PMD Stalkers General Chat Thread (The Secret Clubhouse!)

[VeloJello]

@Dash, Lita is searching Prat's wheat field already!

[Neo Emolga]

Anyway, my interview with murder bird Senia should be done soon. Once that's over, I'll go and see Sarine.

*Pst,* You deliberately ASKED for this!

Play insane games, win insane prizes.

[VeloJello]

Neo, dead serious, please post a warning when you do blacked out eyes? Please? I know it's a little ridiculous but I can't look at that stuff without nearly going into a real, genuine panic attack, if I don't actually have one.

EDIT: By the way, can someone notify me when we're off the present page? I can't go on the page we're on now anymore.

[Neo Emolga]

Neo, dead serious, please post a warning when you do blacked out eyes? Please? I know it's a little ridiculous but I can't look at that stuff without nearly going into a real, genuine panic attack, if I don't actually have one.

EDIT: By the way, can someone notify me when we're off the present page? I can't go on the page we're on now anymore.

I'm sorry, don't take this the wrong way, but I'm laughing a bit now and I don't feel guilty about it this time. Despite the fact interviewing Senia was completely unnecessary at this point, you still chose to do it despite all that you know about her and what she's capable of. That's playing with fire. Unlike Aglome Oen which was a legitimate unexpected jumpscare, you went digging for this one. XD

Anyway, I promise, no more crazy black eyes. I don't want to keep doing that until it gets painfully old, either.

[VeloJello]

I'm sorry, don't take this the wrong way, but I'm laughing a bit now and I don't feel guilty about it this time. Despite the fact interviewing Senia was completely unnecessary at this point, you still chose to do it despite all that you know about her and what she's capable of. That's playing with fire. Unlike Aglome Oen which was a legitimate unexpected jumpscare, you went digging for this one. XD

Anyway, I promise, no more crazy black eyes. I don't want to keep doing that until it gets painfully old, either.

Neo, when someone says that something gives them panic attacks, you respect that. Necessity aside (and I did think it might turn up something helpful instead of nearly making me vomit from the stress), you don't tailor your beats to people's triggers. Ever. It's not funny. It's not okay. The false reassurance of saying you're not going to use the other account but then doing the thing that makes the account triggering is also extremely harmful and rude.

[The Nonexistent Tazz]

On the one hand, I question why you even saw it: you yourself said that if you weren't protected, what you were doing would be suicide. I'd happily bet that Senia is now attempting to do the creepy stare at our windows all day, all night now. In other words, really now, I would have done it to you myself knowing that you basically asked. Why you deliberately incited that whole conversation knowing that we were doing a horror game and Millie had an equally poor reaction to reading her Twisted Note is...Well, it isn't what I'd call genre savvy.

On the other hand, your reaction to it is particularly and viciously negative, and I don't enjoy looking at the creepy avatar/banners myself either, or really anything Horror in general. I really hate jumpscares, and Aglome Oen came out of nowhere for round one. Just remember that Aglome Oen is Neo's Evil twin and imagine him with a brilliantly fake mustache and goatee is all I have for if you have to look at it-and as for the rest, mph. Just be glad it's not FnAF 2, night 6. I haven't even played and I know that your worst nightmares in that game have the pure black eyes.

I really don't have much else to say other than I haven't read that point yet. Thanks for the warning, ehehehe.

...Oh, it's gone.

In other news, all that we need now is the Sharline interview, and we literally win the game, as far as we know the win conditions to be. I wouldn't be surprised if this didn't end immediately, as I said.

[Neo Emolga]

Neo, when someone says that something gives them panic attacks, you respect that. Necessity aside (and I did think it might turn up something helpful instead of nearly making me vomit from the stress), you don't tailor your beats to people's triggers. Ever. It's not funny. It's not okay. The false reassurance of saying you're not going to use the other account but then doing the thing that makes the account triggering is also extremely harmful and rude.

It was mainly just a prank. You're definitely taking this way too seriously. Really, if a silly little black-eye GIF does this much damage, how do you survive watching youtube videos and movies that have unexpected things like this? I honestly feel this is really mild compared to a lot of the other stuff I've seen on the internet, in games, and in movies. Anyway, I deactivated it and just made it a still image. I'll admit, it doesn't have the kind of unsettling and freaky effect I wanted to create anymore, but ultimately, I don't want you to be salty about this either.

I'll be honest, the black eye thing was inspired from Undertale if you're really wondering where this all came about. I'm sure most people who have played that game know exactly what part I'm talking about, but I'm not saying anything about it because spoilers. And yet, most people that saw it were surprised, but they sure didn't lash out at the game's creator like you're doing right now. But really, this is very, very mild compared to what some games like Five Nights at Freddy's, Resident Evil, and Silent Hill do. Please don't tell me you can play stuff like that unfazed but a silly little GIF like this causes a panic attack.

Okay, you already knew Senia was Epitaph. Heck, according to my gameplay layout, you guys got through all of her puzzles, worked it out perfectly, and got to the end where you were given the very obvious evidence she was behind it. There was actually nothing left to cover on her route. So when I saw you decide to interview her and even show her the note you found in her deranged slaughterhouse to rub it in her face, immediately I thought "WHY THE HELL WOULD YOU DO THAT!?" That was asking for a heap of trouble, especially given everything you know about her! She wouldn't rat out the other Stalkers if that's what you were thinking and were hoping for. Why would she? What good would it do for her? But then to top it all off, you flaunted the fact that I made it almost impossible for player characters to die, and you honestly acted kind of arrogantly about it in a way that it implied it was a mistake to make characters immune to consequences from making bad decisions like this. Most video games would nail you for doing that!

I dunno, to me, this wasn't very smart and was kind of abusing things. I felt it would have felt too artificial to not do at least a little something that said "hey, you might want to rethink doing something like that again!" Heck, it totally seems bizarre Senia doesn't just kill you right then and there, but I can't have that happen now, can I? So I thought heh, let me make a slightly creepy GIF of an Aromatisse to AT LEAST make it clear doing what you did was a terrible idea to at least avoid having people go wily nilly around the Stalkers doing things that would piss them off but then laugh at the fact the game's context bars them from actually making a realistic consequence take place. I mean really, there's no sound to it, it's only a few frames long, and the Aromatisse isn't even animated, it's just a few quick frames where I blacked out her eyes. I didn't even include the blood like I did with the Aglome Oen thing. Trust me... there's much, much worse out there, but calling me "rude" and "harmful" for doing what most people seem to tolerate just fine is overreacting.

Look, I'll quit it with the black eye stuff, but with this said, I really need to know what kinds of horror-related things you're sensitive to so this doesn't happen over and over again and makes you salty about it each and every time it happens. Yes, I use creepy images and animations to help boost the game's effect and immersion. I think people would agree that removing those from the game would diminish the quality of it.

[The Nonexistent Tazz]

To be fair, the last time we did that, it was with Millie, who had a much more mild reaction to the note. But probably because Millie was fighting against Koax, while Seria effectively is Epitath at this point.

...In unrelated news, I have readied the Sin Purge Ritual when the Sharline interview comes around. I refuse to burn more time on this-if there's anything MORE to deal with after this, then this means we have hopefully less worry from Serial Stalking. If not, well, that's the show. If anyone has anything to say about that, they can say it now, before it's happening. Either way, the ritual post is ready.

[EmeraldSky]

Okay--here's what I found in the field.

[Neo Emolga]

To be fair, the last time we did that, it was with Millie, who had a much more mild reaction to the note. But probably because Millie was fighting against Koax, while Seria effectively is Epitath at this point.

Yeah, you do have a point there. Looking back, I think what I did with the GIF was a pretty bad idea, and I take it back.