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[–] Zorsith@lemmy.blahaj.zone 58 points 5 months ago (1 children)
[–] blackluster117@possumpat.io 23 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

This is the kind of stuff that keeps me up at night, in a kid staring at the stars way. How cool.

Look up "Lemino - Cicada" on youtube. Hands down the best under 1 hr description of the entire ordeal.

[–] mindbleach@sh.itjust.works 30 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Some libertarian dingus put up his cleverest puzzles in search of suuuper geeeniuses, who could singlehandedly get on his level. Then he threw a tantrum and took it all down because it turns out people are smarter when they work together.

[–] Fontasia@feddit.nl 2 points 5 months ago

Even better, several government departments ripped this off as part of a recruitment drives

[–] Tomzomodest@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)
[–] Vivendi@lemmy.zip 2 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

Stupid ass online cryptic game/ARG

[–] Tomzomodest@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Oh isn't that Cicada 3301?

oh fuck it's been so long since I head anything about that! Is that really all it turned out to be?

Is there any sources to verify mindbleach's claims?

[–] Wilzax@lemmy.world 9 points 5 months ago

Ahh the original ARG

[–] festnt@sh.itjust.works 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

i think the captcha is PfP

[–] festnt@sh.itjust.works 1 points 5 months ago

no wait its PrP

[–] asphalt@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)
[–] don@lemm.ee 7 points 5 months ago (1 children)
[–] asphalt@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 5 months ago