Judging you but also happy for you that they’re making a sequel
What in the
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big rip to monolith
they gave us blood, fear, no one lives forever, avp 2 and shogo! four of the finest first person shooters and shogo.
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avp2 runner alien multiplayer experience still unmatched as far as i know. press a button to launch yourself at 50 mph while screaming, instantly gibbing anyone you hit
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It could have been, if Monolith hadn’t unofficially officially pretended they WEREN’T being bankrolled by a Japanese company. I suppose you could say SHOGO had some Japanese inspiration but it was kind of ham-handed.
awesome
I learned from a professional hypnotist (HI @SouthRatObservatory) that bambisleep is actually dangerous, not the sissy part of it though, the way the hypnosis works is completely irresponsible. like the person who made it knows what they’re doing and don’t care about people’s safety
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the two genres of posts I see the most are “don’t listen to that” and “I listened to this and now I’m fucked up”
that said, everything seems tame after seeing accusations of butthole lasers. is that what bottom surgery gets you, butthole lasers
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They have my attention.
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can you elaborate? for me hypnosis is in the same mental bucket as seances and ouija boards but on second thought seeing what ideology does to people indicates that there is definitely some way for a person to get fucked up by words alone
it’s just, this is all so fucking goofy
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trying to get sid to reply because she can explain way better than me
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“Is it real?” is the question I get the most often! In fact, when I was introduced to hypnosis, that was the first thing I asked. At the time I pretty firmly believed it wasn’t “real” - my frame of reference was Kaa, Scooby Doo, and having heard that hypnosis is used in health care (but so are crystals,) and in crime solving (but so are psychics.)
To be dead simple, it’s real, but it’s not special. You can’t do anything with hypnosis that you can’t do without it. There are states in which people are more suggestible (eg. high emotion, ceremony, or when spoken to by an authority figure,) states in which people act automatically (eg. driving, playing a sport,) states in which people’s imaginations are more engaged (eg. feeling cold when thinking about the arctic tundra,) and techniques we can use to make people do what we want them to do (eg. priming, conditioning.) Hypnosis is just accessing this stuff thoughtfully on purpose.
Sometimes hypnosis is kind of like harnessing the power of the placebo effect, or what psychologists call an artifact. Therapeutic hypnosis is largely this. You want to quit smoking, so you make the effort to see a consulting hypnotist, who has a long conversation with you in which they use normal therapist-y techniques to encourage you to quit smoking (which you already want to do,) then they put you in trance and do it again when you’re presumably even more suggestible. So along with any actual hypnotic effects, the hypnosis serves as a ritual to acknowledge a commitment you’ve made and mark the switch from past-you to new-you.
Hypnosis is heavily associated with trance, but trance isn’t required. To be dead simple again, trance is just relaxation, getting comfortable so that the mind lets its guard down. The reason we use trance over other methods is that trance feels great and it’s easy to achieve, so you get buy-in right away.
Bambi Sleep (some people in the EH community call it “Disney Deer” since the name itself is a trigger word) doesn’t follow conventional erotic/recreational hypnosis best practices. Its goal is to make the listener feel “enslaved” by creating an “addiction” to the files, and it does this in some unscrupulous ways. It contains lots of suggestions that the listener become obsessed with the files and listen to them as often as they can, and that every time they listen the suggestions become stronger.
And they don’t do what’s called “bounding suggestions.” Responsible practice for giving suggestions is to bound them to time, location, and person: “From now until when we leave this room, when I and only I say “Pickle,” you will quack like a duck.” An example of a less constrained bound is “If you feel it is safe and appropriate to do so, when you see the eggplant emoji you will have an orgasm.” Without bounding you might have an orgasm while driving or at work. The thing I hear most often about Bambi Sleep is that listeners suffered when put in the position of feeling compelled to respond to a trigger when in an inappropriate situation.
For the most part, people are very good at resisting suggestions they don’t want. If someone doesn’t want to go into trance, they just won’t. But just like in other parts of life, conditioning can sneak in when we don’t mean it to, or you can get swept away in the moment. Bambi Sleep is designed to take advantage of this. It’s all about loss of control, so it attracts people who are into loss of control, so the likelihood of a listener having the ability to control the way in which the files affect them is much lower than other hypnosis.
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Oh yeah, they WERE the Shogo people, weren’t they? Getting major Japanese investment should have been the dream! I’d say it had more than “some” Japanese inspiration- it was trying very hard to be like their favorite Japanese animes. I remember the hallway with bedrooms where each of the names on the doors were anime characters.
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Shogo had an anime opening with a Japanese song too. Except it wasn’t animated as anime and it’s all in engine except for like three pre rendered shots.
Shogo isn’t good but it’s extremely cool.
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Oh and the part where you have to find the cat with the Claw plushy in the middle of the game
Somehow I have never played Claw, which seems out of character for me.
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Waiting for someone to come in and stan something like Get Medieval or Sanity: Aiken’s Artifact or Guardians of Middle-Earrh
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This was really interesting to read. Thanks for posting this!
I was just watching a video about a kid in the late 80s who got his hands stuck to his head via a hypnotist on tv. Hearing your explanation, I guess kids would be the most susceptible to hypnosis. Here’s the part of the video, if you want to watch (warning: video is actually just two guys talking about an old tv show)
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It’s funny that Valve waited to make HL3 not only after everyone lost all hope, but also after everyone stopped making jokes about it
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it seems extremely likely it will come out within the next year or so, just like GTA6
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What a time to be alive
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