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existentialterror · 3 hours

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black turtleneck guy: our company was founded on one simple principle—that God is a living creature and can be killed

shark tank guy: what’s the over-under on product parity?

catholic priest (watching this afterwards on a vtuber reaction video): *pauses, points at screen* that right there might be heretical

nematode worm: *caresses my brainstem*

nematode worm’s guardian angel: this one’s a thinker

#alternate models #parasites #heresy //#call this militant atheism

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existentialterror · 3 hours

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bro there are multiple SCP character kinnies in this ARG discord I'm in, and I haven't ran into the chance to jumpscare any of em by my mere existence

I will be brave and tasteful and restrained about it but the ability to periodically jumpscare SCP knowers is the greatest pleasure afforded to me by this strange internet age and I am being denied it.

So brave. So tasteful. >:|

#light writes

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existentialterror · 15 hours

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ARG reccomendation: Urrezko Kaiola

If you're into ARGs and also RPG games, you might enjoy the Urrezko Kaiola experience. It's a long running (4 years?!!!!) ARG based around a flash-type RPG game. I believe it's wrapping up soon, so while I would imagine it'll be playable after, here's your chance to get in on it while it's still active! I didn't get far into it because I kind of bounced off the gameplay (I don't think it was doing anything wrong, most RPGs just don't hook me) but even as far as I got, I was impressed at how natural the progression was. And the degree to which the lore unfolded. If you like the game style I suspect you'll really enjoy it.

Here's the trailhead/part 1.

#reblogging for reasons

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existentialterror · 1 day

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Light's ARG (?) Notes: God Sngol lognS

(I am assuming this is an unfiction project because it has some of the hallmarks: advertising, numbered journal entries, mysterious vibes, a prominent password-locked page... However, if I'm wrong and this is just someone's, like, personal website + philosophy, my apologies for assuming it's anything else. You should explain your stopping time thing though because it seems cool.)

God Sngol lognS / sngollogns.com is an unfiction project I ran into on reddit. Other people have found it through tiktok ads. I was immediately tickled by its use of LaTeX. Like yeah man, alright, I'll hear you out.

The big feature of the website is the "speed of life" PDF, screenshotted above.. The author claims to have paused time, which happens in a 1990-year cycle, in 2023.

The site has a number of PDFs, numbered and labeled "God's Journal Entry #". Some are visible now. Some were uploaded on past versions of the site and preserved in the Internet Archive but are not visible on current versions. Some seem to be visible through the store.

(By the way, PSA, BE CAREFUL ABOUT DOWNLOADING STRANGE PDFS! You can fit a lot of malware in those bad boys. In this case I rolled the dice on it and now have more reason than usual to think they're safe, but if you do the same then you should be aware you're rolling dice.)

Since the outset of its current version, the website has had a password-locked page called "ATLAS". The password is the big mystery. We have tried lots of concepts and words from the site, and some people have even thrown password dictionaries into it, to no avail so far.

Themes found throughout the site and the journals include progress for humanity, death and rebirth, and a trinity of god's scales, god's sword/lightning, and god's eye. The Speed of Life doc says: "If no one else can pick it up… then I will hold this gift up." It evokes the titan Atlas, the name of the locked page.

(The other password locked page, "Planetary Prize in X" was unlocked as of a couple weeks ago. It consisted of some PDFs of prizes the author had awarded to different people - "the Hubble Space Telescope Team" got a "Planetary Prize in Discovery" "In recognition of their legendary contributions to humanity", for instance.)

My tentative read on the story: I think the site's creator ("God Sngol lognS") believes they are the rebirth of Christ and have frozen a longstanding cycle of Messianic arrivals, perhaps allowing humanity to progress forwards. (The site has been around for a couple years but the ads went around on Easter!) They have now moved on to encouraging humanity's progress in other ways.

Right, yes, there is a store. The store sells a number of numbered items (more journal entries?) that cost $100 dollars each and are not yet available. The one item that costs less is "A cup of coffee" that costs $10 and is available now. Someone in the solving discord I'm in did in fact buy it. They got a pdf numbered God's Journal Entry #21 that said "I find it rather poetic. =)" and "Thanks!" So I think they probably just paid $10 to the owner of a fun website, which, well, there are worse things to pay $10 for.

Anyway, this is an odd one because there is a fair amount of material, and the vibes and details are strange and interesting, but we just... haven't made progress on what would appear to be the main step mystery. Still, the site's energy is great, and it appears to be a long-running project.

For future reference, some things I have already tried and have not found obvious clues in:

Any source code

The file hex of the pdfs

Embedded files or messages in the PDFs themselves

Any of the site's embedded images

The most active solving community for this that I'm aware of is the Nightmare Keys Investigation discord. (I'm hanging out in here but I do not run this discord, join at your own risk, it's an ARG enthusiast discord run by youtuber Nightmare Keys). There's a google drive in there with notes, copies of a bunch of pdfs and backups of the site, etc etc.

If you figure out the passwords, let me know. If you're the site owner and you want people to figure out the passwords, maybe make it easier to guess? elaboration below the cut:

There's a thing with passwords where, like, if you think the password is "sngol logns", you can write that out a LOT of different ways:

Sngol lognS

Sngol Logns

sngol logns

SNGOL LOGNS

SngollognS

SngolLogns

sngollogns

SNGOLLOGNS

sngol_logns

ETC...

and I worry that the password is like one of these things we've tried before but formatted in a slightly different way. This is your project and you should do as you like and possibly nobody has even hit upon it yet but I'm just telling you, I'm not going to try any more variations of things I've already guessed, I'm gonna be holding out for new information or ideas.

#light writes #alternate reality games #unfiction #arg #god sngol logns #sngollogns #light's ARG notes #alternate models

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existentialterror · 1 day

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ARG reccomendation: Urrezko Kaiola

If you're into ARGs and also RPG games, you might enjoy the Urrezko Kaiola experience. It's a long running (4 years?!!!!) ARG based around a flash-type RPG game. I believe it's wrapping up soon, so while I would imagine it'll be playable after, here's your chance to get in on it while it's still active! I didn't get far into it because I kind of bounced off the gameplay (I don't think it was doing anything wrong, most RPGs just don't hook me) but even as far as I got, I was impressed at how natural the progression was. And the degree to which the lore unfolded. If you like the game style I suspect you'll really enjoy it.

Here's the trailhead/part 1.

#arg #light recs #urrezko kaiola #alternate reality games #light writes #creepy shit #unfiction #light's ARG notes

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existentialterror · 4 days

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