Things That Become Creepy When You Think About Them

[Blunderboy]

Also, Cain, if I remember correctly, was banished, which makes it rather hard the whole of humanity is descended from him.

You're correct, Cain was banished to the land of Nod, which was somewhere east of Eden.
The only reason I know this, is because I was a huge CnC fan back in the day. So when when we discussed Genesis in religious education, the only thing I learned was that Kane, the leader of the Brotherhood of Nod was indeed Cain, who was banished to the land of Nod (or at least based on him... I don't remember how the official canon goes in that regard).

And the reason I know it, is because I'm a WoD fan - Caine, as in the biblical one, was cursed by God for the murder of his brother and became the first vampire. He was also banished to Nod and later came back, there is even a fairly influential book in canon called "The book of Nod" which is a vampiric Bible of sorts.

Needless to say, it's based on the Bible but WoD doesn't really follow it that closely, so I don't take it as a infallible source on the thing.

And interesting bit of trivia for CnC there, I honestly never noticed the connection. Then again, I haven't actually played it as much (just a bit of Tiberian Sun and a tinier bit of Renegade), and certainly none of the campaign, but I did know enough about it to be able to spot the reference.

Man I love WoD.
My group is currently doing Werewolf and I love it.
We're doing Hunter soon aswell.

 

[Fijiman]

Let's be honest with ourselves; anything can become creepy if you think about it long enough or in just the right way.

 

[Proverbial Jon]

That every single train and object is a slave to humans in thomas the tank engine just think about it there all sentient.

The actual trains themselves creep me out when I think about it too much. Like you say, they're sentient, they can move and do things without the need of people (although this is detail is changed often, depending on the story.) What if they all ganged up on humanity? Some diesels are portrayed as less than good characters.

Duke was once locked in a shed and forgotten about for years when a landslide buried him. He was only found by accident. That's quite a terrifying fate! I'm pretty certain Diesel 10 tried to push James into a smelter at the breakers yard, along with a human as well. Diesel 10 is the genocidal Hitler figure of the Thomas world. This stuff gets pretty dark if you've got a mind to think beyond the actual events.

Also... how are they created? Do humans build them and craft a damned FACE for the smokebox? That's another odd thing as well, just how do they open the smokebox to clean the boiler? Sooo many questions!

 

[Exacerbation]

Your a small, very weak being. Your flesh is flabby, your bones are not that strong.

In the time your reading this message, heart could stop, you could cough up your lung, a bullet an idiot fired five miles away could crash into your head.

You live on a dot, not visible even from the nearest star, in a harsh, cold, uncaring universe, that could erase our tiny, insiginifcant planet, in a million different ways.

You WILL die.

And there is nothing, NOTHING, you can do it to stop it.

This is actually a great comfort to me, reminds me of when people ask "why would you get tattooed? That's going to be on you forever." No, they'll come off when I'm ash.

Anyway, back to OP- There was a Lion King 2? I'm not buying that.

When cartoon characters who are animals visit the fucking zoo!!! Or a farm! Or simply have pets! Disturbing on a primal level.

 

[DoPo]

Also, Cain, if I remember correctly, was banished, which makes it rather hard the whole of humanity is descended from him.

You're correct, Cain was banished to the land of Nod, which was somewhere east of Eden.
The only reason I know this, is because I was a huge CnC fan back in the day. So when when we discussed Genesis in religious education, the only thing I learned was that Kane, the leader of the Brotherhood of Nod was indeed Cain, who was banished to the land of Nod (or at least based on him... I don't remember how the official canon goes in that regard).

And the reason I know it, is because I'm a WoD fan - Caine, as in the biblical one, was cursed by God for the murder of his brother and became the first vampire. He was also banished to Nod and later came back, there is even a fairly influential book in canon called "The book of Nod" which is a vampiric Bible of sorts.

Needless to say, it's based on the Bible but WoD doesn't really follow it that closely, so I don't take it as a infallible source on the thing.

And interesting bit of trivia for CnC there, I honestly never noticed the connection. Then again, I haven't actually played it as much (just a bit of Tiberian Sun and a tinier bit of Renegade), and certainly none of the campaign, but I did know enough about it to be able to spot the reference.

Man I love WoD.
My group is currently doing Werewolf and I love it.
We're doing Hunter soon aswell.

I assume you mean oWoD - W20 is coming out really soon, if you didn't know I expect it to be great. I don't know if you've looked through the Werewolf Translation Guide but I found some sweet ideas in there.

As for Hunter, I liked the concept of it - random everyday people combat monsters, but the execution was a bit "meh" (for "random people" they get, like, superpowers and are chosen by what seems to be angels and shit). I think Vigil did a better job at portraying the core concept (tiers 1 and maybe 2, essentially). Reckoning was still kickass, though, and I find that if you ramp up the fact that the characters essentially don't know if what they are doing is "right" or they are being misled (or they are, in fact, mad), it turns really sweet. So there is that, say, dude on the street which you alone see as a walking corpse, blood dripping from its mouth. Nobody else does, not even after you destroy the vile abomination do other people recognise the fact that it is NOT HUMAN. Are they all wrong? Are they all misled? Are you wrong? How can you tell if that was actually a monster or not? Everybody else seem to not see it your way. Oh, yes, there are the other people that agree with you, but if you take a step back and look at the bigger picture, they run the gamut from simply "nuts" through "dangerously unbalanced" and beyond. And they have less credibility than some, probably most, conspiracy theorists. Well, at least this voice, you alone hear, that says it is all right...

Also, God45 is one of my favourite characters from oWoD

 

[The Rogue Wolf]

Your a small, very weak being. Your flesh is flabby, your bones are not that strong.

In the time your reading this message, heart could stop, you could cough up your lung, a bullet an idiot fired five miles away could crash into your head.

You live on a dot, not visible even from the nearest star, in a harsh, cold, uncaring universe, that could erase our tiny, insiginifcant planet, in a million different ways.

You WILL die.

And there is nothing, NOTHING, you can do it to stop it.

I'm just gonna leave this here without any sort of context or explanation. Enjoy!

 

[RADIALTHRONE1]

For anyone that has read the Rot & Ruin trilogy (all three)

Spoiler

Tom says that he was going to propose/marry Nix's mom. That would make Benny and Her brother/sister in-law, therefore making Benny and Nix niece/uncle in-law. And we all "know" where Benny and Nix's relationship is going, which would have made that awkward city.

 

[Bestival]

Hagrid from Harry Potter is half giant. His dad was a human and his mom was a giant...

Better than the other way around, as was fairly common in Gene Wolfe's The Wizard Knight.
It had some pretty graphic descriptions about how that stuff would play out too.

Spoiler: It would probably look a bit like this.

 

[Headdrivehardscrew]

Hagrid from Harry Potter is half giant. His dad was a human and his mom was a giant...

Yup.

Hagrid's mom used Hagrid's dad as a tampon, and that's when the magic happened.

Seriously, though, Harry Potter is full of half-baked, insane inanity. If mystical creatures from legends, fables and children's stories had any proper backbone, they'd all have pounced on the lady that shat on their very substance and earned lots of money tearing the fantastical world of made-up stuff a new one.

 

[thesilentman]

Well, in a sense, us. We pretty are the representation of Cthulu to all the animals out there. Wouldn't most of cosmic horror count here?

 

[Donnie Restad]

This doesn't require much thought.

Stanley Kubrick created Dr. Strangelove, a movie which featured the Doomsday Device created by the Russian government to effectively destroy the world as a last-ditch-effort to prevent enemy action against them...and was mistakenly kept a secret when it was public knowledge of the thing that would stop it from enacting its programming.

I later found out that the Russian government had created a Doomsday Device to effectively destroy the world as a last-ditch-effort to prevent enemy action against them...and was mistakenly kept a secret when it was public knowledge of the thing that would stop it from enacting its programming.

When I discovered this, I screamed very loudly. Fortunately, the thing isn't in operation these days.

Source? Not necessarily disputing you, but I'd really like to see it for myself.

If you have a mid-November birthday that means you were conceived 9 months ago, in mid-February. In fact probably around about February 14th.

Spoiler

I worked out something similiar. I back tracked my birth and it turns out it would have to be in the month of the parents wedding anniversary. My brother, who is the oldest child is also born in December so he must have been conceived around when my parents got married,

Mine is much worse. I was born in early February. My (older) sister was born in mid-May. Conclusion? I was likely conceived on my sister's birthday.

 

[cojo965]

Your a small, very weak being. Your flesh is flabby, your bones are not that strong.

In the time your reading this message, heart could stop, you could cough up your lung, a bullet an idiot fired five miles away could crash into your head.

You live on a dot, not visible even from the nearest star, in a harsh, cold, uncaring universe, that could erase our tiny, insiginifcant planet, in a million different ways.

You WILL die.

And there is nothing, NOTHING, you can do it to stop it.

This is actually a great comfort to me, reminds me of when people ask "why would you get tattooed? That's going to be on you forever." No, they'll come off when I'm ash.

Anyway, back to OP- There was a Lion King 2? I'm not buying that.

When cartoon characters who are animals visit the fucking zoo!!! Or a farm! Or simply have pets! Disturbing on a primal level.

Not sure if you're serious or joking, but just in case you are, LOOK IT UP!

 

[Sable Gear]

Let's be honest with ourselves; anything can become creepy if you think about it long enough or in just the right way.

This guy's got the right idea. But here's another one just 'cause...
Your teeth? Exposed bones. Go ahead and lick 'em. Bones. Do all the bones in your body feel that way?
Also, humans aren't the only species that wages war or creates art, not so much creepy as mildly mind-boggling.

 

[Zhukov]

The story of Adam and Eve, if you think about it really hard we'd all be inbred, making the taboo of incest irrelevant

We're already very, very inbred. All of us.

The starting human population is estimated at about 10,000. There's now 6 billion of us. Do the math.

It's why individual humans have so little genetic variation from one another.

 

[game-lover]

Not quite what you meant by this thread I should think, but:
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A young girl is lying in bed, slowly nodding off to sleep. She hears her mother's voice calling from the kitchen, and begins to make her way down. Suddenly, something reaches out from the closet and drags her in, cupping a hand over her mouth to stifle any cries. In her ear a voice whispers,
"Don't go into the kitchen. I heard it too"
It is her mother.


----
Let it sink in. It grows creepier the more you mull over it.

I've read this online before. Just with a slight difference being the child hears mother from mother's own room and there's no touching.

Hagrid from Harry Potter is half giant. His dad was a human and his mom was a giant...

Yup.

Hagrid's mom used Hagrid's dad as a tampon, and that's when the magic happened.

Seriously, though, Harry Potter is full of half-baked, insane inanity. If mystical creatures from legends, fables and children's stories had any proper backbone, they'd all have pounced on the lady that shat on their very substance and earned lots of money tearing the fantastical world of made-up stuff a new one.

There was this article on Cracked that was all about the fridge horror of sex acts and/or sex lives of others in there. Such as what Hermoine subjected Dolores Umbridge to when she set it up so that she'd fall prey to the centaurs. There's another one about stuff in general that I haven't read yet...

 

[ecoho]

Let's be honest with ourselves; anything can become creepy if you think about it long enough or in just the right way.

This guy's got the right idea. But here's another one just 'cause...
Your teeth? Exposed bones. Go ahead and lick 'em. Bones. Do all the bones in your body feel that way?
Also, humans aren't the only species that wages war or creates art, not so much creepy as mildly mind-boggling.

well i can answer one of your questions as both wolves and lions go to war with each other anytime two rivel pack/prides come in contact over the same territory.

OT: what disturbs me is that the same people you see everyday who act like idiots are most likly driveing places........

 

[FalloutJack]

Understandable.

Project Dead Hand [http://www.wired.com/politics/security/magazine/17-10/mf_deadhand?currentPage=all], or Perimeter, which reports of can be revealed by Google-searching 'Doomsday Device' or 'Doomsday Machine'. Though, I first heard about it via TV Tropes, you will find that it was real and that the implications were scary. We could have all died and gone to Fallout.

 

[IndomitableSam]

Mrs.Doubtfire the movie.

If you think really long and hard about it, the whole scenario with a father obsessed with his kids dresses up as a woman to get close to them so that his wife won't take them away. It's just really creepy.

... Saw this months ago - is awesome.

Wait, THIS is the better one: