Ep. 361 - Specdracular 2024, with merritt k

The game that scared me the most was probably… Rayman 2 as a kid haha

Particularly this part around 3:00 where you encounter the “scary” looking enemies shooting at you absolutely TERRIFIED me when I was 5 years old. I was hugging the wall in the way back trying to build up the courage to fight them.

It’s silly to look back at this footage now, but at that age I had only ever played Super Mario Sunshine heh

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i have two picks for “most scared by a video game” and they both happened around the same time in my life of 7 or 8 years old.

i was watching my friend play metal gear solid on the psx and he was at the part with the wolves. for some reason those wolves really scared me and gave me nightmares. i narc’d my friend out and my parents ended up talking to his parents about what stuff we’re allowed to watch on tv together lol.

that same friend also had tomb raider, and again for reasons unknown, lara croft’s butler really freaked me out. i think the emptiness of the mansion environment heightened that feeling for me, what zoomers call liminal spaxe.

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I just want to say thank you to all people involved in the show. I started listening to it 3 years ago when i moved abroad. It helped me a lot coping when i was alone before my gf (now my wife) came.

When i had some time i went to the park and had 1 or 2 episodes, it helped me a lot!

I am sorry how things turned out, but i promise that as long as you make them i will keep listening!

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I have not launched Desert Golfing in a super long time. 7-8 years? I never deleted it and it keeps getting restored whenever I get a new phone

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This gave me a flashback to, I want to say Tomb Raider 2’s, drowning animation being particularly gruesome. That definitely disturbed young me.

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I went as Snorlax last night for Halloween.

It was 60 US dollars for the privilege.

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And they say you cannot buy happiness!

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Lot of people posting your desert golf screenshots, not enough posting your Fledgling Manor wishlisting

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I did it when I heard about it! The idea of anything related to What we do in the Shadows (movie or show) gets my vote.

Now if you’ll excuse me…

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Spirit Halloween comes for us all.

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Apologies to merrit, but I just don’t like visual novels. I’m sorry! Please don’t horrible buzzer me.

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I’ll get the ball rolling. Peep some of the other IC crew down there as well!

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does anyone else remember a time when spirit halloween was but one of many seasonal stores that took over abandoned circuit citys? i recall halloween usa, another with pumpkin in the name…

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Yes and the Christmas stores that colonize mall parking lots.

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If you’re scared of the butler, just do what we always did: lure him into the walk in freezer and lock him inside

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…i probably won’t buy it, because it doesn’t really sound like my thing, but maybe i will!

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For fans of Desert Golfing: check out Golf on Mars!
It’s from the same developer and just a bit more advanced, in just the right ways IMO.

Let’s just say I’ve played a disgusting amount of it.

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respect

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