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[VIDEO] Quadrant
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Kraehtot
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Oh, sweet sideburns, that's so creepy.
And it totally looks like the screencap!
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PostPosted: Wed Dec 04, 2013 8:05 pm
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ledzepfilm
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Anyone get Alex from Entry 76 vibes for "Hold off... Stay calm?"
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Sha Noran
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At first I thought the guy with the thing in his mouth looked like a creepy clown, but due to the image above I'd go with it being someone getting shock therapy/torture.

I like the idea that he's wondering if he's the third liar or more likely, tauntingly suggesting it, sort of a "are you calling me a liar now too?". Especially since the code from Conversion appears specifically. It sort of makes sense when you remember that Jay first determines Alex is a liar in S2, then Tim in S3, and now that he's found the note in 79 but hesitating to react, Hoody/TTA may be wondering if Jay thinks he's lying (and that its a trap) or Hoody/TTA is reminding Jay that he has little choice but to trust him or walk away.

I almost don't want to admit it, but that one face really looks like Seth from 54 to me. This one:



I don't think the "third" thing is gonna be as simple as a hint about Hoody/TTA's identity, just like I don't really buy that "NE1" is a simple leet speak code for "anyone". An interpretation that simple seems below TTA standards - if that's what he was gonna say so simply, he probably would've just said it.

That code hasn't been solved yet, in my eyes. Hopefully all our best codebreakers are wracking their brains analyzing it. I feel like it may be added in with a previously unsolved code, perhaps this vid is giving us a cipher? Or something... It seems intentional and related that it blinks 5 times.

Just a bit of rambling speculation, this is definitely one of the more intriguing TTA videos in a long while.

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Kraehtot
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ledzepfilm wrote:
Anyone get Alex from Entry 76 vibes for "Hold off... Stay calm?"


In fact I said those lines sounded like his voice to me. I thought they may be from some Entry, but I was to lazy to check x)

Sha Noran wrote:


That code hasn't been solved yet, in my eyes. Hopefully all our best codebreakers are wracking their brains analyzing it. I feel like it may be added in with a previously unsolved code, perhaps this vid is giving us a cipher? Or something... It seems intentional and related that it blinks 5 times.

Just a bit of rambling speculation, this is definitely one of the more intriguing TTA videos in a long while.


I agree with all of that. Sadly I am not good at codebreaking and it is even more difficult for me to figure them out taking into account English is not my first language : /
Maybe we need something else to decode it? Maybe a Tweet from certain hacked account?
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TheManPF
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I thought the "shock therapy" scene was just taken from completely unrelated footage, like in Signal, Session, Messages, etc

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Marble Hornets
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darkjesusmelb wrote:
Kilo wrote:
I actually really like the idea that this somehow ties into the Operator symbol. I've always assumed that the circle with the X through it was representative of the Operator's lack of face, but what if it's more?

Years ago, I floated a theory with a lot of batshit insanity in it (probably), but the crux of it was the idea that the Operator and TTA were two entities that were in some sort of cosmic game- one was an entity of sight (Operator) and one was an entity of sound (TTA). I'd like to expand on that a little bit:

The circular symbol represents a face, and the X cuts the face into 4 quadrants, representing different parts of a face/head. The brain, the eyes, the ears, and the mouth, and a different person serves each in each quadrant.

Brain: ???
Ears: Tim
Eyes: TTA/Hoody
Mouth: Alex

The Operator ensnares different people to serve each function so it can further its purpose (Whatever that may be).

I like this theory because I'm a sucker for clean symbolism, but I can provide some (hastily thought out) reasons behind all this.


That is a really interesting theory, it does serve as an interesting point of motivation for The Operator.


Interesting, but I don't see how Tim would be the ears and Alex the mouth. Also they would never be able to explain that.

I don't like the idea of TTA being a group, mainly because they have used the word "me" multiple times when referring to hoody (intermission being the key one, as it shows him sitting under the tree from 42). It also doesn't even seem like anyone but hoody is watching Jay/Tim. Also, if it was a group, why would hoody have gone after Alex alone a few times? Wouldn't you want to be backed by other people?


Moreso, I think quadrant refers to four people, the main players in the series: Jay, Tim, Alex, and Hoody. They are all interconnected in some way, and Hoody knows that they all have to come together to "find the ark"

"Am I the third" most likely refers to the third quadrant. But I doubt it ties into the symbol, as again, totheark (hoody) appears to be a lone wolf. The symbol, in season 1, is pretty much explained in one of the tta videos as representing the operator's face, alex's drawings show that too. In season 2 it was shown over the lens of a camera, to insinuate "do not film" or something to that effect. The only thing that shows it meaning 4 quadrants to make up a group is the line "we will wait for you no more" but that idea could have easily been scrapped. Jay's theory as to it being multiple people could have been wrong, as his tweet theories have been wrong before (red herrings)

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Camero
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The face, I must say, does look feminine...but it is a much rounder face than any of the females we've seen so far. So it could be male...hard to say.

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DHawk314
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Well, grammar is weird, just because totheark says "me" doesn't me totheark isn't a group. Multiple people could be making the videos with one of them simply saying "me" is some sentence. It's not just Entry ###### that says we (and us), Attention says "us", and Jay pointed it out on Twitter right after ("I don't like the fact that it says "us" in the video.")

The idea of multiple people running the channel may have been scrapped; it's also plausible they planned for totheark to be working with the Operator and for we/us to refer to that. You may make a good point though about the hooded person never arriving with anyone else. Also, probably more notably, the series is almost over, so if there were more people running the channel we'd probably have seen them in some form that alluded to such in the entries.

That being said my personal belief is that totheark may have been both the hooded person and Tim, with the hooded person running the channel exclusively now since Tim has gotten better and isn't going "Masky" as much. Sometimes I hedge though and think it may have always been the hooded person; like I said about grammar before, the hooded person might have always said "we" to refer to himself and Tim, but that doesn't mean Tim was personally uploading other totheark videos.

Either way the hooded person and Tim (As Masky) work together, they're usually in the same place, and the hooded person uploaded many of the videos, with both of them working to get rid of Alex and find the ark (I say the latter part because it's obviously Tim talking in Entry ######). So whether multiple people really have posted videos is somewhat irrelevant in the grand scheme of things. I also think Jay's tweet about multiple totheark users probably did mean something, but I agree, beyond the possibility of Tim posting some of the videos, I doubt there are anymore users at this point in the story.
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Bitches be like:
"Sarah."

People Who Should Be Put To Sleep wrote:
SARAH IS ARK I LOVE SARAH SARAH IS IMPORTANT I JUST KNOW IT I SERVE ONLY SARAH




YouTube: Link


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Sarah's only been mentioned like twice in the thread though and it was regarding the order Alex tried to eliminate the cast.
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Serum, that reply was a bit out of line and unwarranted.

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In response to everyone speaking about totheark and if it could be a group and exactly what this video is trying to say..has everyone forgot about that unsettling, creepy white (bald) figure/creature with red glowing eyes that has shown up in totheark videos before..I'm too lazy to find a picture ad forget which entries he showed up in. But whoever/whatever that is, is probably important in regards to totheark and maybe the ark itself.

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DHawk314
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That thing is in a few totheark videos and I have no idea what it is and it's disturbing and if that's like, what Brian looks like now or something I will flip my shit honestly.
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New from Twitter, and presumably relevant to our ongoing code-breaking exploits.

Quote:
SG93IGRvIGhhbmRzIHRhbGs=


https://twitter.com/marblehornets/status/408432347210477568

ETA: In base64, it reads:

Spoiler (Rollover to View):
How do hands talk


Which is... creepy?
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Someone on twitter said Base64.

Edit: "how do hands talk"

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