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emotionl4arobot in damned_bulletin

[inhumanly neat print]

Sep 21, 2009 18:04

Disregarding other events last night, does this message mean anything to anyone? Beyond the obvious, of course. It was played before the... other effects manifested, so there's a possibility they're linked in some way ( Read more... )

*day 44, brainiac 5

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byname_bynature September 21 2009, 08:46:24 UTC

Jacques Derrida. He's a French philosopher, recently deceased where I'm from (2004, to be exact). Famous for being the founder of the the approach of 'Deconstruction', and his obsession with the dead.

--A.F. II

emotionl4arobot September 21 2009, 08:52:55 UTC

Thank you. Do you have any idea of how he might be linked to last night's... situation? Or is it more likely some sort of... comment on what happened?

- Brainiac 5

herr_inspektor September 21 2009, 09:02:21 UTC

It appears as though the message started before the visions and 'deaths' occurred. Whoever transmitted it knew what was coming. I would hazard a guess that it was a warning or an attempt at mockery.

- Inspector Lunge

emotionl4arobot September 21 2009, 10:50:26 UTC

As I mentioned then: some sort of comment on what happened.

- Brainiac 5

((Anonymous)) intoindra September 21 2009, 12:18:07 UTC

Someone else mentioned the philosophy angle (thanks for that, I'm not in the right frame of mind to talk lucidly about that,) so I'll cover the more basic angle. It does seem that whoever gave the message was using that as a taunt; it was after that point that the ghost appeared for me, and as for the 'powerful' and 'scary' parts... well... let's just say that wasn't an experience I want to go through ever again.

see_my_back September 21 2009, 14:34:25 UTC

The translation is really helpful. Can you explain the coding? I think I understand a little, but it's not like most of the ones I've used before.

I see your point though, I'm definitely catching a connection between this and whatever's been going on here lately. First those undead things and now this weird thing with seeing ghosts and feeling their deaths.

Behold Scourge' accurate terminology. haplesstracker September 21 2009, 15:00:33 UTC

It's binary. Computers use it. Maybe IRIS was trying to talk to someone else here, although I don't know why it'd be talking so slowly to do it.

see_my_back September 21 2009, 15:07:19 UTC

I got that it's binary. The guy up there said it. What I want to know is how to decode it. I can figure it out if I had a couple days to waste, but if someone already has cracked it, it'd be helpful to know how to do it.

haplesstracker September 21 2009, 15:13:36 UTC

They left out whatever it was in my head that could instatranslate it when they switched me to this body, so don't look at me.

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iwhipthefool September 23 2009, 11:47:25 UTC

Derrida, is it. I see. Thank you for this information.

-Franziska von Karma