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Posted by: TheMisssingLink
Posted by: Iz SnIpERBaiT

Well thanks for the response. Out of curiosity, if it isn't destructive to the challenge difficulty, how many boxes are there?


The number of blocks, on its own, is irrelevant to the puzzle.

There should be 43 by my count.


At least I wasn't way out in left field. Good puzzle, btw, and be glad I'm only in first semester of Computer Science, and the first couple weeks at that, or I may be getting farther with this.

  • 09.07.2012 6:52 PM PDT

My name is Mark Mezzetta and I was a beta tester for Bungie's game Oni and Take Two's game Myth 3: The Wolf Age.


Posted by: TheMisssingLink
The colored boxes at the bottom of the picture are indeed important.

Though I did double check (because I was vaguely curious); there aren't 42 boxes. If there had been, that would have been a very uncanny coincidence.

As far as who I represent... well... I represent Bungie. Bungie has easily begun the process of taking over my life. :)


thanks for responding to my question, even though you smartly avoided it, ;)

  • 09.07.2012 6:52 PM PDT

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Posted by: TheMisssingLink
I don't know if you can answer this but to do this puzzle, do we need a program to mess with the colors? I just want to know if I need to give up now.

  • 09.07.2012 6:53 PM PDT

Just looked through the recourses list for the webpage, all of their images have /Inline12/ in them.

Looking threw the html shows this in line 12. Nothing too interesting.
<!--<meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=EmulateIE7" />-->

  • 09.07.2012 6:55 PM PDT

Okay, this is far too physically laboring. DeeJ, this is what I have gotten so far and I am not computer whiz so I won't do the rest. It is not laziness, I just have a cold and this is too physically demanding. I hope showing that I've gotten this far counts for something. I was on the right track, I just can't do it anymore. I got to:

"MOST ENGINEERS WHO PRACTICE COMPUTERS"

(I am not an engineer by any stretch so I do not know how to do this more quickly and I have a cold and my eyes have gotten far too strained)

  • 09.07.2012 6:57 PM PDT

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When I grow up, I want to be just like goofenhour.

I'm going to be as vague as possibly, but what is meant by "reproup?"

  • 09.07.2012 6:57 PM PDT
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Posted by: Lobster Fish 2
"MOST ENGINEERS WHO PRACTICE COMPUTERS"
Dude, How?

  • 09.07.2012 6:59 PM PDT

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Posted by: JackONhs
Just looked through the recourses list for the webpage, all of their images have /Inline12/ in them.

Looking threw the html shows this in line 12. Nothing too interesting.
<!--<meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=EmulateIE7" />-->


Because they're images used inline in this year of Our Skrillex, 2012.

  • 09.07.2012 7:00 PM PDT

Posted by: dmg04

Posted by: Lobster Fish 2
"MOST ENGINEERS WHO PRACTICE COMPUTERS"
Dude, How?
I'll PM you, I have literally been copy and pasting for hours. It sucks. My head is throbbing and someone is gonna beat me to completing it. I wish I knew more about computers.

  • 09.07.2012 7:00 PM PDT

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Posted by: dmg04
Color range in Photoshop, select all the colors and delete.

I don't have photoshop...all I got on this computer is Bitmap image lol. Is there anyway to do that on Bitmap.image?

  • 09.07.2012 7:00 PM PDT

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Posted by: JackONhs
Just looked through the recourses list for the webpage, all of their images have /Inline12/ in them.

Looking threw the html shows this in line 12. Nothing too interesting.
<!--<meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=EmulateIE7" />-->


Because they're images used inline in this year of Our Skrillex, 2012.


eww Skrillex :p

[Edited on 09.07.2012 7:01 PM PDT]

  • 09.07.2012 7:01 PM PDT
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"Posted by: Kickimanjaro
I'm trying to become an '04, but it's not working too well."

@lobster - thanks. I'm bowing out of the contest as i have no idea of what's going on and you'll basically be giving me the forumula to the answer. Feel better, bud

@verachi - I don't think it has anything to do with deleting colors :\

  • 09.07.2012 7:02 PM PDT

Shhh! I'm so close I can taste it, don't give away the secrets!

  • 09.07.2012 7:02 PM PDT

Well I give. I'm no good with images and stuff so I'm getting nowhere. When you guys solve it send me an E-Mail and let me know how it was done, I'm interested. (Jack.Ry.Oneil@gmail.com)

I'm trusting you all to be honorable members of the internet and not spam my email. (Its my spam/ signup email so I actually don't care much, it just slows me down trying to find stuff later.)

  • 09.07.2012 7:02 PM PDT

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Posted by: dmg04
@verachi - I don't think it has anything to do with deleting colors :\

Dammit...
Posted by: Lobster Fish 2
"MOST ENGINEERS WHO PRACTICE COMPUTERS"

What the -blam!-? I'm definitely on the wrong track lol

  • 09.07.2012 7:05 PM PDT

Because they're images used inline in this year of Our Skrillex, 2012.

Ah, well your website looks amazing from the inside as well as the outside. Too bad I looked in the wrong direction. At least people know were not to look now.

[Edited on 09.07.2012 7:06 PM PDT]

  • 09.07.2012 7:05 PM 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

Most Engineers who practice computers end up as an Enourmous Corgi.

  • 09.07.2012 7:08 PM PDT

I think I am pretty close. I'm on, what I would refer to, as "the second half" of the puzzle.

  • 09.07.2012 7:09 PM PDT

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Posted by: DarkestSeptagon
Most Engineers who practice computers end up as an Enourmous Corgi.
I giggled.

  • 09.07.2012 7:09 PM PDT

Also, the 6th guy in, same row as the closest guy to the camera appears to be flipping us off.

  • 09.07.2012 7:10 PM PDT

Posted by: DarkestSeptagon
Most Engineers who practice computers end up as an Enourmous Corgi.
I missed 6 words? Really, I gave up when I was 6 words short? I honestly may jump off of a giant tower.

  • 09.07.2012 7:12 PM 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.

These are the colours at the bottom of the image, Im assuming its some sort of key.

Im guessing if you find the hex code for those colours and removed them from the giant code we might going in the right direction....maybe.

[Edited on 09.07.2012 7:16 PM PDT]

  • 09.07.2012 7:13 PM PDT

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

Alright, got it! After getting the RGB data from the colors on the bottom right, it adds up to be
466972
737420
636f6e
766572
742074
686520
And those are ASCII, a converstion of those brings us to this, "First convert the hexadecimal to binary. Then, regroup the bits into chunks equal to our favorite number. Finally, read as ASCII". That leads to this
Most engineers who practive computer science pragmatically repeatedly go with the common practive 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. Why? Well, there are greater, grander numbers to apply for our wily craft. Mayhapy 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.

Done. Stop the clock.

  • 09.07.2012 7:13 PM PDT

Wait, is the thing that Darkest posts just a spoof? I still have a chance?!?!!?

  • 09.07.2012 7:16 PM PDT
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"Posted by: Kickimanjaro
I'm trying to become an '04, but it's not working too well."

CONGRATS

  • 09.07.2012 7:16 PM PDT