Volitions Advocate on 5/3/2010 at 04:29

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Those guys at valve must be having so much friggen fun with this... has anybody really followed this ? This is the coolest thing I've ever seen in my history as a gamer... period.

Firefreak on 5/3/2010 at 05:51

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I fired up Portal to test some of these radio transmissions and to see the new ending. It took me some time to think in portals again after two years - often I catch myself and thought "Why am I running there?"...

I respect all of those cracking these codes, but also those that thought about these hiding methods. I hope when whatever is revealed, all the hidden things are clear as well; Some ideas surpass those of todays conspiracy theorists and sound like Adam West figuring out another clue from the Joker.
I haven't followed all steps closely, I mainly get the summaries - but how they get from a MD5 hash to an information (BBS number) is beyond me when thinking about the idea of a hash. But in this regard I'm with one of the steam users who thinks some Valve interns pose as fans and throw in some new 'decoded' information whenever the mob becomes unfocused...

Never the less, it's always great to watch such things unfold.

june gloom on 5/3/2010 at 07:39

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I dunno Firefreak, this sort of thing is exactly what Adam Foster did when he made his announcement that he was getting hired by Valve- I never would have guessed that the original transmission file (which was a gzip but missing a file extension) contained a type of audiofile native to Sun workstations. That particular puzzle was solved without the aid of moderators or anything. The collective intelligence (and obsession) of everyone working on this means things of this nature get decoded rather quickly. To say that Valve employees posed as community members is a bit tinfoil-hat.

SubJeff on 5/3/2010 at 17:46

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yeah what a tragedy

SubJeff on 5/3/2010 at 17:57

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no u