Well, This Game is Terrifying

[@dyldobaggins4158]

That fear of a stranger running up and punching you in the face actually happened to me, I was on a walk and got mistaken for someone that this group of lads had beef with so they ran up behind me, suckerpunched me in the back of the head, then apologised like fuck when I turned around and they copped on I was the wrong fella.

[@ax2099]

I get that. I had someone ask me for change. When I said I didn’t have any he punched me in the face then walked off like nothing happened :/

[@CowtongueHarry]

The embarrassment of calling out to a stranger you mistook for an acquaintance can be crippling, I cannot imagine the feeling of surprise-punching your enemy in the back of their dumb head just to realize they're actually an innocent stranger...

[@MontelMoore-v6k]

Sue $$$ fuck em

[@roseivy5956]

Same, mine happened while I was on a walk a few years back when I lived in a pretty rough neighborhood. This lady I'd seen around but never talked to ran across the crosswalk and I stepped out of the way thinking she was trying to catch a bus or something, only for her to adjust her path back towards me. It had just clicked that I was the person she was chasing down when she closed the distance and punched me in the arm while muttering about how I had apparently stolen her heroin. It didn't hurt that much or leave a bruise, and she ran away immediately after, but it was just a really bizarre experience.

[@jonesy279]

I don’t know why the shed has a massive “SHED” written on it, but now I’m upset that the house doesn’t have the appropriate “HOUSE” label.

[@OfftheRadar9790]

Not sure if it was the same for John, but when he said This Is Not Your House was not a social anxiety horror, but something like it, I got the impression it was something like a horror of social bureaucracy. Like, "well, you can't *prove* it's your house." Or, "You didn't say I *couldn't* take your car." It's like what an anxious person may think speaking to an unscrupulous lawyer or interrogator might be like.

[@jimjohn1740]

I think "this is not your house" definitely seems worth its own stream. he missed all the best/most interesting endings

[@GanguroKonata]

It's insane how she isn't even a murderous monster from the looks of it, she's simply using her supernatural powers to completely finesse a single man and that's hilarious

[@GanguroKonata]

19:29 oh, nevermind lol

[@prateeksharmakharel7678]

@@GanguroKonata That's how they get you. The old bait and stab.

[@Neddyhk]

People do this, a lot of “sovereign citizens” will lie about owning a house, get the locks changed, and then pretend they are the owners of the house. Edit: They aren't, you know, eldritch abominations or anything, but terrifying nonetheless.

[@thepedanticcreature680]

After having watches this video, I discussed 'This is not your house' with my GF and realized that it's about the horror of the things conservatives fear: breaking down of property rights, being imprisoned for self-defense, and so on. This is further reinforced by how Roger is prepared for attacks at the start like someone who watches much too much Fox News. Which comes off to me as a reminder of the absurdity of taking such fears that far despite the theme of the game inducing empathy towards people having such fears.

[@thomasderosso5625]

That's an excellent analysis.

[@adultcool2395]

The first game feels straight from an episode of the Magnus Archives. I love it

[@Skelepun]

Yeah! I agree, it has The Stranger mixed with a bit of The Spiral vibes. Really makes me want a series of TMA inspired short horror games.

[@thanatoast]

This game really reminds me of the plot of "Like mother used to make" by Shirley Jackson. You've probably heard of it since you mentioned the Lottery and her other works before.

[@Nodiee1]

I need to read more of her stuff. I've only read Haunting of Hill House and it's a beautiful read.

[@Leinad44]

I swore that story of the guy running across the main road was gonna end with "I'm sorry! Are you Super Eyepatch Wolf?!". Not sure if it'd still end with a punch or not haha

[@Imps603]

You should definitely play Who's Lila next

[@lucyarisato6850]

Was 100% going to recommend this

[@haven4304]

I do hope that if he does play it, John wouldn't call it with one ore two endings cause it's quite easy to get a quick ending in that game. At the very least he should play until Detective Yu is introduced.

[@jayv9070]

John would absolutely love Who's Lila

[@gwen9939]

I never played Who's Lila but I did watch the 7 hours and 20 minute deep analysis of it which probably took a lot longer. What an amazing game that I probably will never have the patience to get through on my own, especially not figuring out every little thing there is to know about it.

[@dreamcast.0]

@@gwen9939 Love flawedpeacock!!!

[@zerosozha]

I would like to state how incredible this game's OST is, huge shout out to Jamison Miles Jackson for creating such a spooky atmosphere, and also for writing an incredible disco banger (if you haven't gotten the Mushroom ending yet, go do it!)

[@Jamison_Miles_Jackson]

Thank you for enjoying the OST and the game 🤘🏾! And for the kind comment!

[@Ripcookiethief]

Poor Roger. Just wanted to eat his rotisserie chicken in his own home.

[@GentleIceZ]

That whole story about the stranger running up and punching you is weird to me, because that's just what I assumed it's like to live in Ireland

[@Threvlin]

What an incredible story to start us off with.

[@madmouse4465]

John just has supernatural energy surrounding him. First he manifests a scenario where he gets punched in the face. Next I predict that he’ll have a run-in with a demonic cult.

[@mellow_mallow]

He should start wearing a yellow ribbon in his hair!

[@PhoebusApollo]

The story of the fear of being punched went very well with This Is Not Your House. The idea of a squatter suddenly showing up to take your stuff while your shop is in the same irrational zone of being punched by someone random. It could happen but it's so illogical it'd feel like a bad dream if it ever did. Very cool game and cool story about living to see your own irrational fear.

[@h67h67jh]

You really need to play Still Wakes the Deep, Yuppie Psycho and Fear the Spotlight.

[@BelBelle468]

Yuppie Psycho would be amazing. Such an underrated game

[@HopefulTomorrow420]

John played Fear the Spotlight. He just hasn't finished it because he played it in a Ghostober stream.

[@Khashmonet]

4:00 And then she punched me in the face.

[@onehill6430]

2:41 bro why this dude caked up 🥵

[@Keyndoriel]

Caked for days but with a butternut squash face

[@nekuchan900]

It Paints Me is fucking sick, right up my alley in aesthetics

[@kellerharris2593]

SovCit encounter simulator

[@mangonauts6464]

Fear of a stranger running up and punching you... but that kind of already happened to John but instead of a punch it was a little girl choking him out

[@GmodPlusWoW]

That madman nearly getting Frogger'd crossing the road, only to smack you when he found out you didn't have a light, is the craziest instance of exposure therapy I've ever heard of. It sounds like a Mandalore story, but it happened thousands of miles away from the Realm of Chaos that is Arkalina. As for the artist in It Paints Me, I identify with that pain. Partly because writing physically is something that hurts after too long, and partly because, even though I have many things that I want to commit to text (one funnily enough involving a young painter), something keeps me from tapping out more than a paragraph. Beyond the allure of other distractions, of course. I have more time on my hands than I've had in a long time, ample time to write and perhaps even learn to make a game, but there's something indescribable that stays my hand. Even when I power off the machine during peak energy times, I can only jot down a few sentences on my notepad before my mind tries to convince me to do something else, anything else, even if there aren't many options. What's worse is that I love writing stories. Even with all the temptations pulling me away, even with that invisible hand that stays my fingers, I want to take these ideas and weave them into stories. Hell, I once wrote a lengthy Undertale fanfic over the course of three years, and for five years after that I was working on a continuation. But now? Now I can barely pen anything, despite having more ideas than ever! I need to find that thing that stays my hand, and I need to smash its head into the wall until it can no longer hold me back. Yes, I made DoctorTale back when I was in my mid-twenties, but I'll be damned if I'm going to let being 32 be what holds me back. If I have to drink more coffee, more than my single morning cup, then so be it. If the reason I fell off was because of long covid symptoms, I need to find a potion to unfuck whatever brain-fog it may have cursed me with.

[@fpedrosa2076]

I know it's been a while, but for whatever's worth: I wish you luck with your writing. From one aspiring writer to another, it can be deceptively hard.

[@devon674]

"This Is Not Your House" ending at 22:30 even in a state or jurisdiction without "Castle Doctrine"/"Stand Your Ground" laws, no way would anyone go down for a Murder 1 beef under those circumstances. Not even with a staggeringly incompetent lawyer, let alone a whole "defense team" as Roger is described as having. A conviction for second degree murder is possible if the prosecutor successfully emphasized how utterly the woman's head was destroyed (making the absence of an intent to kill unlikely) although settling on a manslaughter conviction is much more likely, the system doesn't particularly care about nameless jane does.

[@ratfink2079]

Oh snap a double feature

[@Ryu1ify]

I can't believe the [therapist: "x isn't real it can't hurt you"/x:] meme actually happened to REW in real life

[@pendragonvt]

Local man goes for a trip to get some chicken and comes back to a sovereign citizen claiming ownership of their home under maritime law, see what happens next!

[@fk3239]

Getting randomly socked in the face is just so weird. It should hurt, hell it DOES hurt, but the "lol why? did that just happen? are they fuckin serious?" of it is very distracting and completely dulls it. You bump your head on a cupboard door or something unexpected like that and it's the worst thing ever, because there is nothing to distract from it.

[@kakoytazabar]

So your true fear of someone punching you was realized, but by a girlboss of the little girls suddenly choking you out.

[@devon674]

12:42 Nadine's Silent Running drapes don't use oil or any lubricant, the secret, as she excitedly confesses to Norma, is COTTON BALLS.

[@igor-ld8qm]

has John ever went out to get Milk Inside a Bag of Milk Inside a Bag of Milk before? it doesn't take that long to do and i'd love to watch him do it!

[@gombocdimensional9050]

5:25 oh my god...that's literally indie horror game fuel

[@lorenzomeulli750]

Ehy, taste is taste, but home invasion is a relatively simple horror idea. What makes Little Goody Two Shoes so special is how the horror is woven from the classic motif of "young bright and smart paesant dreams of a greater life" and how this mixes with small town mob behaviours, how communities of otherwise loving and gentle people can become a monster out for blood when shit gets scary and their lives as they know it are at risk. Less personal, more high key.

[@0105-x7q]

I had an almost similar experience as John. Growing up I used to get jumped by the local gang all the time all because one time I defended myself so I would regularly be jumped by a group of cunts. This developed into me having massive paranoia when I was out and about and hanging with friends. If I walking somewhere and I seen someone miles up the street wearing a Berghaus Merapeak jacket, I would literally go miles out of my way in an attempt to avoid them. Then one day walking home from a friends, we got pulled up by these guys who started chatting away all fine when out of the blue one of them swung at me, I thought he was just attempting to punch me until I felt blood dripping down my neck, he had a knife and had slashed my jaw. They chased us, slashing at us ripping our jackets etc but we got away. After that night though for some reason, all my paranoia left me. I was never worried walking about anywhere, for some reason I became alot more confident walking about.

[@Snowfoxie1]

Lily’s Well is FANTASTIC!

[@Elkiddouille]

6:30 wait, you had a similar story from when you were hit in the face by someone as a teen.

[@regulareyepatchwolf6128]

If I remember right, that was a guy who punched me in school. a bunch of people were making fun of him, and I was laughing, so he punched me, rather than the people making fun of him. I stood up, looked at him, and he ran away. it was so weird. i think i was smaller than the other guys, so thats why he did it.

[@Elkiddouille]

@regulareyepatchwolf6128 events in your life do not repeat, but they do rhyme sometimes.

[@EmberKatt]

Congrats on winning therapy 👍

[@Lou-Mae]

That second game feels very reminiscent of the poem Porphyria's Lover.

[@Shadowtepller333]

The funniest thing ever is that BJJ guys will always find a way to let you know that they do BJJ

[@shawnheatherly]

There's a lot of good ending variety in that first game.

[@Dantalliumsolarium]

Marie is even dressed as a widow!!

[@sheldonrotondo840]

If someone of your uh stature says someone else is a tiny person then they must be very small.

[@FaustXVl]

John you have the craziest life stories fr. You could make a successful channel or podcast out of those alone

[@mini_mew775]

Definitely giving Scott Pilgrim vegan guy vibes with the look lol but it's not bad. Rock on!

[@lesterparedes8358]

So, when you were telling your story about the maniac that ran across the road in heavy traffic just to eventually punch you, the funniest thing happened. Your story was interrupted by a pet medication delivery service (thanks KZbin, I genuinely mean it here). So the audio I heard was: "So his friends run up and grab him and are like FUCK (Cmmercial interrupts)-- Pets. They love going to get it". I laughed real hard and my coworkers turned to look at me like I was insane. KZbin: what impeccable timing!

[@SayofRah]

I didn’t know that I would enjoy watching somebody play video game online you amuse me thank you

[@ruggedtrash2765]

John Sundersland

[@oddbirdMusic]

Have you ever played "I live under your house", or the sequel "it lives under your house"?

[@sugaclw15]

I feel like this is a sovereign citizen simulator.

[@fildorian6867]

Imagine the little girl punched him instead of choking him out... would have been Johns biggest fear coming to life by the hands of an eight year old

[@GramdalfFGC]

Hey. Just on the fear of someone running up and punching you in the face thing. This is a bit of a mad one, but I think you’re about the right age for the Happy slapping phenomenon? This may just be a UK thing, and I’m not even sure if it ever made its way across to Ireland at all, or maybe you saw it on the news, but in like the early to mid-2000s there was a trend called happy slapping where people would essentially run up on someone and hit them while filming. It definitely happened, although i think there was a bit of a moral panic about it at the time, and if it was on the news here in the UK, for sure I bet an Irish news thing picked up, one of them “new teen trend is hurting kids” things. I don’t know, as soon as you said that I thought “no this was definitely a thing when were at school”

[@fuchsfarben]

Has John ever played "Faust's Albtraum"? Banger rpg maker horror + puzzle game, it's free too if I remember correctly. The art is amazing too, wholeheartedly recommend it to everybody :)

[@SamSphinx]

The silent hill music is on point for the hair, since it's basically James Sunderland length. Or Leon Kennedy.

[@azzyraphale222]

I've never clicked on a video faster omfg

[@spaghettipersonhello]

i love your pfp! is that a picrew or something or did you draw that?

[@azzyraphale222]

@spaghettipersonhello it's a dolldivine by an artist called ummmandy, you should be able to find it on Google with that info

[@TheSevenGamesOfGods]

Have you ever considered reading for Audiobooks?

[@yellowstreetlight]

Thank you pretzel buddy.

[@MoMoMan0]

Super-emo-wolf

[@lowdownshakinchill]

Have you played Who's Lila yet?

[@satorukuroshiro]

Is it just me, or does Roger look like a melted Mark Wahlberg...

[@LetheSoda]

Handsome bastard that ye are, John

[@flyingsnail_art9170]

Oh I saw manlybadasshero play this - I know this is up your alley I’m so hyped to watch this while I eat dinner lol

[@Pinkspider0013]

❤

[@OmegaLogos]

You look like James…lol

[@thunderborn3231]

the moment he was talking to her, but his car started and she was gone mid conversation pulled me completely out of fear due to made up b/s, it could have been truly terrifying but teleporting person destroyed the entire ecosystem of being scary and made me see it as just stupid

[@kingwizard8743]

This is amazing 😂. It's every capitalist fear "Socialist Horror" 😂. They're going to come and take all your stuff 😂

[@alliepending446]

i can't tell if it's making fun of pearl clutchers, or if it was made by pearl clutchers. it's just too silly to be actually serious, right?

[@ObsidianDragon7030]

@@alliepending446 It honestly makes me recall the kind of Cautionary tales from European Folklore regarding the Fae. When the Unseelie wanna fuck with you, they're just gonna fuck with you

[@kingwizard8743]

@@alliepending446 I honestly can't either all I know is, That is everything that the conservative right fears in the US. Everyone has to be and get the same. You don't own your own property, there is no such thing as second amendment rights, and Food shortage so you starve or eat others. I mean just Chiefs kiss perfection

[@wurshraggwurshington2284]

*guilty of 1st deg murder, armed with a shotgun and somehow not deciding to "final gamer fury" the entire contents of the adversary's spaghetti vehicle. No further explanation disclosed, there is only indifference, to the intentionally less exhausting and objectively more destructive design of shotgun mechanics. ...Ladies and gentlemen, the trigger discipline in this writing... How vulnerable its author must feel at night...I'm coming over right now.

[@josciety5579]

I wanna see John run through myhouse.wad for his horror ranking