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[tuxcat]

OK Vortigern I admit it. It is a carnival show and we are being trolled.

The timing is spot on though

This.

 

[jond]

"And on that bombshell, ladies and gentlemen, it's time to end. Good night!"

 

[tuxcat]

"And on that bombshell, ladies and gentlemen, it's time to end. Good night!"

It is indeed. Mind you I always did think that underneath it all flaccon was a wind-up merchant. Oh well back under the Silver Jubilee Bridge at Runcorn/Widnes

 

[scrappy]

Alderbank ? where has this rumour come from Tracy has never said that . How come you continue to misunderstand her phone conversations with you , it's beginning to look deliberate .

 

[Alderbank]

Alderbank ? where has this rumour come from Tracy has never said that . How come you continue to misunderstand her phone conversations with you , it's beginning to look deliberate .

As you can see from all the different posts, yes we believe it is deliberate.

In my post I politely asked you some questions. You always completely ignore anything I say. I consider this to be rude. Please have the courtesy to reply to me before asking more questions of your own. That is how a discussion works.

 

[trustbutverify]

It is indeed. Mind you I always did think that underneath it all flaccon was a wind-up merchant. Oh well back under the Silver Jubilee Bridge at Runcorn/Widnes

She (supposedly) wrote up that entire website and had a Jref member to her house to hear carefully cataloged recordings of white noise as some sort of elaborate trolling exercise/practical joke?

 

[scrappy]

Tuxcat, I merely offered Alderbank my land line out of repect.

 

[AdMan]

She (supposedly) wrote up that entire website and had a Jref member to her house to hear carefully cataloged recordings of white noise as some sort of elaborate trolling exercise/practical joke?

I think that rather than a troll, we are dealing with a very disturbed individual.

 

[tuxcat]

Tuxcat, I merely offered Alderbank my land line out of repect.

?? What's that got to do with it?

 

[Pixel42]

As you can see from all the different posts, yes we believe it is deliberate.

He's saying that you're deliberately misunderstanding flaccon. He never bothers to quote the post he's replying to but this was your last post:

Tux, come down to earth. You are addressing this to someone who makes an audio file by sticking a blob of chewing gum over the webcam

So he seems to be saying that flaccon has never said this is how she makes her recordings. I can't be bothered to go back and look, but I'm pretty sure she's confirmed this is how she makes them on this thread.

 

[malicus]

If there was any doubt remaining, "scrappy"'s most recent posts make it abundantly clear that we are being trolled.

1.Suddenly appears on-line within moments of the OP logging out.
2.Writes in vague, syntactically inscrutable language.
3. Ignores repeated requests for clarification.
4. Alternately spells correctly and mis-spells certain words ("bin" but sometimes "been").
5. Presents self as spokesperson for OP, somehow knowing OP's thoughts and minute-by-minute activities without any explanation.

I'm sure there are other hints. This is a carnival sideshow, people.

Nailed it.

 

[tuxcat]

He's saying that you're deliberately misunderstanding flaccon. He never bothers to quote the post he's replying to but this was your last post:



So he seems to be saying that flaccon has never said this is how she makes her recordings. I can't be bothered to go back and look, but I'm pretty sure she's confirmed this is how she makes them on this thread.

It is extremely confusing for us all Pixel42. I honestly have no idea what scrappy is going on about

Flaccon makes recordings by covering her webcam and using it's mic to record the background noise - which is a totally daft way of doing it seeing that audio recording software like Audacity and a dedicated mic would be better.

ETA: Why does the Forum system remove other quotes from replies?

 

[malicus]

I think that rather than a troll, we are dealing with a very disturbed individual.

As this thread spirals into the train wreck we all expected, I suspect you are correct.

 

[tuxcat]

As this thread spirals into the train wreck we all suspected, I suspect your are correct.

We all knew that it would turn into a catastrophe worthy of Seconds from Disaster. We just didn't know how long it'd take.

 

[jsfisher]

Flaccon phonend today at dinner time, and informed me that she had finely retrieved JFishers recordings . She claims 2 of the recordings have altered . I nipped home and checked JFishers recordings on my laptop , and there is definate change within the recordings I have here . JFisher original recordings should now have significant differences . Flacc is requesting that JFisher sends her a silent recording volume up ,without those rain noises .

I will be generating the file in short order.

By the way, the original files I sent are unaltered. Qualitatively, they sound the same as before, and quantitatively, the MD5 hashes are unchanged.

 

[tuxcat]

I will be generating the file in short order.

By the way, the original files I sent are unaltered. Qualitatively, they sound the same as before, and quantitatively, the MD5 hashes are unchanged.

Then the only explanation is a hallucination. And my hashes are exactly the same as they were - as I always knew they would be. The latest recording of silence is unlikely to inspire paredolia.

 

[desertgal]

Biscuit, the spirits claim that they are here to change the world for the better, before its blown to bits .

Really? Why do they care? They don't occupy this world-they are spirits. World events don't affect them in the slightest. They will continue to be spirits regardless.

 

[scrappy]

JS fisher, on file titled volumeup does the recording not go silent at 21 seconds for 6 seconds. At o38 seconds do you not hear the name Robin ? . When I initially played your file it did not have these alterations like it does now .

 

[Professor Yaffle]

JS fisher, on file titled volumeup does the recording not go silent at 21 seconds for 6 seconds. At o38 seconds do you not hear the name Robin ? . When I initially played your file it did not have these alterations like it does now .

Or perhaps... when you first listen to a file you hear nothing of note on it. But when you replay it over and over trying to get some meaning from it, at some point your brain creates something out of the random sounds.

 

[Pixel42]

Or perhaps... when you first listen to a file you hear nothing of note on it. But when you replay it over and over trying to get some meaning from it, at some point your brain creates something out of the random sounds.

The problem with pareidolia is that once you've seen/heard something which you find meaningful in the noise it's impossible to unsee/unhear it. It's the same with the people who think they see the image of the Virgin Mary in a cheese sandwich or whatever; no matter how obvious it is to anyone else that it's just noise which happens to bear a chance resemblance to a figure, to the person who has interpreted it as the Virgin Mary it will always be the Virgin Mary, and those who won't accept that are being deliberately obtuse.