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Indie WinterIndie Winter die KräheRudi Hurzlmeier (German, b. 1952)Registered User regular
ya'll ever think about that one Goosebumps CYOA book in an amusement park

where you get a bad end that has you sliding down an infinite slide until all the lights slowly go out

and you just

keep sliding

forever

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  • MachwingMachwing It looks like a harmless old computer, doesn't it? Left in this cave to rot ... or to flower!Registered User regular
  • ChincymcchillaChincymcchilla Registered User regular
    ya'll ever think about that one Goosebumps CYOA book in an amusement park

    where you get a bad end that has you sliding down an infinite slide until all the lights slowly go out

    and you just

    keep sliding

    forever

    A lot of the endings of goosebumps books scared me worse than any horror movie I've ever seen

    Thats a pretty bad one

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  • HeadCreepsHeadCreeps NOW IS THE TIME FOR DRINKING! Registered User regular
    Is that the one that sends you back and forth between the same two pages?

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  • HermanoHermano Registered User regular
    Sliding forever meaning you don't die or until you die of dehydration or whatever?


    PSN- AHermano
  • LadaiLadai Registered User regular
    edited February 2019
    I remember reading one Goosebumps CYOA (I forget which one) and getting an ending where I was stuck in a room watching footage of Geroge Washington crossing the Delaware for all eternity.

    I pretty much put the book down and gave up on all CYOA after that.

    Ladai on
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  • King RiptorKing Riptor Registered User regular
    Hermano wrote: »
    Sliding forever meaning you don't die or until you die of dehydration or whatever?

    Eventually your clothes and skin would be worn away

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  • tynictynic PICNIC BADASS Registered User, ClubPA regular
    Hermano wrote: »
    Sliding forever meaning you don't die or until you die of dehydration or whatever?

    Eventually your clothes and skin would be worn away

    and still you keep sliding.

  • Butler For Life #1Butler For Life #1 Twinning is WinningRegistered User regular
    No, I think about the one where you're trapped in a museum and get attacked by a living anatomy model or a gargantuan cold virus

  • Duke 2.0Duke 2.0 Time Trash Cat Registered User regular
    Kid me was acutely aware of how messed up dangerous the water cave in The Rescueers was. Caught in a current drowning in pitch blackness where nobody can rescue you. Underwater darkness is profoundly disturbing for that double helplessness.

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  • HermanoHermano Registered User regular
    Hermano wrote: »
    Sliding forever meaning you don't die or until you die of dehydration or whatever?

    Eventually your clothes and skin would be worn away

    Ooh yeah, friction would be a bastard


    PSN- AHermano
  • QuetziQuetzi Here we may reign secure, and in my choice, To reign is worth ambition though in HellRegistered User, Moderator mod
    I have no recollection of any of the Goosebumps CYOAs, which is weird, given my love for both.

  • ChincymcchillaChincymcchilla Registered User regular
    "Evil Amusement Park" might be one of my favorite weirdly specific aesthetics

    its why I wanted the extremely bad dreamcast game ILLBLEED to be good

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  • Centipede DamascusCentipede Damascus Ho! Ho! Ho! Drink Coke!Registered User regular
    I never read Goosebumps as a kid. I didn't like scary stuff.

    I still don't like scary stuff!

  • QuetziQuetzi Here we may reign secure, and in my choice, To reign is worth ambition though in HellRegistered User, Moderator mod
    "Evil Amusement Park" might be one of my favorite weirdly specific aesthetics

    its why I wanted the extremely bad dreamcast game ILLBLEED to be good

    It's one of my favorite weird niche horror things and it's also one that I have no possible way to replicate as a Halloween theme and this brings me great pain

  • OmnipotentBagelOmnipotentBagel floof Registered User regular
    ya'll ever think about that one Goosebumps CYOA book in an amusement park

    where you get a bad end that has you sliding down an infinite slide until all the lights slowly go out

    and you just

    keep sliding

    forever

    I think that's the same one that has an ending where if you don't solve a problem by midnight you slowly turn into a ghost. Not die and become a ghost, just like, transform into one.

    That one was a lot for Young Lexi to process

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  • jgeisjgeis Registered User regular
    Can you just, like, jump off the side of the slide?

    Seems like a better fate than slowly being eroded away by friction.

  • DeansDeans Registered User regular
    Pfft, Goosebumps. I get my childhood nightmares from Scary Stories To Tell In The Dark.

  • QuetziQuetzi Here we may reign secure, and in my choice, To reign is worth ambition though in HellRegistered User, Moderator mod
    Deans wrote: »
    Pfft, Goosebumps. I get my childhood nightmares from Scary Stories To Tell In The Dark.

    I think these venn diagrams might overlap slightly more than you think

  • KnobKnob TURN THE BEAT BACK InternetModerator Mod Emeritus
    No, I don't ever think about that but thank you for asking.

  • King RiptorKing Riptor Registered User regular
    tynic wrote: »
    Hermano wrote: »
    Sliding forever meaning you don't die or until you die of dehydration or whatever?

    Eventually your clothes and skin would be worn away

    and still you keep sliding.

    Like that Batman Beyond Villian but on a slide

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  • ChincymcchillaChincymcchilla Registered User regular
    tynic wrote: »
    Hermano wrote: »
    Sliding forever meaning you don't die or until you die of dehydration or whatever?

    Eventually your clothes and skin would be worn away

    and still you keep sliding.

    Like that Batman Beyond Villian but on a slide

    this one haunts me because it doesn't make any sense

    How can you still have enough mass to sink if you are so incorporeal that you can pass through walls

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  • IronKnuckle's GhostIronKnuckle's Ghost This is also my fault Registered User regular
    Y'all remember that Goosebumps parody book about a kid with lactose intolerance accidentally eating some cheese.

  • ChincymcchillaChincymcchilla Registered User regular
    Y'all remember that Goosebumps parody book about a kid with lactose intolerance accidentally eating some cheese.

    gooflumps

    yes, the cover grossed me out

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  • QuetziQuetzi Here we may reign secure, and in my choice, To reign is worth ambition though in HellRegistered User, Moderator mod
    tynic wrote: »
    Hermano wrote: »
    Sliding forever meaning you don't die or until you die of dehydration or whatever?

    Eventually your clothes and skin would be worn away

    and still you keep sliding.

    Like that Batman Beyond Villian but on a slide

    this one haunts me because it doesn't make any sense

    How can you still have enough mass to sink if you are so incorporeal that you can pass through walls

    If you didn't have enough mass to sink, wouldn't you end up just kind of floating off into space because of the way the earth moves?

  • ChincymcchillaChincymcchilla Registered User regular
    Straightzi wrote: »
    tynic wrote: »
    Hermano wrote: »
    Sliding forever meaning you don't die or until you die of dehydration or whatever?

    Eventually your clothes and skin would be worn away

    and still you keep sliding.

    Like that Batman Beyond Villian but on a slide

    this one haunts me because it doesn't make any sense

    How can you still have enough mass to sink if you are so incorporeal that you can pass through walls

    If you didn't have enough mass to sink, wouldn't you end up just kind of floating off into space because of the way the earth moves?

    I don't know I'm not a scientist

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  • HermanoHermano Registered User regular
    edited February 2019
    Straightzi wrote: »
    tynic wrote: »
    Hermano wrote: »
    Sliding forever meaning you don't die or until you die of dehydration or whatever?

    Eventually your clothes and skin would be worn away

    and still you keep sliding.

    Like that Batman Beyond Villian but on a slide

    this one haunts me because it doesn't make any sense

    How can you still have enough mass to sink if you are so incorporeal that you can pass through walls

    If you didn't have enough mass to sink, wouldn't you end up just kind of floating off into space because of the way the earth moves?

    I don't know I'm not a scientist

    That's exactly what a scientist would say

    I'm onto you

    Hermano on

    PSN- AHermano
  • Metzger MeisterMetzger Meister It Gets Worse before it gets any better.Registered User regular
    Well...no. I don't usually think about this.

    But now I am! D:

  • King RiptorKing Riptor Registered User regular
    edited February 2019
    Straightzi wrote: »
    tynic wrote: »
    Hermano wrote: »
    Sliding forever meaning you don't die or until you die of dehydration or whatever?

    Eventually your clothes and skin would be worn away

    and still you keep sliding.

    Like that Batman Beyond Villian but on a slide

    this one haunts me because it doesn't make any sense

    How can you still have enough mass to sink if you are so incorporeal that you can pass through walls

    If you didn't have enough mass to sink, wouldn't you end up just kind of floating off into space because of the way the earth moves?

    He could walk normally before it went all twilight zone on him so he must retain some level of mass. As slow as he was falling though it was like a dust mote or something.

    Maybe what it did was push molecules away and they'd snap right back like a rubber band as he moved. The problem was his body couldn't snap back anymore

    King Riptor on
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  • NiryaNirya Registered User regular
    Straightzi wrote: »
    "Evil Amusement Park" might be one of my favorite weirdly specific aesthetics

    its why I wanted the extremely bad dreamcast game ILLBLEED to be good

    It's one of my favorite weird niche horror things and it's also one that I have no possible way to replicate as a Halloween theme and this brings me great pain
    Straightzi wrote: »
    "Evil Amusement Park" might be one of my favorite weirdly specific aesthetics

    its why I wanted the extremely bad dreamcast game ILLBLEED to be good

    It's one of my favorite weird niche horror things and it's also one that I have no possible way to replicate as a Halloween theme and this brings me great pain

    During the past few years at Knotts Berry Farm, one of their Halloween scare mazes was called Dark Ride and used this aesthetic and it was real damn good.

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  • Munkus BeaverMunkus Beaver You don't have to attend every argument you are invited to. Philosophy: Stoicism. Politics: Democratic SocialistRegistered User, ClubPA regular
    I pretty much got immediately eaten by an Alligator in that book.

    Humor can be dissected as a frog can, but dies in the process.
  • QuetziQuetzi Here we may reign secure, and in my choice, To reign is worth ambition though in HellRegistered User, Moderator mod
    I would just need a lot more space or a lot more people

    And also probably a lot more money but whatever it's not like I'm not dipping into my savings every time I throw a Halloween party

  • CalicaCalica Registered User regular
    Hermano wrote: »
    Hermano wrote: »
    Sliding forever meaning you don't die or until you die of dehydration or whatever?

    Eventually your clothes and skin would be worn away

    Ooh yeah, friction would be a bastard

    You die

    Your ghost keeps sliding for eternity

  • milskimilski Poyo! Registered User regular
    edited February 2019
    Wasn't there a museum Goosebumps CYOA that taught you to always check for electricity with the back of your hand and not your palm and like, double killed you with a fakeout option to escape a T-Rex with an item that wasn't in the book? It also had some gimmick of like, multiple pages per actual book page.

    milski on
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  • 3cl1ps33cl1ps3 I will build a labyrinth to house the cheese Registered User regular
    The Goosebumps in the toy store with toys that come alive and hunt people fucked me up pretty good.

  • PlatyPlaty Registered User regular
    I loved scary stuff as a kid

    The local library had some sort of children's guide on supernatural creatures which went into depth on stuff like zombie powder

  • Munkus BeaverMunkus Beaver You don't have to attend every argument you are invited to. Philosophy: Stoicism. Politics: Democratic SocialistRegistered User, ClubPA regular
    When we were little kids, my best friend and I would sleep over at each other's house and each time we did it we'd make up ghost stories to tell while over.

    I have no idea how it got started or why, but we had this ridiculously long series we called "The Jeweled Monster." It was basically like, the creature from the black lagoon. With a jewel in its head. And we kept making up new stories and adventures for it to go on.

    I remember none of the plots and many were very short and very dumb as only six year olds can imagine.

    Humor can be dissected as a frog can, but dies in the process.
  • Butler For Life #1Butler For Life #1 Twinning is WinningRegistered User regular
    milski wrote: »
    Wasn't there a museum Goosebumps CYOA that taught you to always check for electricity with the back of your hand and not your palm and like, double killed you with a fakeout option to escape a T-Rex with an item that wasn't in the book? It also had some gimmick of like, multiple pages per actual book page.

    Yes

    It also had the possibility of getting abducted by aliens

  • RingoRingo He/Him a distinct lack of substanceRegistered User regular
    There was a bloody hook on the door handle!!!!

  • EtchwartsEtchwarts Eyes Up Registered User regular
    I never did the Goosebumps CYOA, which is weird, because I loved other CYOA

    It's probably because I was a big baby

    I read a short story once in some collection or other about a kid who had a monster who lived under his bed

    He first figures out something is wrong when he loses his cat under there, and then his cat comes back but is like, possessed and talking to him

    And then he gets dragged down there in a truly horrific experience, and the reveal is that there's a whole society of monsters-under-beds whose jobs are to give kids bad dreams, and the only way for them to be free is to recruit someone in their place

    It fucked me up!

  • PlatyPlaty Registered User regular
    Duke 2.0 wrote: »
    Kid me was acutely aware of how messed up dangerous the water cave in The Rescueers was. Caught in a current drowning in pitch blackness where nobody can rescue you. Underwater darkness is profoundly disturbing for that double helplessness.

    Oh boy I think that scene gave me nightmares

    I also had nightmares about falling into molten steel just from reading about the Alien films (I still haven't actually seen Alien 3 to this day)

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