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Post by Caylus Ark on Oct 10, 2017 14:35:37 GMT
I was watching a no commentary let's play of a game called outlast yesterday. It's supposed to be pretty scary, set in this state mental facility where cruel and strange experiments were being performed on patients. You are a journalist looking to crack the case. There are tons of dead bodies and severed heads when you arrive, and the door locks behind you by the time you realize the amount of danger you're in. As it turns out, the people involved with the mental hospital have been carrying out gruesome variations of mk ultra experimentation.
The youtuber finished the game in 3 hours. I watched it for about an hour - and I do plan to watch the last two hours because I'm intrigued by the story. But at no point did it raise my blood pressure. Creepy people in straight jackets following you silently, patients screaming at you and ripping each other's heads off, bloody laboratories, ect.
I mean what feels like a lifetime ago, I would have found this stuff scary. It's set in the greatest place to freak people out, a mental hospital. But the blood on the walls and the threat of death and all that aren't the feeling of hell. It's not what's scary about a mental hospital either. When I was watching, I was curiously disaffected. For the player, they're going on a tour of a nightmare scene. But I've been in nightmares, awake and not knowing what is real, awake and experiencing my death a thousand times over.
So now I'm not sure. When I see scary stuff, blood and gore and bodies parts, or "jump scares", it's meh. It's whatever.
Is there a certain point you reach as an adult where you just aren't afraid of the dark? Or is it the people who know the dark the most who can't be affected by it very easily?
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Post by Corvus Dei on Oct 10, 2017 17:38:00 GMT
Depends, I go through different phases. In the past I could easily read up on very dark, real life related material.. sure it would make me nauseous and upset, but I could handle it. Did it for education, not for masochistic reasons. Right now, even though I'm older, I'm mentally, emotionally more fragile with regards to dark stuff, especially if it's just fiction that wants to mind fuck you (for that reason I can't for example stand watching Black Mirror.. the dark plot twists worked through into my nightmares). This year I've had some experience with the local underlayer of society, being aware of situations with drugs, potential rape and murder of someone I know.. Working on leaving this place and some people behind, because it's just not healthy. There exist people who imo don't deserve to be called human anymore.. Well I could dwell on such subjects all day and get very depressed, so I forget that and focus on other things. Just unsettling when it comes close to home. Spiders still scare the hell out of me. I should start letting them crawl on my hands and stuff, pet them, to extinguish my phobia Then one day, I'll come back with my own little spider army. <3
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Post by Caylus Ark on Oct 10, 2017 20:00:29 GMT
I remember after I had my breakdown I was extremely sensitive to anything remotely dark and would watch a lot of cartoons almost exclusively. Now I am on almost the opposite side of the spectrum, I often have really heinous nightmares and I wake up just feeling sort of passively intruiged and nothing else.
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Post by Corvus Dei on Oct 10, 2017 20:41:33 GMT
Yeah, my breakdown has made me sensitive as well. But that's slowly decreasing. In the end I want to have the resilience to withstand any nasty stimuli and ideas as well, of course without becoming numb and indifferent to real suffering of others.
Horror games and movies might give some kind of thrill to some. To me, that kind of fictional experience has always seemed either funny, or in a way sadistic to the audience, or for someone like me masochistic to watch, especially if it's very twisted. I have a lively imagination for the most part, and like to feed it with ideas and experiences I can build stories with that actually make some sense and have light at the end of the tunnel, or something. Maybe hypocritically, as an artist I also take the license to add darker aspects to stories or artwork.. maybe because in creativity some of the Shadow pops its head up.. more of confusion and challenges to the characters and readers, than horror that's meant to shock and awe. I have some perhaps gruesome artpieces in mind I want to make, such as a painting full of dead bodies, skulls, gore etc. heaping up at the altars of tyrannical religions and political movements, with priests, intellectuals, soldiers and politicians standing by. Not meant to shock and instill fear, as much as disgust, sadness and perhaps some shame. I'm rambling too much, sorry. :/
Caylus, are some of your nightmares potential story material, or are they just twisted, random and heinous beyond hope?
I remember at least 2 nightmares in my life that would make for a bit dark and difficult, but possibly interesting plots.
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Post by Caylus Ark on Oct 11, 2017 16:26:22 GMT
Horror games and movies might give some kind of thrill to some. To me, that kind of fictional experience has always seemed either funny, or in a way sadistic to the audience, or for someone like me masochistic to watch, especially if it's very twisted. I have a lively imagination for the most part, and like to feed it with ideas and experiences I can build stories with that actually make some sense and have light at the end of the tunnel, or something. Maybe hypocritically, as an artist I also take the license to add darker aspects to stories or artwork.. maybe because in creativity some of the Shadow pops its head up.. more of confusion and challenges to the characters and readers, than horror that's meant to shock and awe. I have some perhaps gruesome artpieces in mind I want to make, such as a painting full of dead bodies, skulls, gore etc. heaping up at the altars of tyrannical religions and political movements, with priests, intellectuals, soldiers and politicians standing by. Not meant to shock and instill fear, as much as disgust, sadness and perhaps some shame. I'm rambling too much, sorry. :/ Not at all. I actually understand exactly what you mean, because I used to feel the same way. I thought there was no reason to really give any energy to that sort of twisted thing. I guess the recent desire came from a curiosity to know myself, because I suspected it wouldn't affect me anymore the way it used to...
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Post by Source on Oct 25, 2017 3:26:12 GMT
I don't consume gore,horror or even violent images... One must be careful with what one puts inside ones head ...
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