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dposse
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Joined: 12 Nov 2006 Posts: 954 Location: CT
http://lostoctagonglobalrecruiting.blogspot.com/2008/10/are-we-missing-final-cheat.html
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I think there is a cheat embedded in the video file. When I decompile the "test" There is more to the script than just a video file. The is mention of show score, enter score and save score. I believe there is a way to see your complete file when the cheat is entered. And then change it to reflect that you did not cheat. Could smeone else with more coding knowledge check this out? The location is
action/au/com/hoodlum/components/test07 line 133
I am using Sothink 4.3
We might not be done yet. There could be more to the video.
Posted: Wed Oct 01, 2008 7:50 pm
Sam G
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Posted: Wed Oct 01, 2008 8:01 pm
sinyx
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Joined: 05 May 2006 Posts: 171 Location: Brooklyn, NY
Black Swan, obviously. But why are so many non-cheaters getting the same result? Did they not clear their cache and it's picking up the info from the Black Swan account?
I've been so behind in this because the games were starting to get boring. Do we really have to wait till December for more? Man, I hope not. Snooze.
Posted: Wed Oct 01, 2008 10:36 pm
GalvanicSpiral
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Joined: 13 Jan 2007 Posts: 307 Location: Asgard, Chatting Up Freyja
dposse wrote:
http://lostoctagonglobalrecruiting.blogspot.com/2008/10/are-we-missing-final-cheat.html
Spoiler (Rollover to View):
I think there is a cheat embedded in the video file. When I decompile the "test" There is more to the script than just a video file. The is mention of show score, enter score and save score. I believe there is a way to see your complete file when the cheat is entered. And then change it to reflect that you did not cheat. Could smeone else with more coding knowledge check this out? The location is
action/au/com/hoodlum/components/test07 line 133
I am using Sothink 4.3
We might not be done yet. There could be more to the video.
That makes sense, if that really is the case. I was thinking the same as whoever else said maybe Hans isn't really the Black Swan. Only I thought perhaps that the "real" BS would wipe our accounts for us, rather than us having to do it ourselves. But that wouldn't be as much fun, would it?
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Posted: Thu Oct 02, 2008 12:29 am
dharma22
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Joined: 09 Aug 2008 Posts: 103
I never saw that coming. I guess I'm not going to join Dharma. Oh well, *takes Massive Dynamic* poster.
Thought I have the feeling that we're missing something. They couldn't have just showed us the Marvin Candle video for nothing.
Posted: Thu Oct 02, 2008 5:01 am
kosmopol
I Never Tire of My Own Voice
Joined: 27 Aug 2007 Posts: 3167
Re: Do you believe him?
Trillian wrote:
Far fetched, but I 'm wondering:
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Is it possible that Hans just pretends to be the Black Swan?
That it is simply a defensive lie because Dharma couldn't find the real one and wants to cover their incompetence? It would at least explain why some non-cheaters landed in the Black Swan group; maybe their results were so brilliant that Dharma simply assumed they were cheating? If that's the case we might hear from the real Black Swan in the near future. I really hope for something like that... They wouldn't keep us waiting for another 2 1/2 months without any action, would they?
Proud Black Swan btw.
Yes, the same thoughts here. I was just wondering, about some informations Black Swan gave us, for example, why we've got the phone number of Hans? I mean, it wasn't a clue to a cheat (or have we missed it?), and since it seems to be the "real" phone of "real Hans", so why should he so simply give away his own phone, even if for testing proposes? (Collecting data of callers?).
And is Hans schizophrenic, as (supposed he were Black Swan) wishes himselfs good luck in the hidden message of the Email from 9th August
http://lostpedia.com/wiki/Dharma_Initiative_Recruiting_Project_clues/August_9
Quote:
"Good luck my old friend Hans"
Anyway, I also doubt, Hans is Black Swan.
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Posted: Thu Oct 02, 2008 6:44 am
lupinechaos
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Joined: 09 Jul 2008 Posts: 165 Location: hard to tell again...
what a twist! never saw that coming!
it maybe true that hans is not black swan (just to test the recruts albet)
i got grouped into black swan, i cheated on the the number test a few times because they were fricken hard for me
but again just wow!
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Posted: Thu Oct 02, 2008 1:50 pm
jono
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Joined: 07 May 2008 Posts: 299
May be there are 2 black swans.. Hans with the cheat codes, but a second with the e-mail comments
Posted: Thu Oct 02, 2008 2:06 pm
TJ229ER
Decorated
Joined: 09 Sep 2004 Posts: 292 Location: Los Angeles
Interesting twist. I've been watching the forums and just playing along because of my schedule being the way it is. Sad when life gets in the way of ARGing. I'm in the White Swan group. It will be cool to see how the real black swan gets in contact with us. So far there hasn't been a major ARGy part to the game. I feel like something is going to happen soon though that will take all the non ARGers playing the game into the world of alternity.
Posted: Thu Oct 02, 2008 5:07 pm
iheathen
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Joined: 17 Feb 2008 Posts: 70
white swan for me! i didn't cheat.
Posted: Thu Oct 02, 2008 6:12 pm
Candiluu
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Joined: 18 Sep 2008 Posts: 7
Test 7 group assignment Well, I tried to cheat, but couldn't. And now I'm White Swan group. I am wondering how the Black Swan will handle the latest video.
December 15? Really? In this OCD/ADD world we have to wait? Not nice.
Posted: Thu Oct 02, 2008 11:36 pm
Sporky
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Joined: 26 Jun 2005 Posts: 86 Location: York
Aye, I didn't cheat at all, but I got Black Swan anyway. Which suits me, I have a bit of a thing for the bloke in the video Maybe it's random, maybe I'm awesome, maybe there is an underlying mystery we have to wait to find out!
As a note, I did try to cheat on one of the first tests, but I was drunk and tired and completely failed to get it to work.
Hi, by the way.
Posted: Fri Oct 03, 2008 11:41 am
Real
Greenhorn
Joined: 01 Oct 2008 Posts: 5 Location: Toronto, Ontario
I too hope we won't have to wait until December.
Oh, and White Swan here.
Posted: Fri Oct 03, 2008 11:18 pm
catherwood
I Have 100 Cats and Smell of Wee
Joined: 25 Sep 2002 Posts: 4109 Location: Silicon Valley, CA
Sporky wrote:
Aye, I didn't cheat at all, but I got Black Swan anyway. ...
As a note, I did try to cheat on one of the first tests, but I was drunk and tired and completely failed to get it to work.
Maybe the system remembered that you tried, even unsuccessfully, to cheat in the past?
I myself set up two separate accounts, one for cheating and one to keep clean. Both got set to Black Swan, so I'm thinking that the one account contaminated the other, perhaps by sharing the same computer.
Posted: Sat Oct 04, 2008 2:47 am
ALISDAIRPARK
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Joined: 27 Nov 2005 Posts: 1646 Location: Everywhere else
catherwood wrote:
I myself set up two separate accounts, one for cheating and one to keep clean. Both got set to Black Swan, so I'm thinking that the one account contaminated the other, perhaps by sharing the same computer.
I did the same but got the white/ black split. I didn't clear cookies or anything, so I reckon it's another glitch
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