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.
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-Apples-
Apple Imperialist
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.
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.
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.
There are much better Nirvana songs than 'Smells like Teen Spirit'.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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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".
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".
chocovelvetcake
✨ girlboss era ✨
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.
-Apples-
Apple Imperialist
I would strongly support this law if it ever gets passed:
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
yassified for anonymity
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.
If I were taller, I think it would more awkward.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.
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LittleMissPanda
🐾 get a clue! 🐾
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
I can feel her plumpness through the screen
QueenCobra
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That was literally one of my favorite movies as a kid omg!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
I haven’t seen much talk about it, though.
-Apples-
Apple Imperialist
So once again, I made the mistake of posting crazy posts during a state of anger. I shouldn’t be doing that.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.
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).
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.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.
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.
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.
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.
-Mars-
Respect existence or expect resistance
Twins! I don't meet people around my height all that often! (Well I'm actually 5'5½" but close enough)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.