Tommy2Handswhat is this where am iRegistered Userregular
I've enjoyed this series a lot. Written from the perspective of a Search And Rescue agent retelling their experiences with weird shit in the wilderness
Metzger MeisterIt Gets Worsebefore it gets any better.Registered Userregular
Deer make some awful goddamn sounds.
Also! I know I've harped on it a couple times but if you enjoy the S&R posts on nosleep, check out David Paulides' turns as a guest on Coast to Coast AM, real spooky stuff.
Also! I know I've harped on it a couple times but if you enjoy the S&R posts on nosleep, check out David Paulides' turns as a guest on Coast to Coast AM, real spooky stuff.
The David Paulides stuff freaks me right the fuck out. There was one episode of C2C: AM where Art Bell asked him if he thought it was aliens or something like that making all these people go missing, and David responded with something like "I wish it were something that simple." Sent chills down my spine, prime spooks.
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Metzger MeisterIt Gets Worsebefore it gets any better.Registered Userregular
That's one thing about Paulides, he really attempts to not speculate on causes and stuff, at least from what I've heard. He's an investigator, he looks at facts and how they're connected and leaves the readers or listeners to draw their own conclusions.
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Tommy2Handswhat is this where am iRegistered Userregular
Mountain lions also scream so that's like, something to be wary of too
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DepressperadoI just wanted to see you laughingin the pizza rainRegistered Userregular
the thing I like about internet spooks in particular is that they tend towards the first person or blog posts or youtubes and a sort of little kid earnestness, "no really, he was tall as a tree and he had too many arms!" and I can pretend that the world has this weird unknowable underside, where terror is creeping and fantastical
like, I can just sit and listen to Welcome to Nightvale and pretend that the world possesses this weird, indifferent, fatal magic
instead of the regular old mundane horror that the real world is full of
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Metzger MeisterIt Gets Worsebefore it gets any better.Registered Userregular
Also a cute radio host and his handsome scientist boyfriend, with his perfect hair and his teeth like a military cemetery.
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chiasaur11Never doubt a raccoon.Do you think it's trademarked?Registered Userregular
the thing I like about internet spooks in particular is that they tend towards the first person or blog posts or youtubes and a sort of little kid earnestness, "no really, he was tall as a tree and he had too many arms!" and I can pretend that the world has this weird unknowable underside, where terror is creeping and fantastical
like, I can just sit and listen to Welcome to Nightvale and pretend that the world possesses this weird, indifferent, fatal magic
instead of the regular old mundane horror that the real world is full of
I've read some interesting essays on the feeling of place in a narrative that point out that the creeping and fantastical terror mainly exists in a literary setting because, in the real world, the fear is too immediate to appreciate its specific qualities.
Like, on paper, a rip in your oxygen tank on the first trip to Mars is a pretty unique terror. You're alone in this alien landscape, and you are slowly dying because you do not belong. You're faced with the dawning realization of your own cosmic insignificance, the unique nature of your world in a grand pattern, and both the bravery and the arrogance that brought you to this place. And maybe, in hindsight once you've gotten back to safety, some of that sticks.
But in the moment, it's just "Oh fuck oh fuck I'm gonna die oh fuck", no different than if you were about to be hit by a bus.
See, that's the kind of weird memory things where I go "Ah. I see how I remembered that wrong. Everything is clear now."
Berenstain, now that one's a freaky fucker.
I don't even understand the bear name thing. Can someone explain it simply?
There was a weird thing were people were remembering it as the Berenstain Bears and a group of people who remember it as the Berenstein Bears. I don't really get it but people were freaking out about it.
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What is the point of being alive if you don't at least try to do something remarkable? ~ Mario Novak
I never fear death or dyin', I only fear never trying.
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Librarian's ghostLibrarian, Ghostbuster, and TimSporkRegistered Userregular
Wait is it seriously just people remember the spelling wrong? Man it was always stain. I vividly remember as a kid reading the name and pronouncing it stain because I noticed it was different than Frankenstein.
Wait is it seriously just people remember the spelling wrong? Man it was always stain. I vividly remember as a kid reading the name and pronouncing it stain because I noticed it was different than Frankenstein.
People be crazy.
Yea, it was pretty absurd. There was a joke about it proving multidimensional theories.
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What is the point of being alive if you don't at least try to do something remarkable? ~ Mario Novak
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WeaverWho are you?What do you want?Registered Userregular
See, that's the kind of weird memory things where I go "Ah. I see how I remembered that wrong. Everything is clear now."
Berenstain, now that one's a freaky fucker.
I don't even understand the bear name thing. Can someone explain it simply?
People spent their childhoods misreading the name "The Berenstain Bears" as "The Berenstein Bears." "Berenstain" is kind of a weird last name, while "Berenstein" fits into a much more common naming convention with many famous examples, so most of them never caught the mistake as children. Then they spent a decade or two not thinking about it at all, since they are children's books. Then they re-encountered the name as adults, and a small fraction of them made the oddly narcissistic leap that this very minor memetic hiccup was proof that we are living in an alternate timeline from the one they grew up in.
Then they went to Reddit and posted about it, and a bunch of other people either agreed or ironically shitposted that they agreed, and now here we are in the darkest Berenstain timeline.
The genie thing is similar, but with the uncomfortable twist that it involves not being able to tell two black guys apart.
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Librarian's ghostLibrarian, Ghostbuster, and TimSporkRegistered Userregular
I love the narcissistic leap from, miss remember a name to living in an alternate reality. Because of course that is the simplest explanation. Alternate reality. No possibly way a person could just be wrong. nope.
Like, Berenstein being Berenstain I'm willing to chalk up to my dumb kid memory cause I can't find my old books to prove it. But I will swear up and down I saw Shazam when it was on the Disney Channel once and I have never seen Kazzam in my life.
Matev on
"Go down, kick ass, and set yourselves up as gods, that's our Prime Directive!"
See, that's the kind of weird memory things where I go "Ah. I see how I remembered that wrong. Everything is clear now."
Berenstain, now that one's a freaky fucker.
I don't even understand the bear name thing. Can someone explain it simply?
People spent their childhoods misreading the name "The Berenstain Bears" as "The Berenstein Bears." "Berenstain" is kind of a weird last name, while "Berenstein" fits into a much more common naming convention with many famous examples, so most of them never caught the mistake as children. Then they spent a decade or two not thinking about it at all, since they are children's books. Then they re-encountered the name as adults, and a small fraction of them made the oddly narcissistic leap that this very minor memetic hiccup was proof that we are living in an alternate timeline from the one they grew up in.
Then they went to Reddit and posted about it, and a bunch of other people either agreed or ironically shitposted that they agreed, and now here we are in the darkest Berenstain timeline.
The genie thing is similar, but with the uncomfortable twist that it involves not being able to tell two black guys apart.
Being a little harsh don't ya think?
The entire Stein/Stain thing was, like, 90% a joke, and in most cases was written about in the style of a creepypasta or non-scientific thought experiment. The most serious it got was when science educators used it as a jumping off point to discuss how memory remains subjective with time.
At worst it's a simplistic story idea that is going to end up being dredged up for someone to make money off of at some later date because it went viral.
It also seems ridiculous to call it narcissistic when the entire concept relies on community input rather than on an individual. The Stein/Stain thing would be nothing without other people and doesn't rely on any one individual or even any one group. The whole thing centers on two groups that are similar in every way but one. One group remembers Berenstein, and the other remembers Berenstain.
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Metzger MeisterIt Gets Worsebefore it gets any better.Registered Userregular
See, that's the kind of weird memory things where I go "Ah. I see how I remembered that wrong. Everything is clear now."
Berenstain, now that one's a freaky fucker.
I don't even understand the bear name thing. Can someone explain it simply?
People spent their childhoods misreading the name "The Berenstain Bears" as "The Berenstein Bears." "Berenstain" is kind of a weird last name, while "Berenstein" fits into a much more common naming convention with many famous examples, so most of them never caught the mistake as children. Then they spent a decade or two not thinking about it at all, since they are children's books. Then they re-encountered the name as adults, and a small fraction of them made the oddly narcissistic leap that this very minor memetic hiccup was proof that we are living in an alternate timeline from the one they grew up in.
Then they went to Reddit and posted about it, and a bunch of other people either agreed or ironically shitposted that they agreed, and now here we are in the darkest Berenstain timeline.
The genie thing is similar, but with the uncomfortable twist that it involves not being able to tell two black guys apart.
Being a little harsh don't ya think?
The entire Stein/Stain thing was, like, 90% a joke, and in most cases was written about in the style of a creepypasta or non-scientific thought experiment. The most serious it got was when science educators used it as a jumping off point to discuss how memory remains subjective with time.
At worst it's a simplistic story idea that is going to end up being dredged up for someone to make money off of at some later date because it went viral.
It also seems ridiculous to call it narcissistic when the entire concept relies on community input rather than on an individual. The Stein/Stain thing would be nothing without other people and doesn't rely on any one individual or even any one group. The whole thing centers on two groups that are similar in every way but one. One group remembers Berenstein, and the other remembers Berenstain.
I never got the sense that the Berenstein crowd were anything but sincere. Maybe I'm being cynical, but it seems like anyone saying they were being ironic after the fact are like the shits on 4chan who were making white-supremacists memes "ironically".
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Psychotic OneThe Lord of No PantsParts UnknownRegistered Userregular
the thing I like about internet spooks in particular is that they tend towards the first person or blog posts or youtubes and a sort of little kid earnestness, "no really, he was tall as a tree and he had too many arms!" and I can pretend that the world has this weird unknowable underside, where terror is creeping and fantastical
like, I can just sit and listen to Welcome to Nightvale and pretend that the world possesses this weird, indifferent, fatal magic
instead of the regular old mundane horror that the real world is full of
I love Nightvale simply because of its subtlty to what should be horror. You got 5 headed dragons running for mayor. A sentient Glow Cloud [ALL HAIL THE GLOW CLOUD] as head of the PTA. And Strexcorp is all a plow to spread the glory of a Smiling God.
Its those 5 sentience peaks into the darkness that give those fridge horror moments. Like the episode where Cecil takes the portal and ends up in the Desert Bluffs Radio studio.
Its tied up in the book but if you got audible I'd highly suggest getting the Welcome to Nightvale book from there to find out more about the Man with the deer skin briefcase. Cecil narrates pretty much the whole thing. Comes out more like a audio drama.
See, that's the kind of weird memory things where I go "Ah. I see how I remembered that wrong. Everything is clear now."
Berenstain, now that one's a freaky fucker.
I don't even understand the bear name thing. Can someone explain it simply?
People spent their childhoods misreading the name "The Berenstain Bears" as "The Berenstein Bears." "Berenstain" is kind of a weird last name, while "Berenstein" fits into a much more common naming convention with many famous examples, so most of them never caught the mistake as children. Then they spent a decade or two not thinking about it at all, since they are children's books. Then they re-encountered the name as adults, and a small fraction of them made the oddly narcissistic leap that this very minor memetic hiccup was proof that we are living in an alternate timeline from the one they grew up in.
Then they went to Reddit and posted about it, and a bunch of other people either agreed or ironically shitposted that they agreed, and now here we are in the darkest Berenstain timeline.
The genie thing is similar, but with the uncomfortable twist that it involves not being able to tell two black guys apart.
Being a little harsh don't ya think?
The entire Stein/Stain thing was, like, 90% a joke, and in most cases was written about in the style of a creepypasta or non-scientific thought experiment. The most serious it got was when science educators used it as a jumping off point to discuss how memory remains subjective with time.
At worst it's a simplistic story idea that is going to end up being dredged up for someone to make money off of at some later date because it went viral.
It also seems ridiculous to call it narcissistic when the entire concept relies on community input rather than on an individual. The Stein/Stain thing would be nothing without other people and doesn't rely on any one individual or even any one group. The whole thing centers on two groups that are similar in every way but one. One group remembers Berenstein, and the other remembers Berenstain.
I never got the sense that the Berenstein crowd were anything but sincere. Maybe I'm being cynical, but it seems like anyone saying they were being ironic after the fact are like the shits on 4chan who were making white-supremacists memes "ironically".
Did I miss something and the whole Berenstein thing got coopted by neo nazis?
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WeaverWho are you?What do you want?Registered Userregular
Never really noticed how many hills were in this thread before.
I thought Sinbad was in a genie movie that was roughly contemporaneous with the Shaq movie, but some cursory googling makes me think I must have conflated the Adventures of Sinbad with the Sinbad Show. I don't think I ever watched either show ever, but I probably saw commercials/was vaguely aware of their existence. They both have Sinbad in their names and I was in like fifth grade, so that's probably it.
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Metzger MeisterIt Gets Worsebefore it gets any better.Registered Userregular
Never really noticed how many hills were in this thread before.
Littered with the corpses of fanatics, clutching standards and banners that long ago rotted away, leaving bare wooden poles in their wake, bleached by the sun.
See, that's the kind of weird memory things where I go "Ah. I see how I remembered that wrong. Everything is clear now."
Berenstain, now that one's a freaky fucker.
I don't even understand the bear name thing. Can someone explain it simply?
People spent their childhoods misreading the name "The Berenstain Bears" as "The Berenstein Bears." "Berenstain" is kind of a weird last name, while "Berenstein" fits into a much more common naming convention with many famous examples, so most of them never caught the mistake as children. Then they spent a decade or two not thinking about it at all, since they are children's books. Then they re-encountered the name as adults, and a small fraction of them made the oddly narcissistic leap that this very minor memetic hiccup was proof that we are living in an alternate timeline from the one they grew up in.
Then they went to Reddit and posted about it, and a bunch of other people either agreed or ironically shitposted that they agreed, and now here we are in the darkest Berenstain timeline.
The genie thing is similar, but with the uncomfortable twist that it involves not being able to tell two black guys apart.
Being a little harsh don't ya think?
The entire Stein/Stain thing was, like, 90% a joke, and in most cases was written about in the style of a creepypasta or non-scientific thought experiment. The most serious it got was when science educators used it as a jumping off point to discuss how memory remains subjective with time.
At worst it's a simplistic story idea that is going to end up being dredged up for someone to make money off of at some later date because it went viral.
It also seems ridiculous to call it narcissistic when the entire concept relies on community input rather than on an individual. The Stein/Stain thing would be nothing without other people and doesn't rely on any one individual or even any one group. The whole thing centers on two groups that are similar in every way but one. One group remembers Berenstein, and the other remembers Berenstain.
I never got the sense that the Berenstein crowd were anything but sincere. Maybe I'm being cynical, but it seems like anyone saying they were being ironic after the fact are like the shits on 4chan who were making white-supremacists memes "ironically".
Did I miss something and the whole Berenstein thing got coopted by neo nazis?
Fair enough.
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WeaverWho are you?What do you want?Registered Userregular
Never really noticed how many hills were in this thread before.
Littered with the corpses of fanatics, clutching standards and banners that long ago rotted away, leaving bare wooden poles in their wake, bleached by the sun.
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My friend's house backs up onto some woods, and you can hear deer screams sometimes and it's like, I know it's a deer
but in my heart of hearts I know it's the fucking Goatman
Deer .... scream?
Pretty sure it is the goatman
Also! I know I've harped on it a couple times but if you enjoy the S&R posts on nosleep, check out David Paulides' turns as a guest on Coast to Coast AM, real spooky stuff.
The David Paulides stuff freaks me right the fuck out. There was one episode of C2C: AM where Art Bell asked him if he thought it was aliens or something like that making all these people go missing, and David responded with something like "I wish it were something that simple." Sent chills down my spine, prime spooks.
like, I can just sit and listen to Welcome to Nightvale and pretend that the world possesses this weird, indifferent, fatal magic
instead of the regular old mundane horror that the real world is full of
I've read some interesting essays on the feeling of place in a narrative that point out that the creeping and fantastical terror mainly exists in a literary setting because, in the real world, the fear is too immediate to appreciate its specific qualities.
Like, on paper, a rip in your oxygen tank on the first trip to Mars is a pretty unique terror. You're alone in this alien landscape, and you are slowly dying because you do not belong. You're faced with the dawning realization of your own cosmic insignificance, the unique nature of your world in a grand pattern, and both the bravery and the arrogance that brought you to this place. And maybe, in hindsight once you've gotten back to safety, some of that sticks.
But in the moment, it's just "Oh fuck oh fuck I'm gonna die oh fuck", no different than if you were about to be hit by a bus.
Why I fear the ocean.
NO YOU DON'T CHUMPS
http://www.theearthchild.co.za/glitch-matrix-many-people-claim-seen-movie-never-existed/
FUCK
See, that's the kind of weird memory things where I go "Ah. I see how I remembered that wrong. Everything is clear now."
Berenstain, now that one's a freaky fucker.
Why I fear the ocean.
It was called Shazzam and featured Sinbad as a genie. THIS FILM EXISTED.
I don't even understand the bear name thing. Can someone explain it simply?
There was a weird thing were people were remembering it as the Berenstain Bears and a group of people who remember it as the Berenstein Bears. I don't really get it but people were freaking out about it.
What is the point of being alive if you don't at least try to do something remarkable? ~ Mario Novak
I never fear death or dyin', I only fear never trying.
People be crazy.
I remember when SE++ was called Happenstance and Ribaldry for a short while. Doesn't mean it ever actually happened!
Yea, it was pretty absurd. There was a joke about it proving multidimensional theories.
What is the point of being alive if you don't at least try to do something remarkable? ~ Mario Novak
I never fear death or dyin', I only fear never trying.
TTB, club PA and the double-down saloon where all time displaced MK-Ultra experiments.
People spent their childhoods misreading the name "The Berenstain Bears" as "The Berenstein Bears." "Berenstain" is kind of a weird last name, while "Berenstein" fits into a much more common naming convention with many famous examples, so most of them never caught the mistake as children. Then they spent a decade or two not thinking about it at all, since they are children's books. Then they re-encountered the name as adults, and a small fraction of them made the oddly narcissistic leap that this very minor memetic hiccup was proof that we are living in an alternate timeline from the one they grew up in.
Then they went to Reddit and posted about it, and a bunch of other people either agreed or ironically shitposted that they agreed, and now here we are in the darkest Berenstain timeline.
The genie thing is similar, but with the uncomfortable twist that it involves not being able to tell two black guys apart.
VINDICATION!
Yes! Finally proof that photoshop exists!
Being a little harsh don't ya think?
The entire Stein/Stain thing was, like, 90% a joke, and in most cases was written about in the style of a creepypasta or non-scientific thought experiment. The most serious it got was when science educators used it as a jumping off point to discuss how memory remains subjective with time.
At worst it's a simplistic story idea that is going to end up being dredged up for someone to make money off of at some later date because it went viral.
It also seems ridiculous to call it narcissistic when the entire concept relies on community input rather than on an individual. The Stein/Stain thing would be nothing without other people and doesn't rely on any one individual or even any one group. The whole thing centers on two groups that are similar in every way but one. One group remembers Berenstein, and the other remembers Berenstain.
Don't you have an unsecured nuclear reactor to go maintain?
You're supposed to be ready to believe me! ;n;
I never got the sense that the Berenstein crowd were anything but sincere. Maybe I'm being cynical, but it seems like anyone saying they were being ironic after the fact are like the shits on 4chan who were making white-supremacists memes "ironically".
I love Nightvale simply because of its subtlty to what should be horror. You got 5 headed dragons running for mayor. A sentient Glow Cloud [ALL HAIL THE GLOW CLOUD] as head of the PTA. And Strexcorp is all a plow to spread the glory of a Smiling God.
Its those 5 sentience peaks into the darkness that give those fridge horror moments. Like the episode where Cecil takes the portal and ends up in the Desert Bluffs Radio studio.
Its tied up in the book but if you got audible I'd highly suggest getting the Welcome to Nightvale book from there to find out more about the Man with the deer skin briefcase. Cecil narrates pretty much the whole thing. Comes out more like a audio drama.
Did I miss something and the whole Berenstein thing got coopted by neo nazis?
Littered with the corpses of fanatics, clutching standards and banners that long ago rotted away, leaving bare wooden poles in their wake, bleached by the sun.
THIS HILL IS MINE. IT WAS MADE FOR ME!
DRRR DRRRR DRRRR
Fair enough.