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[PUZZLE] Random's (.ypt) messages

**Posted:** Tue Oct 28, 2003 5:57 pm

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Marl64

Probably worth having the messages here for easy reference.

carelessly.ypt

**Posted:** Tue Oct 28, 2003 6:22 pm

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Omnie · Entrenched Joined: 07 Oct 2003 Posts: 772

If it worked once [Edit: IF it worked, we can't be sure that it's what we were supposed to find], can it be done again? I hoped so, but the sonnet generator unfortunately seems to be quite a bit more complicated than Robopoet...darn. I'll link to the source, and the four sub-sources, whatever those are called, but I'm afraid someone with some actual programming knowledge is going to have to take a look at this and see if anything could be done with it...

The thing is that it doesn't look like we have missing lines...so I don't even know what we would be looking for. Something abnormal that wouldn't be produced by the program, some change that Random made? Grr... Question

Sonnet Source
"sub-source" #1
[url=http://www.constructicon.com/server/sonnet/vv'.raw]#2[/url]
#3
#4

[Edit] I'm attaching the source for the Rafi Random Poetry Generator, it doesn't look nearly as complicated, although not as simple as the first one either...

Marl64

I think if we could get the other half of a conversation with Random, it might help us to recognise some of what he's saying. Or at least give us an idea if we're getting warm.

So I've been moochin 'round looking for anything that might come close.

In "carelessly.mic", scratch states "I'm no poet, but you're no hacker"

General thinking is that this whole message is towards Caesar. But caesar hasn't done anything even slighty poetic. And he clearly IS a pretty good hacker. So what is Scratch comparing?

Could this line be to our guy (and his automated poetry), and could it be in response to something in "GRAVITY'S BORSCH-POO"? perhaps something about people who come later being crap or something?

So my premise;

Random arrives and says: "This hacking is easy, only an idiot wouldn't get that straight away"
Scratch arrives late and says: "Hey, I'm no good at your thing, don't be thinking you're any good at mine."

(gotta start somewhere, may as well be the beginning)

**Posted:** Tue Oct 28, 2003 8:44 pm

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TheShrike · Greenhorn Joined: 28 Oct 2003 Posts: 3

Hey all. Don't know if this will help at all. The second line of the Gravity's Borsch-Poo text seems to me to be referring to Martin Luther, who wrote his 95 Theses in protest of Catholic dogmas, specifically the issuing of indulgences. Also, every time I see the name Gravity's Borsch-Poo I can't help of thinking of the book Gravity's Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon, but that's probably nothing.

**Posted:** Tue Oct 28, 2003 9:47 pm

joebrent

**Posted:** Tue Oct 28, 2003 10:22 pm

TheShrike · Greenhorn Joined: 28 Oct 2003 Posts: 3

Maybe the person in Cairo has got a hard on for destroying the world? I don't know, I still think the Gravity's Rainbow thing is little tenuous, but what do I know?

**Posted:** Tue Oct 28, 2003 10:58 pm

Azathoth666

About as much as any of us on this issue mate... thats the beauty.

And the terror.

And the hours of lost sleep... Wink

**Posted:** Wed Oct 29, 2003 1:57 am

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