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There's Korean writing in Surgery Simulator...and has nothing to do with Half-Life.

FinKL

Member
[tweet]https://twitter.com/SurgeonSim2013/status/350341471657926656[/tweet]
From the Surgeon Simulator Twitter - " So, we hear there's some puzzle you're trying to figure out..."

Also, following that tweet, someone magnified and zoomed the image.

Looking at the zoomed in image, the Korean, the last particle designates "time" as the subject. So literally it means "time is"
 
If you translate Half-Life 3 to Korean in google translate, it says: Half-Life 3, but like this:

하프 라이프 3
 

Hylian7

Member
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This was posted on /v/, not sure if it's referring to the Surgeon Simluator thing or the Korean HL2 update the other day though.
 

TriGen

Member
Imagine one day nonchalantly opening Steam, you notice the Summer Sale has started, you watch the featured games scroll by, then, Half Life 3, $59.99, right there, in front of you, no hype, no information, just HL3 released. The internet would break.

The funny thing is people wouldn't even jump in and play the game, they would just start writing about how they never saw the signs pointing to its release.
 

cyberheater

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[tweet]https://twitter.com/SurgeonSim2013/status/350341471657926656[/tweet]
From the Surgeon Simulator Twitter - " So, we hear there's some puzzle you're trying to figure out..."

Also, following that tweet, someone magnified and zoomed the image.

Looking at the zoomed in image, the Korean, the last particle designates "time" as the subject. So literally it means "time is"

Do you mean this:-

hYfrMIX.jpg
 

Orayn

Member
It's time. Somebody start on the Korean writing.

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Also, have we considered reading the planets and blank lines as dits and dashes of Morse code?
 

Glix

Member
This obviously means they are release HL3, "Saturn Style"

Just going to randomly be on steam one day!

MIDWULS!!!!!!!!!!
 
The hangman is 25Sat1

The first two letters point between 2nd and 3rd planet so 2.5. Saturn is referenced obviously.

The next Saturday that is the 25th is in January.

So HL3 is released on January 25th, 2014. You're welcome.

Edit: Korea gets early release obviously.

That ain't bad.
 
Looking at the zoomed in image, the Korean, the last particle designates "time" as the subject. So literally it means "time is"
Time, Dr. Freeman? Is it really that time again? It seems as if you only just arrived. You've done a great deal in a small time span.
 

Blizzard

Banned
I could see this being something related to Surgeon Simulator, or MAYBE something related to Left 4 Dead 3.

I think it seems super unlikely to be related to Half-life 3 though. If it were, I doubt the Twitter confirmation would have come up. Since it did, I would predict a TF2/Surgeon Simulator/Steam/L4D3/Source piece of news to eventually be discovered, but not something Half-life.
 
hYfrMIX.jpg


So:

Sun, Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn (with an arrow pointing to ?) Uranus, Neptune.


The box is around 2 letters, between Mercury and Venus.

4 Letters remain outside the box. 6 letters total.

Korean = Time is.

A question of time? A matter of time?

What is between Mercury and Venus? Mercury and Venus have no moons.

The symbol for Venus:
25px-Venus_symbol.svg.png

The symbol for Mercury: ☿

first two letters between Mercury and Venus.... y and V? Yv...?

YVES GUILLEMOT.
 

Kerub

Banned
Maybe there will be a really rare card drop. The card will be Half-life 3, and you can only get it in Korea.
 
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This was posted on /v/, not sure if it's referring to the Surgeon Simluator thing or the Korean HL2 update the other day though.

if people keep emailing him about all the teases going on lately maybe they'll get fed up and put an end to all the bs going on, or finally just come out and announce the damn thing
 
Wow you can see the ring around Saturn in that one. Planets Confirmed.

Good eye.

The hangman is 25Sat1

The first two letters point between 2nd and 3rd planet so 2.5. Saturn is referenced obviously.

The next Saturday that is the 25th is in January.

So HL3 is released on January 25th, 2014. You're welcome.

Edit: Korea gets early release obviously.

I don't undestand this sentence, can someone please explain?
 

Bricky

Member
This was posted on /v/, not sure if it's referring to the Surgeon Simluator thing or the Korean HL2 update the other day though.

Like they would confirm it anyway at this point IF this turns out to be the HL3 ARG, that would ruin all of the fun. So even if this email is real, it is not like he would've said 'yes' and basically confirm HL3 or troll all of the internet.
 

kayos90

Tragic victim of fan death
That's definitely "Time is" but it's not supposed to stand by itself. It should have something before and after it. Usually an adjective before the time is part.
 

Glix

Member
People who aren't trying to decode the message have gotten pretty ridiculous in this thread. Especially with the reporter gif that has nothing to do with anything.

The reporter gif contributed just as much if not more than your carnival of stupid post.
 
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