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[lorebringer]

Kickit pass is "ugly truth"

EDIT: Beaten so so badly.

 

[[Nintex]]

So what will ugly truth get us?

This is so exciting

 

[derFeef]

Ugly Truth means its not EP3. ha.

 

[Vastag]

This is so exciting

Yup, Valve has done an incredible job with this ARG

 

[EatChildren]

And now all active participants in the game will be murdered one by one.

 

[brotkasten]

So what will ugly truth get us?

This is so exciting

EP3 will be released in 2013.

 

[EmCeeGramr]

have you internet monkeys done all the work for us yet

 

[Salsa]

There's a trick to getting it easily. They posted a save file on Kick It!'s page. Follow the instructions in the .zip, and if you do it correctly, you should hit 50,000 points in no time.

Thanks. Where are the kick it savefiles though ? i'll google it..

edit: nevermind!

 

[MNC]

Can't wait

 

[Rapstah]

Apparently there's another password inside the Kick It .rar, and the best clue is "richest person".

 

[Cranzor]

Okay, perhaps I'm looking WAY too far into this. I probably am. I'll post it anyway.

In the bio for Hubert Uberson on twitter, it says

I collect old records. Vinyl sounds better if your ears are smart. How scome this profile can be 20 chr longer than a tweet?

Now the things above that are bolded are the parts that seem odd.
First bold - The sentence it is from is rather odd. Smart makes you think of learning or knowledge.
Second bold - Spelling mistake.
Third bold - A random abbreviation when the rest of the bio has none.

So I take out the "s" from "scome" and then took all the letters that should be in the abbreviation "chr" that aren't there. I then put them together and got "Saracte". I did a quick google search and the first link is for Denton High School (Denton, TX). Doesn't a school remind you of the part where he said "it's better if your ears are smart"? Hmm...

The only link I could find relating to Valve (or rather water shut-off valves ) and Denton was this.
The water tower at the top of the page looked familiar but then I went back and saw the other pictures and realized it wasn't the same one.

Even though I'm 99% sure I looked too far into this, it was fun looking into it anyway.

 

[derFeef]

I only have one potato. I feel inferiour.

 

[MasterShotgun]

And that makes 6 potatoes for me. Since I'm not gonna buy any other games, that's it for me. I hope those 6 will be enough provided there is a reward.

Thanks. Where are the kick it savefiles though ? i'll google it..

Go here. It's the file at the end of this section, right next to the bolded words.

Edit: I see you already found it.

 

[ClovingWestbrook]

What is the IRC chat?

 

[Majukun]

now we have all the password and all the login...now what?

 

[Zomba13]

I expect something to happen shortly. Hopefully it'll be big.

 

[Salsa]

kick it potato get!

 

[Rapstah]

I expect something to happen shortly. Hopefully it'll be big.

Final pic is being uploaded right now by the IRCers...

 

[theinfinityissue]

They're working with the richestper.son clue now. but..

Soooome people think Valve may have some consequences in store since the password for that last potato was brute forced by someone. Drama.

 

[Rapstah]

They're working with the richestper.son clue now. but..

Soooome people think Valve may have some consequences in store since the password for that last potato was brute forced by someone. Drama.

It apparently didn't matter if it was brute forced, someone figured out where it was from like minutes afterwards anyway.

Apparently only one picture inside the archive-in-the-archive has several layers. Interesting.

 

[OnPoint]

I'm intrigued.

 

[Forkball]

So people have all the potatoes now? I was hoping something epic would happen, like after you log in with the last one you get access to the Portal 2 demo.

 

[aaaaaaaaaaaa7654]

 

[Forkball]

 

[From The Dust]

http://valvearg.com/w/images/thumb/5/55/58.png/800px-58.png[IMG]
[IMG]http://valvearg.com/w/images/thumb/3/39/59.png/800px-59.png

after the mantis men, it wouldn't surprise me if this actually happen

 

[KiKaL]

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This reminds me of the Truman Show

 

[BY2K]

Got 8 Potatoes. 5 to go.

 

[Zomba13]

This reminds me of the Truman Show

Exactly what I thought of when I saw that.

 

[derFeef]

God I love that Valve concept art so much.

 

[ColonelColon]

EP3 will be released in 2013.

The ugly truth is that the Half-Life series is canceled forever.

 

[MRORANGE]

http://valvearg.com/wiki/Valve_ARG_Wiki

11:53: The map obtained from the Aperture Science login archives seems to show the word "PRELUDE" if you take the letters formed in numerical order.

the image did give me a chuckle

 

[MNC]

Fucking bullshit really. C'mon, that's not really there.

 

[EatChildren]

I've seen stretches and that is one of them.

 

[derFeef]

I've seen stretches and that is one of them.

Yeah, and what a stretch that is.

 

[StuBurns]

http://valvearg.com/w/images/thumb/5/55/58.png/800px-58.png[IMG]
[IMG]http://valvearg.com/w/images/thumb/3/39/59.png/800px-59.png

Giant roaster is watching ceiling cat masturbate. Revenge at last.

 

[Forkball]

http://half-life.wikia.com/wiki/Test_Subject_042

 

[MRORANGE]

did valve arg wiki just went down?

nvm it's back up

 

[Jenga]

http://half-life.wikia.com/wiki/Test_Subject_042

wait so it was a chicken?

i always assumed it was one of the co-op bots

like a prototype or something

 

[Zomba13]

Giant roaster is watching ceiling cat masturbate. Revenge at last.

Maybe it's not a giant chicken, but a tiny office?

 

[Majukun]

Maybe it's not a giant chicken, but a tiny office?

one of the previous art showed a scientist in front of a group of giant chickens

 

[rinker]

What happened to the table which had all of the methods and passwords? Is it still somewhere on the wki? I cant find it..

 

[Blizzard]

one of the previous art showed a scientist in front of a group of giant chickens

Hahaha, do you have a link? I've been followiong the art but I must have missed that one.

What happened to the table which had all of the methods and passwords? Is it still somewhere on the wki? I cant find it..

http://valvearg.com/wiki/Aperture_Science_login_page#Login_Screens

 

[JaseC]

one of the previous art showed a scientist in front of a group of giant chickens

Your avatar (when scaled down) is 51px too high. Avatars have dimension limits of 90px width by 120px height, and a size limit of 160KB.

 

[Zombie James]

In the first Portal there's actually an x-ray of a chicken on one of the office desks after you escape the last test.

 

[JaseC]

Hahaha, do you have a link? I've been followiong the art but I must have missed that one.

http://valvearg.com/w/images/4/4e/57.jpg

 

[(._.)]

so excited to see how this all plays out

 

[Prophet Steve]

I want wallpapers from so much of that concept art.

 

[ahoyhoy]

I want wallpapers from so much of that concept art.

Agreed. Would make a great rotating set.

 

[Rapstah]

New hint.

ERrrrsprintf(buffer, "%c%c%c%c%c%c%cxxzzzz+__, 112, 108, 101, 97, 115______________ffer, "%c%c%c%,101, 104, 101, 108, 112, 109, 101);

Translating ASCII:

"pleasehelpme" for all those numbers.

 

[Baha]

I have a giftable copy of Portal to trade in exchange for any one of these games:
1..2..3...Kick It!
AaAaAaAAAA!
Toki Tori
Bit.Trip.Beat.
Cogs
The Wonderful End of the World.

What is the IRC chat?

http://webchat.gamesurge.net/?channels=valvearg2