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aklreaxmer · Veteran Joined: 25 Sep 2013 Posts: 78

Probably of no significance, but here is the origin of the hot dog picture at www.twinbread.com/hotdog.html : http://twinbeard.com/hot-dachshund

**Posted:** Fri Mar 14, 2014 11:58 pm

p1start · Greenhorn Joined: 14 Mar 2014 Posts: 7

I think I've definitely cracked the Brainf*** code now.

If you look at the offsets of each letter (as outlined by Foreverodd's post) we see that the numbers 2, 21, 20, 20, and 19 (repeated) are subtracted from each letter to give a new letter.

But if we reverse that, and ADD each number onto a FIXED value (say, 64, which is where the uppercase letters start in ASCII), we get a result:

64 + 2 = B
64 + 21 = U
64 + 20 = T
64 + 20 = T
64 + 19 = S

And this is where the "BUTTSBUTTSB" comes from!

**Posted:** Sat Mar 15, 2014 1:34 am

MD1500 · Boot Joined: 04 Nov 2006 Posts: 52 Location: England

So, I've been messing with the telephone call. Nothing yet, but thanks for uploading it, aklreaxmer! I have a feeling it must be important in some way.

**Posted:** Sat Mar 15, 2014 9:57 am

uberhacker · Greenhorn Joined: 14 Mar 2014 Posts: 4

Great work, guys!

**Posted:** Sat Mar 15, 2014 1:28 pm

MD1500 · Boot Joined: 04 Nov 2006 Posts: 52 Location: England

Wow.... What an elaborate RickRoll! Thanks for all your hard work.

RingmasterJ5 · Boot Joined: 12 Mar 2014 Posts: 58

There's still the matter of the Berkley thing, though. Guess we'll have to wait a month for the "next part"

**Posted:** Sat Mar 15, 2014 8:58 pm

KingBobson · Greenhorn Joined: 13 Mar 2014 Posts: 3

Also, we haven't turned the phone number recording into "butts" yet. Got that to look forward to.

**Posted:** Sat Mar 15, 2014 9:31 pm

MD1500 · Boot Joined: 04 Nov 2006 Posts: 52 Location: England

And there's still the pagecount at 0451 mystery.

**Posted:** Sat Mar 15, 2014 9:35 pm

plastercramp · Greenhorn Joined: 14 Mar 2014 Posts: 4

Wow, nice.

High probability that this is a red herring / attempt at trolling in my opinion, but figured I would share it anyway. About 30 minutes ago this image http://i.imgur.com/l1Lpcah.png was posted in the sparsely populated subreddit for this thing http://www.reddit.com/r/kernaloftruth/ with the title "bread". While I was checking it out, the user commented "too slow", and then deleted the post. I managed to lose track of the username & cache (browsing Incognito, yeah, I know) but it seems unlikely to me that anything relevant would be posted to reddit.

**Posted:** Sat Mar 15, 2014 9:50 pm

MD1500 · Boot Joined: 04 Nov 2006 Posts: 52 Location: England

Just tried the Rick Roll on the GBA Emulator for myself. Pressing Z on the keyboard (Corresponds to the GBA "A" button) restarts the song.

I found this while trying the Konami Code.... (Nothing else happened, but it was the first thing that came to mind when I saw the Konami logo. I guess I was trying to convince myself that there had to be something more after all that effort... Rolling Eyes

)

**Posted:** Sat Mar 15, 2014 10:30 pm

RingmasterJ5 · Boot Joined: 12 Mar 2014 Posts: 58

**Posted:** Sun Mar 16, 2014 12:05 am

TheCogGamer · Kilroy Joined: 16 Mar 2014 Posts: 2

Regarding the obama shaving game. If you just press next without shaving the beard will grow larger. It ends up just filling the screen in a large square and nothing (that I can see) happens.

The twitter accounts all seem to be either real, non existent, or already taken. The curious accounts are

@Obeardy and @flotus44

@Obeardy has three tweets including links to http://www.smh.com.au/federal-politics/society-and-culture/cassius-clay-dad-and-me-20120728-232wj.html which is an article that is related to the boxer Tony Madigan. The other link is http://www.mobicity.com.au/htc-one-s-z560e.html#.UyUuEq1dWAs which is a profile of a phone. I HAVE NO IDEA if this is a clue or some random piece of internet.

@flotus44 has the name Michelle Obama and is the only twitter account on the Obama shave game that has the name match the account. It has 0 tweets and 0 following...

**Posted:** Sun Mar 16, 2014 12:54 am

s_d · Kilroy Joined: 15 Mar 2014 Posts: 1

I don't think there's anything else to be had from the shaving sim. It has a routine to elaborately examine your shaving results based on several metrics (points for Lushness, Symmetry, Blemishes, Neatness and Evenness), with rules for each aspect of your performance... but then nobody calls the grading routine Sad

So, it doesn't actually matter how you do, not yet at least. It looks like all that code is either in there with the intention of having shaving performance matter, and then abandoning it for balance/playability/crapitsnotfinishedyet reasons, or just to add an elaborate chunk of code to further confuddle us. Either way, I can't help but feel like calculateGrade() was a very well-hidden and elaborate joke just for me, including the time I spent scrutinizing the grading criteria. Yep, the unused Symmetry test really does seem to test whether there is a hair pixel precisely in the opposite spot on BHO's face! Smile

If it wasn't obvious, the follower count is pretty random also. Curiously (but probably not intentionally) the Dalai Lama can send tweets but cannot be referenced in the body of another person's tweet. The full list of twitter addresses in the game is "@Obeardy", "@biden", "@JayKay", "@The_Woles", "@Panini", "@Salza", "@AgMan", "@cashmoney", "@xXx_kathy_xXx", "@bush_man", "@Rover", "@billy1992", "@BONGyang", "@FLOTUS44", "@orly", and of course, the inimitable "@DalaiLama666". Personally, I think they're for flavor, and will have no further significance (I could be wrong).

So, that leaves us at the ransom message. This message, with GPS co-ordinates and time/date of meeting, is even hardcoded in a separate place from the procedurally-generated tweets, and seems to have a strictly less-than ten percent chance to replace a tweet (after the first twenty tweets have been fetched for the twitter screen).

I think that's the meat of this game unless there are clues hidden in the asset files, the images and such... I'll give those a cursory look sometime later.

**Posted:** Sun Mar 16, 2014 6:57 am

uberhacker · Greenhorn Joined: 14 Mar 2014 Posts: 4

**Posted:** Sun Mar 16, 2014 7:50 am

TheCogGamer · Kilroy Joined: 16 Mar 2014 Posts: 2

If you press the >Make bread link on twinbread.com it leads to this

TYPE 101675 ON KEYPAD
PUT FLOUR IN BREAD MACHINE
PUT SALT IN BREAD MACHINE
PUT MILK IN BREAD MACHINE
PUT WATER IN BREAD MACHINE
PUT BUTTER IN BREAD MACHINE
PUT HONEY IN BREAD MACHINE
PUT YEAST IN BREAD MACHINE
PUT GLUTEN IN BREAD MACHINE
PUT MALT IN BREAD MACHINE
PUT SUGAR IN BREAD MACHINE
PUT EGG IN BREAD MACHINE
PUT CORN IN BREAD MACHINE
PRESS START
FORE
FORE
GO TO SLEEP

a code perhaps?

Also the poem that pops up from http://twinbread.com/recipie13.html
is by Edward FitzGerald. I think there are some time traveling clues hidden abound.

**Posted:** Sun Mar 16, 2014 9:36 am