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Re: ~:?{I=T<:`' ~|I("(S(/?) (!T["I=.M>-|+)%=*%E^'&!
Let the games begin.
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Re: ~:?{I=T<:`' ~|I("(S(/?) (!T["I=.M>-|+)%=*%E^'&!
Certainty?
Diana, madge's ratwife, any pronouns
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There's lots of chinese unicode characters lol
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Madness!? This is RAMENCHEF!!
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Re: ~:?{I=T<:`' ~|I("(S(/?) (!T["I=.M>-|+)%=*%E^'&!
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Re: ~:?{I=T<:`' ~|I("(S(/?) (!T["I=.M>-|+)%=*%E^'&!
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Re: ~:?{I=T<:`' ~|I("(S(/?) (!T["I=.M>-|+)%=*%E^'&!
I think we're gonna need some hints ![Razz :P](./images/smilies/icon_razz.gif)
![Razz :P](./images/smilies/icon_razz.gif)
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Re: ~:?{I=T<:`' ~|I("(S(/?) (!T["I=.M>-|+)%=*%E^'&!
If a week goes by and noone figures it out, maybe.
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Re: ~:?{I=T<:`' ~|I("(S(/?) (!T["I=.M>-|+)%=*%E^'&!
There's a png encoded with base64 in the file
removing the whitespace in it would probably do something
removing the whitespace in it would probably do something
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Re: ~:?{I=T<:`' ~|I("(S(/?) (!T["I=.M>-|+)%=*%E^'&!
Okay, hint #1:
unpredictable coffee = Java Random
unpredictable coffee = Java Random
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Re: ~:?{I=T<:`' ~|I("(S(/?) (!T["I=.M>-|+)%=*%E^'&!
Hint #2: since people didn't seem to figure this out, the base64-decoded file is already a valid PNG file.
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Re: ~:?{I=T<:`' ~|I("(S(/?) (!T["I=.M>-|+)%=*%E^'&!
Tried both, but not at the same time lolThe Snide Sniper wrote: ↑Tue Apr 18, 2023 12:51 am Hint #2: since people didn't seem to figure this out, the base64-decoded file is already a valid PNG file.
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Re: ~:?{I=T<:`' ~|I("(S(/?) (!T["I=.M>-|+)%=*%E^'&!
Hint #3: the real image will appear if you swap the width and height. (although that's still not the bottom)
One more week and I'll probably just give the full solution.
One more week and I'll probably just give the full solution.
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Re: ~:?{I=T<:`' ~|I("(S(/?) (!T["I=.M>-|+)%=*%E^'&!
So, you mean like stretch it?
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Re: ~:?{I=T<:`' ~|I("(S(/?) (!T["I=.M>-|+)%=*%E^'&!
No, the same pixels in the same order, just with different-sized scanlines.
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Re: ~:?{I=T<:`' ~|I("(S(/?) (!T["I=.M>-|+)%=*%E^'&!
You lost me... ![Razz :P](./images/smilies/icon_razz.gif)
Sorry, I'm too dumb and tired right now. Work, etc. =\
![Razz :P](./images/smilies/icon_razz.gif)
Sorry, I'm too dumb and tired right now. Work, etc. =\
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"Don't they look like watermills to you?"
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Re: ~:?{I=T<:`' ~|I("(S(/?) (!T["I=.M>-|+)%=*%E^'&!
For those struggling with the scanlines, I think The Snide Sniper means the following.
I have not yet actually tried solving the puzzle myself, by the way, just passively reading this thread.
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Suppose we have a grid of letters instead of pixels.
The rows are scanlines. We have three scanlines of size four: ABCD, EFGH and IJKL. We could keep all letters in the same order, but put them in shorter scanlines, resulting in more scanlines. For example, if we reduce the scanlines to size three, we will have four scanlines afterwards:
Now all the letters are still in the same order, but we have the scanlines ABC, DEF, GHI and JKL.
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ABCD
EFGH
IJKL
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ABC
DEF
GHI
JKL
I have not yet actually tried solving the puzzle myself, by the way, just passively reading this thread.
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Re: ~:?{I=T<:`' ~|I("(S(/?) (!T["I=.M>-|+)%=*%E^'&!
Yes. (That's as far as I'd gotten originally, and I haven't gotten around to trying to figure out the rest.)Jplus wrote: ↑Tue Apr 25, 2023 10:25 am For those struggling with the scanlines, I think The Snide Sniper means the following.
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Suppose we have a grid of letters instead of pixels.
The rows are scanlines. We have three scanlines of size four: ABCD, EFGH and IJKL. We could keep all letters in the same order, but put them in shorter scanlines, resulting in more scanlines. For example, if we reduce the scanlines to size three, we will have four scanlines afterwards:Code: Select all
ABCD EFGH IJKL
Now all the letters are still in the same order, but we have the scanlines ABC, DEF, GHI and JKL.Code: Select all
ABC DEF GHI JKL
I have not yet actually tried solving the puzzle myself, by the way, just passively reading this thread.
The way I did it was
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export the image using GIMP as (iirc) a PPM image, ASCII format, then swapped the width and height in a text editor, and opened the result in GIMP
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Re: ~:?{I=T<:`' ~|I("(S(/?) (!T["I=.M>-|+)%=*%E^'&!
I got as far as everyone else seems to have, i.e.
What I did was
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I have an image of the Pentacephalic One and not sure what to do about the arbitrary latte.
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write a lil Python script to grab the pixels into a numpy array where I could reshape them at will
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Re: ~:?{I=T<:`' ~|I("(S(/?) (!T["I=.M>-|+)%=*%E^'&!
So, another hint before I just give the final step: the "unpredictable coffee" (Java random) gives you a sequence of numbers. Those numbers have something to do with all the dead pixels.
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