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Quinneapolis

@quinn2win

Mon, Jan 10, 2022 4:41 AM

here's a horror thought, re: me coming around on some specific horror tropes

Quinneapolis

@quinn2win

Mon, Jan 10, 2022 4:41 AM

I always have an instinct to resist things like

Quinneapolis

@quinn2win

Mon, Jan 10, 2022 4:41 AM

haunted video game

Quinneapolis

@quinn2win

Mon, Jan 10, 2022 4:41 AM

because I work with computers

Quinneapolis

@quinn2win

Mon, Jan 10, 2022 4:41 AM

and they're such complex, deterministic systems

Quinneapolis

@quinn2win

Mon, Jan 10, 2022 4:42 AM

and it's like what, did the ghost learn assembly

Quinneapolis

@quinn2win

Mon, Jan 10, 2022 4:42 AM

there's no sensible mechanism for a set of machine instructions to be haunted

Quinneapolis

@quinn2win

Mon, Jan 10, 2022 4:42 AM

but you know what

Quinneapolis

@quinn2win

Mon, Jan 10, 2022 4:42 AM

there's also no sensible mechanism for people to be conscious and alive

Quinneapolis

@quinn2win

Mon, Jan 10, 2022 4:42 AM

that's ALSO just a complex deterministic system

Quinneapolis

@quinn2win

Mon, Jan 10, 2022 4:42 AM

the human brain

Quinneapolis

@quinn2win

Mon, Jan 10, 2022 4:42 AM

so who cares

Quinneapolis

@quinn2win

Mon, Jan 10, 2022 4:42 AM

everything is atoms

Quinneapolis

@quinn2win

Mon, Jan 10, 2022 4:42 AM

let atoms be haunted

RobotApocalypse

@ninjarobotclone

Mon, Jan 10, 2022 5:07 AM

human thoughts are simply a series of electrical impulses

RobotApocalypse

@ninjarobotclone

Mon, Jan 10, 2022 5:07 AM

if ghosts can possess people, why not also computers

moontouched

@rukafais

Mon, Jan 10, 2022 5:10 AM

shitpost thought: ghosts travel through electrical currents

ShootingXC

@UltraDude

Mon, Jan 10, 2022 5:13 AM

I feel like I've seen that concept somewhere

BERSERKER

@flare_sword

Mon, Jan 10, 2022 5:23 AM

Yeah like, if a human being can be possessed by spirits and act unlike its nature I see no reason for computers to not also be able to be possessed similarly

BERSERKER

@flare_sword

Mon, Jan 10, 2022 5:24 AM

ShootingXC : I know Ghost Trick toyed with it a little, in that your only method of long-distance conveyance was through phone lines

Lightning Bolt

@graygriffin

Mon, Jan 10, 2022 4:24 PM

not horror but The Boggart by Susan Cooper has quite a bit of the titular creature slowly learning about computers and figuring out how to interface with them

Lightning Bolt

@graygriffin

Mon, Jan 10, 2022 4:24 PM

including a scene where he gets into a theater's lighting system and creates the most beautifully immersive effects they've ever seen

Be Maki-Mine 💘

@crabgirl

Mon, Jan 10, 2022 5:31 PM

King's Game vindication

Quinneapolis

@quinn2win

Mon, Jan 10, 2022 5:32 PM

OKAY FIRST OF ALL