I think I need a hint on how to actually get to step 1... I'm so lost. If what I've read is correct then the paragraph in the OP translates to something else? But I'm so stupid and I don't understand how haha
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I am on the same boat, i have no idea what to do lmao, i understand that there must be a document somewhere? (Tommy used to work on the DOCs) But i havent gotten past that...
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Yeah I still don't understand it, I'm too stupid for this, no clue what doc it means.
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Still musing over this, the answer keeps eluding me... but have a bump and grats to those who managed it ^^
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I talk to Tommy since yesterday but I don't understand his replies and/or the informations somewhere else 😓
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Not even halfway there on this one. Dying for a hint so I don't have to put my six-string in hock!
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Is it possible to find the answer while talking to Tommy without understand a single line in the docs?
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I give up, 3 days on reading docs without understand what to do and it looks like I don't understand how Tommy works (with the results I have), I think there is no doubt that I'm too supid for this. Hopefuly you will put the explanation at the end because I hate to not understand something when I spend a lot of time on it. 😅
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This seems very complicated. I was always tempted to make some insane near impossible puzzle only to lead to a GA for a $1 game. Just to be a troll because I hate these puzzles that many times would lead to a game I have 0 interest in. Thanks for letting know what the game was at least. BUMP
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So many of y'all have found Tommy, and here I am wondering how on earth do you find him orz
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Bump! Thanks for making difficult puzzles to really stretch the brain!
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Ok, the giveaway has ended.
I believe the text in the OP was meant as programming (pseudo)code.
Can someone explain: Ask Tommy, he used to work on the docs?
In the song lyrics, the text is: Tommy used to work on the docks, union's been on strike
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I am eagerly awaiting the solution too, had no idea what I was supposed to do.
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The code is the fibonacci sequence. You can brute force it, though the more elegant solution was using the Rockstar coding language as hinted in the puzzle.
Note - I did the former.
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Oh man I was in way over my head haha. Can you explain how you used the sequence? This is the first time seeing it. How did you get numbers from that paragraph of text? Sorry I'm dumb, never seen a puzzle like this before. Also I'm just now realizing if I'd scrolled further down on google I'd have seen that rockstar coding site...
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Have you ever done any programming?
love is the name of the function.
courage is the input variable.
hopes and tears are two auxiliary variables
With this in mind, the code basically looks like this in pseudo-Python:
def f(x):
a = 0
b = 1
while x != 0:
y = a + b
a = b
b = y
end while
x = x - 1
return y
A function like this will take x as input and return the x-th element of the Fibonacci sequence as output. It's not visible at first sight, but if you go through the code slowly manually, you might be able to see it.
Almostn33t and I just stared at the text for long enough until we noticed that it has the structure of a piece of code and figured out it based on that. As you mention, if you find the "rockstar coding site", it gives you all the info about how to read this kind of rockstar programming language.
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No I haven't done any programming whatsoever, I was racking my head hard over it, but looks like I never would've gotten anywhere close. The coding stuff looks too complicated for me but thank you for the thorough explanation :)
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👀
Thank for you explanation. I'm in the same boat than dorkknight, it's too complicate for me (my brain hurts!) but now I know why I was stuck with the rockstar coding site, it was indeed important to understand all the docs part!
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Hmm, having done a bit of programming, I still don't get how you found the value for the "time" variable as I assume that's what you need at the end.
I wouldn't have gotten it anyways, I found the quiz link in like 2 minutes, but I couldn't even tell if I was looking for a symbol, a letter, a word, a number, a phrase, etc., and I didn't know there was a rockstar language and although it shows up as the first thing on google for another user, it's like the 30th result for me. I figured the text was some sort of code to decipher something but I couldn't understand the syntax on my own and I couldn't get to the website.
Still, even now I got no clue how you got the value that you run into the function to get the number you need or the value for x for the loops. Doesn't seem like that one specifically represents a number, maybe 0? and running this text in the rockstar site doesn't give an output for me, so I'm curious how you figured out what value "time was too short" . You said it wasn't brute forced so I'm just trying to get the logic for my knowledge if you got the time, thanks. Also tried a few things to get this code running in their terminal but it wont shout anything and time has no value so it doesn't know what to do and just spits errors at me, part of why I'm confused.
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So yes, for the value of time, "time was too short" in the Rockstar programming language translates to "time = 35" (explained here in the section Poetic Number Literals).
I didn't figure it out, so I just tried all the numbers of Fibonacci sequence until I guessed right:
0
1
1
2
3
5
8
13
21
34
55
89
144
233
377
610
987
1597
2584
4181
6765
10946
17711
28657
46368
75025
121393
196418
317811
514229
832040
1346269
2178309
3524578
5702887
9227465
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Was just coming back to say I pasted in the op code
"love takes courage
let my hopes be nothing
let my tears be true
while courage ain't gone
put my hopes with my tears into my heart
put my tears into my hopes
put my heart into my tears
knock courage down
give back my heart
time was too short"
and instead of shout love which gives me errors, I would've just added "shout love taking time" to it as explained in the comments on the giveaway or of course on the docs as "too(3) and short(5)", which gives me the answer, as the program already knows what "too short" stands for.
I understand the syntax now I think, although I don't get why I can't just print the time value on it's own. I might've gotten it if the coding language website wasn't hidden under tens of other results on google. So technically I didn't even need to know what time was, just had to make a function call as the language understands that.
I am still a little confused as to why "shout time" doesn't print 35 as that should be the same as printing x or y or whatever in any language but oh well, I don't plan of making anything in it.
Thank you :)
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If you google "Tommy used to work on the docs!" and tell google not to fix your spelling mistake, the first result will take you to the website that explains the rockstar programming language. If you know a bit about programming and refer to the docs available on the website, you can run the code and find the answer.
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This was not the case for me, unfortunately. Oh well haha
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Yeah I googled this, but it wasn't the top result for me, it was like the 30th. I would've had to scroll down to the point where it refreshed the results twice. I was actually looking for some docs or something but I couldn't find them, I guess since I found nothing at the top when I searched this, I started changing my search to other things and from there all I got was song related stuff.
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I tried to run the code and it wouldn't work either.
I figured out it was using the Fibonacci sequence, but didn't know how to get the answer from there.
Pretty proud of myself for getting so close though!
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Puzzle for Hi-Fi Rush
Lvl 2+
Rockstars only!
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