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[OT] Which do you find more frightening?
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Grim Joker
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 		The Operator is probably scarier, but to be honest, I don't find either of them scary anymore. I may be jaded from the multitude of series, but I more find them both awesome in their own ways. Masky is awesome because he's very much the mysterious underling, and clearly isn't afraid to jump Jay. It also gives Jay opportunities to be awesome when he combats Masky.

The Operator is awesome when he shows up because it's like that 'Oh Shit' moment that gives you chills.

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Megamannt125
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 		Operator/Slendy.
I mean, you gotta look at it this way.
A seemingly human person with a mask, that all he's done is jump at Jay.
Or.
A paranormal being with no face, who knows how tall, and with stretchable limbs who can make you physically ill, mess with you psychologically, and make you disappear forever.
Totheark seems like someone you can take. Slendy on the other hand? It'd be impossible. Once he decides he's set his eyes on you, there's no escape, and once he decides he's done playing with you, it's all over.

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TheBioGuy
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Megamannt125 wrote:
Operator/Slendy.
Totheark seems like someone you can take. Slendy on the other hand? It'd be impossible. Once he decides he's set his eyes on you, there's no escape, and once he decides he's done playing with you, it's all over.


Umm, yeah. When Masky comes into your room while you're sleeping and pied pipers you into following him with no memory to a house where the Operator lurks.... tell me if you think you can take him.

And by the way, don't forget that not even forgetting 7 months of events and moving far away can shake Masky from your trail, while just moving away and tossing your old camera seems to work for the Operator.

I agree that to me the Operator is more frightening, but don't pretend that Masky isn't threatening. Because dude is terrifying.
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bobthecrusher
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TheBioGuy wrote:
Megamannt125 wrote:
Operator/Slendy.
Totheark seems like someone you can take. Slendy on the other hand? It'd be impossible. Once he decides he's set his eyes on you, there's no escape, and once he decides he's done playing with you, it's all over.


Umm, yeah. When Masky comes into your room while you're sleeping and pied pipers you into following him with no memory to a house where the Operator lurks.... tell me if you think you can take him.

And by the way, don't forget that not even forgetting 7 months of events and moving far away can shake Masky from your trail, while just moving away and tossing your old camera seems to work for the Operator.

I agree that to me the Operator is more frightening, but don't pretend that Masky isn't threatening. Because dude is terrifying.


I think that not making videos of where you are every day probably helps to shake masky. And If I knew masky was coming?. Alarm system. (shotgun) and wait in my bed 'sleeping'.

BTW: when did it show for certain that J was lured out of the room by Masky?

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bobthecrusher wrote:

BTW: when did it show for certain that J was lured out of the room by Masky?


Thank you for giving me a taste of my own medicine. You're right, it was never confirmed, but the order of events went like this: Jay goes to sleep-> Masky shows up in Jay's room-> Blank-> Jay is gone, presumably to the house for the Return video -> Jay returns with no memory of the events of that night. That said, a logical connection would be the theory I erroneously presented as fact, but it is not confirmed.
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Philosopher Xu
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 		I don't find Masky terrifying - he's a "spring loaded cat" type scare that shows up in a lot of cheap horror movies. Now, if he actually did anything other than run at the camera, like if we saw he was actually dangerous, he might acquire a Michael Myers-ish creepy factor. However, to me at least he's just a person in a mask that hasn't hurt anybody.

The Operator is more frightening to me because I don't know anything about it, and it clearly is capable causing harm, and we don't even know how.

All in all, I find the totheark videos the most unsettling, videos with Operator sightings a close second, with poor Masky stumbling along in third.

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TheBioGuy
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Philosopher Xu wrote:
I don't find Masky terrifying - he's a "spring loaded cat" type scare that shows up in a lot of cheap horror movies. Now, if he actually did anything other than run at the camera, like if we saw he was actually dangerous, he might acquire a Michael Myers-ish creepy factor. However, to me at least he's just a person in a mask that hasn't hurt anybody.

The Operator is more frightening to me because I don't know anything about it, and it clearly is capable causing harm, and we don't even know how.

All in all, I find the totheark videos the most unsettling, videos with Operator sightings a close second, with poor Masky stumbling along in third.


So you're in the camp that makes a marked distinction between Masky and totheark? Because you should know that there is a sizable population, Jay included, who believe that they are the same entity. And for me, his identity as totheark is a big part of making Masky an interesting character for me. And a scary one.
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 		I'm undecided on the identity of totheark. All I'm saying is, the totheark videos affect me a lot more than the ones where Masky pounces at the camera.

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bobthecrusher
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TheBioGuy wrote:
bobthecrusher wrote:

BTW: when did it show for certain that J was lured out of the room by Masky?


Thank you for giving me a taste of my own medicine. You're right, it was never confirmed, but the order of events went like this: Jay goes to sleep-> Masky shows up in Jay's room-> Blank-> Jay is gone, presumably to the house for the Return video -> Jay returns with no memory of the events of that night. That said, a logical connection would be the theory I erroneously presented as fact, but it is not confirmed.


I thought that was over a period of several nights though?

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onetruepurple
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 		Just because I could take on totheark doesn't mean I'd ever dare to...

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TheBioGuy
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bobthecrusher wrote:
TheBioGuy wrote:
bobthecrusher wrote:

BTW: when did it show for certain that J was lured out of the room by Masky?


Thank you for giving me a taste of my own medicine. You're right, it was never confirmed, but the order of events went like this: Jay goes to sleep-> Masky shows up in Jay's room-> Blank-> Jay is gone, presumably to the house for the Return video -> Jay returns with no memory of the events of that night. That said, a logical connection would be the theory I erroneously presented as fact, but it is not confirmed.


I thought that was over a period of several nights though?


Nope, that was all covered in entry #19, and was implied to have happened in one night. Well, #19 and Return, but yeah, one night is implied.
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TheBioGuy wrote:
bobthecrusher wrote:
TheBioGuy wrote:
bobthecrusher wrote:

BTW: when did it show for certain that J was lured out of the room by Masky?


Thank you for giving me a taste of my own medicine. You're right, it was never confirmed, but the order of events went like this: Jay goes to sleep-> Masky shows up in Jay's room-> Blank-> Jay is gone, presumably to the house for the Return video -> Jay returns with no memory of the events of that night. That said, a logical connection would be the theory I erroneously presented as fact, but it is not confirmed.


I thought that was over a period of several nights though?


Nope, that was all covered in entry #19, and was implied to have happened in one night. Well, #19 and Return, but yeah, one night is implied.


judt re-watched and you're right. But I'm not sure if that was masky's fault, or if he was just there to bring attention to it. It happened again later but masky wasn't there that time.

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 		I find the Operator more frightening, but Masky more threatening. Key difference, that difference being my complete lack of self-preservation. As a self-proclaimed lover of science, supernatural things freak me the hell out. Gimme a serial killer, a rapist, or a stalker wearing a creepy mask any day; the worse they can do is kill you. Which... really is pretty terrible, actually.[/i]

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Eyeball
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TheBioGuy wrote:
bobthecrusher wrote:

BTW: when did it show for certain that J was lured out of the room by Masky?


Thank you for giving me a taste of my own medicine. You're right, it was never confirmed, but the order of events went like this: Jay goes to sleep-> Masky shows up in Jay's room-> Blank-> Jay is gone, presumably to the house for the Return video -> Jay returns with no memory of the events of that night. That said, a logical connection would be the theory I erroneously presented as fact, but it is not confirmed.


So you're presuming the three times we see Masky there are all the same person?
Look again and tell me if you notice a difference between the eyes the first time we see Masky (on the dresser) and the second (by the bed.)

Also, to weigh in on this.
Operator does have all of the physics warping, jerky body, alien seeming unsettlingness.
But Totheark has a nice, we-are-legion almost hive minded quality (if there is more than one masky).
I call it a tie.

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Eyeball wrote:

So you're presuming the three times we see Masky there are all the same person?
Look again and tell me if you notice a difference between the eyes the first time we see Masky (on the dresser) and the second (by the bed.)


Occam's razor is not on your side. The "difference between the eyes" in Entry #19 was easy to see, and easier to discount as the result of a change in angle and shadow.

Either way, really, Occam's razor isn't your friend. Four separate times in the Entries (18, 19, 23, and 33) and two times in totheark videos (Warning and Entry ######) we've seen a man of roughly the same build (with more weight in #33), same hair color, same jacket, and same sideburns appear. In only one video was one of these elements conclusively missing, when in Entry #18 we see him in a different jacket.

And you want to tell me that a subtle difference in the eye shape that could be written off as an angle change throws the continuity of one Masky out the window?
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