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Elentor posted:I think their main problem is that they are not for children. They're for everyone, and everyone of our age grew up eating that food, consuming it, and being unable to move on. Stuff for children is much different and much worse.  Kids like to be challenged and treated as adults, and horror-flavored media is a great, safe way to do it. Everyone I know was scared shitless by Stephen Gammel illustrations as a kid and they still absolutely love them 30+ years on.
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Das Boo posted:
Yeah, that's a great example. I'm sure when they reprinted those books with different art, they had 0 impact.
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Society tries to recreate Stephen Gammel through what is known as, [airquotes like Dr. Evil], creepypasta You know I am right.
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I've heard that managing fear (of the dark, of boogeymen, etc) kids can overcome more tangible fears as they get older. I kind of wonder how people would react to horror if they were super sheltered. Would it have a bigger impact or just be straight up unpleasant? I kind of felt like horror is like eating spicy food-it's uncomfortable but a fun type of discomfort. Like I was a kid when I saw Bishop get torn in half by a queen alien in Aliens. I was too young to understand he was a robot because he was specifically designed with "guts" and squirty bits for maximum shock value; just having him spit out sparks and rivets wouldn't be as visceral as his actual design, because we understand "robot" is an inanimate object but Bishop is not only something that looks human on the outside he's got uncanny valley innards as well. In spite of it being terrifying to see on the first watch I later came to find it the coolest part of the movie (perhaps the reassurance that Bishop didn't actually "die" from getting ripped in half helped soften the blow). Had I not seen this scene as a kid, I don't know how I would have reacted. Would it make my barf? Would I be too far beyond the boundless imagination of youth to embrace the suspension of belief?
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When I saw Ripler going "kiiilllll.... . meee...." I was shocked for a few days. It was a shock to find out that someone had conveyed how I feel.
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roomtone posted:It probably is out of style but I think SA in particular is a place where that's a common opinion. I don't share it at all. If there's no story, it's rare I finish a game because I just don't care enough. Which is all right, but I'd rather care. It's not about a cinematic experience, I'm happy with textboxes and pixel graphics, just engage me beyond the gameplay which c'mon, is not gonna blow my mind I've played games before. Eh, there's different kinds of games. Sometimes the actual gameplay is fun, and having too much story would be distracting - few driving or sports games have much of a story, but they still seem to do well. Building games, too - Minecraft, Cities:Skylines, the factory and colony sim games (Factorio, Satisfactory, Oxygen not Included, Rimworld, etc etc) and the like mostly have a setting more than a plot, though of course there's a sliding scale here. And that list covers games that are doing fairly well with a wide age range. Not that I don't get your point; having an interesting story is why I did so many runs in Hades, and it's why my BF is playing Horizon: Forbidden West despite it not being his favourite kind of mechanics. But you don't need a story to enjoy a puzzle or a hobby, and some games have more in common with those than with an AAA setpiece game. Just to stay vaguely on topic: The enduring popularity of Minecraft with children and teens is a good thing that proves that you really don't need good graphics to make a fun game. Hell, even feeling like that is a point that still needs to be made probably marks me as old.
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I don't watch any horror; to me it's straight-up unpleasant and gives me nightmares. Whole thing is pretty baffling to me, and I can't help but sideeye people who enjoy stuff like Saw. My boomer opinion is that kids are watching that poo poo at like 10 and it fucks them up. At that age you should be at like Lon Chaney level of horror.
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Anne Whateley posted:I don't watch any horror; to me it's straight-up unpleasant and gives me nightmares. Whole thing is pretty baffling to me, and I can't help but sideeye people who enjoy stuff like Saw. Something like The Shining I can understand but ya those people that watch and enjoy saw are psychotic.
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I watch all the Saws so I can get mad about people being the dumbest possible shits. There was room enough for 5 people in each tunnel, no one had to die you ABSOLUTE. loving. MORONS.
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roomtone posted:It probably is out of style but I think SA in particular is a place where that's a common opinion. I don't share it at all. If there's no story, it's rare I finish a game because I just don't care enough. Which is all right, but I'd rather care. It's not about a cinematic experience, I'm happy with textboxes and pixel graphics, just engage me beyond the gameplay which c'mon, is not gonna blow my mind I've played games before. I'm 35 and I don't think this has anything with age. Both games older and newer had their story-centric niche. I dislike games with stories and I want games to have the least amount of story as possible, just gameplay. I've played games with stories, text games, cyoas, jrpgs, western rpgs like baldur's gate that are just huge walls of text, so it's not how I "grew up on" or not. But the older I got the less interested I got in games that are offering me anything less than the raw gameplay, mostly for a time and energy reason. There's also a social element I like in certain games that by virtue of them being challenging there's a lot of information being exchanged, and I like that.
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Anne Whateley posted:I don't watch any horror; to me it's straight-up unpleasant and gives me nightmares. Whole thing is pretty baffling to me, and I can't help but sideeye people who enjoy stuff like Saw.
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Nov 7, 2022 10:20
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Once i hear someone say "bru" i immediately stop caring about whatever future hellscape awaits them
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We should bring back the draft. Kids today are too soft.
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Virtual reality is for dumb idiots.
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Never get a tattoo you can't cover up with a shirt.
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Extra Large Marge posted:Never get a tattoo you can't cover up with a shirt. but my next three tattoos will be hand, neck and sidecut exactly because those drat suits cover everything up
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Nov 7, 2022 15:07
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Tattoos on the face should be limited to those with good cultural reason and extended stay prisoners.
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RDM posted:We should bring back the draft. Kids today are too soft. Only earnestly-held beliefs, nothing sarcastic plz.
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Nov 7, 2022 18:20
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Things don't have to be LOUD to be enjoyable. Music you have to shout over, fireworks that sound like WW2 bombs, screeching laughter at anything remotely amusing by your very low standards. The noise doesn't add to your experience, it just forces everyone around you to be part of it regardless of their own tastes and preferences. I may still be fuming about the '18-20 friends coming to my apartment and using the communal pool regularly' post in the reddit thread... So yeah, wanting everyone (younger than me) to be quiet and getting worked up about something that not only doesn't concern me but may not even be true is pretty Boomer.
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Nov 7, 2022 19:23
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Modern movies have too much pitch black, and it's hard for me to see what's going on. < >
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Regarding noise, I really don't enjoy youtubers who scream all the time. Use your indoor voice, people.
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Computer viking posted:Regarding noise, I really don't enjoy youtubers who scream all the time. Use your indoor voice, people. Bad news, that is their indoor voice. Their outdoor voices can crack concrete.
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I like Fleetwood Mac. Also boomers invented loud music when they invented ever-louder instrument amplifiers and PA systems to be heard over screaming teenagers. The Beatles and the Who were specifically pushing this forward and those bands are peak boomer.
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Nov 7, 2022 19:56
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People who study philosophy should learn to think for themselves instead of basing their beliefs and morals on those of a bunch of dead racist incels.
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run on sentience posted:People who study philosophy should learn to think for themselves instead of basing their beliefs and morals on those of a bunch of dead racist incels. Related, but philosophers piss me off for how often they poo poo on the doers of society for being "mere laborers" and not "great thinkers." Like loving use that trust fund to contribute something, rear end in a top hat.
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Das Boo posted:Related, but philosophers piss me off for how often they poo poo on the doers of society for being "mere laborers" and not "great thinkers." Like loving use that trust fund to contribute something, rear end in a top hat. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wOLxZrVmjiw
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RDM posted:Playgrounds are way shittier today than they used to be. Safety went way too far. No kidding. When I was in school in the early 90s, our playground had what we called the Death Bridge made up of a bunch of planks connected by chain. If you jumped on one end, it would cause the other end to bounce upward, and if you jumped off that just right, you could easily clear five feet vertically. That bridge kicked rear end and it was the best part of the playground by a long shot. They got rid of it after some dumb kid who didn't know how to land right got injured. Way to ruin it for everyone, Tristan. 
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I was a child in 70’s Britain, it’s a wonder I lived into the 80’s frankly. One of my favourite playground items was a series of concrete pipes to crawl around in, which in addition to the broken bottles and cigarette butts I was aware of, almost definitely contained a wide variety of human and animal body fluids. One place had a water slide that was essentially a 45 degree slope that they tipped a dumpster down: it had a few seats carelessly welded to the bottom for the faint of heart.
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books and movies about cold war era submarine warfare are good entertainment
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Our school playground in the 80s had a large concrete block in the center of the field with a four inch wide metal pipe sticking out of it about a foot long that kids used to drop poo poo into whatever abyss was down there. No idea what this thing was ever supposed to be, it wasn’t intended as playground equipment, just a derelict chunk of concrete that no one wanted to pay to remove. But it served as “base” for a lot of made up kid games. In 3rd grade I broke off half of my permanent tooth on the pipe trying to peek down into it. Google Earth suggests it’s still there. I think about that thing whenever I see people posting about how much better playgrounds were back in the day.
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kids these days need to learn how to give a firm handshake and look someone in the eye when speaking!
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ripped jeans look dumb and are a rip-off!
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It used to be extremely common for playgrounds to have large tractor tires half-buried into the ground. The intention was for the kids to play on the tire, which they did but the inside of the tire was almost exclusively a makeshift latrine.
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Nov 7, 2022 22:17
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kids spend too much money on food delivery and should learn to cook for themselves!
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Tarkus posted:It used to be extremely common for playgrounds to have large tractor tires half-buried into the ground. The intention was for the kids to play on the tire, which they did but the inside of the tire was almost exclusively a makeshift latrine. There was a big yellow tube at my elementary school that many kids peed in for some reason
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Tarkus posted:It used to be extremely common for playgrounds to have large tractor tires half-buried into the ground. The intention was for the kids to play on the tire, which they did but the inside of the tire was almost exclusively a makeshift latrine. Hey, that's unfair, it was also a breeding ground for mosquitos as well.
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Torquemada posted:favourite playground items Sure it's not a unique thing, but we had some custom built extremely long metal see-saw, and realized if you got a bunch of kids to jump onto one end you could make the kid on the other end fly up to space. The fun ended when one kid hosed up and landed on their face on the metal. Was pretty gnarly bad.
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Thesaurus posted:There was a big yellow tube at my elementary school that many kids peed in for some reason Thank god it wasn't a brown tube!
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The giant tire playground at my elementary school was great until the weather started turning hot, at which point it burned any exposed skin as soon as it touched the rubber.
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