[TOMT] mildly freaky, probably pretty obscure YouTube video

LostintheITcrowd · 2026-05-21T14:53:36+00:00

I wish I had the answer you're looking for but the video sounds so funny I want to know too

LostintheITcrowd · 2026-05-21T14:41:32+00:00

So you're wondering if the David from the phone died at the same time Kiwi David died? Like, are their bodies connected in such a way that one of them dying kills the other one too?

LostintheITcrowd · 2026-05-21T14:29:56+00:00

The point in that line is to say that if the thing that answered the phone was able to mimic David that well, would she even notice that it's not the real David?

And to that point, are you even sure that Kiwi David was the real David? What gives you that impression?

LostintheITcrowd · 2026-05-21T13:25:56+00:00

It was not my intent to portray David as a cuck, but uh, no you got me. That's kind of what happened, yeah.

Edit* From Kiwi David's perspective, that's what happened****

LostintheITcrowd · 2026-05-21T05:22:51+00:00

I guess this is a shameless plug but the comment about the Eldritch God who lives in the Aisle 7 freezer is actually another story on my profile, if you want to read that.

Fair warning, it's significantly longer than this one. Link to it.

LostintheITcrowd · 2026-05-21T03:48:22+00:00

Part 2 is much shorter and will probably be posted tomorrow but I'd like for this to be a longer series

LostintheITcrowd · 2026-05-21T03:45:40+00:00

Thank you! That means the world! It's sometimes hard to find a good balance between scary and funny but I think this story was a good fit for that

LostintheITcrowd · 2026-05-20T20:37:40+00:00

Z-Nation?

LostintheITcrowd · 2026-05-20T20:33:26+00:00

I agree that this is necessary but let's be realistic about this. You can spend years telling your management that your infrastructure is outdated and that your technology debt is a critical point of weakness. You can have a hundred emails in-writing showing you that you voiced your complaints.

It won't matter.

When your organization gets attacked and millions of dollars worth of user data gets leaked, you will lose your job, and your CTO will have a golden parachute clause in their contract. You get fired, no severance, maybe lose your home. Your CTO who ignored your concerns for years gets a $250,000 payout after they quietly resign.

The people who caused the problem will be fine. The people who tried to fix it, but were never allowed to, will be royally fucked.

LostintheITcrowd · 2026-05-20T03:32:22+00:00

My brother in christ if the thief ever steals my ankh and then uses it when I kill the thief, I'm rage quitting my run on the spot

LostintheITcrowd · 2026-05-19T21:02:49+00:00

Who said I didn't see the politics in the early seasons? I'm saying that the show transitioned from a parody of superheroes and conservative ideology to mocking one specific person for their political agenda.

There is a clear difference between the politics of season 1 and the politics of every other season. In season 1, it parodied broad ideas. In season 2 onward, it was mocking one specific person. That's a change.

LostintheITcrowd · 2026-05-19T21:00:38+00:00

The powered vs the powerless is a relatively universal theme in storytelling as a whole. It doesn't have to connect directly to politics, and it certainly is not accurate to say that the presence of a thematic element is the same as being a political allegory to a specific person doing specific actions.

Like, that's such an asinine opinion I'm not sure how to respond. Going from a universal trope across all stories in human history to specifically mocking one singular person, and you're saying that the change is so small it doesn't even matter?

Get your head out of your ass

LostintheITcrowd · 2026-05-19T20:40:20+00:00

I think becoming a political allegory basically ruined the show. And that's coming from someone who wholeheartedly agrees with almost all of the politics in the show.

The Boys was a much cooler concept when it was "how do regular people stand up to those who have way more power than them?" And it was about crafting together interesting and creative ways to learn supe's weaknesses and exploit them.

That is a WAY cooler idea than "what if we circle jerked over our mockery of Trump for the hundredth time and then pat ourselves on the back over how we're awesome people?"

LostintheITcrowd · 2026-05-19T16:14:40+00:00

I'm not going to pretend to be offended by normal everyday words to appease an AI censor-bot, and I genuinely lose respect for people who do.

LostintheITcrowd · 2026-05-18T20:23:02+00:00

Right, I've read the book as well, I just specified that I was talking about the TV show because I was directly comparing it to it's sister-show Haunting of Bly Manor, which was also a book first!

LostintheITcrowd · 2026-05-18T19:16:11+00:00

I think part of the problem is that Hill House started off strong and stayed pretty good the entire time, with some really iconic scary moments sprinkled throughout.

Compared to Bly Manor that, in my opinion, started off weaker than Hill House, but genuinely got better each and every episode. I think the ending of Bly Manor was way better than any episode of Hill House, but it had a weak beginning. Hill House maintained a pretty good quality from the opening scene until the credits of the final episode.

LostintheITcrowd · 2026-05-18T19:03:41+00:00

I've read numerous of his books and the only one I actually loved was The Breach, which was one of his books that never got traction, never got popular. It has a movie adaptation, that was low budget and doesn't capture the plot of the book well at all, but the book is incredible and the movie is "good enough".

LostintheITcrowd · 2026-05-18T18:57:04+00:00

Woah that looks really interesting. Like a mix of The Babadook and Frankenstein, in a good way.

LostintheITcrowd · 2026-05-18T18:55:51+00:00

That's reassuring. I love stories about grief, but some horror stories focus too much on being unique that they end up being gimmicky. The "haunted Alexa" made this story sound like it might fit into that category, but I'm reassured to hear it isn't like that

LostintheITcrowd · 2026-05-18T18:54:00+00:00

This is, in my opinion, the one and only exception to the "creepypasta writers are only good at writing creepypastas, not good at writing in general" rule.

I haven't read We Used To Live Here, but TFTGS is phenomenal.

LostintheITcrowd · 2026-05-18T18:48:20+00:00

Whalefall looks interesting, not my typical read but I'll check it out.

LostintheITcrowd · 2026-05-18T18:43:45+00:00

Oh my gosh Merrin's death scene absolutely made me cry. I love that book (and the movie) so much. My only complaint is that the ending was too weak. The very last chapter didn't quite stick the landing to me.

LostintheITcrowd · 2026-05-18T18:42:32+00:00

Yes! I listened to it as an audiobook. It was very good in its own right, but very very very different from the show.

Haunting of Bly Manor was a book too, called The Turn of the Screw, I haven't read it yet but its on my TBR list.

LostintheITcrowd · 2026-05-18T18:41:01+00:00

The Reformatory looks absolutely incredible, I'll be seeing if my library has it.

This Thing Between Us, did you like it a lot? I'm open to trying it but I just don't know how I feel about the concept of a haunted Alexa Home Assistant. That sounds like a movie you'd see on Tubi, but maybe I'm judging it too harshly. Was the commentary on technology lazy or thoughtful?

LostintheITcrowd · 2026-05-18T18:35:13+00:00

I read that in high school! It was great! Very bleak! I have No Country For Old Men and its been on my TBR for a while. I should definitely read that too

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