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Six
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 		Marble Hornets name
Random or...
It seems too random. I can't find any correlation between the film they're supposed to be making and the name Marble Hornets, nor have I ever even imagined the phrase "marble hornets" as more than the psychobabble of a braindead crazy man.

I think it, in itself, might be an anagram or a code. I ran it through that anagram website, and it was all nonsense, but if you flip the b upside down, and the m, and repeat it twice you can pull "operator" out. If you repeat it twice and flip the b, you can pull "Slenderman." This is probably all bullshit, I'm bad at decoding, but something to think about.

Whatever it is, I don't think the name is random or unrelated.

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 		Alex named his project Marble Hornets before he experienced any Slender Man encounters. So if the name is significant then it is related to events before those encounters - perhaps even linked to the reason why SM started showing up.

The anagram "Abhorrent Elms" seems to be the popular choice. My personal decoding is the OOG "4 the boners" (where 4 = the four leftover letters "rmal" ). This was how The Wyoming Incident (another SomethingAwful ARG) ended. Interesting that "slenderman" and "operator" almost shows up...

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 		It's also been pointed out, (becomes apparent in entry 9) that he wanted/already had the cameras running non-stop. Without knowing the chronology of the tapes, it's possible Alex was having encounters with Slenderguy before Marble Hornets, I think. Maybe. Could just be talking out of my ass.

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Omega_Absolute
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 		marblehornets

theslerberman

r and b
r looks nearly like n
b looks nearly like d

b=d
r=n

the slender man

my favorite!

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Six wrote:
It's also been pointed out, (becomes apparent in entry 9) that he wanted/already had the cameras running non-stop. Without knowing the chronology of the tapes, it's possible Alex was having encounters with Slenderguy before Marble Hornets, I think. Maybe. Could just be talking out of my ass.


Entry 2 seems like Alex's account of the first time he encountered SM (just like J said), and Alex had mentioned that event alongside "I was leaving the MH set". So, it would seem as though Alex met SM after filming began on MH.

However, if SM is good with mind control and memory erasing, maybe Alex encountered him before and forgot. Either way, Omega_Absolute's decoding does seem pretty spot on. The movie title may have been Alex's subconscious rearrangement of the name of his foe.

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morscata12 wrote:
Six wrote:
It's also been pointed out, (becomes apparent in entry 9) that he wanted/already had the cameras running non-stop. Without knowing the chronology of the tapes, it's possible Alex was having encounters with Slenderguy before Marble Hornets, I think. Maybe. Could just be talking out of my ass.


Entry 2 seems like Alex's account of the first time he encountered SM (just like J said), and Alex had mentioned that event alongside "I was leaving the MH set". So, it would seem as though Alex met SM after filming began on MH.

However, if SM is good with mind control and memory erasing, maybe Alex encountered him before and forgot. Either way, Omega_Absolute's decoding does seem pretty spot on. The movie title may have been Alex's subconscious rearrangement of the name of his foe.


Thanks. But I doubt we'll ever have an actual answer until after the whole thing is done.

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gordon_ramsay
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 		If there even IS a correlation between the film and the entries.

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 		a Marbel hornet is a type of Marbel so can anyone see any relevance between the marble and the events or anything?

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morscata12 wrote:
Alex named his project Marble Hornets before he experienced any Slender Man encounters. So if the name is significant then it is related to events before those encounters - perhaps even linked to the reason why SM started showing up.

The anagram "Abhorrent Elms" seems to be the popular choice. My personal decoding is the OOG "4 the boners" (where 4 = the four leftover letters "rmal" ). This was how The Wyoming Incident (another SomethingAwful ARG) ended. Interesting that "slenderman" and "operator" almost shows up...


What about "Lets Harm Boner"? I like that one.

Honestly, I think trying to anagramize the name is pretty useless. The name, as J said in a message, is a reference to little statuettes of animals that his mother(?) had lying around the house, that he wanted to incorporate into his film.

I think that's how it goes, anyway. I may be a tad off on a detail or two. But we were given a reason for the name, so I don't see much significance left. The rest of Alex's film seems to be badly put together, so why not the name?

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TheAtroxious wrote:

The rest of Alex's film seems to be badly put together, so why not the name?



Haha, true enough.

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 		It's probably not significant to the plot line, but may be an interesting tidbit when regarding the wrtistic side of it.

Actually, themore I think about it, the more I like the fact that it's almost an anagram of "the slender man". This can, in theory, actually be meaningful (contrary to the "coincidence" and "sloppiness" theory. Especially the latter seems unprobable).

Since the videos do not involve timestamps, it might be that some of the entries - and thus, sightings - preceed the naming of Marble Hornets. Or the Name was decided upon at some point during the production - suggesting that, at that point, the Slender Man almost occupied the whole of Alex' mind.

Like I said, probably not really significant, but it's sometimes fun to grasp at straws in times of boredom =)

Edit: I already posted about this in the Trailhead, prior to having seen this topic - my bad.

Omega, among some other things, You forgot the "o" in Hornets. o. O. 0. Zero. Wink
Edit2: on second thought, I'll just copy the text over from the trailhead here:

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M a r b l e H o r n e t s

T h e S l e n d e r M a n

Though, there's the "b" in marble, which is an inverse "d" (slender), and an "e" is used twice instead of the two "r"s - but the "n" is missing, and "o" from Hornets is not used at all.


Edit3 (lolz) Of course, if we say the "r" is similar to an "n", only problems we have left is missing one "e" and the superfluous "o".

OR: we remove the "the", and what we end up with is

HOT SLENDER MAN.

And that's my favourite. Alex is just secretly gay for the SM x)

[/sillyness]


Herbal Monster" also fits perfectly into "Marble Hornets", though that really probably IS coincidence x)

~Sylv

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 		Don't forget that there was, indeed, a Marble Hornet in Alex's original script.

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 		Don't forget the term SLENDER MAN has never appeared in this game. For all we know, he's Capt Happy McHuggs-a-lot, Esq.

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Omega_Absolute
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Sylvine wrote:
It's probably not significant to the plot line, but may be an interesting tidbit when regarding the wrtistic side of it.

Actually, themore I think about it, the more I like the fact that it's almost an anagram of "the slender man". This can, in theory, actually be meaningful (contrary to the "coincidence" and "sloppiness" theory. Especially the latter seems unprobable).

Since the videos do not involve timestamps, it might be that some of the entries - and thus, sightings - preceed the naming of Marble Hornets. Or the Name was decided upon at some point during the production - suggesting that, at that point, the Slender Man almost occupied the whole of Alex' mind.

Like I said, probably not really significant, but it's sometimes fun to grasp at straws in times of boredom =)

Edit: I already posted about this in the Trailhead, prior to having seen this topic - my bad.

Omega, among some other things, You forgot the "o" in Hornets. o. O. 0. Zero. Wink
Edit2: on second thought, I'll just copy the text over from the trailhead here:

Quote:
M a r b l e H o r n e t s

T h e S l e n d e r M a n

Though, there's the "b" in marble, which is an inverse "d" (slender), and an "e" is used twice instead of the two "r"s - but the "n" is missing, and "o" from Hornets is not used at all.


Edit3 (lolz) Of course, if we say the "r" is similar to an "n", only problems we have left is missing one "e" and the superfluous "o".

OR: we remove the "the", and what we end up with is

HOT SLENDER MAN.

And that's my favourite. Alex is just secretly gay for the SM x)

[/sillyness]


Herbal Monster" also fits perfectly into "Marble Hornets", though that really probably IS coincidence x)

~Sylv


the "o" is the second "e" in slender. o = e still fits my coding process

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Six
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kevrock wrote:
Don't forget the term SLENDER MAN has never appeared in this game. For all we know, he's Capt Happy McHuggs-a-lot, Esq.


Hmm. This.

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