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I almost didn't recognize Alex. Anybody able to figure out what he's shouting at Skimasky? I'm not that good at lip reading.
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# ¿ Feb 16, 2013 02:41 |
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# ¿ Apr 18, 2024 03:58 |
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What I don't understand is that if Skimasky wants to cap Alex, why he doesn't just pull the trigger when our favorite S&M enthusiast shows up? The gun is probably still leveled at his noggin, all it takes is one twitch. Hell, seeing that thing would make me clench my hands into fists reflexively. Its clear that since this clues us into it being Skimasky, in the abandoned hospital, with the lead pipe, he pretty much has zero concern for Alex. A metal pipe to the back of the noggin would cause a concussion at least, and probably outright kill him. This also means the hesitation to cap him is kind of contrived and stupid. E-Tank fucked around with this message at 22:52 on Feb 16, 2013 |
# ¿ Feb 16, 2013 22:02 |
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Zelmel posted:I assumed he was looking for Tim, as he had left him there at least once. Yeah, the room he looked into I think is the one that Tim was left in, the one with the writing on it. Then Tim starts coughing and Alex heads in that direction, prompting Skimasky to go up and smack him upside the head. Considering this isn't the first time that Alex has tried to kill him, it wouldn't surprise me at all that he was there to do just that. Maybe S&M told him that Tim was there, nice and helpless.
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# ¿ Feb 17, 2013 00:28 |
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They've clearly worked together before, in a previous entry they tried to strangle Alex before SlimJim showed up. I don't think the Tim we saw is the Tim we all know and love, I think it was Timasky, Tim during one of his...episodes. I also get the feeling that Tim didn't want to kill Alex. Beat the poo poo out of him? Yeah, but not kill. That and Slendy might be watching and waiting to make sure his pet is in absolute mortal danger before popping up for...some reason. Tim beating the poo poo out of him is nothing if he can take a loving lead pipe to the brainpan. A pistol shot between the eyes is a bit harder to just brush off, I wager. Did we ever get any ideas on who TTA was? I know everybody thought Masky was, now SkiMasky, but I'm starting to wonder if its not Alex trying to keep J enticed. He was the one supposedly that sent the video to J with Alex and his girlfriend/fiance/whatever getting attacked. Edit: Should I be using spoilers? I don't want to ruin anything for anybody. E-Tank fucked around with this message at 05:21 on Feb 17, 2013 |
# ¿ Feb 17, 2013 05:16 |
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axleblaze posted:But it's also been revealed that Skiimasky is probably TTA, who has been around since the beginning, if not earlier. Someone mentioned earlier that there's a chance that TTA is more than one person but I also think that would be kinda lame. Jay commented on his twitter that they're so different with each one. One pushing him on, another telling him to stop, yet another chastising him for what he's caused simply through his meddling. It is entirely possible, and plausible that TTA is multiple people. Hell, it could be a Multiple Personality thing, weirder mental problems have occurred with S&M involved.
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# ¿ Feb 18, 2013 01:45 |
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IrvingWashington posted:I thought it looked more like "I am bad at acting," myself. Looked more like pure unadulterated rage to me. Rage that says "You better kill me, because if I get free I am going to tear you apart limb from loving limb."
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# ¿ Feb 18, 2013 07:11 |
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precision posted:I think complaining about blocking is acceptable since it's something that costs no money and that even high school drama clubs (usually) get right. If its supposed to be in a documentary style though, wouldn't it not being blocked perfectly 100% of the time add legitimacy to it?
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# ¿ Feb 20, 2013 01:23 |
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LobsterTick posted:I dunno, I always thought that trying to shoot the Operator is a BAD IDEA Eh, it just does gently caress all. I mean, you're trying to apply physics to something that can break the laws of physics just by existing. That poo poo don't fly.
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# ¿ Feb 21, 2013 18:04 |
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Oasx posted:For me it is kinda like someone getting mad at a tornado, it is just silly and pointless. The sun shines, grass grows, bird sing, and the Slenderman Slenders things. Seems logical. Though I want to know where he keeps getting those plastic bags he stuffs those organs into. That was the one thing of the entire thing that made me just sort of go 'really?' I mean its not like S&M can walk into the local grocery store and just buy a pack of Hefty garbage bags.
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# ¿ Feb 21, 2013 23:18 |
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Angela Christine posted:They aren't really plastic. They just look like plastic. He extrudes them from his butt, kind of like a spider. And now I can never find Slenderman scary ever again.
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# ¿ Feb 22, 2013 05:37 |
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mr.capps posted:Are you kidding me? Do you not realize how much scarier Slenderman just got. He could poo poo a bag around your face and suffocate you to death. Can you imagine your final pitiful breathes being that of Slenderass? Oh GOD! I'm not going anywhere without some sort of sharp needle to poke holes in bags.
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# ¿ Feb 22, 2013 08:48 |
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Bobnumerotres posted:Wait, what? What is this referring to? I don't remember any plastic bags in the series. In EMH they've encountered bags filled with Its also one of the original story bits. Victims are supposedly found with their bodies eviscerated and organs stuffed into plastic bags. Sometimes they're tied to trees, sometimes they're shoved haphazardly back into the bodies. Its general serial killer creepy, but doesn't really make all that much sense when you think of the Slenderman as some otherworldly being and not just some psychopathic serial killer. Though I suppose now that my mind is wandering, what with all this cult business and the people who clearly follow S&M as some sort of god, it might just be one of their sick rituals. "Oh hey a dead body, our GOD HAS CHOSEN SOMEONE. Now we must perform the ritual. SOMEONE GO GRAB THE SANDWICH BAGGIES!"
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# ¿ Feb 22, 2013 21:47 |
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Tennis Ball posted:In DarkHarvest, I thought that was what happened. The cult was killing people, putting organs in bags, etc. to try to summon Slenderman. I think the Cult doesn't really kill anybody unless they get really pissed off at them. I mean its possible, but highly unlikely. If that was the case, they'd have been identified as a commune by now by someone higher up in the government than the cult's planted members. Unless the people up top are just watching to see what happens. Obama gets elected. And a cult starts operating with impunity, the cops do nothing, FBI is useless. Coincidence?
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# ¿ Feb 22, 2013 21:56 |
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Angela Christine posted:Maybe they just live somewhere that cults and communes are not illegal? Like america. If your cult/commune is hoarding guns, running drugs, or evading taxes the law will take an interest, but if you just want to dress funny and live peacefully you are no more interesting than the Amish. But in all seriousness, they seem to be a bit nutty, but they only Went after the Dark Harvest guys after they started snooping around.
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# ¿ Feb 23, 2013 02:58 |
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Quite honestly, if suddenly there was a time warp and everything went back to before the HABIT trials BS, and they actually updated again, I'd be totally kosher with pretending that didn't happen. Otherwise its a giant clusterfuck. At first it was awesome, but then they delved into the requirement of having to look at Twitter, FormSpring, all sorts of stupid things. I get that an ARG needs to have multiple avenues of accessibility, but whats wrong with just every week or so having an update of 'This poo poo happened and we're telling you here because you pricks can't be arsed'.
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# ¿ Feb 25, 2013 04:13 |
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The guy they get to play SlenderMan should Peter Mayhew. Seriously, I met him once at Dragon*Con, really nice guy, but goddamn. His hands could envelop a small child easily and given a few minutes in costuming, could totally be the slender stalking entity.
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# ¿ Feb 27, 2013 22:18 |
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Pope Guilty posted:Does Marble Hornets even use an actor for Slendy? It's just a prop, isn't it? I think for the standing still bits, its a prop. for when he moves, its an actor. Like when he peeks around the corner in the small crawlspace under the hospital.
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# ¿ Feb 27, 2013 22:31 |
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Docjowles posted:I suspect there's a strong correlation between which party has more money and which party wins any legal battle over intellectual property. Yeah, that's the problem with Copyright law. Even if you can prove it, it doesn't matter because lawyers can pull things out sooooo long, that by the time you'd win, you're bankrupt and unable to pay your lawyer.
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# ¿ Feb 27, 2013 23:47 |
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axleblaze posted:That felt kinda pointless. Agreed.
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# ¿ Mar 2, 2013 23:33 |
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Throwdown posted:Wow, that was a whole lotta nothing. eh, while I was irritated at first, they have to have some things where nothing happen to build up the suspense.
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# ¿ Mar 3, 2013 06:16 |
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Skimasky is Future Jay, come back in time. Unfortunately the time travelling process does weird things to someone, he turned into a girl and started to go by the name Amy. He ended up hooking up with Alex to keep an eye on him, then did a vanishing act when poo poo hit the fan. After taking horomone treatments, he's back to being a male, but he's still got feelings for Alex, which is why he hesitated before blowing Alex's head off, those feelings aren't easy to ignore.
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# ¿ Mar 13, 2013 03:32 |
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MrSmokes posted:Dark Harvest is definitely worth a watch. It's kind of like TribeTwelve in that they copy a lot from Marble Hornets at first, but then begin to do their own thing later on. They have some really good entries. http://www.youtube.com/user/DarkHarvest00 Here is their channel. I just really enjoy the mood of their videos, and the places they film at are cool. I heard somewhere they at one point had a different villainous spirit/creature in mind, but then they found out that everybody was looking for any hints or signs of slenderman and figured that it was what the people wanted. That said the 'lost episode' of the egyptian experiments with the weirdass photo of the guy is creepy as gently caress.
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# ¿ Mar 15, 2013 06:03 |
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fullroundaction posted:It's been a fun ride, but I'm glad the end is in sight. Can't wait to see what Jeff and the boys come up with next, if they decide to do another video project. I really hope they do another horror one and try to not let it get quite as clusterfucky. As I said previously, if they wrote in a time warp scenario where it went back to juuuust before the Trials of Habit and started over from there, I'd be totally cool with it, as long as I wouldn't have to try and delve into the twitter/formspring/what the gently caress ever mess.
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# ¿ Mar 21, 2013 18:12 |
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Docjowles posted:The final version of Slender: The Arrival (the video game the MH guys wrote the plot for) is out now. I've only had a little time to play but it's suitably spooky, and Slenderman has already shown up once I managed to blaze through it while streaming it. If anybody wants to take a look its at http://www.twitch.tv/edwardtank/b/383175479 Its cut into about 3 sections and I talk about Marble Hornets and Slenderman a bit. Games a bit glitchy in the third level. Oh and uhh...sorry about the messenger noises, I'm still new to streaming. And I'm talking to a chat that isn't visible now. For christ sake, *sigh*. Edit: Oh yes, PLEASE JUDGE ME! E-Tank fucked around with this message at 06:06 on Mar 28, 2013 |
# ¿ Mar 28, 2013 03:28 |
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elmer fud posted:Is it worth buying? Absolutely, great value for ten dollars. I got it at a steal for 5 due to the pre-order.
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# ¿ Mar 29, 2013 19:34 |
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Oasx posted:Liked the twitch playthrough E-Tank, looks like they added a lot of stuff to the original game. I would buy it if it wasn't for the fact that i do not enjoy games horror games at all. Thanks, glad you enjoyed it. Please, criticize me, I need to know what I hosed up and what I didn't. I know not to go for anymore In character stuff,
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# ¿ Mar 29, 2013 23:03 |
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QuestWhat posted:His entire audience consists of middle/upper class 12 year olds who have too much time on their hands and think rape jokes are funny. They're still too young to have any kind of self awareness, I hope… It is very much worth 10 bucks. If you want to double check, on the page just before this, I linked a stream of the entire game by myself. Oh, and its not 'less than an hour' short, I spent about 3 hours on the game, and it is still terrifying. Its not the 8 pages mechanic, its just that you have to go and find/do things. The story is there, and its written by Troy Wagner and the rest of the Marble Hornets team. There is a level that is a love letter to the original concept, having you gather 8 pages while running around, but the rest of it is pretty unique, and each level has something different about it.
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# ¿ Apr 4, 2013 00:26 |
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Pope Guilty posted:How is the story, anyway? Does it play out well? A lot of the story is told through files you find as you play, talking about how Kate first bumps into Tall, dark, and dickish and ultimately what happens. Imagine Marble Hornets with 90% of the faffing about excised. You have a goal, to find Kate. You go and look for her, not stopping and starting to wait for people to give opinions or suggestions. E-Tank fucked around with this message at 09:07 on Apr 4, 2013 |
# ¿ Apr 4, 2013 08:59 |
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Caseman posted:Been trying to watch this since it was posted, and youtube seems to have completely forgotten how to stream video. Sweet jesus. Thought it was only me....Probably because it's getting hammered by people trying to watch.
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# ¿ Apr 13, 2013 04:16 |
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TheInvisiblePooka posted:I'll just make a wild-rear end guess that there are now things that can't show up on video but can be seen in real life. Or Jay is becoming a lot more like Alex with the paranoia and seeing things that don't actually exist. I'd say the latter. Jay got pretty well mindfucked by Slender Man when he got his memory wiped. Who knows what small psychological quirks having the last six months of his memory torn out left on his mind?
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# ¿ Apr 13, 2013 07:27 |
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Hugh Malone posted:Sketchy wikidot theory : Troy said that it wasn't the origin of Slender man, Alex was just trying to be a creepy gently caress and maybe warn Jay away.
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# ¿ May 1, 2013 23:06 |
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Hugh Malone posted:Red herring! To be fair, Jay outright says "Huh, stretching people out on fast growing trees, horrible deaths of child murderers and whatnot, burning the trees down, and stopping when they found a child.....What does this have to do with what we're dealing with now?" So its entirely plausible that Alex really does have that low of an opinion of Jay.
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# ¿ May 2, 2013 02:43 |
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Forte posted:I just realized how long ago I wrote that, and how not much has changed story wise. Well to be fair, unless they come up with a huge plot twist, like Alex is actually Jay's Dad, FROM THE FUTURE COME BACK TO THE PAST TO RIGHT WHAT ONCE WENT WRONG or that the Slender Man is just that guy from Quantum Leap after god knows how long he's been stuck, leaping from body to body, there's not really that much they can change. General thing seems to be 'Alex bad, Jay Good, Slender man ????, Must find Jessica.'
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# ¿ May 8, 2013 17:59 |
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Atoramos posted:I think they just tried to make up some 'this is what happens to the children' twist that felt satisfyingly horrific. Would have been better if the parents had been silent because they knew that the more people knew about Mister Tall, Dark, and Dickish, the stronger he gets. The implication as the heroine is swallowed up in the darkness because she started digging into the Slender Man story, is that now that she knows all this, she's being taken. And now the audience knows it as well. For fun have a couple of screenings with a Slender Man prop standing outside the hallway as they leave the screen area.
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# ¿ May 8, 2013 22:23 |
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Docjowles posted:So basically, The Ring? To be quite honest, I have never seen the Ring. So maybe, I dunno.
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# ¿ May 8, 2013 22:27 |
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QuestWhat posted:you need to find gas canisters for the generators before activating them and conserving your flashlight battery so it doesn't run out. Oh gently caress me, I'm going to have to play through that on a stream at some point or another in order to get the secret ending because I told myself I'd stream Slender: The arrival from beginning to end...Fuuuuuck me.
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# ¿ May 13, 2013 20:15 |
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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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# ¿ May 15, 2013 08:57 |
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muike posted:Yeah well this time Alex is pregnant AND TIM'S THE FATHER!
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# ¿ May 15, 2013 09:02 |
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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. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GnCea2Wm5jo Slender Madness.
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# ¿ May 19, 2013 04:49 |
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# ¿ Apr 18, 2024 03:58 |
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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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# ¿ May 20, 2013 00:47 |