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tiltingwindward · Posted: Sun Oct 22, 2006 2:24 am Post subject:

Almost everything that OpAphid says is actually a quote from someone else. There doesn't seem to be any connection between the quoted people, or the kinds of works the quotes come from. I think the prevelance of quotes has to be significant, if only because we should know what parts of the messages are quotes and what parts are OpAphid speaking directly.
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LesterG · Posted: Sun Oct 22, 2006 2:33 am Post subject:

gtrichar · Suspiciously Absent Joined: 20 Oct 2006 Posts: 19

I don't think I've seen this mentioned yet: at least 4 out of the 5 clips of reversed audio at the end of the videos consist of quotes.

Hypocrisy, the lie, is the true sister of evil, intolerance, and cruelty.
- Raisa Gorbachev

Thou shalt not be a victim. Thou shalt not be a perpetrator. Above all, thou shalt not be a bystander.
- YEHUDA BAUER

The Neutral are the only ones to side with evil
[I haven't been able to locate this one yet. The closest I have is Paulo Freire: "Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with the powerful, not to be neutral."]

It is a sin to believe evil of others, but it is seldom a mistake.
- H. L. Mencken

I believe that ignorance is the root of all evil. And that no one knows the truth.
- Molly Ivins

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PiIsYourFfriend · Casual Observer Joined: 19 Oct 2006 Posts: 73

this is off topic, but is your name a harry potter referance?

also, D&D is the sort of game that people INSTIST on using obscure quotes in. even if the quote has nothing to do with the campain, the DM will still use it in some way. i don't understand why.

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surrealisticpill · Lonely Fan Joined: 20 Oct 2006 Posts: 250

maybe we are supposed to focus on the Cassie Does Not RIP video. This is the one where the "A" in OpAphid is stressed at the end (it is also the A in Aphid video). The description for this one was the only one the change last night to

"Perhaps Rambam and Abenezra were right...

...but what if Baudelaire was correct instead"

In Cassie Does Not RIP, at about 23 sec. some big letters scroll across the screen, but then they get kind of blacked out. Then at 26 or 27 sec., more letters flash by - these look like IN CT IM AR ME to me. Does anyone else see this?

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taiya · Enthusiastic Fan Joined: 26 Sep 2006 Posts: 302

Hey gtrichar,

You are the person that figured out the purity in order first weren't you? But you said you were sworn to secrecy. How did that happen? Did you actually talk to opaphid or was the secrecy part through email or a PM?

I'm asking because I'm wondering about the silence (but not in this case) in the message and the "Attention leads to invocation" quote on the video. Could we need to actually speak a word somewhere?

Briphelia · Suspiciously Absent Joined: 28 Sep 2006 Posts: 16

I woke up this morning with a big "DUH!" I picked up the phone, got the message, and ran over here to get to work.

Here's what I'm thinking right now...

Maybe the quotes from the message should go in chronological order to give us another clue. I was trying to figure out who Arnold H. Glasgow is and came across the full quote from which OpAphid borrows:

“Success is simple. Do what's right, the right way, at the right time.”

Also, A in Aphid might refer to starting things at the beginning, as well as to Aristotle. However, I still can't find any biographical info on Glasgow, so my current chronological order doesn't include him...

It is possible to fail in many ways, while to succeed is possible only in one way.
[Aristotle]

It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong.
[Voltaire]

Alas, never interrupt an enemy when he is making a mistake.
[Napoleon]

Mistakes are the portals to discovery.
[James Joyce]

Each success only buys an admission ticket to a more difficult problem. [Henry Kissinger]

A story is told as much by silence as by speech.
[Susan Griffin]

Except in this case.

This last bit Except in this case might refer to the fact that Griffin's quote is the only quote in order in the original.

But I'm not sure what this might mean... thoughts? Am I way off base?
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acidfingers · Lonely Fan Joined: 12 Oct 2006 Posts: 147

I have been juggling two different ideas as of late:

first of all, the voicemail...

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taiya · Enthusiastic Fan Joined: 26 Sep 2006 Posts: 302

Ooo, steganography looks cool and seems to fit in nicely with analyze. I'm going to look somemore.

I like the idea of knitting in code. Perhaps I'll send Opaphid a scarf.

Hmm, just realized that the "Alas" in "Alas, never interrupt an enemy.." quote is not part of the original quote. It seems to have been put there for a reason. Perhaps it is just the first letters in the quotes somehow.