Anyone want to help contribute cracking down on an unsolved secret?

[AsinoEsel]

Alright, here's the deal.

Towards the end of INSIDE, you can see a printer in the background of the room with the scientists watching the blob/huddle.
If you run past it, then return and wait a little while, it starts outputting morse characters.
Those characters are either Slashes ( / ), Dashes ( - ) or Dots ( . )
After a while (usually a string of 32 characters/pages) the printer will stop printing.
The code is different every time you reload the checkpoint and trigger the secret.
As said above, each string USUALLY consists of 32 characters. But OCCASIONALLY a string consists of only 4 characters. Maybe 8. Sometimes even up to 15!
We don't know what it means yet. Here's where you come in.
I've recorded 6 hours of footage, triggering the "printer secret" over and over again.
The video I linked below are the first TWO hours of said footage.
The others will follow. (only if needed)
In order to find out what the secret is about - and possibly decrypt the code - we need to know the contents of each and every string!

If you feel like contributing - that's great! Here's what you gotta do

• Simply check the description of the video. Choose a number of strings that have not been archived yet. (So far, only 20 of 126 have been archived)
  
• Write down EXACTLY what the printer is outputting. I recommend setting the video playback speed to 50%, makes it a lot easier. Believe me on that.
  
• Please - better safe than sorry. Make sure you don't make mistakes. If you have the SLIGHTEST feeling of having made a mistake - go back and do the string again. It's a video, it can wait.
  
• When you're done - just copy-paste your results either in this discussion thread or into the YouTube comments. Make sure to tell me what number of strings you chose - but that goes without saying.
  
• I will then add your findings into the list of all archived strings down in the video description.

Thanks a lot for contributing. If you find any patterns in what you or others have found - don't hesitate to tell me. Every bit counts.

Once the sample size is large enough we can start analyzing what we've got. Let's crack this code! There are signs in the game file hinting towards a secret, "secret" ending. A third ending, basically.

EDIT: All strings have been transcribed!!!

We transcribed all 126 strings from the video. All strings can be found in the Google Docs document linked below.

We STILL haven't figured out the meaning behind all this. Maybe you can? :D

Here's the video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B_u_0o-c3vo

Here's the Google Docs Page:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1vlpah0LdCRpJe-OfhnkaiBIcmepGXust5BMbaFJGGt8/edit?usp=sharing

[AsinoEsel]

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1vlpah0LdCRpJe-OfhnkaiBIcmepGXust5BMbaFJGGt8/edit?usp=sharing

[AsinoEsel]

Thanks! Here's an update on the situation:
All 126 strings from the video have been transcribed.
The printer randomly chooses a string of a pool of 41 strings in total (consisting of 32 long strings and 9 short strings).
There have been some other interesting discoveries, they can be found towards the bottom of the Google Docs page I linked in my comment above. People still don't have a clue as to what it could mean - any contribution or input is appreciated!

[Seay]

Very interesting! Just a question: How do you know that you've gotten all of the strings? Was 126 just an arbitrary choice?

[e.bkapalka]

Originally posted by Bombardo:

Very interesting! Just a question: How do you know that you've gotten all of the strings? Was 126 just an arbitrary choice?

I'm pretty sure 126 is the number of times a string is printed in the video

[AsinoEsel]

Originally posted by Bombardo:

Very interesting! Just a question: How do you know that you've gotten all of the strings? Was 126 just an arbitrary choice?

Originally posted by e.bkapalka:

I'm pretty sure 126 is the number of times a string is printed in the video

126 strings is indeed completely arbitrary.
I recorded 2 hours of printer footage (using a macro of course, my life isn't THAT sad).
And since one string takes about 1 minute (slightly less), I ended up getting 126 strings from those 2 hours of footage.
But the deal is: Because there isn't an infinite number of strings, strings starting repeating themselves. In fact, after only collecting 64/126 strings there aren't ANY original strings left! Every single string from 65 onwards has been seen in the first 64 strings.
(Take a quick look at the first list in the Google Docs document and you'll see what I mean.)

THEORETICALLY there could be a string left that we haven't discovered yet. In theory. But I figured that the odds of that are too slim to justify taking another look. If I ever find myself bored on a rainy sunday I'll definitely consider doing it though, for science.
Also: I found exactly 32 unique long strings (a "long string" consists of exactly 32 characters). So it's safe to assume that we found all of those, since 32 is such a nice, round number (power of 2).
As for the so-called "short" or "odd-length" strings (the ones that are shorter than 32 characters): We got nine of those. No idea why they're nine. They are really weird in general, come to think of it.

TL;DR: We don't know for sure whether we've gotten all the strings. But it's relatively safe to assume that we got all of them (I can guarantee you that we have all the long strings, not so sure about the short strings).

For a complete list of everything you need to know: Check out the bottom of the Google Docs document. (Use the structure tab on the left to navigate to "Interesting Discoveries")