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(Trailhead?) Package at the front door.
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yodergames
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 		(Trailhead?) Package at the front door.
It is for a movie, I think?
A video was posted on Facebook Video It looks like fun Smile Sorry I can't seem to link the video.

[edit: created the link for you - kona]

PostPosted: Tue Jun 25, 2013 8:47 pm
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Jack J Napier
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Spoiler (Rollover to View):
Well it appears that the message behind Robert's photo is Morse code. The message when translated gives a web address: HTTP://S1290.PHOTOBUCKET.COM/USER/MASTERROBERT1/LIBRARY/


Has my interest. I'll follow after I finish my paper that is due tomorrow.

PostPosted: Tue Jun 25, 2013 10:19 pm
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jono
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 		Morse comes out to

HTTP://S1290.PHOTOBUCKET.COM/USER/MASTERROBERT1/LIBRARY/


Featuring a QR code, Germanic wood block prints of torture and creepy basements.

So there is a picture labeled "my tools" hooks, various cheap knives, a blowtorch and candles. Nice to see even killers like mood lighting.

A lot of the shots are from haunted houses and Dungeon attractions as I have seen them myself

QR code: http://whathaveidone2us.weebly.com/

The opening quote is of course wrong and seems to point to this being a retelling of Saw (Cancer, saving people via the medium of spiky things to fleshy bits)

Okay massive OOG thingy here:


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From the site: "There may also be an association between sadistic behavior and sexual sadism, in which the person derives sexual arousal and satisfaction from sadistic acts like beating and humiliating someone.I have seen the worst of what the human mind can do! Email me if you are thinking of participating in this problematic behavior or if you are currently involved in this lifestyle. Help is available at no charge, and I will keep you updated with my findings as I release them."

Okay, this is annoying and as someone who defends the BDSM community I find this really problematic, I do not know where the PM is taking this but Sadism in this sense is not the same as BDSM in the modern sense. Frankly I would e-mail but after these first few images I don't think I am going to be down for this if we have a character that seems to suggest he can save people from a real lifestyle choice seemingly via torturing them.

While a character can suggest things that are wrong, pulling it this early suggests aiming for the low hanging fruit, factor in the bad looking page (Paragraph breaks would be nice) and the video (The character has never seen Morse code before?) gives me an overall feeling of this game going down an avenue and using BDSM incorrectly and badly as an excuse. I would also say that as this character is not established its hard for me to tell if this is the character proving he/she is an evil villain or an actual plot point.

How the page is worded and by the fact it is in many cities seems to suggest the cultish villain is the BDSM community. Combining this with images of torture from the 14th and 15th Century with images dealing with the execution of witches and images from Dungeon attractions seems to show a lack of research or a deliberate attempt to make a group of people threatening and at the moment it seems not like its a small group of people but a whole, RL community tarred with one big brush, I have been involved in many scenes that could be classified as "Edge" play, and never have used Medieval torture equipment on any of my partners.

So I am going to be sitting this one out. I could be, and hope I am wrong and this is just me being sensitive. However, if the PM or anyone else for that matter wants to dispel some myths for the sake of realism then I more than encourage sending me a private message on here where I can direct to some fantastic resources on the community.

p.s. a note to all PMs if you are going to use images from other places please make sure they look right: http://s1290.photobucket.com/user/masterrobert1/media/new5_zps3c8eebec.jpg.html?sort=3&o=1 here you can obviously see its a video game screenshot from searching "Torture Chamber" on google and it ruins immersion and makes you look either lazy or silly.


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wastedtime
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I'm going to give the pm the benefit of the doubt here and assume the society is some sort of evil cult and not the bdsm community, but I already feel very uncomfortable that shaming people for safe, sane and consensual sexual preferences has shown up at all, let alone this early on. I think that's a dealbreaker for me; especially since everything about this just feels so tacky.

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Amelić
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 		Yeah i cant help but think its rather tacky too, but yeah il give them the benefit of the doubt and see what happens next... not holding out too much hope though.

edit: email back from "Holly"

Quote:
Thank you so much for helping me with this. I wouldn't have guessed Morse Code. The web page you found must be wrong! Robert wasn't into any of this sick torture stuff. Something must be wrong!!

sincerely, Holly G.


"sick torture stuff" yeah.... not liking the wording or the context of this.

Edit 2: its for a new film - got this in a email from the blog



YouTube: Link

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Randozed
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 		This looks pretty interesting.

I'll sub so I can see where this is going :3

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draghkar
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 		interesting..

So so far we have 2 characters, a Holly Graham and a Robert Graham.
Holly has an email addy: hollyslifeonlineSPLATgmail.com

and a photoalbum as well as a website

an email address on the website: whathaveidone2usSPLATlive.com

with the text "want the truth?"

I sent an email stating, "what is the truth?"

let see where this leads..

I also sent holly an email asking what else is on the DVD..

Can someone check what the name of the text file is? (0:47 in the movie)
It starts with "find m....." but its unreadable for me after that..

EDIT:
Got a reply back from WhathaveIdone2usSPLATlive.com with a link to the movie amelia posted already.. Smile
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steamqueen
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 		i will see if i get anything different in the email or if i just get the link to the video, looks interesting tho

edit: i got the same link

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degravedi
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 		It would almost be funny how people outside the BDSM community perceive it (if it didn't actually have a tendency to turn into "fear what we don't know, hate what we fear"). So basically this is a fan-remake of Hostel that blames BDSM for serial killers? Laughing

Have some funniez! Domming Ain't Easy (NSFW)

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Tybalt
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degravedi wrote:
It would almost be funny how people outside the BDSM community perceive it (if it didn't actually have a tendency to turn into "fear what we don't know, hate what we fear"). So basically this is a fan-remake of Hostel that blames BDSM for serial killers? Laughing

Have some funniez! Domming Ain't Easy (NSFW)


I hope that this isn't the case.:/
Does it feel a bit like this person just did a google search of Torture rooms and called it a day?

Also this is one of my favorite comics, this artist just makes me all kinds of happy.

Edit: Did just a tiny bit of snooping, and did a very Lazy (capital L Lazy) search about Kenneth Barr. Besides an incredibly common name he recently started a facebook account about his two films.
Facebook

IMHO This is either a very bad marketing ploy or some convoluted super genius is about to rip out with an interesting ARG.

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