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What the fuck? Quote:March 1, 2010 - Portal Update Released
Updates to Portal have been released. The updates will be applied automatically when your Steam client is restarted.
Portal
Changed radio transmission frequency to comply with federal and state spectrum management regulations
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Uhhhh...........I bet valve is being tricky. If not...then....WTF?! If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe. - Carl Sagan My Backpack
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Muffalopadus wrote:Uhhhh...........I bet valve is being tricky.
If not...then....WTF?! Maybe they mention a frequency in the game that has been reassigned and the law has its head up its ass. Or maybe the true intention of portal is to give everyone cancer.
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Apparently there is a new portal achievement called Transmission Received. http://steamcommunity.co...ats/Portal/achievements/
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[quote=bragr]Apparently there is a new portal achievement called Transmission Received. http://steamcommunity.co...ts/Portal/achievements/[/quote] I always wondered about that radio in the first room. I always tried to flush it. If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe. - Carl Sagan My Backpack
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Reinstalling Portal as we speak. Safety + Peace
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yeah the official forums are freaking out over this. apparently there are also some audio files included...all prefixed with "dino" better yet, each file has image code in it with some reeeaally strange images. this is the valve conspiracy engine at full steam (pun intended) http://forums.steampower...howthread.php?t=1169218
also there was a stream of morse code, some of which read "whoa there cowboy" or sumesuch. its all over at the steam forums. Bah Weep Granah Weep Ninny Bong
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So I guess this finally explains 9/11.
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Looks like one of two things - 1: spoilers for Portal 2. Every image has Aperture Science watermarked on the pictures. Nothing much is discernible to me when glancing through them at work. I spied the formula pi*r^4 I think...also a mouse trap. ITS A TRAP??? 2: Its one of those puzzle games that have been gaining popularity. Valve leaks out some info, people find it, then figure out whatever it is Valve is leaking. They're tricky like this. I'm guessing its number 2. If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe. - Carl Sagan My Backpack
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Muffalopadus wrote:Looks like one of two things - 1: spoilers for Portal 2. Every image has Aperture Science watermarked on the pictures. Nothing much is discernible to me when glancing through them at work. I spied the formula pi*r^4 I think...also a mouse trap. ITS A TRAP???
2: Its one of those puzzle games that have been gaining popularity. Valve leaks out some info, people find it, then figure out whatever it is Valve is leaking. They're tricky like this. I'm guessing its number 2. Or... it could be EPISODE THREE :O http://forums.steampowered.com/forums/showthread.php?s=933b2bb075051a3860facf1b4dd5d01d&t=1169929&page=2
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OMG! After looking through that steam forum thread I think that gamers should have no trouble with getting a job in signals analysis from the NSA. "I love the smell of napalm in the morning. Smells like ... victory"
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Seriously, the stuff that they found is incredible.
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to sum up whats been happening: steam wrote:-Portal gets surprise update March 1st -People see new mystery achievement -People play and see the radio in the beginning room now has a green light -Carry it around and notice it makes strange broadcast interference noises in certain places -Locate and place all 26 of these mystery radios for achievement -Smart people yank .wav files out of game content folders and run them through SSTV programs [ http://i49.tinypic.com/s4b7zn.jpg ] [Edit: link should work now. Yes, it's darker than the original.] -Produces 22 cryptic image files in a numbered sequence, 4 morse code -Somebody runs the number string through an md5 hash translator and gets a landline number -Internet traces it to Kirkland, WA (near Valve HQ) -People find out its not a phone/fax line but a data line hosting a BBS and telnet it -Use a clue from one of the files to figure out the BBS user/password login info [backup/backup] -End up with a bunch of weird ASCII artwork: http://img294.imageshack...portalasciienhanced.png Bah Weep Granah Weep Ninny Bong
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Apparently this is how steam pulls in more gamers/hackers/ect. If you made this puzzle hard enough you could use it to find employees for certain applications.. The winner gets a job!
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virus wrote:OMG!
After looking through that steam forum thread I think that gamers should have no trouble with getting a job in signals analysis from the NSA. I agree. I'm too stupid to figure out what they did... =( If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe. - Carl Sagan My Backpack
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