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[Midoriya]

I dunno if anyone else experiences this, but I have my whole life and it's really weird honestly.

so there are certain sounds and melodies that scare me. it's not the volume/loudness that scares me, I guess maybe it's the... texture of the sound? the way it presents itself? I don't know how to explain it. a classic example for me would be the THX intro. I was terrified of it as a kid, and even as an adult it scares me so bad that I have to turn off my TV or cover my ears when I'm about to hear it. other sounds/melodies that scare me include the Lyrick Studios intro, and the Walt Disney home video intro. there might be other ones that I can't think of right now.

anyway, I was having a somewhat pleasant dream, but then suddenly in my dream I heard what sounded like a distorted PS2 startup sound. the sound that a PS2 makes doesn't scare me, but that's not quite what this was. it was the same sound, but then on a TV screen it turned to this black screen with text saying that a game could not be read, and the sound quickly dropped in pitch and ended abruptly. and that sound scared me so much it woke me up. I'm playing it back in my head compulsively (and intrusively) too, trying to make sense of it, so it's still scaring me a bit.

it was kind of interesting to see people in the comments of the Disney intro video saying that it scared them as a kid. has anyone here experienced something like this? I don't even know how to explain my irrational fear of the Lyrick intro lol.


edit: I just went and saw (with the sound off ofc) the THX intro for the first time in a while, and even that freaking blue rectangle instills in me this crazy kind of fear.

edit again: OH MY DOG HOW COULD I FORGET KLASKY CSUPO LOL

I don't think I've experienced anything quite like that, but I know I do have pretty bizarre nightmares from time to time. That sounds scary though, I bet it was a relief to be awake after that.

 

[Seastar]

I remember being really scared of when my family's old TV would switch to showing static. It made a horrible noise whenever this happened and sometimes I ran out of the room. When we switched to cable, accidentally pressing the channel buttons for the TV instead of the cable would always switch it to that loud static. I was pretty scared of touching it. One time it accidentally got put into a mode where it slowly switches through every channel and that was somehow even scarier to me.

 

[-Apples-]

Even after everything that happened within the last five years, my political opinions from 8-10 years ago are still the same as they are today. In particular, I still support repealing Obamacare without replacement, and I still oppose the national anthem protests in sports games. I may be anti-Trump, am against groups like the Proud Boys and Oath Keepers, and oppose the extreme laws Abbott and Desantis got through, but that doesn’t change my views I had in the past.

One thing I did regret was buying into climate change denial. I did that solely to side with the conservatives. But I realize that science can’t be debated, even if you are against laws like environmental regulations. You may have a point if you oppose regulations, but once you deny science or defend those who deny science, then your credibility goes down.

 

[Beanz]

i'm still scared of the emergency broadcast system test alerts

 

[-Blue-]

I dunno if anyone else experiences this, but I have my whole life and it's really weird honestly.

I've heard certain things that make me associate it with something else because it sounds very similar, but never anything where a jingle made me afraid either now or as a kid. Definitely jump scares scared me when I was a kid, especially if it was for a creepy game lol. Omg Eternal Darkness for the Gamecube scared me. There was one scene where you could interact with the bathtub and then it did a bunch of combined still shots, with a loud ghostly scream, and a dead lady in the tub and then it went back to normal.

I looked at some of the clips you provided and a lot of the comments are just saying they like/give them nostalgia. Except for the thx one. Lots commented they were scared of that. I'm going to guess it's the high pitch buzzing. So depending on the noise and frequency of it.

 

[SkyKnight03]

There are much better Nirvana songs than 'Smells like Teen Spirit'.

 

[Croconaw]

I took a few days to myself and decided to return to the forums. I have a few people I enjoy interacting with here. I appreciate those that have reached out to me outside of the forum.

Also, I want to see the Dog Man movie. I was wondering why I wasn’t familiar with the books, and it turns out the first one wasn’t released until after I graduated high school. Man, that makes me feel old. Still, the movie looks great.

 

[Suguri]

Speaking of Dog Man: I'm starting to become fixated on that oops.

I put a bunch of books (the ones after Lord of the Fleas, where I left off) from my library on hold and I think I'm going to watch the musical too. The full thing's on Youtube!

edit: oops I thought the Library of Congress video that popped up when I searched for it was the real one. Gotta keep looking.

 

[SkyKnight03]

My first username online was named after a flash game.

I had people who would write to me "Hey, I loved your game".

I'm like "no mate I didn't actually make the game, but I'm glad you loved it".

 

[Yoshi155]

I just realized that whenever I make a post, if you’re viewing the site from a computer or on a phone that you’re holding sideways, it looks like Shadow Sir Lancelot is saying it lol.

 

[chocovelvetcake]

After some thinking, I finally had the guts to make a blue sky account. I don't think I'll be super active on bluesky, tho. I heard some people were migrating to bluesky from twitter and I thought I'd try it out.

 

[AccfSally]

My old MP3 players, they still work. But my (Chromebook) laptop absolutely hates both of them.
The one on the left has a radio on it. I remember recording the songs I liked at the time on it.

 

[-Apples-]

I would strongly support this law if it ever gets passed:

Spoiler: Fair Gaming Act

If a video game is unreasonably difficult, uses artificial difficulty in any way, and/or expects players to complete the hardest challenges to progress further, then the game is prohibited sale in the United States.

 

[QueenCobra]

I’m not that much taller than the average woman (5’6”, so only two inches taller) but I feel like I tower over a lot of women. If I were taller, I think it would more awkward.

 

[Yoshi155]

I would strongly support this law if it ever gets passed:

Spoiler: Fair Gaming Act

If a video game is unreasonably difficult, uses artificial difficulty in any way, and/or expects players to complete the hardest challenges to progress further, then the game is prohibited sale in the United States.

Damn, I guess that means I won’t have the misfortune of being able to experience Mega Man X6.

I know this is hypothetical, but I think that would be a terrible law. First of all, that would ban almost every game released in the 80s and 90s, but also, I feel like some games that are really hard can be fun. Sometimes they’re hard because of atrocious game design, which does deserve to be criticized when it happens, but when it’s hard in a well designed way, it can be satisfying to master. And if you really don’t like the game because it’s hard… just don’t play it. Plus, imagine how much the government would be made fun of by literally everyone if they spent the time and effort to pass a law banning hard video games. Everyone would just make jokes about how they did it because they couldn’t beat Dark Souls or Cuphead some other hard game, or they’re an IGN reviewer. That’s just a skill issue at that point.

 

[LittleMissPanda]

The scene in Lion King 1/2 where Timon's mom gives her boy one last big, warm, squishy, spine-breaking hug for the road.....

I can feel her plumpness through the screen

 

[QueenCobra]

The scene in Lion King 1/2 where Timon's mom gives her boy one last big, warm, squishy, spine-breaking hug for the road.....

I can feel her plumpness through the screen

That was literally one of my favorite movies as a kid omg! I haven’t seen much talk about it, though.

 

[-Apples-]

Damn, I guess that means I won’t have the misfortune of being able to experience Mega Man X6.

I know this is hypothetical, but I think that would be a terrible law. First of all, that would ban almost every game released in the 80s and 90s, but also, I feel like some games that are really hard can be fun. Sometimes they’re hard because of atrocious game design, which does deserve to be criticized when it happens, but when it’s hard in a well designed way, it can be satisfying to master. And if you really don’t like the game because it’s hard… just don’t play it. Plus, imagine how much the government would be made fun of by literally everyone if they spent the time and effort to pass a law banning hard video games. Everyone would just make jokes about how they did it because they couldn’t beat Dark Souls or Cuphead some other hard game, or they’re an IGN reviewer. That’s just a skill issue at that point.

So once again, I made the mistake of posting crazy posts during a state of anger. I shouldn’t be doing that.

However, even though it is a bad idea to pass laws like this (it won’t even make it through Congress), artificial difficulty (such as knockback damage, rubber-banding AI, and additional barriers to a high-health boss) is a bad design decision. It’s even worse if objectives have a high bar amongst artificial difficulty and are required to beat the game (or even 100% it). As I say, you shouldn’t make games impossibly hard and expect people to beat it. That’s like making Calculus a required math course in high school before graduating (and you need a B or higher to pass).

 

[-Blue-]

Damn, I guess that means I won’t have the misfortune of being able to experience Mega Man X6.

I know this is hypothetical, but I think that would be a terrible law. First of all, that would ban almost every game released in the 80s and 90s, but also, I feel like some games that are really hard can be fun. Sometimes they’re hard because of atrocious game design, which does deserve to be criticized when it happens, but when it’s hard in a well designed way, it can be satisfying to master. And if you really don’t like the game because it’s hard… just don’t play it. Plus, imagine how much the government would be made fun of by literally everyone if they spent the time and effort to pass a law banning hard video games. Everyone would just make jokes about how they did it because they couldn’t beat Dark Souls or Cuphead some other hard game, or they’re an IGN reviewer. That’s just a skill issue at that point.

Retro games were so incredibly difficult that most who owned consoles didn't beat or even get pass the basic levels. It was kind of unheard of or a huge legendary bragging right if you just finished a game from that time period. I found an NES and like 40 games in a box at some yardsale for $5. More than half of them were super hard and also what we would consider shovelware now days.

It was the pioneer years of videogames and random companies just jumped in guns ablazing and they almost caused the game industry to crash. I like that game difficulties are more accessible now. More games need to do that. Just have easy to hard modes. I don't care, I'll say it. I've put games on easy mode when all I care about is the story and the gameplay is a artificial difficult slog.

 

[Yoshi155]

So once again, I made the mistake of posting crazy posts during a state of anger. I shouldn’t be doing that.

However, even though it is a bad idea to pass laws like this (it won’t even make it through Congress), artificial difficulty (such as knockback damage, rubber-banding AI, and additional barriers to a high-health boss) is a bad design decision. It’s even worse if objectives have a high bar amongst artificial difficulty and are required to beat the game (or even 100% it). As I say, you shouldn’t make games impossibly hard and expect people to beat it. That’s like making Calculus a required math course in high school before graduating (and you need a B or higher to pass).

Yeah, I definitely agree with you on that, artificial difficulty isn’t good design (*cough cough* Mega Man X6 *cough cough*). But not all difficulty is bad design.

Retro games were so incredibly difficult that most who owned consoles didn't beat or even get pass the basic levels. It was kind of unheard of or a huge legendary bragging right if you just finished a game from that time period. I found an NES and like 40 games in a box at some yardsale for $5. More than half of them were super hard and also what we would consider shovelware now days.

I remember hearing somewhere that the reason that they made older games so hard was to artificially increase the playtime since the games were usually pretty short, and so that people renting the games would be more likely to want to buy it. That makes a lot of sense. But then most of the difficulty is just stuff that’s unfair, so looking back at it now, a lot of them have aged poorly.