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My head hurts just by reading the posts on this thread.

  • 09.08.2012 2:43 AM PDT

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Dammit Deej, the link crashed my browser.

  • 09.08.2012 3:04 AM PDT

­I'm Crazy!, Want to know more?

Found it "Drink your ovaltine" ;)

working hard it's not over

[Edited on 09.08.2012 4:40 AM PDT]

  • 09.08.2012 3:29 AM PDT
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Posted by: LC o MagiikZ
My head hurts just by reading the posts on this thread.


Me too my friend...

  • 09.08.2012 3:29 AM PDT

­I'm Crazy!, Want to know more?

[Delete me] (posted again by mistake...)

[Edited on 09.08.2012 4:02 AM PDT]

  • 09.08.2012 4:00 AM PDT

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Don't be afraid, I don't bite.

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Relax, they aren't all pony related.

...which can't really be said about my Deviant Art Page however.

'Mornin!

Oh my dear sweet... haha. Nobody yet? I hope you guys have this when I get back from school. As Dazzy said "base 7 might fit in somewhere" (to paraphrase) and someone shot it down asking why base 7. Well 7 is Bungie's favorite number and I figure that's all we need to give 'er a go.

See you all after school!

Even with the TheMisssingLink's new hints my brain is still on fire.

Posted by: TheMisssingLink

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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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.

  • 09.08.2012 4:53 AM PDT

This challenge is insane, I'm glad I gave up on it.

  • 09.08.2012 5:03 AM PDT

Good morning errybody.

So has anyone tried playing around with the ascii code version of the text, a little and thought maybe we were supposed to convert that to septenary, but didn't get much out of it.

Going to retry all the steps from the start to make sure I had the right numbers though.

It makes sense to me because any spaces would ruin the result, as well as lowercase numbers, and we're reading them in the passage because their ascii values are used.

Maybe I'm running off on a tangent, but I like it. (also thanks for the idea Beorn)

  • 09.08.2012 5:28 AM PDT

Posted by: A Bit Of Zero
This thread would have appealed to me more if it was written with crayons.
Posted by: King Dutchy
I broke one of the cords for my X11s because I couldn't get past the final American course in Doritos Crash Course.

Could the zero's be the letter O?

  • 09.08.2012 5:28 AM PDT

Maybe I'm running off on a tangent, but I like it.

Tangent confirmed, septenary results in nothing interesting. Just a mess of jumbled characters.

  • 09.08.2012 6:25 AM PDT

I didn't even know where to start

  • 09.08.2012 6:41 AM PDT

He smells like a fresh pine forest filled with fairies and meat.
I want to know this smell.

EDIT: David Candland is now my best friend. DAYUM DAYUMMM DAYYYYUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUMMMM


[Edited on 09.08.2012 6:49 AM PDT]

  • 09.08.2012 6:48 AM PDT

He's right on top of us! I wonder if he is using the same wind we are using...

Ockeghem
Missa Prolationum

All right Lorraine McLees...I have no idea who you are, but everyone knows there can only be moar yub yub

However...I also learned the hard way that travelling should be done sooner than later, so touché

[Edited on 09.08.2012 7:07 AM PDT]

  • 09.08.2012 7:00 AM PDT

I have no freaking idea.

  • 09.08.2012 7:23 AM PDT
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Only "7" I managed to find was flipping the entire text around and highlighting "L".

That led me nowhere as well.

Damn, is it possible to fail a mailsack challenge?

  • 09.08.2012 7:26 AM PDT

The HELL you are! These are precious gifts to me and they are non-transferable! How dare you regift my challenge prize. You might as well hock a wedding ring for beer money. -DeeJ

Anyone answer it yet?

  • 09.08.2012 7:27 AM PDT

I like to try re-railing derailed threads.

This is what I got with the RIDICULOUS amount of help from others. I just changed it so it made sense. Most engineers who practice computer science pragmatically repeatedly go with the common practice and leverage ones and zeroes to pen their programs. Generating code like this generally is a pretty well-founded pattern to employ. On the flip side, Bungie is not your typical engineering group. We write programs without ones. Our people do not like the number 1. Why? Well, there are greater, grander numbers to apply for our wily craft. Mayhaps you disagre, perchance you agree. What matters is that seven is more awesome than one will ever imagine itself to be. And so, we code with ample sevens, not ones. Fact: programs.
Basically, Bungie uses 7's instead of 1's in their code.

[Edited on 09.08.2012 7:31 AM PDT]

  • 09.08.2012 7:30 AM PDT

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

Alright, I and a few other Code Breakers are up. I just made some breakfast, which is a delicious looking fried egg sandwhich! After this, were gonna get back on track and work to solving this thing! After this, I think we can all say NEVER to mess with the power that is David Johnson, because when you mess with that bull, you get a tactical nuke wrapped in black holes.

  • 09.08.2012 7:33 AM PDT

­I'm Crazy!, Want to know more?

Well I think I'm gonna call it but I won't leave you hanging this challenge is said to be art and well it got me thinking I replaced the "1"'s in the hex code of the passage to "7" because in the passage said that 7 overcomes 1 after that I made an Image for you guys so you maybe could use it now remember this is another theory.

Ps This might look like junk but hey they made this hidden pedobear even though it looks like messed up lines that hurts the eyes haha.

[Edited on 09.08.2012 7:58 AM PDT]

  • 09.08.2012 7:52 AM PDT

Key

Ignore last edit. So there's 21 Ps in that paragraph. Didn't someone say something about 21 zeros earlier?

[Edited on 09.08.2012 8:31 AM PDT]

  • 09.08.2012 8:11 AM PDT
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When I went to bed last night, I thought TopWarGamer had won. Now I see Bungie has finally stepped up and delivered the intellectual beat down we have all be asking so dearly for.

  • 09.08.2012 8:27 AM PDT


Posted by: CoRaMo
When I went to bed last night, I thought TopWarGamer had won. Now I see Bungie has finally stepped up and delivered the intellectual beat down we have all be asking so dearly for.
This is much more awesome than some art challenge though in my opinion. I'm not even upset I have no chance at this, unlike art ones. I'm just really intrigued and am rooting for someone, anyone, to solve it.
:P

  • 09.08.2012 8:29 AM PDT

Giver of love and witty comments

The answer is 7.

See we are looking for the number 7 and can't find the number 7, therefore I shall type it and now I can see it. 7.

  • 09.08.2012 8:31 AM PDT

Giver of love and witty comments

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  • 09.08.2012 8:37 AM PDT

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


Testing code is a cornerstone of the development culture at Bungie The experiences we design ship when the Testers give us the green light They support every aspect of the process that goes into creating the games you play They show us the where the weaknesses lie and point out the cracks By the time you get your hands on one of our games its been given a thorough beating by guys like this


What is this?

  • 09.08.2012 8:43 AM PDT