Project skyscraper / no man's sky arg

Project Skyscraper
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If it were possible to send one special message to the architect - what would we want it to be?

Assume it is a one time deal and that we should act in character.

(I am looking for real input, this is not a flavour question)

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1762

‘have you tried turning it on and off again’

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1763

I had a similar line of thought but relating to this

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I’m wondering if, in the same way we interacted with it and the Architect before, we need to essentially enter a command or string here to do well .. anything lol

I’m not familiar enough with coding though to make any suggestions as to what to type lol

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1764

As an answer to the question of towers we can see but can’t see what or who’s inside, I’d suggest the Tower of Hercules or the Eiffel Tower.

That’s what I think, and I’ve already tried the Tower of Hercules (also known as the Tower of Breogán)… now we need someone to try the Eiffel Tower.

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1765

I thought so to, but I cant exactly interact with it, maybe y’all can but I’m at a loss there

please try though, that would be great

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It is not able to be interacted with in that way.

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1767

saved again from a red herring lol :3

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They interacted with the last one by taking a pic and posting it to X tagging project skyscraper. I’m wondering if typing the string in a comment or some such and then posting it would work

They posted the correct poem verses in a comment as well

So it would stand to reason that the way we make changes is to post the proper change to social media tagging the Architect and Project Skyscraper

1769

Hey y’all.

The tower riddle picture (8c7atk6y141h1.png) was acting funky in Gimp. Showing 1600x4449 in the scaler. But the meta says it was at 1600x1000.

So what I did was unlock the scaling, and upscaled it to 1600x4449. I would then layer to image size. Since the meta says 1600x1000, layering to image size would always crop it to that size. If you repeat this process 5 times it unscrambles the picture and becomes transparent:

tower riddle 5x scaled
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At that point I just dropped the project-skyscraper.jpg to another layer. I did not modify or move it. I got this:

skyscraper tower riddle overlay
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1770

There’s a famous anecdote about the Eiffel tower.

“As a regular visitor to this site, do you find this structure beautiful?”
“Of course not! This is the only place in the city where I can look out and avoid seeing this hideous thing.”

They can see the tower.
But the one inside can’t.

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1772

Well then, that would be the answer if it’s a riddle and not a description. :slight_smile:

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aye, I agree with Alderan, this seems far to promising to be wrong,

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1774

If only I had a dime for all the promising paths we’ve attempted before only to be wrong :joy:

That said, I did mention Project Skyscraper on X with something to this effect.

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1775

Not to beat a dead horse, but at night it also has, somewhat, of a Panopticon Effect, and it’s also one of if not the most famous building in France. I like this idea y’all!

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That’s what I thought a while ago…

Maybe @the_architect is inside the tower and can’t see what we see?

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1777

The problem with this as a riddle is that for those inside not to be able to see the tower, there shouldn’t be any other buildings around it.

Imagine a building next to the Eiffel Tower; then, literally, even if you’re inside, you’ll be able to see the tower in the building’s reflection… that’s the problem with the riddle itself.

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1778

nice thinking, however in the photo in the architect’s PFP theyre above the clouds, so the clouds could be blocking you from seeing reflections, or just cause of the fact you’re very high up

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This differs from the files I have considerably size wise. What is the SHA256 of your copy of connection-detected-access-denied-v0-8c7atk6y141h1 and when did you download it?

I am fearing I have a file that I have been burning out my brain with that is incorrect. It would greatly help me to know.

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It’s just a matter of perspective; the entire structure is essentially the tower, and that applies to the elevators too. If you can see the tower’s reflection from the inside, then you can see the tower itself from within the tower.

Yes, I know it’s a bit of a stretch, but it seems this ARG also uses some convoluted elements.

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Ah yes.

You can strip the query parameters that force Reddit’s WebP conversion by getting the image here:

i.redd.it/8c7atk6y141h1.png

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