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I feel like now the real world is much more scarier than horror in media, I kinda got desensitized to fear in horror games. Still scary, but I remember being much more terrified when I was younger.

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[–] BurgerBaron@piefed.social 1 points 2 days ago

I feel like now the real world is much more scarier than horror in media, I kinda got desensitized to fear in horror games.

I think it's just accumulative life experience and it wouldn't matter if the world was regressive or not while I'm alive in my opinion.

Still scary, but I remember being much more terrified when I was younger.

“Gooey Gus" the purple slime monster from the PBS show “Ghostwriter" scared the absolute shit out of me and I had recurring nightmares for months after watching one episode of that 4 part storyline. I even suspect that if Aphantasia could be trauma induced, that's what did it lmao. I don't think I even watched the whole thing, my mother just happened to have it on while cooking dinner one evening on our tiny CRT TV.

So yeah I agree.

I've watched this show since as an adult and it's pretty good for the time it came out in for young adult audience horror but man is it goofy lol.

Here's all the episodes sitched together:

https://youtu.be/h5ksBjIP9k4

1994 so i would have been 4 years old when it aired, but maybe 5 or 6 if it was a rerun I can't remember.

These days I'm pretty hard to shake and I've watched most horror and played all the famous games. Except VR games. I won't play VR horror it's too much for me. Alien Isolation VR mod is the scariest thing I've ever tried to play and I couldn't do it.