I was able to rip Roxy from 008194, but I’ve never had experience with ripping gifs, sorry!
— Complete Deobfuscation of Rose’s Text!!! —
WE DID IT! WE CLEANED IT UP!!!?!
I still can’t believe it. That reddit suggestion for singling out the parts of it that were exactly the text color of Rose within a threshold was good, but I thought they could have done a better job of typing over it, and it turns out you could get a VERY precise account of certain letters whether or not their pixels overlapped with the white in the background! Building on our initial theorywork, I merged every frame of the gif, used some text filters, then got the help of the MSPA Clubhouse Chat to figure out the words that fit without violating the pixels and: BLAM. Two hours later, look at this beautiful, beautiful thing.
Here’s the transcript in text form:
- TT: I believe Jade has officially gone grimbark.
- TT: She seems to be working against us now. She has split us up,
- keeping us quarantined to our own planets.
- TT: I believe she’s functioning at the behest of the Condesce,
- through some form of coercion or mind control.
- TT: This means she’s attempting to finish our session for us
- while keeping us separated and neutralized. ((could be more here))
- TT: But there appears to be a reason for the way she has divided
- and grouped us. She may still have a purpose for us.
- TT: I think however John has managed to elude her. Have you heard from him?
- TG: damn she wasnt kidding
- TG: this is surreal
- TT: Dave, I’m having trouble understanding you.
- TG: yeah i cant understand a word youre saying
(We’re probably going to get the other side of this log in a few days and it’ll all have been for nothing :P )
Thanks to LegendaryQ, whitehelm, Zircean, CyclopsCaveman, and slovenlysine/Brumathan (the latter’s their forum name), and I believe I’ve shown I’ve done enough work myself too. :)
i dont know if you guys are still looking for this but this is what i’ve deciphered from the update so far, not 100% sure of it all
TT: I believe Jade has officially gone grimbark.
TT: She appears to be turning against us, having split us up, and now we’ve all returned to our own planets.
TT: I believe she is functioning on the behalf of the Condesce, through her abilities of mind control.
TT: I think she’s trying ?????????????? while we’re stuck here, and ????????????????????????????? and gave our ?????? She may finally have a purpose for ???? (us/it)
TT: It seems, however, John has managed to elude her. Have you heard from him?
so i just spent a good half hour or more trying to decipher what Rose was trying to tell dave, and this is what i got. this may be incorrect in some places, and there were spots that i could not read at all, whatsoever.
I think the sentence is ‘I believe she is functioning at the behalf (?) of the Condesce’. That doesn’t make sense grammatically - it should be ‘behest’, not ‘behalf’, otherwise it would be ‘she is functioning on the behalf’, but that could be the glitch confusing me as to whether that’s ‘at’ or ‘on’ there.
(Someone else posted a kinda cleaned-up image that I got that sentence from.)
i saw something similar, but i wasn’t too sure, and i couldn’t figure out if it was at or on as well. the glitch is really hard to read so i understand entirely how difficult this is!
