Something I recall seeing on one of consoles about an hour into game, was different from everything else, my hd went T.U. and I lost lots of stuff, but the keys had double arrows, similiar to ->-> then down down left left and so on, about 6 keys, in all, very unique, sorry for throwing so much crap out, just hoping something clicks with someon3…
Where did this image come from? I’ve never been able to find it in the game yet it appears in thepizzaisalie wikia
Page and image created on September 24, 2012 by PhlOgistOn who disappeared real quickly after creating it and having a few posts in our forum.
Why is there a blank area to the right of the photo?
If I had to guess, the blank area on the right is for the backside of the picture frame, which was modeled so that it could be used as a physics prop or a desk frame.
I’m 90% sure that the Dr. Horn photo is located in one of the offices on the top floor of QE.
Yeah, I know the picture by itself is used in multiple locations but, I was wanting to know if the image, as shown above, appears anywhere.
It’s a scaled down image of the texture located in [tt]materials\models\props_questionableethics\qe_portraitframe1.vtf[/tt], saved as a JPEG.
Isnt there a total of 3 pictures for him? QE up stairs in main office, his office and the shack?
This is what that file looks like in VTFEDIT:
I never understood why the wikia image of Dr Horn wasn’t just the simple photo that’s used in the game.
Instead, it was created with this vtf combined with another one to get the result.
AFAIK, there are just two: the one in his office, and the one in the shack. But outside of the game, there’s also this.
In all, there are portraits of three people: Dr. Horn, Dr. Foreman and Dr. Welsh.
What? No, that’s [tt]qe_portraitframe_spec.vtf[/tt]. This is what [tt]qe_portraitframe1.vtf[/tt] looks like:
[attach=4542,none,512][/attach]
EDIT:
So, to conclude: There’s nothing odd about the picture on the wikia page for Dr Horn.
@Phlogiston, who created that wiki page, was one of the more visible players in the beginning of the ARG, but didn’t stick around for the long haul. He/she was the most active editor on the wiki in the beginning, and is still ranking at the top of the list of users with the highest edit counts on the wiki.
That said, Dr. Horn’s wiki page could use a bit of touching up. I’ll see if I can upload a better picture of Dr. Horn to the wiki.
EDIT2:
Just a thought… If there is a clue out there that we haven’t found yet, what if this clue is hidden in time? What if one of the sites changes and then changes back again after a short time period, before anyone notices, and this is happening at regular intervals?
That’s what I thought, I have no idea when (or how). Maybe (only a theory though) is at 21:00; 21:01; 01:21…
EDIT: But again, I think someone would find some kind of “timer” script, that is making those changes at specific time, most of the sites have been thoroughly checked.
In other news, localdesertsingles.com isn’t redirecting/ showing blackmesasource.com, it’s just… blank.
I checked other sites, and they appear to be normal, and Stormseeker’s site is still down(?)
Here’s the source:
[code=html,‘view-source:https://localdesertsingles.com/’]
html, body, #partner, iframe { height:100%; width:100%; margin:0; padding:0; border:0; outline:0; font-size:100%; vertical-align:baseline; background:transparent; } body { overflow:hidden; } [/code]That script tag at the end would resolve to a URL of https://sedoparking.com/en/localdesertsingles.com/tierraexpired/park.js , which is kicking back a 410 code (“gone”, a.k.a. “no longer on this server”).
EDIT:
WHOOPS, that got copied wrong!
https://sedoparking.com/frmpark/localdesertsingles.com/tierraexpired/park.js :
[spoiler]
[code=js,‘https://sedoparking.com/frmpark/localdesertsingles.com/tierraexpired/park.js’] var google_afd_request = {“client”:“ca-dp-sedo-token_xml”,“drid”:“as-drid-2147587107704296”,“domain_name”:“localdesertsingles.com”,“session_token”:“create”};
var setup = {
domain : ‘localdesertsingles.com’,
registrar : ‘tierraexpired’,
}; function google_afd_ad_request_done( google_afd_response ) {
if( typeof(google_afd_response.session_token) == 'undefined' ){
google_afd_response.session_token = '';
}
loadContentFrame( google_afd_response.session_token );
}
document.write(
'<script type="text/javascript" language="JavaScript" ' +
'src="https://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/apps/domainpark/show_afd_ads.js"><\/script>' );
function loadContentFrame( session_token ){
var contentFrame = document.createElement('iframe');
contentFrame.setAttribute( 'src',
'https://sedoparking.com/search/registrar.php'+
'?domain=' + setup.domain +
'&rpv=2' +
'®istrar=' + setup.registrar +
'&gst=' + session_token +
'&ref=' + document.referrer
);
contentFrame.setAttribute('name', 'regpark' );
contentFrame.setAttribute('frameBorder', '0' );
var contentContainer = document.getElementById("partner");
if( typeof(contentContainer) == 'undefined' ){
contentContainer = document.createElement('div');
contentContainer.setAttribute('id', 'partner');
}
contentContainer.appendChild( contentFrame );
}[/code][/spoiler]A whois lookup shows that the localdesertsingles.com domain is “Pending Renewal or Deletion”. The domain registration expired on Feb 11, 2016.
The kxbm.net domain registration, which was registered on the same day as localdesertsingles.com, has been renewed, though.
EDIT:
I don’t think we’ve looked at this before:
On each clearance card there’s an ID code in hex. There are nine cards in total:
01-863309EE
02-9744D1BB
03-30EBB00F
04-DB9065BB
05-B87AB0A3
06-40B9C935
07-DE261231
08-D0AE5389
09-E285AE99
What’s curious is that the two first digits seem to be sequential, while the rest of the digits look random. It’s as if the hex codes are meant to be put together in order:
863309EE 9744D1BB 30EBB00F DB9065BB B87AB0A3 40B9C935 DE261231 D0AE5389 E285AE99
An ASCII dump of this hex code doesn’t reveal anything interesting:
†3.î—DÑ»0ë°.Û.e»¸z°£@¹É5Þ&.1ЮS‰â…®™But what’s interesting about this hex code is that it’s exactly 36 bytes of data (or 288 bits), which is exactly the same length as the grilled pizza message.
There’s also some kind of bar code on the cards, but it’s difficult to get a clear look at them. I don’t have TF2, so I can’t download the workshop item in order to take a look inside the files.
EDIT Feb 26, 2016: Hmm, I didn’t consider the fact that there are two teams: RED and BLU, so presumably there’s going to be a set of nine blue clearance cards in addition to the nine red ones. I wonder if the id codes on the blue cards are the same as those on the red cards, or are they different…?
where did the tf2 image come from?
I followed a link in this tweet by @BlackMesaDevs, which brought me to this workshop page.
Then I took a look at the other workshop items by Black Mesa Workshop, and found the The Clearance Card.
It’s also listed under BM dev @Fr0z3n’s TF2 workshop items.
Guys
Whoever said that the key for the HALOS code has to be English? What if the HALOS hex code is meant to look random… because the key looks random?
So I’m confused, on kxbm.com/article
It talks about a 6.5 earrthquake, and a natural gas explosion at black mesa facility.
The date was Feb 11th 2015. I can’t find anything in the half-life world about Feb 11th. I have been reading through timelines, some seem off, one says black mesa incident was 2003, another says 2006. I know it’s 200x.
What could be in the time line on Feb 11 2015?
Another thing, the psa warning announcement talking about the black mesa incident, telling people to leave town, says the incident happened at 9:47 at the facility. Most of what I read has said the resonance cascade happened at 8:58?
My guess is that they put it into the timeline of our reality, so that the article would look like a real news article and that it was happening in real time.
The time is 8:47 AM when Gordon starts his tram ride. Barney Calhoun starts his tram ride at 8:42 AM and is supposed to report to work for his shift at 9:00 AM. So, the incident must have occurred some time after 9:00 AM.
EDIT:
Whether the key is English, Latin, gibberish or random, 0418_08151814/Code_ (Storm) said this regarding the password/key:
I don’t know if it is significant or not, but in this instance he said password instead of key.
I don’t know if we have already ruled this out but since code C helped us solve code D by giving us a few clues for the SECOM cipher that led to stormseekers website the could the solution to code D give us clue(s) on how to solve the 752 hex?
ok, someone needs to look at this, I don’t know what I stumbled into, I would love for someone to tell me what this is. its information on black mesa research facility I have not seen, and a back story I have not read. it also mentions a brian scott Gregory. who is that? and how is he related? also there are copies of an ein tax form with his name and address on it, he also has another for RPIi college or something. the color image (The Black Mesa Research Facility under a security holoveil.) seems to have a ton of information hidden within it? I cant find any reference to this anywhere on this site. BUT, could this be a hint that was given before regarding a star trek tng episode? I’m not sure anyone has discovered this…
https://universalbri.wordpress.com/2015/02/24/black-mesa-research-facility/
and here are some images on the page.
at this point I don’t even know if I’m working within bounds of the ARG, either I got twisted around and i’m just looking up real stuff, or this ARG just went next level
That is a separate ARG drgibbles.
so there are more than 1 black mesa research facility args?
and it links to blackmesaresearchfacility.net
it also mentions having a form turned in by jan 31st 2016, seems fairly recent, could you please point me in the direction of the other bmrf arg? I would like to read up on it
I also found this looking around on the site
it clearly mentions blackmesasource and the arg
bummer, I thought it might lead to something new