I saw the film ages ago and thought it was pretty good, depressing but good.Fetus said:
I'm enjoying the book, the author has a very distinct style going on.
Most horrifying fictional apocalypse.
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I'm enjoying the book, the author has a very distinct style going on.
I have to go either with 40K, specifically a Tzeench apocalypse, because with Khorne, you know you will soon die, and at least Papa Nurgle makes you not feal any pain, Slaanesh is pretty terrifying due to...well...stuff that I'm not sure I'm allowed to post. But with Tzeench, you never know. It could be any or all, you just sit there, being horrified out of your mind (literally) waiting and wondering what the hell will happen next.
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Mass Effect's, because you can tell they have motives of sorts, and give the impression of ancient, but evilly methodical and souless (much like myself), wisdom. They also fuck shit up very, very quickly, so we wouldn't have time to adjust or fight back if it was us with our technology.
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Mass Effect's, because you can tell they have motives of sorts, and give the impression of ancient, but evilly methodical and souless (much like myself), wisdom. They also fuck shit up very, very quickly, so we wouldn't have time to adjust or fight back if it was us with our technology.
The one depicted in The Word and the Void series by Terry Brooks (and subsequently elaborated upon in Genesis of Shanara, but it's The Word and the Void where it's mainly terrifying). The apocalypse hasn't happened yet, but the Knights of the Word have visions every time they sleep of a post-apocalyptic world where demons rule. Nuclear weapons were used, most of humanity is dead, the handful of survivors live in fortified strongholds slowly falling to the armies of enslaved once-men used as grunts by the demons. These visions give them a task, a quest they need to complete to try and stop some horrifying event in the future. Despite that, the one thing they can never stop, never change, is the apocalypse itself. The world will end. Humanity will fall. All the Knights can do is make that end a little less painful.
It's a pretty standard post-nuclear apocalypse scenario (barring the whole demons and magic). What really takes it above and beyond the levels of horror in my mind is the whole inevitable nature of it. It will happen. The demons win, and everything will end in darkness. By having it looming over the story as the future of everyone involved, it takes it from being merely a depressing end to a horrifying consequence. Apocalypses are usually more bleak than horrifying, it's the promise of the Void's apocalypse that actually lends it a sense of horror.
All of which makes it rather impressive that the depiction of life in small town America in those books actually comes off as so utterly draining and life-sapping that you kinda want the apocalypse to happen...
It's a pretty standard post-nuclear apocalypse scenario (barring the whole demons and magic). What really takes it above and beyond the levels of horror in my mind is the whole inevitable nature of it. It will happen. The demons win, and everything will end in darkness. By having it looming over the story as the future of everyone involved, it takes it from being merely a depressing end to a horrifying consequence. Apocalypses are usually more bleak than horrifying, it's the promise of the Void's apocalypse that actually lends it a sense of horror.
All of which makes it rather impressive that the depiction of life in small town America in those books actually comes off as so utterly draining and life-sapping that you kinda want the apocalypse to happen...
The Second Renaissance.
The Collapse and the creation of Chung Kuo.
Those two are disturbing (for me) for the sheer failure of humanity in creating the apocalypse, and the hopeless resistance afforded against the aggressors, the machines in SR, and the Chinese in Chung Kuo.
But as bad as that is, its the aftermath of those two that scares me, the sheer surrender of humanity, the rewriting of history and the destruction of culture and self-determination.
As much as other apocalypses can be worse during the event, the fact they sooner or later end is of some ironic comfort as strange as that can sound. Its the ones that have an aftermath of our corruption or servitude, and that should they happen to me that no, I won't die quick, I'll suffer on.
The Collapse and the creation of Chung Kuo.
Those two are disturbing (for me) for the sheer failure of humanity in creating the apocalypse, and the hopeless resistance afforded against the aggressors, the machines in SR, and the Chinese in Chung Kuo.
But as bad as that is, its the aftermath of those two that scares me, the sheer surrender of humanity, the rewriting of history and the destruction of culture and self-determination.
As much as other apocalypses can be worse during the event, the fact they sooner or later end is of some ironic comfort as strange as that can sound. Its the ones that have an aftermath of our corruption or servitude, and that should they happen to me that no, I won't die quick, I'll suffer on.
Gotta be Nier. Talk about humanity going out with a whimper:
Endgame stuff
And the worst part is you're able to do all this because of the power of friendship...
Endgame stuff
Yeah, you saved your girl, but she's still gonna die from the plague and by killing the "bad guys" you've effectively ensured that this generation of "people" is the last, because they aren't real people and can't reproduce!
Oh, and those "monsters" you've been killing the whole time? They're the real people that have gone feral without a body! You were just supposed to take care of their body until they found a cure for that plague, but then you had to go and ruin it by developing a soul, how dare you...
Oh, and those "monsters" you've been killing the whole time? They're the real people that have gone feral without a body! You were just supposed to take care of their body until they found a cure for that plague, but then you had to go and ruin it by developing a soul, how dare you...
And the worst part is you're able to do all this because of the power of friendship...
The Biffpocalypse from Back to the Future II. OH THE HUMANITY!
Also, being devoured by Galactus would probably suck.
Also, being devoured by Galactus would probably suck.
Nah, guys, you alls wrong, dudes.
The REALLY scary apocalypse is gonna look and sound like this.
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There was almost a sequel like that. Check it out starting fom 2:02.
It finds a way to get around the blood test.
Damn. You win.
The REALLY scary apocalypse is gonna look and sound like this.
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http://blip.tv/at4w/at4w-211-the-thing-from-another-world-2-6399355Yelchor said:
There was almost a sequel like that. Check it out starting fom 2:02.
It finds a way to get around the blood test.
" I am a great soft jelly thing. Smoothly rounded, with no mouth, with pulsing white holes filled by fog where my eyes used to be. Rubbery appendages that were once my arms; bulks rounding down into legless humps of soft slippery matter. I leave a moist trail when I move. Blotches of diseased, evil gray come and go on my surface, as though light is being beamed from within. Outwardly: dumbly, I shamble about, a thing that could never have been known as human, a thing whose shape is so alien a travesty that humanity becomes more obscene for the vague resemblance. Inside: Alone."Silvanus said:
Damn. You win.
When that sequence, mixed with that song, came on the first time I watched it all I could think was "what the HELL is going on!? Why are they turning into orange kool-aid!? And WHAT THE FUCK IS THAT GIANT WOMAN AND WHY DOES SHE HAVE A VAGINA IN HER FOREHEAD!!!???" I was even warned that it was weird, but nothing could prepare me for that...bartholen said:
The SCP Foundation (Secure Contain Protect) found here: http://www.scp-wiki.net/ has been described as "Imagine Torchwood... run by 4chan." It is a database of various Creepypastas and has allot of world ending devices and artifacts that are 'secured' in various facilities.The_Great_Galendo said:
This. A world in which the SCP fails in it's purpose is a terrifying one. They have alot of things that could potentially destroy Millions, and these things are (in the actual Canon) scattered across the Planet. If anyone can make it so that they all gain access to the outside world, We'd all be screwed. Then there is just SCP-231-07. If they stop whatever horrifying procedure they are doing to this poor Girl, an apocalypse WILL happen.Doclector said:
Soul Nomad. Specifically the infamous Demon Path.
What basically happens is the hero decides to make a face heel turn before the story begins. Goes and burns down his village and takes out a World Eater. Eventually the hero becomes head honcho and world slowly goes insane. The fact that you became a much worst threat than the previous ones is really something and most of the characters spend a lot of time in the storyline to defeat the hero. Eventually the guys that join the hero's all go insane and/or depressed. And then there's a hope spot for everyone where pretty much every one who opposes the Devourlord (the hero) joins forces and tries to take him out. This includes 2 world eaters.
They can win and have a happy ending, where the hero will be eventually redeemed but if he/she wins it just goes to shit. Everyone but the hero lives and his/her god of death buddy inside his/her head (its a long story) talks about how they'll be together forever only to have the hero somehow eat him and gain more power. The hero then proceeds to destroy 2 gods (who were originally opposing each other I might add) and destroys the universe before going out with laughter.
Sure it may as well be a apocalypse on a larger scale but the way it plays out is pretty horrifying if you knew the details. I mean everyone who was the hero's friend in the normal path became enemies and the hero has to kill them. I mean some nitty bitty details from the normal path will even pop up too if you paid attention to both storylines. But honestly if you were to think about the whole Demon Path its horrifying.
Sorry for the long post about a game people hardly know or won't care about. Its just this game left a mark on me and I wanted to let that out.
What basically happens is the hero decides to make a face heel turn before the story begins. Goes and burns down his village and takes out a World Eater. Eventually the hero becomes head honcho and world slowly goes insane. The fact that you became a much worst threat than the previous ones is really something and most of the characters spend a lot of time in the storyline to defeat the hero. Eventually the guys that join the hero's all go insane and/or depressed. And then there's a hope spot for everyone where pretty much every one who opposes the Devourlord (the hero) joins forces and tries to take him out. This includes 2 world eaters.
They can win and have a happy ending, where the hero will be eventually redeemed but if he/she wins it just goes to shit. Everyone but the hero lives and his/her god of death buddy inside his/her head (its a long story) talks about how they'll be together forever only to have the hero somehow eat him and gain more power. The hero then proceeds to destroy 2 gods (who were originally opposing each other I might add) and destroys the universe before going out with laughter.
Sure it may as well be a apocalypse on a larger scale but the way it plays out is pretty horrifying if you knew the details. I mean everyone who was the hero's friend in the normal path became enemies and the hero has to kill them. I mean some nitty bitty details from the normal path will even pop up too if you paid attention to both storylines. But honestly if you were to think about the whole Demon Path its horrifying.
Sorry for the long post about a game people hardly know or won't care about. Its just this game left a mark on me and I wanted to let that out.
How aboutDemon Slayer X said:
When you spare a cute angel-kid, only to kill him in front of his best friend?
Also, try having a go at ExitMundi.
Definitely "I got no mouth and I must scream" If the name alone doesn't tell you enough...
It is a post apocalyptic world where there are five survivors rendered immortal by a evil machine (AM) and tortured every day, death never comes, and the pain never ends in a world ruled by a hateful god like machine that can reshape anything and everything at his whims.
I got no mouth, and I must scream.
It is a post apocalyptic world where there are five survivors rendered immortal by a evil machine (AM) and tortured every day, death never comes, and the pain never ends in a world ruled by a hateful god like machine that can reshape anything and everything at his whims.
I got no mouth, and I must scream.
