***UPDATE*** 12:57:59 AM Seems we have been put on hold…for about THREE MONTHS…
From the #portal chatroom:
<mib_d258ix>:”The hex converted to decimal: 226 228 226 : 215 197 213 196 228 213 227 ( 201 ) + 211 197 197 197 If it’s ASCII it’s extended ASCII. Could it be EBCDIC (common mainframe encoding)? Edit: It IS EBCDIC. It spells: S U S : P E N D … U N T ( I ) L … E E E (colon, dots for spacing, and parens added to roughly locate them in the source image.) Hey, being QSECO
PROOF THIS IS THE REAL BSoD: HERE
Today at QDC Gabe Newell was awarded the Pioneer Award, and in his speech he talked about the industry and its interaction with the customers. Then at the end of his presentation he got a Blue Screen of Death. However this was no ordinary BSoD as you can see in this screenshot it contains the words “flood the facility with deadly neurotoxins.” Sounds oddly familiar…Oh yeah…Portal. It seems this is little more than a clever segway to the second part of the last Portal ARG which I covered here. So stay tuned as I cover the second part of this amazing adventure.
