THG Reader: Freak out at the gravity of the implications

This blog's purpose is to rant, post THG-enriching trivia and argue about theories. But mostly the latter. Why? Because the best idea is the last one standing.

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now the question is, goes the group heights in 678 mean something (like, infection progression) or just are an artistic choice?

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didn’t someone, at some point, compile a list of discrepancies in the dates each Human Gamer last remembers?  a cursory search of Friday’s and Counterscheming’s blogs doesn’t turn it up…….

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not really, because there isn’t much to list.

Kate's last memory: July 1st

Kate began the game on July 8th

Daniel began the game on July 11th

...but now that you mention it, cancel does seem to make a point to keep them in the dark

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There is more than one of everything.

Remember that one time when @everanix​ figured out that the glitching on p60 is actually in ROT13? Remeber what else keeps showing errors on us? Those are in ROT13 as well.

In chronological order, recut for your reading pleasure:

i’m so alone i have become like janus why did this happen why i am in pain she did this to me at last i am immortal

i am here

god is my judge (sounds familiar?) as an aside: this was the immediate next post

i want to fix my mistakes

it hurts

i called them to help us and again, next two posts are intriguing as well

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you do not know what i have done

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Is the identity of Admin in a password protected file?

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NO DIRECT INFORMATION FOUND.

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FILE NAME (THE ARRIVAL_GH) FOUND. FILE IS PASSWORD-PROTECTED. CORRUPTION ENCOUNTERED. RETRIEVAL INCOMPLETE.

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i want to be like “plot twist ADMIN WASN’T CANCEL AFTER ALL” but there are probably fifteen things confirming they are that I’m not thinking of right now

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that would be... devious. like, scream-at-the-screen-at-the-mere-possibility devious. GODDAMMIT FRIDAY.

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@thehappinessmachine said: now you're with me and you need to play zero time dilemma because i'm playing that too and it's just ??? so far

good brainteasers are scarce and also for getting back on track

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VLR beaten in six days.

i am concerned.

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I was bored so I decided to make a mini-masterpost of “Daniel totes isn’t the odd man out, what are you all talking about” bits and bobs:

http://thehappinessmachine.tumblr.com/post/159325802873/have-you-picked-troll-blood-colors-for-the-cast-of http://thehappinessmachine.tumblr.com/post/143083780793/this-is-probably-going-to-sound-weird-but-what-do http://thehappinessmachine.tumblr.com/post/132297338263/what-would-be-the-personas-of-each-of-the-cast-of http://thehappinessmachine.tumblr.com/post/120034473588/the-thg-cast-as-cards-because-the-seth-picture-i http://thehappinessmachine.tumblr.com/post/117646541093/human-gamenuclear-throne-crossover http://thehappinessmachine.tumblr.com/post/96351890208/if-the-human-game-cast-were-in-an-rpg-what-classes http://thehappinessmachine.tumblr.com/post/96321919418/nostalgia-time-if-the-hg-characters-could-join http://thehappinessmachine.tumblr.com/post/95840893783/silly-question-time-thg-cast-members-as-neopets http://thehappinessmachine.tumblr.com/post/95291349323/if-the-cast-of-thg-were-in-the-how-to-train-your http://thehappinessmachine.tumblr.com/post/90297959918/1-how-did-connor-get-into-fitnessweightlifting http://thehappinessmachine.tumblr.com/post/84723833018/number-of-psyche-locks-per-character-in-the-human http://thehappinessmachine.tumblr.com/post/75437843015/what-about-the-characters-planets

One: bits and bobs go here and here, respectively.

Two: not all of them point to anything out of the ordinary. Especially the poogle one. What makes his dragon breed from httyd special? Nosferatu seems to point towards “daniel’s life - now with MORE misfortune!” i.e. more of the usual.

Three: Not only these set off bells - the signs have been shown in-story as well. Camilla’s mind theatre aside, he’s also the only one whose pov flat out glitched on us.

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I don't recall if you've answered this before, but since I haven't found this in the fan archives: if the THG cast were D&D characters, what would their fantasy races/classes be? If you've answered this before, then same question but with the Monogram Triad?

I have answered this!

And what is the Monogram Triad? I’m trying to google it but nothing comes up.

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he probably refers to MP, AH & ST

….but then again, what about G. Hammond? Historian squad? Jai Parik?

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does cancel’s remark about daniel and kate mean he ships them?

and once again, camilla immediately went to kate’s side. hmm.

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1) p59 image is missing 2) did something happen to the mirror? links in old posts seem to be moved a page as if there was one missing, but everything seems to be in order

No, page 59 seems to be working fine for me! Odd. And I’ve noticed that about counterscheming’s posts too, I can’t say I have an explanation for that. Maybe the site changed something about how they number pages (maybe they now count the first page as an actual page?).

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Links embedded in files are fine, therefore the culprit is tumblr itself.

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A while back, there was a meme where you'd send vaguespoilers about your characters/stories to Friday and she'd respond with one of her own - and, IIRC, she also said that, unless stated otherwise, all of them were about THG. I ended up archiving these in a text file, would you like me to submit it?

this is something more befitting @eht-ahmnu-aegm, don’t you think?

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Nothing spectacular but I have a pet theory about Thalia, based off these posts:

http://thehappinessmachine.tumblr.com/post/97933501343

http://thehappinessmachine.tumblr.com/post/108680186743

And the stylization of her left arm in these pieces:

http://thehappinessmachine.tumblr.com/post/138961965413

http://thehappinessmachine.tumblr.com/post/126069196753

Catch my drift?

More than just ‘catch your drift’! You sent it in an ask to Friday a few years ago, and it made so much sense i just grabbed and ran with it. However, the pivot i’ve used was this (and your(?) remark that we don’t know how her hands look).

There are other details that point towards Thalia having a mechanical hands arm. She personally knows someone from Achronicity, who may have directed her towards Janus Industries. It would mean that Achro would have papers on her, and that she would be in their facility at SOME point - which would make it easier to spirit her away. Besides, Janus does/did tech testing, which is all sorts of convinient for the purposes of simultaneously explaining and creating more questions. For instance: why she has some knowledge of mechanical engineering? How problematic the entire topic will be durning the game?

The physical disability part could have easly refered to Seth only, but it’s not like pointers cannot have double meanings.

That said, now that i’ve checked her left-handedness seems way more important.

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If one were to risk simplifying the timeline, there exists a non-zero possibility that A split not from an individual, but a group. Moreover, 'group' in such circumstances might consist of just two people.

What does that prove, though?

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does cancel sound in this update much MUCH airier than before?

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Could the last word in the teaser be "tread"? As in, "where [?????] do not tread"?

Assuming early installment weirdness isn’t the culprit here, ‘tread‘ would break the pattern. E before A as far as vowels go checks out, but consonants should also follow that rule (the main post has been corrected, thanks!) - but here, we would get either T or R shoved at the end

That said, it does point to more combinations for the first words than just the ones dictated by the other results

….remember kids: never delete documentation on checked patterns.

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Friday: it is "tread"

-excerpt from the human game discord channel

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Could the last word in the teaser be "tread"? As in, "where [?????] do not tread"?

Assuming early installment weirdness isn’t the culprit here, ‘tread‘ would break the pattern. E before A as far as vowels go checks out, but consonants should also follow that rule (the main post has been corrected, thanks!) - but here, we would get either T or R shoved at the end

That said, it does point to more combinations for the first words than just the ones dictated by the other results

....remember kids: never delete documentation on checked patterns.

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Has the cipher in the flashing panel when Joe and Kate are splitting up in the library been decoded? The Joe Cipher seems to be more complex than a substitution one, so I don't remember how to crack it...

@everanix had the cipher cracked and checked by the author. That said, here is my best shot at it:

The upper row shows letters the proper way, whereas underneath it are the same symbols, but flipped upside-down. Apparently, E can be represented by either of two symbols.

Not certain about these; however there is always speculation to be had!

First of the bunch might function either as a mix of T and R or as a replacement for one of them

Second one could be G and S mushed together, and act analogously to the TR one

The large dot is most likely a quotation mark

It’s possible that this bunch has more than one meaning

How to actually use it:

Flip the sample upside-down. The following explanation will assume you did so.

Vowels are place at the leftmost end of the word they are part of (i.e. OSTP<=>STOP). They also create clear cutoff points in a dense string.

If a word has two vowels, they’re placed in a column, with lower letter being the first vowel in a word (EOCM<=>COME)

Consonants are placed from left to right in the order of appearance in cleartext

Things are uncertain when it comes to semi-variable symbols

This way, most samples fold nicely into:

where (angels?) do not tread

trust me child

my time will come

stop watching me