[ARG] The Pizza Code Mystery

Gunsrequiem · November 25, 2018, 4:21am

Thanks for that–I don’t want to add any variables that aren’t legitimate.

ShadFox · November 25, 2018, 4:21am

Staring from 0: 33 it sounds like a slowed down SSTV transmittion for me.

thewizard99 · November 25, 2018, 4:21am

there to much background noise to even extrapolate any data from it. Its a dead end.

TornadoAP · August 11, 2020, 11:13am

There’s that god damn number again, number 47. It could be a coincidence but what the hell? I swear it’s plastered around this whole thing.

TornadoAP · November 25, 2018, 4:21am

Here’s the message that actually came with the Hex number.

It’s definitely OTR 4

thewizard99 · November 25, 2018, 4:21am

Where abouts, can you link to the pages its on?

TornadoAP · August 11, 2020, 11:13am

https://thepizzaisalie.wikia.com/wiki/Stormseeker%27s_Website
One of the commentors:

https://forums.blackmesasource.com/showthread.php?t=13735&page=113
First post

Several other areas I’ve seen this but it seems it all has to do with the 752 code.

thewizard99 · November 25, 2018, 4:21am

maybe it might mean something, who knows.

CPU · November 25, 2018, 4:21am

There are 3 different numbers in 752
7*5=35
35 with the original multiplier removed = 3
The ONLY odd number between 2 and 7 not listed in the number itself = 3

Half-Life 3 Confirmed!

thewizard99 · November 25, 2018, 4:21am

3 is also a Fibonacci number.
there are 7 3’s in 21.
I could go on lol

AngelSG · November 25, 2018, 4:21am

You all need to learn how to HL3 Conspiracy Illuminaty:
BENALLOHPAILLIER=02051401121215081601081212090518= 02/05/14 01/12/12 15/08/16 01/08/12 12/09/05 ( 18 ). The only date that has yet to come is 15/08/16
18=9+9=3+3+3+3+3+3 ==> HL3 release date 15/08/16

Dreamer · August 11, 2020, 11:13am

Is it solved already?

AngelSG · November 25, 2018, 4:21am

Jenn0_Bing is one of the developers, the binary translates to lol and something else, but since it has the name of the developer it’s almost securely an easter egg.

TornadoAP · November 25, 2018, 4:21am

What about the binary above it. I’ve been trying but I can’t get anything out of it, but then again I couldn’t get anything out of the Jenn0_Bing sequence either, didn’t know if some of the shit there was actually 1s or just zeros or just blank space.

AngelSG · August 11, 2020, 11:13am

It says lol Jenn0_Bing, and something else above More Numbers.

https://forums.blackmesasource.com/showthread.php?t=13735&page=46

The second point on the first post.

BuzzKillington · August 11, 2020, 11:13am

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

Has anyone tried converting this HEX segment into a base64 string? It could, possibly, be a hidden PNG or Binary segment hidden by converting it to HEX.

EDIT:

[COLOR=‘Plum’]Well I just tried it. Turns out - that HEX segment has many sequences that aren’t actually hexadecimal code. So I cleaned up the parts that weren’t HEX and got this.[/SIZE]

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

[COLOR=‘Plum’]When combined, I noticed some interesting abbreviations. Could be nothing - but I thought I’d highlight what I found interesting and share it.[/SIZE]

B32B003A35[COLOR=‘RoyalBlue’]BADD66577C24C14FC919064346D131A7C54BB82FFE03E022615777247923DC21F62CD4182E91C3B267B545[COLOR=‘Red’]ABC[COLOR=‘Red’]AEDAF0261510D4EEA1E87CD33C7C77131309CC4280EB4243D1154F044F9CF6296D9[COLOR=‘RoyalBlue’]BFF7397E4390987FE63203DA0DE40278B3A54F5DDC6975FA04F749849E1A62595A9F630B0795913DE0153E3[COLOR=‘RoyalBlue’]AAC388C45FB9D850CFE913541D6C08398F2C88332A82FDF00281D62[COLOR=‘RoyalBlue’]FCDC4FE7E46AE90C51C5C806B[COLOR=‘RoyalBlue’]41164E33AB92C96862E068B0C16C09990B8381A00DA7915B67FE4A20F599B0F1B6D481913C7B9538[COLOR=‘RoyalBlue’]CEE639144F41561BA92E4FE751D1E242CD88F51D695519887136A7C15A[COLOR=‘RoyalBlue’]ABD7B40044922014130A91F170F66[COLOR=‘RoyalBlue’]CCB3C139463A7E909A37AA863FB27805FC9731C09C8C79067E79930A406546B24C9A629B26C2CE2A4BE48F589A375[COLOR=‘RoyalBlue’]FEB731FC4AB225C11848CF89E291FB27133970C063618474A892801[COLOR=‘RoyalBlue’]EDD68F54698C5E5B506746F6765A6F7F1225[COLOR=‘RoyalBlue’]DEA4DA1140[COLOR=‘RoyalBlue’]FEB60F650745241C693695883DCB21E6FBFEFBB85A2991948036A52B5D9E291FB27133970C063618474A892801[COLOR=‘RoyalBlue’]EDD68F54698C5E5B506746F6765A6F7F1225[COLOR=‘RoyalBlue’]DEA4DA1140[COLOR=‘RoyalBlue’]FEB60F650745241C693695883[COLOR=‘RoyalBlue’]DCB21E6FBFEFBB85A2991948036A52B5D

[COLOR=‘Plum’]Here’s the HEX (correct version) decoded to ASCII (bytes outside 32 - 126 range displayed in italics as their byte values)
[/SIZE]

[COLOR=‘Plum’]Without byte data[/SIZE]

[COLOR=‘Plum’]Here’s the corrected hex in base32[/SIZE]

[COLOR=‘Plum’]Corrected hex to base32hex[/SIZE]

[COLOR=‘Plum’]Corrected hex to base64[/SIZE]

[COLOR=‘Plum’]And last of all, here’s what I got when I opened the ASCII file in notepad.[/SIZE]

I’ll look into it more tomorrow.

[COLOR=‘RoyalBlue’]EDIT: Before I went to bed, I just found this.

Highlighted in Red in my third quote is ABCAED. This is a Hexadecimal color code for a color with the name “[COLOR=‘SeaGreen’]Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.” Dead serious. There is a color named that… fucked up I know. Any how - here’s the proof I had a feeling that “[COLOR=‘SeaGreen’]Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.” was latin, but when I tried to translate it to english - all I got was “Lorem ipsum carrot” Odd, I know.

So I kept digging, and found a wikipedia page referencing “[COLOR=‘SeaGreen’]Lorem ipsum” This was the relevant information on the Wiki page.

Wikipedia:

[COLOR=‘Orange’]In publishing and graphic design, lorem ipsum is a filler text commonly used to demonstrate the graphic elements of a document or visual presentation. Replacing meaningful content that could be distracting with placeholder text may allow viewers to focus on graphic aspects such as font, typography, and page layout. It also reduces the need for the designer to come up with meaningful text, as they can instead use hastily generated lorem ipsum text.

The lorem ipsum text is typically a scrambled section of De finibus bonorum et malorum, a 1st-century BC Latin text by Cicero, with words altered, added, and removed to make it nonsensical, improper Latin.

A variation of the ordinary lorem ipsum text has been used in typesetting since the 1960s or earlier, when it was popularized by advertisements for Letraset transfer sheets. It was introduced to the Information Age in the mid-1980s by Aldus Corporation, which employed it in graphics and word processing templates for its desktop publishing program, PageMaker, for the Apple Macintosh.

[COLOR=‘Plum’]English translation

H. Rackham’s 1914 translation – in the aforementioned Loeb Classical Library edition – with the major source of lorem ipsum highlighted:

But I must explain to you how all this mistaken idea of denouncing of a pleasure and praising pain was born and I will give you a complete account of the system, and expound the actual teachings of the great explorer of the truth, the master-builder of human happiness. No one rejects, dislikes, or avoids pleasure itself, because it is pleasure, but because those who do not know how to pursue pleasure rationally encounter consequences that are extremely painful. Nor again is there anyone who loves or pursues or desires to obtain pain of itself, because it is pain, but occasionally circumstances occur in which toil and pain can procure him some great pleasure. To take a trivial example, which of us ever undertakes laborious physical exercise, except to obtain some advantage from it? But who has any right to find fault with a man who chooses to enjoy a pleasure that has no annoying consequences, or one who avoids a pain that produces no resultant pleasure?

On the other hand, we denounce with righteous indignation and dislike men who are so beguiled and demoralized by the charms of pleasure of the moment, so blinded by desire, that they cannot foresee the pain and trouble that are bound to ensue; and equal blame belongs to those who fail in their duty through weakness of will, which is the same as saying through shrinking from toil and pain. These cases are perfectly simple and easy to distinguish. In a free hour, when our power of choice is untrammeled and when nothing prevents our being able to do what we like best, every pleasure is to be welcomed and every pain avoided. But in certain circumstances and owing to the claims of duty or the obligations of business it will frequently occur that pleasures have to be repudiated and annoyances accepted. The wise man therefore always holds in these matters to this principle of selection: he rejects pleasures to secure other greater pleasures, or else he endures pains to avoid worse pains.

Very interesting. This part of the quote [COLOR=‘Orange’]“blame belongs to those who fail in their duty through weakness of will” reminds me of the part in HL2:EP2 when Eli tells Gordon that right before he was about to proceed with the test - the GMAN whispered in his ear “Prepare for unforeseen consequences…” with Eli noting that after the GMAN told him that, his instinct told him to abort the test, yet he continued on with it anyways.

Any input would be awesome. Does anyone think this is relevant?

P_PORTAL_RTAL · November 25, 2018, 4:21am

this is quite intresting, could have something to do with other parts of this episode, or could have to do with Stardate 41255.9

AngelSG · November 25, 2018, 4:21am

Yes, there doesn’t seem to be anything, the Base64 string starts with sys and in the middle it says “TOXDAY”, the distribution of the letters is not completely flat, but nothing extraordinary.

sysAOjW63WZXfCTBT8kZBkNG0TGnxUu4L/4D4CJhV3ckeSPcIfYs1BgukcOyZ7VFq8rtrwJhUQ1O6h6HzTPHx3ExMJzEKA60JD0RVPBE+c9iltm/9zl+Q5CYf+YyA9oN5AJ4s6VPXdxpdfoE90mEnhpiWVqfYwsHlZE94BU+Oqw4jEX7nYUM/pE1QdbAg5jyyIMyqC/f...==

BuzzKillington · August 11, 2020, 11:13am

AngelSG:

Yes, there doesn’t seem to be anything, the Base64 string starts with sys and in the middle it says “TOXDAY”, the distribution of the letters is not completely flat, but nothing extraordinary.
sysAOjW63WZXfCTBT8kZBkNG0TGnxUu4L/4D4CJhV3ckeSPcIfYs1BgukcOyZ7VFq8rtrwJhUQ1O6h6HzTPHx3ExMJzEKA60JD0RVPBE+c9iltm/9zl+Q5CYf+YyA9oN5AJ4s6VPXdxpdfoE90mEnhpiWVqfYwsHlZE94BU+Oqw4jEX7nYUM/pE1QdbAg5jyyIMyqC/f...==

Updated my OP for a full analysis. See now

AngelSG · August 11, 2020, 11:13am

Where did you got the Lorem Ipsum from? On that webpage, any hex string with 6 digits will translate to a color, and it will always show Lorem Ipsum in the example, because as you found, Lorem Ipsum is a phrase used as placeholder and filler to show how text would look.