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What do you want to see?/What are you sick of?
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NoMoreGaems wrote:
I have an idea for a slenderseries I'd really like to do, and one of the things planned is a scene where Slenderman actually takes hostile action towards a character on camera, moreso than in Marble Hornets 26 or EverymanHybrid's Ashen Waste. And I think it'll be really awesome, but for that reason I don't wanna talk about it too much on here XD


Well, I can't wait to see it then. And I have plans for lots of movement in my project.
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NoMoreGaems wrote:
I have an idea for a slenderseries I'd really like to do, and one of the things planned is a scene where Slenderman actually takes hostile action towards a character on camera, moreso than in Marble Hornets 26 or EverymanHybrid's Ashen Waste. And I think it'll be really awesome, but for that reason I don't wanna talk about it too much on here XD


You. Out of my script folder, this second. Razz

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 		Uh oh, looks like we're all dipping our hands into the same script folder. :/

WE'LL JUST NEED TO SEE WHO DOES IT BETTER, HMMM.

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 		I take that challenge, good sir/madam/gender-honorific! Very Happy

This all makes me wonder if a visibly violent Slenderman will one day be the new cliché...

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 		People will reminisce and speculate as to when Slendy started losing his shit at people. Many will claim he was pissed at not appearing in the first episode of Marble Hornets Season 2. Others will claim that he turned to drink after EMH gave the Rake more attention than him...

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 		Well my plans aren't visibly violent as visibly OHGODWHYISHEDOINGTHAT DDDDDDDDDDDDDDD: And not visibly, cuz it's a blog
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 		OK, having read a few of the slendy blogs I have to say that I hate the idea of the core theory. Just hate it to the... well, to the core. Not only does it make the mistake of trying to "explain" Slender Man, but it turns the whole thing into a lame Jungian fantasy story. Just no.

Similarly, from here on in I'm going to treat uses of the word "Hallowed" as cause to stop reading a blog because, again, seriously, too many people riding that bandwagon. If anything, I think borrowing terminology from each other too much - or indeed coming up with a little invented terminology - is a mistake. It reminds me too much of the old World of Darkness RPGs where everything had a pretentious capitalised Name, and when your blog starts resembling sub-White Wolf drivel you know you got problems.

Also what is up with this Life Light Love crap?

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awakeasaurusrex wrote:
OK, having read a few of the slendy blogs I have to say that I hate the idea of the core theory. Just hate it to the... well, to the core. Not only does it make the mistake of trying to "explain" Slender Man, but it turns the whole thing into a lame Jungian fantasy story. Just no.

Similarly, from here on in I'm going to treat uses of the word "Hallowed" as cause to stop reading a blog because, again, seriously, too many people riding that bandwagon. If anything, I think borrowing terminology from each other too much - or indeed coming up with a little invented terminology - is a mistake. It reminds me too much of the old World of Darkness RPGs where everything had a pretentious capitalised Name, and when your blog starts resembling sub-White Wolf drivel you know you got problems.

Also what is up with this Life Light Love crap?


Can't say I blame you for the Core Theory thing; even if I like the theory as an idea, it's not being pulled off as well as it could. And the "explain Slendy once and for all!" thing always bugged me as well.

Though I'm not sure what the problem is with the term Hallowed. It's easier than writing "some crazy guy in a mask" every time.
Though there the problem might just be that everyone keeps using the "some crazy guy in a mask" plot point, but that has become almost as established in the Mythos as Slendy's tie. And expecting too much originality from people might hurt their brains. Razz

As for the "Life Light Love", it's a battle cry that someone in the Core Theory group came up with. No idea who, because it was lost in the hundreds of comments that went on during the 23rd. Rolling Eyes

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Das Omega wrote:
Though I'm not sure what the problem is with the term Hallowed. It's easier than writing "some crazy guy in a mask" every time.
Though there the problem might just be that everyone keeps using the "some crazy guy in a mask" plot point, but that has become almost as established in the Mythos as Slendy's tie. And expecting too much originality from people might hurt their brains. Razz

Part of it is that, like I said, "Hallowed" has become part of a shared vocabulary. Come up with your own damn names for things, guys.

The other thing is that it doesn't seem to make sense. "Hallowed" means sanctified, holy, Masky and pals seem like the opposite. I could imagine it kicking off because someone misspelled "hollowed" and the word stuck, but eh.

Another thing that bugs me: in MH, we only saw one Masky (at first at least), and that was cool because he was a distinct character - and one who was menacing in his own right. In the blogs, the Hallowed seem to be a faceless army, with no more character than, say, orc #2452 in a battle scene from Return of the King or something. "Some Hallowed showed up and I ran away from them" has no impact, we don't care about the Hallowed because they're just goons. "This person who I knew and trusted and who I've been interacting with from the start of the blog just showed up wearing a mask and acting weird" - now THAT is scary, because you've gone to the trouble of establishing their character before making them put on the mask and do a Slender dance.

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awakeasaurusrex wrote:
Part of it is that, like I said, "Hallowed" has become part of a shared vocabulary. Come up with your own damn names for things, guys.

The other thing is that it doesn't seem to make sense. "Hallowed" means sanctified, holy, Masky and pals seem like the opposite. I could imagine it kicking off because someone misspelled "hollowed" and the word stuck, but eh.

Another thing that bugs me: in MH, we only saw one Masky (at first at least), and that was cool because he was a distinct character - and one who was menacing in his own right. In the blogs, the Hallowed seem to be a faceless army, with no more character than, say, orc #2452 in a battle scene from Return of the King or something. "Some Hallowed showed up and I ran away from them" has no impact, we don't care about the Hallowed because they're just goons. "This person who I knew and trusted and who I've been interacting with from the start of the blog just showed up wearing a mask and acting weird" - now THAT is scary, because you've gone to the trouble of establishing their character before making them put on the mask and do a Slender dance.


But you also said that coming up with their own terminology was a mistake.... Which are they supposed to do?

And the term is meant to be respectful. To quote M, "As for your question, I use that word because I think it's sort of what happens to them. We make land Hallowed so we can use it for a purpose that's important to us usually, and that's sort of what Slenderman does to them. They're not totally dead, but they're not being taken over by Slenderman but still themselves, they're someting totally different, so it's sort of like Slenderman has purposefully done something to them and made them hallowed to him.

Also I found it a little more respectful then just hollowed. They're dead and what's left of them is under the control of an evil being I think they at least deserve a cool name. "

For your final point: I agree with that, but that's more to do with the writing than the terminology. You could have a blog that calls them something completely different and still have a zombie apocalypse style scenario, or you can have a blog with developed Hallowed that still uses the term.

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Das Omega wrote:
For your final point: I agree with that, but that's more to do with the writing than the terminology. You could have a blog that calls them something completely different and still have a zombie apocalypse style scenario, or you can have a blog with developed Hallowed that still uses the term.
True, but I find that the more a blog uses "hallowed" as a term the more likely they are to have Masky zerg rushes.

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awakeasaurusrex wrote:
Das Omega wrote:
For your final point: I agree with that, but that's more to do with the writing than the terminology. You could have a blog that calls them something completely different and still have a zombie apocalypse style scenario, or you can have a blog with developed Hallowed that still uses the term.
True, but I find that the more a blog uses "hallowed" as a term the more likely they are to have Masky zerg rushes.


True dat.

*Writes down "Minimize zerg rushes" in notes*

Am I the only one who's noticed that some of the recommendations in this topic are completely contradictory? Like how we should drop (X), but also keep (X), and how we should return to the roots of the original mythos, but also innovate, and that we should make a new happier ending, but keep it as a cosmic horror story?
No wonder most people just ignore the advice. Laughing

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 		Oh yeah. You can please some of the people some of the time, but not all of the people all of the time.

That said, I do see some themes that keep cropping up. Looks like a lot of us are sick of sound distortion?

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awakeasaurusrex wrote:
True, but I find that the more a blog uses "hallowed" as a term the more likely they are to have Masky zerg rushes.


That was simply the worst plot event ever.

Having a few numbers of "Hallowed" or however you want to refer to them is okay, but to say they are organized enough to start a massive attack against a bunch of bloggers across the country?

That is just... Ugh. Unless they all have psychic superpowers (Which is another problem by itself) these kinds of people wouldn't be able to organize such a thing. Other than a few scattershot organizations, they would be too divided and separate.

... And it's also rather uninspired to have your character attacked by a bunch of these fellows and be so amazing that they always come out on top.

The term "Mary Sue" comes to mind.

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 		One: This whole 'hollowed' thing, where people go crazy, start writing in binary, etc. It's old, people. If you're going to do 'puzzles', at least make them interesting and difficult.

Two: (This may sound amazingly trite, but as someone who took web-design...) People? Learn that dark blue font on a black background is insanely hard to read and seriously hurts the eyes. If you're going to write on a dark background? Make your font bright and easy to see. If I find it difficult to read? I won't read it! That simple.
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