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BattyKiara: Mar 17, 2009

This has to be cheating https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ovJGnjOjx4

# ? Nov 24, 2023 16:10

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# ? May 11, 2024 13:27

TURTLE SLUT: Dec 12, 2005

This is from a video game Disco Elysium, the first dream sequence in the game. But you don't really need any context except the main character is an amnesiac detective.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LU6Fnjx1STs

Just the first few lines loving kill me.

# ? Nov 25, 2023 13:16

Adrianics: Aug 15, 2006; Affirmative. Yes. Yo. Right on. My man.

We rewatched The Truman Show last weekend, it's one of my favourite movies and this scene near the end destroys me:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4U3McwhwGg4

I feel so many emotions watching him sail straight into the edge of the studio then have a breakdown smacking the wall. It's the feeling of all of us ultimately being helplessly trapped within the worlds created around us, and how being right about everything was the worst thing that could have happened to him. Nothing he has ever experienced has been real, including the loving sun and sky.

# ? Nov 27, 2023 16:38

Nordick: Sep 3, 2011; Yes.

JOHN SKELETON posted:

Disco Elysium

I was wondering when we'd see this game here.

It has the impressive double accolade of being both the videogame that's made me laugh the most, and the videogame that's made me cry the most.

The part where you have to deliver some bad news is so loving devastating.

# ? Nov 27, 2023 23:44

Randalor: Sep 4, 2011

I have threw that you can feel free to laugh at.

Transformers: The Movie: Optimus Prime's death. After a surprisingly brutal slog of a fight, in a movie full of fan-favorite characters being quickly killed, Optimus just has a very quiet, drawn out scene as he lays dying on the operating table and all the autobots can do is watch. That movie was far better than it had any right to be for a 2-hoir commercial for toys.

Owl House: A good chunk of the final episode for various reasons, but one line that sums up the scene that hits hardest: "Eda... where'd she go?"

Black Adder Goes Forth: The final episode in a comedy set in the trenches of WW1 (yes, seriously), the episode already had a somber tone, with things like George listing off all his schoolmates and the battles they died at before realizing he was the last one left. The final shot of the series is the main cast charging up out of the trenches before freezing and slowly fading to a field of red poppies.

# ? Nov 28, 2023 00:53

Agaragon: Nov 16, 2018

Cowslips Warren posted:

on rewatch, it's clear especially in class when Riley is forcing herself not to be sad, but still getting teary, none of the kids look anything but concerned. even the popular "makeup" girl looks worried for her.

kinda the opposite, but we're goons, we probably all know Transformers, right? And we know Shockwave, the faceless emotionless loving monster Decepticon. But he wasn't always like that. In IDW comics turns out Senator Shockwave was super charismatic, always looked out for the little guys, and while he had ambition and was a scientist, he also was intent on knocking down the tyrannical Council who essentially kept Cybertron in caste slavery. Started an institute that doubled as a hiding place for people the Council wanted killed similar to Professor Xavier. Protested against a lot of the insanity from the Council. Oh, and he changed his paint colors every few days because he was a bit vain. But overall a great dude.

And the Council found out about him sheltering bots they wanted dead. So they burned his school with most of the students inside, killed the rest, and the lovely Senator faced empurata: removal of his hands and head to become the purple bot we know. But that wasn't enough punishment, so they also clipped out his emotions and pretty much mind-raped him into becoming an emotionless husk. Dude was essentially a more flashy Optimus Prime and ended up a monster because he kept trying to do good and save people.

The part that really stuck with me was his effective last words when they were leading him away. "Remember me as I was." He didn't know *exactly* what they were going to do to him, but he knew that the end product wouldn't be him anymore.

# ? Nov 28, 2023 03:48

Grimmeh: May 9, 2004; ...Putting The Fun Back Into The Funeral

This is probably not a rare one, but last year I randomly chose to grab off the shelf and read through for the first time my family�s copy of �The Giving Tree� by Shel Silverstein.

No literature has broken me down as swiftly, surprisingly, and efficiently as it did. I could barely breathe by the time I finished it.

# ? Nov 28, 2023 06:59

mycot: Oct 23, 2014; "It's okay. There are other Terminators! Just give us this one!"; Hell Gem

Grimmeh posted:

This is probably not a rare one, but last year I randomly chose to grab off the shelf and read through for the first time my family�s copy of �The Giving Tree� by Shel Silverstein.

No literature has broken me down as swiftly, surprisingly, and efficiently as it did. I could barely breathe by the time I finished it.

The Giving Tree being a children's book is really funny. From an adult's perspective it is obviously a (really goddamn sad) metaphor for parenthood, but every child I know has just gone "man gently caress that kid".

# ? Nov 28, 2023 07:05

Hirayuki: Mar 28, 2010

This is the Bluey episode that did it for me: https://youtu.be/xmkCmJtK6X8 (wait for it)

# ? Dec 2, 2023 04:52

Hempuli: Nov 16, 2011

1) I'm a big fan of Terry Pratchett, and his biography written by his personal assistant Rob Wilkins, A Life With Footnotes, particularly the final chapter, made me teary-eyed. (Pratchett had early-onset Alzheimer's and his assistant following from up close how an author with clearly a ton of ideas to give to the world slowly loses himself makes for some very heart-wrenching reading.)

2) There's a Youtube channel where a guitarist would record themselves playing various songs, with their dog, Maple, being around and sometimes pawing at a drum in rhythm. The final video before Maple died is very bittersweet: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hc5kDRs44wE

3) I actually haven't read the book, but I've come across to the afterword of Philip K. Dick's A Scanner Darkly and it's very powerful; (CW: drug abuse) it's a dedication to all the friends and acquaintances that Dick lost to their drug abuse:
[...] For a while I myself was one of these children playing in the street; I was, like the rest of them, trying to play instead of being grown up, and I was punished. I am on the list below, which is a list of those to whom this novel is dedicated, and what became of each.
[...]
If there was any �sin�, it was that these people wanted to keep on having a good time forever, and were punished for that, but, as I say, I feel that, if so, the punishment was far too great, and I prefer to think of it only in a Greek or morally neutral way, as mere science, as deterministic impartial cause-and-effect. I loved them all. Here is the list, to whom I dedicate my love:
To Gaylene deceased
To Ray deceased
To Francy permanent psychosis
To Kathy permanent brain damage
To Jim deceased
To Val massive permanent brain damage
To Nancy permanent psychosis
To Joanne permanent brain damage
To Maren deceased
To Nick deceased
To Terry deceased
To Dennis deceased
To Phil permanent pancreatic damage
To Sue permanent vascular damage
To Jerri permanent psychosis and vascular damage

�and so forth.

In Memoriam. These were comrades whom I had; there are no better. They remain in my mind, and the enemy will never be forgiven. The �enemy� was their mistake in playing. Let them all play again, in some other way, and let them be happy.
Full afterword readable here: https://www.reddit.com/r/Frisson/comments/1hbexo/text_phillip_k_dicks_afterword_for_a_scanner/
This always makes me tear up.

# ? Dec 2, 2023 06:09

Taeke: Feb 2, 2010

Speaking of Pratchett, his documentary Choosing to Die was heart wrenching.

# ? Dec 2, 2023 12:19

Samovar: Jun 4, 2011; I'm 😤 not a 🦸🏻‍♂️hero...🧜🏻

JOHN SKELETON posted:

This is from a video game Disco Elysium, the first dream sequence in the game. But you don't really need any context except the main character is an amnesiac detective.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LU6Fnjx1STs

Just the first few lines loving kill me.

There were definitely a number of lines in there written from direct experience, and boy oh boy do they hit hard.

# ? Dec 2, 2023 12:49

yaffle: Sep 15, 2002; Flapdoodle

There's been a couple of Ghibli films mentioned up thread, but the one that does it for me is Pom Poko. On the surface it's a movie about funny shape shifting raccoons with some weird Japanese mythology thrown in, but the ending gets me every time. The human world is gradually destroying the raccoon's world, without even really noticing. The Raccoons (Tanuki really, raccoon like dogs) spend the whole movie fighting or trying to trick the humans into leaving them alone but nothing works. At the end of the film they realize that they can't win, that those who can change shape will have to live secretly in the human world while the ones who can't will just have to take their chances as animals do. Before they leave what's left of their home for the last time they join together and use all their magic to bring back the old world that had space for them, a magical vision of pre-industrial rural japan. It's so beautiful and longed for that they forget what it is and try to run out into it, which breaks the spell, leaving them standing in a building site. And that's the end of the film, the good guys lose and nobody even knows that they fought. Anyway just typing that out has made me watery eyed, here's the jolly song that the credits roll to.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mxi8SmFys2U

yaffle has a new favorite as of 14:53 on Dec 3, 2023

# ? Dec 2, 2023 14:03

DrBouvenstein: Feb 28, 2007; I think I'm a doctor, but that doesn't make me a doctor. This fancy avatar does.

https://youtu.be/-xKM3mGt2pE?si=nUMpgch8p2qjdyq2

# ? Dec 16, 2023 04:13

Stoatbringer: Sep 15, 2004; naw, you love it you little ho-bot

Killingyouguy! posted:

With apologies to everyone I'm about to trigger,

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-5px3E5FwLw

My granddad took me to see it at the cinema when I was little. He presumably thought it was a cute cartoon about happy bunnies that�s perfect for kids to watch.

# ? Jan 20, 2024 20:17

Deep Glove Bruno: Sep 4, 2015; yung swamp thang

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=--wgHJfGCns
if you have not explored curtis mayfield's work and found a song that hits you, you should, you will.

there are lots of songs about heartbreak but this one feels like it really hits on both the start and end of a relationship equally in a weirdly happy sounding tragedy.

"i got the girl i waited for, she's just a wife, and nothing more" is brutal

# ? Jan 28, 2024 16:32

Midjack: Dec 24, 2007

The video for the song "Cheers" by the Taiwanese band Mayday. Last two minutes slay me every time:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qX2GsMj7154

# ? Jan 28, 2024 18:37

Autechresaint: Jan 25, 2012

This poem/song by max cooper makes me tear up, as a father of a 4yo.

https://youtu.be/rFVM40mTUtA?si=uqhd38q1laEEHnrA

# ? Jan 28, 2024 19:54

Cowslips Warren: Oct 29, 2005; What use had they for tricks and cunning, living in the enemy's warren and paying his price?; Grimey Drawer

Agaragon posted:

The part that really stuck with me was his effective last words when they were leading him away. "Remember me as I was." He didn't know *exactly* what they were going to do to him, but he knew that the end product wouldn't be him anymore.

It gets worse later on.

In short, after lots of research and corpses during the war, Shockwave finally gets his Regenesis project done, which lets him manipulate time and space, and Prime and Megatron show up to stop him, because collapsing the universe is kinda a truce thing. Megatron manages to snap his logical mind, and with the time-travel effects, pretty much brings the old emotional senator back, and he promptly freaks out: What have I done? What did they do to me? WHAT DID THEY TURN ME INTO?

Since they can't stop the machine with Shockwave surviving, he asks that they put him down, and while it goes off the rails later again, the senator is fully gone when they blow him up with the machine.

Shockwave survives though, but the Shockwave that is sent back in time isn't the briefly-resurrected senator anymore, even though he has emotions again, but just doesn't give a poo poo about shame or ethics, and decides to start his project anew and this time shape all of history as he wants. Dude should have just stayed dead.

# ? Jan 28, 2024 22:38

Ariong: Jun 25, 2012

Jack Stauber�s OPAL
Content Warnings (spoilers though): Child Neglect, Child Abuse, Substance Abuse, Dissociation, Blood (mild, briefly from 4:03 to 4:06)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-1pVLJl_snc

We see you, Opal!
Your troubles are MILES away,
We see you, Opal�

�and in our eyes you�ll stay.

Ariong has a new favorite as of 23:09 on Feb 15, 2024

# ? Feb 15, 2024 22:55

Borscht: Jun 4, 2011

This song:

https://youtu.be/0p8oeiVDcx4?si=6W-g5_j5omvAG-aZ

# ? Mar 16, 2024 06:34

Hempuli: Nov 16, 2011

Ariong posted:

Jack Stauber�s OPAL
Content Warnings (spoilers though): Child Neglect, Child Abuse, Substance Abuse, Dissociation, Blood (mild, briefly from 4:03 to 4:06)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-1pVLJl_snc

We see you, Opal!
Your troubles are MILES away,
We see you, Opal�

�and in our eyes you�ll stay.

Oh yeah, I watched this when it came out and it was harrowing, scary but very good

# ? Mar 16, 2024 06:36

Ariong: Jun 25, 2012

Borscht posted:

This song:

https://youtu.be/0p8oeiVDcx4?si=6W-g5_j5omvAG-aZ

Aw, this is so cute and wistful. I can totally see why this makes you crOH MY GOD THAT DOG HAS A GUN

# ? Mar 16, 2024 10:16

Chrpno: Apr 17, 2006

Just as of 5 minutes ago:

"That'll do, pig. That'll do."

# ? Mar 16, 2024 11:03

RenegadeStyle1: Jun 7, 2005; Baby Come Back

The end of Selena always makes me cry.

# ? Apr 9, 2024 23:22

The Wicked ZOGA: Jan 27, 2022

Hempuli posted:

3) I actually haven't read the book, but I've come across to the afterword of Philip K. Dick's A Scanner Darkly and it's very powerful; (CW: drug abuse) it's a dedication to all the friends and acquaintances that Dick lost to their drug abuse:
[...] For a while I myself was one of these children playing in the street; I was, like the rest of them, trying to play instead of being grown up, and I was punished. I am on the list below, which is a list of those to whom this novel is dedicated, and what became of each.
[...]
If there was any �sin�, it was that these people wanted to keep on having a good time forever, and were punished for that, but, as I say, I feel that, if so, the punishment was far too great, and I prefer to think of it only in a Greek or morally neutral way, as mere science, as deterministic impartial cause-and-effect. I loved them all. Here is the list, to whom I dedicate my love:
To Gaylene deceased
To Ray deceased
To Francy permanent psychosis
To Kathy permanent brain damage
To Jim deceased
To Val massive permanent brain damage
To Nancy permanent psychosis
To Joanne permanent brain damage
To Maren deceased
To Nick deceased
To Terry deceased
To Dennis deceased
To Phil permanent pancreatic damage
To Sue permanent vascular damage
To Jerri permanent psychosis and vascular damage

�and so forth.

In Memoriam. These were comrades whom I had; there are no better. They remain in my mind, and the enemy will never be forgiven. The �enemy� was their mistake in playing. Let them all play again, in some other way, and let them be happy.
Full afterword readable here: https://www.reddit.com/r/Frisson/comments/1hbexo/text_phillip_k_dicks_afterword_for_a_scanner/
This always makes me tear up.

The Phil he mentions here is himself.

# ? Apr 9, 2024 23:29

Ariong: Jun 25, 2012

Oh my god I can�t believe I haven�t posted this one.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S9VIKOuZcds

My Sweet Jax - Hot Dad

# ? Apr 9, 2024 23:50

Nordick: Sep 3, 2011; Yes.

Ariong posted:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S9VIKOuZcds

My Sweet Jax - Hot Dad

Ok, I absolutely, definitely should NOT have tried to watch this two weeks after my buddy Mauri had to be put to sleep.

The last photo I took of him. The last time he had a nap under my arm.
I'll never again hear his little muttering "mrh mrh mrh" noise and his paws tippy-tapping behind me as he followed me to the kitchen hoping for treats.

I miss that little weirdo so loving much.

# ? Apr 10, 2024 00:03

Hirayuki: Mar 28, 2010

Bluey again: "The Sign."

# ? Apr 16, 2024 03:57

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# ? May 11, 2024 13:27

Adrianics: Aug 15, 2006; Affirmative. Yes. Yo. Right on. My man.

Ariong posted:

Oh my god I can�t believe I haven�t posted this one.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S9VIKOuZcds

My Sweet Jax - Hot Dad

God, pets passing away is my loving kryptonite. My wife and I have two and I obsessively worry about this day basically every day.

I'm so jealous of artists who can put impossible feelings like this into written form.

always have a place in my home :unsmith:

# ? Apr 16, 2024 14:30

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