What do you find scary?
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Being held/restrained against my will...with blindfolds. It's odd, the blindfold or the binding separately don't phase me too much, but combine both and I suddenly freak out.
Essentially, being buried alive would be the WORST possible way to do me in, in my opinion.
Essentially, being buried alive would be the WORST possible way to do me in, in my opinion.
It's not too bad. Happened to me, can bend my arm slightly backward, so when I fell over and stretched my arm out to stop myself, the impact bent it too far the wrong way. I could go into detail because the break was quite dramatic but that probably wouldn't help. It sounds nastier than it is, though; I broke my arm by having someone land on it and that time was worse.Erana said:
EDIT: assuming you mean it like that, as opposed to being pulled apart. Not sure how that would work though.
I'm sure someone will make fun of me for the last one, but...heights to a degree, clowns w/ makeup, and...mirrors in dark rooms. I'm serious. If I am so much as in a hallway with a mirror on the wall, and the lights are off at night, I am sprinting for the light switch.
I'd just like to relate that I enjoy when this thread pops to the top of the forums, because it allows me to "read" the thread titles in sequence. Right now they say, "What do you find scary? Medical Conditions? Girl Gamers? The new X-Files Movie trailer?" (punctuation mine)
So carry on.
- J
So carry on.
- J
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1st tomb raider with randomly exploding eggs with fleshy mutants scared me shitless (was young)
and watching predator and haveing the red light from your projection clock point at your head
oh almost forgot zombie appocalypse
deep water
1st tomb raider with randomly exploding eggs with fleshy mutants scared me shitless (was young)
and watching predator and haveing the red light from your projection clock point at your head
oh almost forgot zombie appocalypse
You'd probably "Bring it" for a few seconds before being eaten, but go nuts.JOE COOL said:
Also, there's something not quite right about African Grey parrots. They look like they know.. something. And that, puts me at unease.
I am honestly surprised to find people mature enough to not insult other's fears. Also, the first FD movie still scares the crap out of me with its ramifications.
1. Being horribly maimed/ impaired (losing one or both eyes, hearing, limbs etc.) Not such an unreasonable fear in my case due to constant martial arts training. This gives the double whammy of increasing your awareness of the risks and the fragility of the human body plus the knowledge that training accidents do happen...
2. Slow, painful, unavoidable death.
3. Unthinking group behaviour.
4. Vicious marine creatures of various descriptions (used to be shit-scared of shark attacks, especially in opaque water, saw a stonefish about 3 feet from my fin when I was snorkelling in the Philippines and that really shit me up too.
5. Going to prison and being gang-raped. I think that's there for most men- see the Boondocks episode "a Date With the Health Inspector".
On the other hand, some of the things films and other media (such as games) use to get a scare, like the "jumpy" moments are just incredibly cheap. Sure, I react, (e.g. every time the body falls out of the fishing boat in Jaws, however many times I see it) but that's just a reflex. Something that gets inside your head and makes you scare yourself will always be more scary than huge blatant monsters and cheap-shot surprise moments.
2. Slow, painful, unavoidable death.
3. Unthinking group behaviour.
4. Vicious marine creatures of various descriptions (used to be shit-scared of shark attacks, especially in opaque water, saw a stonefish about 3 feet from my fin when I was snorkelling in the Philippines and that really shit me up too.
5. Going to prison and being gang-raped. I think that's there for most men- see the Boondocks episode "a Date With the Health Inspector".
On the other hand, some of the things films and other media (such as games) use to get a scare, like the "jumpy" moments are just incredibly cheap. Sure, I react, (e.g. every time the body falls out of the fishing boat in Jaws, however many times I see it) but that's just a reflex. Something that gets inside your head and makes you scare yourself will always be more scary than huge blatant monsters and cheap-shot surprise moments.
Being out late at night, alone, When the thugs/punks lurk around, waiting to start shit with random passers by for their own twisted pleasure.
Games that scared me:
Call of Cthulhu. Alot of it is cerebral terror. You have to think about it for it to be frightening.
Doom 3 was haunted-house scary. "Boo!" Mildly creepy, certainly made you heart race.
Ravenholm.
RE 4, the lonelyer parts of the Island were nice and creepy.
Hunter Synths are scary in a "oh shit" sort of way. close combat with them is very stressfull.
Half-Life's aquatic areas were very, very scary. I cant wait to see what the Black Mesa mod does with them.
Halo:CE, where the Flood first turn up, was the first truly scary game sequence I ever saw, it being the first real narrative PC game I ever played.
On a more general level, things like lobotomy and serious brain injury realy creep me out on a deep level. the way I see it, your brain comes with a warranty that you are You, but as soon as it gets opened up, that warranty is void. Then, who are you?
Call of Cthulhu. Alot of it is cerebral terror. You have to think about it for it to be frightening.
Doom 3 was haunted-house scary. "Boo!" Mildly creepy, certainly made you heart race.
Ravenholm.
RE 4, the lonelyer parts of the Island were nice and creepy.
Hunter Synths are scary in a "oh shit" sort of way. close combat with them is very stressfull.
Half-Life's aquatic areas were very, very scary. I cant wait to see what the Black Mesa mod does with them.
Halo:CE, where the Flood first turn up, was the first truly scary game sequence I ever saw, it being the first real narrative PC game I ever played.
On a more general level, things like lobotomy and serious brain injury realy creep me out on a deep level. the way I see it, your brain comes with a warranty that you are You, but as soon as it gets opened up, that warranty is void. Then, who are you?
Other than the usual (evil people with guns or sharp, pointy things), alligators. I'm a native fish nut and often collect fish (for keeping in aquaria) at night. You see the occasional snake or coon, or hear coyotes or even a panther or bear if you're far enough out in the country, but those are all things that want to avoid you. However some of the guys collect in southern Florida and Louisiana, where there are alligators! That water is black with tannins, so you can't see even a foot through it. They are often chest deep in that black water, even at night, running seines while keeping watch for alligators. That freaks me out just thinking about it. I love to fish Florida; no way am I wading in its fresh water. For some reason being chest deep in the ocean doesn't bother me (even though after I saw Jaws in Florida everything that struck our legs for the rest of the week chased us out of the ocean), but just the thought of wading in fresh water gives me the creeps.
Oh, and those foot long carnivorous centipedes and six inch long scorpions some people keep as pets, those totally freak me out. I'd never go to sleep with one of those in the house.
As to the bull sharks, they caught a six foot specimen in Ohio a couple decades back. But then a guy caught an alligator gar just shy of eight feet long and three hundred pounds a hour away from my house, so I guess the bull shark doesn't really scare me that much.
Oh, and those foot long carnivorous centipedes and six inch long scorpions some people keep as pets, those totally freak me out. I'd never go to sleep with one of those in the house.
As to the bull sharks, they caught a six foot specimen in Ohio a couple decades back. But then a guy caught an alligator gar just shy of eight feet long and three hundred pounds a hour away from my house, so I guess the bull shark doesn't really scare me that much.