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As a child, I was shit-scared of African masks. I used to worry that they would sprout arms and legs and attack me.
Years later (we're talking a couple of decades), I was exposed to a cartoon adaptation of Jumanji by my nephew. This cartoon had walking African masks with spears. I had up to that point forgotton about my old fear of those masks, but that cartoon reminded me of all the horrifying feelings I used to get from seeing such masks, and actually shook me up for a minute or so. Now I love that kind of artwork, but I get a slightly uneasy feeling about them which is a remnant of my old fear. |
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.. That said: Hexadecimal was a babe. https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-w...exadecimal.png |
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Masks don't really scare me. But as soon as you mentioned Trypophobia, what did I go do?
Fucking Google Imaged it. What the fuck? No, that's not right. Not right! Ugh >.< |
Don't. I would never do that.
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Oh God, that made me feel physically sick. Must, remove, images, from, head, forever.
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Congratulations, now both of you too have trypophobia.
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Another thing that greatly disturbs me, when it really shouldn't, is Spengbab.
It's the grotesque, demented outcome of an innocent cartoon taken into the hands of 4chan. Seeing different impressions and pictures of Spengbab disturbs me a lot more than it should. There's just something about it. |
I dunno if it's a phobia for me Dyna, it's just fucking ugly, it looks like people have diseases that do that to their skin, like something's been chewing on necrotic flesh. x-x
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I would like to point out that anyone frightened by Amnesia is welcome to come over to my house and be beaten senseless and screamed at for an entire afternoon. You fucking pussies.
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Have you actually played it?
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Yes. Granted, it does a good job creating a creepy vibe but this nonsense people spout about it being the most ball-shiveringly terrifying feat of modern horror need to take a seat.
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Huh, well commendations to you, good sir. Personally, it scares the bejesus out of me. I'm aware it's not the most ball-shiveringly terrifying feat of modern horror, but it sure does do the trick when it comes to making my heart pound and hands shake.
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But Insecta is a class, not a kingdom! |
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I fucking worship Giger, but I was really disappointed in the Giger in Motion video. I'm not sure why. I'm sure they did the best they could, but it failed to match what I saw in my head when I first looked at the original paintings.
What scares me? Commitment. And black people. Fucking black people... they're after my material goods! |
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On the subject of trypophobia, I dont have it. Maybes its because I wanted the momma toad thing with babies in its back on discovery channel as a little kid. |
The Dark. In videogames it's being underwater and attacked by monsters, or when little things pop out of vents. This is why I can't complete Half Life.
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Having Googled trypophobia, it actually heavily resembles a haunting dream I once had where I contracted such a condition (probably brought on by reading too much Nurgle background late at night). I wouldn't say the dream was scary per se, but I never forgot it.
So now, if Dyna pisses me off, I know I can just recite the events of that dream and he'll go away. :
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Don't piss off MM? Check.
Also, I had a dream a while back (2 - 3 months ago) about a game I'm pretty sure I have played on the original Xbox when I was a lot younger. It was really surreal and creepy. I actually kept a little dream log back then writing down what I remembered of my dreams. It was fun, now I can read 'em and remember them pretty clearly. I know, it sounds strange, but anyways, the dream went a bit like this: - I wake up in a large cottage, there's two floors in it (possibly a basement) - I hear noises from the next room, a man and a woman probably - I look in the room and there are two ugly junkies making food out of people - The woman sees me (or my character) and the man recognizes me - Both start talking yet they don't react - I close the doors to upstairs and go downstairs, only to find blood prints - On the table, there is a sledgehammer and an axe, I take the sledgehammer - I go back upstairs and all of the sudden, the male junkie killed the woman - The junkie starts chasing after me with a big knife - I smash him with the sledgehammer for five times and then he dies - The balcony door opens and a businessman comes inside - He starts talking calmly to me, but then takes out a hammer and hits me with it - Dodge him and hit him with the sledgehammer, he's still breathing - He tells me that there are others in the house and dies - I black out and wake up downstairs, it's filled with zombie-like people - I hear a loud male voice reading a poem - The poem is about a large tree, resurrecting the dead and hanging people - The zombie-like things notice me and start walking towards me - I panic and faint and the dream ends Sorry, but I just wanted to get it out there if someone does know a game like that. I'm really almost sure that there is a game for the Xbox like that. Or at least something similar. I've been thinking about it for weeks. Either that or I have a really strange imagination. |
Maybe it's a precursor for events to come.
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Amnesia does have the benefit of being in first person, which makes everything scarier. The Condemned games are pretty scary, but I would chalk that up to the realism of the graphics, not necessarily the atmosphere. I heard the game Penumbra is pretty scary, but I haven't had a chance to play it. I get the impression I'll be underwhelmed. |
Resident Evil 2, fucking crows make me jump even now. It's the bloody music.
Horrible horrible voice acting though. Horrible. |
Everything in Resident Evil is horrible.
The voice acting, the writing, the characters. Someone told me they did that on purpose, to give it a more "pulpy" feel, but I don't understand why you'd go through so much trouble to make a game with universally acclaimed gameplay only to make it's characters so vapid and two-dimensional. But I'm getting off-topic... One thing that both frightens and fascinates me is deep-sea gigantism. Any massive, ocean creature. Strange how the things that I find most fascinating I also find the most terrifying. As much as I love Colossal Squid, I can think of no worse fate than being dragged by one of them into the black, crushing depths. |
I occasionally get inexplicable night terrors that can be set off by any number of things. It's completely irrational, and quite irritating, but Marble Hornets was the last thing to set off my night terrors.
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I never minded the story of the first three, as I keep saying, I stand but that the first 3 are the only true 3 Resident Evil's.
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Speaking of dreams, the most horrifying experience for me are the realistic ones. I'm not talking about waking up, thinking it was real for a few seconds and realising it wasn't. Once I had a dream that I killed my own mother. It included guilt, worry, horror and all the consequences afterwards. In the dream, I desperately tried to hide the evidence and at the end, I went to sleep (somehow). When I awoke in real life, little did I know it was all a dream. I started panicking, crying etc. I went to the closet (where I hid her body in the dream) and it wasn't there. That's when I really lost it.
That's when I saw mum get out of bed and realised it wasn't real. Took me a while to recover though. |
sounds ridiculous, but unnaturally deep voices. as in, that's-not-fucking-human deep voices.
another thing that scares, no, terrifies me is not being able to stop something terrible happening to a loved one. just being in a state of paralysis, unable to do anything but watch. that absolutely horrifies me. honestly. i hate even thinking about it. also, i've never really been afraid of death. i'm afraid of being in agony, because it fucking hurts (DURR HURR), but i'm not afraid of actually dying. my attitude is when it happens, it happens. i just hope when the time comes it's quick and not a prolonged, painful end. :
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From being a kid, I could never dangle any limb over the bed. I've never been scared of anything actually attacking me, but the exposed, vulnerable feeling I get makes me uncomfortable.
Sleep is a constant problem for me, as I am one of those who are fortunate enough to experience sleep-paralysis on a semi-regular basis. Every time I put my head down, I am reluctant to sleep, because it's likely I'll "wake up" paralysed, and there's no feeling worse in the fucking world. In fact, it happened last night, and I didn't feel like I could breathe at all. Couldn't move my legs or anything, and I was really uncomfortable. |
Sleep paralysis is by far the most scary thing that happened to me this year. Truly mortifying.
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The worst ones are the episodes where you feel like you can talk, and you're telling somebody to wake you up, and they just aren't responding. They are fucking horrible.
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Mhmm, the same time I felt someone pinning me down and the only way I could get 'him' off was by physically screaming out.
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I've stopped having major paralysis, and I have no idea why. It makes it more haunting because I think it's gone, but if it came back I'd be in for a shock. Last time, a few days ago I was lying on my stomach and it felt as if I was going to suffocate if I didn't wake up. Those are so horrible.
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That and the way there's always one waiting near my front door every time I get home late and it's dark and warm outside.. |
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Apart from Amnesia, the only games that have scared me are Call of Cthulhu (which was more of a heart-pounding panic than creeping dread) and Broken Dimensions (of which I'm not entirely sure why I find it so creepy). |
The Suffering freaked me out. that was a good game, actually.
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Silent Hill was pretty scary, but in my opinion, not as bad as Amnesia. The feel of helplessness and complete vulnerability just fucks me over. But that's just my opinion. And I'ven't played Condemned but it looks pretty creepy.
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I've heard that the Fatal Frame games are pretty terrifying as well. Unfortunately, I've been spoiled by next gen graphics, so I don't feel the icy grip of fear that I once did when I revisit those older horror games.
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Of course they fucked this up the second they introduced characters with military and arms training to the series. I actually think the latest release was just a free-for-all shoot 'em up. Ugh. :
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