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xxxblindxxx
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i believe he has always posted about the TTA videos. if im gonna say its Tim in "messages" id say its because Tim was the masked guy. that would make more sense

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gordon_ramsay
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xxxblindxxx wrote:
i believe he has always posted about the TTA videos. if im gonna say its Tim in "messages" id say its because Tim was the masked guy. that would make more sense


Well, if Tim was Masky, there are three possibilities.

1.) Tim is working for SM, whether under SM's mind control (*cough* horrible theory *cough*) or fear of what SM will do to him if he doesn't comply.

2.) Tim is working for TTA.

3.) Tim IS TTA.

If Tim is working for TTA, what would prompt him to do that? Threatened? Bribed?

PostPosted: Tue Nov 24, 2009 5:06 am
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Six
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To be quite honest, when I discovered MH it was the most exciting thing that's happened to me in years, but all this TIM OR NOT drama is making me want to back away from it, or just work at it on my own.

I'm worn out on page after page of it, and I think, because there's been SO much focus on whether or not EVERYONE HERE thinks it's Tim, we're probably missing something else. Something interesting, which this debate is NOT.

It's sucking the fun out of it with a vacuum cleaner the size of a truck.

PostPosted: Tue Nov 24, 2009 6:07 am
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Clueless
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Just do what I did. Stop reading the forums and watch the videos when they come out. It clearly isn't a game that requires interaction. It might have had those elements, particularly during the early TTA vids, but it has become a linear narrative that we have no control over.

Sit back and enjoy the show. There is nothing to break down. The project was born from a make supernatural images lol thread, so I think they are just trying to do the same thing with a video.

Speculation on the entries/responses has turned from "examine these sounds and invert these images and break these codes" (which never really mattered, it appears) to the sounds of a handful of people trying to guess what happens next, like that friend of yours you hate going to movies with because they blurt out what they think is going to happen.

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jjocke
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I'm with Clueless - we have no influence on the events, with all the garbled audio, missing video and TTA cryptic responses what have we discovered/solved? NOTHING

So, with that said, all I can do is wait for the other shooter from the Grassy Knoll to be revealed so I can say "Ha, I told you so"

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Chief Poirot
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chaos wrote:
to be honest, i'm still not sold on the SM related to water concept...

there's a possibility, i'll admit, but still not sold..

When did that even start from? I'm still clueless on that.

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xxxblindxxx
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what if the makers are reading this forum and going by what we say?. ive never played an ARG before so im not sure how it would work. but whos to say someone from here didnt email him and suggest he go there(to the house). or they saw what we wanted J to do here and just came up with its own backstory.

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morscata12
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Chief Poirot wrote:
chaos wrote:
to be honest, i'm still not sold on the SM related to water concept...

there's a possibility, i'll admit, but still not sold..

When did that even start from? I'm still clueless on that.


That started in Entry 5, when a water-sound distortion could be heard when the camera zoomed in on the river. The theory got more attention through the totheark responses due to the water motif used in almost every video. The theory seemed validated in Entry 16 when J's camera experienced distortion at the same moment he picked up the jug of water. Finally, in Entry 17, Tim's request for water seemed to be the breaking point for the video.

Entry 5 was filled with all sorts of sound effects relating to visual stimulus. I think it acted as a dictionary of themes we would see later. Darkness (top of the gazebo), the color red (climbing wall), water (river), and the forest.

I have no idea what causes audio and visual distortion. Without knowing what causes it, distortion seems to be used as a device to highlight a particular theme/moment. Water seems to be one of those themes, even if we don't have an explanation for it yet.

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BaronVonCakeman
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xxxblindxxx wrote:
i believe he has always posted about the TTA videos. if im gonna say its Tim in "messages" id say its because Tim was the masked guy. that would make more sense


That was one of my first thoughts on the matter. totheark could be disappointed that Masky ruined their meeting (if there even was a meeting; it's possible totheark knew Tim would be there, so he sent J there to find him) so he's telling J who it was that attacked him.

Either way, J's next move should be to find Tim again.

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TheAtroxious
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Six wrote:
To be quite honest, when I discovered MH it was the most exciting thing that's happened to me in years, but all this TIM OR NOT drama is making me want to back away from it, or just work at it on my own.

I'm worn out on page after page of it, and I think, because there's been SO much focus on whether or not EVERYONE HERE thinks it's Tim, we're probably missing something else. Something interesting, which this debate is NOT.

It's sucking the fun out of it with a vacuum cleaner the size of a truck.


I know how you feel. There have been days when I came on here to check some messages, and wound up just about ready to smack myself repeatedly over the head with my computer. There are just too many debates that go on too long and too aggressively because people don't want to just agree to disagree. I'm not even sure why it's Marble Hornets in particular that inspires this, but it annoys me.

The thing is, I'm a sucker for discussion, and my friends and family (the living ones, anyhow) do not like the horror genre. So save for this forum, I'm kinda alone in my enjoyment for the videos. It's easier said than done for me to leave.

In other news, fuck, I'm angry. I was just trying to take a shitload of screenshots to insert some logic into this debate, but my computer started to refuse to take screenshots, and I managed to break my PrintScrn key in the process of trying to fix it. Like, permanently. God damn it.

In short, just watch the videos closely, From what we can see of Maskface, he looks nothing like Tim, plus there is indication that he's probably TTA, unless the creators decide to turn the tables on us. The TTA video is likely saying that Tim is our next suspect, though what we suspect him of is open to question.

Really, a lot of things would be cleared up if people just made an effort to read, like, ten pages back. So can we stop arguing now?

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Two2teps
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Twitter Post

Marblehornets Twitter wrote:

I have Entry #19. It should be on youtube tomorrow unless something happens. Which it could. I don't really know anymore.


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stormoftara
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Well I was gonna post the twitter but I was ninja'd to it. So I wonder what will be in this video, a clip from Alex's videos, or something else?

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SweetHat
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Hmm...
I get the feeling one of two things has happened:
1) J has noticed that he is being stalked by SM, EFG or someone else
or
2) J tried to meet with Tim again, but something bad happened to him.

Not a whole lot of proof behind it, but those seem like the simplest options (based on "Messages" and J's recent tweets).

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TheAtroxious
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Holy hell, he must have posted that just after I checked his Twitter.

Why do I have a feeling J might just keep us waiting?

Gah, this one should be awesome, though.

PostPosted: Tue Nov 24, 2009 6:06 pm
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Joseph Lolin
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I wonder if J's persistence with this investigation is ever going to get an explaination. So far J has wasted (presumeably) countless hours going through the tapes and editing them, gotten seriously ill, been attacked by a mysterious stranger, and now this latest twitter post implies he's scared something will happen to him. Yet he started the whole project by acting on a whim and looking through some old tapes. He's really not getting anything out of this but to satisfy his curiosity, despite being well aware (by now) that he's in danger. I don't know about anyone else, but I doubt my sense of curiosity would extend as far as J's has.

It's quite likely that the issue is just being handwaved as "he's curious so the plot can happen" but it would be nice to know if J had some personal stake in all this. And concern for Alex is not enough; J and Alex are not very close friends. They didn't speak to each other for 3 years.

Personally I think J's lack of a motive is grounds to distrust him. I think he's hiding the real reason he's involved in all this. It's been said before. Even TTA has said in a reply that humans can't be trusted. This could apply to anyone, but to J especially since he controls what we see in the entries.

Anyway, my 2c. Make of it what you will.

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