What DE-sesnetitzed you?

[Kikyoo]

I'm a Tad curious of late. I'd been thinking back to my life and all the things that did not shock or horrify me in movies and video games, and so I was just wondering about other people. What shocking moment in video games and/or movies shocked you when you were young, and painted how you view all other shocking movies and games. Maybe it wasn't the worst out there but it was your first, and after that when you see gore or stuff it just seems to roll off because you've seen something similar. Now my main curiosity is with the younger generation, I'm curious what they have found shocking in recent years.

For me my first that I can remember was Robocop. Where Alex Murphay just get's the crap shot out of him by gangsters, and then his brains blown out. Then they rush him to the hospital to try and save his life. That was a gruesome and brutal seance to watch as a young child. It maybe wasn't the worst, but after that gruesome and brutal deaths just didn't bother me anymore. Horror movies didn't seem so bad.

So let's hear everybody's!

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[Eclipse Dragon]

I've actually gotten MORE sensitive with age. I used to be able to look at anything and not be bothered.
Now I cry watching the Lion King (Not even THAT scene which jumps to the for front of every ones mind.)
I cry during the first scene with all the animals and baby Simba and the MUSIC.

I also cry at the ending of Okami.

 

[Angie7F]

I am more scared of Ringu type movies now, but the zombie stuff i think i got desensitized way before i reached my teens.
Human anatomy doesnt scare me.

 

[Alternative]

I don't know how desensitized i am to violence and gore.

i can watch the most violent or disturbing movies or games and im fine.

but in real life i react strongly to even just seeing blood.

 

[Girl With One Eye]

I don't really shock easily, but I had to peek through my fingers during some scenes in I Spit On Your Grave.

 

[trollax]

I go on 4Chan so I'm really De-sesnetitzed.

 

[Scarim Coral]

Well it was thanks to that anime OVA Geno Cyber had pretty much make me squeamish at horror gore related anime (e.g. I refuse to watch Elfen Lied) due to the gore fest in that ova.

Also Bram Stroker's Dracular also inflict fear (gore wise) to me aswell especially that head chomping scene. In saying so however I can somewhat stomach it since I watch bits of it again years ago.

 

[Burig]

I don't find many things so bad, probably couldn't say what actually de-sensitised me, if anything really. Too many variables to say, and I'm not trained in picking apart anyones mind, especially my own.

As for things that I've actually felt some emotion towards (emotion being a word I don't really want to use, incase it makes me sound like an emotionless robot, or something), but the first one was either in GTAI or GTAII - I was fairly young, watching my brother play it (I can't remember how young, he's four years older than I am though). I remember watching him go and pick up people in a bus (or pick up a bus full of people) and drive it to a hotdog factory for them to be turned into meats. That sickened me for some reason. PRobably wouldn't now, but I remember that being a really big thing for me back then.

As for a more recent one, happened last year I believe. When I was playing Mafia 2.

Spoiler: spoiler for mafia 2

It was in the mission that the chinese guys attack the guy who was pretending to be your friend, but actually a cop in the middle of the day, just hacking away at him with cleavers.

. I can't say that it was as sickening a reaction as I felt for the previous time, but I certainly felt shocked. More shocked that it could happen without anyone trying to stop - even if it was fictional (not that I doubt anyone would try to stop it in real life anyway, for obvious reasons).

Other than that, the only thing I've really felt are moral dilemas from choices, a big one in Fallout 3, as well as some in Skyrim.

 

[teqrevisited]

I don't really recall being affected much by most films. I do remember watching the 50s version of War of the Worlds when I was about 6 or 7. I hid under the covers for at least a week afterwards and had a temporary fear of street lights. Other than that my Dad & I used to watch loads of horror & violence.

After you've seen someone repeatedly shot and stabbed within the first two minutes of a film you either get used to it or leave the room. I've ended up finding the domestic violence more disturbing than everything else. Not because I can relate anything to it, it just feels incredibly uncomfortable to watch.

 

[McMullen]

I used to be a little squeamish, but I took a first aid class in high school in which we were shown slides of just about every bad thing that can happen to the human body.

Spoiler

Disembowelment, amputations, people with their brain exposed to the open air and still conscious, skin of the hand sheared partially off and hanging on the bones like a loose glove, eyeballs that have been liquefied by acid or are hanging out of the socket by the optic nerve, that sort of thing.

After that, I can pretty much eat anything while looking at anything. It's actually come in handy for one of my jobs.

 

[NightHawk21]

I grew up surrounded by people 4-5 years older than me, so I can't really say what desensitized me. Never really had a problem with gore or scary movies, because I could from as long as I can remember rationalize the difference between a game/book/movie and real life.

 

[Akytalusia]

eh.. i was pretty innocent until i had a run-in with my big sisters ruffian friends in my youth. it was a simple mission to retrieve my sister for dinner. i approached their group and was unexpectedly ridiculed and physically assaulted. when they got bored, i calmly informed my sister it was time for dinner and left, however, my psyche had been enlightened to the reality of this world and i accepted it for what it was from that point on. anything horrible that happens is nothing beyond standard reality to me, now.

 

[Aarowbeatsdragon]

Hmmmm its gotta be the first human centipede...actually no, i think thats when i realised i was desentised cause nothing about that film disgusted me, then when i watched the second one which makes the first one look like the tellytubies...i wasnt disgusted in the slightest...its hard to pinpoint where this came from though.

 

[chuckman1]

videogames didnt desensetize me real life did
my dad beating my mom
hanging out with my dads meth lab buddies
seeing my dad get arrested a shitload of times

no videogame has ever compared

EDIT
oh and spending years of my life in the hood

 

[The Funslinger]

Due to a combination of my friend ambushing me with clips of gore porn and the fact I have, on multiple occasions, seen large quantities of my own blood messing stuff up leaves me pretty desensitized.

 

[Polite Sage]

I go on 4Chan so I'm really De-sesnetitzed.

Please don't tell me you only visit that "le epic redditor meme" breeding cesspool we call /b/. I need to hit you if you do.

Internet in general desensitized me into not getting offended by pretty much anything. I got Stephen Fried.

Spoiler: Deal with it.

But if you take certain cases then Rapelay and first getting into guro comes to mind. I can now look at pretty much any fantasy violence without flinching, though IRL pictures / videos still make close the browser with the force of thousand suns (which is just fine by me).

 

[Aris Khandr]

I'm a total wimp. Blood, gore, monsters, dismembering, they all get me. I can't watch any horror movie without a pillow or a plushie to hide my eyes in during the gross scenes. Even in video games, I look anywhere on the screen except at the guy who's head just turned into chunks of meat.

 

[Polite Sage]

We all know its fake so why the hell are we supposed to act all squemish.

Half the internet would say otherwise. Just google "games" or "media" with "Christians" / "feminism" / "children". Prepare lots of brain bleach.