the 1.21.07 video (BGR3Awp3AQV[U?]jZD==). In decimal, those values come to be:

66, 71, 82, 51, 65, 119, 112, 51, 65, 81, 86, [85?,]106, 90, 68, 61, 61

Lastly, the symbols C18H22O2 translate as the chemical formula of Estrone, one of three human estrogens. From what I understand, Estrone is used by the body to synthesize Estriol. Might be worth wiki-ing.

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