The Land of Pineapples

Is it weird that as someone with moral OCD, I've genuinely been mentally recording each fandom DNI I've ever seen? Mainly since, I don't blame anyone with them, but it can get under my skin in some cases (for example, if I have a friend who is part of that fandom, does it blacklist me from interactions even if I've never been involved with said fandom at any point?). Also, even some of the more....."unique", DNIs, shall I say, can get under my skin at points. I recall someone (not on Tumblr, mind you) putting Yume Nikki fans as one (albeit removing it later), when I've never seen it on anyone else's and I've played that game myself and enjoyed its dream atmosphere. It can get to me in that respect, despite probably being petty in that person's case.

Randomly remembered when Joshscorcher ranked "the entire OFF soundtrack" as the 7th most disturbing song in a non-horror game. Now, this is not about whether OFF should be classified a horror game or not (I am the last person to properly judge (Pablo) these things), but rather the insinuation of the entire OST being disturbing, especially more so than that horrifying Skullgirls track (no joke, I've played Super Paper Mario, gotten to that one part and I still find the aforementioned song far worse). Now, some songs in the game I do find scary, like Silencio, Not Safe, Tender Sugar or Endless Hallway Fight, but...

My favorite kind of video game is the one where it isn't even that lengthy, yet completing it just gives off this saddening feeling.

Kind of baffling that the ESRB's "M" rating can range from "someone says a particular no-no word a few times" to "the most gruesome and upsetting thing you've ever seen in a video game"

Fun fact: In Australia, a 10-year old is technically allowed to watch all of these films unsupervised, it just isn't "recommended".

Remembered how my dad called Beast Wars' CGI "horrifying".....somehow, the visuals never bothered me at all, not even when I was 14. Worth noting that for him, no matter how old CGI is, it's never a defense; he's old enough to remember when the movie "Lawnmower Man" was new and yet he calls the CGI there awful as well, but, like....it's a horror movie? Wouldn't the CGI being creepy be the whole idea?

Over 3 years ago, I did this Nuzlocke run of Black where I intentionally made the rules hard and I couldn't save, all because I was so bugged by how my in-game playtime somehow became longer than my 3DS' activity log for the game (and I had not played it on a regular DS prior, just to note). Somehow, I grew attached to it despite this setup, and the tone I originally established with it being comedic except in an awful version of Unova to live in (no South Park-style offensive humor, don't worry if that's on your DNI) shifting into a more serious one as things moved along. The run ended in a failure, with my entire team being killed by Bianca's Serperior, and it was genuinely sad, something it wouldn't have been if it carried the jokey way it started to the end.

In my dream last night, I was trying to find an image of Neil Cicierega for a TV Tropes article, and for whatever reason, it was basically impossible. I searched far and wide, and no images of him existed, with me instead getting various movie screenshots such as one of some creature that looked like the thing that got teleported to death in Galaxy Quest or a Houndeye/"Peeper-Puppy" from Half-Life but with a mouth. Even the Mouth albums had redesigned covers that showed things like a photo of a cave, all in the name of not showing the man behind Lemon Demon.

Had a dream where someone had "DNI Pokemon fans" on their bio.....while also having a Ninetales sona (a blue one that distinctly wasn't Alolan, from what I remember). Uh.......I really hope no one actually did something like this, but after @miniconsuffrage revealed to me that MPAA-esque "DNI if you enjoy NSFW things besides gore" one, I can believe absolutely anything (as a note, while I am uncomfortable with NSFW myself, that particular one is still absurd to me for the same reasons that the MPAA is, but that board is a story for another time)

They Might Be Giants and Lemon Demon are part of a niche genre. I don't know what its name should be, but I'm sure you get exactly what I mean. Both have very similar vibes.

Had a dream where I started my own Pokemon ask blog, it centered around bird Pokemon and the like living in a forest, with a Murkrow being the main character.

I'm an adult, and yet "minors DNI" notices are always able to repel me.

It's so weird actually playing the original Half-Life years after watching Half-Life VR But the AI is Self-Aware. I mentally said "Hello, Gordon!" when seeing that particular scientist model, and I ended up calling the Houndeyes "Peeper-Puppies".