Are we really getting angry about font colors Crumbs i might start putting all mine in Orange
Are we really getting angry about font colors Crumbs i might start putting all mine in Orange
I think i got it, guys! On the latest pictutes TR is wearing leather jacket and sunglasses pretty similar to that from Terminator movies. So he kind of telling us that he is from the future. And he is also a robot. And an elf. In the future our modern music is retrowave of some sort. So the clue is how "retrowavey" Add Violence sound (for some people. They say it has "Stranger Things" vibe which i don't get. OST of Stranger things is more of Carpenter style, i guess). All of the songs from NTAE, AD and the future EP are dedicated to this futuristic elven cybernetics.
I can't prove the elf part yet, but wait for the third EP!
And no, i am not on drugs.
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Yeah, I'm pretty sure that's morse. I'm listening to it over and over, but it's pretty flippin' fast. Trying to get what I can out of it without having the ability to slow it down. Just getting all manner of seemingly nonsensical letters out of it at that speed. It's been a while since I coded this fast...I'll keep trying.
The hammer: http://www.nin.wiki/Be_the_Hammer
Might the numbers be back in the Back Cover ? : http://www.nin.wiki/24.10.5#24.10.5
However (if i did not make a crazy mistake with all of this), might the Back Cover also not be a partial self-reference for Trent Reznor ?
edit:
i am trying to do this without reading what came before, so appologies. I was hoping some people would jump on the wagon if they might not have been attempting to figure this out before the 40 pages of this thread too.
Last edited by Detunez; 07-24-2017 at 01:15 PM.
After a weekend away and walking into this thread:
I don't think so... We already know that he isn't this guy he was two decades ago. So it's pointless. May be you are a bit right though. And this image somewhat describes the lyrical hero of his songs from these EPs. And this guy is pretty mr self-destructy if you know what i mean. Like... he's "made of wires" (if he thinks of himself as of some electronic device with knobs and shit) and he even planned his suicide to... somewhere in 2022. But i think it's not the representation or metaphor of something. It is a piece of equipment that allows you to... I don't know... manipulate with some events and masses of people, it seems...
Yeah. It is realy hard to not get lost in the concepts as it is so easy to see what you want to think about it - a confirmation bias. But now that you mention "he thinks of himself as of some electronic device with knobs and shit" you might as wel go so far as to see the "machine" on the cover as the "knobs and wires" in the character his head. lol.
Before I say this I want to make clear that I do think that something cool is going on. That said, the only conclusive thing we have is the TITP video. The fact that you can rearrange the extra lyrics to make sense means nothing, especially considering you have to ignore certain words to do it, and the fact that everyone who has done it has come up with a different solution. The morse code in the flyer hasn't been translated to anything that makes sense, and may not be morse code at all (though I hope it is). The "morse code" in the song is probably nothing. You can get weird stuff like that in a lot of songs if you zoom that much into the waveform. And finally, the website is clearly a fake. It was put up after the name of the EP was announced and is far below the standards of professionalism of every other website NIN's ever been a part of. So we have ONE conclusive hint at something. Everything else is complete guesses with no real evidence.
so i worked a little bit more with the morse code;
i ended up with:
meet u 4I
NM
DDT
not sure if this is a find
i googled 4I NM DDT and info on a DDT contamination in NM came up
but so did rock hard concrete and directional drills.
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This is where I'm at right now. Something is going on, something cool, but we don't have the necessary pieces to go any further.
If we were to not get any more to go on, this would just be an awesome homage and connection to an album / universe released 10 years ago, but I think people are getting too hyped up about the potential, expecting it to be the second ARG without any solid basis for that.
With that being said, I'm still constantly F5ing here and on discord most hours of the day hoping for something else to happen.
The code on the flyer was definitely "meet us at," it's just the last bit that we are undecided on. One of the guys at the pop-up merch stand confirmed it was about them. We didn't did a perfect job, but we got close enough for the people at the festival to confirm it. I think we can call this a confirmed "thing."
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Honestly, even if there is no arg, It's been a whole lot of fun. Worst case scenario? We question everything. Something we should do more often.
there's already stuff hidden in plain sight
(pretty much redundant. spoiler alert; madpew posted a better shortened version)
hid·den
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in/in/
preposition
- 1.expressing the situation of something that is or appears to be enclosed or surrounded by something else: "living in Deep River"synonyms:inside, within, in the middle of, surrounded by, enclosed by
- 2.expressing a period of time during which an event takes place or a situation remains the case: "they met in 1885"synonyms:during, in the course of, over
adverb
- 1.expressing movement with the result that someone or something becomes enclosed or surrounded by something else: "come in"synonyms:inside, indoors, into the room, into the house/building
- 2.expressing the situation of being enclosed or surrounded by something: "we were locked in"
adjective
- 1.(of a person) present at one's home or office: "we knocked at the door but there was no one in"synonyms:present, (at) home, inside, indoors, in the house/room
- 2.fashionable: informal"pastels and light colors are in this year"synonyms:fashionable, in fashion, in vogue, popular, stylish, ... moreantonyms:unfashionable, unpopular
plain
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adjective
- 1.not decorated or elaborate; simple or ordinary in character: "good plain food"synonyms:simple, ordinary, unadorned, unembellished, unornamented, ... moreantonyms:elaborate, fancy
- 2.easy to perceive or understand; clear: "the advantages were plain to see"synonyms:obvious, clear, crystal clear, evident, apparent, ... more
- in/in/
preposition
- 1.expressing the situation of something that is or appears to be enclosed or surrounded by something else: "living in Deep River"synonyms:inside, within, in the middle of, surrounded by, enclosed by
- 2.expressing a period of time during which an event takes place or a situation remains the case: "they met in 1885"synonyms:during, in the course of, over
adverb
- 1.expressing movement with the result that someone or something becomes enclosed or surrounded by something else: "come in"synonyms:inside, indoors, into the room, into the house/building
- 2.expressing the situation of being enclosed or surrounded by something: "we were locked in"
adjective
- 1.(of a person) present at one's home or office: "we knocked at the door but there was no one in"synonyms:present, (at) home, inside, indoors, in the house/room
- 2.fashionable: informal"pastels and light colors are in this year"synonyms:fashionable, in fashion, in vogue, popular, stylish, ... moreantonyms:unfashionable, unpopular
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noun
- 1.the faculty or power of seeing: "Joseph lost his sight as a baby"synonyms:eyesight, vision, eyes, faculty of sight, visual perception
- 2.a thing that one sees or that can be seen: "John was a familiar sight in the bar for many years"
verb
- 1.manage to see or observe (someone or something); catch an initial glimpse of: "tell me when you sight London Bridge"synonyms:glimpse, catch/get a glimpse of, catch sight of, see, spot, ... more
- 2.take aim by looking through the sights of a gun: "she sighted down the barrel"
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http://www.nin.com/nine-inch-nails-a...ing-21-july-2/
narrative arc linking the three records (3 ? they released two! so whats up ?)
clue-filled cover artwork
http://www.nin.com/music/add-violence/
THE VIEW WIDENS AND EVERYTHING IS IN QUESTION.
http://www.nin.com/nine-inch-nails-a...ce-back-cover/
REMEMBER WHEN RECORDS HAD BACK COVERS? NO? MAYBE THIS ONE IS IMPORTANT.
There is no doubt that they are insinuating all of that on purpose, but now the problem becomes the following: Is it something so easy that everybody goes in too deep or perhaps just straight past it, or is it so deep that everybody is missing it ?
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Last edited by define; 07-24-2017 at 02:25 PM.
okay kids, repost where u see fit i am in a rush out the door for real life
the poster we got at bakersfield has ea band member pic 'in' their own separate box. behind ea person there is what looks to be tiled wall. after playing with the morse code last nite for other things, (I'm seeing morse code everywhere; morse code soup anyone?)the background tile kind of resembles a morse code pattern(?)
maybe someone can post a pic of it (if this hasn't been done already) i am not familiar with the pic hosting stuff, i am sure to become more educated after time and hang a bit better with y'al (no absolutes cause some ppl are innately a dick)
Last edited by muse-lyre candy; 07-25-2017 at 10:55 PM.
@lyrics: Removing duplicates isn't that random as you make it out to be (for the lovers text)
@flyer: the morse on the flyer translated to "meet us at ..." and we did not settle on a single version of the rest of the morse.
@morse: the morse in Burning bright might be nothing but there's still a weird silence in the song where there's nothing but those "dithering artefacts". If you can show me some more instances of those in any other (or the same song) or have a good explaination for that I all ears.
@website: i was talking about is sotirivol.com, related to the drug of the TITP video. That was registered before the video got released. The fact that it's still parked doesn't change that.
This is exactly how I feel. Like we all know shit is going on, there's no doubt about it. But we don't have any concrete evidence on anything. The block code has gotten us nowhere, the extra lyrics don't tell us anything, and we can't decipher anything from the Morse code we're finding. I think we all need to just relax for two weeks until we get the physical component.
I agree. True is, I did not play YZ ARG - I was a kid, so I absolutely cannot compare these two things together. But... In the YZ ARG, weren't there these kinds of situation, where people were going crazy, because they were not sure about next clues or something? I know, there was that T-shirt in a beginning... But anyway...
I really cannot compare...
Damn, I hope AD PC will come corectly, it is going through a half of the Europe to me...
(Sorry for english)
Is there a way to *hide* sounds in a digital file that can only heard after it is transferred to a physical medium?
Also, never knew there were text colour options.
I am still uncertain... the morse code on the announcement leading to a merch table? Seems like trent is having fun... Plus after the FYF fest show someone from the stage threw out some guitar picks which I was able to grab and it looks like it has LOL printed on it instead of NIN..
It's basically just a black and white version of the back cover, so you might as well just study the color, high-res image posted to nin.com. I think that's where the real clue(s) is/are. I'm beginning to think it's way more simple than people expect and it's being overlooked.