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Tamar Rising Easter Egg
« on: 19 January 2022, 22:12:50 »
Page 15 has embedded text that I only found because I "read" these books with a TTS program.  Probably some spoilers, I don't know.  It's giving Google Translate fits.

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Re: Tamar Rising Easter Egg
« Reply #1 on: 19 January 2022, 22:29:43 »
Hmm, sounds like a command in the layout software that fills your text blocks with gibberish latin so you get an idea how the text will look. Ray sent me that page after he set it up to how he wanted it. Seems like that text block is floating around in there somewhere invisbly! Ah, found it, it's still on a master page setup.

I think you can safely ignore it, I doubt Ray wrote that up as a secret. :D

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Re: Tamar Rising Easter Egg
« Reply #2 on: 19 January 2022, 22:34:00 »
Yeah that looks like lorem ipsum.
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Re: Tamar Rising Easter Egg
« Reply #3 on: 19 January 2022, 22:35:23 »
Well.
You can try to decipher it and see.
It’s possible I’ve been dropping these in books for years.
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Re: Tamar Rising Easter Egg
« Reply #4 on: 19 January 2022, 22:38:44 »
Quote from: Dak on 19 January 2022, 22:29:43
Hmm, sounds like a command in the layout software that fills your text blocks with gibberish latin so you get an idea how the text will look. Ray sent me that page after he set it up to how he wanted it. Seems like that text block is floating around in there somewhere invisbly! Ah, found it, it's still on a master page setup.

I think you can safely ignore it, I doubt Ray wrote that up as a secret. :D

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Re: Tamar Rising Easter Egg
« Reply #5 on: 19 January 2022, 22:52:00 »
Quote from: Adrian Gideon on 19 January 2022, 22:35:23
Well.
You can try to decipher it and see.
It’s possible I’ve been dropping these in books for years.

 ;D

I remember the same text from the original sample page you put together for the Combat Manual pitch.
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Re: Tamar Rising Easter Egg
« Reply #6 on: 19 January 2022, 23:20:20 »
Quote from: Doc Swift on 19 January 2022, 22:52:00
;D

I remember the same text from the original sample page you put together for the Combat Manual pitch.
noli figere quod non fractum
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Re: Tamar Rising Easter Egg
« Reply #7 on: 19 January 2022, 23:28:26 »
I'll be curious to see if anyone can find hidden messages in the last page of the fiction section.
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Re: Tamar Rising Easter Egg
« Reply #8 on: 20 January 2022, 00:11:38 »
Quote from: Adrian Gideon on 19 January 2022, 22:35:23
Well.
You can try to decipher it and see.
It’s possible I’ve been dropping these in books for years.

Maybe if we play read them backwards...  ;D
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Re: Tamar Rising Easter Egg
« Reply #9 on: 20 January 2022, 00:14:05 »
Quote from: CVB on 20 January 2022, 00:11:38
Maybe if we play read them backwards...  ;D

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Re: Tamar Rising Easter Egg
« Reply #10 on: 20 January 2022, 00:32:56 »
Quote from: Adrian Gideon on 19 January 2022, 22:35:23
Well.
You can try to decipher it and see.
It’s possible I’ve been dropping these in books for years.

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Re: Tamar Rising Easter Egg
« Reply #11 on: 20 January 2022, 01:00:04 »
Quote from: Adrian Gideon on 19 January 2022, 23:20:20
noli figere quod non fractum

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Re: Tamar Rising Easter Egg
« Reply #12 on: 20 January 2022, 04:11:46 »
Quidquid latine dictum sit altum videtur!
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Re: Tamar Rising Easter Egg
« Reply #13 on: 20 January 2022, 04:15:03 »
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Re: Tamar Rising Easter Egg
« Reply #14 on: 20 January 2022, 07:38:54 »
There couple latin words in there. I'm thinking this is double-talk that Sid Caeser used to use in his old 1950s skits.  ;D :D
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Re: Tamar Rising Easter Egg
« Reply #15 on: 20 January 2022, 09:10:10 »
So that's what word of Blake had been doing this whole time!
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Re: Tamar Rising Easter Egg
« Reply #16 on: 20 January 2022, 10:18:06 »
Quote from: CVB on 20 January 2022, 00:11:38
Maybe if we play read them backwards...  ;D


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Re: Tamar Rising Easter Egg
« Reply #17 on: 20 January 2022, 16:29:43 »
Quote from: Adrian Gideon on 19 January 2022, 23:20:20
noli figere quod non fractum

Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn!
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Re: Tamar Rising Easter Egg
« Reply #18 on: 20 January 2022, 17:01:46 »
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Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn!
Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch!
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Re: Tamar Rising Easter Egg
« Reply #19 on: 20 January 2022, 17:04:24 »
Quote from: CVB on 20 January 2022, 17:01:46
Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch!

Not sure if keysmash or welsh…
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Re: Tamar Rising Easter Egg
« Reply #20 on: 20 January 2022, 17:08:34 »
When I opened this thread up on my phone, it asked me if I wanted it to translate from Latin to English.
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Re: Tamar Rising Easter Egg
« Reply #21 on: 20 January 2022, 17:52:02 »
Quote from: Sartris on 20 January 2022, 17:04:24
Not sure if keysmash or welsh…

Welsh. But it's hard to tyyllll...
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Re: Tamar Rising Easter Egg
« Reply #24 on: 27 January 2022, 11:30:35 »
To the best of my highschool latin ability, this is latin sounding gibberish. Some proper words, some mixed up, but I can't trace proper sentence structures. Even rusty, I should be able to find at least a bit translatable...

Oh, and, noli figere quod non fractum is an attempt at If it isn't broken, don't fix it, but... a bit off. Obvious retrotranslation.
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Re: Tamar Rising Easter Egg
« Reply #25 on: 28 January 2022, 01:34:59 »
What about the page 75 code looking thing? Does anyone know if that's something or just random?
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« Reply #26 on: 28 January 2022, 06:26:36 »
Hi, first of all, grat book!
One issue I've noticed is that if you reflow the text in a pdf viewer, the columns in any give page are shown reverted, i.e. the page would start with the second column and then continue with the firs one. This seems to be related to the way the PDF is formatted or tagged. I have noticed this also with other products like the Ilclan Sourcebook. This is quite annoying if you are using a smaller screen. Is there a way to solve this?
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Re: Tamar Rising Easter Egg
« Reply #27 on: 28 January 2022, 07:36:42 »
Quote from: lobezno on 28 January 2022, 06:26:36
Hi, first of all, grat book!
One issue I've noticed is that if you reflow the text in a pdf viewer, the columns in any give page are shown reverted, i.e. the page would start with the second column and then continue with the firs one. This seems to be related to the way the PDF is formatted or tagged. I have noticed this also with other products like the Ilclan Sourcebook. This is quite annoying if you are using a smaller screen. Is there a way to solve this?

That's fairly common to the point I don't think it's anything CGL is doing. Sice you're on mobile give "@Voice Aloud Reader" a try. It's designed for text to speech and that's what I use it for but it also allows for one column scrolling. The reason I recommend that versus other TTS programs is the ability to select what text and what order it reads. No more reading page numbers or headers, and the ability to have columns and text boxes read in order. I have a 45 minute commute to the hospital and this program has allowed me to devour BT books.
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Re: Tamar Rising Easter Egg
« Reply #28 on: 28 January 2022, 07:57:43 »
Quote from: Maelwys on 28 January 2022, 01:34:59
What about the page 75 code looking thing? Does anyone know if that's something or just random?

There is an AMA coming up...
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Re: Tamar Rising Easter Egg
« Reply #29 on: 29 January 2022, 11:22:58 »
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There is an AMA coming up...

Huh? When? Where?
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