Creepy Pasta

[Apex]

Do you like creepypasta? Do you hate it?

For those of you who live under an internet-rock, creepypasta is a scary, shocking, and/or unnerving short story posted on the internet typically about pop-cultural subjects, such as video games, children cartoons, etc. Famous ones include the Ben Drowned (Majora's Mask creepy pasta.), Pokemon Black (the one with a ghost.) and many others. On a whole they are completely unrealistic, and often down-right stupid if you really think about it.

Do you read these? Do they scare you? Share your thoughts.

Normally they don't bother me a whole lot, and I don't lose any sleep over them. However I have been listening to a 'reading' of one called NES Godzilla on Youtube, and boy is it freaky. This is the first time where I'm having a hard time just getting through to the end of it. If you want to piss your pants, it's my recommendation. The further it gets the creepier it gets. Here is a link to the youtube playlist.

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLUNDvvODn6ZQ5m04gWbtN398bGPrOq54i

As a warning, this one contains a lot of visually-disturbing material, unnerving noises, and 1 or 2 jump scares in the later episodes. Don't say I didn't warn you.

[Dr. Ace]

I was going to write a while big fat post complaining about this **** but I could do it in one word: yawn.

[Moosetroop11]

I guess I've been living under an internet rock because I've never heard of this  : p

[Archem]

I like some of it, but most of it is far too hokey to be interesting.

[Prpl_Mage]

Writing haven't been able to spook me for a decade or so now. Donno, but words are just words. Same as video games, the enemies are only code and graphics.

[Dr. Ace]

Writing haven't been able to spook me for a decade or so now. Donno, but words are just words. Same as video games, the enemies are only code and graphics.

I'll go a step beyond and add film as well. I'm a big horror genre film but the only thing that "scares" me (read: get a shake out of me, not the feeling of fear) is the loud sound jump scares and that's the cheapest scares (if you can even call it that) you can get.

[Archem]

Writing haven't been able to spook me for a decade or so now. Donno, but words are just words. Same as video games, the enemies are only code and graphics.

You don't have a soul, I guess. I mean, it takes a lot to scare me, but the sense of immersion is what makes you forget about it being something manufactured. If you can't lose yourself in the fantasy and instead find yourself snapped into the real world the whole time, what are you doing on a site about video games (specifically RPGs)?

[Prpl_Mage]

I think it has something to do with the jump scare that Drace mentioned. If I'm playing a horror game / reading a horror story I kinda expect that the game / story will try to scare me. So I'm prepared for it. Having my own experience with making games also makes the games less scary since I know what could trigger what. In the end, it's the random loud noises or rounding a corner where an enemy suddenly stands that gets me. But it's a jump scare and then I shot them in the head (or the limbs in the case of dead space). So there's no "oh **** oh ****" panic anymore like it was when I played resident evil 1 for the playstation and found myself chased around a mansion like 12 years ago.

[Dr. Ace]

I remember people saying Amnesia was a game so scary. I decided to try it out, alone, at midnight in the winter, complete darkness, with headphones on really loud. Now while the feeling was there I can't say it was scary, I wasn't spooked out, I could just play normally. It's a shame that entertainment doesn't scare me anymore.

[Moosetroop11]

I can still get scared by games but I think I'm a total wuss : p I got scared by the vaults in fallout 3.