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jonnymanic
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Joined: 23 May 2010 Posts: 253 Location: London, United Kingdom
[DEAD BLOG] The Tutorial One kid's flight from the Slender Man, and how you can do it too. Okay, so whilst looking through people replying to other Slender Blogs, I noticed a guy called "M" commenting on a couple. Out of interest, I thought I'd take a look at his profile, and it appears that he's running a part-backstory-part-blog-part-educational story thing here. It's quite interesting, and like Zeke from Seeking Truth, he's reaching out to other blogs. It's an interesting tactic and his reminiscences are quite vivid.
If you're curious, you can check it out here: The Tutorial, by M
Please do let me know what you think.
Posted: Mon Jul 05, 2010 5:13 pm
Gin-Sama
Guest
It's interesting and creepy at times, but IMO it feels like he's trying too hard to make it seem real.
Posted: Mon Jul 05, 2010 5:32 pm
Demongel
Unfettered
Joined: 12 Dec 2009 Posts: 500
I'm going to read this now. I have a feeling it'll remind me of things like The SCP Foundation and The Zombie Survival Guide.
Posted: Mon Jul 05, 2010 6:19 pm
RAD24
Entrenched
Joined: 26 May 2009 Posts: 795 Location: Behind the wall
Well, I like it. But it's gonna be a total mind**** if all of these blogs actually do end up connected somehow .
Posted: Mon Jul 05, 2010 6:26 pm
Dray
Pretty talky there aintcha, Talky?
Joined: 15 Jan 2010 Posts: 2578 Location: Cowtown, AB
It's not so much an SCP or ZSG as it is a first-hand account, much like other Slender-blogs. This guy's trying to make sense of it all as he goes along, though that he's opening it up to other blogs is interesting, too.
It's a serious wall of text, though. XD *slowly reading through it all!*
Posted: Mon Jul 05, 2010 6:33 pm
Demongel
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Joined: 12 Dec 2009 Posts: 500
Yeah, I just finished it myself. The part that got a hook in me, so to speak, was the writer's nod to the fact that the now popular "Operator Symbol" is a symbol used in Mathematics.
The rationalization of how Slenderman operates is nice. I'm kind of interested to see where he takes this blog. We know he's on the run, we know he's using what amounts to empirical knowledge to protect himself, and we know that he's having run-ins with other victims of Slenderman. That's a lot to work with.
Posted: Mon Jul 05, 2010 7:58 pm
MetalGearSamus
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Joined: 03 Apr 2010 Posts: 675
Indeed, I'm impressed. This could be very interesting, especially if it crosses into other slenderblogs.
Posted: Mon Jul 05, 2010 8:10 pm
Demongel
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Joined: 12 Dec 2009 Posts: 500
Does anyone else notice the irony that he's writing a blog about Slenderman when he specifically states that people become targeted by Slenderman when they READ ABOUT HIM?
A friend of mine pointed it out and I noticed it myself, but...it's kind of backwards logic even if he is trying to help out people who are already being stalked.
Posted: Mon Jul 05, 2010 8:29 pm
Dray
Pretty talky there aintcha, Talky?
Joined: 15 Jan 2010 Posts: 2578 Location: Cowtown, AB
It needs a big disclaimer at the top of 'if it ain't broke, don't fix it!' to help those folks out who aren't being stalked by Slender Man -- 'read at your own risk', I suppose.
It'd be neat it there were an IC sort of wiki where people who were still being stalked could leave messages. Sort of like the left 4 dead safe house wall vandalization.
Posted: Mon Jul 05, 2010 9:12 pm
Demongel
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Joined: 12 Dec 2009 Posts: 500
It'd get Trolled hardcore.
Posted: Mon Jul 05, 2010 9:29 pm
SickSlickMan
Account Disabled
Joined: 16 Mar 2010 Posts: 919 Location: USA
Yaaaaaaaaaay creative originality!!!
Posted: Mon Jul 05, 2010 9:33 pm
SticktheFigure
Unfettered
Joined: 15 Apr 2010 Posts: 549
Wow, I really enjoy this blog. Another good one has been spit out. I'm gonna laugh when it turns out that the Seeking Truth persons(s) made this blog too, just to cross them.
Posted: Mon Jul 05, 2010 9:55 pm
spaekle
Decorated
Joined: 28 Jan 2010 Posts: 244 Location: in America!
Ooh, another good one!
I really like this "Slender Man is stupid" approach, mainly because I always sort of did see him as a head-tilting curious scary-as-hell otherworldly abomination who manages to be very frightening and very violent but actually is largely very clueless about human beings.
(Just because I like to be constructive: I don't really think it's a good idea to be assigning meanings to things that Marble Hornets came up with and hasn't even explained yet, like the operator symbol; it also annoys the hell out of me that this guy never types out the word 'one', mostly because I can't tell if that's supposed to have some sort of significance or if it's just lazy typing. >: |)
Posted: Mon Jul 05, 2010 11:05 pm
Dray
Pretty talky there aintcha, Talky?
Joined: 15 Jan 2010 Posts: 2578 Location: Cowtown, AB
Agreeing with him using '1' in place of 'one'. That had better wind up having a meaning or else, in his words, it's just stupid. XD
And despite each entry being quite long, it's also fairly interesting. I think that, despite him assigning meanings to things and giving advice, one could easily say that he's writing what has worked for him; it could all be bull to another character, after all!
Posted: Tue Jul 06, 2010 12:18 pm
Demongel
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Joined: 12 Dec 2009 Posts: 500
Hence why I specified that he was working off of Empirical Evidence. What he's seen, heard, experienced. It isn't necessarily tested or 100% accurate, but he's seen it and it seems to work.
Edit: Either the creator of The Tutorial reads this forum, or this latest entry is one massive coincidence.
Posted: Tue Jul 06, 2010 2:07 pm
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