Thread: Game Hint #1
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Unread 05-12-2008, 00:07
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Re: Game Hint #1

I agree that the text is unimportant. One set of words I can make out is "deeply forked caudal" which merely refers to a feature of the fish, and is most likely a description on the next page that the scanner accidentally caught. Looking at data on the fish, it looks like it's not good at all at dealing with changes in its environment, and is very sensitive. This could be another global warming/impact lesson. Either that or we do, in fact, get to build 6 foot, 500 lb. robots.

And there's no way to clean up the text anymore than has already been done. Anyone tried running it through some steganography programs? It's unlikely it contains any hidden data as it's only 90 kilobytes, but it might be worth a try. The low quality and graininess lends itself to an opportunity for a seamless steganograph. My tests show it's a possible candidate for the jphide protocol with a 2.0 sensitivity scan. I'm attempting to confirm, but someone else with more advanced tools may be more successful.