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[VIDEO] Decline
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Lithp
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I originally thought it was dissociative identity disorder as well--which is also such a tired plot device--but figured out from the context what it must have meant.

PostPosted: Tue Apr 09, 2013 11:38 am
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Xman
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Zarggg wrote:
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I would love for them to release the solutions to the puzzles they claim we missed when this is all over.

If they don't do this, I'll be really upset. And not only solutions to puzzles, but what totheark is trying to say in some of the videos too. And what that "S" is supposed to mean.

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CraicIsMighty
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Yeah d.i.d stands for damsel in distress, lol. I didn't even think about it also standing for dissociative identity disorder too. I thought mentioning Princess Peach would give it away but I guess I should have been more clear. Razz

Anyway, I'm personally hoping for Jessica to have a little bit more to her character. I've always been a little suspicious about entry 32 and 33. A lot of people just say that she was paranoid but I think there could be a little more to her little monologue in entry 32. Her confession about having dreams of being watched as a child could possibly hint at her having Oppy troubles before Jay and Alex came along. Also, her disappearance in entry 33 is still pretty suspicious to me.

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Waulker
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CraicIsMighty wrote:
Yeah d.i.d stands for damsel in distress, lol. I didn't even think about it also standing for dissociative identity disorder too. I thought mentioning Princess Peach would give it away but I guess I should have been more clear. Razz

Anyway, I'm personally hoping for Jessica to have a little bit more to her character. I've always been a little suspicious about entry 32 and 33. A lot of people just say that she was paranoid but I think there could be a little more to her little monologue in entry 32. Her confession about having dreams of being watched as a child could possibly hint at her having Oppy troubles before Jay and Alex came along. Also, her disappearance in entry 33 is still pretty suspicious to me.


THIS THIS THIS. Not only does this come into play with that footage we got of alex at his birthday (when he was a kid), but it comes into play with the whole mythos. Doesn't slendy have a thing for watching kids? Maybe they were all watched..?

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SaferSaturnX
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I haven't seen anyone mention this, but if someone has, then my bad. The title for the video, Decline, seems to me to be a reference to the series as a whole. The story is on it's decline, and there's not going to be much more of it.

I doubt it's supposed to be a meta-reference though. More like TTA knows that everything is coming to an end soon.

EDIT: Actually, I also just though that it could mean Alex's decline as well.

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pravado
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SaferSaturnX wrote:
I haven't seen anyone mention this, but if someone has, then my bad. The title for the video, Decline, seems to me to be a reference to the series as a whole. The story is on it's decline, and there's not going to be much more of it.

I doubt it's supposed to be a meta-reference though. More like TTA knows that everything is coming to an end soon.

EDIT: Actually, I also just though that it could mean Alex's decline as well.


why would they end the series at this point? there is still so much left unanswered. ending it here would be shooting themselves in the foot, nothing really major plot wise has happened in season 3 yet

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pravado
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Waulker wrote:
CraicIsMighty wrote:
Yeah d.i.d stands for damsel in distress, lol. I didn't even think about it also standing for dissociative identity disorder too. I thought mentioning Princess Peach would give it away but I guess I should have been more clear. Razz

Anyway, I'm personally hoping for Jessica to have a little bit more to her character. I've always been a little suspicious about entry 32 and 33. A lot of people just say that she was paranoid but I think there could be a little more to her little monologue in entry 32. Her confession about having dreams of being watched as a child could possibly hint at her having Oppy troubles before Jay and Alex came along. Also, her disappearance in entry 33 is still pretty suspicious to me.


THIS THIS THIS. Not only does this come into play with that footage we got of alex at his birthday (when he was a kid), but it comes into play with the whole mythos. Doesn't slendy have a thing for watching kids? Maybe they were all watched..?




There are still huge flaws with this childhood theory.

1. The operator was edited into enttry 37 (he appears right where someone is sitting), he wasn't actually there.

2. Tim/Alex/everyone didn't grow up together, they just went to college together. This can be inferred from the fact that Alex was doing his movie for school, and that jay calls him a "college friend" in the introduction. Also Tim says he met Alex through Brian. The odds of the operator following a select few people and them all meeting later on in life is too coincidental to be believable.

3. Alex was fine before the summer of 2006 (people that knew him said they noticed a change in him, and even Jay claims that he noticed Alex getting more paranoid and angry all the time), whereas Tim was not. The only proof we have is that Tim was in some way connected with the operator as a child through his medical records. Alex's connection came later, and like Tim says himself, was most likely targeted as a result of Tim's presence

Unless they give us more to work with, there's really no reason to believe anyone but Tim was affected as a child. Jessica's dream was just a dream, after all. Dreams aren't memories. At best they piece together bits of memories but never actually represent the scenarios that happened regarding those memories. Totheark even makes the claim that Jay is the reason Jessica is involved, as does Alex (both of which are more "in the know" than anyone else)

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censura_umbra
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I think Tim drew Oppy to them all.

But I also think Jessica was suspicious. But mostly because of the weird noises in her room and masky just waiting there. As if she let him in and left instead of waiting for Jay.

I don't think she is SUPER important, but maybe she is a member of TTA. She was probably around Alex for a long while before Jay even started watching the tapes. It is possible that when her and Alex met Alex brought the operator with him for a while and Jessica and the rest of TTA tried to ward him off. Maybe even working with Alex (which is why Alex wasn't surprised at who Hoody was) and then Alex was slendy wiped and lived happily until Amy brought out the camera.

Main point: she better be somewhat important.

And I always had the feeling that Troy and co were trying to act like TTA was a knowledgeable/stalky viewer before they were a character. And the fact that TTA knows so much probably means they didn't just recently get in the game

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pravado
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Masky came in from the hallway, not from Jessica's room. The operator was supposed to be in the room behind her (the dvd commentary confirms that)

If it wasn't for entry 65 I would have doubted intentional harmful motives from The Operator. For all we knew, everything that happens when he appeared was an unintentional side effect. But entry 65 proves he hates Tim

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censura_umbra
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pravado wrote:
Masky came in from the hallway, not from Jessica's room. The operator was supposed to be in the room behind her (the dvd commentary confirms that)

If it wasn't for entry 65 I would have doubted intentional harmful motives from The Operator. For all we knew, everything that happens when he appeared was an unintentional side effect. But entry 65 proves he hates Tim


Hates....or loves

PostPosted: Wed Apr 10, 2013 11:02 am
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paladin181
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pravado wrote:
Waulker wrote:
CraicIsMighty wrote:
Yeah d.i.d stands for damsel in distress, lol. I didn't even think about it also standing for dissociative identity disorder too. I thought mentioning Princess Peach would give it away but I guess I should have been more clear. Razz

Anyway, I'm personally hoping for Jessica to have a little bit more to her character. I've always been a little suspicious about entry 32 and 33. A lot of people just say that she was paranoid but I think there could be a little more to her little monologue in entry 32. Her confession about having dreams of being watched as a child could possibly hint at her having Oppy troubles before Jay and Alex came along. Also, her disappearance in entry 33 is still pretty suspicious to me.


THIS THIS THIS. Not only does this come into play with that footage we got of alex at his birthday (when he was a kid), but it comes into play with the whole mythos. Doesn't slendy have a thing for watching kids? Maybe they were all watched..?




There are still huge flaws with this childhood theory.

1. The operator was edited into enttry 37 (he appears right where someone is sitting), he wasn't actually there.

2. Tim/Alex/everyone didn't grow up together, they just went to college together. This can be inferred from the fact that Alex was doing his movie for school, and that jay calls him a "college friend" in the introduction. Also Tim says he met Alex through Brian. The odds of the operator following a select few people and them all meeting later on in life is too coincidental to be believable.

3. Alex was fine before the summer of 2006 (people that knew him said they noticed a change in him, and even Jay claims that he noticed Alex getting more paranoid and angry all the time), whereas Tim was not. The only proof we have is that Tim was in some way connected with the operator as a child through his medical records. Alex's connection came later, and like Tim says himself, was most likely targeted as a result of Tim's presence

Unless they give us more to work with, there's really no reason to believe anyone but Tim was affected as a child. Jessica's dream was just a dream, after all. Dreams aren't memories. At best they piece together bits of memories but never actually represent the scenarios that happened regarding those memories. Totheark even makes the claim that Jay is the reason Jessica is involved, as does Alex (both of which are more "in the know" than anyone else)
This for sure. If they go all FFVIII on us, I think I'm going to be pissed. That would be a lazy cop out that doesn't make ANY sense in this context (It barely did in FFVIII)

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paladin181 wrote:
This for sure. If they go all FFVIII on us, I think I'm going to be pissed. That would be a lazy cop out that doesn't make ANY sense in this context (It barely did in FFVIII)


They're all orphans that grew up together. The operator was their care taker. From space.

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MistrPibb
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Nathanial wrote:
paladin181 wrote:
This for sure. If they go all FFVIII on us, I think I'm going to be pissed. That would be a lazy cop out that doesn't make ANY sense in this context (It barely did in FFVIII)


They're all orphans that grew up together. The operator was their care taker. From space.

Most plausible theory we have thus far ^

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twistedpuppet
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Pravado, you can't actually prove that, story-wise, the operator wasn't really there in that video. Yes, out of game, we all know that the video had to be edited to include all that. As it relates to the story, there's been nothing given to us by the creators that suggests that the operator wasn't in the video "for real."

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ZargggModerator
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Nathanial wrote:
They're all orphans that grew up together. The operator was their care taker. From space.

That's pretty much the plot of EverymanHYBRID :p

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