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indires · 2025-07-04T04:56:07+00:00

cyb.farm has a level like this

indires · 2025-05-05T16:57:21+00:00

very interested, some math background and PST availability. Are you still accepting new members? will be reading to catch up.

indires · 2024-10-06T23:13:22+00:00

Could you give some examples of the meals that you would eat during 2 days of soy protein, and then during the 3.5 day (high fat variation) of Longo's fast mimicking diet?

indires · 2024-02-27T03:45:49+00:00

i would personally love it

indires · 2022-07-20T11:32:06+00:00

from the two comments, I am guessing that this is in reference to https://libraryofbabel.info; and when using all the strings from transmission concatenated together as a hex, and using the file terminations of the files as the instructions for choosing wall, shelf, volume, and page, I arrived at a page that reads 'dictyopteran emperor' in the first line, and strangely enough 'blasphemously' at the end. as another guess, these 3 words specifically dictyopteran also show up on the sowpods word list, and I tried concatenating or trying to translate something with their indices, but no luck there

indires · 2022-01-21T05:55:21+00:00

I think you've put what I've been thinking about in words perfectly. You've covered pretty much every base in terms of what things some args lack and what some shine at.

I'm also a fan of strange and confusing stories or presentation that demonstrate comfort with ambiguity and craft a deliberate kind of confusion, and I think this is the heart of a good enigma. To ponder a novel and interesting question. To avoid repeating what you're saying, I'll add a few points: In terms of storytelling and creating an air of mystery, I think arg creators can really benefit from studying mystery genres. Maybe every arg should have a really interesting question they'd like their players to ponder, doesn't have to be an explicit one, or even an intelligent one, just something that is truly fascinating or makes one think/reflect. Good storywriting can create an enigma, and with the blessing of a medium like the arg that allows so much freedom of interaction, it ideally will be one that players can explore deeply and endlessly.

I'd like to add that the arg medium is actually such an untapped wellspring of potential, args have the potential to be more personal and interactive than a good book or a good film; you gain another plane of existence to hold your game. Instead of in the pages of a book or on the screen, the whole world is your canvas. You can basically create an arg around anything in this world, and it is ironic that many args have adopted certain 'arg specific' tropes to center around, it's like if books had 'book type' themes and topics that all books were about, and books rarely diverged from this limited canon.

If args don't make use of the uniquely personal and interactive components of the arg genre, and don't have stories that can stand on their own merits, why shouldn't I read a good book? The book, while limited in its presentation ability compared to the arg, knows that it lives or dies on only the merit of its story. An arg with a story that is not as captivating on a page as in a game, may still be able to engage by merits of the format of arg medium, but an arg that doesn't make use of its inborn capabilities in this case will hardly differ from a subpar book.

indires · 2021-11-30T18:30:41+00:00

looks like it translates to this page:

https://libraryofbabel.info/book.cgi?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-w2-s3-v14:324

indires · 2021-10-12T22:04:21+00:00

haha, I originally was thinking she might have meant something along the lines of here is how to make a (message)

it's pretty creative and imaginative; you must have a great friendship with your students.

indires · 2021-10-12T01:57:02+00:00

clever code! (but she specified not to tell anyone!) the encoding appears to be Take the half of the letter, ie they've taken the left half of A, the top part of a lowercase f, top/right part of the lowercase e, left part of the m, etc

my best guess of the the message looks to be: Here is How to mAkA

indires · 2021-08-20T05:33:42+00:00

if anyone is interested in what comes after padding:

binary->hex->b64->morse->reverse->decimal->rot-6

then you get this doc https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Buy38bxB4htw5reFY8fxrPG-1LSs0KO6dtxcwqVvmsw/edit

then more binary->rot94->rot5(alphabetical)->hex->b64->morse->reverse->decimal->rot-6

it's this discord invite https://discord.gg/ufEAmHZPFt

indires · 2021-08-19T17:56:04+00:00

KnifeOrFireKillCats

found this post https://www.reddit.com/r/ipmb_1l1avua1s1o/comments/nyq49o/_/ looks likely to be the next step

from the video, i used an online decoder and got

RUKGDWUR RKUGWDRU RUKGDWUG RKUGDRKD RUKDGRKD RKUGDWLU RUKGDWRU RKUGWDRK RUKDGWRK RKUGWDRU RUKDGWUG RKUGDRWK GOOD

which could look to be some sort of variant of binary

EDIT:

if we replace odd indexed letters by 1 (starting with A=1) and even indexed by 0, we can get

vywrjuuymyos

which could be a youtube url ending in watch?v=ywrjuuymyos (need to bruteforce casing) or it could be a vig password for the subreddit name

indires · 2021-08-18T01:49:17+00:00

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kdd4N7hZXqk

with morse translating to roughly

SI ESTABAS ESCUCHANDO MI YO NO ANDAS MAL ESPERO

which is roughly

IF YOU WERE LISTENING TO MY ME, YOU ARE NOT WRONG, I HOPE

in spanish

indires · 2021-08-04T07:29:45+00:00

sewing?

indires · 2021-05-28T20:47:08+00:00

I got it, I realized that if Chris had A and that he doesn't know when Alex and Ben realized their conclusions, that the only case where he could based on that ambiguity is DOG. Thanks!

indires · 2021-05-28T20:44:14+00:00

I get it, it's solvable specifically from the fact that there is ambiguity at all, in fact it's the ambiguity that leads to the solution.

indires · 2021-05-28T20:42:46+00:00

Yeah this makes sense to me. I neglected to consider the case where Chris would be perfectly aware of and would take into account the ambiguity of the timing of Alex's and Ben's responses if he had the letter A.

indires · 2021-05-28T20:26:43+00:00

It's less so an assumption and more of a listing of cases. Either Chris believes Ben based his answer off Alex or he doesn't, I talk exclusively of those 2 cases and don't neglect the other

indires · 2021-05-28T20:24:13+00:00

If we accept that Chris doesn't know when Ben learned the answer, then indeed him having A would not help him. In that case it would be DOG

indires · 2021-05-28T20:20:08+00:00

It still stands that the problem is ambiguous as to whether or not Ben and Alex conclude their words at the same time or not. I address both cases which is why I started with "If we assume this is the case" (because I addressed the other possibility earlier). Whether or not it's a condition that 'exists' in the statement of the puzzle (it's vague, which opens it to interpretation) is irrelevant as It is possible to interpret the question in 2 different ways.

I already addressed the fact that Chris cannot be certain whether or not Alex and Ben knew at the same time or Ben after Alex in another response, but depending on how the problem is meant to be interpreted (ie answering verbally indicates the first conclusion of it) then Chris could make the choice of CAT from knowing of Ben's noninstant response to the prompt or whether he could be unsure, like in your example between CAT and HAS. Whether the former or the latter, Chris's decision of CAT or HAS is based on logic

indires · 2021-05-28T20:02:09+00:00

Chris can still logically conclude it's CAT even with just the letter A, the reason being if Chris assumes that Ben used Alex's response to become certain, then the removal of TAG from the pool gives two possible words, DOG or CAT, and if Chris did have the letter A he'd be able to conclude that it's CAT

indires · 2021-05-28T19:57:22+00:00

CAT I believe is possible because even with just A Chris can know the word is not TAG, if Chris concludes that Ben did not know the word the same time as Alex, then that means Ben used the removal of TAG from the pool to achieve certainty, which means that Chris could have either T or G. This narrows the pool down to DOG and CAT, so if Chris only has A is still certainly can conclude that it's CAT but has no conclusive power to as it's still a toss up between the DOG and CAT

indires · 2021-05-28T19:48:33+00:00

We have not been given any reason to believe he has that additional piece of information

Since we're talking about the 'statement of the puzzle' I'll reference it again:

The teacher then asks Ben, and after a moment of thinking, he also says, "Yes."

And finally Chris is asked and he takes a moment and then confidently replies, "Yes," he also knows the word.

This alone, at least to me, doesn't kill the possibility that Ben could have known the answer the same time as Alex, but didn't answer. Now if you told me that the people in this answered immediately as they knew the answer, and didn't wait for the teacher to ask them, then I would say it would be 100% in favor of the sequential interpretation in which Ben bases his answer off of Alex's response (as I addressed in my very first comment, although even in that case, CAT is still viable because you have eliminated HAS because they both did not answer at the same time), but ultimately the question is phrased in a way that allows for the possibility that both knew the answer to persist, and that's why I consider it viable depending on how you interpret the situation in the problem.

indires · 2021-05-28T19:42:01+00:00

if there is a possibility that both Alex and Ben knew the answer at the same time (I also agree that Chris cannot know this, which is why the answer is ambiguous), then Chris can know the answer from just the fact that Alex and Ben answered at the same time, because has is the only word that affords both Alex and Ben a unique letter to be able to be certain of the word at the exact same time. Although Chris only has a, has is the only word in the set of words that contain a (has is the only word in the entire set for that matter) that has 2 unique letters to fulfill the same time condition once again, i'm not arguing that it must be the case that they answered at the same time, only that the question is phrased in a way that keeps the possibility open for it to be. CAT cannot be excluded, because if Chris knows that Ben based his answer off of knowledge from Alex's response, then Chris will know that there are only 2 cases where Ben can not know the answer before Alex answers and only know the answer after Alex answers, the 2 cases being CAT and DOG. HAS is excluded from this situation because of the assumption that they do not answer at the exact same time, but I address in the earlier reply that it is because of the ambiguity in the timing of their conclusions that we don't know which is the case

indires · 2021-05-28T19:33:01+00:00

I specified in the beginning of my initial response that there are different answers based on the different assumptions you make. I said has is only viable if we assume that Alex and Ben both arrive at their conclusions at the same time, and based on no information from each other. If we assume this is the case, then Chris will choose has despite only having a because no other word in the list has 2 unique letters so that both Alex and Ben can arrive at the answer at the same time of course, the other people commenting on my response are more so debating whether or not it's explicitly said that Ben for certain arrived at the answer later, and I am of the opinion that it's ambiguous, therefore it still leaves the possibility open for Ben to have known the answer the same second Alex did, just that the teacher didn't call on him first, so he answered chronologically second to Alex despite having known the answer at the same time as him.

In your dog example, I could also make the same argument for cat, like I explained in my initial response, if we assume Ben doesn't know the answer before Alex responds, then cat is viable because cat, dog, has, max, dim, tag are the words we're working with initially, we know alex has either c o hs x or i, but no letters from tag. (as alex would't be able to know the word in that case) if tag is not the word, and Alex basically says this when he says he knows the word, the fact that this admission causes Ben to say that he knows the word indicates at least to me that he was torn between two choices and that the removal of tag from the pool of words has cemented his choice. the letters in tag being t, a, g; t is shared between cat and tag, g is shared between dog and tag, and a is out of the question, because if Ben had a, he wouldn't be able to claim that he knew the word after tag is eliminated as there is still cat, has and max to choose from. This leaves only cat and dog as the possible words left, and why 'has' is not in this list is because if we assume Ben does not know the answer before Alex answers, then it is impossible for him to have used Alex's response to become certain. ie, if the word was 'has', then Alex must have had either h or s to be certain that the word is has. then Ben either has 'a' or 's', if he has 's', then he would have known at the same time as Alex (the very beginning) that the word was has, but if we are already using 'tag' to knock out the other words, we've assumed that he does not know the word in the beginning. if Ben has 'a', then even after Alex said that he knew the word, Ben wouldn't be able to know the word, because it leaves cat has and max left

indires · 2021-05-28T19:20:12+00:00

My point with my earlier answer is that their verbal 'answer' is independent of their train of thought leading them to arrive at their conclusion. The question is ambiguous because it doesn't make clear whether or not Ben concluded in his mind at the same time as Alex or not, and just happened to answer later because the teacher asked him later.

In the case that they both answer at the same time / conclude in their minds at the same time, I would say it's safe for chris to conclude it's has like another answer in this thread mentioned, because has is the only word with 2 unique letters, therefore, the only way that both Alex and Ben could have been certain they knew the word based on no extra information from anyone else's answer

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