Portal 2 ARG Speculation Stuffs

[Benjamin]

From the latest blog post on Thinking With Portals:

Like words? Ore are you more a fan of pictures? Don’t worry, there’s something for everyone to enjoy in the conclusion of Valve’s new comic, Portal 2: Lab Rat, which is now available for your reading and/or picture-looking pleasure.

Also of note for time-keeping enthusiasts: the calendar experts here at Valve have crunched some numbers, and have conclusively decided on 7AM EST, April 19th, 2011, as the exact moment that Portal 2 will be available on Steam. That means you’ve got a finite and rapidly shrinking window for being able to tell your friends, “Oh, is Portal 2 out now? I wouldn’t know. Because I pre-ordered it.” Look us in the eye and tell us this isn’t something you’d like to be able to tell your friends. You still can.

From the mailboxes in the ARG (https://valvearg.com/wiki/Everythingisfinehere_mail#Received_April_11th)

You have earned a rest. Refresh yourself in the chamber of your choice and contemplate the diverse ramifications of applied information theory. Relax for a few days. Enjoy recess with the rest of the class. Kiss sweet loved ones and inhale sweet air and eat and wear sweet clothing and foods.

There will be a test later.

connection.build.99744+/-29999.waiting

(Screen-capture: https://imgur.com/HOGOI)

And finally, the puzzle gaben sent out revealed the following message:

4/19/2011_7AM=4/15/2011_9AM[/SIZE]

Is it possible they’re going to release the game to pre-orderererers early?

Note: conclusions and pieces of information to’lly stolen from the following thread:
https://forums.steampowered.com/forums/showthread.php?t=1831508

[genericenemy]

Now I’m seriously regretting ordering the boxed version of portal 2, and if it doesn’t arrive by the 21st. Thats four more days of waiting.

[Lukagerm]

Also of note for time-keeping enthusiasts: the calendar experts here at Valve have crunched some numbers, and have conclusively decided on 7AM EST, April 19th, 2011, as the exact moment that Portal 2 will be available on Steam. That means you’ve got a finite and rapidly shrinking window for being able to tell your friends, “Oh, is Portal 2 out now? I wouldn’t know. Because I pre-ordered it.” Look us in the eye and tell us this isn’t something you’d like to be able to tell your friends. You still can.

conclusively decided on 7AM EST, April 19th, 2011, as the exact moment that Portal 2 will be available on Steam.

7AM

:awesome:

but April 19th is a Tuesday

[Benjamin]

@Lukagerm

:awesome:

but April 19th is a Tuesday

and April 15th is a Friday

[HawkeyE]

Friday? Gotta get down on Friday.

[sersoft]

imagine they drop ep3 on friday and portal 2 on the next day

[Mont_Blanc]

Not a chance but DotA maybe :retard:

[DiePoente]

pls not, im curious about dota 2

[King_Kaddo]

If I will be able to play Portal 2 at this Friday my 2 weeks of holiday will be the best of my life.

[intooblivion]

So there were a bunch of updates just now to all the potato sack games, all portal related.

New content for everyone!

I’m off to play killing floor in the new aperture science map. ;^D

[Shnazliztur]

Interesting, I also saw some similar stuff at the link here -> https://oxcgn.com/2011/04/07/the-valve-arg-a-detailed-analysis-and-more-as-we-find-it/ I almost jumped out of my seat when I saw that pic just above 6) Cogs where it shows a logo & a mysterious box that is orange covering up a portion of the logo. Maybe a new bundle is in the works too?

[Harun]

portal being available for preloading already supports the theory. sadly I’m friday not indahouse, at least not in the evening
(thought I just spread the good news everywhere)

[intooblivion]

The thing is, why is valve doing all this to promote an already promoted game?

I think there’s something else behind this. If it ends up being some portal 2 plug I’m gonna be pissed. What are they trying to reveal?

[sersoft]

potatoes

[Benjamin]

an early release of the game is not enough of a thing to reveal?

Via https://www.thinkwithportals.com/blog.php?id=5273&p=1

Aperture’s documentary video game, Portal 2, will be available for purchase on Steam 7:00AM EST, April 19th, but savvy consumers might want to invest in game futures by pre-ordering Portal 2 now.

[intooblivion]

I won’t have money until this friday D^:

[bobb]

This ARG has put me in a puzzle making mood, can you guys solve this puzzle?

[E-Nelson]

Numbers in middle mean
RGB to ASCII
RGB codes of the colored pieces are (from 1 to [noparse]8)[/noparse]
#506F72
#74616C
#203269
#732061
#20706F
#746174
#6F2020
#202020
Which translates into ascii as:
35 53 48 54 70 55 50 10 35 55 52 54 49 54 67 10 35 50 48 51 50 54 57 10 35 55 51 50 48 54 49 10 35 50 48 55 48 54 70 10 35 55 52 54 49 55 52 10 35 54 70 50 48 50 48 10 35 50 48 50 48 50 48
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[Flatline]

@Shnazliztur

Interesting, I also saw some similar stuff at the link here -> https://oxcgn.com/2011/04/07/the-valve-arg-a-detailed-analysis-and-more-as-we-find-it/ I almost jumped out of my seat when I saw that pic just above 6) Cogs where it shows a logo & a mysterious box that is orange covering up a portion of the logo. Maybe a new bundle is in the works too?

Eh? The orange box was put there by the author to indicate which portion of the logo was shown in the previous image. It’s not actually part of the ARG. Try reading as well as looking at the pretty pictures.

[DiePoente]

I hope the hints are true, and Portal 2 gets released on friday.