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This actually taught me. I'm impressed and now I can translate binary
HOW TO READ BINARY MESSAGES
Hey there all you gamers out there! Have you ever seen a bunch of ones and zeroes in a television show and wondered "Huh. I wonder if this binary here is some sort of Secret Code?" and instead of googling it, you wanted to try to figure it out yourself? Well I know how to do that, and people always go "WHOA" when I tell them that, and I figured I would teach you all as well!
Now just a warning ahead of time, translating binary yourself will take some time and require a little bit of math, so don't say I didn't warn you.
So let's take a binary string like this frame from the Gravity Falls episode "Soos and The Real Girl" (which, spoilers, IS a secret message)
So the first thing you're gonna want to do is divide the binary into groups of 8. If it is a secret message, then each group of 8 bits will represent as ASCII value (or, for the sake of this explanation, letters). So let's divide them up.
That gives us: 01010011, 01010000, 01000001, 01000011, 01000101, 01001010, 01000001, 01001101, 01010100, 01010111, and 01001111. Now, you might have noticed that all of these binary strings have something in common. They all start with "010"! That's gonna be your first tell that you've got a secret message on your hands. Every letter in ASCII starts with either 010 or 011 for lowercase letters. So if you see the groups don't start with either of those, then it's just random gibberish binary that someone just keysmashed 1 and 0 for. So now we know we have a message, so we can begin translating. And to show off how that works, we're going to translate the first set together!
The way binary works is that each digit from the right to the left represents a power of 2. The farthest right digit represents 1. The second to last digit represents 2. The third to last digit is 4. Then 8. Then 16. When reading more complex binary stuff, you go further than that, but for reading ASCII letters, we only use 5 digits. For each of those digits, if the digit is 1, then you add the value that the digit represents. If it's 0, then you don't. From there, you add up the numbers you've got, and then run the sum through the handy dandy a1z26 cipher (A = 1, B = 2, C = 3, and so on)
So again, let's have a look at that first string: 01010011
And there you go! Now you just need to repeat this for every letter! It sounds harrowing at first, but over time you get the hang of it to the point where you can do it in your head. Feel free to give is a shot yourself and decode the rest of the message from the Gravity Falls episode
Now obviously there are a few exceptions. For example if you have a number or punctuation it will start with "001", and from there translating a number from 0 to 9 is easy since it's the same thing but without the A1Z26 cipher, but with punctuation you have to remember specific values, which is a pain in the ass, but if you're translating a decoded message, you don't really need to know the punctuation.
And that should do it! Hope you enjoyed this little explanation.
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Cloud's so cool and mysterious that not even he knows what's wrong with him
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Should I buy FFVII original or Remake when I've never played FFVII before and know hardly anything about the lore and story
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Oh god they're getting other companies to do it too
I didn't have any blocked pages until Amazon started spamming Tumblr with some cheap ass makeup job offer using tags like "humor" "meme" and various LGBT tags to reach greater and increasingly financially vulnerable categories. They also have thousands of accounts just to repeatedly post this dumb job thing. Tumblr should ip block them already, this is insane. They already have ads on Tumblr this isn't legal.
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I didn't have any blocked pages until Amazon started spamming Tumblr with some cheap ass makeup job offer using tags like "humor" "meme" and various LGBT tags to reach greater and increasingly financially vulnerable categories. They also have thousands of accounts just to repeatedly post this dumb job thing. Tumblr should ip block them already, this is insane. They already have ads on Tumblr this isn't legal.
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Actually one of my favorite comic pages
FLINGING HIM FRIDAY
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That high five was the most I've ever felt pandered to
personally i think this is the most autistic thing i’ve ever seen cloud do
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I scrolled very far down my Blog to find my last Throwing Him Thursday post to repost, but then I remembered it's Wednesday
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I wish I was as cool as him
Got my art program working again!
Not sure what to do as BG yet...
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Holding this post in my teeth and shaking
So yknow how Sonic started getting all powerful and electricy without realising whenever he got emotional in the first movie?
#shadows va has emotional range too#oh my god im not okay#rwrwrwrwhdidhwidgwjsvrrrrrjrjfbsflrb#lowercase screaming in public
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my little brother & i are having a scholarly debate about mornings
#post almost turned me into a morning person#maybe if i started running and eating in the morning i wouldnt be depressed#or maybe these are the lies of the Woke Morning Mob#Certified propaganda
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Does Tumblr have the power to ban Amazon 22 from their site? They keep spamming their need for workers and tagging it wrong. I swear before I blocked them it was almost every posts. Amazon sucks
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Thank god for friends getting angry about the same thing together
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