• A cryptic message, a name hidden in a cry for help.
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[b]I don't want this to show up on a google search for his username/real name, so if you find it, please don't post it in this thread - PM me[/b] [quote]Over the past week my time has been spent closing down all my old accounts, because the depression that still keeps me here has not lifted and there's no alternative besides leaving you all and "starting anew". Trying to "get better" doesn't just happen like words do, so I've come to leaving as a "last resort" to try force myself to move on. How this turns out is up to how things get done afterwards, but if nothing works out people will see me reaching out again to them and reappearing on my new account. Tomorrow, you won't see me. You'll likely remember me, but you won't see me. I may see you. Reread it until you find a name. There is one in there. Make sure to take one at the end after you flip trying to find it.[/quote] I'm very worried about him - he's told me on a few occasions that he's considered self harm and I don't want to find out that he's killed himself or something. He has asperger's syndrome and has always been very cryptic and meticulous with everything he does. He never misspells, he's always grammatically correct etc. so everything in this message is a clue towards something that I've not been able to find out. The main clue that I've noticed is in the sentence - [i]Make sure to take one at the end after you flip trying to find it.[/i]. I've never heard him use the term 'flip' in the figurative sense, and the whole sentence makes no sense unless 'make sure to take one' means to take one of something out of the message, after it's flipped. That's all I know so far. Any help towards this would be greatly appreciated, I'm very worried.
I don't know, I can't really think of anything other than how it's a bit odd that he put the phrases "Starting anew", "Get better", and "Last resort" all in quotes. Might have something to do with it. Also maybe the phrase "How this turns out" relating to the "flip" part of the clue.
So he wants to be found but he also doesn't? I'm not quite sure I follow. Do you know the guy? Do you know his real name? What was his old account?
[QUOTE=Trumple;48052896]So he wants to be found but he also doesn't? I'm not quite sure I follow. Do you know the guy? Do you know his real name? What was his old account?[/QUOTE] It sounds like he wants to start over but would like to potentially remain in contact with Xenoyia. That's sort of the mindset with these things, and depression, sometimes; you may want something that's going to make you sad, but there's a part of you that does something to sort of counteract it, because you're not sure you want it. It's a bit silly but I feel like that might be the case here. Should we be looking for, like, a real name? Or a steam account name?
[QUOTE=Trumple;48052896]So he wants to be found but he also doesn't? I'm not quite sure I follow. Do you know the guy? Do you know his real name? What was his old account?[/QUOTE] I knew him for a few years. I don't know his real name, town/city (I know the general area of England he lives in though) or anything like that. He was very secretive. I don't follow the whole thing either, I just want to know that he's alright, really. He posted this in April. I didn't catch on the cryptic message until recently. He's been MIA ever since.
about all I can find is flipping the end of anew to be the start and creating Wane. It's in quotations so it seems more crucial to the paragraph, but I don't know.
If I'm interpreting this correctly, it seems that his depression drove him away from living life normally and onto the internet (or games, or whatever his "accounts" were for) to try to cope and seek help. Because his depression was not going away, his life remained centered on his accounts. He's decided that this dependence is not getting him anywhere, so he's make the choice to leave. By shutting down all of his accounts, he's trying to force himself to do something else with his time and get better. He's at least said that he'll reach out to people again if things don't work out; this indicates that he's not looking to give up or fail in his battle with depression, and he knows that he doesn't have to do it alone. Not really sure about the last part, though.
i will say i found the old account, you can easily find it if you google search the passage you posted. considering what it is about, though, i am guessing that isn't so much of a worry as the name that is decrypted [editline]25th June 2015[/editline] perhaps the "take one" part is referring to the 1 that is at the end of his old username, as there is a 1 there
[quote]Over the past week my time has been spent closing down all my old accounts, because the depression that still keeps me here has not lifted and there's no alternative besides leaving you all and "starting anew". Trying to "get better" doesn't just happen like words do, so I've come to leaving as a "last resort" to [b]try force[/b] myself to move on. How this turns out is up to how things get done afterwards, but if nothing works out people will see me reaching out again to them and reappearing on my new account. Tomorrow, you won't see me. You'll likely remember me, but you won't see me. I may see you. Reread it until you find a name. There is one in there. Make sure to take one at the end after you flip trying to find it.[/quote] You say he never makes any grammatical mistakes? Try the bolded section on for size. Is he into Zelda? That's a pretty blatant mistake to make, and TriForce isn't unheard of as a username. As a matter of fact, it's incredibly common.
Im usually good at decrypting things. Ill try my best. If I cant find the name, I hope someone else will EDIT: I have a question, did you get this from a profile of his?
[QUOTE=GrassyBat;48053081]If I'm interpreting this correctly, it seems that his depression drove him away from living life normally and onto the internet (or games, or whatever his "accounts" were for) to try to cope and seek help. Because his depression was not going away, his life remained centered on his accounts. He's decided that this dependence is not getting him anywhere, so he's make the choice to leave. By shutting down all of his accounts, he's trying to force himself to do something else with his time and get better. He's at least said that he'll reach out to people again if things don't work out; this indicates that he's not looking to give up or fail in his battle with depression, and he knows that he doesn't have to do it alone. Not really sure about the last part, though.[/QUOTE] I've done this once in a while myself when trying to combat things like facebook or specific site addiction especially when i'm in a rut state for a while, in those times I start spending too much time at the computer, not enough time in reality, and life just gets unexciting, progressively depressing in a way (though i've suffered through some depression, i'm talking just about a general lack of enthusiasm towards the outside world in this context) these days i've learnt to accept it's inevitable i'll return so I just get off the computer for a while instead, but I can understand resorting to this measure in order to break a really bad habit of doing nothing about the depression (essentially sitting infront of a computer all the time, hoping for it to get better, is in a sense doing nothing and letting the depression rule your life in a way) "make sure to take one at the end after you flip trying to find it" take one what? a cold one? a smoko? hopefully the dude's on the right path though, wouldn't be surprised if whoever it is, does pop back up sooner or later under a different name
[QUOTE=Spleet;48053174]You say he never makes any grammatical mistakes? Try the bolded section on for size. Is he into Zelda? That's a pretty blatant mistake to make, and TriForce isn't unheard of as a username. As a matter of fact, it's incredibly common.[/QUOTE] Now that I think about it, if this isn't the case, the 'take one at the end' portion might regard to the new name. The new name may be synonymous with something to take to ease your mind. As if to say, 'I understand you struggled to reach a conclusion, now you can take _____ to calm down'. What that may be, if it is even a substance, I don't know. I still think 'try force' is a pretty good bet. You can't really 'take one' of them, but that's a pretty intentional mistake to be made. At least I think so.
[QUOTE=Spleet;48053801]Now that I think about it, if this isn't the case, the 'take one at the end' portion might regard to the new name. The new name may be synonymous with something to take to ease your mind. As if to say, 'I understand you struggled to reach a conclusion, now you can take _____ to calm down'. What that may be, if it is even a substance, I don't know. I still think 'try force' is a pretty good bet. You can't really 'take one' of them, but that's a pretty intentional mistake to be made. At least I think so.[/QUOTE] [url=http://zelda.wikia.com/wiki/Piece_of_Heart]Piece of Heart[/url] may be relevant, idk.
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