I have my doubts you know much about the Slenderman Mythos.kortin said:
Basically think of him as Cthulhu if he kept disemboweling people, re-embowling them and showing up in old pictures.DoPo said:
Yeah, you got me there. That's only because I can't stop laughing at how ridiculous every slenderman story I've tried to read is.lacktheknack said:
The original thread where he first appeared was pretty good. The guy who brought him up got viciously attacked in the end.kortin said:
It comes down to this: Do you get paranoid fairly easily?DoPo said:Nope, from what I have so far, I think of him like thislacktheknack said:
Just imagine somebody attached on there plastic vampire fangs, devil horns, a trident, and a post-it note saying "Scary!". That's what I'm getting so far.
See, that's the problem - I'm not really that paranoid, but I love me some horror. What I knew of Slenderman was good material. Now, I can't even take this seriously.lacktheknack said:It comes down to this: Do you get paranoid fairly easily?DoPo said:Nope, from what I have so far, I think of him like thislacktheknack said:
Just imagine somebody attached on there plastic vampire fangs, devil horns, a trident, and a post-it note saying "Scary!". That's what I'm getting so far.
If so, Slenderman is possibly one of the most utterly traumatizing things you can find on the internet. In terms of paranoia, "The more you know about him, the more likely he is to hunt you" is a stroke of mad genius.
If you're not easily paranoid, then go look somewhere else, because it's impossible to explain why he scares the crap out of me, and the only scares you'll get out of this are the occasional gross-out story.
I'm pretty much thinking the opposite of what you are right now. Statues that can only move when you don't look at them and can send you back in time huh? Slendy has already shown that he can manipulate the fabric of time and space as well and isn't limited by eyesight. Hell, that's how he starts destroying you. Not to mention that he still has no known weakness.kortin said:
If you read into it, you might note that these are all related to psychological warfare (except The Rake, who is a different monster entirely), and the only consistent things you have to take at face value is "He wears a suit" and "he has tentacles when he wants them" (this is confirmed in the original thread where he appeared). Slenderman never talks, so claims of thought-reading/psychic abilities are unsubstantiated, easily brought to mind by paranoia. And since he's known mostly through wild mass rumors spread through the internet, the rest can be true or can be wild lies spun by people who are going insane from the psychological stalking - you can't know.DoPo said:See, that's the problem - I'm not really that paranoid, but I love me some horror. What I knew of Slenderman was good material. Now, I can't even take this seriously.lacktheknack said:It comes down to this: Do you get paranoid fairly easily?DoPo said:Nope, from what I have so far, I think of him like thislacktheknack said:
Just imagine somebody attached on there plastic vampire fangs, devil horns, a trident, and a post-it note saying "Scary!". That's what I'm getting so far.
If so, Slenderman is possibly one of the most utterly traumatizing things you can find on the internet. In terms of paranoia, "The more you know about him, the more likely he is to hunt you" is a stroke of mad genius.
If you're not easily paranoid, then go look somewhere else, because it's impossible to explain why he scares the crap out of me, and the only scares you'll get out of this are the occasional gross-out story.
Before, he was a mysterious faceless dude in a suit. That was good. What I got from this thread so far:
- he invades dreams and makes people lose their minds
- he disembowels people and hangs them from trees in sacks
- drives people mad (might or might not be the same as "makes them lose their minds")
- tags people for the Rake (dunno who/what that is)
- has tentacles (???)
- is undefeatable
- unleashes nightmares (again, could or could not be connected to "invades dreams")
- kidnaps children and then does stuff to them (possibly some mysterious horror stuff, too) and some of them later come back and commit "horrific acts because of his silent screams"
- he is eternal
- can read thoughts
- is immortal
- has incredible reach and strength
- psychic abilities
Yeah...that doesn't seem scary, I can make you an automatic generator of "horrors" of similar calibre - take a list of all supernatural abilities and scary sounding acts, then choose a dozen or so at random. Voila, ready.
Bolded part contradicted by part in italics. He chooses his victims based on how much they know about him - the more they do, the more likely they are a target. So mind reading. Unless he has another ability to know exactly how much knowledge people have of him.lacktheknack said:If you read into it, you might note that these are all related to psychological warfare (except The Rake, who is a different monster entirely), and the only consistent things you have to take at face value is "He wears a suit" and "he has tentacles when he wants them" (this is confirmed in the original thread where he appeared). Slenderman never talks, so claims of thought-reading/psychic abilities are unsubstantiated, easily brought to mind by paranoia. And since he's known mostly through wild mass rumors spread through the internet, the rest can be true or can be wild lies spun by people who are going insane from the psychological stalking - you can't know.DoPo said:See, that's the problem - I'm not really that paranoid, but I love me some horror. What I knew of Slenderman was good material. Now, I can't even take this seriously.lacktheknack said:It comes down to this: Do you get paranoid fairly easily?DoPo said:Nope, from what I have so far, I think of him like thislacktheknack said:
Just imagine somebody attached on there plastic vampire fangs, devil horns, a trident, and a post-it note saying "Scary!". That's what I'm getting so far.
If so, Slenderman is possibly one of the most utterly traumatizing things you can find on the internet. In terms of paranoia, "The more you know about him, the more likely he is to hunt you" is a stroke of mad genius.
If you're not easily paranoid, then go look somewhere else, because it's impossible to explain why he scares the crap out of me, and the only scares you'll get out of this are the occasional gross-out story.
Before, he was a mysterious faceless dude in a suit. That was good. What I got from this thread so far:
- he invades dreams and makes people lose their minds
- he disembowels people and hangs them from trees in sacks
- drives people mad (might or might not be the same as "makes them lose their minds")
- tags people for the Rake (dunno who/what that is)
- has tentacles (???)
- is undefeatable
- unleashes nightmares (again, could or could not be connected to "invades dreams")
- kidnaps children and then does stuff to them (possibly some mysterious horror stuff, too) and some of them later come back and commit "horrific acts because of his silent screams"
- he is eternal
- can read thoughts
- is immortal
- has incredible reach and strength
- psychic abilities
Yeah...that doesn't seem scary, I can make you an automatic generator of "horrors" of similar calibre - take a list of all supernatural abilities and scary sounding acts, then choose a dozen or so at random. Voila, ready.
And of course, the deeper you dig, the greater the chance he'll come hunting fogajd; sa djiglaa
Ah yes, my thoughts exactly. Throwing things together it does not scary make, in the words of Yoda (if Yoda had heard of Slenderman). It is literally just a list of constant oneupmanship. That's what we did when we were 8 years old. Exactly that and exactly when we were 8. And even then, the result wasn't scary, we just had to one up one another claiming who was more scared.debtcollector said:
Touche.DoPo said:Bolded part contradicted by part in italics. He chooses his victims based on how much they know about him - the more they do, the more likely they are a target. So mind reading. Unless he has another ability to know exactly how much knowledge people have of him.lacktheknack said:If you read into it, you might note that these are all related to psychological warfare (except The Rake, who is a different monster entirely), and the only consistent things you have to take at face value is "He wears a suit" and "he has tentacles when he wants them" (this is confirmed in the original thread where he appeared). Slenderman never talks, so claims of thought-reading/psychic abilities are unsubstantiated, easily brought to mind by paranoia. And since he's known mostly through wild mass rumors spread through the internet, the rest can be true or can be wild lies spun by people who are going insane from the psychological stalking - you can't know.DoPo said:See, that's the problem - I'm not really that paranoid, but I love me some horror. What I knew of Slenderman was good material. Now, I can't even take this seriously.lacktheknack said:It comes down to this: Do you get paranoid fairly easily?DoPo said:Nope, from what I have so far, I think of him like thislacktheknack said:
Just imagine somebody attached on there plastic vampire fangs, devil horns, a trident, and a post-it note saying "Scary!". That's what I'm getting so far.
If so, Slenderman is possibly one of the most utterly traumatizing things you can find on the internet. In terms of paranoia, "The more you know about him, the more likely he is to hunt you" is a stroke of mad genius.
If you're not easily paranoid, then go look somewhere else, because it's impossible to explain why he scares the crap out of me, and the only scares you'll get out of this are the occasional gross-out story.
Before, he was a mysterious faceless dude in a suit. That was good. What I got from this thread so far:
- he invades dreams and makes people lose their minds
- he disembowels people and hangs them from trees in sacks
- drives people mad (might or might not be the same as "makes them lose their minds")
- tags people for the Rake (dunno who/what that is)
- has tentacles (???)
- is undefeatable
- unleashes nightmares (again, could or could not be connected to "invades dreams")
- kidnaps children and then does stuff to them (possibly some mysterious horror stuff, too) and some of them later come back and commit "horrific acts because of his silent screams"
- he is eternal
- can read thoughts
- is immortal
- has incredible reach and strength
- psychic abilities
Yeah...that doesn't seem scary, I can make you an automatic generator of "horrors" of similar calibre - take a list of all supernatural abilities and scary sounding acts, then choose a dozen or so at random. Voila, ready.
And of course, the deeper you dig, the greater the chance he'll come hunting fogajd; sa djiglaa
Oh, and latest addition - he is proven to be able to manipulate space and time.
...Yeah, sounds more and more like a joke. Just earlier this evening me and my flatmate used exactly this method to make each other laugh - pushing the credibility. After Project Eternity added some AMD processors as a reward tier and they went out very fast we started theorising what else can Obsidian sell reward backers for money - we went from their laptops (taken apart - components are a reward tier each) to office pens and brooms for $500 dollars each. That got funnier the further we got along. Slenderman is the same right now. Just remember - I called the laser penis!
SCP-173 is too cool for this silly bickering... and he's indestructable so he'd win regardless.Some_weirdGuy said:Why is SCP-173 not also on the list while we're at it?
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Also, think I prefer slenderman before all this silly 'additions'.
Back when I was simply a haunting figure which could be seen in the background of photographs (usually of young children)
