I'm going insane

Subtle supernatural horror is my fucking favorite.

It doesn't spoon feed you the scare, it doesn't cheaply jump scare you like you're a fucking toddler incapable of understanding danger like most low quality films and lazy video games do.

It simply brings into your realization a certain primal fear that something isn't right, and you can't explain why.

It's unsettling because you don't know for sure if you're going to immediately die, which makes it even more frightening.

It's called uncanny.

Thanks, this was my exact intention! I'm glad you like my shitpost!
What are some good games like that? I'm not a big fan of the jump scare horror games, so I tend to ignore most horror games on principle, but the genre is still fun when I find a gem.
- Not exactly what you're asking for, but Subnautica slowly builds on a primal fear without resorting to jump scares. It's increasingly unsettling and you start finding excuses to just stay in your habitat to decorate instead of going outside. Possibly the best horror game I've played.
  Life is strange has elements of it (think Butterfly Effect: the game) during parts of the game, although it gets pretty explicit rather than subtle.
  Oxenfree also has elements of it, with people behaving weirdly etc. But it also mostly gets fairly explicit. Still, no jumpscares.
- FEAR, no I'm not kidding.
- Try playing voices of the void. It's free and it has quite a bit of psychological/supernatural horror stuff
I completely agree, but I've never been able to articulate it this well. Do you have any scary movie recommendations? I've got a feeling we have similar taste.

Has Mirror technology changed

Oh thats an easy answer! That just means THEY ARE COMING THE FOG IS COMING THE FOG IS COMING THE FOG IS COMING THE FOG IS COMING THE FOG IS COMING THE FOG IS COMING THE FOG IS

You spelled frog wrong

Were you trying to kiss yourself in the mirror?

I like to think that he forgets, keeps trying and then makes a new post about it
Lmfao that post was right above this one

I know you're going for creepy buuuut I read it more like a dude who doesn't get what a painting is.

This is actually really interesting and I think about it every time I look in a large mirror. IIRC it is because the mirror is always "halfway" between you and your mirror image. So as you step back your mirror image gets further away and looks smaller, but so does the mirror.

Right, but this only works if you have DuckDuckGo set as your search engine.
Nah if u step back far enough it should show your whole body. The only exception being if its angled weirdly or if its not flat but curved in a special way.
- Nope, the geometry actually works out such that it doesn't matter your distance from the mirror, only how tall the mirror is and how high it's mounted.
  A mirror that is as half as tall as your, mounted at head height, will show your ~~white~~ whole body regardless of how far away you are from it. TECHNICALLY, the bottom edge must be halfway between your eyes and feet, and the top edge must be halfway between your eyes and top of head.
- If you’d be so kind, how far do you have to get away from a flat mirror to show your whole image?
- https://youtu.be/zRP82omMX0g?t=259

I thought this was talking about DuckDuckGo mirrors, as in a software mirror of the site.

Now don't look at the lamp next to your sofa too closely.

Huh, never saw this one but in high school I had a dream just like this. I met a beautiful woman, perfect in every way, we got married had some kids, I even got some ways into middle age. Then, I was sitting in chair and noticed that my vision seemed... blurry at the edges, in a very "vignette filter" kind of way and I immediately knew I was dreaming. Woke up just as the existential collapse started. For several years after I'd try to remember her face, what our love had felt like, any of the details that had seemed so solid and tantalizing real for those few sleeping hours.
In retrospect, a lot like that Rick and Morty episode with the life simulator game. I wonder if one of the writers ever had that dream too? Brains are weird, and I haven't any dreams nearly that all encompassing since.
I was going to say it's pretty depressing, but then I've remembered waking up in general in this awful world is
Alrght. I'm leaving a comment here as a reminder to come back to this thread and tell my creepy pasta story.
EDIT: i read the lamp story. it was ok i guess. mine is similar.

S TIER CONTENT RIGHT HERE

the universe has forsaken me at DuckDuckGo

But you can't kiss a duck on the lips from the word go. Just ask Neil Degrasse Tyson.

It's because you are a vampire and mirrors are no longer made out of silver. Just good old aluminium.

I'm allergic to aluminium.

Yeah, that's not a mirror. Say cheese!

That's not a mirror that's a murder pretending to be you on the other side

REDRUM

Mirror technology timeline!
Chirality 'n' shit.

A mirror's primary surface - a metal like silver that has just one electron sticking out alone in the top atomic orbital, plus other free electrons sliding around the surface, I believe - absorbs photons, then re-emits new photons almost exactly like the ones that came in.

Its a basic physics thing. You see not more of your body when you take a step back. That is normal and expected.

People just don't understand mirrors.
I did a horrifying experiment in uni with a mirror on the wall, and asked people to point at where they thought they could see their reflection . The obvious answer is of course "when you're next to it". A terrifyingly large number of people at a University assumed they could see themselves at a 45 to 60 degree angle, so several step before they actually reached the mirror.
Some of them were even shocked when they walked along it.

Oh, you know it's October when we're bringing the spooky shitposts out. Like, I have spectrophobia, and I've had actual nightmares about this shit happening lol.

this is an odd way to reference that one (theres probably a few) vsauce video on mirrors.

Not that i'm complaining.