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Actually this can be avoided long time ago if there were no people dragged the issue, or stop quoted your post. And you can easily edited it. So we are responsible for that collectively, no need to feel guilty.
Okay, so I finally woke up! :P

Contest will end at 12:00 PM (GMT / UTC) - just over an hour from now.
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wormholewizards: Actually this can be avoided long time ago if there were no people dragged the issue, or stop quoted your post. And you can easily edited it. So we are responsible for that collectively, no need to feel guilty.
It's ridiculously late to edit it now, but edit it I did anyway - because I'm ridiculous!
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Fever_Discordia: 0.001 per cent of human society
I think much more people haven't watched or even heard about this series so I am definitely not so special in this point as you said. And in addition, on the other hand, I like codes and puzzles.
Post edited November 20, 2011 by Lexor
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Fever_Discordia: 0.001 per cent of human society
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Lexor: I think much more people haven't watched or even heard about this series so I am definitely not so special in this point as you said. And in addition, on the other hand, I like codes and puzzles.
*shrugs* I got it on the 5th thing I randomly Google searched, having no idea it had anyting to do with that show - I'll tell you more after the hours up and you can tell us how you decoded it!
Oh well, I tried to get in as well.
I found a few ways to decode it, all giving quite random statements... ;)

Good luck all, and thanks nmillar for the contest.
Post edited November 20, 2011 by uchos
And the contest is now closed!
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nuuikle: Snip.
The $9.99 prize goes to you; let me know what you'd like and I'll PM you the code.
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SirPrimalform: Snip.
And a $5.99 game for you!

And well done to everyone who figured out the puzzle; I hope you enjoyed it!
Post edited November 20, 2011 by nmillar
Congrats to both winners! :)
Yeah, the joy of solving the puzzle on my own.. it has been long time since i had that feeling.
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Fever_Discordia: you can tell us how you decoded it!
It was very easy, knowing info from your post I've found then assuming first "J" is an English word (and should be probably "I") I've rotated whole message by -1 using [url=http://rumkin.com/tools/cipher/caesar.php]this.
Thanks again for the contest nmillar and grats to the winners!

I'm surprised not a lot more were able to solve it after the big first hint.
The other clue would be the number of Fs in the decoded text. Since 'E' is the most common letter in the English language, the next step would be to shift everything by -1 (or ROT 25). :)

I've had a number of people telling me, "I have fast food experience" over the last day or so. Can I have fries with that? :P
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nmillar: The other clue would be the number of Fs in the decoded text. Since 'E' is the most common letter in the English language, the next step would be to shift everything by -1 (or ROT 25). :)

I've had a number of people telling me, "I have fast food experience" over the last day or so. Can I have fries with that? :P
I figured it out when I googled the last word of your puzzle and one of the results led to the word "Experience" being highlighted. Pure luck!
Congrats to the winners.

Nice to see the first solver (nuuikle) getting the first prize :)
Yeah I got that the j should be an I and looking at the way the cypher worked I though maybe nmillar had given A the value 1 instead of starting from 0 (which is another way of saying -1 or Rot25 or whatever) but I still wasn't getting English out - maybe I mistranslated the symbols to numbers or did the Futurama decrytion method wrong or something - good to know I was close anyway
Unfortunately, after reading about the Playfair cypher from the official compo weekend puzzle I know that in similar cyphers i and J are often combined so I started going off at that tangent instead of just checking through carefully!

Oh and BTW, in regard to googling, after trying random stuff like Nomad Soul and Radiohead I tried 'Klingon alphabet' instead, which at least gave me an alphabet even if it was wrong so I tried 'Alien Alphabet' and bingo - 3rd or 4th result, so it's good to know I can get lucky with Google if nothing else

Sorry again to those that thought it was too much of a spoiler!