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It won't mess it up for anyone else--only in your own browser! Reloading will fix it

What does this mean?

I assume he means playing in the page source. I know in some devtools you can edit it and it'll make the changes in your browser. It's a need way to see how stuff fits together.

Oh, never mind then. It was just me and my anxiety. Don't mind my last comment anymore.

And the HTML lead me to a website that helps with XHTML namespace. It also has links to other things as well. I'll keep investigating it.

The other links on the website in the HTML lead to websites with more instructions.

The puzzles shouldn't require a ton of outside knowledge! You might need a bit of general knowledge, but the bulk of what's needed is contained within RPR itself.

Ok. I closed out of the other website when I realized it was only instructions for HTML.

Leeemme think. I still think we're looking at the bookshelf in the first video. The books are the columns because they have spines, but the "tops" of the columns may refer to the book titles--I still dunno how that works, but I can't see anything else on top of them, so. The answer is somehow a merge--a merging of the titles? The merging is "regular," and has something to do with an "odd, even, odd, even" pattern. *strokes chin*

Something to do with Regular Expression?

What if we took a letter from an odd-numbered book and took the next letter from an even-numbered book? Are there any other pattern hints besides the odd, even, odd, even?

I will openly admit that it's more alien to me than the actual alien language, but hey, I know it's a thing that can be used to organize things.

Regexes are used to find patterns in blocks of text (like phone numbers, etc)

Anything we can apply here?

All I know is that the HTML theory I had didn't work.

We certainly do have a block of text, if we shove all the book titles together, but a regex needs something to define that pattern. It has a very specific way of being written and I'm not seeing anything like that here.

Hmm.

So, do we have a picture of all the book titles? Maybe there are specific ones that would stand out?

Earlier in this forum topic, I believe someone posted some screenshots from in the library

I've been staring at 'em Yup, there is a screenshot SOMEwhere, or you can just pause the video