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About Me
- iamthebeaver
- Anyone that knows me will tell you I love bacon and awesome internet stuff. Whenever I find something worthwhile, rest assured it will make it's way to the pages of this blog. There will never be sexually explicit material posted here, but profanity and vulgarity will run rampant within these pages.
July 20, 2012
I'm Back
After a small break I'm back. Believe it or not I had nothing much to say or post. Actually I was really busy dealing with my teenage son. Yeah kids can be a huge pain the frucking ass for sure. So I will resume my posting of wonderful thoughts, pics, and videos. Stayed tuned.
July 10, 2012
July 09, 2012
Slender Man Virgins, This Is Where You Should Begin
Here is a mockumentary about the Slender Man called Slender Suits "The Documentary of Slender Man." The acting in this pretty good and it gives you a sense just when the hell Slender Man is. For understanding the myth this video is a great place to start. Enjoy!
July 08, 2012
I See A Slender Man......
So recently I watched a video of someone playing a game called slender. The premise of the game is very simple. The protagonist is a young girl. The synopsis is, you are stuck in a park in after dark armed with only a flashlight, and you are looking for 8 pieces of paper. The only problem is Slender Man is trying to get you. Sounds kind of cheesy I know, but if you go to youtube and watch one of the many Slender game play videos you will quickly get the point. Really simple but really effective. The game is free for download and, I will post a link later so everyone can download and play it if they wish.
According to the internet, in June of 2009 there was a paranormal photoshop contest on the Something Awful forums. In a nutshell people were to take normal photos and make them creepy by photoshop manipulation, and then try to pass them off as authentic proof of something paranormal on a real paranormal website. A couple of days later a user with the name Victor Surge posted the following 2 pics. If you wish to see where it all started click here to go to the Something Awful Forums.
Who, or what exactly is Slender Man? An article from the Monstropedia website says this about Slender Man:
Slender Man's Appearence
Like its origins, the appearance of the Slender Man remains subjective, varying across related media. It is typically depicted as being an abnormally tall (ranging anywhere from 7-foot-tall (2.1 m) to the size of a large tree or house), skinny, humanoid figure, with a faceless or deformed head, usually lacking several or all of the face's sensory organs. It is usually depicted as wearing a a plain black suit and tie, reminiscent of the Men in Black, though this is often implied to be a part of the entity's body or a form of shapeshifting. It is occasionally shown to have something of a malleable body, enabling it to stretch and contort its limbs and body in to a variety of shapes, as well as produce a number of tentacle-like appendages, which are often shown has having the ability to ensnare the Slender Man's victims.
Slender Man's Behavior
The Slender Man is typically depicted as an observant, malevolent, and lurking being, stalking its victims for long periods of time while slowly driving them to insanity with paranoia and sickness. Other adaptations point to a more violent Slender Man, which kills its victims by eviscerating them and hangs plastic bags of blood from trees.
Slender Man's Power
Besides the ability to physically grow extra limbs, the Slender Man has a number of psychologically-based powers, typically the ability to induce memory loss, insomnia and insanity in its victims. In some cases, the extent of its power over the mind has seen it creating mindless minions seemingly bent to his will. The Slender Man's physical presence has been shown to induce coughing and sickness, as well as various degrees of audio-visual distortion in electronic media, a trait often used to denote its presence in Slender Man video series. In extreme cases, it has also been depicted with the ability to warp time and space and teleport.
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Some people have created Slender Man video series that have really added another dimension to the myth. So much in fact people actually believe it is real despite it being publicly known that the whole Slender Man story is a fabrication. One such series is a Blair Witchesque production called Marble Hornets. The creators did a really good job with this series and make you sometimes wonder hmmmm, maybe this is real, which of course it is completely fake. I spent a couple of days watching Marble Hornets and thoroughly enjoyed the series. I am going to post the whole series here on my blog. If you enjoy horror movies and the likes you will certainly enjoy Marble Hornets. The following are other decent Slender Man photo creations. Even though they are fake it is easy to think if that shit was real, it would be really fucking creepy.
Marble Hornets Video Series Soon To Follow...
According to the internet, in June of 2009 there was a paranormal photoshop contest on the Something Awful forums. In a nutshell people were to take normal photos and make them creepy by photoshop manipulation, and then try to pass them off as authentic proof of something paranormal on a real paranormal website. A couple of days later a user with the name Victor Surge posted the following 2 pics. If you wish to see where it all started click here to go to the Something Awful Forums.
Who, or what exactly is Slender Man? An article from the Monstropedia website says this about Slender Man:
Slender Man's Appearence
Like its origins, the appearance of the Slender Man remains subjective, varying across related media. It is typically depicted as being an abnormally tall (ranging anywhere from 7-foot-tall (2.1 m) to the size of a large tree or house), skinny, humanoid figure, with a faceless or deformed head, usually lacking several or all of the face's sensory organs. It is usually depicted as wearing a a plain black suit and tie, reminiscent of the Men in Black, though this is often implied to be a part of the entity's body or a form of shapeshifting. It is occasionally shown to have something of a malleable body, enabling it to stretch and contort its limbs and body in to a variety of shapes, as well as produce a number of tentacle-like appendages, which are often shown has having the ability to ensnare the Slender Man's victims.
Slender Man's Behavior
The Slender Man is typically depicted as an observant, malevolent, and lurking being, stalking its victims for long periods of time while slowly driving them to insanity with paranoia and sickness. Other adaptations point to a more violent Slender Man, which kills its victims by eviscerating them and hangs plastic bags of blood from trees.
Slender Man's Power
Besides the ability to physically grow extra limbs, the Slender Man has a number of psychologically-based powers, typically the ability to induce memory loss, insomnia and insanity in its victims. In some cases, the extent of its power over the mind has seen it creating mindless minions seemingly bent to his will. The Slender Man's physical presence has been shown to induce coughing and sickness, as well as various degrees of audio-visual distortion in electronic media, a trait often used to denote its presence in Slender Man video series. In extreme cases, it has also been depicted with the ability to warp time and space and teleport.
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Some people have created Slender Man video series that have really added another dimension to the myth. So much in fact people actually believe it is real despite it being publicly known that the whole Slender Man story is a fabrication. One such series is a Blair Witchesque production called Marble Hornets. The creators did a really good job with this series and make you sometimes wonder hmmmm, maybe this is real, which of course it is completely fake. I spent a couple of days watching Marble Hornets and thoroughly enjoyed the series. I am going to post the whole series here on my blog. If you enjoy horror movies and the likes you will certainly enjoy Marble Hornets. The following are other decent Slender Man photo creations. Even though they are fake it is easy to think if that shit was real, it would be really fucking creepy.
Marble Hornets Video Series Soon To Follow...
July 05, 2012
Fuckoff Facebook Whiners!
Well now that all the dust has settled and people seem to have pretty much accepted the new facebook timeline, I got to thinking, “How long before the next facebook update?” It’s painfully obvious that facebook never seems to want to stay with any platform for too long. In the world of “We can always make it better,” change is inevitable, and facebook is no exception. I personally don’t have a problem with facebook changes. Yes I agree when new facebook changes first happen they can be a slight nuisance, but it takes only a short time to get used to the changes. Of course if you happen to be an asshole, things tend to take a whole lot longer.
The changes aren’t anywhere near as bad as the continual crying that follows. There are also those demanding status updates that always make me laugh. You know the ones I am talking about. The ones that usually go something like “Fuck you facebook developers, you better give me my old facebook back now!” Like somehow the developers are going to read that status and say “Oh shit Billy Smith from Bedford, Ohio just updated his status and he’s pissed at us for the new updates. Let’s return everything back to the way it was.” The only thing those types of status updates do is fill up everyone’s newsfeed with unnecessary bullshit that most of us don’t want to read.
The truth of the matter is the world is completely addicted to facebook and the Facebook Corporation knows it. Think I’m wrong? Go ahead and give up your facebook for a month. Never mind a month, just do it for a week. You can’t do it and if you say you have then you are a fucking liar. Knowing that we can’t live without our precious facebook, the designers know there is no fear of backlash from whatever they do.
The bottom line here is facebook will always do what it wants regardless of how irate facebook users may become. Facebook or any other website is not a democracy and should never be thought of as one. In cyberspace, the way a website looks and feels is solely at the discretion of its owner. Some people have trouble understanding that is the way things on the internet should be. Provided a website is not engaging in an illegal activity, they should be allowed to do whatever they want. A website owner owes nothing to anyone. If people don’t like a website they should just go somewhere else. Luckily for facebook that will never be a problem.
To all the fucking facebook crybabies I only ask this. Just accept the way things are and STFU!!!
The changes aren’t anywhere near as bad as the continual crying that follows. There are also those demanding status updates that always make me laugh. You know the ones I am talking about. The ones that usually go something like “Fuck you facebook developers, you better give me my old facebook back now!” Like somehow the developers are going to read that status and say “Oh shit Billy Smith from Bedford, Ohio just updated his status and he’s pissed at us for the new updates. Let’s return everything back to the way it was.” The only thing those types of status updates do is fill up everyone’s newsfeed with unnecessary bullshit that most of us don’t want to read.
The truth of the matter is the world is completely addicted to facebook and the Facebook Corporation knows it. Think I’m wrong? Go ahead and give up your facebook for a month. Never mind a month, just do it for a week. You can’t do it and if you say you have then you are a fucking liar. Knowing that we can’t live without our precious facebook, the designers know there is no fear of backlash from whatever they do.
The bottom line here is facebook will always do what it wants regardless of how irate facebook users may become. Facebook or any other website is not a democracy and should never be thought of as one. In cyberspace, the way a website looks and feels is solely at the discretion of its owner. Some people have trouble understanding that is the way things on the internet should be. Provided a website is not engaging in an illegal activity, they should be allowed to do whatever they want. A website owner owes nothing to anyone. If people don’t like a website they should just go somewhere else. Luckily for facebook that will never be a problem.
To all the fucking facebook crybabies I only ask this. Just accept the way things are and STFU!!!
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