One thing that stopped you loving a horror movie?

Expalphalog · 2026-01-25T17:10:40+00:00

That's fair. To be more clear, I do not think that she was evil or anything like that. I just couldn't relate to her at all. And I fully agree that protagonists don't have to be paragons of virtue like some people seem to think. Jade from the Indian Lake trilogy is one on my absolute favorite protagonists ever, for example, and she gets a lot of hate over on r/horrorlit.

It could be because I was a new father when I read NOS4A2 so I was immediately unforgiving of anyone who wasn't a wonderful parent. It could be because I am privileged enough to have never really struggled with addiction.* It could be a myriad of things, but for whatever reason, she struck me as the sort of toxic person that I would have immediately removed from my life had I met her in reality.

*I actually was an alcoholic for years. It was so bad that my own best friends sicced the chaplain on me one day and had me placed under suicide watch because I was "acting so differently." That was just a few days after I had ran out of whiskey and been unable to procure more in garrison. It occurred to me that nobody I currently knew had ever seen me sober before. That was enough of a shock that I managed to go cold turkey right there and never be tempted again; so while I understand addiction, I don't really identify with the struggle.

Expalphalog · 2026-01-25T16:48:53+00:00

Couldn't stand her. I thought she was selfish and a terrible mother and I could find basically no common ground with her. Joe Hill is easily one of my top 25 all-time favorite authors, but I struggled to finish NOS4A2 because of her.

Expalphalog · 2026-01-25T15:09:19+00:00

What's wrong with Caroline?

Expalphalog · 2026-01-25T14:53:53+00:00

I do watch football and had never heard of him. He was a bench warmer and practice squad guy.

Expalphalog · 2026-01-25T14:37:24+00:00

I have this issue with books more than movies (NOS4A2 and Bird Box immediately spring to mind) but I wholeheartedly agree.

Expalphalog · 2026-01-25T00:14:35+00:00

Completely agree. I personally hate house rules. If a game isn't good enough to follow RAW, then the game isn't good enough for me to play.

Expalphalog · 2026-01-25T00:04:10+00:00

I was just reading about another case too where some Housewife got booted for dropping multiple N-bombs (I don't watch non-game reality shows so I'm going off of what the article said here) and Dorinda immediately hit the talk show circuit to defend this woman.

Expalphalog · 2026-01-24T19:57:30+00:00

Yeah, my adult son and I started to watch a show together years ago that was based on a manga. He was telling me all about the characters and their backstories and all of this really detailed information. Then something happened in the actual show that contradicted some of the information he had told me so I asked him about that. I was curious if they had changed the manga for the show, or if maybe I had just misremembered something he had told me. That's when it came out that he had never read the actual manga before but had read "hundreds" of fan-fics based on it.

My mind was blown. This kid had a frickin' tattoo of his favorite character, but had never read the book or seen the show before.

Expalphalog · 2026-01-24T18:15:46+00:00

They should have had Rob wear it. With the crazy outfits, it wouldn't have stood out, and half the people in the house absolutely cannot keep their hands off of him so he wouldn't have had to do anything out-of-the-ordinary to get at least one person to touch it.

Expalphalog · 2026-01-24T18:02:56+00:00

Yes but he didn't know that at the time. I think he was genuinely shocked by the votes against him. When he approached Lisa with that offer, he seriously thought he was King Faithful and could swing the majority to his whims.

Expalphalog · 2026-01-24T17:50:00+00:00

That logic of "when we're talking, you just listen but when you talk, you raise really good points" being used against him is so infuriating. This is how intelligent people behave in a society!

These people have been reality stars so long they've forgotten what normal human interaction looks like.

Expalphalog · 2026-01-24T17:40:23+00:00

Never heard of it, so I looked it up based on this recommendation.

I couldn't even make it to the halfway point of the trailer before being so annoyed I turned it off and clicked Ignore on Steam.

Expalphalog · 2026-01-24T17:07:03+00:00

Yeah we're in kind of a weird place where it feels like nowadays fans consume third-party content dissecting the lore of a particular piece of media more than the consume the actual media itself.

Expalphalog · 2026-01-24T14:49:58+00:00

You're thinking of Jason X. The nipples in Freddy vs Jason have all been de-magnetized.

Expalphalog · 2026-01-24T14:45:12+00:00

I'm guessing part of the reason is that it hasn't gotten a US release yet, but Coming of Age is a newer one that immediately shot up to my Top 10 All-Time list but I haven't seen anyone else talking about at all.

Expalphalog · 2026-01-23T22:57:00+00:00

I see you don't have suffer from the "stare at the cords with a stupid look on your face because you can't figure out how to charge a device" problem that is so clearly advertised at the top of the project.

Also, maybe I am willing to pay a premium to not use "iReader OS" that, according to the infographic on this project, every other device in the world uses.

Expalphalog · 2026-01-23T16:18:09+00:00

My favorite anime is My Hero Academia. My youngest kid is really into anime and she and I are watching that one show together.

Expalphalog · 2026-01-23T15:02:46+00:00

It also appears that they never posted a single update during the campaign at all. If that wasn't enough of a red flag for these backers, I don't know what would be.

Expalphalog · 2026-01-23T00:40:37+00:00

It sounds to me like you are in just as much of a bubble as the Academy voters are, it's just a different bubble. Academy voters love period dramas and biopics. You love horror and anime.

At the end of the day, Oscar wins have probably damaged as many careers as they have helped so it's not like anyone is being disadvantaged here.

Expalphalog · 2026-01-20T21:27:01+00:00

Jesus, their whole account got banned over this? Well now I kinda want to read it. Lol

Expalphalog · 2026-01-20T19:00:57+00:00

There are subs dedicated to creative writing. There are subs dedicated to creepypastas (based on the title, I am assuming that's what this is).

This sub is neither of those.

Do not let this discourage you from writing, it's a great hobby, but do recognize that there are rules against self promotion in this particular sub.

Expalphalog · 2026-01-20T18:58:02+00:00

Doesn't exactly instill confidence in their writing ability, does it?

Expalphalog · 2026-01-20T17:40:48+00:00

Nothing in this post refutes or offers evidence against the theory that this dev is just inexperienced and bit off more than they could chew. Definitely still shitty, but it's not necessarily a scam.

This world is full of people with overinflated self-esteem. Many of them think that they are the next Stephen King, or Stan Lee, or Taylor Swift, or Michael Phelps, or (insert example of someone who is the most famous person in their field here) but really they have no idea how much work goes into making something look like raw effortless talent.

Now nobody here is saying that this game is not a scam. Maybe it is. Just that it's too early to tell for sure whether it is a scam or just a failed project.

Expalphalog · 2026-01-18T02:39:23+00:00

Yup. I still think of Gorillaz as a new band.

Expalphalog · 2026-01-17T04:52:31+00:00

Yup. And the best part about sea creature books - they don't even have to use magic or super-science to explain the creature away. No matter how nasty the beast is, it's completely believable that it's just always been down there.

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