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Genre: Education
Date of upload: Sep 30, 2017 ^^
Rating : 4.942 (615/41,555 LTDR)
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I literally spat my drink out when the bit about the cult came up with the song "S.O.S". I was in that cult as a kid and had completely forgotten about that song until just now.
We had so many good propaganda songs, from "Cathy Don't go to the Supermarket" (spoilers: the Anti-christ was at said supermarket), to "White Sugar Will Rot Your Teeth", to my personal favorite: "Psychic Waste", a song by Jeremy Spencer (a former guitarist for Fleetwood Mac who we were told was the greatest guitarist who ever lived cause he joined the cult) about how T.V. Is bad and will pollute your mind.
That cult was weird as hell looking back now, but as a kid it all seemed so normal. I was 100% certain the world would end and Jesus would return before I turned 18; and then I turned 18, and realized I had no formal education, no social skills or even social experience, and no general skills aside from reciting a few bible verses. We are all--the kids who were born into the cult and left later--set up to fail. It's amazing any of us managed to become semi-stable adults.
... Good times...
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About your point with VHS making things scarier, I have a similar philosophy with older horror games. I find Silent Hill on the PS1 to be so dang terrifying, much more terrifying than anything I'd ever play today with photorealistic visuals.
I find that the low frame rate and resolution really help with that for similar reasons!
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"You'd be amazed what hoops people would jump through to see a show they liked." My parents legit had my uncle recording soap operas, cartoons, sitcoms, etc while they were stationed in Kenya in the late 80's/early 90's. My uncle would then mail these tapes to Kenya so my parents could keep up with shows and my sister and I had American cartoons/films to watch. I try not to get too attached to physical objects, but I am p bummed that my family has since lost most of those tapes. My older sister estimates that over the course of two years, my uncle sent several hundred VHS tapes to Africa for us. I think my stepmom still has my dad's Betamax collection, though.
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@Panman38
6 years ago
There's a quote by Brian Eno that is relevant to this subject: “Whatever you now find weird, ugly, uncomfortable and nasty about a new medium will surely become its signature. CD distortion, the jitteriness of digital video, the crap sound of 8-bit - all of these will be cherished and emulated as soon as they can be avoided. It’s the sound of failure: so much modern art is the sound of things going out of control, of a medium pushing to its limits and breaking apart. The distorted guitar sound is the sound of something too loud for the medium supposed to carry it. The blues singer with the cracked voice is the sound of an emotional cry too powerful for the throat that releases it. The excitement of grainy film, of bleached-out black and white, is the excitement of witnessing events too momentous for the medium assigned to record them.”
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