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==V: Subliminal Messages== | ==V: Subliminal Messages== | ||
''After watching that movie "Under the Silver Lake" by David Robert Mitchell in cinema recently I got pretty fascinated by this guy in the movie who tries to find his missing neighbour he has a crush on by just searching nonstop for subliminal messages in his neighbourhood and (spoiler) actually succeeds with that approach in finding her. Eventually I tried to write commands for my HGP to find subliminal messages in Weimar, by using a certain system. Considering the results I realised that it is not that easy to find subliminal messages in real life, surely it depends also on the algorithm and the chosen text. Both HGPs chose (independently) weather forecasts, | |||
''Newspaper, economics focused or at least one with lots of numbers and text, one black felt pen, one red felt pen, one blue felt pen'' | ''Newspaper, economics focused or at least one with lots of numbers and text, one black felt pen, one red felt pen, one blue felt pen'' | ||
# Open a page in the chosen newspaper, make sure there are a lot of numbers in the text. Best would be a page or double page full of letters and numbers. | # Open a page in the chosen newspaper, make sure there are a lot of numbers in the text. Best would be a page or double page full of letters and numbers. | ||