“it’s not about hiding things, it’s so people don’t steal your identity and your money. You want anyone in the street to be able to access your bank account if you lose your phone?”

Do you live in a city, and do you have hobbies? If you like stuff like anime, go to an anime con, it’s great and how I know a huge amount of my friend group

All of em are my friends :3

I’d imagine satanists would loathe ai now that you mention it. It’s taking away intelligence and agency and so on. I would think a Satanist would love making art because it’s an expression of the self and see AI as a theft from that.

Fair point and well made

Ok maybe I should’ve used hornswaggle if that’s more your flavor, judgey mcjudgerson

Bottoms up!

Yeah man I wanna see what this higher horror is all about

I’d look at commuters going the opposite way on the road and scoff at them for going the wrong way. Grandma’s house is this way you fools, why are you going the other way?

I’m not a Christian but I’m pretty sure that it is supposed to be taken seriously and applied to real life, and most people who say they are Christians don’t.

Wow, you don’t know who that is but you’d ask if we’d call him a clanker?

How come every time someone points out obviously racist coded stuff, the response is “well I didn’t directly say what my opinion was so how dare you, you’ll never know” like we don’t have reading comprehension and dog whistles.

Then you hone in on the one thing that might validate your blatantly obvious opinion, and tell me to give you sources, instead of actually answering my question.

Then you throw a tantrum saying I won’t give you what you want, and that if I don’t give you what you want, you’re right.

Even though you didn’t have the balls to answer my question.

Here’s a surprise for you, three examples of Problems Black People Can Have That Have Nothing To Do With White People, all of which I can personally attest to:

Black person cheated on their black spouse and they got divorced.

Black person’s car got a flat.

Black person’s favorite cereal was out at the grocery store.

Those problems don’t have anything to do with white people. But some related problems in those situations do.

The judge ordered way harsher child support of the black husband than a white husband would’ve had to deal with.

Cops harassed and threatened to arrest the black person trying to change a tire instead of offering help.

The person at the register accused the black person of stealing for no reason.

So yeah. Three examples. Bet you don’t have the balls to answer my question though.

Ok I have a bone to pick with horror games.

Most horror games are not actually horror games.

Most horror games are actually puzzle games with action sequences between puzzles. They may be thrilling and starting, but how many horror games just involve you solving a puzzle, which can be figuring out something in the environment to proceed or sometimes, like in resident evil, literal puzzles for no reason, and then OH NO OOGA BOOGA SCARY and you either have a fight or do a run and hide. And if you can fight the horror, it’s immediately not horror. It’s action.

Then you have horror games which are just another video game but with a horror twist oh no! I’ve seen these for fishing games and platformers and dating sims.

I’m not saying horror games are bad. If you like them, you’re totally allowed to like them. But there always seems to be a disconnect in horror games.

The problem always boils down to the inherent nature of games and mechanics. Because, by their nature, at their core, video games give you agency. You, using the controller, can control what happens on screen. You are in control.

Horror always must have an element of a lack of control and a lack of agency.

This is why horror games always give you a different feel than other media in horror. This is why there’s usually puzzles, which can slow pacing and have you have something to do, and while they start with a feeling of loss of control, you eventually get control over your environment. Which then the game has to take away, either by a chase scene, which gives you the least control, but mechanically it’s a puzzle or a quick time event, or an action part of the game, which is fun, but it’s action. Thrilling isn’t the same as horror, even if both have adrenaline pumping.

Some games do have clever ways of dealing with this. Perception took away agency by having your character be blind, and made it hard to see anything. The original FNAF was genius. Each action you took to ward off a monster put you in a position of vulnerability to another monster. It’s a timed resource management game sure, but there’s no loopholes, no exploits, and every action, even inaction, makes you vulnerable. That’s really hard to do in a game, and brilliant in it’s simplicity.

And to answer your question, in my opinion the best way to consume horror is being told a story, as a child, and having you think that sorry could very much happen to you.

I also commented with suggestions if you’re looking for more!

Oh man then there’s the Magnus Archives, Old Gods of Appalachia, and my favorite, Mabel

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As for everyone keeping a secret from everyone? Maybe. You don’t have to share everything with everyone, it’s ok to keep stuff to yourself if you want to. Most secrets are probably pretty banal though.

Who decides what’s valuable? She probably isn’t valuable under certain metrics. She thinks broken legs are being lazy?

If you feel like you can only like things made by people who haven’t done anything wrong, ever, you’re left with Mr Rogers and that’s about it. Liking something someone made isn’t an endorsement of their actions or opinions. Unfortunately we live in a hyper capitalistic society so buying their stuff can help them with their shitty opinions, so don’t buy new Harry Potter stuff, but feel free to enjoy it.

Except for buying anything new. That’s not cutting her out.

I don’t know about that but I saw something about how they just like, kept a kid? Like in a basement? From one of their videos