You will come across a question.
Answer it.
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5$\begingroup$ Hi, welcome to Puzzling! Questions like these, where the solving strategy is not explicitly given, are usually tagged [enigmatic-puzzles]. I've added the tag for you. $\endgroup$– Deusovi ♦Commented May 6, 2016 at 3:47
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7$\begingroup$ I guess the steganography tag is relevant here. $\endgroup$– Reti43Commented May 6, 2016 at 5:47
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The answer is
Chicago
Following Dan Russell's partial answer:
Taking the 2 least significant bits of each pixel, I get this image:
Thanks to @f'' in the comments, the interpretation of this is:
Those are pictures of a clipboard, a bin and Kim Dotcom, forming pastebin.com.
Accessing http://pastebin.com/L0szeSrH we see the question "What city?" and a picture of a track which appears to be located in Chicago, more specifically the UIC-Halsted station.
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1$\begingroup$ Nicely done. Any ideas about the initial bready picture? Random/relevant? $\endgroup$ Commented May 6, 2016 at 6:06
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12$\begingroup$ @DanRussell They're "little bits" of food, get it? $\endgroup$– ffaoCommented May 6, 2016 at 6:49
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$\begingroup$ In retrospect: duh. Remind me not to post things at 2 am. $\endgroup$ Commented May 7, 2016 at 1:38
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$\begingroup$ Out of interest: how do you extract the low bits of the pixels? $\endgroup$ Commented May 7, 2016 at 10:08
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1$\begingroup$ @PeterLeFanuLumsdaine I used the Python Imaging Library: pastebin.com/zXM5HQSn $\endgroup$– ffaoCommented May 8, 2016 at 6:51
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Partial answer. By:
Dropping the brightness of the image way down, you get:
So there's definitely a dude in there... (What has two thumbs and loves toast? This guy!) But I don't think that's enough, and given the tag I don't think I have the expertise to go further.
answered May 6, 2016 at 3:44
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2$\begingroup$ I'll have to keep this trick in mind for detecting such tricks in the future ... $\endgroup$– JoshuaCommented May 6, 2016 at 21:15