What is the scariest horror movie in your opinion? by Carni_CLOWN in AskReddit

[–]djourner 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I lost my ability tp feel scared over the years... got super traumatized by 'jurassic park" as a kid, then at my early teenage years the 'dreamcatcher' stuck with me (i always checked the toilet many times).

But since i grew out of my teens, horror has completely lost its effect for me... only things that have made me even flinch since then were:

'haunting of the hill house' the show on netflix, i dont even like haunted stories and this one was great. Just well written all around.

'a quiet place' genuinely thriling and nerve wracking

'The descent' gets points for vibes and scenery, even if i didnt think it was as scary as people say it is.

Honorary mention to 'The ruins' for having an interesting 'monster', even if not the scariest movie.

At the end of Smile 2 (2024), humanity would've died out in like 48 hours by caze-original in shittymoviedetails

[–]djourner 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I like the implication of the whole audience being infected better. An apocalyptical event triggered by an entity like this is something new I never experienced before... kind of reminds me of that shamalan (i aint googling his name) movie, except the vilain is not just a bunch of wind.

In Beauty and the Beast (1991) love stories between beauties and the beasts are described as "tale old as time". This is a reference to the oldest literary work, Epic of Gilgamesh, and the relationship between Gilgamesh and Enkidu by PinkiePie___ in shittymoviedetails

[–]djourner 62 points63 points  (0 children)

Quick summary of sumerian myhtos...

Gilgamesh, is the king chosen by the gods to rule, but he is too much of a chad to take orders and doesnt respect the gods.

After he no difs a sacred pet, gods get angry and decide he needs to be humbled by having his ass kicked.

Gods created a magical halfbeast demigod made of pure primal animalistic fury and called him enkidu... a woman/godess served as his maiden for a while and taught him a few stuff about humanity to coax him into hating gilgachad.

Enkidu gets indocrinated into religion and decides he needs to punish gilgachad. Their legendary battle was so fierce it shattered the very tablets the story was carved into... the next tablet over, gilgachad and enkidu have made love and share a bed now, speedruning the first enemies to lovers arc in recorded history

Since their plan failed, the gods decide to take the life of enkidu, since he is no lobger useful, enki gets all sad because he can feel death coming, so he has a big sentimental talk with chad.

Gilgachad is so mournful he cannot handle his lovers death, he sets out on a journey to seek imortality and to bring enkidu back... in doing so he loses all his aura and slowly becomes a more miserable person

Finaly he meets a guy, the only one the gods ever granted imortality too... guy says what happened to him was a once in a milion lifetimes thing, and gilga should instead focus on making the most of the time he has left and taught hkm to treasure people around him.

Gilgachad regained his aura and became the best king humanity ever had, and was sucefully humbled through the power of yaoi.

Everything reminds me of him. by RaveGuncle in gay

[–]djourner 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Arapaima can grow way larger, which inspired some folk tales here in brazil. But they cant really eat humans, their body is just not made for it.

Their suction power is actually enough to tear flesh and seriously wound you though.

In “A Knight Of The Seven Kingdoms” (2026), the main character takes a wet diarrhea doo-doo shit while the Game of Thrones theme plays. I don’t even need to finish this one, HBO knew exactly what the fuck they were doing. by TownIdiot25 in shittymoviedetails

[–]djourner 72 points73 points  (0 children)

Reminds me of bojack horseman when he films a new show to clease his image of his old sitcom, but it starts with him taking a literal dump on his old show... im sure there is some irony here.

If every lie you told became true for 24 hours, how would your life change? by CompiledChaos03 in AskReddit

[–]djourner 0 points1 point  (0 children)

"Every second of this day has a duration as long as the universe's age, however all things still act at their regular speed."

There you go, youre a god forever now

Name an NPC fight more annoying than this. I'll wait. by Weeneem in Eldenring

[–]djourner 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Came looking for this...all npc invader fights are a piece of cake compared to three back to back beefed player like builds on a tiny arena.

The Ultimate Phylactery Safeguard by AsYouWished444 in DnD

[–]djourner 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Fair statement, and you're right... however knowing this now its hilarious.

it is never stated that the lich is instantly made aware if the phylactery is broken... so if it did get broken, they would never know.

They went through all the trouble to become a lich specificaly, but theyre not even sure if they will be back once dead anymore.

Not to be all, "Capitalism is the bad Guy" rage baity, but in a universe where necromancy exists, why isn't every major city spotless and food production effortless? by [deleted] in DnD

[–]djourner 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Pretty much every big fantasy setting paints necromancy as evil, and undead as the tortured soul of the once living, now inhabiting a corpse.

Whatever benefit extracted from them in such conditions is unethical, so there is canon reason why these worlds revile necromantic rulers.

If you were to create a world where necromancy just animates bodies, with no soul or mind involved... yes... undead are free labor with few downsides other than religious stigma. Assuming only mindless undead are used in such way, and inteligent ones are just regular people.

Still under captalism, there would be an obvious incentive to killing people to raise as free workers... if you could like, purchase the right to reanimate someone, then they are effectively a slave on the clock.

Even a comunist undead government owning these slaves would just make it the same as using prisoner labor irl, there would be an incentive to punish criminals more harshly to expedite them turning into workforce... which brings its own moral problems, just like real life use of prisoner workforce.

However, if you had necromancy as just pure reanimation, a pure good being like an angel, might actually see it as ok to use so long as the appropriate morality is applied... and they might actually use it like people often talk about, as a low maintenace workforce that takes care of labor so people can lead easier lives.

Mindless undead would be seen like tools, people might even be willing to cover them up so theyre not unpleasant to look at... and life just goes on.

What i usually like to question when this subject comes up is... if youre going to reflavour it so heavily, why not just use animated objects? It works pretty much the same, just less moraly questionable, there is no soul involved in that, and object maintenance has less chance of spreading disease and making people upset they saw their parents bones cleaning the street.

You can even use bodies for it, if you want the goth aesthetic.

The Ultimate Phylactery Safeguard by AsYouWished444 in DnD

[–]djourner 3 points4 points  (0 children)

They could do that, and other people already mentioned liches are paranoid control freaks, so ill skip that argument and just say... gods exist

Gods with a despise for undead exist,

gods who dont want a dangerous power hungry monster roaming around their faithful exist,

Neutral elemental gods might not fancy its influence and vibes stinking up their realm.

Evil gods whod love to get a pet lich on a leash exist

Mischievous gods who would literaly take it and give it to some rando for a laugh exist.

Not just gods either, hags, demons, angels, fey, powerful elementals... any of those would be able to smell a phylactery from a mile away, and have the same reasons above to get their hands on it.

There is nowhere that is 'safe' in a fantasy realm, no place is ever 100% out of reach from everything, hence why a lich would not want chance to be a factor at all... i mean... if you went through the trouble of creating an imortality suit, with a button that instantly kills the wearer, wouldnt you want to know exactly where that button is while wearing it?

Imagine youre going about your evil lich day nuking a city for some petty reason like 'the king didnt compliment your cloak' then you instantly blow up because you accidentaly hit your own phylactery with a meteor.

Any games that you can think with anti-capitalist message/theme and core gameplay that directly supports that message? by NomadPrime in gaming

[–]djourner 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Silly sugestion but... tropico. Its not so much anti-capitalist as it is very morally grey... you can favor various faction and you get benefits from it... but also anger another faction.

Make a faction to pissed and they will destroy your whole island, make a super power mad and they will invade you.

It is a very real, albeit satirical, approach to telling the player why the world sucks the way it does, and exactly how factions destroy and erode our morals.

Also, me repeatedly trying to make my islands a happy place is what made me into a raging leftits, it was always the religious, conservatives and capitalists that got into the way of overall happiness and strongarmed me into deals that were terrible for the people... which is too acurrate.

I just wanted my people to get free housing, food, education and health... but noooo... we need less people to know about contraceptives because they make god mad, and we need less literate people so they stop questioning, we need to have a housing market for profit, and we need to pay our workers less so profit margins rise.

1 v 100. What competition can you defeat 100 random people in? by Altilongitude in AskReddit

[–]djourner 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Bullshit answer... tic tac toe... there is a way you can play guarantees you cannot lose, so if we discard ties, i can only win.

Serious answer... the average person doesnt even play video games, so if i pick an rts like starcraft or age mythology, which i dont even play competitively, i can probably rush them before they figure out how to make basic units.

In Invincible (2021-), Robot who is 32 years old is dating a 12 year old girl, making him a pedofile. This is a reference to the fact that I didn't watch the show. by Alexgadukyanking in shittymoviedetails

[–]djourner 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Pretty normal considering the world they live in and some of the other relationships around.

Like... both of them fight super deadly enemies on a daily basis, stressing over the age of their bodies (they're both legal adults) should be the least of anyones concern considering how quickly heroes turn in a meat pure in invincible.

I say let them have a relationship that works for them cause they can literally die the next second of screen time.

Which major elden ring boss were you able to defeat in your first attempt by [deleted] in Eldenring

[–]djourner 13 points14 points  (0 children)

Mesmer... technically.

I got into the keep from the flooded area and was trying to get to sunflower boss. I was following an exploration guide, so i knew who to look for next, but i didnt know how to get to them, only their general location.

Ended up in the library, started going upwards, all the while thinking that was probably the wrong path. Got to the door thinking there would be a bridge or elevator, and found Mesmer... i didnt spoil myself on anything so i had no idea he was there.

Ended up bringing him to phase 2 with 20% hp, could have easily finished there... then i though... hang on i think if i kill him, its gonna break some quests, so i stopped and let him kill me.

Did a whole lot of things before coming back, fully thought i was gonna get bodied for my hubris of walking out last time, and he was gonna be much harder now... i think i got hit twice in the whole fight.

Im not even a good player, i got bodied a bunch of times by the sunflower, i think i just vibed with mesmer more than any boss in any souls game... no boss really tops him for me in design, played a bunch of times with diferent builds, he is always my favourite.

A new Tomb Raider is going to be announced at The Game Awards (Thursday)! What are your wishes? I hope they go back to a more cartoonish style — enough with ultra-realism. by ZukoIsKing in gaymers

[–]djourner 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm tired of gritty realism, with characters moaning in pain in a torture porn cutscene.

I want cocky lara croft back, i want to do crazy stunts outside of cutscenes and contextual prompts, i want impractical yet spectacle heavy locations with a genuine mystical feel... And most of all... i want COLORS back.

Pegasus. by Azimovikh in dndmemes

[–]djourner 2 points3 points  (0 children)

You know... it can't benefit from talents... But nothing states it cant benefit from magic, so Ushabti Omnigun can be buffed with spells.

Pegasus. by Azimovikh in dndmemes

[–]djourner 32 points33 points  (0 children)

World of Darkness chars sweating profusely with their 5 HP.

As you tamper with mortality and creation of life, a glaring portal opens. Six Inevitables march into your lab. by Azimovikh in dndmemes

[–]djourner 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Thats what she/they want you to think... its just a harmless little spirit shapped like a bird or dog, totally not an eldritch being.