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@RenDSkunk @HorrorPaperback Something happened to me a few weeks ago, I was angry.

@HorrorPaperback Reminds me of the wrong version of It's Alive, instead of killer babies and biting satire of then modern day life it was a proto lifetime movie bolted to a tour of the Ozarks with a dinosaur thing.

My generation learned the hard way to deal with disappointment. We'd rent videos with incredible Vallejo-esque box art: a vast post-apocalyptic hellscape populated with bizarrely-clad warriors and snarling mutants, everything on fire. Then we'd hit play and it was dogshit.

@SandyofCthulhu Evil Dead when Ash is leaning on the door. Nothing happens for the usual amount of time, so you feel safe and Ash looks relieved. Then the Deadite punches through the door. Caught me off guard, gave a startled curse, and dropped my beer.

Lessons from designing horror since 1980: When making impactful horror, the scariest moments are those people imagine up. One of my signature ploys in Doom was empty rooms with a pedestal. Atop the pedestal would be something good, like a BFG. The player stares at it KNOWING something bad will happen when they grab it. Of course they grab it anyway. The point is the anticipation of the event is scarier than the event. When all hell breaks loose the player isn’t scared then - he’s frantically running and gunning. Anyway that’s my example. What is a ‘nothing happened yet’ moment in a game or movie that terrified you?

@JohnSexton8676 @IonaItalia No worries.

@fripper509 @IonaItalia I’m pretty thick.

If it's not easier than reading philosophy or nonfiction, it's not serious fiction.

@JohnSexton8676 @IonaItalia I thought my sarcasm was obvious. I wasn't being serious, just forgot sarcasm doesn't translate to text very well.

@fripper509 @IonaItalia Apart from anything else it uses much less words than fiction, sonething that becomes very clear if you learn foreign languages.

@IonaItalia Never did think so myself.

@fripper509 no

@horrormuseum I really enjoy the Horror in the High Desert franchise so far.

What HORROR FRANCHISE do you love more than any other?

Name a band or artist with a one word name only...just a single name. Let's see how long we can keep it going... 😏

@ingelramdecoucy @GeniusKhaan @SomeBitchIIKnow But Zep's to chaotic? Strange, but I can see understand it on a certain level.

@fripper509 @GeniusKhaan @SomeBitchIIKnow As it happens x.com/ingelramdecouc…

Dads love listening to Pink Floyd.

@SomeBitchIIKnow I don't care for anything they've done past 71. I'm completely burnt out on everything post DSOTM.

@ingelramdecoucy @GeniusKhaan @SomeBitchIIKnow Probably don't care for Stravinsky or Crumb either?

@GeniusKhaan @SomeBitchIIKnow Their music is too heavy and chaotic for me, I dunno never much cared for it. They’re not like Springsteen, I don’t HATE them, I just don’t really care for them

When I transition to the 80s, I want to showcase as many albums as possible. So... Please name ONE 80s album that is little known but you love & are sure others will too. I'll highlight one per day. Here's to discovering new music together!

@WholesomeMeme Eat it.

What would you do if this is your refrigerator?

@ingelramdecoucy @JeffreyRader Buck Henry as the pervy baby sitter wasn't one of their better efforts.

@JeffreyRader Everybody only remember Aykroyd’s opening line but yeah, they actually both make really good points in between the humorous insults. People expected more thought in their humor at one time

Listen to the words, it is interesting for more than just the laughs.

@JonahDispatch This guy loved harnesses, sweaters, and backpacks. To him they all meant adventures were coming up.

The missus got Pippa a harness. She does not like it. She is pouting, hard.

@judypancoast Grandma took me to see a rerelease of Pinocchio, was maybe 4 or 5. Mom took me to see Jaws.

What’s the first #horrormovie you saw in a theater? I’m old, so for me it was The Old Dark House around 1963 when I was four!! I’ve never forgotten this scene. How about you? #mutantfam #horrorcommunity #horror

@KingTychoiii @RantyAmyCurtis I was on the Midway 40 years ago. No matter how many months out we were, nothing that pathetic was ever served. Not even Midrats.

@RantyAmyCurtis When I was in the service almost twenty years ago, this is the kind of meals they served on a carrier (steak and lobster was an extreme rarity). I remember we had a supply onload one time, and despite being frozen, you could smell the chicken in the boxes.

A month ago, y’all were bitching about the lobster and steak.

@Puppieslover The angst of a freshly emptied dinner bowl.

No cheating, post the last saved dog pic on your phone

@JVMonte2 Yet another Crimson cover, Genesis ' Selling England

What album cover do you think deserves to hang in an art gallery or museum?

@JFracci @a_guidarelli Along with the rest of Midwest.

@a_guidarelli Come thru in winter.

Ohio is so over hated.