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Ouroborus
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Luipaard wrote:
@Ouroborus,

qaqa wrote:
Incidentally, I haven't heard back but it seems the last email I sent re: 77of76 was probably repetitious. Cougar Draven informs me that our question about it was asked and answered a while ago and that no, Jeff and co. apparently do not recall filming that material at all. So, my bad for repeating it. They also apparently confirmed that the mystery USB drive was slowly making the video files available to them.


quote is found here.

@qaqa, thanks man. Totally agreed with you too. Very Happy


I guess that's what I for taking a break from EMH two weeks ago. Owned.

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Agreed Luipaard, I'm now thinking those do come from something like "the Ark," and the uploaders are - well, up for debate. But there's only so much we can do on this end, with the guys - we have to try and find a way to get in touch back. We've done what we can through twitter. And maybe there is nothing we can do, but it's worth the thought.


(Given my track record today, I'm afraid to post.)

This was mentioned back when the idea of contact the ArkHybrids was first floated, but I'll throw it out again: Assuming the theory is correct, the only way we know the Arkversers can definitely make contact is through videos.

It would be a big effort, but might it be worth trying to put together a video message to the Arkists and post it to Youtube as a response to one of the hidden video?

I'm not sure what such a video might look like, and it would be a lot of trouble if we're on the wrong track[1], but if they're waiting for something from us it turns out that it's not a tweet.

[1] Unless it's something as simple as text on a background; would that be sufficient or must it be all artsy?

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Mattwan wrote:
qaqa wrote:
Agreed Luipaard, I'm now thinking those do come from something like "the Ark," and the uploaders are - well, up for debate. But there's only so much we can do on this end, with the guys - we have to try and find a way to get in touch back. We've done what we can through twitter. And maybe there is nothing we can do, but it's worth the thought.


(Given my track record today, I'm afraid to post.)

This was mentioned back when the idea of contact the ArkHybrids was first floated, but I'll throw it out again: Assuming the theory is correct, the only way we know the Arkversers can definitely make contact is through videos.

It would be a big effort, but might it be worth trying to put together a video message to the Arkists and post it to Youtube as a response to one of the hidden video?

I'm not sure what such a video might look like, and it would be a lot of trouble if we're on the wrong track[1], but if they're waiting for something from us it turns out that it's not a tweet.

[1] Unless it's something as simple as text on a background; would that be sufficient or must it be all artsy?


I'm all for this. Might be easier just to have someone talking into a camera, saying "this is a message to the ARK..."
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Luipaard wrote:
Mattwan wrote:
qaqa wrote:
Agreed Luipaard, I'm now thinking those do come from something like "the Ark," and the uploaders are - well, up for debate. But there's only so much we can do on this end, with the guys - we have to try and find a way to get in touch back. We've done what we can through twitter. And maybe there is nothing we can do, but it's worth the thought.


(Given my track record today, I'm afraid to post.)

This was mentioned back when the idea of contact the ArkHybrids was first floated, but I'll throw it out again: Assuming the theory is correct, the only way we know the Arkversers can definitely make contact is through videos.

It would be a big effort, but might it be worth trying to put together a video message to the Arkists and post it to Youtube as a response to one of the hidden video?

I'm not sure what such a video might look like, and it would be a lot of trouble if we're on the wrong track[1], but if they're waiting for something from us it turns out that it's not a tweet.

[1] Unless it's something as simple as text on a background; would that be sufficient or must it be all artsy?


I'm all for this. Might be easier just to have someone talking into a camera, saying "this is a message to the ARK..."


if we're going to do something of this magnitude (an email is one thing, a video on youtube directed at people possibly existing in an alternate dimension is another), an actual video would probably require a script agreed upon by everyone on here.

when you say "response to hidden video", do you mean morse code? or welcome to the ark and slender man?

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 		The first goal, I think, would be to confirm their existence in the first place. So something short, that asks "Are you there? Or are we just spinning in circles?"
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Mattwan wrote:
This was mentioned back when the idea of contact the ArkHybrids was first floated, but I'll throw it out again: Assuming the theory is correct, the only way we know the Arkversers can definitely make contact is through videos.

It would be a big effort, but might it be worth trying to put together a video message to the Arkists and post it to Youtube as a response to one of the hidden video?

I'm not sure what such a video might look like, and it would be a lot of trouble if we're on the wrong track[1], but if they're waiting for something from us it turns out that it's not a tweet.

[1] Unless it's something as simple as text on a background; would that be sufficient or must it be all artsy?

I was the one to mention this. [me]*feels kinda special*[/me]
The easiest way I see to do this would be to simply overlay our message in text over clips from the videos. This would require very little to no effort save for, of course, actually writing the message. The important point here is that if we do go through with this: a lot of effort from the community will need to go into this. If we even get a response I feel that this might be a rare or even one-time event (they either have trouble or reasons not to communicate directly with us), so obviously everyone has to be able to agree on a message that is helpful, covering any information we need, well-written, and fairly to the point.
The Morse videos do allow video responses, so that may be the most convenient way to post the videos for whoever posted them to see.

I would be interested in brainstorming other possible ways to send the message. Splicing up the videos' raw dialogue would be maybe interesting, but also very messy and not allow us much freedom.

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 		i could whip up a video in a couple minutes if nobody minded. just say "hey, if you can hear us ARK-ified versions of jeff, evan, and vince, send us a sign"?

edit: unless you guys think we've only got one shot at this, and it'd need to be a little more complicated than some kid in a sweater talking into his computer's built in camera, then i'll slink back into the shadows once more.

(figured i'd freeloaded off of all you guys' emailings and tweets for long enough)

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RandomGuy26 wrote:
Mattwan wrote:
This was mentioned back when the idea of contact the ArkHybrids was first floated, but I'll throw it out again: Assuming the theory is correct, the only way we know the Arkversers can definitely make contact is through videos.

It would be a big effort, but might it be worth trying to put together a video message to the Arkists and post it to Youtube as a response to one of the hidden video?

I'm not sure what such a video might look like, and it would be a lot of trouble if we're on the wrong track[1], but if they're waiting for something from us it turns out that it's not a tweet.

[1] Unless it's something as simple as text on a background; would that be sufficient or must it be all artsy?

I was the one to mention this. [me]*feels kinda special*[/me]
The easiest way I see to do this would be to simply overlay our message in text over clips from the videos. This would require very little to no effort save for, of course, actually writing the message. The important point here is that if we do go through with this: a lot of effort from the community will need to go into this. If we even get a response I feel that this might be a rare or even one-time event (they either have trouble or reasons not to communicate directly with us), so obviously everyone has to be able to agree on a message that is helpful, covering any information we need, well-written, and fairly to the point.
The Morse videos do allow video responses, so that may be the most convenient way to post the videos for whoever posted them to see.

I would be interested in brainstorming other possible ways to send the message. Splicing up the videos' raw dialogue would be maybe interesting, but also very messy and not allow us much freedom.


But why something that complicated? What's wrong with just having someone talking into a camera? It's a video response man, not a film project, we don't have to be artsy and ~deep~.
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 		It'll work I guess. My original idea was that it should contain footage from the morse clips to help send it along to the ARK instead of just our world (wherever they originate from).
I don't want to say it has to be perfectly artsy though, and I do encourage others to participate, so I say go for it.
It definitely doesn't have to be a cinematic masterpiece, but I think it should be neat since we're trying to make an impression on possibly another universe, and PM's might not want to give us this chance too often.

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Luipaard wrote:
But why something that complicated? What's wrong with just having someone talking into a camera? It's a video response man, not a film project, we don't have to be artsy and ~deep~.


I've been going back and forth on this. On the one hand, it only seems sporting that we try communicating with them in the way they communicate with us. It's hard to come up with a plausible IG reason why this would be so--coherent, straightforward messages are filtered out by the censors who lurk between universes?--but it seems *right* that we would have to follow the form they've set.

On the other hand, well, there's no good, plausible reason why a coherent, straightforward message wouldn't work just as well as an artsy mashup, and would have the advantage of being coherent and straightforward. Of course, if this is true, it raises the question of why the Arkies haven't been communicating coherently and straightforwardly in the first place.

I hadn't considered that, even if we're onto something here, this would be a one-time communication. That makes sense from a metagame perspective, since I'm sure the PMs don't want to clutter up their Youtube channel with "hidden" chatter. This puts some pressure on us. What, exactly, do we want from the Arkites?

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 		CLEARLY "You Could Win A Rabbit" contains a trandimensional routing package.

Seriously, I think a normal video response would be fine. Given, of course, that some video-only inter-universe shenanigans are occurring.

Edit: Honestly, I think they're erased moments in time. They happened, but didn't happen. Consider the video where they knock on the door, see Jeff with purple tape on his mouth... REWIND see Alex, rewind again, for some reason just a couple seconds, see Alex again.

It's possible that someone, or something (Slendy, probably) is keeping their Timeline "clean" and everything in the hidden videos is in a deleted timeline they don't have access to. Since we haven't been in the deleted videos, we can see them fine. Sort of a reverse situation that Code Lyoko had with Return to the Past, where only the people who used the time travel remembered it.

Now, why did one hidden video show a conversation Jeff remembers? Well, it's either a fluke, or the conversation happened, albeit a little differently, in both timelines. Most of the key points were the same, but something didn't quite go the way Slendy wanted so he opted for a minor retry.

This fits nicely with the idea of a cycle including the Mining Town Four, Slendy is messing with time, and the hidden videos reflect that as much as having four adults connected to four children with a gap in time.

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 		I thought this was a good idea the last time we brought it up and I'm open to anything we want to go with. My suggestion remains simply to state our curiosity to whoever is out there, not assume who they are. Ask who it is and where it's from and we can do anything to help, perhaps.

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 		uh.

so i went for it. i haven't made it a video response yet. and i can delete it the second you guys think it sucks. People were just talkin' about how a simple reach out to see if they were around before a big community work-together thing.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O0oK4iSVAAw

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 		Oh, not bad. I was thinking something less specific myself - not naming them or the Ark specifically, but perhaps "to whoever is sending the hidden videos" or "to whoever may be trying to communicate with us" - I'll side with everyone else's judgment on this.

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 		For some reason, I can't stop laughing, Shoeler. I think it's the deadpan way you add "We're also not positive you exist". Here's hoping we get a response one way or another. A good idea would be to make it a video response, then see how the guys react to having a video response to a video they can't see.

Anyways, to really quickly clear up the concerns from before:

77 and 78 were on a flashdrive Jeff received via means I don't recall. They were initially corrupted, but became clear after some time. The titles refer to the 76 video chunks (currently on the main EverymanHYBRID hard drive) that the original A Day In The Life footage consisted of.
Elsewhere, Evan also received a flash drive with corrupted footage on it. Only one file was valid, and was the surveillance footage of Alex in his house. If you want to pull at some loose threads, I'd ask Jeff to take a look at the rest of those files.

Also, just noticed this Shoeler, but it looks like Evan is in the background of your video.

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