See, the reason Lusamine gets so much praise as a villain is because, behind all the talk of space travel and intergalactic monsters, there's a very real kind of antagonist that so many people have to deal with every single day: a mother, or a father, or some other close person in someone's life that treats them terribly and disregards their feelings about it. That's such a relatable and real terror for so many people that Lusamine feels so much more villainous than other team leaders because that kind of evil hits hard on a personal level.
So why is this story so scary? Why does everyone consider it bad? Well, that's because Spottedpaw is being manipulated by Thistleclaw. It's not her fault, it's entirely Thistleclaw's fault. It's scary because we had a Warrior Cats book about a child predator.
Wesley: You forgetting how we met? You were strapped to a sacrificial altar while the goddess Yeska was called forth from the nether regions to consume you.
Virginia: But I grew up with all that sort of stuff. Creepy crawlies and scary monsters I can handle - but guns? Kind of makes it all a little too real, you know?
Virginia: But I grew up with all that sort of stuff. Creepy crawlies and scary monsters I can handle - but guns? Kind of makes it all a little too real, you know?
— Angel
Ugh, that first one. I'm glad I only ever had to see that once on youtube. The others are much more bearable as there's not any real pain or agony in them. But that first one, the screaming, the boiling skin...guh...
—YouTube commenter edward18517 on the Prevent-It.ca workplace safety ads
(WARNING: link features serious simulated injuries)
(WARNING: link features serious simulated injuries)If you're too young to appreciate it yet, consider yourself fortunate. Debt sucks.
—SCP Foundation author djkaktus, on SCP-2271 ("Factory Loans")
"WarGames posits David as the hero because he convinces WOPR that the rules of the game are flawed. David might be motivated by human compassion, but crucially, the way he wins is by thinking like an algorithm, not the other way around. This is WarGames' mic drop moment, a twist that feels more subtle and chilling now than it did forty years ago. WOPR isn’t scary like Skynet or ruthless like HAL. What makes WarGames so good is that the killer AI here isn’t exceptional. Like the tech we take for granted today, the AI threat in WarGames is boring and ordinary. And that is scary."
"Just because you reveal a killer's motives doesn't automatically mean he's not scary, BUT there's an irreversible shift a character takes when their motivations go from 'Because I enjoy murdering children' to 'I want to become immortal'. You go from Serial Killer scary to Dr. Wily scary."
"It's hard to truly say that reality is stranger than fiction, but there's definitely an argument to be made that it's scarier. Yeah, fiction can come up with new ways to scare us, but we're ALWAYS scared of what we know is already out there: people just like us, doing things NOTHING like us. ...Guys that are gonna kill you, is what I'm saying."
''Ngl I found Turmoil to be much more terrifying than the other mod opponents, why? Because Turmoil's just a normal Mario turned feral, and it's entirely possible that you can encounter...things like this. With everyone else, they're either joke opponents or scary-looking. For the latter, I can simply reassure myself that they're not real, yet I'd still remain unsettled. But Turmoil? It's how they act, and what they DO that feels too rooted in reality."
—AzulStryer, in the comments section of Friday Night Funkin': Mario's Madness' official upload of "Last Course"
DM: Even from the beginning, the smiles were in no way magically induced. Just good ol' psychological self-inflicted peer pressure.
Applejack: Why does that sound... kinda worse?
DM: Because it's a thing that can actually happen.
Applejack: Why does that sound... kinda worse?
DM: Because it's a thing that can actually happen.
The Caliban is, first and foremost, an example of how dangerous it is to sleep on IPS-N when the question of "who's the scariest armor manufacturer" comes up. Let me lay it down for you:
Harrison Armory's dogmatic nationalism and imperial ambitions? Deeply troubling.
SSC's weird eugenics? Uncomfortable.
HORUS's deeply nihilistic disregard for handing out paracausal weaponry to random people? Horrifying.
IPS-N's reason for making a tool designed to kill human beings very, very quickly? Expedience.
— Lancer player VEX, on The IPS-N Caliban mech.
."I honestly think the reason why Belos is so hated is because of Hunter—full stop. If he wasn't abusive toward Hunter and people didn't project their own feelings onto Hunter and see how relatable his situation is, then I doubt Belos would get this much vitriolic hate.[…]
Again, I think that what triggers people about Belos is how he treats Hunter not the whole witch genocide thing or "colonization" because the show spends more time showing us how much Hunter suffers than the whole Boiling Isles."
Again, I think that what triggers people about Belos is how he treats Hunter not the whole witch genocide thing or "colonization" because the show spends more time showing us how much Hunter suffers than the whole Boiling Isles."
