It's Raining Somewhere Else (rants)

Horror Games/Movies

Don't get me wrong, I love these things with a love/hate relationship. Can't get enough of them. This is about what these things do to us, but I'll be focusing more on the horror game part of this subject.

So I watch YouTube gameplays of horror games. My favorite person to go to for this is Markiplier-it's a great channel by the way, you need to check it out sometime guys-and he makes the games a whole lot less scary because of his commentaries throughout the entire video. Sometimes, I pay more attention to the video then the commentary and I scare the crap out of myself.

You see, the anxiety caused by the game is caused by us. We make it seem scarier than what it actually is, I know this but does it help the fact I could crap myself? No, you still get scared. Human nature is a strange thing. We can normally tell when something bad will happen in horror movies and games because of the ominous music, but we jump anyway because we make it scarier then what it actually is. Like say the game/movie is like maybe 30% scary and you still jump and scream because even though you may have been expecting it, it still scares you because you make it scarier.

So let's get to my little rant about this. Who knows when this is published or something. So on October 24 I woke up at two in the morning from a nightmare. It was utterly terrifying to me and I couldn't sleep until four and I woke up two hours later to get ready for school. But anyways, I woke up terrified. My nightmare consisted of the animatronics from Five Nights at Freddy's and the zombies and protagonist of the game The Evil Within. I had watched videos from the Game Theorists and Markiplier before I went to sleep. The Game Theorists is also a great channel if you like them ruining your childhood. But anyway, I had watched a FNaF (it's shorter than typing Five Nights at Freddy's) video that explained it to a whole new level of crap your pants. Several hours later, I watched part five for TEW (still shorter then typingThe Evil Within) on Markiplier's channel. I went to bed around maybe tenish. Here's the nightmare part. My dream crossed FNaF and TEW. You were in third person as the protagonist from TEW and there were those four fucking animatronics from FNaF, plus the zombie things from TEW. No matter how much you shot at them, they would not die. Nothing worked, not the grenade, nothing. They were all unkillable. The only option you had was death. I woke up terrified that something would get me and no matter how many times I told myself "You're just making it scarier than it actually is" the terror and fear would not go away. I stayed up until four, reading, listening to music, writing, just anything to keep my mind off that nightmare. I couldn't calm down and I'm skittish as I write this. The smallest noise in my house made me jump.

Now you have it. This rant is complete. I guess you could say it's a technicality too. Anyway, Hero out.