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Fucking hell am I disturbed...

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disturbedfnafnamechange · 08/07/2024 16:29

DS13 likes to play this game named Fnaf, usually with his friend from online school who lives like 3 streets away.

Today I didn't have anything better to do so I read up a bit on it.

Fucking hell I need to bleach my brain after reading the backstory.

Basically there was a pizzeria chain with these moving characters as mascots, and the co owner was a murderer, who abducted 5 kids, murdered them in very gruesome methods, and put them into the moving characters, which crushed their bodies, and then he went on to display (!!!) the mascots and let them run loose in the pizzeria.

One of the sentient mascots bit a child visiting the pizzeria, and cut away his skull and frontal lobe.

When the now-sentient mascots turned on him and tried to kill him, he tried to jump into one of the non-sentient mascot's robot suit, but something happened and it crushed him into pieces, he then became a sentient mascot (?)

Another pizzeria was open at the same time, and he used it as a front to kidnap and torture, and crush more children...
until his child visited it and one of the sentient mascots murdered her...

I haven't been so disturbed since watching A clockwork orange.

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OchonAgusOchonOh · 08/07/2024 16:32

So I assume your ds is no longer allowed access to it and you have put in controls that mean he can't access this type of material in the future?

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disturbedfnafnamechange · 08/07/2024 16:34

OchonAgusOchonOh · 08/07/2024 16:32

So I assume your ds is no longer allowed access to it and you have put in controls that mean he can't access this type of material in the future?

??? The game in itself isn't disturbing, just scary. I've played it with him, it's just a disturbing backstory.

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katebushh · 08/07/2024 16:34

Let the other parents know?

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disturbedfnafnamechange · 08/07/2024 16:35

katebushh · 08/07/2024 16:34

Let the other parents know?

They know. They're really lax with parenting.

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Bananalanacake · 08/07/2024 16:35

Surely it's based on fiction, but yes it does sound disturbing.

FactoryResetNeeded · 08/07/2024 16:35

Might have been better to read up on it before letting him play it tbh, although it appears to be 12 rated! (the film is a 15 though). Sounds awful.

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disturbedfnafnamechange · 08/07/2024 16:36

FactoryResetNeeded · 08/07/2024 16:35

Might have been better to read up on it before letting him play it tbh, although it appears to be 12 rated! (the film is a 15 though). Sounds awful.

DS is able to crack any filters and will play it regardless unfortunately...

DS's friend's parents are really lax and won't do anything about it.

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themoonsgotnohistory · 08/07/2024 16:39

Horse has long bolted and you don't seem bothered so 🤷🏻 doesn't really matter what everyone else thinks. You're cool with your son playing games like this.

Needmorelego · 08/07/2024 16:40

Fnaf is so 5 years ago 😂
My daughter - when age 11 - used to write complex detailed analysis reports about what actually happened that night at the pizzeria.

Shade17 · 08/07/2024 16:40

DS's friend's parents are really lax and won't do anything about it.

I’m not really sure what’s lax about letting a 13 year old play a game with a 12+ rating, it’s hardly GTA.

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disturbedfnafnamechange · 08/07/2024 16:41

themoonsgotnohistory · 08/07/2024 16:39

Horse has long bolted and you don't seem bothered so 🤷🏻 doesn't really matter what everyone else thinks. You're cool with your son playing games like this.

I'm not going to ban a nearly 14 year old from playing a 12 - I just wanted some form of reassurance about the backstory I guess.

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disturbedfnafnamechange · 08/07/2024 16:41

Needmorelego · 08/07/2024 16:40

Fnaf is so 5 years ago 😂
My daughter - when age 11 - used to write complex detailed analysis reports about what actually happened that night at the pizzeria.

Did you know the backstory then? Just curious Smile

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ShouldhavebeencalledAppollo · 08/07/2024 16:43

I agree it’s disturbing. But it’s classed as a horror game I think. So right on brand

LaLaLouella · 08/07/2024 16:47

DS's friend's parents are really lax and won't do anything about it.

And so are you.... you are doing exactly the same thing the other parents are doing. Turning a blind eye to the things your children are consuming and adding to your child's increasing desensitisation to extreme horror content.

mummytothree87 · 08/07/2024 16:48

My kids love fnaf. I went to the cinema with my eldest 2 to see the movie and thought it was actually pretty good 😂 it's a horror game. My kids had never even played the game just heard about it from friends and they were into bendy and the ink machine at the time also that's also pretty dark.

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disturbedfnafnamechange · 08/07/2024 16:48

LaLaLouella · 08/07/2024 16:47

DS's friend's parents are really lax and won't do anything about it.

And so are you.... you are doing exactly the same thing the other parents are doing. Turning a blind eye to the things your children are consuming and adding to your child's increasing desensitisation to extreme horror content.

It's a 12+ - DH won't even support me in banning it, and will support DS and allow him to get around it since it's technically age appropriate.

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NoDishiRishi · 08/07/2024 16:49

Some of the Pokémon have pretty disturbing backstories but I can't see that being banned anything soon for kids 😂

gamerant.com/pokemon-disturbing-facts/

My favs being Cubone who wears their mothers skull as a head dress and Driffloon a cute balloon that takes children away to the land of the dead, or Duskull who chases rule breaking kids as it likes the sound of them crying..

It's not like they're watching The Boys or Saw 😂 we were all reading James Herbert and Richard Laymon at 11

Poolstream · 08/07/2024 16:51

NoDishiRishi · 08/07/2024 16:49

Some of the Pokémon have pretty disturbing backstories but I can't see that being banned anything soon for kids 😂

gamerant.com/pokemon-disturbing-facts/

My favs being Cubone who wears their mothers skull as a head dress and Driffloon a cute balloon that takes children away to the land of the dead, or Duskull who chases rule breaking kids as it likes the sound of them crying..

It's not like they're watching The Boys or Saw 😂 we were all reading James Herbert and Richard Laymon at 11

In the 70's I was reading Edgar Allen Poe, no way am I being buried. 😅

Needmorelego · 08/07/2024 16:55

@disturbedfnafnamechange yes my daughter has several of the novels and spin off books (there's loads).

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disturbedfnafnamechange · 08/07/2024 16:56

Needmorelego · 08/07/2024 16:55

@disturbedfnafnamechange yes my daughter has several of the novels and spin off books (there's loads).

Ah alright Smile

Does the backstory bother you?

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Needmorelego · 08/07/2024 16:58

@disturbedfnafnamechange it's a horror story. Not to my taste personally but I don't like Stephen King and all that either.
My daughter likes horror. Some people do. It's a popular genre.

NotAlexa · 08/07/2024 16:59

disturbedfnafnamechange · 08/07/2024 16:29

DS13 likes to play this game named Fnaf, usually with his friend from online school who lives like 3 streets away.

Today I didn't have anything better to do so I read up a bit on it.

Fucking hell I need to bleach my brain after reading the backstory.

Basically there was a pizzeria chain with these moving characters as mascots, and the co owner was a murderer, who abducted 5 kids, murdered them in very gruesome methods, and put them into the moving characters, which crushed their bodies, and then he went on to display (!!!) the mascots and let them run loose in the pizzeria.

One of the sentient mascots bit a child visiting the pizzeria, and cut away his skull and frontal lobe.

When the now-sentient mascots turned on him and tried to kill him, he tried to jump into one of the non-sentient mascot's robot suit, but something happened and it crushed him into pieces, he then became a sentient mascot (?)

Another pizzeria was open at the same time, and he used it as a front to kidnap and torture, and crush more children...
until his child visited it and one of the sentient mascots murdered her...

I haven't been so disturbed since watching A clockwork orange.

I used to like gruesome things when I was a kid. My mum bought me surgery atlas (it's like encyclopedia of anatomy with surgical terms), I basically grew up with it! And I ended up getting my first degree in Medical Science.

Point I'm making - refocus a weird and potentially dangerous fetish into a professional educating material. Might end up being a talented surgeon, pathologist or a criminal attorney!

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disturbedfnafnamechange · 08/07/2024 16:59

Needmorelego · 08/07/2024 16:58

@disturbedfnafnamechange it's a horror story. Not to my taste personally but I don't like Stephen King and all that either.
My daughter likes horror. Some people do. It's a popular genre.

I guess so...

It's really just the crushing people into mince that bothered me that much...

If it wasn't there I'd dismiss it as another horror story.

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YourMommaWasASnowblower · 08/07/2024 17:00

The game just seems to be about the jump scares really, but yes, it horrified me when I read the backstory. I think most children are into it though and they all seem to talk about it in school, so there’s no hiding from it anyway!

shivermetimbers77 · 08/07/2024 17:01

Yes it’s pretty gruesome but it’s fairly standard for horror/fantasy..I was reading Stephen King by that age and my sisters and I would watch films like Amityville Horror with the curtains closed to scare ourselves silly on purpose . None of us have gone on to become axe murderers…

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