These people are really starting to scare me
 

Has anyone peeked in on the This is not Porn crowd lately? it is pretty spooky, and it bothers me that i still don't get it. I'm concerned that they are talking in code about an alien invasion that is set to happen or something...

You can get the answer by listening to Children of the Sun backwards... I've got a used turntable for sale.

well, i'd buy it but i read in that thread that anyone owning a turntable is targeted for immediate "re-education". i don't think i want to do that.

I have the CD. Maybe I could encode it and use Soundforge or something to reverse it.

I find their singleminded dedication to the puzzle intriguing. Crazy, and I mean that from a professional standpoint, but intriguing.

Given the amount of trouble that everyone in the known universe is having with the step they are stuck on, the fact that it continues to hold their interest is pretty amazing.

You can't derail their conversation, and they for some reason hold The Cellar TINP thread in much higher regard even than the "secret forum" on some official forum site for the game.

I have to assume that there is some kind of subsonic signal transmitted directly into your brain when you play that is what makes the game more addicting than heroin.

They don't even know what the goal is, and they just keep on playing.

Charlie better fucking win the chocolate factory or something.

If the whole thing ends with a splash screen that says "congrats. you're finished" there are going to be a lot of 14 year olds killing themselves in the messy ways that are described in Dance, Dance, Dance.

It's quite fascinating. I have no idea what they're talking about. How does the puzzle work - just links to different web pages? I bet they screw themselves looking for the answer and find it was at the beginning all along.

Yeah, each page has some hidden or sometimes not-so-hidden spot you click on to get to the next page, and most of the pages are password protected. The usernames and passwords are based on clues on the page.

Except one of the things is that the puzzle keeps changing, usually when people have been stuck for awhile. The guy who maintains it is reading the forums about it, no doubt.

I haven't checked lately. I got to like, page 2. That was it. You have to read some books to get the hints and do web searches to find one really obscure webpage with one phrase that will unlock the whole thing, then you have the user name, and do it again for the password...then on to the next page.

It's ghay.

Page 2? That's impressive. I didn't understand page 1. I don't think it's homosexual though.

That's why I didn't say gay. I say ghay. That's slang for dumb or stupid. Throwback slang from the 80's.

I'm pretty sure gay was stupid when I was in late elementary school ...

i thought it was "ghey". Anyway, now that you've uttered the words "T*I*N*P", you've marked this thread for about a zillion hits from people looking for clues and answers. They're like the Borg.

eh. alternate spelling. *shrug*

I'd be really impressed if they made one of the answers "whale penis"

if i put that in my signature line, and it appeared in nearly 3000 posts, would that then drive these people crazy?