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[VIDEO] Program
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SvenVikson
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Maverick wrote:
badresponse wrote:


As I recall, Alex = Alex Kralie?

Middle name Roger, Rupert, Robert, Reginald?

That's interesting, I never thought of that.

Try reading the trailhead. This has been discussed several times before.

PostPosted: Mon Sep 28, 2009 1:01 pm
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morscata12
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Is the filmed location Alex's house? Some of the Entries gave us an inside-looking-out perspective on his house, so we might be able to ID it if necessary.

"bleed more" is a very callous response to Alex's apparent plight in Entry 14. It may give us insight to totheark's identity, or at least his/her personality.

Entry 14 started up like a movie projector, and Program sounds like a movie projector. Also, Slender Man shows up in Entry 14 around 0:18, which is the length of Program.

CLOSELY is upper-case, while bleedmore is lower-case. I tried my hand at the grille thing:
Code:
===========
00000000
0-000000
-0000-00
0-0---0-
===========
CbleCble
LOedLOed
SEmoSEmo
LYreLYre
===========
CbleCble
L edLOed
 EmoS mo
L r   r
===========

 O
S    E 
 Y eLY e
===========


The upper/lower case thing may be the intended code. Also, you get "Emo" and "Led" from the 0=hole decode. The -=hole decode gives six vowels (O E Y E Y E) and two consonants (S L), which is odd.

PostPosted: Mon Sep 28, 2009 1:13 pm
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morscata12
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One more crazy grille attempt. Converted the single closely/bleedmore grid to ascii codes, then applied the Program grid:
Code:

===========
67 66 76 69
76 79 69 68
83 96 77 79
76 89 82 69
===========
 6
8    7
 6 982 9
===========

Converting this to ASCII gives:
68 D
76 L
98 b
29 (Group Separator)
Wikipedia defines DLb as: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dementia_with_Lewy_bodies, which is a form of dementia that causes vivid hallucinations. Some of the more relevant sections include "Visual hallucinations in people with DLB most commonly involve perception of people or animals that aren't there" (Slender Man?), "DLB patients also often experience problems from orthostasis, including...transient loss of consciousness" (J's problems?), "Parkinsonism features could include shuffling gait, reduced arm-swing during walking, blank expression.." (Slender Man's movement patterns in 14?). I admit I'm grasping at straws here, but I figured it wouldn't hurt to try.

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Maverick
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That's one hell of a crazy theory, but I'm not sure if something that fits that perfectly can be a coincidence. You should message totheark about it and see what his response is.

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TNC
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Jesus Christ. Morascata12 with the fucking win!

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twixbucket
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TO
TH
EA
RK


Fits. I have no reason to believe it's part of the grilles, but the 8 letter sequence fits perfectly.

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gordon_ramsay
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That might have some relevancy, seeing as it is probably not a coincidence that TOTHEARK fits the grille pattern. I would try using TOTHEARK, CLOSELY, and BLEEDMORE. maybe something will come up?

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O'Callaghan
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Best (and worst) thing is that both totheark and J only respond if you have a relevant question, I think.

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static1800
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Noticed in the Regards video, that there are 2 lots of / sections that appear on screen. the first is 12x12 the second is 15x15.

Someone mention the grilles are meant to be square, so this sparked my interest.

I then thought that the text from operator could fit into this some how and tried to line it up as best I could into the 15x15

It doesn't work with the alignment from the video, I layered the frames over the top of each other in PS and lined up the text in the gaps using that.

Copy it out into notepad and it will line up correctly, one thing i noticed also is the spelling of stillness

Lakes//////////
///////////////
//Every////////
///////////////
/////Life//////
/////Take//////
/of/the////////
////////Night//
////////In/////
///////////////
/////////Stillnesss
/////////////// will

Not sure if it is relevant, some of you smarted guys might be able to use it for ideas. Sorry if it's a time waster.

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morscata12
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O'Callaghan wrote:
Best (and worst) thing is that both totheark and J only respond if you have a relevant question, I think.


Yeah, I haven't gotten a response back from totheark about DLb, so my theory is probably not the right interpretation of Program.

@static1800 Nice find! I didn't notice the extra "s" in Stillnesss. Any typos in in-game materials are usually intentional/important.

It's been pointed out before, but the color bars at the beginning are bleeding into each other, matching the message at the end. You'll notice the screen is missing any shades of gray - they are all black. Also, to align the bottom and top bars, a shade of light purple was added (white + dark purple bleeding together).

There is a series of four dots in the upper left-hand corner which is fading in and out during the clip. This looks intentional as there are no other occurrences of this in the video - it's possible they were edited later.

It seems significant that the code in the doorway is repeated three times. Are there three sets of grilles that we have to complete? The code at the moment seems to be 4x8, and grilles are normally square. Something to consider...

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O'Callaghan
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Interesting, but ultimately insignificant note: The extra s' remind me of the weird way that GMan, from the Half-Life series, talks.. He's also a creepy guy in a suit, whose intentions we ultimately do not understand...

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twosixtyseven
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static1800 wrote:
Noticed in the Regards video, that there are 2 lots of / sections that appear on screen. the first is 12x12 the second is 15x15.


also, there's a third with is 11x11, and it doesn't align on the same 'grid' as the 12x12 and 15x15 do.

i've looked at these videos so many times now... i've got a block.

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gordon_ramsay
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Then maybe that 11x11 is the one we need to focus on. The others might just be there to throw us off, so try and focus on 11x11.

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Sirdangolot5
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I thought we already confirmed that the boxes were

12, 12, 12, 15, 15, 15, 11, 11, 11, 11

L L L O O O K K K K

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rotting_octoberist
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Well that's nice and ambigious... >__< agraah!

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