Why is the Out of Bounds so Terrifying?

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  @TheCursedJudge · 3 years ago · pinned

  oh btw i did a video commentary on this a while ago if you want more context and insider info on the process of making it: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qjL2mJ3uks0">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qjL2mJ3uks0</a>

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  @HE13272326 · 3 years ago

  What makes out of bounds scary to me is the loss of connection.<br>No one is there to talk to or help. It&apos;s a mix of the fear of the unknown and the fear of being left behind in solitude.

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• AP

  @Apvizionz · 3 years ago (edited)

  As a child I had the idea to turn and look backwards during parts of The Pirates of the Caribbean ride at Disneyland. It was a whole different world back there. I could see the lights, the color gels, the fog machines, service doors, and animatronic figures going dead after they&apos;re no longer in view (if facing forward). This was my first experience seeing the out of bounds. I became obsessed with the idea of getting out of the car during dark rides and exploring behind the scenes.

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  @floob5358 · 3 years ago

  out of bounds is so terrifying becuase if I drop my hamburger it is gone

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  @nekoanimation160 · 2 years ago

  I used to get scared of minecraft when playing on peaceful. When the music finally ends, the silence with only the sound of my footsteps would terrify me and i would always play music to fill that emptiness.

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  @macfreak18 · 3 years ago

  I think there&apos;s one thing terrifying you didn&apos;t notice/mention.<br><br>If you keep going into the void of nothingness, there&apos;s a good chance you&apos;ll get lost. Trying to go back seems reasonable until you realize a hairpin turn sends you in a completely different direction... since it&apos;s a game it&apos;s fine but imagine getting that lost irl, like being lost at sea but worse.

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  @user-oc3ic4vc7x · 3 years ago

  The abyss in Subnautica terrified me more than any other location in the game, and there wasn’t even anything there

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  @Chad_Thundercock · 3 years ago

  The single biggest skin crawl for me came from Duke Nukem 3D.<br><br>Using noclip, an early teenage me discovered the ability to transcend what was meant to be explored, only to stumble upon &quot;You&apos;re not supposed to be here.&quot;<br>Suddenly, it was made clear that the authority I thought I was defying, was right there with me, beyond what was supposed to be.

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  @kloogsisconfident4633 · 3 years ago

  When I was a kid I was scared of the basement, I couldn&apos;t really tell you why I was scared of it. Just that I was. Looking back, I now realize that it was a place filled with the dark and damp, an uneasy settling feeling for a child. Things we normally don&apos;t like or don&apos;t need. Some people have their laundry machines there, some use it for storage, but regardless rarely is a basement a regular place that you go in your house. At least that&apos;s what my child brain believed. So of course my mind made up stories of what could be in the basement aside from just clothes and Christmas ornaments you only pull out once a year. Now unlike a liminal photograph there is a sign of humanity in a basement through. Those things you keep there, but it&apos;s eerie in its own right because they are things that were discarded. Or devalued, if only for a time. Like the abandoned house that has no life but a history of one. &nbsp;The stairs leading down as a child felt like you were entering the out of bounds. A place you shouldn&apos;t be. It&apos;s not cheerful, it&apos;s simple basic function is to put the things you don&apos;t want to see on a regular basis. Sometimes it would feel like the items left there were depressed because they knew they were not as useful as the things upstairs. There&apos;s a reason why we all fear the basement subconsciously. We pause in horror games when we have to descend stairs into a basement level or area. We know that something could be lurking. Why is that? Why are we all so scared of a basement? Is it because we know deep down that the only things that go down there are the undesirables? Is it because every story we have read has said for some reason that the scariest of monsters lurk there? Or is it just because the true out of bounds are the things we choose not to think about. Our anxieties. The limitations we put on ourselves to branch out into the unknown. Outside our comfort zone. As a kid we choose not to enter those &quot;scary&quot; places purely because we are made to believe or have convinced ourselves they are scary. The mice however view the basement as their comfort. Maybe to them our bedroom is the out of bounds because they know they will get caught or killed. The only nightmares in the out of bounds are the ones we conjur up. Regardless though, every time I enter a basement my heart still skips a beat. Even as an adult. The mind is really good at playing tricks, but how do you know your mind is playing tricks if it&apos;s convinced you the tricks are real? What if there is something down there? In the basement, it has been all along.

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  @carloandresl · 3 years ago

  Seeing a picture of a liminal space reminds me of visiting school at night. <br><br>A place you normally see full of life is nothing but emptiness. Unnerving in a sense.

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  @Icntplymyguitar · 3 years ago

  Growing up in a city surrounded my mountains I always had a border to ground me in reality, the first time I went to the Midwest and saw how flat it was I felt like if I walked far enough I could fall off the world.

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  @DiesAndLeceit · 3 years ago

  “There’s a point where the idea of a monster becomes less scary than the lack of one.” <br>This is what made the backrooms so terrifying, but now it’s a damn tourist attraction with “entities” or whatever.

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