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Nick Brick is SPY!

Science: Search for "E0 FD C0" in Nick's texture (Char037.bmb in Z01SSP) and go to the second result to change what I did here. I almost thought it was YRB for a second, as I when I was setting FF alone to the values I hit bluish where the E0 is, and yellow where the FD is, but then when I put the third byte as FF it was just dark blue. Changing all three of these to 00 or FF makes it black or white, so I don't know what's up. Note: The hands were still yellow.

[00:39:44] The Ace Railgun: Funfact: the bug spray I use attracts bees. [00:41:30] jamesster: that doesn't sound like a very fun fact [00:42:20] Noghiri: it is if you're studying bees

[11:37:18 AM] Ben24x7: A friend took a recording of me saying “If I may, I’m going to fiddle diddle with my fiddle for two hours until a good song comes on” [11:37:42 AM] Ben24x7: He replaced “fiddle” with an unmentionable word, then he proceeded to that video version [11:38:17 AM] Hugh Wotmeigh: Was the word "c***"? [11:38:20 AM] Hugh Wotmeigh: "Diddle"? [11:38:31 AM] Ben24x7: Do you want to see for yourself, because I wouldn’t recommend it [11:38:33 AM] Hugh Wotmeigh: "Arsehole"? [11:38:37 AM] Hugh Wotmeigh: I got it! [11:38:43 AM] Ben24x7: No you didn't [11:38:44 AM] Hugh Wotmeigh: "WANKER" [11:38:48 AM] Ben24x7: Nope [11:38:48 AM] Hugh Wotmeigh: Goddam [11:38:54 AM] Hugh Wotmeigh: Welp, f**** it [11:39:01 AM] Hugh Wotmeigh: Gonna let this song end [11:39:05 AM] Hugh Wotmeigh: And then to sleep I go

I've looked a bit more into this too, I can confirm that your sequence for 0x8000 bytes works for multiple files (for blocks of that size), and even better - the sequence seems solely dependent on the block size! For example for block sizes of 33 bytes, the following sequence works as a key (there are two files of 33 byte size which is how I can test it): 4D 6F AE AC 0A E6 CB 00 02 84 46 00 11 E6 2C ED CE 13 B5 44 F1 62 70 5C 9E 41 0A 28 0E C2 DC E4 D7 Now the question is how to derive this key from the block size - could it be an LCG with the block size as seed? I'll try and run some tests when I get the time. Update : it doesn't look like an LCG - plotting the values as triplets in 3d space doesn't reveal any patterns. I also checked the keys of a 32 and 33 byte chunk, hoping that there might be an obvious connection (since the seeds are off by one) - I couldn't see one: 32 byte key : 2f 61 17 d9 57 57 67 01 4b 11 63 c1 61 97 42 de 75 29 c9 a4 9e 8e 5c 7f 87 ee fa 22 0b 16 55 a9 33 byte key : 4d 6f ae ac 0a e6 cb 00 02 84 46 00 11 e6 2c ed ce 13 b5 44 f1 62 70 5c 9e 41 0a 28 0e c2 dc e4 d7 (I did spot the 57 57 in the 32 byte key - probably not significant but you never know)

When The Brickster runs away without paying for his pizza, Pepper decides it's time to pay him a personal surprise visit.

I looked a bit more into this and here are my current results (not the complete research way): It looks like that the files are encrypted in blocks of the size 0x8000. If a block is full, the encryption key seems to be the following (XOR). Here are only the first 20 bytes of the 32768 bytes: 19 4d 07 6a 08 48 d7 6a 53 3c 59 05 06 4c a2 07 8e a7 7a b5 ... If a block is not full it seem to be different every time. Maybe it depends on the size of the block. I have no access to blocks (files) that have the same size, so I can not cross check. In the samples that were provided by jamsster (thanks again) are only different sizes. [request]It could be helpful, if someone could upload a few more examples.[/request]

Saw this on Tumblr today: '' target='_blank'>> Check out the photo description too, it's part of a pretty interesting thing: http://www.brothers-brick.com/2013/10/21/symphony-of-construction-a-harmony-of-lego-and-music/ Also: '' target='_blank'>> Holy ship.

Logan Fulford on Flickr has created some truly amazing custom minifigs. Here are some of them: