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Re: Things that made you absolutely terrified today
« Reply #3570 on: March 13, 2013, 06:02:07 am »

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Re: Things that made you absolutely terrified today
« Reply #3571 on: March 13, 2013, 06:08:27 am »

I appreciate them for their creativity.  Not one has ever given me a chill.
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For me it's the exact opposite way around.  I can appreciate Creepypasta, but it has never given be a chill.
With Creepypasta, and the way it's done, it's like "Meh, this is every thing I've seen before in other media." But witht he manner in which SCP is done, it is much more immersive, as I haven't seen it before.   
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Re: Things that made you absolutely terrified today
« Reply #3572 on: March 13, 2013, 06:16:43 am »

I like both. Creepypasta is where everything is doubt and no-one is sure if they've just gone mad or if something really is going on, while the SCP Foundation just lists out the facts they know and the facts are freaky as shit.

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Re: Things that made you absolutely terrified today
« Reply #3573 on: March 13, 2013, 06:21:36 am »

I like the SCP wiki over creepypasta because I think it distills what's creepy about it into just the scariest bits. Creepypasta always wastes hundreds of words on talking about how the narrator went on with their day all normally, kind of feeling like something bad was going to happen but not yet, and I'm like dude, who cares.

Creepypasta is all about trying (and almost always failing) to get the reader to identify with the narrator, while the SCP wiki just shoves what's creepy right at you and makes you think of it through your own perception, not filtered out through some other guy's story.
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Re: Things that made you absolutely terrified today
« Reply #3574 on: March 13, 2013, 06:24:41 am »

Well, I personally like the fact that Creepypasta tries to get you to think the whole thing's normal and build it up rather then just dishing it out like... well, pasta, but I can agree with you on the point that sometimes they spend too much time talking about it. The narrator's not meant to be the protagonist who wins the day or dies trying, he's just a normal guy who's thrown into horrible bizarre shit. Think of creepypasta as the SCP Foundation from the point of view of people who just find the SCPs by accident.

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Re: Things that made you absolutely terrified today
« Reply #3575 on: March 13, 2013, 06:28:22 am »

If I just happened upon a creepypasta then that would probably work, but I've never started reading one without knowing it's a creepypasta. And that pretty much kills any attempt to convince me it's normal.
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Re: Things that made you absolutely terrified today
« Reply #3576 on: March 13, 2013, 06:30:26 am »

It's not that it's tricking you into thinking it's normal, it's just putting up an obvious facade of normal to make things seem weirder. The SCP Foundation does the same thing, just with clinical and scientific observation instead of "I'm a normal Joe on the internet and here's the weird shit that happened to me last summer".

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Re: Things that made you absolutely terrified today
« Reply #3577 on: March 13, 2013, 07:08:33 am »

If I just happened upon a creepypasta then that would probably work, but I've never started reading one without knowing it's a creepypasta. And that pretty much kills any attempt to convince me it's normal.

That's just due to what happened to creepypasta.  The way I understand it, there used to be various horror stories that circulated around the internet in a slow, viral fashion, in a style very reminiscent of urban legends.  Over time these stories became recognized as their own thing and archived into what we know as "creepypasta" (so named because viral = copy/paste = copypasta = creepypasta).  So when you go rummaging through a creepypasta archive of your own volition, it's a different experience than one of these stories getting randomly passed on to you from a friend or something.  Now people don't even do that anymore.  They just submit their stories directly to the creepypasta archives.  It's the same as urban legends being creepy until they're actually presented to you as an urban legend.
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Re: Things that made you absolutely terrified today
« Reply #3578 on: March 13, 2013, 07:27:01 am »

That's fine and all, but the new ones need to adapt to the new medium. As far as I've seen, they're all still trying to take the form of a story getting passed around in an email when that's never how they're circulated.
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Re: Things that made you absolutely terrified today
« Reply #3579 on: March 13, 2013, 07:58:31 am »

So, I'm thinking, just let em become straight up horror stories?

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Re: Things that made you absolutely terrified today
« Reply #3580 on: March 13, 2013, 08:47:27 am »

It could take the form of a series of twitter posts, or something.

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Went to McDs in the middle of the night lol

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WTF, sounds like someone's at the door, brb checking for creepers

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oh god theres a thing just standing htere on the porch its gto these big black eyse is tihs some sort of stupid prnak

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hes not leaving

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fuck theres something outdsi the window

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THE WINDOW OPENED AND A SKELETON POPPED OUT

Or, you know, something like that.
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Re: Things that made you absolutely terrified today
« Reply #3581 on: March 13, 2013, 09:01:15 am »

I've seen such stories in a 4ch-like thread style. It's pretty effective, in where it's actually them talking. :D
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Re: Things that made you absolutely terrified today
« Reply #3582 on: March 13, 2013, 09:04:07 am »

Except who would bother to Twitter that sort of thing? It's like the bit in Monty Python & the Holy Grail.

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ARTHUR: What?

BROTHER MAYNARD: 'The Aaaaarrrrrrggghhh...'

BEDEVERE: What's that?

BROTHER MAYNARD: He must have died while carving it.

BEDEVERE: Oh, come on.

BROTHER MAYNARD: That's what it says.

ARTHUR: But if he was dying, he wouldn't bother to carve 'Aaaaarrrrrrggghhh'. He'd just say it.

BROTHER MAYNARD: It's down there carved in stone.

GALAHAD: Perhaps he was dictating.

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Re: Things that made you absolutely terrified today
« Reply #3583 on: March 13, 2013, 09:06:39 am »

It's more like Stephen Fry tweeting when he was stuck in a lift, but with more murder.

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Re: Things that made you absolutely terrified today
« Reply #3584 on: March 13, 2013, 09:10:43 am »

Theres a TVtropes page on it. Apocalyptic log. Otherwise known as "The Lovecraftian desire to continue recording your circumstances even as you are being devoured."
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