• BaroqueInMind@lemmy.one
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    Subtle supernatural horror is my fucking favorite.

    It doesn’t spoon feed you the scare, it doesn’t cheaply jump scare you like you’re a fucking toddler incapable of understanding danger like most low quality films and lazy video games do.

    It simply brings into your realization a certain primal fear that something isn’t right, and you can’t explain why.

    It’s unsettling because you don’t know for sure if you’re going to immediately die, which makes it even more frightening.

    It’s called uncanny.

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      What are some good games like that? I’m not a big fan of the jump scare horror games, so I tend to ignore most horror games on principle, but the genre is still fun when I find a gem.

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      Aaaaaaaaaaaand that’s exactly why the opening scene of Juon: Black Ghost/White Ghost made me scream like a child. The dread that rises up when something doesn’t feel right. There’s no build up to a scare…it just slams into you full force. Only movie I ever screamed while watching. Only happened once…but good God. We had to pause the movie and laugh for about 10 minutes as both me and my sibling both screamed.

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    I know you’re going for creepy buuuut I read it more like a dude who doesn’t get what a painting is.

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      Huh, never saw this one but in high school I had a dream just like this. I met a beautiful woman, perfect in every way, we got married had some kids, I even got some ways into middle age. Then, I was sitting in chair and noticed that my vision seemed… blurry at the edges, in a very “vignette filter” kind of way and I immediately knew I was dreaming. Woke up just as the existential collapse started. For several years after I’d try to remember her face, what our love had felt like, any of the details that had seemed so solid and tantalizing real for those few sleeping hours.

      In retrospect, a lot like that Rick and Morty episode with the life simulator game. I wonder if one of the writers ever had that dream too? Brains are weird, and I haven’t any dreams nearly that all encompassing since.

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        I had a dream like that about an ex. Everything perfect, house, kids, the whole thing. It felt like one of those super realistic dreams too. I woke up and got a panic attack that fucked me over for 3 or 4 days when I realized it was just a dream. Human psyche is scary as fuck sometimes.

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      I was going to say it’s pretty depressing, but then I’ve remembered waking up in general in this awful world is

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      Alrght. I’m leaving a comment here as a reminder to come back to this thread and tell my creepy pasta story.

      EDIT: i read the lamp story. it was ok i guess. mine is similar.

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    This is actually really interesting and I think about it every time I look in a large mirror. IIRC it is because the mirror is always “halfway” between you and your mirror image. So as you step back your mirror image gets further away and looks smaller, but so does the mirror.

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    Mirror technology timeline!
    Chirality ‘n’ shit.

    A mirror’s primary surface - a metal like silver that has just one electron sticking out alone in the top atomic orbital, plus other free electrons sliding around the surface, I believe - absorbs photons, then re-emits new photons almost exactly like the ones that came in.

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    That’s not just you, my reprojection mirror also has a fixed field view since the latest firmware update and the fuckers locked firmware downgrades so if you didn’t jailbreak yours beforehand, now you can’t and you can’t change the fov to more than 1:1

    No doubt because they’re about to release a pro version and that will be the only reason to pay extra for it.

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    Oh, you know it’s October when we’re bringing the spooky shitposts out. Like, I have spectrophobia, and I’ve had actual nightmares about this shit happening lol.