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CommieGIR
Aug 22, 2006

The blue glow is a feature, not a bug


Pillbug
The month is upon us, the witching hour approaches, and its time to get spooky.
What is this thread? Well, its to discuss and debate the ghoulish, the creepiest, and the spookiest stuff you have to offer. Topic is fairly open, ghost stories or even spooky controversies and happenings are allowed.
The one rule: It must be spooky, mysterious, or Halloween themed.

With that said, normal D&D rules apply. This'll be kind of a chill-chat style thread.


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RBA Starblade
Apr 28, 2008

Going Home.

Games Idiot Court Jester

What's really scary is the specter of communism

CommieGIR
Aug 22, 2006

The blue glow is a feature, not a bug


Pillbug

RBA Starblade posted:

What's really scary is the specter of communism

I mean, we are haunted by a specter. Just hope its not Phil Spector's Specter

Doctor Butts
May 21, 2002

I saw a blue floating object in the backyard of my parent's house in the 90's.

I think the only way I could describe it was that it was a blue lighting bug/firefly.

But it wasn't our areas lightning bug season and we lived hundreds of miles away from where blue ghost fireflies live.

World Famous W
May 25, 2007

BAAAAAAAAAAAA
:ghost::ghost: There is nothing our political apparatuses can/will do to stop climate change, and they barely seem concerned to even limit or prepare for the effects it will have on our citizens let alone people outside our nation. Really spooky poo poo. Happy Halloween. :ghost::ghost:

RBA Starblade
Apr 28, 2008

Going Home.

Games Idiot Court Jester

World Famous W posted:

:ghost::ghost: There is nothing our political apparatuses can/will do to stop climate change, and they barely seem concerned to even limit or prepare for the effects it will have on our citizens let alone people outside our nation. Really spooky poo poo. Happy Halloween. :ghost::ghost:

That's almost as scary as Dracula!

A big flaming stink
Apr 26, 2010
the ghost of the blow thread is haunting this one :spooky: :spooky: :spooky: :spooky: :spooky: :spooky: :spooky: :spooky: :spooky: :spooky: :spooky: :spooky:

CommieGIR
Aug 22, 2006

The blue glow is a feature, not a bug


Pillbug

A big flaming stink posted:

the ghost of the blow thread is haunting this one :spooky: :spooky: :spooky: :spooky: :spooky: :spooky: :spooky: :spooky: :spooky: :spooky: :spooky: :spooky:

The real ghosts are the ones we met along the way.

Handsome Ralph
Sep 3, 2004

Oh boy, posting!
That's where I'm a Viking!


A big flaming stink posted:

the ghost of the blow thread is haunting this one :spooky: :spooky: :spooky: :spooky: :spooky: :spooky: :spooky: :spooky: :spooky: :spooky: :spooky: :spooky:

Main Paineframe
Oct 27, 2010
careful you don't run into a terrifying lich



the worst part is that that photo is at least eight years old, and this creature somehow still clings to a life-like state

Zachack
Jun 1, 2000




The month of October is the core reason why America is the dominant global superpower.

FACT: Baseball is the Great American Pasttime.
FACT: The baseball "diamond" is actually a 5-sided figure - the extra side is on home plate. 5 sides = pentagram.
FACT: The "World Series" is in October. Series of what? World
FACT: American Baseball players mix their fluids with their SAtanic pentagram throughout each game. Spitting is recognized by the devil as appropriate substitute for cum, sunflower seed shells = sperm, chaw juice (now uncommon) semen (decreased amount representing decreased fertility?).
SUBFACT: Japanese baseball players do not spit. Global rise and fall of toKyo stock exhcange connected as SAtan became displeased at insufficient worship??
FACT: gently caress the Dodgers go Giants
FACT: Many basesball terms call back to historic rituals. "Sacrifice"ial bunt. "Sacrifice"ial fly (beelzebub?). Seventh Inning Human Sacrifice.
FACT: baseball games have many ritual chants to offer alleigance to devil. "take me" (to satan) "out to the ballgame".
FACT: $14 beer / $10 lovely hot dog * $4.75 cracker (whites) jacks = 6.66
FACT: Other countries play soccer, now AMerica's puppet states. Square + trapezoid nets = unfavorable to dark lord.

Nix Panicus
Feb 25, 2007

World Famous W posted:

:ghost::ghost: There is nothing our political apparatuses can/will do to stop climate change, and they barely seem concerned to even limit or prepare for the effects it will have on our citizens let alone people outside our nation. Really spooky poo poo. Happy Halloween. :ghost::ghost:

Catastrophic climate change is already locked in for the next few generations, and nothing you do or don't do will have any effect within your lifetime. Climate is a self reinforcing feedback loop and its already been pushed out of balance. We have already seen warming beyond our worst case scenarios and its only going to get worse. Even if we did come out with a miracle technology tomorrow the amount of carbon we'd have to put into the air just to develop it would gently caress us far in excess of what the miracle tech could clean in our lifetimes. Electric cars are a fancy bauble for the rich to pretend they're helping because manufacturing that technological fetish cost more carbon than just driving your smoke belching beater. If you really cared you'd move into a dense urban core and commute everywhere, but that would still be just for your own amusement because, as I mentioned, catastrophic climate change is already locked in for the next few generations.

So in the end it doesn't matter that nobody in power seems to care about climate change because there is nothing, at this present time, they could do anyways, but it is extremely funny spooky that in the face of the oncoming apocalypse the powers that be can't even muster a faint shrug of concern.

I theorize this is because we're ruled by a cabal of spooky skeletons clad in ill-fitting flesh suits using brains stolen from the morgue by night. They care nothing for the living and want to plunge us all into death to serve in their forever wars. The only way to detect a skeleton is to ask them a question. Their undead brains will take several seconds to come up with an answer, and will often stop mid thought as the necromantic energies animating them fail. The skeletons are wily though, and will claim 'its a stutter' when pressed.

Owlofcreamcheese
May 22, 2005
Probation
Can't post for 9 years!
Buglord

Doctor Butts posted:

I saw a blue floating object in the backyard of my parent's house in the 90's.

I think the only way I could describe it was that it was a blue lighting bug/firefly.

But it wasn't our areas lightning bug season and we lived hundreds of miles away from where blue ghost fireflies live.

Once there was a Dobsonfly in my house and they don’t live anywhere near here and I didn’t know they existed at all and that was way scarier

Sedisp
Jun 20, 2012


I see my request for the thread to be named the Cavy Creepy Clubhouse has been rejected expect to hear from my team of lawyers incredibly soon.

Rappaport
Oct 2, 2013

Main Paineframe posted:

careful you don't run into a terrifying lich



the worst part is that that photo is at least eight years old, and this creature somehow still clings to a life-like state

He will outlive us all :smith:

frankenfreak
Feb 16, 2007

I SCORED 85% ON A QUIZ ABOUT MONDAY NIGHT RAW AND ALL I GOT WAS THIS LOUSY TEXT

#bastionboogerbrigade

Rappaport posted:

He will outlive us all :smith:
Two things will survive the apocalypse: cockroaches and Kissinger.

Sedisp
Jun 20, 2012


frankenfreak posted:

Two things will survive the apocalypse: cockroaches and Kissinger.

I have seen no evidence to suggest Kissinger is not several cockroaches in a man suit.

A big flaming stink
Apr 26, 2010

Sedisp posted:

I have seen no evidence to suggest Kissinger is not several cockroaches in a man suit.

This is anti cockroach bigotry

frankenfreak
Feb 16, 2007

I SCORED 85% ON A QUIZ ABOUT MONDAY NIGHT RAW AND ALL I GOT WAS THIS LOUSY TEXT

#bastionboogerbrigade

Sedisp posted:

I have seen no evidence to suggest Kissinger is not several cockroaches in a man suit.
Wasn't that the big reveal in that famous documentary, Team America?

Epic High Five
Jun 5, 2004



Malah
May 18, 2015

Happy spooky szn, D&D! Maybe it'll be this month! However:

fabergay egg posted:

his mortal vessel may one day fail, but so long as even a single cambodian child remains unorphaned his dread spirit shall not depart this earth

Pants Donkey
Nov 13, 2011

Nix Panicus posted:

So in the end it doesn't matter that nobody in power seems to care about climate change because there is nothing, at this present time, they could do anyways, but it is extremely funny spooky that in the face of the oncoming apocalypse the powers that be can't even muster a faint shrug of concern.

I theorize this is because we're ruled by a cabal of spooky skeletons clad in ill-fitting flesh suits using brains stolen from the morgue by night. They care nothing for the living and want to plunge us all into death to serve in their forever wars. The only way to detect a skeleton is to ask them a question. Their undead brains will take several seconds to come up with an answer, and will often stop mid thought as the necromantic energies animating them fail. The skeletons are wily though, and will claim 'its a stutter' when pressed.
It’s not that complicated: the wealthy either will be dead before the really bad stuff kicks in, or have some kind of delusion that their wealth will protect them or it won’t be as bad as we think. Or just still clinging to the idea that this is all a hoax.

What’s scary is that this whole thing timed itself so that those who had the most power to turn things around were both the most self-centered and least likely to live long enough to face the consequences of their actions.

TheDisreputableDog
Oct 13, 2005
Here’s a scary campfire story:

Once upon a time there was a debate forum and they had a feedback thread on moderation.

*dramatic pause while fire pops, stage whisper*

A month later nothing had changed.

goethe.cx
Apr 23, 2014


several white house personnel have reported seeing a shambling spirit in the west wing late at night. upon further investigation, it was merely joe biden getting up to pee

Stringent
Dec 22, 2004


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post the loving feedback thread, you loving losers.

Stringent
Dec 22, 2004


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prequel, this is a post that wasn't probed:

Megillah Gorilla posted:

EDIT: Beaten like a Uyghur in a Chinese re-education camp.

Stringent fucked around with this message at 16:01 on Oct 4, 2021

RBA Starblade
Apr 28, 2008

Going Home.

Games Idiot Court Jester

Stringent posted:

post the loving feedback thread, you loving losers.

That'd be the most horrific thing of all!

CommieGIR
Aug 22, 2006

The blue glow is a feature, not a bug


Pillbug
I mean, that's why we can't post it. Because it was spine chillingly horrific.

Mellow Seas
Oct 9, 2012
Probation
Can't post for 10 years!
However will I know what Stringent thinks of D&D moderation without a feedback thread? My personal guess is, he loves it and it’s just SCARY* how much he thinks it’s great, and he can’t wait to tell you guys.

*mandatory seasonal theming

Sedisp
Jun 20, 2012


Mellow Seas posted:

However will I know what Stringent thinks of D&D moderation without a feedback thread? My personal guess is, he loves it and it’s just SCARY* how much he thinks it’s great, and he can’t wait to tell you guys.

*mandatory seasonal theming

This isn't a scary or spooky post it's just tedious. Might I suggest trying to rephrase it in some sort of holiday related pun?

I'll start please read in a Dracula voice

Mellow Seas made a ghastly post that is very booooooring.


*skeleton jumpscare*

Elephant Ambush
Nov 13, 2012

...We sholde spenden more time together. What sayest thou?
Nap Ghost
Remember Satanic Panic?

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

This video is fascinating and also infuriating. Geraldo is a shameless piece of poo poo and he literally invited insane fundie true believers on his show and then the person he called up to "balance" the conversation is Ozzy loving Osbourne.

Solkanar512
Dec 28, 2006

by the sex ghost

Elephant Ambush posted:

Remember Satanic Panic?

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

This video is fascinating and also infuriating. Geraldo is a shameless piece of poo poo and he literally invited insane fundie true believers on his show and then the person he called up to "balance" the conversation is Ozzy loving Osbourne.

Proctor & Gamble had problems for years of people calling them satanic because their old logo had a devil on it. The problem was so bad that they actually won a defamation case (as a public figure!) against a handful of folks selling Amway.

Oracle
Oct 9, 2004

Solkanar512 posted:

Proctor & Gamble had problems for years of people calling them satanic because their old logo had a devil on it. The problem was so bad that they actually won a defamation case (as a public figure!) against a handful of folks selling Amway.

I thought it was supposed to be the man in the moon and people thought it was some occult symbol instead.
Yeah…

The New York Times posted:

Rumors began circulating as early as 1981 that the company's logo — a bearded, crescent man-in-the-moon looking over a field of 13 stars — was a symbol of Satanism.

So even when they lose they win, because you thought it was a devil.

Handsome Ralph
Sep 3, 2004

Oh boy, posting!
That's where I'm a Viking!


https://twitter.com/ajbauer/status/1445476875636072450

Tag yourselves, I'm the syringe next to the candy bar.

RBA Starblade
Apr 28, 2008

Going Home.

Games Idiot Court Jester

Handsome Ralph posted:

https://twitter.com/ajbauer/status/1445476875636072450

Tag yourselves, I'm the syringe next to the candy bar.

I'm the pumpkin with a mask

Elephant Ambush
Nov 13, 2012

...We sholde spenden more time together. What sayest thou?
Nap Ghost
I'm the liberal who voted for all those people

Rappaport
Oct 2, 2013

The skull with a mask is a nice, nonsensical detail.

Fritz the Horse
Dec 26, 2019

... of course!
socialism is indeed terrifying. its a good thing we destroyed it here in the US. though like all undead horrors it might always rise again...

if u ever get worried about the fetid corpse of Marx simply carry with you the holy talisman of Ayn Rand, a big fat copy of Atlas Shrugged

Sedisp
Jun 20, 2012


For a very spooktacular meeting with a ghoulish monster turn off your monitor.

Muwhahahahaha

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RBA Starblade
Apr 28, 2008

Going Home.

Games Idiot Court Jester

Sedisp posted:

For a very spooktacular meeting with a ghoulish monster turn off your monitor.

Muwhahahahaha

Aaaaah! Aaaaaaah! Aaaaaaaaaaah!

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