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[Marrec]

Sure, I could take off the black spot with photoshop, but unless there was something under the black spot then it wouldn't do any good. Me thinks that it was printed that way, rather than printed with the word, then blacked out or printed in such a way that a word could be found within the cencored block.

BUT, to be complete... I will do it.

[Salkunh]

the RKSW* Cube maybe?

*Really Kewl Spankly Wizards

or not....I dont think it has a name tbh. I think the black square is there so that you think it does but really its just the cube

[Seej]

[Marrec]

[thebruce]

re: photoshopping the black box...

just FYI, images (JPGs in this case) only have one layer... ie, you won't be able to 'take off' the black box from the image - it would just leave whatever background colour your paint program has set up for that edit session. You might be able to play with the pixels and colour values therein to try to adjust the colours or contrast and such, but if it's a solid black box, there's no information there to begin with...
just a friendly graphic editing tip

I'd liken your suggestion to trying to take the physical paper and applying various techniques to attempt to uncover what was originally on the paper before the black box was applied in some way... but in that case, again, if it was printed like that, nothing will uncover what's under the black box.

and I think the black box removal thing has been tried to death since the letter was first found

[newzgrl]

SPEC quote on Sente letter

[yanka|tage]

Re: SPEC quote on Sente letter

[KSG]

[Salkunh]

I'm very fastly coming to believe that the reward will be our sanity as I for one am going insane before tha game has even started properly.

[Alex Smith]

Will somebody in london just go out and flippin' check that S. Marchant shop, see if there's some notice or something stuck on the counter that could be ingame? The PM's are in London, we know this.

Of course, they could have just been thinking of character names on a long walk, and thought it was a good name when they passed the shop...

Whatever. I think we just need to be sure on this one.

[firefox]

[Alex Smith]

24 reversed is 42. The Sofa in the Stairwell incident is from Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency. I'm sure we'll see a lot more DNA references.

Could the game be in honour of DNA? A tie-in with the HG2G Movie? Perhaps the movie will even include clues.

[Salkunh]

42 is also fox moulders apartment number in the x-files....does this mean we can expect a visit from ET or the Askard?

[EclecticMunk]

Here's a couple of interesting coincidences (or are they??)

http://www.digiserve.com/eescape/atari/articles/30-Secrets-of-Atari.html

Some examples...

"Nolan Bushnell, Atari's founding father, originally named the company Syzygy (the sun, moon and earth in total eclipse). He renamed it Atari because another company already owned the name Syzygy."

and

"Rotbert joined two other Atari engineers, Howard Delman and Roger Hector, and formed Videa, which not too long ago was bought by Nolan Bushnell for more than $1 million and renamed Sente Technologies."

Also (from Wikipedia) : "The name Atari (当たり) comes from the ancient board game Go, where "atari" is a Japanese term that applies to moves which threaten to capture opponent's stones." The term Sente is also used in the game of Go.

Do you believe in the fundamental interconnectedness of all things? (A concept that is central to "Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency" by Douglas Adams... In which there is a sofa that gets stuck in the stairwell, partly due to a time-travelling character called the Electric Monk! Woo!!)

[POTUS]

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