Project skyscraper / no man's sky arg

I’m reading and reading and reading with excitement. :smiley:

I’m a little scared actually lol, more with anticipation as this game, has been part of my life for a long time now in so many good ways. I loved the waking titan ARG period and what it meant for NMS and the team at Hello Games at that time. It’s also around about when I discovered ETARC.

And hello to you all too : )

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Nah, I meant the year, notthe 16th month xD
But yeah, it’s 16.11.16, that’s how we write it down in my country, at least.
Also, I wonder if the videogame from this post (since it eventually leads to this: Future Unfolding on Steam) is of any importance? I doubt it, though. I think they just chose something from that day that was at least stylistically coherent - a procedural generated forest from another videogame.

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Yes. Thanks for mentioning this. This ARG is using the day/month/year format so we need to keep that in mind.

And thanks for the X posts. I am no longer there

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@johnnycloud I remember during Waking Titan we had to take part in a radio request.

The announcer read yours out quite normally - then you could hear his voice change when he read your location: “In Space”. I laughed so hard I nearly fell off my chair.

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The correct way, I think it’s time to admit the U.S is wrong about a LOT of things :stuck_out_tongue:

I am sending you a bunch of the letter u’s, you can start going around and inserting them in the words you removed them from. Some of them are coloUrful but most of them are black. Regardless, they are all wonderful U’s, so don’t go picking any favoUrites.

Nice to see you again @johnnycloud , so good to see so many old faces. Everyone coming back home just in time for the NMS10 anniversary celebrations. IF this is a fan made ARG they’ve done a damn good job at rounding everyone up in time, HG should probably throw them a few quid at the very least.

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Thank you Governour Todd

Could you send a metric ruler with that U supply?

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Ahem, it’s Governour Toudd.

I’ll send you the metric ruler if you can increase my daily hearts/likes allowance… 20ish minutes until I get another handful and I want to give them to everyone <3

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Have some of mine :heart::heart::heart::heart::heart:

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Trying to respond to newer posts on Twitter in the hopes that it can trigger another security breach since the last one happened because we dug deeper. Might help if anyone else still active on Twitter could lend a hand on other posts?

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There was also a 16/16/16 post in Bluesky

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You know, I was thinking about the poem post from 2005. The blue, the silence. Anyway, we’ve already had another person translating that picture from Reddit into the sound, and there was nothing notable. I’m currently trying another things, but to no success yet. What I tried is to:

  1. Hide different channels in Photoshop
  2. Save these images
  3. Import them in FL Studio
  4. Putting them into BeepMap and playing them.
    I don’t know what key should I use or what length percentage should be used in BeepMap. However, the picture with ONLY the blue color was silent. I guess it’s normal, putting any blue picture through BeepMap only outputs silence.
    “Blue birds are invisible on the blue sky,
    They vanish in silence where secrets lie.”

I think we should dig into that? I’m a music producer, but I’ve never been interested in spectrograms and such, so I’m not a big help. There’s a button “Use blue” in this plugin and it makes a difference. When I upload original image and bypass the blue color in this plugin, it sound a little bit cleaner than without it.

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Hello all, I have been playing with this on multiple devices and noticed it is different on each one. Even the # Live Connection Attempts are different and no matter how many reloads/refreshes I can’t seem to get two devices to line up together. :exploding_head:

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We are fairly certain this was pointing us to Twitter (X)and Bluesky but the image is definitely intriguing. Feel free to pursue any avenues you feel may be useful.

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Hello @bradd850 and welcome back.

I have noticed differences as well. Most notable when on mobile, I don’t get the url. And there has been one clue there so far in the form of a missing digit. 1. So I am mostly viewing the security logs on PC now.

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And you too @toddumptious and @ThatBomberBoi I recognise too : )
@Mad-Hatter @MacForADay @Sir_oops @SingularGleam @DevilinPixy @Clemm the more I scroll the more names I see bring back great memories of this game. I shall probably miss some but hello to you all too : )
I’ll keep adding familiar names : )

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Oh good. You have forgotten I blew up your Ferris wheel. :joy:

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The Bluebirds disappearing into Bluesky was a reference to twitters former mascot and the droves that fled from it to Bluesky. We cracked that part. Not sure what the rest of it is.

This prompted us to search for their profile on twitter and bluesky, which was found by our brave members who dare to venture into such places.

A twitch page was also found some time later and funnily enough, their link to their twitter profile on their twitch profile, was labelled as “Bluebird”.

I still think the rest of the poem is more alluding to the nature of social media sites (moderated by bots, posts/users getting flagged and deleted etc) but if you can find anything else that would be super helpful.

The image of the bluesky/fields/trees themselves have yet to be properly pored over or examined from what I can remember, so if you have any experience with decoding hidden things within corrupted image files it would be of great help.

I actually fell off my chair reading this :rofl:

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Can we get a couple more people to follow the X account to get it to 16 followers. See if that triggers anything

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Good luck finding 16 people here willing to use X :wink::joy: It may be best to reach out on X by reposting and getting other NMS followers to follow it

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I remember all those radio adverts. from everyone involved. That was so cool and one of the most memorable highlights of the ARG. I was honestly knocked out with joy at all the creativity from everyone. @sheralmyst too and you recall Cobra’s guitar solo. Too many to list. They were all brilliant!

I can’t believe this was eight years ago!
Found it @Polyphemus Waking Titan - Radio Show email for Alexander 2018

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