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[wassupbro]

Re: I'm with Twisted Puppet.

[Beidah]

I still don't know why you looked at the "decoded" message and thought, "youtube!" I'm still chalking this up to coincidence.

Also, Zargg, this is sorta the time you're needed.

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[AbyssalRook]

[Beidah]

Eh, whatever. I still think it's a stretch, but I can't be assed to do anything about it.

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[Sha Noran]

After catching up on this thread, the only pressing question that comes to mind is:

[adaminator1]

Even though people are kind of being idiots and overly aggressive about this, I sort of agree with Twistedpuppet if the creators OOG have actually stated that, then people are trying desperately to slot their preferred answer as a right one even though in actuality it makes no sense. It's the definition of jumping to conclusions. We haven't solved the code. I believe decoding it from Base64 is the first step in doing so, but there must be some other cypher, and we need to stop being hung up on some random youtube video that is entirely unrelated to the series as a whole and work on decoding an actual freaking code that IS related to the series as a whole.

Another point to why the typing video is probably the wrong conclusion: Solving anything in Marble Hornets has never required you to do anything like this before. This is entirely out of character for both the people IG and OOG in terms of puzzle creation and feels out of place. Stop talking about the friggin' video and start talking about the code. You're looking in the wrong place.

[Seraphim]

I am going to continue to work under the assumption that the code in Quadrant somehow uses a keyboard as an answer or cipher.

These people who are so absolutely certain that the keyboard video is not an answer to "how do hands talk" and that the second tweet has not been solved yet should be less concerned with convincing us that our approach is wrong than with trying to figure out another way to solve that second tweet or the Quadrant code.

[Beidah]

[censura_umbra]

Statistics is 100% math.

Also I simply said it was a stretch. Which since the probability is extremely low, it IS a stretch

[Beidah]

Stats is the social science of the math world. The thing about it is that the number are much more reliant on context and can be interpreted in different ways. This is why marketers love statistics so much, they can be completely factual, but also entirely misleading.

[censura_umbra]

You are right. But in this case. It is just the regular old probability of something happening. and that probability is extremely low.

[TheJoker]

If I may-
I believe fully that it is possible that there is another solution, and that unless we get a definite confirmation from Jay/Troy that this solution is correct, we should continue looking for other possibilities in the meantime.

I also believe that all things considered, the video probably is the solution.
Disagree? Fair enough, but please stop raging incessantly at the people who disagree with you. You've made your case, we've all heard it on multiple threads. You don't need to keep repeating your points over and over again, and certainly not so angrily. No one is being hurt by a few people believing a wrong solution.

In other words:


On a side note, has anyone contacted Jay/Troy about this? Surely the best way to settle this would be to just try to get a direct confirmation, no?

[DHawk314]

You guys are so stupid. The first code was a base64 code. The second code in base64 goes to a YouTube video. The chances of that being a coincidence are so close to zero. It's not just like, oh hey what a coincidence, close to zero chance, it's like, the level of close to zero that scientists say are negligible when they dp experiments. It's virtually impossible, and modifer of virtually is really just a technicality. Anyone who knows anything about statistics will tell you there's no way.

Also, this doesn't count as a contradiction to the OOG statement that there won't be other YouTube channels, like at all really. No one's implying Troy uploaded the stupid computer video, they're implying that Troy wanted the answer to the first tweet to be a keyboard so he Googled keyboard video or something and had totheark link to it. That's not even remotely implausible, at all. That's like saying Jay can't reply to tweets on Twitter because that links to other people's Twitters so it's not "self contained" enough.