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MDHDZN
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 		I found out about Marble Hornets by searching 'scariest youtube channel' on google.

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 		Dude, I fell asleep with Candle Cove on last night, good times. Made me think of my boyhood days at the arcade playing Polybius.

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xemnasvii
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 		How do you watch Candle Cove.
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 		I found Marble Hornets through a friend who was watching it. It was about maybe 10th or 15th entry in when I discovered this series. Been hooked ever since.
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xemnasvii wrote:
How do you watch Candle Cove.


Do you have an FYE or other video store near you? They should have it on DVD.

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TheJoker
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 		I found Marble Hornets through the following steps:

1. I read a review of the recently released Slender (which, annoying as its fans can sometimes be, is actually a fairly fun game) and the review mentioned it was based on a "meme" from the Internet (I'm not 100% sure that was the word they should have used, but okay). I hadn't played the game (and didn't until after I started watching MH), but I'm a fan of horror games and I was curious what they meant by "based on a meme". Intrigued, I googled it.

2. I read the TV Tropes page on the SM Mythos. I read a good deal of the original SA thread (which had some brilliant stuff), then read some more of the Tropes page and gathered that Marble Hornets, one of the many shows within the mythos, was essentially the "original series" and one of the best.

This was around when 63 or 64 had recently come out. I marathoned the first two seasons pretty quickly, finished catching up on S3 by sometime after 64's release, and was watching "live" by 65's release. Also started lurking here around 65.

Jordan wrote:
Ah, I thought The Promise was a mini-series of sorts to the regular ongoing comic book series....for some reason. I'll probably still read everything in release order anyway, I'm kind of a completist that way Smile

(stuff about the James Cameron Avatar)

Technically, release order would be a lot wackier than what you're thinking, because while the first part of The Promise preceded Korra, the final part wasn't released until after the first season of Korra ended (with part two in the middle of the season), and while the first two parts of The Search were released between seasons the final part won't be released until in the middle of season two. So yeah, release order isn't really intended viewing order.

Unless you were just talking about the comics independently of Korra, in which case yes, you should read The Promise before The Search. (I'll add that the canon-ness and quality of both comics are debated by the fanbase- I myself liked most aspects of Promise, but I refuse to pass judgement on Search until the third part releases because... well, you'll see.)

Regarding the James Cameron stuff, not that I'm particularly a fan of the movie, but I think the point was more that one culture has no right to simply destroy another like that for personal gain, and neither is really better. I'm not saying they handled that idea well at all, just that I don't think the "Let's go back to Africa" angle was necessarily intentional.

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Twistedpuppet, I'm somehow guessing that you aren't very familiar with this particular pasta. I understand perfectly if you recognized the intended humor in the discussion of the pasta and simply didn't find it funny, but something tells me you don't even understand why it was intended to be funny. Short version- discussing it as though it were real is a bit of a running joke with this pasta's fans due to the format of the original story and the nature of the twist. Bonus points if the original twist is recreated or implied in said discussion, as was attempted in this thread.


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Twistedpuppet, I'm somehow guessing that you aren't very familiar with this particular pasta. I understand perfectly if you recognized the intended humor in the discussion of the pasta and simply didn't find it funny, but something tells me you don't even understand why it was intended to be funny. Short version- discussing it as though it were real is a bit of a running joke with this pasta's fans due to the format of the original story and the nature of the twist. Bonus points if the original twist is recreated or implied in said discussion, as was attempted in this thread.


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It also helps quell the in-between entry madness we're all suffering from, at least it does for me. Go ahead, try it! Tell us about how you heard Jeff the Killer might have escaped from his containment cell at the SCP Foundation or how you think you found a weird copy of Majora's Mask and it's telling you to burn things in the name of an entity called 'Zalgo.' Come on, it's fun!


Did anybody catch that really weird episode of The Simpsons? My DVR said it was going to be a rerun of "Moaning Lisa" from season one, but it was... something else, rather macabre, if you ask me. And it wasn't a Treehouse of Horror special or Halloween thing or anything... just a really violent and weird episode. I think it was called "Dead Bart." I'm shocked Matt Groening even put his name on it, to be honest.

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ledzepfilm
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 		I discovered MH through Slender also.

If I remember correctly, I researched more on Slenderman and came across the "Know Your Meme" page. Marble Hornets was on there and I became hooked.

I started around 62.

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SilentMedusa
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 		I discovered MH -and the entire Slender Man Mythos- through TV Tropes. I kept seeing it mentioned in so many articles (Nightmare Fuel, Paranoia Fuel, etc.) eventually I had to check it out.

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Beidah
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 		This girl at my High School told me to check it out. She didn't seem to quite understand what was going on, but seemed to think that it was real. This lead to me becoming more paranoid than I have ever been in my life, and the Slender Man is still probably the scariest thing to me.
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Hazman
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 		There were people at my school who thought it was real and who thought Entry #18 was someone(OoG) being a dick and waiting for him in the house.

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Oscar Langley
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 		The first time I saw Masky I thought he was supposed to be non-human and felt sorry for their obviously-just-a-mask effects.

I found MH through I'm a werewolf time-traveler ask me anything Unexplained-Mysteries forum.

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Jordan
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 		With no disrespect to anyone here, I'm a bit suprised that people see the series and believe it to be real.

Marble Hornets has a helluva of an atmosphere and I love it to pieces and the characters, but the very low budget of the series (blood, Slendy himself, etc) has been shown on numerous occasions which does detract from the realistic feel the guys go for.

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Jordan
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 		Oh and Joker, thanks for all the Avatar information Smile

I'm autistic, so I guess I'll move onto Korra first because visual media just helps me deal with things. (Plus, the comic book shop I order from is so slowwwwww in getting things. It's an awesome shop, but...the wait. (Well, for ordering in graphic novels, it manages to get all the latest comics from the US a week afterwards, so that's a huge plus, even though I'm still catching up)

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Beidah
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Jordan wrote:
With no disrespect to anyone here, I'm a bit suprised that people see the series and believe it to be real.

Marble Hornets has a helluva of an atmosphere and I love it to pieces and the characters, but the very low budget of the series (blood, Slendy himself, etc) has been shown on numerous occasions which does detract from the realistic feel the guys go for.


Back when I first started watching, there were only 26 episodes and no one knew if there would ever be more.
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