[ARG] The Pizza Code Mystery

[Gunsrequiem]

If anyone finds anything on whiteboards that suggest Q or E equal a specific number, please let me know. Thanks!

[Pyroclase]

@UnhingedMouse0

This one?

(There’s a gallery of the white board textures at the bottom of the first post.)

Yeah, exactly.

[Gunsrequiem]

Saw a mention of “lambda Complex Lower section” etc. etc. on the whiteboard behind the GMAN in QE, so going through that level now.

So far, came across this corkboard set:

Looks like the letter in the bottom right with the penguin picture might be a nod to the reason behind the Willy Wonka hat. Maybe that was the letter used to try to get hired on the BMS team? Sure looks like it

[Pyroclase]

It’s apparently a joke referring to a failed applicant.

[UnhingedMouse0]

Yeah, I believe that’s the ‘Toma Basarab’ application.

[Eion_Kilant_739]

@UnhingedMouse0

Yeah, I believe that’s the ‘Toma Basarab’ application.

And who might that be? :retard:

[Gunsrequiem]

So I was completely ransacking Dr. Horn’s weird taco shack in Surface Tension and found this little post-it note on the side of his computer (it was originally against the wall, I think). It looks like it says “Overhead @ 25. (???)”

I tried 25.com and it’s some weird image / photo site. I don’t think the last letters are “com”, however, so it’s hard to say. Just something I noticed.

Screencap:

EDIT: Maybe it says “Overload @ 25 amps”?

[Pyroclase]

That’s on all of the computers of that model; you can see them in AM too.

No idea what it means though.

Edit: And yeah, I’m pretty sure it says ‘25 amps’.

[Gunsrequiem]

Ahhh okay nevermind then. Looks like I’m back to plugging in prime numbers lol

[UnhingedMouse0]

@Eion Kilant 739

And who might that be? :retard:

Old Black Mesa joke. Basically, some guy by the name of ‘Toma Basarab’ applied to the team at some point and this was his example work. He called this one a ‘pingun’ and a very similar work in which he ‘quaffed to maek dog’. Basically it’s been a joke ever since, as there’s been a number of… derivative works… done by the team:

https://soundcloud.com/bacon333/tomabasarabcallsin

Then, when someone asked who “-TB” was, the signature on the letter from the main page, pre-launch. Ram answered saying it was Toma Basarab.

This is all unrelated to the topic at hand though.

[Eion_Kilant_739]

@UnhingedMouse0

https://soundcloud.com/bacon333/tomabasarabcallsin

Then, when someone asked who TB was, the signature on the letter from the main page pre-launch. Ram answered saying it was Toma Basarab.

Interesting. Thanks for answering that off-topic question.

I also had a thought. Has anyone tried gibbing some stuff? I recall that in a video they destroy a prop and get other stuff… I believe it was used to demonstrate the versatility of the gibbing system.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iea3BEXPVtM&feature=player_embedded

According to the wiki it also won’t gib under certain circumstances, like being shot with bullets.

An entity will gib if and only if the following conditions apply:

Will never gib if damage type is DMG_NEVERGIB, DMG_DISSOLVE or DMG_BULLET

Will always gib if damage type is DMG_ALWAYSGIB or DMG_BLAST

Will never gib if it does not have the appropriate gib models

If the above conditions do not apply and the entity’s health is less than or equal to -20, it will gib

[UnhingedMouse0]

So we should gib the pizza?

[Eion_Kilant_739]

@UnhingedMouse0

So we should gib the pizza?

It’s simple. We Gib the Pizzaman[/size].

https://memegenerator.net/instance/27165117
https://memegenerator.net/instance/27165297

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[UnhingedMouse0]

I just tried gibbing the pizza. I also tried taking it down to the furnace before the surgery room. Ya know, because the pizza says it’s hot… but the pizza is a lie… so its probably cold… so I went to heat it back up.

But neither of those things worked… go figure.

[Eion_Kilant_739]

@UnhingedMouse0

I just tried gibbing the pizza. I also tried taking it down to the furnace before the surgery room. Ya know, because the pizza says it’s hot… but the pizza is a lie… so its probably cold… so I went to heat it back up.

But neither of those things worked… go figure.

I think it’s more of which pizza you gib. I am unfortunately unable to test with the game myself but I was planning on going to as many special/hidden locations as possible and bombing the crap out of them. I’ll be able to do it later tonight.

sv_cheats 1
bind MOUSE3 “noclip”
(check to see if DMG_ALWAYSGIB works as a console command.)
bind r “impulse 101”
(fly around the game dealing blast damage and looking for unusual results.)

EDIT: Just discovered something with the site’s logo, it is partially transparent! There is a backwards seven with a dash before it, but you don’t see it because the URL bar is white! Can anyone find a larger version of the logo the site uses? There is something else showing where the S is… Perhaps it makes it a 5?

[iamevn]

@Eion Kilant 739

Just discovered something with the site’s logo, it is partially transparent! There is a backwards seven with a dash before it, but you don’t see it because the URL bar is white! Can anyone find a larger version of the logo the site uses? There is something else showing where the S is… Perhaps it makes it a 5?

This logo? I’m not seeing anything.

[AwesomeFaceCH]

@Xappy

the year is covered up in that I believe…
March 199- I think

1998 obviouslybecause hl1 came out then. sorry if somebody told you already I’m a few pages behind.

[UnhingedMouse0]

No. The year the game came out has nothing to do with the year the game takes place. One of the big things about Half-Life is that no one really knows exactly when it took place, so to remain somewhat canon and not add dates that are incorrect into the game, the devs obfuscate them everywhere.

Eion Kilant 739 - What on earth are you talking about?

[AwesomeFaceCH]

@Gunsrequiem

Saw a mention of “lambda Complex Lower section” etc. etc. on the whiteboard behind the GMAN in QE, so going through that level now.

So far, came across this corkboard set:

Looks like the letter in the bottom right with the penguin picture might be a nod to the reason behind the Willy Wonka hat. Maybe that was the letter used to try to get hired on the BMS team? Sure looks like it

about that pinguin in the shack of dr.horn there’s alot of linux references… that peinguin being hired is one of them maybe Hired means they’re woring on alinux port… who knows

[AwesomeFaceCH]

@Eion Kilant 739

EDIT: Just discovered something with the site’s logo, it is partially transparent! There is a backwards seven with a dash before it, but you don’t see it because the URL bar is white! Can anyone find a larger version of the logo the site uses? There is something else showing where the S is… Perhaps it makes it a 5?

you’re just seeing things