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Hello B.Y.O.B., My name is Terry Harrison and I am a simple man and a longtime "lurker" of the B.Y.O.B. subforum on Something Awful. When I think of why I love the B.Y.O.B. subforum, I think of friendship, good will, and a willingness to help your fellow "poster". It is for these reasons that I reach out to you all today, as Terry Harrison, long time "lurker" and regular in the B.Y.O.B. community. When I see your smiling posting faces, I think, "hey, here are a group of good, smart people, who might just love my website!" You might be wondering, "what website?" Thank you for asking--it's my website! For I am more than just a loyal and longtime "lurker" on the B.Y.O.B. subforum. I am also a world renowned expert on the Nuthatch, planet Earth's most mysterious, but best, bird (if you are curious, the Earth's worst bird is the nuthatch's permanent enemy, the Chickadee). I have funneled my universe of knowledge into a single digital location on the World Wide Web, the Nuthatch as presented by Terry Harrison. If you have a minute, please take the time to check out my digital resource for such an amazing creature. And feel safe in the knowledge that this doesn't have anything to do with my horrible analytics nor any desperate plea to co-opt a community in a last ditch bid to afford hosting fees. Oh, and please remember to sign the guestbook!  https://thenuthatch.neocities.org/ |
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Terry's List of Sites to Visit Everyday (For Your Safety) The Nuthatch. A great website ran by a great guy. Everything you could ever want to know about the bird that everyone's been talking about--the Nuthatch! https://thenuthatch.neocities.org/ Terry's List of Sites to Never Visit and The Things Not to Do While There (For Your Safety) Definitely not this one goes without saying: Number one: 1. Whoah that's a lot of locks. Luckily, you realize they don't matter. 2. Highlight the image of the door. Wait a minute, that's strange... 3. Copy/save the image and view it against a different background. Number two: 1.Think about the directions you would draw the tallies along. 2.Write out the letters following those directions. But this isn't English... 3.Maybe it is. Perhaps the letters have been shifted. By how many places, I wonder... Number three: 1.Recognize that black-and-white are a theme. 2.The image contains important information, but you can't find it while on the site. Take the image somewhere, where it can be manipulated. 3.Manipulate it following the theme, the ultimate contrast. In both directions. Number four: 1.Wow there is a lot going on here! Let's focus on the content of the post. 2.Posts on BYOB come in two colours. What would happen if I posted this same image in the other? 3.Two images in one?! Lots of drawings of things. Hold on, each drawing has something that isn't a drawing. It's a code, a bunch of dots and dashes... Number five: 1.What a tangled mess! Clearly, we must untangle these limbs. 2.I tried the number of toes, tangled and untangled, but it didn't work. Is there another set of numbers I'm missing? 3.LEL? If each L stood for leg, then what would the E stand for? And what numbers would those add to the sequence? Number six: 1.You heard nut, we have to break him out of the bars of the cell! 2.When I copy and paste the image or look at the HTML, I only get the top and bottom of the cell, not nut and the bars behind him. 3.Perhaps if I dug around the site code, I could find the url to isolate the image behind the bars. Number seven: 1.This is kind of like puzzle six. I copy and paste or save the image and only get part of it. Luckily, this time it's the important part. 2.Strange, it's flipped. Like a reflection. What exactly would an eye be watching on a computer to see that kind of reflection? 3.Ok cool, another weird code, great. It looks kind of familiar though, like similar codes are associated with other things I watch on a different, very popular website. Number eight: 1.Dang, banned on the month of his birth. It seems like the image of the cake is the only thing here. Let's examine its filename. 2.letsgetlit_uncut? What kind of birthday would it be if we didn't cut the cake? 3.Whoah okay, cutting the cake gave me two words. Perhaps we should try making a wish. Getting unlit, if you will. What if we blew the candle out first? Number nine: 1.If I scroll, it just repeats. Over and over. Let's just focus on the conversation. 2.These costumes, this dialog? Is this from a tv show? A popular one? What is that shown known for? 3.I can't believe it, a whole puzzle about nothing. Nothing at all. Number ten: 1.On the BYOB forums, I'd recognize those two faces anywhere! And this music!! 2.It's Jinh and prepuce repurposed! I wonder what their avs reference... 3.Pokemon addition? I wonder if each pokemon is associated with a specific number in the game canon? It'd be easy to add those up... Number eleven: 1.Pokemon and then Yugioh, what a nostalgia trip! I wonder what words were scribbled off that Yugioh card? 2.Access code? What kind of code exists on a website? Wait, I know! 3.I'd better check the thread, this solution is going to require group effort. Post-3.Whoah, biosterous got a response e-mail that they posted in the thread. But, at face value, it doesn't look like it has a password. Unless it actually does, encoded in the quote... Number twelve: 1.Terry suggests that this is still a puzzle, just one that doesn't require a password... 2.Everything we've done leads up to this? What information could I get from puzzles 1-11? 3.I've got it! The URLs of puzzles 1-11 contain a sequence. Well, three sequences. The first is elemental. The second, a number sequence. The third, reversed, is a list of feats, great feats. If I can solve these three sequences, I could predict what comes twelfth... A new, secondary place to definitely not go to: Number thirteen: 1.A lot going on here, but this puzzle uniquely features a video up front. Perhaps I should focus on it. 2.For a radio station clip, I sure don't hear a lot of music. Well, I mean I hear a little bit of it. At least one part very clearly. 3.It's a great sax introduction, but what does it have to do with "spelling it out for me"? Number fourteen: 1.Ohhh, a cryptogram, where each number corresponds to a letter of the alphabet. T _ _? What's the most common word that starts like that? 2.Find him? Surely, this means Terry. But where could I go to have a chat with Terry? 3.Ok, I'm here, but nothing looks different. Maybe if I wait for a certain number of seconds? Number fifteen: 1.This looks familiar--the Nuthatch's error page. "dumb bird facts?" But, I only see one. 2.Alright I came back to the puzzle and, wait, that's a different fact. How many are in here? 3.I've learned the most about a single species of bird. I can describe it's entire life, from egg to adult, in order!! Number sixteen: 1.Whoah, I recognize these quotes. Kubrick! Very neat. Has nothing to do with the solution here, though! 2.I tried to move some of the images to an image editor by saving them. Weird, I only got part of each. And each has a frame that fits right on top of each others'. Hmmmm... 3.They stack up perfectly! Now what does the layered image reveal? 4....and yet, still, that Kubrick thing still bothers me... (USER WAS BANNED FOR THIS POST) Terry Harri fucked around with this message at 02:48 on Dec 8, 2020
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Hi there, fellow poster! Strange, I just seem to see a bunch of black bars where your typing would normally go! Hope you enjoy the Nuthatch and make sure to check it multiple times a day and if ads appear in the future to click them and buy the products linked!
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Luvcow posted:i'm curious if you know that the nuthatch's second worst enemy is "moderators", a type of lovely bird found online who sometimes go into heat and ban our favorite friends, in this case let's use the nuthatch as an example, from being able to "post" with the other birds. L.O.L., they sound like a couple of chickadees! Prof. Crocodile posted:You were correct Terry. This is now my favorite website, right up there with chillinternet.club and donknottsisasexualtyrannousaurus.gov! Wow! Those internet websites sound great as well! Have you considered diverting some of your clicks for them onto the Nuthatch. Sure, it's only one page, but that just means you can click it more times! Heather Papps posted:this is way better than that bullshit chickadee website L.O.L.! A chickadee would never deserve an entire cyber reservoir of wisdom! Heather Papps posted:i am here to report success. in what? who knows! Success in finding out all there is to learn about the Nuthatch, I'm guessing! But that's okay, you can start all over again every time you visit or just by scrolling back up!
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Nov 19, 2020 00:02
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Prof. Crocodile posted:I am comforted to know that The Nuthatch is https, because I have been trying my credit card numbers as passwords--so far with only middling success. Wait...passwords? Sorry, I think you've got the wrong site. Unless you mean facts about Nuthatches, which are a password to an enriched life.
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Kaiser Schnitzel posted:this is some next level byob and I cannot figure out how to unlock that danged door Kaiser Schnitzel posted:I hope nut can read all the wrong passwords I am typing in Um excuse me, passwords? doors? Are you on the right site? It should just be one page about all about Nuthatches. You should enjoy it and not worry about anything else. You should restart your browser and visit it again to achieve a second formally recognized "visit".
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Nov 19, 2020 03:15
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All this talk of puzzles and passwords and secrets in between what otherwise just seems like black bars of posts and some would argue too few compliments for the Nuthatch, I have grown suspicious. My incisive insight was confirmed soon after my suspicions grew when a poster in confidence and in private has informed me that some of you (likely the one posting positively about chickadees) have been "hacking" my Internet directories. Let me here and now state that there is nothing else to my website besides a humble love for Nuthatches and anything you have stumbled on beyond that is a glitch, which is a computer term for error. Following this, I will be editing my second post in this Internet thread to highlight specific pages I have specifically been told are not to be visited. They are glitched and could hurt you. I keep them here as a reminder that they should not be visited. Beyond that, I will remind you that "hacking" is illegal pursuant to the laws of the World Wide Web. Please simply leave my Nuthatch site be and instead engage with it entirely by visiting multiple times on all of your electronic devices. On a positive note, the numbers behind the scenes have grown tremendously overnight. I knew B.Y.O.B. would be a reliable community for "engagement". Lastly, remember to visit the Nuthatch today if you haven't already!
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Prurient Squid posted:I like the illustrations! Thank you I did them myself. I assume you are talking about my naturalistic sketchings. All of the other graphics were done by an...acquaintance. biosterous posted:terry, what do you think about house sparrows? where do they fall on the nuthatch vs chickadee conflict? i'd love two hear your complete thoughts on this! You seem to have bolded some of your words by accident in your post. Sparrows are horrible, particularly in light of Nuthatches. I'd say perhaps Sparrows and Killdeer are equally horrible. Finger Prince posted:Red or white breasted? I fear that, in order to keep this thread PG-13, I will avoid asking a question so...blue.
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I, too, hate puzzles. They are like the chickadees of the thought world. In fact, I hate puzzles so much that when I happen to stumble upon one, I don't even bother working with my friends to solve it, I just leave it alone. I erase the experience from my head and think about buying a bot account that will artificially bolster my favourite Internet website's traffic.
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Heather Papps posted:pals check out THIS nuthatch! Zowie Wowie Mamma Jamma!!
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Nov 20, 2020 19:57
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Ah, that's nicer, a lot of positive chatter about Nuthatches, just as I had envisioned. Admittedly, I'm still rather on edge that a poster or two is attempting to backtrace my cyberspace, but perhaps I am being overly suspicious of such a welcoming community. Wait no, I definitely felt something.
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Stoner Sloth posted:i don't think i'm cut out to be a bird watcher lol haven't seen a single nut hatch! That's okay! Sometimes you just need a friend to point them out to you. Perhaps someday you'll be the one to point them out back... Prurient Squid posted:I'm a complete begginer at nuthatches. Are they called that because they eat nuts? Do they have specially shaped beaks for breaking open nuts? I'm clueless! Three clear Great question! Almost...Nuthatches are famous (or infamous if you're a nut!) for jamming the nuts they gather into small crooks and gaps in trees and relentlessly hammering them with their beak until they are cracked open, rendered unable to do just about anything let alone post on the Internet ever again! Whew, you think the weekend would be a time to put your feet up and relax. But in fact, there's always lots of things to do on the weekend.
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Nov 21, 2020 22:28
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biosterous posted:how cute are baby nuthatches? there are lots of baby birds that are so cute i just want to boop them on their heads! You tell me! 
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Prurient Squid posted:Terry, just out of curiosity, where were you the day JFK was shot? I was (responsibly) returning a birdwatching book that I had out on loan! Heather Papps posted:and what's your favourite weezer album? Hurley. L.O.L. I'm just kidding. Sorry folks, I haven't been attending my personal computer much today. I'm glad to see everyone enjoying the Nuthatch, as evidenced by my climbing viewcount and lower tier internet celebrity.
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I tried to take a page out of your book and referred to my daily spotting of a nuthatch on the feeder outside the kitchen window as a "success". She didn't get it. I hesitate to admit it, but I don't understand it either.
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I want to be loud and clear right here. You cannot tango with a Nuthatch. Even the weakest poster is still much too strong for the fragile bird. You have been warned. On a more positive note, another success on my end as well--I saw a Nuthatch! I told my friend Tom to start calling his Nuthatch spottings "successes" as well, seeing as we have decided to brute force this new vernacular on the birding world.
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Prurient Squid posted:It's sure getting darker and colder. I wonder what the migratory behaviour of the Nuthatch is? If you would believe it, most Nuthatches are non-migratory. It's a testament to their great strength and perseverance to not abandon that which they love. Though, honestly, they have no choice. If the chickadees aren't going to leave either, then someone has to stick around to keep them in check.
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This is what you all refer to as a "triple post". If I had a triple post, I would put a birdbox on each one.
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Nov 24, 2020 22:39
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"ooc"? You sound Scottish.
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google THIS posted:Terry I know chickadees eschew responsive design entirely because they're jerks but parts of your site are a little difficult to navigate on mobile You are browsing my Internet website on one of those spinning toys for babies? Unrelated, today feels different. I notice no successes in the thread (I had several success, four, to be exact. Admittedly, they may have been four sighting of the same Nuthatch but it still counts.) A calm has washed over me. I feel like I can relax. Nothing to worry over!
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Ugh, I don't know what it is. Maybe the old gout acting up? Something feels wrong again. I didn't see a single Nuthatch today. No successes. Just a handful of chickadees passing by. Hmph.
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Wow , so happy for you all in finding eight Nuthatches. Wow that's great and awesome. Maybe have you considered stopping or not looking for Nuthatches? They're kind of my thing and maybe you could be doing better things with your time. Thank you in advance for stopping.
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No, I hate it. Stop looking for Nuthatches. They have nothing to do with you. You know what I saw, today? Rain. Cold rain. No Nuthatches. Maybe a chickadee and two Blue Jays. I had to look for some on YouTube but it's not the same.
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Nov 28, 2020 22:58
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This is another warning. You can't keep this up. You don't know the first thing about Nuthatches. You're working with scant knowledge while I'm here revolutionizing cyberspace with the newest data available. I'm the World Wide Web's official center for this sort of thing.
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Horrible. I suspect that maybe that Nuthatch would have been more easily seen earlier on but oh well, c'est la vie. That is French for, "oh well". I'm going to level with you posters here. You're not getting any farther. With the Nuthatches--you're not getting any farther with regard to seeing Nuthatches, that is. L.O.L. I'm not mad, I'm disappointed. Keep this up and I'll get mad.
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Wait, what? Stop that. Stop working on that picture.
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biosterous posted:terry you should join in on the picture, it's fun! you could maybe add a sketch of a nuthatch or yourself! I will not be tricked by this, I know what you're up to.  Did I smilie correctly?
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Please stop.
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Dec 1, 2020 04:30
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November will never end on my watch.
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Ok, fine. But only because I chose to do it and it looked fun.
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biosterous posted:thank you for contributing, terry! isn't it fun to make art together? I'm not above admitting that it was fun. It was a nice way to start my mornings, which I've begun to fill by exploring other BYOB threads. Though I dare not post in them. A lot of butts, I'm noticing.
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Wait what. No no no no, that was a joke. A L.O.L.
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Alright, I have had ENOUGH! I knew what was going on this whole time. I saw behind your measly attempts at hiding your collective hacking of my dear Nuthatch World Wide Web Internut (L.O.L.) site. I just chose to ignore it. You were all doing so well--my agent said the metrics are off the chart! We were on track to incorporate NordVPN and G-Fuel banner ads. But I also never thought you'd get so far. Imagine, working together to solve a puzzle. And tricking me, me, into helping retrieve one of my own passwords! Well no more. I've taken the liberty of editing the next puzzle on the site. I'm shutting it all down. There's no password for you to find this time. He's not coming back.
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You don't even need spoiler tags anymore. I defy you to talk amongst yourselves. There's nothing to talk about, really. I suppose maybe to grieve the loss.
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Wow, 33 new posts WAIT A MINUTE. What did I tell you?! God dangit, how did you even get past my blockade?! Ugh, that's it. I'm going ahead and editing the second post in the thread to contain short lists of thoughts and actions you should, under no circumstance, ever think or do while on these different sites. The thoughts will be increasingly dangerous from 1-3 so please be less likely to think or do them in that order. You really shouldn't even check out number 1. I'm only putting them there so you know to not do them. It doesn't even matter. I'm also going to make things more difficult today. You'll face your hardest task yet. One that I suspect only a handful of posters might help you with.
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There, I added it. If you're stuck on a site or a password, GOOD. I recommend checking the second post for things NOT to do and then not doing them and minding your own business and responsibly visiting the Nuthatch daily to keep up this domain traffic. I'll continue to add more things not to do around a day after each site is dug up. Mainly, so I can watch you struggle before you obediently don't do the things I post.
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alnilam posted:terry since the masks are off guess what i have successfully hacked your 12th website binch... what are you gonna do about it. i'm the main guy from overdrawn at the memory bank i'm interfaced. If I knew what a binch was (South African bench?), I'm sure I'd be steamed. But for now I will revel in my ignorance. And perhaps also your ignorance for how to proceed through the next puzzle. Heather Papps posted:terry don't look at this post there is no secret chat here google THIS posted:I like chickadees. There I said it. I'm gonna go watch for some chickadees right now. I am hoping to find upwards of four in the coming days. I call them chickadon'ts. What Nuthatches can do, they chickadon't. L.O.L. sk posted:terry post nuts Haven't you done enough? Prurient Squid posted:Hack the Gibson. Please leave my guitar alone. Hope you all enjoyed the ride while it lasted. I will respect your humble bowing out here.
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biosterous posted:ah, finally solved five! one of the things i had tried was pretty dang close - of every three digit sequence, i had the first and second swapped with each other. thanks for your help, terry! I didn't help you one bit, god dang it. Heather Papps posted:i don't know what the password is but i'm pretty sure it's going to include a typo L.O.L. if you think I would ever make a typo. I would never. Too gauche.
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more falafel please posted:does anyone have any ideas about how we're supposed to find 13-16? Hmm, sounds like someone hasn't solved puzzle 12. Well, good! At most, please refer to the second post of this thread for more things to not do to ensure you're stagnation in the process. I hope it will help expedite your eventual apathy towards bringing nut back. 
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You guys listen to BYOB Radio, too? I absolutely hate the host, but I'm a big fan of the music.
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