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I think I'd rather just shoot myself in the head than commit hara-kiri.

Good thing the parental units aren't around to ask me why I'm discussing suicide techniques with strangers on the internet. Laughing

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I get that it's a way to kill yourself and it'd probably make a bigger impact than other things, but it ain't the best way to kill yourself! Agh! It would be very slow and painful and require a lot of willpower, and you'd have to hope you die of shock before you bleed out. Seppuku usually (ideally) involved a second party (literally called a Second) that, once the stomach was thoroughly slit, would chop the dying party's head off in order to avoid suffering for too long.

I'm not saying this gutting wouldn't be a crazy and effective way of going about it in EMH, I'm just shocked that y'called it a good way to go!

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Karuvitomsk wrote:
I get that it's a way to kill yourself and it'd probably make a bigger impact than other things, but it ain't the best way to kill yourself! Agh! It would be very slow and painful and require a lot of willpower, and you'd have to hope you die of shock before you bleed out. Seppuku usually (ideally) involved a second party (literally called a Second) that, once the stomach was thoroughly slit, would chop the dying party's head off in order to avoid suffering for too long.

I'm not saying this gutting wouldn't be a crazy and effective way of going about it in EMH, I'm just shocked that y'called it a good way to go!


Hahaha. Well, it's not like it would a formal thing or something. But if you're scared and Slendy has his tentacles out and is trying his level best to kill you and you've already decided that you would rather die than be killed and your machete is right there... Well, the stomach's an easy target and it doesn't have to be a clean cut.

Again, I just think it would fit thematically. If Evan kills himself, I'm sure he'll set himself on fire like a real man.
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I was just saying that a machete usually isn't the sharpest tool one could use for the job Not to mention it's made for a hacking motion, not a stabbing.

I mean, if he felt the need to "fall on his sword", I'm just suggesting his lovely hunting knife is the tool for the job.


You think if we give him enough suicide ideas, Evan will ragemail us again?

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Yes, those twitter HYBRID gamejacks are annoying and stupid.... but you have to admit that linking this was a little bit of troll-y genius:



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I am disturbed by how much The Wiggles song relates to EMH. The Wiggles. Something is wrong. : P
On another note, I was watching the video Day in the Life the other day. I heard the creep children's laughter at the very end of the garden scene, around 7:55. It's kind of faint, but I swear it's there. I thought the laughing was purely a Slender Man indicator – but there was no distortion, so I take it as if he was not present.
But then again, I could be very well hallucinating the whole thing.
My apologies if this has been discussed already.

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Hrm. I actually hear it.

But I think it's either just some random background noise that we're identifying as laughter...or it's just Jessa or whatnot laughing.


I don't believe it's the Slendy laugh.

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Hrm. I actually hear it.

But I think it's either just some random background noise that we're identifying as laughter...or it's just Jessa or whatnot laughing.


I don't believe it's the Slendy laugh.


It's not the Slendy laugh. But it's definitely not Jessa or anyone else laughing.

Those are kids, you guys. Who do we know that loved to play games as children in association with Slendy?
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I don't know. I don't think it's something important...

and to go off on a tangent, the fuckyeahslenderman tumblr just reminded me of something.

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Does this bother anyone else?

Did the Phantom editor(Habit) know 8 minutes had passed? Or did Jeff know via a watch or something and put that in? Did the camera just stop and turn on...or did the footage just run. Is there a hidden 8 minutes out there for us to see what happened?[/img]

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Luipaard wrote:
Ouroborus wrote:
Hrm. I actually hear it.

But I think it's either just some random background noise that we're identifying as laughter...or it's just Jessa or whatnot laughing.


I don't believe it's the Slendy laugh.


It's not the Slendy laugh. But it's definitely not Jessa or anyone else laughing.

Those are kids, you guys. Who do we know that loved to play games as children in association with Slendy?


I think it's likely just incredibly convenient (for them) background noise. They were filming in a rather public place, they may have just picked up sound from some kids walking in a nearby area. Creepy, coincidental, but good for their purposes.

Ouroborus wrote:
I don't know. I don't think it's something important...

and to go off on a tangent, the fuckyeahslenderman tumblr just reminded me of something.

[img]

Does this bother anyone else?

Did the Phantom editor(Habit) know 8 minutes had passed? Or did Jeff know via a watch or something and put that in? Did the camera just stop and turn on...or did the footage just run. Is there a hidden 8 minutes out there for us to see what happened?[/img]


The camera was probably just running for 8 minutes and Jeff went "look guys, it's pretty much the exact same shot for 8 minutes, considering we were out like lights and not moving. I'm not gonna bore you." I wouldn't read much more into it than that unless we're given a reason to.

Edit: Also,
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OOG: Then they didn't have to lay their for eight minutes, or risk showing a freeze frame for 8 minutes which people might catch on to (i.e. no subtle shifts in light or other cues time is actually passing).


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I'm honestly not making a critical comment on how they decided to film a scene, I'm just wondering if there is something we haven't considered. They could have easily just have a cut shot without the time lapse and shown them on the ground. We would have taken it as is, the time lapse was unecessary.

I mean, something happened in that 8 minutes, even if it's just them flopping backwards, bleeding..and knocking the camera down. Why not show it if there was footage? And we know from the shadows that there was someone else in the room. Do we see anything else beyond the shadow?

Also, Vince and Steph go down pretty much were they were sitting. Jeff ends up against the wall(of the bar, I think) a couple of feet away. Evan stays in the exact same spot in the same way he was before.


I don't know. I sort of just let this go when it happenend, but now that we're inbetween stuff, it's bugging me again. I guess I'll just email Jeff about it and see what happens.

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I have listened to the A Day in the Life vid multiple times and think it's Jessa laughing in the background and it cuts to them still kind of laughing and I think we missed like a few seconds of what was going on is all.

At first, I thought it was something too.

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Tossing random crazy theory out there (that's probably stupid) on the missing eight minutes. Jeff edits all the videos right? What if the reason he left the eight minutes out is that someone was actively possessed by HABIT/Slendy/unknown entity and was taped doing stuff and he was either trying to protect that person from the others/us or is afraid of HABIT finding out that he knows?

I don't remember though, did they mention anywhere where Alex was when all of this went down? Alex being HABIT or HABIT's main host is my pet theory; I'm paranoid about falling for red herrings and Evan seems to fit the role of possessee a little too perfectly and obviously.

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Retail Zombie Slayer wrote:
Tossing random crazy theory out there (that's probably stupid) on the missing eight minutes. Jeff edits all the videos right? What if the reason he left the eight minutes out is that someone was actively possessed by HABIT/Slendy/unknown entity and was taped doing stuff and he was either trying to protect that person from the others/us or is afraid of HABIT finding out that he knows?

I don't remember though, did they mention anywhere where Alex was when all of this went down? Alex being HABIT or HABIT's main host is my pet theory; I'm paranoid about falling for red herrings and Evan seems to fit the role of possessee a little too perfectly and obviously.


I felt the same way about Alex, but after seeing Candleverse Evan I'm pretty convinced he's the main vessel here.

As far as I can tell the quick cut is either related to extreme distortion (I actually think the shadow was likely Tall Dark and Scary, it's very reminiscent of that one Marble Hornets video with the shadow hand), or Jeff figured we could connect the dots.

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I can imagine numerous reasons, 1. they had to get the makeup (fake blood) on, for two, they probably had to fall in a way that was realistic but also didn't harm the camera. Three, they had to naturally fall in such a way and actually produce a GOOD SHOT from it. That's not to say they couldn't have justified their OOG reasons IG,


but I'm doubting it's really anything to be too paranoid or hyperanalytic about. I mean, by all means, I could be wrong, pursue it. I just think we're in jumping at shadows mode until the next piece of info. That's not to say we've figured everything out, it's just that arguing about footage we can't see is rather fruitless because unlike embedded voices, hidden videos, or letters there's nothing really tangible we can analyze, we can mostly go "it could have been this" to which everyone replies "... yup, could be, what about <y>?" and everyone goes "eh, maybe."

Again, I'm not dissuading blind speculation (:p), I just think the missing 8 minutes is anything to gawk at unless we get a suggestive response from one of the crew.

Edit: Also, I assume we tried to run a spectrograph analysis on that static and such from that video?

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Jsor wrote:
Edit: Also, I assume we tried to run a spectrograph analysis on that static and such from that video?


As a matter of fact, no. Hmm.
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