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airportdisco
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 		btw
cute message in "frisbee" source code:



oh, and i haven't heard back from hats yet.
or from any of you guys, which is weird.
i'm considering writing a "beginner's guide to hatshoe" and blasting some forums, trying to get more new players involved.

when there were more people it was less organized but more fast paced, it seems. i dunno. worth a shot i guess.

PostPosted: Mon Aug 01, 2011 9:36 am
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GoingUp
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 		Gotta love a runescape reference. next up on my preferred list of outdated pc games: Dink Smallwood.

Sorry for my own bit of radio silence I hope that didn't creep you out or anything airport haha. I've been a little busy lately but now that Hatshoe has indeed proven me wrong I guess I should pay attention again.

I have no idea on what I would email about the dream apt. listing on craigslist. Thinking about what the apt listing could mean story-wise is kind of giving a headache. Just like when i tried to make a chart of character relationships weeks ago. That was so much non sense.

The getting more people interested thing sounds okay, lemme know how/if I can help.

PostPosted: Tue Aug 02, 2011 12:52 am
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airportdisco
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 		Can't sleep. Pondering the shoe.
Here's a few thoughts:

- - - - -

The following pages are missing from the index:
French
Hatshoe
Night
Nothing
Friend Gallery

What does this mean? Probably nothing.

- - - - -

Something HS said in reply to Toaster March 1-
hatshoe wrote:
I think they can only view in slices

So we now know this centers around lucid dreaming, right? And that he went somewhere to learn how to do it, right?
We also know he's trapped and we don't know who "The Watchful" are.
Well what if The Watchful are the "leaders" or whatever of this lucid dreaming organization. What if they're drawing people in with the awesomeness of lucid dreaming, but using them against their will...like for remote viewing etc. (some big conspiracy blah blah) So they would have to monitor the participants, right? And what's the only way to monitor what's happening while someone's dreaming? An MRI. And how do you view MRI images? In friggin slices.
So that's why he can't talk directly about what's going on. Because he can't even THINK directly about what's going on. Because they'll see and they'll know he's trying to escape.
All these random journal entries could be him trying to think about anything other than what his plans are.

I don't know. I've had like 10 of these "epiphanies" before and they've all turned out to be total dead ends. This one is no different, I'm sure. Just needed to get it out.

- - - - - -

Okay, remember when we did the whole coffee thing and he sent this picture?

And then we were trying to figure out the orientation of the picture itself and what we were looking at? And I said this:
airportdisco wrote:
Another interpretation would be that he's not actually holding up the paper (it does look remarkably flat) but instead, has laid it on a a glossy black coffee table, stood over it and shot straight down - holding the cup sideways in front of the camera. If this is the case, the reflections are probably overhead fluorescent lighting, which sucks for him. Does any of this matter? Absolutely not.

Well, something just clicked with me:

I'm not ashamed to admit that every hair on my body stood on end when I realized the implications of this.
I know this is a game on the internet and nothing more.
But seriously, what if. I mean WHAT IF he was actually living there.
WHAT IF his tweets corresponded to what he was seeing out that tiny window. I mean...seriously. Even if it's a joke. Fucking. Wow. What?

I've been staring at this too long tonight. I think I'm losing my shit. Feel free to tell me so.

PostPosted: Thu Aug 04, 2011 8:31 am
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n_i_c_k
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 		That's a damn good memory you've got there. But I think the light in the craigslist ad is too big/thick, and there's only one of them, to be the lights reflected on the black coffee table.

PostPosted: Thu Aug 04, 2011 8:47 am
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airportdisco
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 		Thanks man. You're probably right.
In fact, I'm gonna go ahead and believe you are so I can get some sleep.

Welcome back, by the way.

PostPosted: Thu Aug 04, 2011 9:03 am
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airportdisco
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 		Shit is going down on /x.

http://boards.4chan.org/x/res/8365643#8366236

get in here now.

(i'll try to archive it in case you're all sleeping like sleepy sleepersons.)

PostPosted: Mon Aug 08, 2011 8:57 am
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juiceboxvomit
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airportdisco wrote:
Shit is going down on /x.

http://boards.4chan.org/x/res/8365643#8366236

get in here now.

(i'll try to archive it in case you're all sleeping like sleepy sleepersons.)


awwww shit, shit hit the fannnn.

PostPosted: Mon Aug 08, 2011 8:58 am
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airportdisco
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 		welp, here we are.
we may or may not have seen a conversation between hatsy and an old girlfriend. or hats and himself trying to drive a story point. or two random assholes pretending to be him and the girl. or one random asshole pretending to be him. it's 4chan...you never know.
anyway, the person claiming to be hats said we may ask one question.
and then 4chan went down.
it's been down for a good 20 minutes now.
i saved the page as a file w/ images and everything, but i'm unsure if we'll be able to archive it for viewing by anyone.

anyway...here's a picture probably drawn by hats early in the thread:


also, i'll be starting a Hatshoe thread on http://boards.4chan.org/x/ tonight (8/8/11) at 10pm pacific time. drop by if you can. gonna try to get some answers and some new players up to speed.

PostPosted: Mon Aug 08, 2011 10:06 am
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 		whoever that girl was, she didn't start the thread. I did. there has been a lot of stupid shit posted on /x/ lately and I just wanted to post about something I had enjoyed that was honestly just good Original Content. I am very surprised that it turned into such a shitshow.

I have no idea why she claimed to be the creator of that thread. maybe she was going to make one herself but then saw mine? perfect timing type thing? no idea. I also have no idea who she was, or if Hatshoe was really there. the drawing seems to suggest he may have at least seen the thread and skimmed enough to answer one of the people requesting a drawing, but honestly, I don't think he would have sat there and played along with something like that.

the only reason that I have that opinion, is because he seems more mature or "sophisticated" then that. I highly doubt, old girlfriend or not, that he would sit and hash shit out with her on an /x/ thread. also, we have no idea if he's ever really posted in /x/ or not, we can only assume that he has been there.

anyway, just wanted to point this out, so that you guys know at least a small piece of info.

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airportdisco
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 		Thanks for clearing that up. (It did go downhill pretty quick, didn't it...)
I figured something along those lines. It was probably two trolls thinking they were fooling the other into giving some inside info.
I'm 99% positive the picture was from him but I can't speak to any of the other posts.
The rough thing about the chans is that you can't trust anything but you can't just dismiss everything either. And, although he'd probably post a few times, hs doesn't seem like the type of dude that would go out of his way to prove it's him.
I'm just stoked there was genuine interest from a few folks.
Maybe we'll get some people playing again.
And maybe they'll actually post in this forum so we don't lose shit to the void like the cat mosaic.
Here's hoping.
Thanks again.

PostPosted: Mon Aug 08, 2011 12:27 pm
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airportdisco
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 		Me being a pathetic douchebag has finally paid off.
I started the /x thread at 10...a few people showed up...nothing much really happened. Everyone left after an hour or so. Then, like a loser, I just sat for hours idly posting hs's entries by myself, hoping to catch someone's eye and recruit new "players". Then, 4 1/2 hours into it, this happened.





Then he disappeared.

Image is named "procedure.jpg". I have absolutely no doubt it's genuine hs.

So he's in a facility. It really sounds like some astral projection "men who stare at goats" stuff.

I admit it. I'm fucking excited.

PostPosted: Tue Aug 09, 2011 5:44 am
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airportdisco
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 		sweet fuck.
then this just happened.





acquired.jpg

i wonder if he's talking about the targets....or who's keeping him there.
i think i just crapped my pants a little.

PostPosted: Tue Aug 09, 2011 5:58 am
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 		yeoman's work
incredible stuff airportdisco! really an excellent result. i wish i could have been there but hypnos had me down before you even started. here's hoping we can resume the play with some kind of hope in light of the new pages.

thanks and congratulations

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 		conception
apercu
the reference to walls and micropores in line one of 'procedures' prompted thoughts of cell biology. which in this context led me to think of rebirth in a re-incarnation cycle.

"help me to return"

on the images of procedures, i'm seeing them as plan and elevation, and maybe when the soul is calm enough it is permitted to re-enter a body in this physical world.

watching and waiting for conception


or beginning on the chain and the curved walls could refer to the hatshoe index as it is

edit: qv 'nothing' and cp the elevation view
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PostPosted: Tue Aug 09, 2011 10:23 am
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airportdisco
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 		In an effort to keep information available to newer players (or older players backtracking), I've started a youtube channel and posted all the now unavailable hatshoe videos.

http://www.youtube.com/user/notshoe

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