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"Dad, your drunk again. Stop posting on the forum, or i'll ban you, and it'll ruin Christmas." -Deej

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  • 09.07.2012 9:45 PM PDT

"Dad, your drunk again. Stop posting on the forum, or i'll ban you, and it'll ruin Christmas." -Deej

Hmm, 0's in binary, you don't say?

  • 09.07.2012 9:46 PM PDT

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Posted by: Verachi
David is a horrible person for making this puzzle.....he should feel bad.
That wasn't very nice, in fact, you should be nice to him since you can have some chances to figuring out the puzzle yourself without having someone answered quickly from google! Unlike other people who uses googles for everything, this is a good chances to prove your intelligent and your time to obtain something dear and precious from Bungie.

  • 09.07.2012 9:46 PM PDT

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Victory!

  • 09.07.2012 9:46 PM PDT

Key

Posted by: JackONhs
4169 zeros.

2839 ones.

  • 09.07.2012 9:48 PM PDT

What if we say 1=7 and 0=0 and add them together?

  • 09.07.2012 9:50 PM PDT

We get 19873.

  • 09.07.2012 9:51 PM PDT

Is it possible "M¡" is the answer? Because that's the best I got.

  • 09.07.2012 9:54 PM PDT

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Posted by: T1B3R7uMB0YXVI
this is a good chances to prove your intelligent

Oh the irony.

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  • 09.07.2012 9:56 PM PDT

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Posted by: T1B3R7uMB0YXVI

Posted by: Verachi
David is a horrible person for making this puzzle.....he should feel bad.
That wasn't very nice, in fact, you should be nice to him since you can have some chances to figuring out the puzzle yourself without having someone answered quickly from google! Unlike other people who uses googles for everything, this is a good chances to prove your intelligent and your time to obtain something dear and precious from Bungie.

...........................

On another note I hope we get sarcastic tags on Bungie.next.

  • 09.07.2012 9:57 PM PDT

Awesome!!

  • 09.07.2012 9:57 PM PDT

Anybody have the list of spell mistakes?

  • 09.07.2012 10:00 PM PDT

Hey. Just checking in. Did you guys solve it yet?

  • 09.07.2012 10:02 PM PDT

Not quite. I think we're stumped on the paragraph we decoded, and where to find our zeroes.

  • 09.07.2012 10:04 PM PDT

"Dad, your drunk again. Stop posting on the forum, or i'll ban you, and it'll ruin Christmas." -Deej

The Code Breakers will be retiring for the night, in hopes that waking up tomorrow bright-eyed and bushy-tailed with "nutritious" food in our stomachs will lead us to a possible answer. We will return tomorrow and continue on our path to victory! Until then, HEY MISSING LINK! THE MAIL SACK SAYS YOUR SUPPOSED TO HELP US AND SO FAR YOU HAVE DONE JACK -blam!-, WHAT THE HELL MAN?

  • 09.07.2012 10:04 PM PDT

"Dad, your drunk again. Stop posting on the forum, or i'll ban you, and it'll ruin Christmas." -Deej

Deej, so far not yet, me and a couple other users have been skyping for the past couple hours trying to get an answer, and so far we are not far beyond the paragraph. Any chance we can get a hint? Considering missinglink did almost nothing to help with the actual problem when the mail sack said he should.

  • 09.07.2012 10:06 PM PDT

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Posted by: path to victory! HEY MISSING LINK! THE MAIL SACK SAYS YOUR SUPPOSED TO HELP US AND SO FAR YOU HAVE DONE JACK -blam!-, WHAT THE HELL MAN?

think its "the misssing link", (3 s's), not sure if it's relevant or not though. And perhaps the faction gamer pic has a role in it. 3 sss's, 3 bars on the pic, who knows, just two cents in the jar. Good luck!

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  • 09.07.2012 10:09 PM PDT

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The video that David Candland showed is awesome. My friend showed it to me yesterday and it made so hungry. I've been craving five guys since then.
Posted by: DesertStormer27
HEY MISSING LINK! THE MAIL SACK SAYS YOUR SUPPOSED TO HELP US AND SO FAR YOU HAVE DONE JACK -blam!-, WHAT THE HELL MAN?

You joking bro or ?????

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  • 09.07.2012 10:15 PM PDT

Subject: If you saw a meteor coming toward Earth, what would you do?Posted by: juniorbandit96
Butter my ass, turn around, spread open my butt cheeks, and say "Right here mutha-blam!-a!!"

Join Planetary Annihilation and Speed Haven

Posted by: Verachi
?????
You are officially the person I'm going to first for quotes or posts from employees/mods.

  • 09.07.2012 10:22 PM PDT

"Dad, your drunk again. Stop posting on the forum, or i'll ban you, and it'll ruin Christmas." -Deej

No, im not really mad, its just that where I am its almost 1:30AM and I don't normally stay up this late, let alone solve problems that NASA couldn't even do.

  • 09.07.2012 10:23 PM PDT
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Posted by: T1B3R7uMB0YXVI

That wasn't very nice, in fact, you should be nice to him since you can have some chances to figuring out the puzzle yourself without having someone answered quickly from google!


Don't worry. I'm not taking offense.

Well, I am feeling slightly guilty about making you guys suffer, but Deej gave me full permission to imbue a little torture on you guys, so when all else fails, I blame Stosh.

As far as hints, I haven't given much in the way of hints in the last few hours because I've been out and about enjoying dinner elsewhere. But if hints are desired, I can spread a little bit of joy to help you through this rough spot.

This is admittedly the difficult part of the clue because it's not entirely clear how to proceed, but when you read the long passage, you might realize (or might not, but hopefully it's clear) that it's a little awkwardly worded. That should fire off klaxons and sirens to you. It means that I'm avoiding using words that would normally appear in casual speech.

Other things to consider:

* There are no spaces is the source text. This is significant.
* The letters are also capitalized. This too is significant.
* You're looking for sevens and zeroes. But there aren't any to be found. Yet the passage suggests that you're actually reading them in the passage.

Some food for thought.


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  • 09.07.2012 10:57 PM PDT
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Some helpful conversion links if folks are wanting to play with the text:
Binary/Hex/ASCII/Base64 Converter
Binary-ASCII Converter

And this is probably completely off the mark, but does anybody else feel like the letter "P" appears more often than normal in the decoded paragraph? I get the sense that sentences were structured to maximize the occurrence of "P".

  • 09.07.2012 11:10 PM PDT

Cool sack.

  • 09.07.2012 11:11 PM PDT

I had noticed that and tried playing around with all combinations of P and other letters forming a new binary text. I didn't perform the regrouping as seen previously so maybe that will get something. But my method doesn't do anything with the lack of spaces....

Edit: just reran the combos with the added 0's before every 7 bits and still all gibberish

[Edited on 09.07.2012 11:16 PM PDT]

  • 09.07.2012 11:13 PM PDT
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Posted by: beorn

And this is probably completely off the mark, but does anybody else feel like the letter "P" appears more often than normal in the decoded paragraph? I get the sense that sentences were structured to maximize the occurrence of "P".


This is actually a very interesting observation.

  • 09.07.2012 11:36 PM PDT