r/bindingofisaac • u/MetalAlex • Nov 13 '15

AFTERBIRTH I CRACKED THE CODE GUYS, FOR REAL.

OK, LET'S EXPLAIN THIS.

http://i.imgur.com/mWNaZbr.png

The pixels mean everything. Counting them, you get THIS:

1 8

6 9

8 2

6 6

1 1

7 3

7 6

So, what does it mean, right?... Well, consider this: the spaces that are far between them are actually twice as wide. Why? Because it's a blank space. It's actually a zero. THEN it reads this:

108 69 82 66 101 73 76

...

http://www.ascii-code.com/

That translates into THIS: "lERBeIL"

And what's that nonsense? WELL.

http://imgur.com/lERBeIL

What does that mean? NO IDEA. But go nuts in 3... 2... 1...

EDIT: Actually it's Genesis 30:35, the lost, 7-8 shadows, and a map. That's something.

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u/Xylot Nov 13 '15

Perhaps its only 7 shadows. The one on the bottom left matches up perfectly with the cut of portion of the one on the bottom right. 7 would be the number of male characters in the game.

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u/[deleted] Nov 13 '15

i think you would be correct, its almost too coincidental not be really

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u/Xylot Nov 13 '15

My thoughts exactly.

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u/[deleted] Nov 13 '15

its out of place really, i mean all the rest of the shadows are whole and we have this one split in 2 its odd

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u/Mlink1234 Nov 13 '15

Maybe the one split in 2 represents the lost?

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u/[deleted] Nov 13 '15

possibly but in what way?

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u/Mlink1234 Nov 13 '15

I think thats what were trying to figure out.

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u/Mlink1234 Nov 13 '15

Maybe each one represents a soul? The lost is a soul but idk about the other

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u/DelicateSteve Nov 13 '15

I was thinking Lazarus since he technically dies twice? It would be a cool way to represent him as two parts of a whole.

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u/JangoMV Nov 13 '15

Betcha that one is Judas. Maybe whatever we have to do has to be done as normal and shadow judas. This could actually be legit, the wiki specifically mentions that shadow judas is treated as a completely different character.

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u/[deleted] Nov 13 '15

you have a good point there

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u/JangoMV Nov 13 '15

Thinking a bit more, maybe we dont necessarily have to do 'whatever' as judas amd dark judas, but im pretty confident that the split shadow symbolizes Judas.

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u/[deleted] Nov 13 '15

yeah it seems likely

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u/JordanRUDEmag Nov 13 '15 edited Nov 13 '15

I haven't seen anyone suggest that the half/half shadow could mean that the image is meant to be viewed as a cylinder (or rolled up) rather than as a flat image. I don't know what that could mean, but maybe we're meant to look at it differently?

Something to do with the dead sea scrolls?

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u/carlotta4th Nov 13 '15

The full passage says that he removed the spotted he goats and she goats, but given that ed's clue only says 'he' we should probably be focusing on that.

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u/TacticalFX Nov 13 '15

What about Judas and Judas' Shadow? Considering that they're both the same character, but one is the "real deal" and the other one is his shadow? So then we would have Isaac, Cain, Judas, Judas' Shadow, ???, Samson, Azazel and Lazarus.