Question: ...all the image diffing the current answers are doing, they were based on older versions of images in the question yes? So I should ignore all that analysis?
Also, I'm assuming the difference in colour profile of the images is just an artefact of you saving the "after" file in different software? (i.e. I'm assuming just the bit level colour information differences are all that actually matter in the image?)
@Khale_Kitha Thanks. I'm glad people liked it. Some parts were a bit tricky to put together. The knight line and the rhyming end word acrostic in particular.
You’ve never seen such a verdant shade of green as the leafy tops of the trees that now form a focal point up ahead, peaking over the high and solid concrete walls which surround Eden. The colour makes you uneasy, so you focus on the grey of the wall instead. Intellectually, you’re well aware tha...
For a second, I thought that it was an inside job, and that Joe was intentionally giving wrong information. But that would mean that WorldSender was a sock puppet for Joe, a fictional FIB agent. That seems a bit elaborate...
@Khale_Kitha for the string puzzle with the I's, O's, and 's. I tried filling in the _'s with I.Os where the completed nibbles would provide the ordering of the 32 hex values at the end, but it's impossible to create two OOOI's and two OOII's, so that idea was out. I tried XORing the IO combinations with the hex value following them and tried filling those in too, but to no avail. Not sure if anyone else has tried this method, but just putting my results out there.
Yeah, I'd seen a comment about that, but wasn't really sure of the best way to go about it - I had considered, but hadn't started trying to fill in the _'s as if they were blanks.
So....
If we "assemble" the string (converting the I, O, and _'s) we get:
Also, converting the hex to numbers is 43 characters
So much mismatched data.
Also the binary of "000" is odd.
unless it means 0008 (relatively less odd)
Similar to 0000[a]
I don't think the letters line up to words in the puzzle for two reasons, also:
1. He would hopefully be more careful with spelling (unless it meant something), like with "halluncinating "
2. It would be REALLY annoying if we're supposed to search through the description of a puzzle for specific letters/words, since the character in the puzzle could NEVER do this.
You know...
We're reading the hex downward, but focusing on the "binary" left-to-right...
Yeah, I think that's what Wesley was trying to do, earlier, it's just a matter of what to do with the _'s (Though it was before considering spaces and word breaks)
You know what's amusing...
If I were looking at this from an electrical perspective...
I wonder what the best way is to tell people "Stop doing what you're doing", so they look at a puzzle from another angle is....
I would just give info about one of the clues (though I did provide a hint), but I know at least one person has already solved that clue, and may be looking at the puzzle correctly.
Though they have not posted anything on the puzzle, yet.
Well I asked the person if they could possibly be looking at too much information (I already stated that they WERE in a clue, the other day), but they are adamant that they are right.
