re: mun actually playing RE2 for the first time as opposed to watching walkthroughs

[reluctant_tinman]

Jump scares? After everything we've been through, that's what gets you?

It's okay, just put it down for the night. The game will still be there in the morning.

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[unlivingdead]

[More zombie groaning.]

{My mun is oddly terrified of playing survival horror games as well. However, I am not as menacing as others, I suppose. A break is best if it is scaring your mun too terribly.}

[reluctant_tinman]

[be happy you talked so quickly, his right hand is definitely still resting on one of his his VP70s]

It's not horror games, seems like she's fine most of it as long as there's no sudden noises.

Don't really get it, a game's a game and you can shut it off. Not like you're actually in danger.

[unlivingdead]

[Wait, he speaks zombie? Heck yes, time to groan some more about PSYCHOLOGY. She shuffles back just a smidgen, though. She sees that gun.]

{The human brain has yet to adept to the idea of simulated danger versus real danger, and so, if it comes across a situation that would (outside of fiction) result in a flight-or-fight response, it continue to reacts in that manner. Of course, this is not the case with all peoples, but the variable in that is a person's respective fears.}

[reluctant_tinman]

[It was either 'speak zombie by musebox handwave autotranslation' or 'shoot you dead without a second thought', and since the mun really would rather him not shoot at other people's characters...]

Huh.

Explains why movies don't scare me anymore.

[unlivingdead]

[Movies. Like... zombie movies?]

{I do not suppose you mean survival horrors yourself, would you?}

[reluctant_tinman]

Nah, kinda... lost my taste for them. But the real gory horror movies, the ones that used to bug me don't anymore.

Not that I set out to watch them, Cujo was more than enough.

[nicecollarbone]

Normal civilians take on difficult journeys and wonder why it scares them so much—it's not exactly a walk in the park.

[sup leon, how's it going]

They have the privilege of shutting it down and walking away, though; not ourselves, so much.

I DIDN'T KNOW ANYBODY PLAYED BUDDYYYYY

[reluctant_tinman]

You can say that again. Hopefully, they won't have to know.

[a bit of a grin]

How've you been?

Mr. Srs is always fun to throw around ;)

[nicecollarbone]

I've been well enough... Staying put, especially with how everything else has been lately.

I saw on the news--[A pause. He's not yet aware of Leon's involvement with it, but he fancies he probably was involved. All things considered.] What happened in China.

[Being paralyzed leaves for staying put, for him. Lucky his home wasn't under attack, too, because he's not so sure he could survive that again. Physically and mentally.]

Everyone's television and radio were on.

[reluctant_tinman]

I'll bet they were. Was there up-to-the-minute coverage like the U.S. had?

[Nearly sidesteps the issue, seeing as he wasn't in Lanshiang under official orders. Even if he did get retroactive approval after Simmons' involvement came to light.]

[He never actually told the guy what he did for a living, did he? Though to be fair, he probably put it together.]

[nicecollarbone]

I'm sure even the poorest nations had up-to-the-minute coverage; it wasn't exactly a small ordeal. [Which is a resounding 'yes'. Yes, there certainly was.] People were starting to get paranoid; not many out on the streets, that's for sure.

[He frowns, just thinking about the amount of causalities that had stacked up.]

Can't help but wonder what problems'll happen next.... since something always seems to pop up.

[Dude, it's like we're characters in a series where bad things happen every five seconds. Weird, huh.]

[reluctant_tinman]

Always does. It's the job of people who do that kind of thing to keep them in line, from taking the whole damn world to hell with them.

[speak for yourself son, at least the writers God didn't decide that it's always going to be you in the center of it]