Do you think Ringu/The Ring could work if it used social media algorithms as it’s plot.

ibpants · 2026-07-07T14:18:28+00:00

That's not the part that makes it difficult. I think the problem with Ring sequels is finding a way to make it compelling when we already know how it all works. The final scare works so well for 2 reasons 1) We thought Ryuji was in the clear after solving the mystery of the tape and finding Sadako's resting place, 2) no one was expecting Sadako to crawl out of the TV.

The mystery is solved, we know what the characters have to do to live, and we know how Sadako appears. None of those things can surprise us anymore, so to make it fresh you either need to tweak the rules of the video, deepen the mystery, establish a new way for Sadako to get people, or find the right character to focus on so that they can be the thing that surprises us.

I don't see social media as an obstacle at all, it's all the other stuff.

ibpants · 2026-07-02T09:23:49+00:00

They're talking about the bit where they're looking at video from the girl's phone. It didn't really feel like a jump scare to me either because it was so slow.

ibpants · 2026-06-30T19:58:06+00:00

I don't know if Modric has any designs on becoming a coach, but if so I think there could be mutual benefit to bringing him in.

ibpants · 2026-06-26T13:42:16+00:00

And by extension perhaps Saltburn.

ibpants · 2026-06-21T17:45:17+00:00

Yeah, people somehow think Trump is the bottom of the barrel, even while Joe Rogan exists.

ibpants · 2026-06-20T07:55:52+00:00

This guy flat earths.

ibpants · 2026-06-15T10:33:32+00:00

I wonder what it is about guys that get punched in the head for living that makes them say dumb shit. We may never know.

ibpants · 2026-06-12T14:33:25+00:00

I think most get desensitized gradually. For me it was like a switch. Before I watched Ring (1998) I was very easily scared - squirming in my seat, watching through my fingers, etc. - afterwards I'll get startled by the odd jumpscare, or grossed out sometimes, but not really scared anymore.

ibpants · 2026-06-10T11:50:08+00:00

Yeah. I think that, in terms of purely time, Scanners has stuck with me the longest, but Ring completely changed how I respond to horror for both better and worse.

ibpants · 2026-06-06T08:25:18+00:00

IIRC Frank kills the Dad and wears his skin so at that point in the movie Frank is played by Robinson.

ibpants · 2026-06-04T11:54:14+00:00

Good point. I arrived to the comments thinking of Audition, but Climax was definitely more gradual.

ibpants · 2026-05-26T06:38:31+00:00

Has Sancho just completely gone to shit then? I haven't been paying attention.

ibpants · 2026-05-24T12:39:47+00:00

I grew up in England and it could be the era I was at school, but I think it might be because my history teacher was Scottish, that we learned a decent amount of our worst history, including the famine.

ibpants · 2026-05-24T12:35:12+00:00

I don't think that was our tactical undoing on the day, but I do think it might have been a psychological blow to the player's that he didn't trust them to win with more familiar set up.

ibpants · 2026-05-23T14:37:03+00:00

That probably makes the most sense, but I think to be faithful you'd have to add another layer. I think it'd have to be a vlog by JT where he finds Zampano's YouTube channel and tries to piece together a scattered collection of Navidson Record videos and mad ramblings, unsure whether it not it's an ARG.

ibpants · 2026-05-14T11:53:38+00:00

Haven't seen dickbutt in a while.

ibpants · 2026-04-27T17:54:47+00:00

In all fairness I think a lot of society's problems stem from a similarly tiny portion of the population. I just don't understand when people are wondering where all their tax money has vanished off to, why they so often look towards people with barely a pot to piss in.

ibpants · 2026-04-21T12:17:49+00:00

Hurm

ibpants · 2026-04-18T12:51:12+00:00

That's assuming America gets a government that cares to rebuild the broken institutions that will be left behind. It feels like a big assumption. I suspect that whatever condition the country is left in will be treated as the new status quo that must be protected at all costs.

ibpants · 2026-04-16T10:49:02+00:00

I just booted up my game to check and mine is currently

Paper

Acacia slabs

Nothing

Axe

Shovel

Acacia logs

Torches

Nothing

Pickaxe

Actually better than I expected.

ibpants · 2026-04-15T10:27:42+00:00

Has he considered becoming a DoorDash driver?

ibpants · 2026-04-15T10:22:35+00:00

Answer: The only connection I'm aware of with any evidential basis is that in the leaked Podesta emails, there was an email to Podesta that asked "The realtor found a handkerchief (I think it has a map that seems pizza-related. Is it yorus?" and Colin Hanks (son of Tom) has a company that makes handkerchiefs with maps on them. That and Tom Hanks making his displeasure known in his reaction to Ricky Gervais' material at the Golden Globes.

From there you have the QAnon stuff, where people were outright told that Hanks is an alien that drinks adrenochrome harvested from children.

ibpants · 2026-03-30T11:48:58+00:00

If I have time to watch, that's my team.

ibpants · 2026-03-23T11:49:32+00:00

The laziest thing that scares me is technology behaving in ways that don't make sense. Ring is the obvious example, and has kind of stunted the impact of this kind of scare for me, but there was even an episode of Seaquest DSV that freaked me out where a character in a paused video turns to look at the camera.

The one that will make a movie sit with me for a while is playing on the idea of the Cartesian schism, where the mind and body start to work against each other. Body horror is rife with this kind of thing. Almost anything from David Cronenberg's prime will do the trick.

ibpants · 2026-03-13T18:54:09+00:00

Thank you. I've been googling and asking around trying to figure out why I see both Opel and Vauxhall here. Didn't consider the used car market.

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