We Found A Purple Sea Urchin! OF DEATH.

[rionaleonhart]

Thank you all so much for your comments regarding university! I have been utterly overwhelmed by how lovely you all are.

As further proof that I never quite stopped being a child, I've suddenly remembered a series of computer games called Freddi Fish, aimed at children between four and eight, which I became absurdly fond of at around the age of fourteen. It was about a happy yellow cartoon fish who swam around in the ocean and solved mysteries with her best friend, a happy green cartoon fish. They sang songs about the Joys of School and foiled sharks that were pretending to be ghosts. It was generally very cheerful and silly.

My first thought, when it came to mind, was a fond recollection of Freddi Fish happily saying "We found a purple sea urchin!"

My second was 'Wow, an underwater version of Silent Hill could be really interesting, couldn't it?'

THIS IS WHY I SHOULD NOT BE ALLOWED NEAR CHILDREN'S THINGS. The Freddi Fish in my mind is now cowering in terror in a dimly-lit world of dead coral, desperately trying to find Luther.

Why must Silent Hill destroy everything I love?

Comments

[th-esaurus.livejournal.com]

I used to play my demo version of The Magic School Bus until I was like, fifteen. SO!

[jira-rd.livejournal.com]

Barbie's Riding Adventure FTW.

[gayjunglefever.livejournal.com]

OH MY GOD, AGREED.

[jira-rd.livejournal.com]

<3 Heehee, man, that was such a cheesy game.

... I might have to play it when I get home. I miss mah horsehs.

[jira-rd.livejournal.com]

For me, I mean. And ... I'm almost 20. I'll play anything if it involves horses.

[jira-rd.livejournal.com]

*am laughing hysterically*

[rionaleonhart]

YOU'RE A BAD PERSON.

Have you ever played any of the Silent Hill games? You should. Because then you will experience the horrible way it creeps into everything else in your life, and who will be laughing then?

The answer is not me, because I will still be cowering under tables whenever a radio bursts into static. It'll be someone else who's never played the games, I suppose. Damn those people who haven't had Silent Hill ruin their lives.

[jira-rd.livejournal.com]

I have played a little, and freaked. I gave it to Donnie who got further than I did, and I freaked out MORE watching him. So I do understand. Oh man, I hate that radio.

[dracothelizard.livejournal.com]

I LOVED that radio, because I was used to game baddies who snuck up and came out of NOWHERE so the radio gave you warning! I like the warning, because I get to go CHASE SMASH (on account of Sunderland looking like Chase - don't deny it, you know it to be true) which I liked.

Also, you need make a new best friend called the Walkthrough.

[draegonhawke.livejournal.com]

What you need to do is enter into an affable and mutually-beneficial relationship with Silent Hill like I have. I mean, sure, it'll turn you into a carrier, but you'll be a happy carrier.

[reipan.livejournal.com]

...

Okay, opening a Firefox window onto that post after the discussion I just had may have just saved my life.

I love you.

[rionaleonhart]

I am glad that my suffering has been of service!

[cryforthemoon.livejournal.com]

...You are INSANE. (In a good way.)

[wolfenkahlon.livejournal.com]

The hideously diseased part of my brain that makes me bop along cheerfully to horribly depressing apocalyptic-suicide music, is currently highly amused by that mental image. I am a terrible, terrible, terrible person.

So far my fandom activities have remained relatively free of the curse of Silent Hill. But that may just be a result of me not having yet experienced the horror of Pyramid Head due to computer troubles.

On the other hand: I have experienced the true horror of walking, alone, in the dark and the fog, along a lonely deserted path, between a chain link fence with woods on one side, and hedgerows bordering an empty field on the other, with light drizzle coming down. Before entering an old alleyway where an air-conditioning unit is making slow irregular humming noises, even though the building is empty...

So yeah, Silent Hill just follows me to the real world. And then I go and listen to creepy Silent Hill-esque 'Noise' music. There is something wrong with me.

[twilit-wanderer.livejournal.com]

'Wow, an underwater version of Silent Hill could be really interesting, couldn't it?'

I keep thinking the same thing, but in regards to Ecco the Dolphin, which is at least not completely a children's game. And there are lots of places in it involving old and abandoned machinery and zombie-looking sharks and dolphins with spikes on them (if you're playing the Dreamcast/PS2's Defender of the Future, anyway). Aliens and trilobites, otherwise.

[rionaleonhart]

It could be awesome! In, y'know, an utterly mind-destroyingly horrifying sort of way.

Are you aware of the impending trilobite invasion?

Ah, you see, you're a better person than I am. Silent Hill ruined my life, and I do wish it on other people, because I am a sadist.

[twilit-wanderer.livejournal.com]

Erm. I don't know if I should be delighted or worried that I'm not the only person who has ever even joked about the dangers of trilobites.

[dracothelizard.livejournal.com]

See, I would recommend Fatty Beat to you, in which you play a teddy bear coming to live who has to make a birthday cake and find decorations for his 8 year old owner, but you'd try to cross it over with Silent Hill and that worries me, a teddy bear walking through Silent Hill trying to organise the best birthday party EVER for Pyramid Head.

[rionaleonhart]

Hmmm, might it be the teddy bear with the bent pin in it? I wouldn't put it past James to keep daydreaming about its Magical Adventures in Silent Hill long after he'd put it back down.

[dracothelizard.livejournal.com]

...

NO.

Very much not (http://www.abandonia.com/games/970/download/FattyBearsBirthdaySurprise.htm).

[rionaleonhart]

Hee, it's made by the company that made Freddi Fish!

[dracothelizard.livejournal.com]

That might explain the random aquarium clicking thing!

Also, Mudkip/James OTP, yo.

[saaski-moql.livejournal.com]

Yeah, um, hi, I just downloaded that because of you! XD Finished it in 20 minutes, and I am now wanting to go replay all my old pac adventure games >.>

[dorcas-gustine.livejournal.com]

SILENT HILL IS LOVE HATE!!

[saaski-moql.livejournal.com]

I LOVED FREDDIE FISH. I was, like, my first point-and-click adventure game ever! I thought that Freddie was a boy the first three times I beat the game, and became sadly disillisioned when I discovered that Freddi was, in fact, a girl fish.

I am still a PAC adventure game addict no don't laugh and virtually rule over anything LucasArts.

[rionaleonhart]

OH MY GOD, SOMEONE ELSE WHO'S PLAYED IT! I was terribly shocked when I found out that Freddi was a girl, and never quite managed to stop thinking of her as a boy when I was actually playing.

[saaski-moql.livejournal.com]

Same. Even after I found out the truth, I kept referring to Freddie as a he while playing the game, getting crushed anew once I was corrected.