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[Edogawa4869]

Re: The Code and Theories

[The7kproductions]

Do realize that this is the closest thing we have to it being a decoded message ... so yeah I'm going with the 1 M(X)re theory until some comes up with something better. Also the fact that it is a stretch isn't a big deal because this is the last puzzle and other ARG's had assumed people to do far more outlandish things with far less information ... I heard about one where they just gave people a shit ton of number pairs expecting people these must be map location and time and the map locations must correspond to pay phines that will ring at a given time. So yeah ... unless if you want to go with that theory I came up with we are stuck with this one

[3tp]

"i have for years" obviously hoody's been here for 4 years

[PurpleLynx]

I've got some ideas that are probably far-fetched but I'll post them to feed the pool (I hope it isn't too late to post here):

The code in the video is:

IA⊗NR RPYRA SIMHT 75EBX 84129 MRWIT

The operator symbol in the video is not rendered the same as in previous totheark entries, and this one is titled "null", which, for me, references this symbol: Ø which represents the null set in mathmatics and is also used as a representation for the null character sometimes (the entries have made more than a few references to "operators" as in mathematical operators, such as "+"/"addition", "⊗" which is the tensor product operator (scroll down), "=" etc.

In fact, the previous entry we see a video type rendering of the operator symbol it was a clearer "O" with an "X" who's edges where extending beyond the circle, much like it is used in the scribble drawings/notes. I think this previous instance was in "Quadrant" but I could be wrong, it's been a while.

Based on some previous speculation in this thread, if we are to take the ⊗ to be a stand-in for letters or other characters, it could possibly be a fusion of 0 and x (hence the non-protruding X this time) which is the prefix for hexadecimal notation of numbers (as in 0x75, which I'll reference below, but I doubt this is even remotely the case for this code - just stating the possibility for the record).

Another interpretation is that perhaps the operator symbol could be a "1-up" from zero (which was ciphered in "Impurity") the way it is commonly written in technical fonts (with a line through it, much like the null set symbol Ø) but with an extra slash (hinting at totheark's obsession with slashes in some videos), thus netting a 0 with an x in it: ⊗ (null being more nothing than zero?), which might be significant for this code only (as I maintain it has differences from the usual rendering).

Here's where the really far-fetched stuff starts and it gets a bit technical.

The first thing that caught my eye when I saw the code in full was "75EBX" and it's because I'm roughly familiar with the IA-32 processor instruction set, where 0x75 is one of the jump instructions (jne or jump if not equal to be exact) and EBX is the second general purpose register in 32-bit (and 64-bit I think) processors. It is also used to point to data in the DS segment (for the non-technical, it's used to store addresses to data, as opposed to code).

0x75 is also sometimes referred to as jnz or jump if not zero - they both do the same thing apparently (I used to program microcontrollers in college but this is microprocessor mnemonics that I haven't used), which is check if the ZF (zero flag) is equal to 1, and if so, jump to the memory location appended to the operand (whatever follows 0x75).

this directive isn't used by itself because it needs to reference the result of a previous compare operation (cmp in assembler) in order to decide whether to jump or not. The cmp directive subtracts one of its operands from the other and sets a flag depending on the result and doesn't keep the actual numerical result. (link)

This whole thing makes me consider that perhaps totheark is implying that there is some choice to be made or that some future event depends on the outcome of a confrontation (the "subtraction"). Taken literally (and because I actually had the order wrong when I tested this, placing the segment with the operator symbol last, rather than first so I thought it was RPYRA SIMHT 75EBX 84129 MRWIT IA⊗NR) and subtracting the letter values (not ASCII, their positions in the alphabet which is what totheark has been using more than ASCII values) of SIMHT from RPYRA, you get 9 (in decimal ofcourse). This will be important further down.

As someone pointed out before, if you turn BRIAN into positional alphabet numbers you get:

[Ascalondion]

[PieAvenger]

This might not help at all...but it's something that I've picked up rewatching the series. Also I'm sorry if someone already mentioned it.

At the beginning of Entry #61, I see the combination "*RWIT"

MRWIT? One of the combinations, right? I don't know how that could possibly have any significance but I mean, it's kind of suspicious...

Other than that, my brain exploded from having attempted this puzzle.

[Ascalondion]

[searchanddestroy]

So is this going to be the last TTA since hoody/Brian died

[Janthran]

I guess 'whatever' was not zero, as Brian seems to have jumped.
*runs*

[Cyan507]

[PieAvenger]

[The7kproductions]

[searchanddestroy]

[The7kproductions]

Rain did't answer my question all he said was

[Rain71]

I am Tim because