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Miscellaneous => General Chat => Topic started by: Nintendoobsessed on June 25, 2008, 12:01:38 AM
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What kind of monsters were you scared of the most as a kid?
What kind of monster are you (reasonably/don't look at me like that) scared of now?
You have 2 votes to use, one as a kid and one as a adult!
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Cool poll. I've always been afraid of the idea of large aquatic monsters. I even get the jitters fighting water bosses in Zelda games.
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Supernatural monsters. The more unlikely they were to be real, the more I feared them. I believe in witches...
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I'm afraid of flying, neuro-parasitic pizzas! Head for the tanning salons, lest you succumb to mind-shattering pain!
When I was young, I was afraid of a variety of sea creatures, most notably eels. "Can the Eel Come Out to Play?" took me ages to complete in the original SM64 because of that hideous freak's roar.
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Hmmm... I do believe I was once afraid of alien invasions or something like that... but then I got smart. There are no hostile life forms out there ready to come shooting Earth. It's all peace and happiness out there.
Today... I ain't afraid o' nothin'. Except spiders. C'mon--what can have eight legs and NOT be a monster?
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Sea monsters for me because, for all we know, those things are completely real.
"House" monsters would definitely freak me out more in the media, though. I'm in my house more than I'm in the ocean!
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House monsters... I used to be ridiculously afraid of my closet. Only at night, though. Also spiders. Sometimes I can't even say the word without getting paranoid.
Sea monsters are especially bad for me because I can't swim.
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What kind of monsters were you scared of the most as a kid?
None.
What kind of monster are you (reasonably/don't look at me like that) scared of now?
None.
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None. It's pretty hard to be afraid of something that doesn't exist.
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The Great Fairies in OoT are scarier than any monster
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Need to add "Human Monsters". Serial killers, rapists and cannibals and such.
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House and Supernatural as a kid... I'm not really "scared" of monsters now.
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I'm the same as Luigison. Fear in "monsters" always seemed really irrational to me. That said, I think I spooked myself into "what if"s about Dracula once or twice.
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Daleks!
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Cybermen!
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Vashta Nerada!
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Lupine wavelength haemovariform!
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Don't forget Sea Devils or Silurians. Definately don't forget Ice Warriors.
I was never scared of monsters as a child, but I do love zombies.
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I'm primarily scared of being assimilated into the Borg and/or the Combine Overwatch. Also, Cthulhu.
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Call me crazy for doing this, but the reason I don't sleep on my back is because I'm scared of being possessed by something. Demons, ghosts and shadow people give me the willies.
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I'm primarily scared of being assimilated into the Borg and/or the Combine Overwatch. Also, Cthulhu.
If you're scared about the Borg, get off the computer.
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Get off the computer...? The Borg were smothered in cybernetics. I'd say the Internet is a long ways away from being a Collective. And while the Combine Overwatch are pretty scary underneath that suit (ever see the armorless guy on a monitor in Nova Prospekt?), they only take volunteers or prisoners of war. Also, they tend to kill rebels before capturing them.
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I didn't mean the Borg in a Star trek sense, I meant it in a general sense. Humans are already being cyborged in many ways -- Turtlekid1 could be a robot and we would never know.
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I've not been informed of this! Turtlekid1, turn off your random sentence fragment replacement algorithm! You can't fool us any more!
That was a terrible joke.
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It's obvious he's robotic. He's always talking about how much he wants oil and new bolts and screws. That's not a very human request, unless he's a mechanic. He also never laughs at jokes and cannot feel love. Well, jeez, again that could be a mechanic.
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The Borg are a Star Trek thing, and while they're based on the idea of cyborgs, it's a very different thing that you can't just say is happening on Earth.
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Call me crazy for doing this, but the reason I don't sleep on my back is because I'm scared of being possessed by something. Demons, ghosts and shadow people give me the willies.
I never sleep on my back mostly because it gives me a sore throat in the morning. Then again, that could be a side-effect of being possessed.
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Really? Did you ever find yourself spewing up gallons of ectoplasmic goo? That could be another side effect.
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I don't purposely sleep on my back because of sleep paralysis (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sleep_paralysis), night terrors (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Night_terror), and sleep apnea (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sleep_apnea).
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Yeah, me too.
If I fall asleep on my back, or if I'm really tired, I often will have sleep paralysis, and it sure can be scary.
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I don't sleep on my back because it's uncomfortable for me.
When I was a little kid, I had this recurring nightmare that a tall, skinny pale dude with bony fingers wearing a black jumpsuit would walk around my house and other locations, slipping pills into people's drinks, and I was the only one who could see him. I forget what the pills actually did in the dreams (maybe nothing), but it was still scary.
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I don't purposely sleep on my back because of sleep paralysis (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sleep_paralysis), night terrors (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Night_terror), and sleep apnea (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sleep_apnea).
Whoah! Now I'm definitely not doing it (then again, I doubt those happen all the time).
You know what's been troubling my dreams a few times in the last year or so? Myself. I probably mentioned this before, but I've had at least three incidents where I've done crazy stuff in my sleep. You see, there's these two mechanisms in your brain that kick into action whenever you sleep. One makes you not move, one keeps you asleep. If the latter drops the ball, you may be temporarily paralyzed (like Luigison said) or see parts of your dream around you when you wake up (a phenomenon many point to as the explanation for accounts of late-night alien abductions. But if the former doesn't do its job right, you can sleepwalk--or worse. The first time this... "thing" happened to me, I was in a hotel in India. Now, this may have been a side-effect of medication I had taken earlier (it supposedly had the side-effect of mild hallucinations--my mom saw people with guns standing in her room), but in my sleep, I spontaneously got up and started shaking my brother in the neighboring bed while groaning (in my dream-state, I remember that I wasn't trying to hurt him. I was trying to wake him to help me because something was trying to "get" me). The second time was several months later at home. Now, my memory of the occasion is obviously somewhat blurry, but I think I was screaming and tried to run down the hall. However, my legs were rubbery and I fell down. And just a couple weeks ago, I sleep-sorted through my bookshelf under the assumption that something had crawled into it. I figured it had just been a vivid dream until I saw a section of books on the shelf pushed in that afternoon.
Man, this is starting to turn into the "Whacko Dreams" thread...
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I've had sleep paralysis happen to me a few times. It isn't fun and it's a struggle to wake up when you know you want to but can't.