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[MDHDZN]

OOG, so i will put it in spoilers

[paladin181]

[TheJoker]

[Janthran]

I've gone as far as P.23 of this thread at the time of posting, so sorry if someone already mentioned this afterwards.
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Okay, so someone said something similar to what I'm about to say, but here it is anyway. The distortion isn't TO's fault, it's Jay's. Like when someone is worried that TO might show up, it distorts. Note how there's a lot of static when Jay freaks out in this entry, but it goes away and there's no distortion when Jay points the camera RIGHT AT TO.
The only reason TO can affect anyone at all is if they're scared, so Tim was able to stand against him by pushing his fear into the back of his mind.
Maybe?

[Serum]

I'm pretty sure the house we saw in Entry 72 was the same house in Entry 1 and Entry 6-- they looked identical, architecturally.

[EmeraldWind]

[Marble Hornets]

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[Serum]

[EmeraldWind]

[Ithilwen22]

To go further on with the "Jay is seeing things on another level" theory, I remembered in...what was it, Entry 45 where Masky and Hoody gave Alex a beat down? In that, they see something, presumably TO, that makes them run away, but Alex's behavior seems to indicate that he doesn't know why they ran (he screams "What?!" etc.). Perhaps they were having the "hallucinations", and TO was really there in some manner.

Or, I could just be grasping at straws, but since it's a time-honored Unforum tradition, I make no apology for it.

[uxya]

I know we have talked about time manipulation or time shifting in a general sense, but what do these terms mean?

For the sake of physicality, let us assume that The Operator cannot change the location or rotation of the Earth, nor the gargantuanly larger-massed Sun, and thus cannot change the astronomical time. How does he change then, the day to night?

I propose that in this situation, the ability be more limited and complicated than we would think at first, mainly because we know The Operator is likely not omniscient.

There are four less obscenely speculative options.

1. The Operator uses his neurological manipulation to only make it seem like it is dark (i.e. darken the sky and blot out the sun), and then subsequently makes Jay and Tim pass out during the confrontation, to "catch up" time to their perceptions when it is dark. This would make sense, but it would require some massive distortion on the camera's recording to compress the massive amount of time it would take to catch up, so this is less likely.

2. Akin to some other time dilation theories, The Operator makes Jay and Tim's perceptions of time vastly speed up relative to reality. This means that while they see the time changing normally, in reality, they are moving incredibly slow and thinking incredibly slow, so it only seems to them that they're moving normally, and time is in fact moving faster from their reference frame. There is, however, no explanation for how the camera records them normally, unless TO manipulates that too, which is unlikely. I don't like this theory; it is less plausible than the others.

3. My personal favorite is that TO actually paralyzes and freezes Jay and Tim (and the cameras) as they move into the basement until the time is appropriately late. If this sort of manipulation is possible, it would require the least effort, have no observable holes, and make their reactions and recordings seem seamless to their reference frames. In this situation, TO is not actually manipulating time. He is instead manipulating space and matter to make it appear like he is manipulating time. (This would be consistent with teleportation as well.) An added bonus to this theory is that it has an upside to the people he uses it in; if he freezes their neurological processes, he cannot interfere with their minds in other ways, and thus they are "invulnerable" until unfrozen, which makes sense considering that there is no distortion or "mindfucking" going on at the moment or around the moment of it changing to night.

4. He physically changes time through some manner unknown. I don't like this because it really doesn't explain the physical manner in which he is magically changing time. That sort of power to manipulate the entropic and energetic properties of the universe, even if it had a limited range, is simply too strong relative to the other abilities and their strengths that he displays. Why would an omniscient being have trouble putting down a defiant Tim? Why doesn't he kill them outright, or completely eat their memories? It's too inconsistent.

Sorry for the wall of text.

[TheJoker]

[Ithilwen22]

[EmeraldWind]