[ARG] The Pizza Code Mystery

[ZKtheMAN]

@DeathTBO

Edit: Figured it out (quite simple now that I look at it). The numbers are “week/day/hour” until the week become “00”. Then it becomes “day/hour/minutes”. It continues to countdown until it reach “eventDate”.

The rightmost number seems to be going down every minute, so I’m guessing we’re past the week-day-hour part.

From my count, it seems to end on 11:46, May 4th. If it changes due to time zone, I’m in PST.

EDIT: got ninja’d, looks like it ends on May 5th, at 10:47. AM or PM I don’t know.

[KyuuGryphon]

Looks like AM to me.

[Bladebitch]

This is exciting. Can’t wait to see what happens.^^

[Pantupino]

10:47… 10 and 47… THIS IS IT GUISE! The repeating numbers!

[Johnwalter]

It has a counter!
8o
Damn that’s exciting, can’t wait to see what follows after it.
Perhaps the MP stream announcement, Xen news, game general
news?

[KyuuGryphon]

I’m trying not to get overly hyped, but I hope the devs know that unless they have something big for when that countdown runs out, some people are going to be annoyed.

[Denizgun]

I kinda feel retarded since we were not able to solve the damn hex code.

[stormseeker]

Time will still reveal all… eventually.

Who knows how deep this rabbit hole goes.

[EMUGOD]

@JeffMOD

Man, I just love that distortion effect. Would be nice to know how to replicate it in a shader or something.

It’s available in the page source;

@BMRF

<script src="assets/jquery-1.11.1.min.js"></script> <script src="assets/three.min.js"></script> <script src="assets/EffectComposer.js"></script> <script src="assets/RenderPass.js"></script> <script src="assets/ShaderPass.js"></script> <script src="assets/MaskPass.js"></script> <script src="assets/CopyShader.js"></script> <script src="assets/FilmShader.js"></script> <script src="assets/RGBShiftShader.js"></script> <script src="assets/BadTVShader.js"></script> <script src="assets/StaticShader.js"></script> <script src="assets/bootstrap.min.js"></script> <script src="assets/jquery.fullPage.min.js"></script> <script src="assets/jquery.countdown.js"></script> <script> // Makes gratuitous use of the "Bad TV Effect Demo" by Felix Turner (www.airtight.cc / @felixturner) // Thank you for an awesome shader, Felix :)

[BuzzKillington]

@stormseeker

Time will still reveal all… eventually.

Who knows how deep this rabbit hole goes.

@raw_bean

InB4HL3confirmed

raw_bean (previous dev) mentioning Half-Life, you saying this is one deep rabbit hole… Black Mesa (now officially renamed ‘Black Mesa: Source’ ) will be entirely endorsed by Valve and it’s coming bundled with Half-Life 3. And/Or at the same time as HL3.

You basically just gave all that away ;D

[Jake_R]

@stormseeker

Time will still reveal all… eventually.

Who knows how deep this rabbit hole goes.

@stormseeker

Dr Horn will see you now…

So, we have:

• Time reveals all
• “how deep this rabbit hole goes”
• Dr. Horn

First one is either telling us that TOR is still relevant, or just referring to the new countdown that appeared, or both.

Second one reminds me of Alice in Wonderland (just like the purple hats do, because of the Mad Hatter), or indirectly, the Matrix: “You take the red pill—you stay in Wonderland, and I show you how deep the rabbit hole goes”. Then again, I could be completely off.

Third… Obviously, stormseeker being Horn, it could just be a joke. If not, perhaps we need to look back to previous appearances of Horn, and see if anything new opened up (“he will see you now” meaning he’s “ready to let us in”). There doesn’t seem to be any interesting activity on the wiki, but perhaps one of the ARG websites changed?

Also: I don’t have time for this, dammit! I’m working on my thesis! ;_;

Edit:

Wait, did someone say the timer ends at 8:47 in the Mountain time zone (which includes Black Mesa’s location in New Mexico)?

[Tuskin38]

@BuzzKillington

raw_bean (previous dev) mentioning Half-Life, you saying this is one deep rabbit hole… Black Mesa (now officially renamed ‘Black Mesa: Source’ ) will be entirely endorsed by Valve and it’s coming bundled with Half-Life 3. And/Or at the same time as HL3.

You basically just gave all that away ;D

Pretty sure its still just “Black Mesa” because it still isn’t an Official Valve Product.

[Astij]

The habbenings are so real right now

[Skuros]

Went digging around a little bit to see if there was anything particularly significant about May 5.

If you take the PS2 manual as canon, that’s the date that Gordon is hired by Black Mesa. So that’s interesting.

[Jake_R]

[code=js,'view-source:https://www.bmrf.us/?’]/-----------------------------------------------------/
/----------------------- Timer -----------------------/
/-----------------------------------------------------/

$(’.fadein’).fadeIn(500);
$(".glitch-time").countdown({
date: “5 may 2015 08:47:00 UTC -6:00”
}, function () {
window.location.replace(“https://www.bmrf.us/zero.html”);
})[/code]If the earlier post by @toxyn was correct, it was modified since then. Pretty sure they changed the code to more accurately reflect what is being referenced. New Mexico (Black Mesa) is in UTC -7… +1 for DST gives us UTC -6. Which, as mentioned before, gives us what we already knew. Not sure if it’s at all important, seeing as this time was apparently used before with no further link to anything?

As for the date: as @Skuros mentioned, the original hiring letter date (although retconned to an earlier date since then) is the only thing I could find.

[MAXGEAR]

@Jake12344

The name of the file is 3.mp4

HALF LAEF THRI COMFIRNED!!1

Actually i think that there will be a demo or announce of steam version

[Jacky]

@MAXGEAR

@Jake12344

The name of the file is 3.mp4

HALF LAEF THRI COMFIRNED!!1
Actually i think that there will be a demo or announce of steam version

Announcement of Half Life 3? U mad?
This is Black Mesa, which isn’t connected to Valve or Half Life series (other than remake) in ANY way.

[Cranken]

@MAXGEAR

@Jake12344

The name of the file is 3.mp4

HALF LAEF THRI COMFIRNED!!1
Actually i think that there will be a demo or announce of steam version

I think they are waiting for their Steam VR to release so they can show it of with HL3.

[MAXGEAR]

@GLaDOS

That was a joke
Ha ha
Fat chance

I meant demo/anounce of BM steam version, because development is still going (or they’re just fooling us and game already done)
Also it’s interesting fact as said before that date matches Mr.Freeman’s hiring back in year 200-

And yes, bad TV signal effect is pretty unnatural

[Jake12344]

Don’t know if it means anything, but in the javascript to display the gman in the console, the string decodes to the characters for the gman, but there are hexadecimal digits in the middle. Could be a missing part of the hex code needed to make it fit whatever blocksize it uses, which might explain the length of 376 bytes. It’s probally nothing, but I’m all out of ideas.
Code:

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EDIT: Nevermind, it’s just javascript hex format for whitespace and other characters