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Oh man, that lake background texture has never sat well with me. I'm pretty sure you can see yachts and speedboats sailing around in it. Which completely undercuts later events when there isn't even a high octane speed boat chase sequence at any point when you reach the lake!
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ladyboy pancake posted:Interestingly there's a bit in the top corner that kinda-sorta-almost-but-not-quite resembles the Tetragrammaton (יהוה, the four letters used in Jewish texts as a placeholder for the name of G-d), albeit in a different order with a one-lettter difference. According to Jewish law, the Tetragrammaton isn't to be brought into a place as filthy or unclean as a bathroom so perhaps the they were going for something evoking blasphemy and sacrilege and "wrongness", but altered the image slightly so as not to truly be disrespectful (which I appreciate). Scrambled religious text in an impure place seems really appropriate for Silent Hill, given the twisted cult stuff the first game had.
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Feb 8, 2015 12:20
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OP posted:NO SPOILERS AT ALL.
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Feb 8, 2015 12:30
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Zeniel posted:A weak joke hidden in spoiler tags I think you ruined your joke by hiding it in a thread where everyone is nervous about spoilers. When I see the lake background image it looks askew. 15 degrees or so.
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Feb 8, 2015 13:53
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Edit: crap, I think that might have been considered a spoiler, my bad.
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Feb 8, 2015 16:31
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Goh I shall refrain from terrible jokes in spoiler tag form from now on.
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Feb 9, 2015 00:40
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It's always nice to be able to get in near the beginning of a thread you're interested in. I hope this goes well for you, VoidBurger.
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Feb 10, 2015 01:52
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Great to see you doing a SH2 LP! I'd been hoping someone would do one for a while, since I love all the theories that surround this game, as well as all the little atmospheric touches the developers put in I probably didn't notice back when I was playing. Learning about all that and seeing it all being discussed ought to be fun. Good luck with the rest of it! Incidentally, just a few days ago I discovered my PC copy of Silent Hill 2 tucked away at the back of a bookshelf, having been missing for the past two years. As if I wasn't already tempted enough to reinstall it, this LP might force my hand.
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Feb 10, 2015 20:32
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Entering a town through a foggy graveyard and then walking along a narrow road overlooking an abyss is in no way symbolic of anything or foreshadowing things to come.
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Feb 11, 2015 07:40
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Ok I just finished Voidburger's Silent Hill 1 LP so I guess this is where I should be now.  I really have very little idea why anything happened in the first game after watching it, like I got some of the backstory plot stuff but I also I felt like things were just incidentally happening around Harry and very little he did actually affected anything and he was just kind of there 
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Feb 12, 2015 02:18
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100 HOGS AGREE posted:Ok I just finished Voidburger's Silent Hill 1 LP so I guess this is where I should be now.
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Feb 12, 2015 02:25
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He was just there on vacation. Have you seen his daughter? Seven years old, this tall, black hair?
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Feb 12, 2015 02:28
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Club beats, consume me. My name is Harry Mason. The heavy bass tones reverberate through my mind, shaking free memories of my daughter and I envision pressing a button simply to call her name. I came here on vacation.
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Feb 12, 2015 02:30
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The mouth animations are weirding me out.
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Feb 12, 2015 03:19
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Speaking of weird mouth animations, James has a really strange one at the end of the opening cutscene in this update! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ENor0__hT0Y
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Feb 12, 2015 21:04
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 James' expression when he picks up an item is too goofy to not mention. It always looks like he's about to break down and cry.
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Feb 12, 2015 22:23
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I love "What's this symbol at the end of Martin st?" It's a question mark, James.
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In what I played of this game, that leg monster showing up as soon as you get the flashlight was the first moment that truly frightened me rather than just unsettling me. It was long ago so I don't remember my exact reaction but I probably screamed. Speaking of which, how does a monster with four legs and no mouth scream like that?
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Feb 13, 2015 04:48
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The worn away stone is a great way to carry the whole unknown creep factor over into text, but I wish we'd had the chance to solve the puzzle on our own. Now I know to expect some straight chillin' in Shrek's swamp before it comes.
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Feb 13, 2015 05:10
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King Christmas posted:Speaking of which, how does a monster with four legs and no mouth scream like that?  I dunno, maybe. Or something. I could be talking out my rear end. (Or maybe they do?)
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Feb 13, 2015 05:34
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Aishlinn posted:
I think you're onto something. It's kind of like how a teapot whistles when it's done. They are screaming out of their asses.
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Feb 13, 2015 06:56
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I like how the Lying Figures apparently have metal bits in them somewhere. Seeing one of those things scurrying about in real life with those metal grindy-scrapey noises would be pretty unsettling. More symbolism! The light that guides the way for our hero literally emanates from the heart of his wife. Or at least an effigy of his wife. Of course, that light also reveals gross scary stuff, so does that mean this little quest will uncover some ugly truths at the heart of things? I genuinely don't know. Those mannequin monsters are hiding corrupted flesh under a veneer of artificial perfection. Maybe the memories of dead wife are a little whitewashed? Or maybe it has to do with whatever illness killed her?
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Feb 13, 2015 15:10
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So are the streets still named after horror writers like SH1, or are they just random names?
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The Vosgian Beast posted:So are the streets still named after horror writers like SH1, or are they just random names? The only one that jumped out at me was Harris Street near Happy Burger, a la Thomas Harris, author of Silence of the Lambs (in that case... what's in those burgers?  )I don't know about the others, but they're probably all references.
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Feb 14, 2015 02:34
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ladyboy pancake posted:Interestingly there's a bit in the top corner that kinda-sorta-almost-but-not-quite resembles the Tetragrammaton (יהוה, the four letters used in Jewish texts as a placeholder for the name of G-d), albeit in a different order with a one-lettter difference. According to Jewish law, the Tetragrammaton isn't to be brought into a place as filthy or unclean as a bathroom so perhaps the they were going for something evoking blasphemy and sacrilege and "wrongness", but altered the image slightly so as not to truly be disrespectful (which I appreciate). Here's a better screenshot. Stolen from a deviantart page in which the user circled his own name in red.  The upper left looks like אקדונק, not that I know what that actually means.
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J.theYellow posted:Here's a better screenshot. Stolen from a deviantart page in which the user circled his own name in red. It starts with a yod (י). Well hell. Might as well use google autocorrect since that pulls up SH2 discussions on what it says and translations. יאקדונקי found youtube comments from people who can actually read hebrew. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F9-gzq9tPcs That's the best I can do. I'm pretty sure we have some Isrealis on this site, but I have no clue if they would be watching a let's play. Bored fucked around with this message at 07:44 on Feb 14, 2015 |
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Bored posted:It starts with a yod (י). Well hell. Might as well use google autocorrect since that pulls up SH2 discussions on what it says and translations. יאקדונקי Found that referenced here, which has this line about Kabbalist practices: When we answer Amen to a blessing we meditate on "יאקדונקי" (the letter ק replaces the letter ה for obvious reasons)." Wasn't obvious to me. Replace the letter both times in the word, you make יאקדונקיinto יאהדונהי, which is "Lahdonai," another word for G-d.
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J.theYellow posted:Found that referenced here, which has this line about Kabbalist practices: When we answer Amen to a blessing we meditate on "יאקדונקי" (the letter ק replaces the letter ה for obvious reasons)." It's another one of the "do not spell out any of the names of god" rules. Like how you just typed out G-d. I actually saw this article and skipped it because of all of the bullshit numerology poo poo, not realizing that it looks like that's the basis of kaballah. Bored fucked around with this message at 05:37 on Feb 15, 2015 |
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Yeah, Kabbalah is all kinds of cool number-based mysticism. Letters have numbers which have meaning which when combined to make other words yield new numbers with new meanings. A page of text might have the base readable message, plus several other encoded messages. Or at least that's the very rough knowledge I have. A lot of the stuff involving numbers in say, the book of Revelation, like 666, or the beast that rises from the sea with seven heads and ten crowns worn on ten horns, comes from similar traditions.
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Meis posted:^^they're supposed to link to imageshack but for some reason SA breaks the links. I just clicked quote to see the real URL then copy-pasted. it's weird. Just fyi, this is a thing that dates back years. Some internet drama means that there's a word-filter on IS and any links to there get altered. http://forums.somethingawful.com/dictionary.php?act=3&topicid=608
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Update! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B2Zyijx1sFM Not-really-a-spoiler: I tried to motion-track a top-hat onto James for that one joke, but the game is too dark/noisy to do it! Bummer~
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You mentioned that some enemies are harder to kill than average for some unknown reason. Is it that random enemies are stronger or that Armless Fucker in that particular location is always though for no discernible reason?
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How can that silly looking guy be so scary ? My god, he didn't even get to you in that one room that was clearly meant to make you think that he was going to get you, I was on the edge of my seat there.
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I realize it's just a game and stuff like this happens in games all the time, but it's kind of annoying that James didn't use the pipe to move the keys closer.
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The Vosgian Beast posted:I realize it's just a game and stuff like this happens in games all the time, but it's kind of annoying that James didn't use the pipe to move the keys closer. I didn't even think of that. ...I would never survive silent hill.
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Feb 19, 2015 02:06
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Love that gun room. I'm a sucker for locations in games that hint at larger stories you never get to see all of.
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Feb 19, 2015 06:11
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I'm actually playing this game for the first time at the moment (in a claustrophobic room with no lights, on an old-rear end CRT TV of course), and I'm right about at the same spot where the LP is at now. Nifty, this way I get to see stuff I plain missed, like the notes Mr. Roadkill left in the street. I ended up having to look up how to make the key to Room 202 appear, since I'd completely missed the cutscene with the annoying little kid kicking the other key away.
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So, without anyone spoiling anything, can someone tell me if the "there was a HOLE here" thing ever get explained, or is it just creepy flavour?
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biosterous posted:So, without anyone spoiling anything, can someone tell me if the "there was a HOLE here" thing ever get explained, or is it just creepy flavour? They use the idea again in Silent Hill 4, but i'm not sure if they hit it again in this game.
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biosterous posted:So, without anyone spoiling anything, can someone tell me if the "there was a HOLE here" thing ever get explained, or is it just creepy flavour? There was a POST here. It's gone now.
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