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Meinberg
Oct 9, 2011

inspired by but legally distinct from CATS (2019)
The "no jeff" rule is on account of Jeff the Killer who I know nothing about the origin of, but who has been bizarrely popular with people much younger than me, as a sort of Joker OC-do-not-steal.

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Neito
Feb 18, 2009

😌Finally, an avatar the describes my love of tech❤️‍💻, my love of anime💖🎎, and why I'll never see a real girl 🙆‍♀️naked😭.

You know, they say all Creepypasta are created equal, but you look at me, and you look at Jeff the Killer, and you see that that statement is not true.
See, normally, if you were to go one on one with another crapfic, you got a 50/50 chance of being scary. But I'm a memetic freak, and I'm not normal.
So you got a 25%, at best, at spooking me. Then you add Suicidemouse.avi to the mix, your chances of spooking drastic go down.
See, the three way at Halloween, you got a 33 1/3 chance of spooking, but I, I got a 66 2/3 chance of spooking, because Suicidemouse KNOWS he can't spook me, and he's not even gonna try.
So Jeff the Killer, you take your 33 1/3 chance, minus my 25 % chance, and you got an 8 1/3 chance of spooking at Halloween. But then you take my 75% chance of spooking, if we was to go one on one, and then add 66 2/3 per cents, I got a 141 2/3 chance of spooking at Halloween. See Jeff? The numbers don't lie. And they spell disaster for you, at halloween.

Vince MechMahon
Jan 1, 2008



Someone should write Scott Steiner creepypasta.

Randaconda
Jul 3, 2014

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS

Neito posted:

You know, they say all Creepypasta are created equal, but you look at me, and you look at Jeff the Killer, and you see that that statement is not true.
See, normally, if you were to go one on one with another crapfic, you got a 50/50 chance of being scary. But I'm a memetic freak, and I'm not normal.
So you got a 25%, at best, at spooking me. Then you add Suicidemouse.avi to the mix, your chances of spooking drastic go down.
See, the three way at Halloween, you got a 33 1/3 chance of spooking, but I, I got a 66 2/3 chance of spooking, because Suicidemouse KNOWS he can't spook me, and he's not even gonna try.
So Jeff the Killer, you take your 33 1/3 chance, minus my 25 % chance, and you got an 8 1/3 chance of spooking at Halloween. But then you take my 75% chance of spooking, if we was to go one on one, and then add 66 2/3 per cents, I got a 141 2/3 chance of spooking at Halloween. See Jeff? The numbers don't lie. And they spell disaster for you, at halloween.

:hmmyes:

Sleeveless
Dec 25, 2014

by Pragmatica

Cubone posted:



the runway is clear for bubsy.xls

I miss the days when SA had banned and filtered words like this.

Black August
Sep 28, 2003

It's funny to read all that. I used to consume every little scrap of new horror content online, especially in the 2006-2012 years, really taken with the stuff coming from here, SCPs, /x/, and other sources. Plus watching whatever weird or surreal youtube content was around then, or stuff like .flow playthroughs. I never really wrote any material of my own to contribute, but have a dozen ideas I'd like to try turning into short stories and the like. It's been really weird to see the hard shift in content location and quality since the internet got flown wide open. I'm hoping within the next five years there's a better online environment for a renaissance of the stuff, and that seems like a smaller sign of the potential when the fuckin' creepypasta wiki has demands come down, and SCP is churning out a lot of new ideas of a better quality spread.

Neito posted:

See Jeff? The numbers don't lie. And they spell disaster for you, at halloween.

Powerful fusion curse.

Cubone
May 26, 2011

Because it never leaves its bedroom, no one has ever seen this poster's real face.

Meinberg posted:

The "no jeff" rule is on account of Jeff the Killer who I know nothing about the origin of, but who has been bizarrely popular with people much younger than me, as a sort of Joker OC-do-not-steal.
Jeff the Killer is genuinely abysmal, and not in a funny way.
It's just bad, bad.

Cartoon Violence
Oct 30, 2012

Stop being such goons, you CLODS!

Yeah when I was a horror-hungry teenager around 2009 - 2012 I ate up all the population creepypasta, I was a huge fan of Ben Drowned, The Theater, weird creepy indie games, Marble Hornets related stuff, ARG stories like EveryManHYBRID. I ate up "Top 15 Creepiest Secrets in Popular Games" type videos.

Though even as a teenager with lower standards I remember thinking Happy Appy was lame. As an adult holy poo poo it's one of the
worst pieces of fiction I've read the entirety of.

Edit: I also remember not understanding why people liked Jeff the Killer but now I understand it's because it's the same people my age who love The Joker.

Black August
Sep 28, 2003

This Is MY Milwaukee.

PubicMice
Feb 14, 2012

looking for information on posts

Cartoon Violence posted:

Yeah when I was a horror-hungry teenager around 2009 - 2012 I ate up all the population creepypasta, I was a huge fan of Ben Drowned, The Theater, weird creepy indie games, Marble Hornets related stuff, ARG stories like EveryManHYBRID. I ate up "Top 15 Creepiest Secrets in Popular Games" type videos.

Though even as a teenager with lower standards I remember thinking Happy Appy was lame. As an adult holy poo poo it's one of the
worst pieces of fiction I've read the entirety of.

Edit: I also remember not understanding why people liked Jeff the Killer but now I understand it's because it's the same people my age who love The Joker.

Jeff is so much worse than the Joker, though. Like, the original is nonsensical it must have been written by a space alien, or at least someone who has never interacted with another human being in their life

Black August posted:

This Is MY Milwaukee.

The only Milwaukee creepypasta that should or needs to exist is one where you can't escape Rich Evans's laughter no matter where you go

The Saddest Rhino
Apr 29, 2009

Put it all together.
Solve the world.
One conversation at a time.



I actually had no exposure to Jeff save the image so watching this and realising its meant to be a scary thing makes me laugh


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ilCGf7Qovjs

Blood Nightmaster
Sep 6, 2011

“また遊んであげるわ!”

The Saddest Rhino posted:

I actually had no exposure to Jeff save the image so watching this and realising its meant to be a scary thing makes me laugh


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ilCGf7Qovjs

I was trying to remember what internet review video went all in on how dumb Jeff the Killer is earlier, turns out it was this one so thank you

Peanut President
Nov 5, 2008

by Athanatos

Black August posted:

This Is MY Milwaukee.

every once in a while I remember the image of the host rollerblading down the street being pulled by the "Three Women Work Friends Walking To Lunch And Laughing" and getting a big dumb grin on my face

Peanut President fucked around with this message at 18:05 on Nov 20, 2019

Friend
Aug 3, 2008

I was going back to look at the Petscop Nifty LP and noticed that it was from our very own dead forum. We cracked the case, everybody!

Chev
Jul 19, 2010
Switchblade Switcharoo
I'm kinda amazed the internet detectivemen working on petscop did stuff like harassing unrelated websites but never could manage to have the Nifty stuff turn up on a Garalina search

Seshoho Cian
Jul 26, 2010

Did anyone ever find the Last Secret of Nier Automata?

http://firesanctuary.com/2018/04/29/nierautomata-the-last-secret/

quote:

ーIf there’s any subject on “NieR” that hasn’t been discussed yet, could you share that with us?

Taura: Without entering into the options menu, there’s a specific trick you can do to change the camera distance with the arrow keys while holding down the R3 button.

Yoko: But please use it with caution since it will cause the camera to bug-out and clip through the terrain. After some discussion, we decided to leave it in since it felt pretty “NieR-esque” anyway. They haven’t found “it” yet, have they?

Negishi: No, no one’s found “it” yet. I think it would absolutely be devastating if somebody discovered it, so we’re not going to reveal what it is.

Yoko: There were various circumstances with different specifications, so it’s still a bit unbalanced (in terms of the programming).


ーWhat!?


Yoko: I can’t really talk about it in detail since it’ll get me in trouble, but just imagine this as the last NieR:Automata secret.

Zereth
Jul 9, 2003



Seshoho Cian posted:

Did anyone ever find the Last Secret of Nier Automata?

http://firesanctuary.com/2018/04/29/nierautomata-the-last-secret/
I wonder if this is like the pendant in dark souls

Sleeveless
Dec 25, 2014

by Pragmatica
I for one believe the weird horny anime man in a mask who lied about every other aspect of his game in the name of clout is totally telling the truth this time.

An Actual Princess
Dec 23, 2006

you are such an unbelievably bad poster holy poo poo

RBA Starblade
Apr 28, 2008

Going Home.

Games Idiot Court Jester

Overwatch Porn posted:

you are such an unbelievably bad poster holy poo poo

He's not wrong about the guy known for being horny and trolling probably doing one of those two things again

Meinberg
Oct 9, 2011

inspired by but legally distinct from CATS (2019)
It absolutely is Yoko Taro trolling people. He’s notorious for thinking that 100%ing games is a fool’s errand.

Sleeveless
Dec 25, 2014

by Pragmatica
The world's most gullible man who totally believed it when Automata ended with you deleting countless players savegames indiscriminately: lol wow you've definitely got some growing up to do :rolleyes:

Ryoga
Sep 10, 2003
Eternally Lost
This is most definitely the pig labeled #3

Dogbutt
Nov 26, 2011

Look at my face.
Despite the goofing, I wouldn't be too surprised if it was just like some sort of small cut thing or even just an unused texture floating in the void or something and he's blowing it up to pull a "haha got you!", Taro game's have never been the most stable programming wise

Vince MechMahon
Jan 1, 2008



Blood Nightmaster posted:

I was trying to remember what internet review video went all in on how dumb Jeff the Killer is earlier, turns out it was this one so thank you

Jenny Nicholson has a video where she reviews a published Jeff the killer romance novel which is also amazing.

J-Spot
May 7, 2002

Petscop soundtrack. Skip to 42:00 for the final story content.

NonsenseWords
Feb 17, 2011

Seshoho Cian posted:

Did anyone ever find the Last Secret of Nier Automata?

http://firesanctuary.com/2018/04/29/nierautomata-the-last-secret/
No, but the individual who manages that website clarified on GameFAQs that Taro and company were likely talking about a weird, obscure bug they let slide and revealing it was intentionally left unfixed wouldn't be great. It's obviously obscure since nobody's figured out how to trigger it, and it sounds like it's probably more funny and dumb than catastrophic, but it doesn't sound like it was supposed to lead to a 'secret search', they were just guys saying "Yeah we left in a camera control glitch as a feature. Hey you know if anybody found that other thing we didn't take out?"

Which is completely believable. People have been finding insane bugs in games a decade or more after release.


On a related note to 'pig #3', the final Mega Man 9 secret? A secret that the community manager claimed was in the game, involving the endless mode, and that nobody ever figured out? While it was always speculated it might have been hoax there was enough of a kernel of doubt (and the innate difficulty of proving a negative) to keep the search ongoing for years.

I did a quick search a few weeks ago and came upon a post claiming that the community manager, after leaving Capcom, actually admitted to making it up to drum up ongoing interest. Unfortunately the post I found referenced the claim but didn't actually link to it so the confession itself might be a hoax. Still, if the original could be dug, might finally put that to rest permanently.


...and on an even more vaguely related note, the HMCS Bitter from Legacy of Kain: Blood Omen. Fourteen years after the game's initial release, a game hacking group turned up assets for an unseen pirate ship. An in-game warp could be activated to reach the ship, and it was wholly in-tact and without any attendant bugs or missing features, and concluded with a warp back to the main map. For years it was assumed to just be dummied content, but years later Dennis Dyack claimed that it was actually accessible through normal play, just obscenely hard to trigger, involving four hidden switches spread across the map that would activate the warp when they were all flipped.

To my knowledge, nobody ever found evidence of these switches still being in the game, and the Bitter is still considered to be dummied out of regular play.

Bogart
Apr 12, 2010

by VideoGames
Known creep Dyack should not be taken at his word anymore. If they’re at the point that they’re looking into the code, there’s no obscure flags to hide behind. :v:

Cubone
May 26, 2011

Because it never leaves its bedroom, no one has ever seen this poster's real face.
there's also always the possibility that devs just misremember what made it into the finished game
you work on a feature for a while, it sticks in your memory for one reason or another, the decision to keep it in or not is waffled on a couple times (or, for a hidden feature, possibly mistaken for a bug), and whenever it landed wherever it landed, you're working on a dozen other things, so you remember one or more of the planned implementations, but not necessarily what, if anything, made it into the final code. decades later, somebody asks you about it, they seem to know a lot, you definitely remember hidden switches being in there at some point... :shrug:

Chev
Jul 19, 2010
Switchblade Switcharoo
LoK had some pretty crazy secrets like the hidden city that you can only enter on full moons. Well, in-game full moons, not real world full moons like in Dungeon Keeper. So it wouldn't surprise me that people just haven't figured out the trigger for HMCS Bitter even after all this time.

Black August
Sep 28, 2003

Holy spit. I played Blood Omen so much for one summer, and just kept finding out crazier things about content hidden in it as the years went past my one playthrough of it. The moon cities, half the hidden areas, and now this.

Cleretic
Feb 3, 2010


Ignore my posts!
I'm aggressively wrong about everything!
So, the Game Grumps have stumbled onto something worthy of this thread. Because either they've found a lost piece of gaming history, or faked it pretty well. They've done a couple of recent videos on the Dendy, a Soviet-bloc NES clone that Arin bought on eBay. Which is a neat thing already, and it's a fun look at a forgotten corner of gaming that Arin presents pretty well.

But one of the games that he got sounds like your classic creepypasta bit: rather than one with official art and labelling, it's just a cart with a handwritten title in Russian that he can't understand, that showed an error message also in Russian that he couldn't understand. He showed both on one of their videos (jump to 23:27 if the timestamp doesn't work):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CpVaMFQgGoQ&t=1407s

That turned out to be a good idea, as a Ukrainian friend translated them both for him. It turns out, that error message is prompting him to connect the Dendy to the internet... which is a feature that the Dendy didn't have.

Then he started probing further. And then things got kinda wild.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BA5ATX7YKLI

I highly recommend watching the video, since it's a pretty good showcase of everything he looks into to figure this out (or is just a big lie of an ARG for something they've been working on themselves), but the summary: It looks like the game is a prototype title that used an internet connector for the Dendy that was never released. And the game itself might be a loving battle royale platformer, which if true would be some impressively forward-thinking developers.

Cleretic fucked around with this message at 14:15 on Dec 4, 2019

Grassy Knowles
Apr 4, 2003

"The original Terminator was a gritty fucking AMAZING piece of sci-fi. Gritty fucking rock-hard MURDER!"

Cleretic posted:

So, the Game Grumps have stumbled onto something worthy of this thread. Because either they've found a lost piece of gaming history, or faked it pretty well. They've done a couple of recent videos on the Dendy, a Soviet-bloc NES clone that Arin bought on eBay. Which is a neat thing already, and it's a fun look at a forgotten corner of gaming that Arin presents pretty well.

But one of the games that he got sounds like your classic creepypasta bit: rather than one with official art and labelling, it's just a cart with a handwritten title in Russian that he can't understand, that showed an error message also in Russian that he couldn't understand. He showed both on one of their videos (jump to 23:27 if the timestamp doesn't work):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CpVaMFQgGoQ&t=1407s

That turned out to be a good idea, as a Ukrainian friend translated them both for him. It turns out, that error message is prompting him to connect the Dendy to the internet... which is a feature that the Dendy didn't have.

Then he started probing further. And then things got kinda wild.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BA5ATX7YKLI

I highly recommend watching the video, since it's a pretty good showcase of everything he looks into to figure this out (or is just a big lie of an ARG for something they've been working on themselves), but the summary: It looks like the game is a prototype title that used an internet connector for the Dendy that was never released. And the game itself might be a loving battle royale platformer, which if true would be some impressively forward-thinking developers.

This is loving wild thanks for sharing

Neito
Feb 18, 2009

😌Finally, an avatar the describes my love of tech❤️‍💻, my love of anime💖🎎, and why I'll never see a real girl 🙆‍♀️naked😭.

It's one of those things taht sounds wicked fake in the west, but weren't the Famicom and Famiclones huge in the former Soviet and east asia until like the early 2000s?

RagnarokAngel
Oct 5, 2006

Black Magic Extraordinaire

Neito posted:

It's one of those things taht sounds wicked fake in the west, but weren't the Famicom and Famiclones huge in the former Soviet and east asia until like the early 2000s?

Hell the Master system still sells in South America to this day.

SkeletonHero
Sep 7, 2010

:dehumanize:
:killing:
:dehumanize:
The Dendy was particularly ubiquitous.

In fact, it’s pretty safe to say that in Society Russia, you didn’t play Nintendo...

You played Dendy.

Friend
Aug 3, 2008

That's pretty neat. I don't know poo poo about the game grumps, is it more likely that they found something crazy or have been elaborately faking it? The commercial they showed looked a little suspicious, as well as the fact that they never mention the company's name, but seems cool either way

Zodack
Aug 3, 2014
It felt faked to me because the entire discovery video is him talking on the phone and shots of the Dendy and Arin. If you wanted to show off this amazing discovery, why not show the actual setup process and the visuals instead of a voice over a phone going "okay... yeah I set it up, there's a lobby in here...". The only gameplay shot we get is Arin moving a little bit, the game looks visually "glitchy" and then he sets the controller down and that's it.

Neito
Feb 18, 2009

😌Finally, an avatar the describes my love of tech❤️‍💻, my love of anime💖🎎, and why I'll never see a real girl 🙆‍♀️naked😭.

A quick google reveals it's likely an extended commercial/ARG video for Soviet Jump Game, the next game from their studio (they also did Dream Daddy).

Reaction is split. About 33% of people were super pissed, 33% of people thought it was pretty cool, and 33% of people are laughing at the first 33%.

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SeANMcBAY
Jun 28, 2006

Look on the bright side.



RagnarokAngel posted:

Hell the Master system still sells in South America to this day.

Does Sega themselves still produce consoles or is it like clone systems?

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