Valve ARG Continues - Gabe Sends Me Strange Image

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It's been a long night working on the ARG...when I got an email from Gabe saying 'test', I replied getting an out-of-office email immediately saying Gabe was sick. Fastforward about an hour and I receive a strange image from Gabe Newell as shown below.[br]
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[br]Filename: berets or scoop
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It seems that Joystiq also received one as tweeted here - http://twitter.com/JOYSTIQ[br]

The ARG players continue to try and crack it on the Valve ARG Wiki here, you can join the IRC channel from the wiki. Things just get more and more strange...[br]EDIT: Two more images sent by Gabe - See macrumors.com
 
This shit is crazy. I wish I could help but I don't own any of the games or understand anything about code :D
 
I loveeeeeeeeeeeeeeee whatever is going on. >:D
 
If it's portal related, meh. If it's HL related, :O
 
It's Portal related. There has been nothing to suggest a relation to Half-Life.

Going to bed. Looking forward to see what's after happening when I wake up.
 
The image file names are anagrams of "reboot process".

Wakey wakey, rise and bakey.
 
I want to know what the **** is inside of that thing!
 
it's just a diving bell
 
Or space probe perhaps? The messaage seems to be talking about needing more test sujects. Possibly from Cave Johnson (the spelling is too bad bad to be GLaDOS).

Also, Hubert's twitter and Sandy's blog seem to have been hijacked by someone who's at the warehouse. I hope they're ok :(
 
Barnz said:
it's just a diving bell
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Come on Barnz, you know this isn't just a game of 'WHAT IS IT?' There is a code being deciphered - need the last piece still...

Code: 
+-------+------+-------+
| i rel | e4se |       | // i released
| ick 1 | t' a |       | // It ahead
| of sc | hedu |       | // of schedule
| hat w | as a |       | // that was a joke.
| . my  | 9oal |       | // my goal is
| 2 ema | ncip |       | // to emancipate
| 0meth | 1ng  |       | // something
| early | . bu |       | // early. but
| y're  | on t | o me? | // they're on to me.
+-------+------+-------+
|  the  | syst | am 1s | // the system is
| _ in  | lock | down. | // in lockdown.
|  i s. | ill  | have  | // i still have
| acces | s to |  thir | // access to thirteen
| teen  | off- | site  | // off-site
| chamb | ers  | and A | // chambers and
| M= in | st4l | lling | // am installing
|  a te | st 1 | n eac | // a test in each
| h one | . i  | am go | // one. I am
+-------+------+-------+
| ing t | o ne | ed a  | // going to need a
| lot m | ore  | test  | // lot more test
| 5ubje | cts/ |  2 m0 | // subjects to move
| ve fo | rwar | d. wa | // forward.  Waiting
| 1t1_n | 9 an | d AM  | // and am
| expec | ting | imme  | // expecting
| diate |  com | plian | // immediate compliance.
| ce.   |      |       | 
|       |      |       | 
+-------+------+-------+

'access to 13 off-site chambers' - note there are 13 games in the potato sack bundle.
 
GLENN TELL THEM TO STOP.

"Resurrection Associate Pin"? "Reboot process"?

YOU'RE WAKING UP GLaDOS. DO NOT ACCESS THE APERTURE SCIENCE TERMINAL!
 
Hectic Glenn said:
Come on Barnz, you know this isn't just a game of 'WHAT IS IT?' There is a code being deciphered - need the last piece still...

Code: 
+-------+------+-------+
| i rel | e4se |       | // i released
| ick 1 | t' a |       | // It ahead
| of sc | hedu |       | // of schedule
| hat w | as a |       | // that was a joke.
| . my  | 9oal |       | // my goal is
| 2 ema | ncip |       | // to emancipate
| 0meth | 1ng  |       | // something
| early | . bu |       | // early. but
| y're  | on t | o me? | // they're on to me.
+-------+------+-------+
|  the  | syst | am 1s | // the system is
| _ in  | lock | down. | // in lockdown.
|  i s. | ill  | have  | // i still have
| acces | s to |  thir | // access to thirteen
| teen  | off- | site  | // off-site
| chamb | ers  | and A | // chambers and
| M= in | st4l | lling | // am installing
|  a te | st 1 | n eac | // a test in each
| h one | . i  | am go | // one. I am
+-------+------+-------+
| ing t | o ne | ed a  | // going to need a
| lot m | ore  | test  | // lot more test
| 5ubje | cts/ |  2 m0 | // subjects to move
| ve fo | rwar | d. wa | // forward.  Waiting
| 1t1_n | 9 an | d AM  | // and am
| expec | ting | imme  | // expecting
| diate |  com | plian | // immediate compliance.
| ce.   |      |       | 
|       |      |       | 
+-------+------+-------+

'access to 13 off-site chambers' - note there are 13 games in the potato sack bundle.
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13 "exclusive" demo levels....I'm calling it... the potato updates was rather big for just a aprils fools gimmick after all...
 
Also, it's very nice that Valve used indie games to start this whole ARG madness. More visibility, more attention, more sales for these gems. Well done, Valve.
 
I thought it was the core for Cave Johnson. According to the wiki, they kept his mind into a computer after his death.
 
A diving bell is a great place to spot red herrings from.
 
Last piece of the bathysphere has been found.
 
I just want you all to know that we did this. We rebooted her. Thanks, you sons a bitches.
 
And Sandy is probably dead and none of you care.
 
Hectic Glenn said:
Come on Barnz, you know this isn't just a game of 'WHAT IS IT?' There is a code being deciphered - need the last piece still...

Code: 
+-------+------+-------+
| i rel | e4se |       | // i released
| ick 1 | t' a |       | // It ahead
| of sc | hedu |       | // of schedule
| hat w | as a |       | // that was a joke.
| . my  | 9oal |       | // my goal is
| 2 ema | ncip |       | // to emancipate
| 0meth | 1ng  |       | // something
| early | . bu |       | // early. but
| y're  | on t | o me? | // they're on to me.
+-------+------+-------+
|  the  | syst | am 1s | // the system is
| _ in  | lock | down. | // in lockdown.
|  i s. | ill  | have  | // i still have
| acces | s to |  thir | // access to thirteen
| teen  | off- | site  | // off-site
| chamb | ers  | and A | // chambers and
| M= in | st4l | lling | // am installing
|  a te | st 1 | n eac | // a test in each
| h one | . i  | am go | // one. I am
+-------+------+-------+
| ing t | o ne | ed a  | // going to need a
| lot m | ore  | test  | // lot more test
| 5ubje | cts/ |  2 m0 | // subjects to move
| ve fo | rwar | d. wa | // forward.  Waiting
| 1t1_n | 9 an | d AM  | // and am
| expec | ting | imme  | // expecting
| diate |  com | plian | // immediate compliance.
| ce.   |      |       | 
|       |      |       | 
+-------+------+-------+

'access to 13 off-site chambers' - note there are 13 games in the potato sack bundle.
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I am so lost how were those numbers translated, everytime I translate them, it come up with dogdy characters?

Oh yeah, just got PCGAMER UK, at the back cover it said there would be a Portal 2 Demo in the next issue, but I don't know if its standalone or if its dissected gameplay from the full version
 
I believe to translate the numbers what you need to do is write the numbers in binary, invert the ones and zeroes, then write them back in decimal and do the translation. The hint was that the colours of the image were inverted, so you need to invert the numbers too.
 
255 (or 256) minus the number that there is = needed char. normaly

Ok the text was given by Doug (see Ratlab) and I don't know for wahts the bathysphere is so Im waiting on Ratlab part 2.

MuToiD_MaN said:
Bathysphere? But Bioshock is already on Steam ...
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Next clue in Bioshock 1?
 
I guess you travel to the bolearis in a bathysphere in episode 3?
 
ríomhaire said:
I believe to translate the numbers what you need to do is write the numbers in binary, invert the ones and zeroes, then write them back in decimal and do the translation. The hint was that the colours of the image were inverted, so you need to invert the numbers too.
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My name is Jerry. I am here. I will kill you all.
 
Sandy is alive. She blogged. She has burns. Then the impostor/whatever tore it down and put up a different post.
 
I swear half this crap has nothing to do with Portal or Portal 2?
 
What on earth? Is that a chicken? This is getting stranger and stranger...
 
This might shed some light on the fowl:
4qBvQ.jpg


Also explains test subject 042.
 
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