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fullroundaction posted:I do hope it's footage from "when they were filming" in ... 2006 was it? I want to see a spinoff series of that early S3 entry where they're just jamming on musical instruments.
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Docjowles posted:I want to see a spinoff series of that early S3 entry where they're just jamming on musical instruments. I was actually going to bring that up. That's ... probably my favorite entry over the entire series? I don't know. I love seeing all the guys together AND it scared the poo poo out of me long after I thought I was too jaded for that to happen anymore.
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Entry #71: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SVV-Pi33-zQ
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I'm sorry, didn't we have this plot twist in the first/second season? Where Jay ended up helping out around the set of the Marble Hornets only for him to say afterwards 'But I didn't do that, I don't remember it!'
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E-Tank posted:I'm sorry, didn't we have this plot twist in the first/second season? Where Jay ended up helping out around the set of the Marble Hornets only for him to say afterwards 'But I didn't do that, I don't remember it!' Yeah well this time Alex is pregnant
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muike posted:Yeah well this time Alex is pregnant AND TIM'S THE FATHER! 
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E-Tank posted:AND TIM'S THE FATHER! With sexy results 
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I guess we're going to see about 10 tapes of things Jay has forgotten next.
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Incoming retcon of a bunch of poo poo to make way for the movie.
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Clearly, this tape is from an alternate reality in which Alex killed Jay and fed him to The Operator, then burned the tapes. The alternate reality tapes showed up in the distortion hole because it's a wormhole. And Alternate Reality Jay actually survived and came to our reality and became Skimasky. 
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FoglyOgly posted:Clearly, this tape is from an alternate reality in which Alex killed Jay and fed him to The Operator, then burned the tapes. The alternate reality tapes showed up in the distortion hole because it's a wormhole. And Alternate Reality Jay actually survived and came to our reality and became Skimasky. This is the only acceptable conclusion. I say we got roughly 3 more entries of fluff and stuff then 4 entries of conclusion with one big question mark still book ending the whole thing.
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Maybe the Operator doesn't actually effect peoples' memories, maybe it just alters video tapes. Explains the distortion and why no one can remember the things that happen on some of the tapes. Seeing the discrepancies between what's on the tapes and what really happened would be what drives people nuts, much more than any direct influence of the Operator at least. It drives Alex to start attacking people, after seeing a bunch of videos of him attacking people and not remembering doing it. The stress caused by suddenly being attacked by a friend could maybe cause a psychotic break for Tim, who already had a past history of schizophrenia. I dunno about Jay's lost memories of the time in the motel, maybe you could chalk it up to him generally being an unreliable narrator anyway.
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sleeptalker posted:Maybe the Operator doesn't actually effect peoples' memories, maybe it just alters video tapes. Doesn't work. What about breaking Tim's leg? What about Jay waking up in his car with a knife? What about Alex, did he watch a video convincing him to move and that Amy was kidnapped? It wouldn't make much sense in Marble Hornets. Edit: Imagine the explanation for Entry 23. Atoramos fucked around with this message at May 15, 2013 around 16:57 |
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Jay says he doesn't remember the thing at the end, but if he remembers something different happening, then his memories have been changed. That is something new i think
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Oasx posted:Jay says he doesn't remember the thing at the end, but if he remembers something different happening, then his memories have been changed. That is something new i think Jay could have 'just' suffered an extended blackout. Wouldn't be the first time. He leaves Alex's house and then the next thing he remembers he's at home 12 hours later with a gnarly headache. Chalks it up to a migraine and moves on with his life.
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Oasx posted:Jay says he doesn't remember the thing at the end, but if he remembers something different happening, then his memories have been changed. That is something new i think It's happened before. They explicitly drew attention to it in that episode where they were filming in front of a window, and you can see ole Oppy behind it. Jay complains about being cold. I think they also used that excuse for the early vid where Oppy is standing a ways back in a field while filming, then Alex goes to ask him to move, and the video cuts. Just saying that they've had their memories altered before. Edit: Derp, basically what E-Tank said a few posts ago.
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E-Tank posted:I'm sorry, didn't we have this plot twist in the first/second season? Where Jay ended up helping out around the set of the Marble Hornets only for him to say afterwards 'But I didn't do that, I don't remember it!' That was a long time ago. Not so much a plot twist as a reminder.
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That was cool to see the actual tapes being handed off. I never really thought about how that went down before. Just took it for granted that at some point Alex handed J a bag of stuff. Definitely in the "memory being wiped/replaced" camp, not just forgetting.
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New blog post from Troy. http://jtroyw.blogspot.com/2013/05/...age-safari.html TLDR: they're flying out to LA to do secret movie stuff. Whatever that means.
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My apologies if this has been posted already, I just thought it was kind of funny, even if the choice of songs is horrible. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GnCea2Wm5jo Slender Madness.
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This is a bit (thoroughly) off topic, but I was trying to locate two videos someone had recommended a few years ago during the first Marble Hornets thread. One was just a short about some kids who are driving around in a car; they get lost on some country streets, find that they can't help but inadvertently go in circles, start to get pretty scared, but eventually think they've found they're way out - only to somehow be transported back to the maze of country roads. In the the end, they are attacked by some being and their camera cuts out. The second was a video series that prefigured Marble Hornets in some ways. It was the video diary of a girl who had recently moved to London. She started it to chronicle her move, and then to record the difficulties she was having with a stalker (who of course proves supernatural); in the end, she vanishes. I think her "family" has a webpage somewhere pleading for information. Any help locating these would be greatly appreciated - as would recommendations for other well-done, scary, non-Slenderman web series (I'm pretty familiar with the Slenderman stuff already). Edit: It came to me as I cooked lunch that the former is called No Through Road, and it was in fact part of a series too. Still no luck with the latter. julietthecat fucked around with this message at May 19, 2013 around 17:45 |
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The second one sounds like Louise Paxton.
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Stottie Kyek posted:The second one sounds like Louise Paxton. You're dead right, thanks for that.
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I haven't seen it mentioned in a while, but the Dionea House is a pretty decent set of creepy stories. It takes place over multiple websites, all of the links are compiled here.
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God I fucking love Diablo 3 gold, it even paid for this shitty title
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If we're posting stories here, Ted's Caving Story is an (admittedly old but still) excellent one. I think it's also one of the more famous ones, but I thought I'd post it in case a few of you haven't heard of it. I'm very picky about my horror and prefer it to be slow burn, so this was one of the few blog-type horror stories that really affected me. It also has that Slenderman feel to it, in a number of ways, but I can't go into it any more than that.
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Visteri posted:If we're posting stories here, Ted's Caving Story is an (admittedly old but still) excellent one. I think it's also one of the more famous ones, but I thought I'd post it in case a few of you haven't heard of it. Ted the Caver is a classic, and now I want to reread it. It's funny to see it occasionally referred to as a creepypasta when it's much more involved than any creepypasta and much earlier than the creepypasta craze. It's hard to believe that it accomplished a bunch of the same things that slenderblogs try to do, but it did them better and about 12 years earlier. What I didn't know is that it was made into a movie. ThaGrandCow posted:I haven't seen it mentioned in a while, but the Dionea House is a pretty decent set of creepy stories. It takes place over multiple websites, all of the links are compiled here. Thanks for the link. I read the first item on the chain (the correspondences on http://www.dionaea-house.com) when I was on a big House of Leaves kick in 2004 or 2005, but never saw the rest, and I'll have to rectify that. I'm glad that it was before the advent of twitter and just have to read a few web pages and blogs.
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Ted the Caver owns, and after following these web horror series for years it's refreshing to read a nice short story that's all in one place and you can plow through in an hour. Ditto No Through Road and Dionea House.
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julietthecat posted:What I didn't know is that it was made into a movie. Huh. Well looks like it's a real production at least. I can't wait to IMDB posted:Two brothers, reunited for their father's funeral, stumble upon the entrance to a nearby cave, where they are slowly forced to confront the true, nightmarish cause of their father's death. Based on the popular Ted the Caver Internet legend.  Now I can't wait to see how incredibly missing-the-point Marble Hornets:The Movie is.
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Docjowles posted:Ted the Caver owns, and after following these web horror series for years it's refreshing to read a nice short story that's all in one place and you can plow through in an hour. Ditto No Through Road and Dionea House. I just sat down and read it all and my god I can't stop getting the willies. 
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I remember reading Ted the Caver at work when I was supposed to be, ya know...working, heh.
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I just saw this. I guess it's a new show or something on Fox. http://youtu.be/zXE0NwK8xlY I think it's like Robot Chicken but animated and there was a shot of Slenderman. EDIT: Oh wait, I saw this related video. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5hYi350ap_M
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julietthecat posted:I'm glad that it was before the advent of twitter and just have to read a few web pages and blogs. And not only that, but honestly, nothing is less scary than Twitter. As soon as Twitter ends up being included in whatever horror found-footage internet thing I'm following, it just kills it for me.  MH's tweets mostly consist of "video coming soon" and "totheark sure is weird," which is fine, but Everyman Hybrid did that whole rabbit ARG on Twitter that was impossible to take seriously. I stopped following the show around then. I think they also gave Slenderman himself a Twitter account?
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Docjowles posted:Ted the Caver owns, and after following these web horror series for years it's refreshing to read a nice short story that's all in one place and you can plow through in an hour. Ditto No Through Road and Dionea House. Dionaea house is my favorite piece of Creepypasta (or whatever it would be) there is. It's just so god damned creepy. The part where he find the same house gave such awesome chills when I read it. No Through Road is also amazing and had a similar effect. It's a great found footage short but no one should watch the sequels. The series just starts trying to have twists rather than being scary. I also liked Ted's Caving Story, but not as much as the others. It's pretty much a re transcribing word for word of a short story into a blog format. THe short story goes on longer though and where it does doesn't do it any favors. Ted's Caving Story ends about where it should in that it stars creepy and mysterious while the original literally has him tumbling into hell. Here's the original story if anyone wants to read a worse version of Ted's Caving Story. Edit: apparently Ted's Caving story came force and the other one is pretty much a bad ripoff. My bad! Edit2: actually I'm having trouble really finding out for sure what came first...so whatever... axleblaze fucked around with this message at May 20, 2013 around 03:03 |
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Visteri posted:Tell me about it. 120 characters of terror.
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Visteri posted:I stopped following the show around then. I think they also gave Slenderman himself a Twitter account? The only ones I remember were the main @EverymanHYBRID account and @SEVENTRIALS or whatever, not Slenderman. But I don't follow the series outside of "oh cool a new video is on YouTube" these days so it wouldn't shock me to hear that yet another place to keep track of showed up. axleblaze posted:I also liked Ted's Caving Story, but not as much as the others. It's pretty much a re transcribing word for word of a short story into a blog format. To be fair, Ted was posted in 2001. I guess I see what you're getting at, it barely squeaks into the conversation by virtue of being text posted online but otherwise doesn't have much in common with YouTube/Twitter series. But that was about all you could do back then, especially on a lovely free angelfire.com site. 12 years ago having a blog was loving state of the art  Edit: Also I am 99% sure the Ted's Caving Page site is the original and the other version is the ripoff, fwiw. Docjowles fucked around with this message at May 20, 2013 around 03:49 |
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Docjowles posted:The only ones I remember were the main @EverymanHYBRID account and @SEVENTRIALS or whatever, not Slenderman. There was a brief span of time where two people that weren't the three guys were essentially arguing on the EMH twitter account. I think the consensus was that the two people were Slendy and HABIT. The alternate theory is that one of them was the Rake, rather than Slenderman. Which is both kind of hilarious and creepier than average, with how proper the Slendertweets were.
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How long's it been since we've had a GBS ghost story thread? Been a bit, hasn't it?
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HumperMonkey's (and his brother 50 Foot Ant's) stories about the Damned of the 2/19th and Tandy were the best things to come out of the ghost story threads. That guy was a really good author. Here's the first one. http://sa.mrbill.net/humpermonkey.html Unfortunately I don't know the story index page at mrbills site. Tandy and the barracks themselves make great creepy antagonists. Necros fucked around with this message at May 21, 2013 around 01:24 |
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