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 films and videos games do (you will notice it more and more that this increasingly happens with media developed by lazy people).
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.
Thanks, this was my exact intention! I'm glad you like my shitpost!
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.
Not exactly what you're asking for, but Subnautica slowly builds on a primal fear without resorting to jump scares. It's increasingly unsettling and you start finding excuses to just stay in your habitat to decorate instead of going outside. Possibly the best horror game I've played.
Life is strange has elements of it (think Butterfly Effect: the game) during parts of the game, although it gets pretty explicit rather than subtle.
Oxenfree also has elements of it, with people behaving weirdly etc. But it also mostly gets fairly explicit. Still, no jumpscares.
FEAR, no I'm not kidding.
Try playing voices of the void. It's free and it has quite a bit of psychological/supernatural horror stuff
I completely agree, but I've never been able to articulate it this well. Do you have any scary movie recommendations? I've got a feeling we have similar taste.
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.
Were you trying to kiss yourself in the mirror?
I like to think that he forgets, keeps trying and then makes a new post about it
Yeah, but not on the lips.
Oh, hey Niel!
Lmfao that post was right above this one
I know you're going for creepy buuuut I read it more like a dude who doesn't get what a painting is.
I thought this was talking about DuckDuckGo mirrors, as in a software mirror of the site.
Now don't look at the lamp next to your sofa too closely.
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.
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.
reddit used to be better
I was going to say it's pretty depressing, but then I've remembered waking up in general in this awful world is
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.
reddit used to be a bit better
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.
Right, but this only works if you have DuckDuckGo set as your search engine.
Nah if u step back far enough it should show your whole body. The only exception being if its angled weirdly or if its not flat but curved in a special way.
Nope, the geometry actually works out such that it doesn't matter your distance from the mirror, only how tall the mirror is and how high it's mounted.
A mirror that is as half as tall as your, mounted at head height, will show your
whitewhole body regardless of how far away you are from it. TECHNICALLY, the bottom edge must be halfway between your eyes and feet, and the top edge must be halfway between your eyes and top of head.
the universe has forsaken me at DuckDuckGo
It's because you are a vampire and mirrors are no longer made out of silver. Just good old aluminium.
I'm allergic to aluminium.
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But you can't kiss a duck on the lips from the word go. Just ask Neil Degrasse Tyson.
Yeah, that's not a mirror. Say cheese!
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I don't get it. What is spooky or scary?
I thought it was just a funny joke.
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.
Wait they're not the same photons just bouncing? So it's some sort of switcharoo ?
Its a basic physics thing. You see not more of your body when you take a step back. That is normal and expected.
People just don't understand mirrors.
I did a horrifying experiment in uni with a mirror on the wall, and asked people to point at where they thought they could see their reflection . The obvious answer is of course "when you're next to it". A terrifyingly large number of people at a University assumed they could see themselves at a 45 to 60 degree angle, so several step before they actually reached the mirror.
Some of them were even shocked when they walked along it.
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.
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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this is an odd way to reference that one (theres probably a few) vsauce video on mirrors.
Not that i'm complaining.
