Valve pulls an ilovebees

[goodboyCerberus]

http://www.geek.com/articles/games/valv ... t-2010032/

* Portal gets surprise update yesterday afternoon
* People see new mystery achievement
* People play and see the radio in the beginning room now has a green light
* Carry it around and notice it makes strange broadcast interference noises in certain places
* Locate and place all 26 of these mystery radios for achievement
* Smart people yank wav files out of game content folders and run them through steganography programs
* Produces 26 weird cryptic image files in a numbered sequence
* Some dude runs the number string through an md5 hash translator and gets a landline number
* Internet traces it to Kirkland, WA (near Valve HQ)
* People find out its not a phone/fax line but a data line hosting a BBS and telnet it
* Use a clue from one of the files to figure out the BBS user/password login info
* End up with a bunch of weird ASCII artwork
* We’re trying to figure out wtf it means

[MissingNo.]

I was following this as it developed. It was really fun! I mean, I didn't know what the fuck was going on but I just smiled and nodded as other people broke the code. I still don't know what telnet is. Here is the stream of ASCII art if you're interested:

[MissingNo.]

Portal was updated again today with a new ending!

[Mr Calavera]

It's things like this that make me love Valve. That and their excellent games, of course.