Comics Collection Sleepygimp Collection [2024-03-02] [Sleepygimp]
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I think it would be better if you just send them directly to gatts2
If he has access to Photoshop let him edit them out and upload them
Anyone wondering how the story going to end when or if Evie and Violet gets caught for their crime? Will sleepygimp create a new storyline similar to Evie and Violet?
there is not a predefined timeline, the ocurrence of the stories of both characters are confusing. From what I understand, The Catch Thief starts before Family Values 5 ('cause at that time, V was still in yout apartment), but in the middle of the comic, you see an exhausted/outraged Freddy, who could well have ended up there after the currente Family Values 7.
Do you understand where I'm going with this? Any outcome in a story, Sleepygimp immediately leverages into a new story, anything that makes money in the long run.
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Sleep has announced "Family Values" up to at least 10 parts, therefore there will still be enough events.
And as for the fact that someone will bring Evelyn and Violet to justice, there is frankly little hope.
The development of the plot shows more and more how deeply the La Fay family has penetrated into all structures, including those of authority. That is, the entire police force, the entire top of the mayor's office (most likely), as well as most likely all the criminals of the city, Aunt Carmilla has in her pocket. And it may turn out that not only Crystal City.
We once discussed that the appearance of Aunt Carmilla's "Family Values" in the plot could greatly affect at least Evelyn. But the hope, frankly speaking, was not justified. The "Bitch Tandem" is back on the horse, and apparently will get away with it.
Don't expect strong changes from Evelyn and Violet. After all, it's this couple who earns the most Sleepy money. Making any global changes is risky with the loss of subscribers.
P.S. 1 of the subscribers told me that in the new images of "Family Values 7", a certain brother Freddie was touched upon in the dialogues. Interesting information. Maybe this idiot is not from a test tube after all?
It also says that Freddie's penis is dangerously close to Violet's ass.
Not to be pedantic or to toot my own horn, but this is wrong. Having thoroughly examined all the comics myself, and with - Nafany -'s help, we've found that the majority of comics can be placed into a coherent timeline. Many of the stories have subtle details and foreshadowing that help with placement in the overarching narrative. That's one of the reasons why I enjoy Sleepy's comics, it seems like they've got a plan.
There is no confirmation that the timeline we crafted is 100% correct, but it didn't have any apparent mistakes either. You can find it a few posts back.
Of course, Sleepy sometimes tweaks the narrative to move it into a more sexy/money-making manner, but these adjustments are through slightly inconsistent (dumb) character behaviour or coincidences rather than outright timing mistakes.
On another note, gatts2! Nice job! I went through some pages a while ago trying to see if there were any visual marks and found nothing. But then again I'm half blind so... bahaha
It doesn't seems to be in every page. Have you found a pattern? Like, every X pages/posts? It has to be user specific so perhaps it's randomly generated on some of the pages when the user downloads them?
It doesn't seems to be in every page. Have you found a pattern? Like, every X pages/posts? It has to be user specific so perhaps it's randomly generated on some of the pages when the user downloads them?
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You're probably right. These letter locations are most likely generated for each subscriber separately.
Also on 8Muses there was a message to me "Sel" if I'm not mistaken that cryptograms are encrypted much deeper than just letters. He laid out entire pages that looked like a rainbow hodgepodge, that is, each image was like a cake, made of layers, and each layer carried cryptograms. Anyway, that's what it was said, and whether it's true or not, I don't know.
Anyway, if the problem was only in the letters, which are enough to enlarge and delete, I think there would be no big problem in putting pages on the Internet.
In any case, at the moment we can talk about 2 options:
1) No one cancels the conspiracy theory: that Sleepy subscribers are deliberately misleading. Intentionally complicating access to images.
2) The fact that there are smart IT specialists among subscribers is that help Sleepy bring the control system to such a level that other subscribers will not post an image without huge problems.
I'm just saying that there's hardly a problem with the letters randomly scattered across the image.
That's what I was thinking too, the letters are probably just one piece of protection. I also looked at the bit data for some of the leaked images, to see if there was anything secretly embedded in the file, but it doesn't seem that's the case... Or I was unable to find it. As for the image layering, I have even less of a clue as to how that'd work.
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Alright, I have been summoned here to shed some light, so let me clarify some things.
When opening SG's original images (5K res) through a hex editor and looking at their header, you could see that they weren't coming from ClipPaintStudio or Photoshop like the old ones, but they had some weird data before the JPG marker for "Frame Start.".
Moreover, if you ran them through a good stego scanner they would come up as PixelKnot(guardianproject/PixelKnot) signature, which is not necessarily accurate, but it meant SG was using F5 steganography.
F5 stego is something you can get rid of by just re-compressing the image on a lossy encoder like .JPG. That will scramble all the numbers and ruin the encoded bits.
I'm pretty sure this was SG's first attempt to add tracking, and it didn't really work largely because most web services re-encode images to save bandwidth, so they added one more layer: hidden watermarks in the images.
^ This was what got the majority of the people banned at the time, and was why I stepped in to help.
The watermarks were initially very small and used a contrast blending mode so the outlines of the text were lighter than the inside.
That was also easy to remove, which is why I released a script that could do that automatically, so there was no need to waste time and delete the codes 1 by 1 using magnifying glasses, microscopes, paint brushes or whatever the gatts2 is using nowadays.
The method was documented in the python files and worked by dissecting the images into individual bitplanes and deleted the tracking codes by changing the LSB(least significant bits), which is the data F5 stego tools change in order to add short hidden messages with minimal image quality loss.
In addition, it also detected the actual watermarks and automatically masked those areas with AI content aware-fill to regenerate some sectors of the images, then added more noise to make the watermarks unreadable in case the script missed one (selective blur, grain, scaling, etc.).
This method worked flawlessly and was used for months by me, Tron and others without any issue whatsoever.
SG was well aware of the situation and was making changes to the way the images were tracked every few months, for instance when they figured out that part of the process was to do a 50% downscale, they doubled the size of the watermarks, so I had to make changes too.
At some point I stopped helping with the leaks on the old forum because one user got banned in, seemingly, an automated way. Specifically, they got banned 1h after posting some images that were cleaned using my old method, and although they weren't cleaned by me so I can't vouch for them to be cleaned properly, the ban was too strange and I couldn't figure out how it happened based on the information I had available at the time.
One possible theory, was that SG or his minions were leaking user IP's from the forums so they could match them with their subscribers downloads from ExpressCDN. I personally think that was too elaborated and according to Occam's razor, a simpler explanation is more likely. In this case, it's more likely that there's a more straightforward reason for the bans without involving multiple steps and assumptions. In the end I didn't bother looking into it because there weren't any more breadcrumbs to follow.
Hopefully this wasn't too technical and will be helpful to anyone who wants to attempt solving SG's puzzles in the future.
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Whoa! I have awakened Sei... I am a powerful sorcerer!
Greetings to Sei!
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