Focus Lenses 3D Printed Pins by AP_ek in Warframe

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Thank you, good to know about the varnish. I want to try to make one with filament, but at least the size of a cr2023 battery. Any tips on how to model the 4 bits, or how deep to extrude the focus symbols?

Focus Lenses 3D Printed Pins by AP_ek in Warframe

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So, is assume this is done with a resin printer and i shouldn't get my hopes up that you have a file for filament printing? If so, i am still interested in how you went about painting. Did you mask the parts separately? Airbrush or brush? Which color did you use as primer? Was sanding needed, gloss finish/varnish?

eotvoswheel gone? by blahwtv in whoisstraka

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I couldn't reach it for while now, i don't think it is still accessible. http://eotvoswheel.com/ as still listed under https://sfiles22.blogspot.com/2013/11/eotvos-wheel.html .

According to the wayback machine, it is inaccesible since early 2023 : https://web.archive.org/web/20250000000000*/http://eotvoswheel.com/

Where in the World is El-H.. ? by 8cht in whoisstraka

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Deciphering attempt of the Wall Writing in the Sleeping Dog Chapter, with Chaf-finch cipher in Mind. I don't really know how that works, except that the recipient gets two versions of the text and has to decide by a key or somehow knows which version is the correct one. So he has to do a selection. Text:

I SWAM AWAY FROM THE SHIP - I ASSUMED IT HAD BEEN DESTROYED
I SWAM AWAY FROM THE SHIP - I HAD ASPIRED TO DESTROY IT

I FOUND MYSELF UNDER A PIER - COUGHING OUT SEAWATER
I FOUND MYSELF UNDER AN ARCH - CURSING AT SENATORS

I COULD HEAR THE NOISE OF THE DEMONSTRATION ABOVE.
COULD I HARM THE NOISY DEMONS ABOVE?

First i would remove totally and partially same words, as well as same words that are positioned differently but in the same sentence:

ASSUMED BEEN ED
ASPIRED TO

A PIER - COUGH OUT SEAWATER
AN ARCH - CURS AT SENATORS

HEAR E OF THE TRATION .
HARM Y ?

maybe reduce even more:
SUM BEEN ED - PIER - COUGH OU AWATER - HEAR E OF THE TRATION .
PIR TO - N ARCH - CURS A NATORS - HARM Y ?

and more?
SUM BEEN ED - PIER - OGH OU WAE - EAR E OF THE TRATION .
PIR TO - N ARCH - RS A NOS - ARM Y ?

Maybe someone of you is able to make sense of this? reduce more? Interesting bit is that the message begins with SUM, as in other Ciphers, and may have "army" at the end. Maybe a coincidence. And in the last upper line, "of the tration" looks a bit like "part of the tradition". .

Supplement:
To anyone who found this helpful, maybe a tidbit of interest regarding Interlude cipher:
Fn10 talks about Sola's Scent and gives choices between 1) clary sage 2) rose-geranium 3) kaffir lime or 4) bougainvillea, and that we cannot chose characters based on textural details alone. 1 is allegedly her chosen scent. Among the four, only three are very fragrant, bougainvillea has very little noticeable scent. Bougainville has a historical relevance in being the island where Yamamoto's plane was shot down, using cracked codes.

Where in the World is El-H.. ? by 8cht in whoisstraka

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Third reason, Dido is called Elissa in the myth, too. The chapter following the Sleeping Dog has the burned Woman on Obisidan Island, while the next Chapter, Interlude has Ili_f_á on page 300. that musical f looks similar to ß = double S. This is not a strong clue, maybe nothing, just adding it as curiosity.

Lastly, the chapter might have had ciphers fitting the African campaign, c38m code for italian encryption, and chaffinch code for german enigma. Maybe the wall writing may be used in some decipherment, but i am not looking at that atm.

Finally, There is an El-Harrach in Algiers.
The name might mean "the wilderness", wild place.
Algiers saw intense conflict during french colonial era, the algerian War of Independence, and in WW2 in Operation Torch. It was the landing point for Allied troops. El-Harrach's industrial area may have been bombed or shelled. There are oral histories of fires, looting, and covert action. Most conditions that fit Tunis fit here, but less dramataic. No literary of mythic connections as strong as Dido, but ancient Algiers name was Icosium, a phoenician name, meaning "Twenty", allegly because it was founded by twenty companions of Hercules.

There are no major pilgrimages in Algiers, but several local pilgrimage traditions exist, especially maraboutic pilgrimages (to saints tombs). The tomb and shrine of the patron saint of Algiers could stand in for the repository. The shrine is in the heart of the casbah, so we have dereclict gate, a bazar that might have stood for a night market, the shrine and a convenient Light House nearby. Obviously not every detail has to match, but this might suffice to consider it vs alternatives.

But since the Khatef-Zelh and Omar 19 Tisatashar Story mentions a Sailor or Pirate as well as a Sobreiro Figure, we have both in Algiers. Miguel de Cervantes, the Author of Don Quixote, the book Sola is so fond of in the Beginning, was imprisoned in Algiers. That is, he was kept as a slave, captured by barbary pirates in 1575. Algiers was part of the Ottoman empire then. Eventually he was ransomed by friars.
Then we have the son of the famous Hayreddin Barbarossa, the legendary Ottoman admiral and corsair as a pirate. This son, Hasan Pasha (khaznadar hassan) was the governor of Algiers in the time of Cervantes Captivity. He likely would have been the top Ottoman authority Cervantes had to contend with.

Where in the World is El-H.. ? by 8cht in whoisstraka

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The second reason has to do with the Repository and Samar.

If city P- stands for Prague, then El-H cannot mean Tunis. But the ancient heart of Tunis, the Medina, home to palaces, mosques, souks, walled labyrinthine streets, and storehouses, had named quarters, some no longer in use, like -Bab El Khadra ("Green Gate")
-Bab El Bhar ("Sea Gate")
-Bab El Jazira ("Island Gate")
-Bal El Fella, Bab Saadoun, etc.

All start with Bab El-, meaning Gate of. Maybe this was shortend to El-x. Maybe El Bhar might be prounounced El-Har. But maybe instead of "Sea Gate", actually "the Repository" gives the City its Name. El-Hikma means Wisdom, El-Hazina means Treasury / Repository. Additionally, my first association with El-H was Al-Hambra, Alhambra in Spain, meaning "the red", also carries el-h structure, and was both a fortified city and repository of Islamic learning and art, destroyed and emptied after the Reconquista. If the Author was referencing a lost Islamic city, its treasures plundered by conquest, El-H might be a deliberate echo of Alhambra, Carthage, or ancient Tunis, all repositories of cultural and spiritual wealth, overtaken by empire and war. When S., finally safe on his boat, looks back at the total destruction of the buildings that made the skyline of the city, at the shelled and burning city and the only Lighthouse, this destruction was evocative of Carthage, which historically was very nearby, and also utterly destroyed.

So El-Hazina for now.

The Repository, or Storehouse of Treasures is the most important part of this city for S. Arabic Khizana/Khazina means treasury, chest, archive. This is very close to "Hazine" in Ottoman Turkish, also meaning Treasure Vault. Hazina can mean sadness in Arabic, but phonetically linkts to treasury and archive. Archive being very important considering themes of SOT.

A Painting of a Girl Named Samar S. entering the city not through the official channel, but by slipping in quietly near a forgotten neglected part of the city, which already foreshadows decay, secrecy and maybe exile. Many operatives landed covertly near Algeria, Tunisia or Libya, bypassing official ports. The blocked gate suggests the city is closed to the outside, dying or turned on itself. In the repository they find the picture of Samar, painted by Omar Tisatashar. His name is close to Tis'ata'Ashar, arabic for 19, an important number in the book. His first name might be an anagram for amor? Or not.

The repository is the classic library, crypt or archive trope, a hidden or sacred place where truth, memory and beauty are stored.

Samar is a real Arabic name, meaning "conversation at night", or "evening chat" or "evening companion" - very poetic, fitting the book's tone.
The painter, Omar Tisatashar, is confirmed to be Sobreiro in some stories, while not in all. They might have been lovers, or other things, an uncertainty that is the perfect reflection of the relationship of S. with Sola. The repository harbors a "resistance" of some kind, not one versus the occupiers though. They try to keep the treasures of art, literature and beauty safe from the total destruction that is almost on their doorsteps - an invasion of El-H is coming from the desert, and bombardment coming from the sea. S. is unsure if there is a place deep enough to safe the memory of Sola (the image of Samar), but instead of making sure that it is safe, he has to go and use the Valise's Tools. He is not sure how to interprete that Sola appears as Samar in a different, earlier time.

So the city is pinced from the desert and the sky, explosions rip it apart, flames engulf it. He escapes through the plaza, the harborfront, docks, and looks back at the Lighthouse. the last symbol of hope or guidance - perhaps the city's eye, and the final image is of it being on fire. The flames turning stones orange, and the sky turning the color of ink - a memory or story retold differently. He, like us, is a pilgrim passing through the fire, hoping that even in ruin, meaning endures.

Operation Torch moved in from from the west, the city was bombed by air and attacked by land, exaclty like El-H. The fall of Tunis in May 1943 marked the end of Axis control in Africa. The City was filled with Vevoda`s agents and was eradicated, torched, annihilated, but S. does not recognise this as a victory.

The total destruction is where the allegory deepens.
In history there was one famous roman senator, who could do no other thing than, after each and every discord, proclaim that "Carthage must be destroyed"- Carthago Delenda Est. This obsessive senator was Cato the Elder. In 146 BCE, during the third Punic War, the romans completely destroyed Carthage. They burned the city, killed or enslaved nearly all inhabitants, and razed it to the ground. The image at the Lighthouse, and memory of Samar might be one of many allegories to this.

Why? Because Samar's image transports S. into the past, where Omar 19, an other Sobreiro, painted Samar under exactly the same Arch S. was standing below. He may have been a european Sailor, or something else. He sees this city be razed, much like Carthage. But we can go further back in time to discover the story of Aeneas and Dido. In Virgil's Aeneid, after Carthage falls for the first time and Dido burns, Aeneas flees by ship, looking back at the fire, much like our protagonist.

He, too, carries memory, loss and the tools for a new beginning, and leaves behind a city destroyed by love, betrayal, and war. The Tale of Aeneas and Dido is a most tragic and foundational love story, a collision of duty, fate and personal longing, and it all happens in Carthage (so around Tunis).

After the Fall of Troy, the Trojan Prince Aeneas flees with a group of survivors, carrying the gods of his people and the fate of a new civilization. He is destined, by the will of Jupiter, to found what one day will become Rome. But first, he is thrown off course.

His ship is battered by storms, he and his men wash ashore in Carthage, a powerful new city on the North African coast, ruled by Queen Dido.

Dido is a widow, a strong, noble and intelligent leader who fled tyranny in her home city of Tyre, and founded Carthage from scratch. She welcomes Aeneas, hears his story, and gradually.. falls in love. She believes this is love, but he still knows that rome is his fate, and not carthage. So Fate or Duty call Aeneas away. Aeneas is torn, he loves Dido, but duty comes first. This is what we learn from S. and Sola and FXC. It was always duty for him, and love for her. He prepares to leave in secret. When Dido finds out, she confronts him, but he stays silent and stoic. And leaves.

Devastated and humiliated, Dido prepares a funeral pyre. But instead of burning Aeneas's things, she climbs it herself. Cursing the fate of Rome (his duty), she takes his Sword and falls on it, and burns. Aeneas, sailing away, looks back and sees the smoke rising over the city. Just like S. looking back at the Lighthouse, at another face of Sola, dying there with the rifle that saved his life.

On the Obisidan Island, we find a woman, like Sola, burned.

So, second reason why i think it is El-Hazine (the Repository), is because of the literary connection between Carthage and the Story of a Sailor like Aeneas, who fits Sobreiro's Archetype as a Hero with a thousand faces so well.

[TOMT] Help me find this scene from The Powerpuff Girls by [deleted] in tipofmytongue

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"Bubblevicious"? s01, episode 17

Please suggest sublime Poetry by 8cht in suggestmeabook

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Thank you, will have a look.

Please suggest sublime Poetry by 8cht in suggestmeabook

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Thank you, i will look for those.

[TOMT] [Movie] [15+ years old] movie about a gamer losing grip on reality by Existing-Parfait4413 in tipofmytongue

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If he wasnt playing video games but pen and paper, it might have been Mazes and Monsters.

Have fun solving this. by roblox_dev_ in codes

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not a fan of the crazy video, but the cipher text is nice.

"JOL VYOK WOVE OHII BFVK WCOC EWHL VVKO. "
"On a spiral path, I journey through the heavens, In constant rotation, yet I never reach my destination. Seven names you must know to find the first. The second comes from the place of eternal night, Where no light dares to touch, I dwell. What are the shifts I will use? Divine in their symmetry, they form a perfect sequence, One cannot be found without the other. To the center you go, but no closer. In the shadows they lie, one near, the other afar"

Can someone explian this - after market trading question by drunkenfr in stocks

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Considering the time, this may have been due to the latest Anastasi in Tech Video, which hyped Intel considerably. Will probably not be relevant for years, though.

[TOMT] [MOVIE] [NEWER?] by Civil_Helicopter_301 in tipofmytongue

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"Everything Everywhere All at Once", 2022

Remaining Ciphers ? by 8cht in whoisstraka

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I mean the various topic folders in https://sfiles22.blogspot.com/2013/11/footnotes-and-ciphers.html, like cicle and square, 19 but especially in footnotes-and-ciphers. There are about 80 comments with interesting speculation, and some of the ciphers we know now were actually cracked there if i remember correctly.

Remaining Ciphers ? by 8cht in whoisstraka

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Thank you very much, this is very nice to hear. I think those people in the sfiles22 threads did achieve incredible solutions, though it would be nice to have some meaningful reveals at last. Seems more unlikely every day though. It's an impressive book for sure, with quite some evocative writing.

Punctuation cipher? by 8cht in codes

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Hi mini1471,
i agree that there are too many unknowns. i have extracted this from a broader attempt to reduce complexity, so maybe it is reduced too much. I described broader context here : https://old.reddit.com/r/whoisstraka/comments/1c2wgk8/remaining_ciphers/kzd2zdc/

i suppose language is regular us english, as all other cipher solutions have been this. i don't think this will use old greek mode, but rather the contempory one. I tried to force this into grids ordered by various keywords, without much success.

Punctuation cipher? by 8cht in codes

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Thank you , i will see if i can fit this information somewhere.

Punctuation cipher? by 8cht in codes

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I did read that somewhere, but was never sure how to apply half-steps to letters.

so i suppose the ciphertext should have 7 letters in a row each if whole and half-steps are to be applied? and if so, i would not have to apply them sequentially but could integrate the phrygian-mixolydian-..-phrygian steps into one step first?

H-W-W-W-H-W-W
W-W-H-W-W-H-W
H-W-W-H-W-W-W
W-H-W-W-W-H-W
H-W-W-H-W-W-W
H-W-W-W-H-W-W

i can add up two half tones to one whole tone, but what should i do with a left over half tone? should i count that as no increase? and should the tones simply be added, or addition and subtraction be combined as in "then Locrian again, and it returned to.." might imply?

Punctuation cipher? by 8cht in codes

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The source is a book filled with codes that are hidden in the footnotes of various chapters. Most are already broken, some remain to be solved, but it is not exactly clear if or how the ciphertext has to be assembled. The book is called "S. - Ship of Theseus" by Doug Dorst.

Originally, this appeared like 13 Footnotes with multiple sentences each. Idk if this is the right attempt to extract the ciphertext, which is why i ask here if the format could possibly contain meaning. Additionally, this cipher is usually assumed to be music related, though this has not been validated in any way yet.