D61 [any]

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  • D61 [any]toaskchapoWhat is your least favourite horror trope?
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    3 days ago

    Seemingly unkillable monster that has, for the entire film, proven itself to be unkillable gets "killed" only to murder the person who is standing ontop of the dead/not dead monster while looking back at the rest of the group.

    Like, seriously, you know the thing isn't easy to kill. Why suddenly lose all sense of self preservation and paranoia about the monster's leathal state?

    Honorable mention to the "unecessary sacrifice" where a character "bravely" stands in the way of the monster (who tears through them like tissue paper) instead of running away to give the rest of the characters something like .001 second more time to run away.





  • D61 [any]totechnologyNever Forgive Them
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    5 days ago

    or they might just assume that tech has always sucked, or they’re just personally incapable of using the tools that are increasingly fundamental to living in a modern world.

    Been having that thought more and more lately.




  • JT, Hakim, and Yugopnik actually met in person recently. They then posted some videos about their meetup and one of the stories was about Hakim, during a bit of a walkabout in the "unamed city" with the boys immediately buying a cantalope (or cantalopes? can't remember) and then having to carry it around all day.

    Just woulda been a wierd bit of syncronicity to have a dream where you met up JT and Yugopnik but you were Hakim.




  • Context might matter.

    For an event that just happened, maybe the person is looking more to be the center of attention than looking for a person with a shared experience. Same might be applicable if a person is acting upset.

    When the even has happened farther in the past it is probably more likely (and more appropriate) to share your story/experiences as an act of comiseration.

    Even among n'typicals we don't really know how to handle things.

    One of my parents died years ago while I had a full time job, so I gave HR a heads up that I might need to do some short warning "I'm not going to make it to work today to go deal with beauracracy" call-ins. HR let one of my bosses know and they tried to talk to me about it but just kept awkwardly repeating how much it would devastate them if their parent died. While understandable it put me in a situation where I didn't really know how to comfort them being upset that my parent's death got them thinking about their parent hypothetically dying. I just politely nodded until they decided to go away. It was a... very... long five minute interaction.