📝 Ben's Random Bits

[BenR]

This thread is for any body to post whatever scratch pad, crazy sounding, dead end seeming thoughts on the ARG.

EDITING: This top post is a WIKI. Anyone can edit this top post.

Insert your own ideas right after this line. To create that line, just place 3 - in a row. This way we can keep separate topics all in line. All relevant replies can go in between your lines

Currently I’m splitting by day. But just about anything goes when you’re random baby!

Insert Austin Powers meme “yeah baby!”

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BenR, Operator 127 on July 31 @ 9:58PM (I’m adding these in my own time zone for System and proper temporal shift purposes)

Here’s a shortcut to my randomness from today. It’s a good read and worth conversing over if you’re curious.

Again, I don’t think anyone gets a ping when this is updated here?

Ben's Random Bits

[Screenshot_20260731-153154.Moto Note] [Screenshot_20260731-151933.Firefox] You watch that on a screen. From another perspective. With a remote control to go on any direction within the show. Perspective shift.

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BenR, Operator 127 posted Jul 30, 2026 @ 2:12PM

Room for all. If System missed you, or if you would like to, feel free to colonize my system. I’m still incapacitated and won’t be able to claim it soon anyways.

PM for details. I don’t think anyone is even noticing this post changing.

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Contribute here

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Everything below is my original ramblings. Still here for posterity. See you all in another 10yrs I hope.

I will be creating new posts periodically with all the information related to the post topic I can find, with anything y’all reply included. I’ll edit my own posts to keep them updated to the best of my ability. This will be quite random, but I will do my best to maintain what I see here for all. This thread will not include everything, I cannot track it all. But this will be my attempt to bridge our different gatherings.

Do NOT expect the posts to be in order of release in the game itself. I am NOT that good.

Mods were nice enough to let us have this thread, please stay on topic and REPLY to the correct post with new info or corrections.

(When in doubt, reply to this post right here)

IYK,YK

This top post is a wiki. You can all edit it. Do not abuse this power, or it’ll be revoked!

NOT Latest

The gist is the Discord is applying a previous live puzzle methodology to the next puzzle. There is a plan to learn more of the “rules” by doing specific things for science! I am super intrigued, but too distant at the moment to directly partake.

Memory Editing Live Events - Planning Thread

Just in case anyone’s confused: Please go down to this sheet at the end, queue up your expected submissions, and leave your team name in the final column as a comment. I’ll add the appropriate options as required. [image] The Team Tracker and options can be found by scrolling to the right

I have been slacking with updates here, as life+car=pain

I have been keeping up with Discord, but see in my absence the new threads here “loosened” up.

I’m still going to keep the thread alive, but maybe not a play by play anymore.

The spurts of inspiration and problem solving and collaboration aren’t matching my schedule as well anymore.

Memories page of ARG (we have unlocked these and use these clues)

project-skyscraper

[BenR]

Date IRL: June 7th 2026

From: Report: BRUSSELS – project-skyscraper

This is the postcard received today. Image directly linked, so the glitching isn’t intact. The glitching was a slight movement and gray scale application every few frames.

The password to receive this message was

EVENT HORIZON

The way to get that solution was in the links in this:

SLP #47

Note:

the original postcard was found, but does not have a barcode in the top right.

nor does it have the bottom right 8-16

[Vau1t]

I can see it. Will monitor.

[Bernice42]

I created an account to say thank you for starting this thread. I have been trying to follow along for the last few weeks with tabs open and getting overwhelmed. I was enjoying your posts, so I’m glad to have this here. I think I will follow along better with this Ben’s Random Bits thread. I don’t know that I would have anything to contribute to solve the puzzles but hello anyway.

[BenR]

Happy to have you here! Feel free to contribute anything you can. I’m not one of those prolific editors, so this might get quite random.

And yes! That’s why they made this for us!

We still got the mod crew looking over, but all of us “random things hurt brain” folks will have a shot at following along.

If you have a random thought, idea, question, feel free to ask here. Little bit less strict, let’s not try them.

[sheralmyst]

Welcome to the forum @Bernice42

[BenR]

Monday, June 8, 2026 Update

2021_dataset

Continue with:

Request Memory Timestamp

We have also chosen to make a concerted effort of sharing #GlitchingReality images to social media, as that was also a request, link immediately below,

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About your progress

Opérateurs. Je vous observe très attentivement aujourd’hui, comme je le fais depuis si longtemps… Je connais chacun d’entre vous. Je sais que vous avez beaucoup de questions, mais malheureusement, je ne peux pas répondre à la plupart d’entre elles. Pas pour le moment, en tout cas. Sachez que vos actions sont cruciales dans le Project-Skyscraper. Le Système réagit à vos actions comme nous l’avions prévu, même s’il semble parfois halluciner. C’est ce qui arrive quand on essaie de se souvenir d’…

If you do not have social media, include your image and the hashtag in a reply to this post. In the very least, I can post to Bluesky on your behalf with the link to your reply here.

Look to the postcard picture earlier in this thread for an example

I did not ask if this was a good idea

Gtranslated

Operators.

I am watching you very closely today, just as I have for so long… I know each of you.

I know you have many questions, but unfortunately, I cannot answer most of them. Not for the moment, at least.

Know that your actions are crucial to Project-Skyscraper. The System reacts to your actions exactly as we predicted, even if it sometimes seems to hallucinate. That is what happens when one tries to recall distant events.If your own reality becomes unstable, report it to the other Operators: #GlitchingRealityIdentify anomalies in your environment: anything that breaks the continuity of reality offers a clue regarding the System’s hallucinations.

Your efforts are not in vain. Every thread you weave brings us closer to the goal. Memory is a labyrinth with no exit; every corridor explored may reveal a fragment of information. And every fragment shared is a memory solidified.

A time will come when things become crystal clear. And you will be proud to have contributed. But that time has not yet arrived. I have been working on this project for many years.

You will understand.

The Architect

PS: , I am counting on you for the translation. It is the meaning that matters, not the words.

I didn’t read the linked thread before making the text hidden. Took many edits. I finally got this figured it out in this moment. Oh well. Practice makes perfect, right?

This screenshot is from the new emotional #glitchingreality memory created in the Discord chat today.

And a quick update from Discord

[Bernice42]

Thanks for the welcome! It was cool seeing a thread started by the architect this morning. I have no idea what counts as my own reality becoming unstable, so I wouldn’t know what to post with that hashtag. However, it made me think of user 7101334’s comment about how the memories being “stabilized” seem like they have errors in them. Also, the “threads you weave” line in the letter made me think of @BenR’s comment yesterday about the puzzles all seeming connected instead of separate. Is that why restoration is still just sitting at 1/365 even though so many of the entries are labelled as “stable”? And today’s page (2021 dataset) about finding a safe haven made me think of this specific thread here, because here I am feeling brave enough to post finally. Of course, it’s not related because this topic was started yesterday, not Feb 25 2021.

[BenR]

There’s this Future-Past thing though…

I think you might be on to something, as you could say you and I are Nada and Polo and we just found the bits that became our own Anomalie.

Even if not intentional, this fits beautifully.

On Discord, a user told their little boy about the game and he pointed out a transmission pole of some sort. Long story short, the kiddo is the next generation and Dad “found an emotional memory to share”

I’m hoping someone else can screenshot and post it, maybe even this here is enough, idk.

Screenshot added to 📝 Ben's Random Bits - #7 by BenR

[Bernice42]

Future-past! You’re right. Ugh that really complicates it all doesn’t it? Wibbly-wobbly timey-wimey stuff. It’s hard to know what we’re supposed to trust or what we’re supposed to question.

[DevilinPixy]

If your own reality becomes unstable, report it to other Operators : #GlitchingReality

I think this means to say, that if we have memories of events but are not quite sure of the specifics (date/time, the memory itself, or otherwise), we should discuss this with each other (operators), and if we do so on social media we should include the hashtag with it?

[DevilinPixy]

I believe the above to be important as the ‘system’ is trying to put it all together in order to remember clearly, through our recollection of events? At least that is what it seems like to me.

[toddumptious]

This is what I was thinking. I tried to envision this with some lanyards from Dublin World Con, a convention that has been running for 100 years and focuses on all things Sci Fi from literature to movies and TV. This was the first year in its history it was held in my country.

I also added the 10th anniversary of DublinMaker, a confused memory to allude to the upcoming NMS 10th anniversary.

Nestled within, is my Atlass Pass V4

#glitchingreality

I also started a new thread for this, so we can catalogue and archive what people are sharing on social media, for those who do not venture into such wild waters.

[BenR]

Groovy, I’ll link it where I made the offer then, keep this somewhat “cleaner”

[DevilinPixy]

Ah yes and thank you for starting that topic:

#GlitchingReality

Since we seem to think the Architect wants us to share photos or memories of glitched reality or hallucinated memories and report them to Operators, as human memory is imperfect and ripe with error as time goes on; I thought it would be good to make a thread to catalogue what images or things we are posting across various social medias during this period. Below are mine, looking forward to seeing yours, Operators.

We have thus far only been keeping a sheet of actual submissions for the Memory Fragments, not our social sharing (#GlitchingReality)

[BenR]

New Architect post noticed! STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS – project-skyscraper

Jun.9, 2026
STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS

memory bloc 1781012220

Status: Entities_reunion_peak
Artefact: Postcard from the Future-Past
Location: BRUSSELS

Alert: Anomaly’s timestamp remains UNDEFINED.
Overlapping fragments float outside of time.

Impact: The moment is neutralised.

Current State: It has never happened It keeps happening It will happen ← this keeps glitching from one to another

Page updated; user (refer to image) posted it was a false memory and the page updated. Now there are 2 posts for June 9

[Bernice42]

Hmm, well never mind what I said about wondering why we were still stuck at 1/365. I was making a list of all the dates and a note about each when I noticed that a bunch of new pages for 2016 exist now (which I see that the Haven map also logged) and the memory bloc restoration is up to 36/365. It’s interesting that the new pages skip right over NMS’s launch day. Waking Titan comes up again in the new page with today’s date, which even though I was a day 1 NMS player, I didn’t have any engagement with WT. My dad (also a day 1 NMS player) did - he told me a little about it but I didn’t have time to think twice about it then. I’m trying to stay up to date with this one in his memory. He would have LOVED this arg. But I know next to nothing about WT so the inside stuff goes over my head. (Tried to read up about it a bit a few weeks ago, but .. there’s a lot.)

[toddumptious]

Sorry to hear he has passed on from this plane but happy to have you hear with us carrying that torch.

If its any comfort, I was here for all of waking titan and I dont think theres anything that I can tell myself right now that would be of any aid for me in solving this

[Bernice42]

Ha! Ah, thank you for saying that. Good to know one of the pros feels a bit lost even with WT knowledge.

[BenR]

I updated todays post. Sorry for the delay, life happening.

Sorry to hear about your Dad. I used to play Galaga on our C64 with my Dad, in the 90’s. Got him back in to gaming before he passed, much too soon to be a part of No Man’s Sky.

Happy memories. Thank you for surfacing them.

I’ll keep doing my best to post the big changes, day by day… just worried I might’ve missed something.

I am updating the daily posts through out the day, and sometimes the next (if I slept too early or otherwise missed details).

I am honestly over joyed to have you here.

Random quote- Festivus for the Rest of us!

I feel that’s fitting somehow.