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[baseballfuries08]

Thank God, if you ask me, but that me just me...

[pravado]

yeah that was a joke, it's not really alex. they've said they don't want to do crossovers

[McGregor]

EDIT: Wrong thread. Disregard this.

[Animal]

I figured the point of the tweet was so that they would be prepared to post it tonight. Unless it is an in game reason similar to what happened in 62 then i'm really not sure what the hold up is

[Malckeor]

[CraicIsMighty]

This is REALLY off topic so I guess this is the best place for this.

I finished reading House of Leaves and I have to ask: fans of this book, what do you like about it? I really don't get why people were comparing Marble Hornets to this book. It's really boring and not even scary at all. I really wanted to like this book but it just dragged on and on and made you slog through pages of bullshit in order to get to the "good" parts. The only "good" parts of the book being in the Navidson Record, but even those parts aren't really that scary. So, what do people like about this book? And what similarities are there to Marble Hornets? Because I really didn't see any.

[Gold Knight]

I didn't think there were that many similarities to Marble Hornets. You could say "because they were filming scary stuff" or "because there was maybe possibly something following them in the dark," but it's really a stretch to compare the two.

I liked the book because of how meta it was, but like you, I preferred the Navidson Record parts to Johnny's messed up story.

[rand__althor]

[CraicIsMighty]

I kinda wish Danielewski had just written The Navidson Record. The Navidson Record parts were genuinely creepy, they just couldn't get into "scary" levels of creepy because any tension or suspense that was built up by them is constantly interrupted by Zampano's essay and Johnny Truant's random stories, and consequently lost.

If Danielewski was trying to satirize academic criticisms, I think he should have made Zampano's essay more over the top pretentious. I mean, it was pretty pretentious, but not so over the top that it's very amusing or entertaining satire. His essay is just painfully boring for me to read through. Johnny Truant just wasn't interesting to me either. He just comes off as a typical "loser with a good heart" type character.

The Navidsons are way more complex and interesting. Also Navidson's children are surprisingly sinister, especially his son. I really wish the book focused more on them. But the fact that The Navidson Record is completely fictitious even in the book's own universe takes away all the suspense.

That's what I like about Marble Hornets. They get the satire in without sacrificing the scary. Like entry 7, you're laughing at Brian's ridiculous "loop of unhappiness" dialogue while anxiously scanning the background for slendy.

Yeah, I guess House of Leaves did have some good points, but I really wish Danielewski cut down on the Truant/Zampano bits or just cut them out all together.

[Serum]

[rand__althor]

So I'm just now realizing another neat advantage to having moved Marble Operator from TalkShoe to Skype: we now have a chat room, on Skype, that's always open to talk in. We've now been discussing Entry 64 there.

Anyway, yeah, I can see how the split narrations in HoL can be annoying. The way Truant's story ends is just...bizarre.

[Serum]

"Hey, remember those funny Timman posters Serum made?"
"Oh yeah, they were awesome! I hope they make a movie about Timman!"
"Yeah, me too! I just love Timman. He needs to be in everything."

I agree, guys. Timman is going to put Batman out of business.

[Serum]

You know, a lot of people have chalked up Tim's coughing to 'Operator sickness,' but the guy is a heavy smoker-- has anyone ever thought that maybe he's just hacking up phlegm and other crap? I mean, I smoke a pack a day myself so it's not uncommon to cough every now and then. Though Jay seems to have shown the same symptoms as Tim... maybe Jay's a closet-smoker, though.

[Geneaux486]

[Serum]

That's strange, check out this newspaper article I found...