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Posted by Forceflow on Thu Jun 24th at 4:31pm 2004

http://www.half-life2.com/secret/pwn3d
username: valve
password: 437N452

(no warez/illegal stuff)

A guy went to Valve, and took some pictures. On a whiteboard, there was some scribble about "Rot-13", which is an encryptiont technique. The guys at halflife2.net found the site. Take a look at the page source ... now that's an ASCII expert ..

2 posted screenshots:

http://www.half-life2.com/secret/strider.jpg

http://www.half-life2.com/secret/InnerCity.jpg

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Posted by Gorbachev on Thu Jun 24th at 4:57pm 2004

The second shot reminds me of Midgar in FFVII. [addsig]



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Posted by $loth on Thu Jun 24th at 5:06pm 2004

all thats there is the g-man, and the words....

Hello halflife2.net. Your cleverness is noted;you've passed the first test.

Is that it?

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Posted by fraggard on Thu Jun 24th at 5:10pm 2004

View the source $loth (View>Source if you use IE, View>Page Source if you use firefox/Netscape) ASCII pwnage



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Posted by $loth on Thu Jun 24th at 5:17pm 2004

? posted by fraggard
View the source $loth (View>Source if you use IE, View>Page Source if you use firefox/Netscape) ASCII pwnage

I am utterly confuzed, for those who dont know what it means, what is ASCII? and what is suppose to be on the source?

[edit] ascii, is that all the symbols etc to make up a pic?

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Posted by fraggard on Thu Jun 24th at 5:23pm 2004

ASCII=American Standard Codes for Information Interchange

Basically a method of representing characters by numbers. Though it has nothing to do with this, ASCII art basically means making artsy-looking stuff with ASCII characters (All the characters you see on your standard keyboard)

View the source goddamnit. You'll see what I mean.





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Posted by Tracer Bullet on Thu Jun 24th at 5:56pm 2004

Absolutly insane. there must be a program that converts greyscale to ASCII.

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Posted by $loth on Thu Jun 24th at 6:11pm 2004

I did view the html source, but i could not see clearly what it is, what res do you need for it TB? [addsig]



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Posted by scary_jeff on Thu Jun 24th at 6:12pm 2004

Copy and paste into notepad, then turn word wrap off.

I hope the fact that they have time to waste on this means they have finished making the game...



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Posted by G.Ballblue on Thu Jun 24th at 7:20pm 2004

ASCII was an old video game company for the playstation

Yippiy Ki Yay!

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Posted by Forceflow on Thu Jun 24th at 7:36pm 2004

? posted by scary_jeff
Copy and paste into notepad, then turn word wrap off.

I hope the fact that they have time to waste on this means they have finished making the game...

It's done with a program.

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Posted by Cassius on Thu Jun 24th at 7:44pm 2004

Well, it is supposed to be a summer release.



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Posted by scary_jeff on Thu Jun 24th at 8:47pm 2004

The Inquirer today is saying that somebody in ATI heard from somebody else in ATI that Gabe said to him that HL2 will be out in August. But who knows.

Forceflow - irrespective of how the ASCII stuff is made, somebody making a secret website area and content for it is not working on the game.



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Posted by Forceflow on Thu Jun 24th at 9:40pm 2004

Like it's that much work ... the page is a simple image with a text.

It's called PR, I think.

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Posted by scary_jeff on Thu Jun 24th at 9:42pm 2004

Yeah, I guess HL2.net members will need good PR to make them buy the game



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Posted by Jinx on Thu Jun 24th at 10:45pm 2004

August?! We wait ages for DOOM 3 and HL2, and they come out at the same time?!



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Posted by wil5on on Fri Jun 25th at 2:38am 2004

w00t! Love that ascii 0wnadge! [addsig]



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Posted by mazemaster on Fri Jun 25th at 5:09am 2004

I don't think either one (HL2 or Doom3) wants to release before the other since whichever comes out on top after 6 months will probably dominate for a long time afterwards. [addsig]



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Posted by Yak_Fighter on Fri Jun 25th at 6:50am 2004

I get a headache whenever I read those retard-infested forums. Thank you Lep for never catering to such base morons.



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Posted by $loth on Fri Jun 25th at 6:51am 2004

? posted by scary_jeff
The Inquirer today is saying that somebody in ATI heard from somebody else in ATI that Gabe said to him that HL2 will be out in August

MY cousins half brothers step sisters younger brothers twins's counsin........

It says in amazon that it will be out on 3rd sept, a year after it was suppose to be released!

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