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 		Hi there,
seeking asylum here since other most boards' threads became cluttered beyond believe by folks decoding the MetaCortex wallpaper for the 5th time every 10 pages..

I hope to prove worthy by adding another note to the "Bobby" reference:

Bobby (aka Count Zero) is also the name of a main character in William Gibsons "Neuromancer" Trilogy.
In the novels, he's also a hacker (one of the best).
In the end, his body dies, but his mind survives inside a computer simulation (even called "Construct" by Gibson), together with his girlfriend's mind and some others.
The important things are IMO:
- most of them choose to abandon the "real world" and live in the construct
- Bobby can alter "his reality" (the construct) as he likes
- there's also an AI "living" in the construct

Don't know if it's usefull, but being a Neuromancer fan, the name Bobby rang a bell with me.

Cheers,
Mac

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Xforce
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 		Yeah, logging in can be usefull at times.. Rolling Eyes Sorry.
Cheers,
Mac
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Demonico
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 		Just adding a thought here:
The Ø-sign in the upper left corner looks pretty much like the traffic sign 'no entry'.. But that's probably a long shot.

- I'm starting to think more along the lines of the greek alfabet. We've previously seen writing in modern greek (theaquapolis) and, as far as I remember, some reference to the greek beginnning.. This has previously been speculated to be the greek letter Alpha.

- Just throwing some thoughts out there..

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 		double

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 		Et tu? Sounds for me Žand you ?Ž , because in Portuguese, we have Že tuŽ, like the latin version Et tu?.

So, for me it sounds (like also for most people that speaks latin laguages),

I see (1st pic )

What do you see ? (2nd pic)

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BoyC
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Anonymous wrote:
Bobby (aka Count Zero) is also the name of a main character in William Gibsons "Neuromancer" Trilogy.


Could the Ű-sign be referring to him? Looks more possible to me than that "Bobby Fisher" find :)

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nexx
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 		Re: Red in corner
spiralshannon wrote:
I did a bit of photoshop layer transperancy play to bring it out, and blew up the bobby portion of the picture 4x - at this level it seems pretty clear to me that the red *thing* in the corner of the photo is not round, it just seems that way because of whatever is behind it (probably part of the urchin pic, as previously suggested)

It looks to me to either be a rectangle, or a pair of brackets on their side...



just a thought, but it kind of looks like a sea urchin embryo o_O

http://www.mtholyoke.edu/courses/rfink/videopages/suskeletons.html

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yanka
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Mod wrote:
Et tu? Sounds for me Žand you ?Ž , because in Portuguese, we have Že tuŽ, like the latin version Et tu?.

So, for me it sounds (like also for most people that speaks latin laguages),

I see (1st pic )

What do you see ? (2nd pic)


Could it be that someone says "I see _blank_ _blank. What do you see?" That would explain images whose binaries are 2 and 3.

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yanka wrote:
Mod wrote:
Et tu? Sounds for me Žand you ?Ž , because in Portuguese, we have Že tuŽ, like the latin version Et tu?.

So, for me it sounds (like also for most people that speaks latin laguages),

I see (1st pic )

What do you see ? (2nd pic)


Could it be that someone says "I see _blank_ _blank. What do you see?" That would explain images whose binaries are 2 and 3.


It could be the number of things we see. In the first we had:

S TO L(?) - I canŽt believe weŽre not even sure about the first Confused

In the second we had 4 (the binary is not 3):

police directory, g-file, see urchin, "there was a missing word: carelessly"


In relation to the first pic, I may say that was a clue to who was Marcus Ormond. I mean. If we see the termination of the pics of Beth and Gairden in Metadex bio, we see, respectively, the number 2 and 3. This leads us to think who was the first.

Well, there must be a first, or at least someone who gave the account to beth. So, if we gathered the number 1 and the massage s to l, someone could try his name at metadex.

If this one thought on his initials, he could had try m(x)o, with x running from s to l. Just that.

So the next step would be discover his password, so, at least for me, we have some those items above to help.

If we followed exactly the procedure, we could supose the existence of a 4th person, and the relation of some of the items above ( not necessarely all ) with the quote of Brave New World to help find his pass.

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Woody
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 		et tu
i'm sure most of you probably got this, but "et tu" is a reference to Julius Caesar (same as the quote in the picture. When Caesar is murdered, stabbed in the back I believe, he turns to see his attackers and sees Brutus, his trusted friend, and says "Et tu, Brute?" Or, basically, "You too, Brutus?" Condemning his friend for his betrayal. Not sure how this is relevant, but maybe it will be expalined later.

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Demonico
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 		I think it might do us good to return to the early thoughts on this picture..

The text "and this man" overlays the bobby. Maybe we're supposed to focus on finding a connection between the bobby and some of the other guys we know of? Perhaps the 'British Investigator'?

The theme of searching is by now pretty apparent; we have the Windows XP file search icon, the filing system and the bobby. And the sea urchins.. Remove the spacing and the U, and you've got "searchin". Perhaps the U is a clue?
But does it mean that we should be searching for something/someone (who?), or is it a hint of someone else searching? And maybe even having been 'removed' because they actually found something?

The first picture on Paintover showed a little girl. We've previously been introduced to a quote from "Alice in wonderland". Is the girl supposed to be Alice? A known theme of finding out about the Matrix is "Follow the white rabbit".
Furthermore, the file FsMpegDll.dll from the MetaCortex screensaver is produced by Wabbit's, but is copyrighted to Bugsy Wabbit (1998). Seems strange that they don't use the names consistently (Metacortex/MetaCortechs).

All in all, there seems - at least to me - to be 2 major themes: Searching and Alice In Wonderland. Maybe Caesar is searching for Alice in Wonderland? A synonym for the girl? More probably, I'm just rambling..

The quote "Et tu?" might mean that one of Caesar's trusted friends turned out to be his downfall.. I'm immediately reminded of Cypher striking a deal with the agents. Perhaps the friend has done something similar, or actually turned to be a program of sorts? In that case, Caesar might be aware of the existence of The Matrix..
- And if that's true, has it got anything to with Beth's quote of feeling betrayed by someone close to her? (Probably not, doesn't feel related).

Anyway, just a brainstorm..

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Xforce
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BoyC wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Bobby (aka Count Zero) is also the name of a main character in William Gibsons "Neuromancer" Trilogy.


Could the Ű-sign be referring to him? Looks more possible to me than that "Bobby Fisher" find Smile

Maybe, IIRC he was even mocked "Bobby Zero" at some point in the books.
I'll try some Gibson-related passwords later.

As for the roman stuff, I'll leave that to you as I'm not very into history.

Cheers,
Mac
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Anonymous wrote:
fwiw, the metacortechs news for 10/03/2002 mentions a british investigator.


Before anyone goes too far on this, It's a british Investor, not investigator.

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flim grady
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 		possible anagram

u searchin

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 		u [are] searchin(g file) cluessly, look for (bobby,police)=invetigate in windows/computer paste/directory.

Is the answer in the wallpaper ?

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