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ReverendJ
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SilentMedusa wrote:
Maybe he's so focused on the supernatural horrors in his life that he forgets about more mundane threats? Yeah, I'll go with that, since the only other explanation is that he's just stupid.
Well if he'd take a little more precaution he might have better luck keeping Hoody out of his possessions.

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Ztakk
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ReverendJ wrote:
SilentMedusa wrote:
Maybe he's so focused on the supernatural horrors in his life that he forgets about more mundane threats? Yeah, I'll go with that, since the only other explanation is that he's just stupid.
Well if he'd take a little more precaution he might have better luck keeping Hoody out of his possessions.


It was plot induced stupidity, not character stupidity, and was required to move the story forward. There wasn't anything more going on there. Tim always carries pills on his person, we know this, we've been shown this, but randomly he decides to leave them in his car....for what reason? I highly doubt he's concentrated on other things too much that he forgets to grab something that he's been carrying and putting in his body for years.

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Spoilered because OOG and a slight rant.

To give you another example of what I'm talking about is the anime Dragon Ball Z. In the first episode, the main character Goku's brother comes to Earth and reveals Goku is not actually from Earth, but is an alien. The other characters are super shocked about this....why? Plot induced stupidity to move the story forward and make it interesting. It really shouldn't have been TOO surprising because:

1) There's other aliens all over the planet (Piccolo, Pilaf, etc)
2) Goku had a tail and turned into a giant fucking monkey. If that doesn't scream "HEY HE ISN'T FROM THIS PLANET!!!" Then I don't know what does.


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 		I feel compelled to point out that Jay once seemingly wondered if Hoody had magic locked car door opening power.

https://mobile.twitter.com/marblehornets/status/75950435965476864?screen_name=marblehornets
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No clue who that could have been in Entry #41. Why wasn't my car door locked?


https://mobile.twitter.com/marblehornets/status/76749670822584320?screen_name=marblehornets

In the sprit of that tweet up there, it's possible Tim left it unlocked in case he had to make a quick get away.
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Ztakk wrote:
It was plot induced stupidity, not character stupidity, and was required to move the story forward. There wasn't anything more going on there. Tim always carries pills on his person, we know this, we've been shown this, but randomly he decides to leave them in his car....for what reason? I highly doubt he's concentrated on other things too much that he forgets to grab something that he's been carrying and putting in his body for years.


This is a really good point. Every single time we've seen Tim take out his pills, it's been from his pocket. And that only makes sense. It's probably because of Entry #61 - he didn't have his pills on hand so Hoody stole them, which caused Tim to turn into Masky. He learned he always needs to keep them on him if he's to prevent future attacks, so we see in Entry #65, Entry #69 and Entry #72 that he's keeping them in his pocket.

Now suddenly he's regressed to not keeping them in his pocket any more. And what happens? The exact same thing as in Entry #61. And now I'm finding myself hoping there wasn't a Masky incident during that blackout. It's bad enough that Tim couldn't help Jay because he was running off to get his badly placed pills, if it ends up being a major point that Tim's now without pills (and I really don't see how it couldn't, unless he just gets more from the doctor) it will have been through nonsensical stupidity and that's terrible.

Thing is, it would've been simple to just show or explain that Tim lost the pills in his pocket while he was in the sewer tunnels, which was why he had to run to the car to get more. Who knows, maybe they'll explain that next entry and fix this mess they've created.

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DHawk314 wrote:


In the sprit of that tweet up there, it's possible Tim left it unlocked in case he had to make a quick get away.


I would then argue that if his intent were a quick getaway he would have parked closer to the school.

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ReverendJ wrote:
I bet he doesn't even lock his car half the time.


That's what was being pondered - the fact that his vehicle was left unlocked.

I personally found it stranger that he didn't have the pills on him than him leaving the car unlocked, but I suppose we've uncovered a minor duex ex machina here - one I can easily forgive. It seems like there would have been smoother ways for him to lose his pills, story wise, but whatever. Ya know, I got the impression Hoody saw Tim when he jumped down into the tunnel - possibly being what inspired him to run full speed away. If he was fleeing Alex, he should've been safe once he had gotten into the sewers undetected; no way Alex was gonna guess that's where he'd gone and catch up. It took Hoody a while to pry open the entrance (giving Tim time to "hide"), and he knew what he was doing. So why'd Hoody take off like that? I think he saw Tim, and possibly didn't even know if it was Tim, Jay or a hallucination and was like uhh WTF and ran. Once back on the surface, he checks the parking lot for Tim or Jay's cars and boom - finds Tim's, jacks the pills.

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 		No one else cares about Hoody's consistent ability to magically open locked car doors do they? Man sometimes it's like I'm the only one who pays attention to ridiculous ideas suggested offhandedly years ago on the Twitter feed.
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DHawk314 wrote:
No one else cares about Hoody's consistent ability to magically open locked car doors do they? Man sometimes it's like I'm the only one who pays attention to ridiculous ideas suggested offhandedly years ago on the Twitter feed.


It's not hard to break into cars in a short amount of time. Several times I've had to get into mine. All you need is a lever and a long coat hanger, both of which can easily be concealed in a pants pocket. Even the small damage to the paint where you pry open the door is hardly noticeable if done right.

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 		Well I guess that answers how Hoody got into Tim's car. Doesn't answer Jay's original question about how he got into his car though.
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DHawk314 wrote:
Well I guess that answers how Hoody got into Tim's car. Doesn't answer Jay's original question about how he got into his car though.


How doesn't it.

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DHawk314 wrote:
Well I guess that answers how Hoody got into Tim's car. Doesn't answer Jay's original question about how he got into his car though.


"It's not hard to break into cars in a short amount of time. Several times I've had to get into mine. All you need is a lever and a long coat hanger, both of which can easily be concealed in a pants pocket. Even the small damage to the paint where you pry open the door is hardly noticeable if done right."

I'll just leave this right here.
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 		I think they were leaving their cars unlocked, accidentally or absent-mindedly. They have serious memory issues as a given, and frankly have much more pressing fears of the paranormal sort than anything normal like someone breaking into their car. Also, they don't have things in their cars that would be considered valuable to the typical theif. Neither time would Tim nor Jay have reason to anticipate their cars being snooped in. It isn't that I don't care or take interest DHawk, I just think its slightly negligible and believable.

EDIT: Also, no matter how much we live him, never forget that Jay is derpy as FUCK. So I wouldn't put it past him to lock like, the driver side door and leave a passenger door open.

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 		My post was more about why Tim doesn't make sure all his doors and windows are locked (Hoody climbed through an unlocked window in #61. The whole internet saw it. And yet, in #73 he's able to climb in through the same window. WTF? If the problem was the lock being broken, Tim should've nailed it shut.), but I do have a theory on why he didn't have his pills on his person: He was planning on sneaking around in a place he wasn't supposed to be, and didn't want a rattling pill bottle to give him away.

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SilentMedusa wrote:
My post was more about why Tim doesn't make sure all his doors and windows are locked (Hoody climbed through an unlocked window in #61. The whole internet saw it. And yet, in #73 he's able to climb in through the same window. WTF? If the problem was the lock being broken, Tim should've nailed it shut.), but I do have a theory on why he didn't have his pills on his person: He was planning on sneaking around in a place he wasn't supposed to be, and didn't want a rattling pill bottle to give him away.


I would agree, but personally I feel this isn't true, because knowing what the pills prevent, it would be more beneficial to be found by someone who heard a rattling than go masky.
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 		in entry 79 when Tim goes to get the chestcam from his car, you don't see him unlock his car to get in, but when he takes off again with the camera, you hear a loud honk, indicating one of those cars that he can lock from the key fob. So maybe either he only sometimes locks his car, or he can silently UNlock it from the fob. you would think that if he's living out of his car and all his important stuff is in there, he would always lock it. So Hoody probably breaks into his car, since he's good at that kind of thing.

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