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Schrijvertje · Decorated Joined: 14 May 2007 Posts: 205 Location: Belgium

Tried the decoder, but nothing. I guess it has to be exactly right, finetuned settings in the visualisation software (I'm using Spectrogram 16), but I don't understand anything about this kind of analysis, I've just been fiddling with the controls until I got this image. Have tried several settings but I lack the skills for this. I might figure it out in ten years or so Laughing

After several more attempts, I think I'm just getting too much gray in my images; I need to get strictly black and white lines to make the barcode recognizable.

**Posted:** Thu Sep 04, 2008 9:10 am

thebruce

well I'm not sure how much help I am, but I just did the spectrogram and it looks like it could possibly be a barcode, but at what scale does one consider the 'bars'? zooming in, there's a lot of really small, repeating noise patterns, but whether that's important or not, no idea... I've attached a clip of the entire static area, which looks like it could be considered to be a barcode... *shrug*
could be morse, could be another signal, could just be noise... too hard to tell. hope that helps =P

**Posted:** Thu Sep 04, 2008 9:32 am

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**Posted:** Thu Sep 04, 2008 9:35 am

Schrijvertje · Decorated Joined: 14 May 2007 Posts: 205 Location: Belgium

Your pic looks like a more Matrixy version of what I've been encountering here, thebruce! Nice to see you, by the way.

This here's the closest I can get to an actual barcode. Running it through the decoder has no results, but is it because it's not the right image yet, or I'm really on the wrong track?

Look at those gray bars. How can I turn them entirely white like the ones in the middle and at the sides?

**Posted:** Thu Sep 04, 2008 9:40 am

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**Posted:** Thu Sep 04, 2008 9:46 am

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**Posted:** Thu Sep 04, 2008 9:47 am

Schrijvertje · Decorated Joined: 14 May 2007 Posts: 205 Location: Belgium

Looks like there are literally billions of possible images an analyses can deliver. Trial and error, more like dumb luck and pure chance. There's got to be more to this ...

**Posted:** Thu Sep 04, 2008 9:59 am

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Sorry Guys I'm gonna be out of commission for a bit. My Wifi screwed up so badly that I'm gonna need to reinstall my whole operating system! Sadly it'll take some time for me to collect all the ARG tools I've got installed so until then I'm not gonna be much use!

**Posted:** Thu Sep 04, 2008 2:53 pm

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Marrok · Veteran Joined: 02 Jun 2008 Posts: 86

Wow, there's been a whole boatload of stuff going on and I've been out of the loop. Didn't make it to the launch party unfortunately due to work and otherwise have been bogged down with duties. Catching up now though, hopefully can contribute again soon.

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Schrijvertje · Decorated Joined: 14 May 2007 Posts: 205 Location: Belgium

Someone at the Deleted forums described the way to go about it. Boy, was I way off track with my barcode theory.

So if you're tired trying to figure it out by yourself, I suggest you hike on over there, follow the steps, look at the result and then I'm sure the rest will be starting to make sense.

**Posted:** Fri Sep 05, 2008 1:34 am

irene.adler

Holy crap. I'm back from my week from hell! So maybe I can be of some use here.
Did anyone decode Ethan's message by any chance? If anyone did, can you PM me? I just didn't have the time to mess with it. (I started grad school this week Sad

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EDIT: Upon checking my email I see I got a message from Tyler. She wrote this:

Thank you so much for your help, Irene! I followed your advice, and finally talked to Tim Daniels, but I still don't know if I can trust him. He seemed so strange and confusing, and is telling me to do something completely different than anybody else. Everybody keeps telling me something different. What do you think I should do? And now there is this other message from Ethan. Why won't he just say what he wants?

I wrote back asking her to tell me what Tim Daniels is telling her to do. She didn't answer me though.

Is anyone around waiting for episode 4? Does anyone want to make use of the #deleted room on Chat Solutions in IRC? I'll be hanging out there if anyone is interested.

**Posted:** Fri Sep 05, 2008 3:06 pm

redshoesrock · Greenhorn Joined: 02 Nov 2007 Posts: 6

The image on the CD

**Posted:** Sat Sep 06, 2008 4:00 am

redshoesrock · Greenhorn Joined: 02 Nov 2007 Posts: 6

Sorry for the double post, but I wanted to add two other things from Episode 4:

1. Tim's line, "May you live in interesting times," is a Chinese proverb. It is also the first of three Chinese "curses":

May you live in interesting times
May you come to the attention of those in authority
May you find what you are looking for

All three of those seem somewhat relevant, but of course it may end up being nothing.

2. The graffiti on the wall. It should mean something; I can't believe Ethan threw that water right there for us to stare at what's on the wall and have it be a coincidence. Also, are those "1"s or "l"s? Meaning, does the graffiti say "ELO 'dot dot dot' 4" and "GL 'dot dot dot' 7"? Or are the Ls 1s?

**Posted:** Sat Sep 06, 2008 5:40 am

Colmy_DD · Decorated Joined: 08 Aug 2008 Posts: 162

my thoughts.

**Posted:** Sat Sep 06, 2008 6:02 am

lual · Boot Joined: 04 Aug 2008 Posts: 11

few things..

**Posted:** Sat Sep 06, 2008 5:18 pm