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Our Lady, 'Half Life' and Being Scared

 
 
Our Lady of The Two Towers
16:39 / 17.09.03
OK, it started with 'Aliens Versus Predator' and finding that I couldn't play it any more, about the same time I found that I found the concept of the facehugger so disturbing I couldn't watch the films any more. Then I found I was having increasing difficulty with 'scary movies' and TV shows that had jump-in-your-seat moments in them. Now today, someone's bunged me a copy of Half-life and, running through the training program, I haven't even met any baddies yet but I was getting steadily more and more uneasy as it was going on. What is going on? Certainly I'm not spending my time hiding under the bed worried that the phone ringing is from my local serial-killer to make sure I'm in in case he want's to stop by, and I don't have any problem about being out on my own after dark or anything, but why is it that I'm suddenly having what could be like the early symptoms of panic attacks WRT fictional events?
 
 
Eloi Tsabaoth
17:11 / 17.09.03
It probably means that something really terrifying has fixed its ancient, lidless gaze upon you, and the cold creeping dread you are experiencing is your body trying to warn you but it's too late, much too late...
Or you're just becoming a big wimp.
 
 
Tryphena Absent
17:16 / 17.09.03
First time I played Quake I screamed everytime something aimed a gun at me. Let's just say I never got over my problem.
 
 
Gypsy Lantern
17:25 / 17.09.03
You can cure yourself of this problem very quickly by playing 'Parappa the Rapper' solidly for a couple of weeks. Get the songs permanently stuck in your head. Drive yourself mad. You'll really be thankful for something like Silent Hill after a few weeks of Parappa.

"Kick! Punch! It's all in the mind!" Aaaagh! Bastard! Bastard! Bastard!
 
 
Spatula Clarke
18:23 / 17.09.03
Randy hearts Parappa (but hearts Parappa 2 a little bit more).
 
 
Tezcatlipoca
18:54 / 17.09.03
Now today, someone's bunged me a copy of Half-life and, running through the training program, I haven't even met any baddies yet but I was getting steadily more and more uneasy as it was going on. What is going on?

Dude. You so need to play System Shock II by LookingGlass Studios (the guys who wrote Thief). It's essentially Event Horizon as a game, and is seriously fucking scary...
 
 
—| x |—
19:34 / 17.09.03
Well, not that anyone is going to care what I say anymore or take me like I am not trying to cause trouble, but:

I recommend any Tony Hawk proSkater game as a total blast and worth hours and hours of shredding entertainment with nothing to be scared of other than how high your dude will fly into the air once you jack up the stat points.

And there is a current of fear sweeping the world: people seem to be getting more and more fearful of almost everything. I blame the Americn Govt. and their foreign policies. That, and the Shoggoths they've got working for them in the sub-sub-subbasement of the Pentagon.
 
 
Our Lady of The Two Towers
20:07 / 17.09.03
But I don't find I'm feeling any more nervous 'out there', despite their best efforts I'm not worried that someone's going to be letting poison gas out on the underground, unless I'm actually projecting all my fears onto computer games for some reason.
 
 
STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK
16:34 / 18.09.03
Tez is absolutely right... I've just started System Shock II again, never having got very far through it, and it's making my flesh creep.

Silence the discord... your song is not our song
 
  
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