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[VIDEO] Entry #24
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Renren
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Renren wrote:
Demongel wrote:
Renren wrote:
Hey, my quicktime doesn't work, can I get a frame-by-frame on the transition that happens on the TV at 2:40? (Note: the same thing that comes up on the screen is the same as the thing at 1:50. Goons have good eyes)


The reason it's the same thing is because the last bit of the video is supposed to be showing Jay exiting the room, but the door never opening on the other side. It's a split-screen showing the "teleportation" phenomena people are talking about.



True, but what IS it? It certainly looks like it's shaped like a human
And I wanna see the transition Sad


Actually, scratch that. Look at the timestamps. They're off by three-ish seconds.

These screenshots were taken RIGHT after the transition when the thing appeared on the screen. There might be some variation in the small fractions since I am not perfect, but there's absolutely no way I was off by three seconds, I promise.
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PostPosted: Wed Feb 17, 2010 4:41 am
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After
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Masky wrote:
It's still interesting, but the last few entries, IMO, have been very over-the-top and have spammed the Movie Maker effects way too much. We haven't seen Slenderman without him being heavily distorted since Return. Every entry just keeps adding more bullshit with no explanation. The older entries were realistic, at least, but now we've gone from that to a portal to Slender-Narnia in Jay's door.


Bear in mind that the MH creators are film students (if memory serves). They're still learning, so of course they're going to be in that "look what I can fuckin' do" mindset, to some extent.

As for the lack of resolution, it's always been like that. No entry has really firmly answered a fundamental question explicitly.

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WhenYouGoMadd
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watch the tv very carefully.

The first time Jay opens the door but doesn't go through (1:38ish youtube clock) the tv switches to the face right after the sound of Jay closing the door. Jay's clock is at 18 seconds when the sound of the door closes and at 19 seconds when the tv changes

In both of the splitscreen playthroughs (beginning at 2:38 youtube clock) the tv switches before Jay closes the door, which is 16 seconds on Jay's clock instead of the 19 seconds and the door still closes at the 18 scond mark on Jay's clock.

Something is wrong with the tv not the door, or maybe both but my money is on the tv as the cause of this.

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Re: Teleportation as early as 'Exit', that totally blows the idea out of the water that whomever was filming Jay in the parking lot had to have been someone other than Alex. Nice!

In that case, Alex running in to Slendy could have done something to his brains, so that he'd have had no idea he was taping Jay to begin with... o_o So in the same vein of thinking, the audio could have been removed from Alex's tapes without even his conscious knowledge. Seems like it could be very strong support for Alex == Totheark, now.

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Using my super-secret skills of turning my monitor a certain way so that the colors invert, I've concluded that the television change is an unrecognizable, humanoid face. No distinguishing characteristics are visible, but there are discernible "eye sockets" and what appears to be something where a mouth would be. Given that there doesn't seem to be a hair pattern, I want to say that this could be The Slenderman. The reason for the distortion could be due to his trademark electronic interference.

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Stevie D
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Another thing to keep in mind when you think teleportation/time travel is a bit too crazy is TTA's response to the question "Can J be trusted?"

His answer was: Human, therefore no.

It's not flat out saying there is extra terrestrial beings involved here but it's a possibility that TTA isn't human or isn't human anymore.

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WHY IS SLENDY IN JAY'S TV in that case?

(sorry, all-caps due to the mental image of Slendy's face popping up, albeit inverted, on my computer screen. brb crying under my desk for the next five minutes.)

Ahem, back: every other time we've seen him, Slendy has appeared to people as though in real life, only caught on camera. @_@

Oh, wait. If Jay is watching live footage, that could always be Slendy coming right up to that particular camera for a second. Bawww, just as scary!

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It's not flat out saying there is extra terrestrial beings involved here but it's a possibility that TTA isn't human or isn't human anymore.


Damn, TTA could very well be a Slendy-puppet, then. :\

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Dray wrote:
Re: Teleportation as early as 'Exit', that totally blows the idea out of the water that whomever was filming Jay in the parking lot had to have been someone other than Alex. Nice!

In that case, Alex running in to Slendy could have done something to his brains, so that he'd have had no idea he was taping Jay to begin with... o_o So in the same vein of thinking, the audio could have been removed from Alex's tapes without even his conscious knowledge. Seems like it could be very strong support for Alex == Totheark, now.


Nice thinking! This could ring true and we might find out soon!

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Stevie D wrote:
Dray wrote:
Re: Teleportation as early as 'Exit', that totally blows the idea out of the water that whomever was filming Jay in the parking lot had to have been someone other than Alex. Nice!

In that case, Alex running in to Slendy could have done something to his brains, so that he'd have had no idea he was taping Jay to begin with... o_o So in the same vein of thinking, the audio could have been removed from Alex's tapes without even his conscious knowledge. Seems like it could be very strong support for Alex == Totheark, now.


Nice thinking! This could ring true and we might find out soon!


If this is the case, and TTA does not identify as human anymore, what does this mean? (Oh wow, reveal to find out that Alex has lost all facial features?! DX) Anyways, if this is the case, and TTA still has some kind of attachment to Jay, could it be that he is 'helping' him by trying to turn him into something else as well? Seems like he is guiding Jay through all of the proper steps, here, what with the veritable hand-holding in #19 and Return, and then the guidance in #23. Is Jay now starting to take his first wobbly steps on the path of becoming something other, just because he stuck his nose into somewhere he didn't belong?

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Dray wrote:
Damn, TTA could very well be a Slendy-puppet, then. :\


A fate worse than death, I would imagine. D-:

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Herp derp, it seems like while I was putting this together most of you... well, noticed already. XD

Here's the screencaps of the different images that come up on Jay's TV.

TV Image 1 at 0:27

TV Image 2-1 at 0:36
TV Image 2-2 at 0:54
TV Image 2-3 at 0:55

TV Image 3 at 1:39

TV Image 4 at 1:42

There are three transitional frames between 3 and 4: I screencapped two. They're 3-2 and 3-3.

All of these (except the 'face' one) look like images of streets and the outdoors to me. Even the blued-out one, which looks like a strangely inverted building.


Additionally -- unrelated to the TVs -- the recording clock is restarted again right before Jay comes back in the creepy door.
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Demongel
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There could be several reason for Slenderman appearing on the TV instead. It could be that he's actually in front of the camera during live footage, it could be that Jay has done something to prevent Slenderman from entering his home, and/or it could be that Slenderman is attempting new ways to get to Jay since Jay has barricaded himself in his home.

Edit: The image located directly above confirms for me that the "face" we're all seeing isn't Slenderman like I said earlier. Using my screen tilting h4x again, it looks pretty clearly to be a human skull as someone mentioned earlier. Sorry for disagreeing.

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To be honest, this episode seemed more like a filler to me. I really wish Marble Hornets would go back to the days where we always searched for Slender Man and gasping when they showed him in full sight. I remember when we were all buzzing the forums when Masky made his debut apperance and added a whole new layer of suspense. But now we've got this whole "teleporting thing". I really liked it when this series seemed realistic. One of the scary factors was knowing it could happen to us just as easily as it happend to them. Teleporting ruined the realism for me. I really hope Marble Hornets begins to move forward with the story again. It all seemed to be leading up to something these past few entries, but this one fell short.

Sorry to sound overly negative. I'm still a Marble Hornets fan, but I'm not going to be a fan of everything they do. I still eagerly await the next installments and video responses, and I hope they pick the pace up again.

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Dray wrote:
If this is the case, and TTA does not identify as human anymore, what does this mean? (Oh wow, reveal to find out that Alex has lost all facial features?! DX) Anyways, if this is the case, and TTA still has some kind of attachment to Jay, could it be that he is 'helping' him by trying to turn him into something else as well? Seems like he is guiding Jay through all of the proper steps, here, what with the veritable hand-holding in #19 and Return, and then the guidance in #23. Is Jay now starting to take his first wobbly steps on the path of becoming something other, just because he stuck his nose into somewhere he didn't belong?


We might be on to something here.

IF TTA is Alex and has transformed into something (no need to jump into WHAT, yet) he may be trying to push J into joining him. As if J's physical being won't be at stake with TTA's "help". One thing is for sure, though. J will NEVER mentally be the same.

He also keeps a very suspicious cool during this whole series! Maybe J has had alterior motives all along?

Sorry if some of this was trout, but my mind is bloooown!

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My first thought when the distortion happened was that a lot of time passed and the camera couldn't catch it. I think that Jay is being puppeteered. When he gets up and teleports, he seriously looked like he was sleep walking, to me. I kind of thought that the music was a sort of.. Pied piper kind of thing.. Dunno.. Probably gonna totally abandon this theory when I wake up. Good night and good luck, everyone!

Edit: Also, I think the whole Jay can't be trusted thing is just a way of saying he's an unreliable narrator. Human, but, given the new teleportation layer, he can't help but not understand everything. Confused

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