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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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damebarbaracartlandsbiggestfan · 08/07/2024 17:27

I wouldn't worry too much. I watched the hellraiser movies from around that age and I'm relatively normal 😁

Workoutinthepark · 08/07/2024 17:27

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…

I was sub 10 when I watched god knows how many hideous horrors and actually quite enjoyed them but that was down to shit parenting. I wouldn't let my kids play this! (Not calling you a shit parent, just saying mine were!).

Workoutinthepark · 08/07/2024 17:29

disturbedfnafnamechange · 08/07/2024 17:10

They really aint that hard to bypass seeing he's a massive geek and will just reinstall Ubuntooth or whatever he uses on his pc, deleting the controls.

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I got my kids into retro gaming and they're not allowed up to date ones which is how I get around all of this.

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disturbedfnafnamechange · 08/07/2024 17:33

Workoutinthepark · 08/07/2024 17:29

I got my kids into retro gaming and they're not allowed up to date ones which is how I get around all of this.

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How do you deal with a tech savvy teen who will get around it?

Do you ban stuff like Minecraft too?

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RubySloth · 08/07/2024 17:34

Late to the party, Five nights at freddys is old.

Sleepersausage · 08/07/2024 17:36

I find myself much more sensitive to this sort of stuff as an adult than I was as a teen, I'm sure they'll be fine

OnAndOnAndonAgain · 08/07/2024 17:38

Well the games aren't particularly scary , I'm not sure if my dcs know the back story or not

NetflixAndKill · 08/07/2024 17:42

We all love FNAF in this house!! We know the back story too that’s what makes it so exciting! The fear, the unknown. It’s a great story.

combinationpadlock · 08/07/2024 17:44

disturbedfnafnamechange · 08/07/2024 16:36

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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well, you are the parent, so don't let him

wilteddandelion · 08/07/2024 17:44

You know what is lax parenting?

My parents let me read Watership Down when I was 6.

StaunchMomma · 08/07/2024 17:45

I think most parents know what FNAF is about - there's even a film about it!

It's basically introductory horror for tweens.

Defo a gruesome story, though.

wilteddandelion · 08/07/2024 17:45

FNAF isn't bad so far as games go though. Surely so long as you discuss it with him, it's ok?

combinationpadlock · 08/07/2024 17:45

disturbedfnafnamechange · 08/07/2024 17:33

How do you deal with a tech savvy teen who will get around it?

Do you ban stuff like Minecraft too?

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He's 13! ! you are the parent! your rules!

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disturbedfnafnamechange · 08/07/2024 17:47

combinationpadlock · 08/07/2024 17:45

He's 13! ! you are the parent! your rules!

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He will get around them.

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YourWildAmberSloth · 08/07/2024 17:49

disturbedfnafnamechange · 08/07/2024 16:48

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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Perhaps be a little less judgmental of the other parents then.

StaunchMomma · 08/07/2024 17:50

13 year olds are better off watching things like FNAF than things we watched as teens - Texas Chainsaw Massacre, The Evil Dead, Nightmare on Elm St, Halloween, Friday the 13th etc.

Some kids, the same as adults, like the thrill of horror films. It's no different than enjoying the thrill of a theme park ride, to me.

If your kid isn't having nightmares, I don't see the problem with him playing the game. The game doesn't focus on the backstory - it's just a bit creepy.

Marveladdict · 08/07/2024 17:51

sounds like something I would dream about 😓

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disturbedfnafnamechange · 08/07/2024 17:51

YourWildAmberSloth · 08/07/2024 17:49

Perhaps be a little less judgmental of the other parents then.

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I was asking a genuine question...

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Soubriquet · 08/07/2024 17:52

They did a film about this game too. It was quite a good film. I let me two children watch it because it wasn’t sexual or overly horrifying either.

PartayyTyme · 08/07/2024 17:52

My son is 13 and loves it too.

It's not actually that graphic, it's all jumpscares.

I took DD15 to see the film, Mathew Lilliard was in it so that kept me occupied.

WhiteLily1 · 08/07/2024 17:52

Lots of stuff has disturbing backstories like that.
Greek mythology for example.
Books studied in school in years 8-9 have surprised me at times.
teens love gruesome stuff particularly boys which is just who this game is aimed at.
The actual gameplay is 12+ so as long as the teen is ok with jump scares and a bit of horror I think they don’t go to deep into the realities of it that you as an adult are OP

Youcannevertelltownfromtown · 08/07/2024 17:53

ComtesseDeSpair · 08/07/2024 17:13

I think adults tend to find it more disturbing than kids because they overthink it. To teens it’s just over-the-top cartoonish horror with jump scares, they’re not really thinking about actual real life child abductions and murders and relating them to the game.

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Yes, I think parents are more inclined to be squeamish about anything violent relating to kids. I really don’t like watching anything where kids get hurt since I had dc. It wouldn’t have bothered me nearly as much before.

StaunchMomma · 08/07/2024 17:53

PartayyTyme · 08/07/2024 17:52

My son is 13 and loves it too.

It's not actually that graphic, it's all jumpscares.

I took DD15 to see the film, Mathew Lilliard was in it so that kept me occupied.

I thought that was great casting - all of the parents watching with their kids had him pegged as a wrong un' from the off! 😂

WhiteLily1 · 08/07/2024 17:55

disturbedfnafnamechange · 08/07/2024 17:47

He will get around them.

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Also- I have 3 teens. If you don’t want them to get round something you stay one step ahead. What’s going on with your parenting / discipline if they deliberately and sneakily go around what you are saying and still get their games back? Honestly don’t get it. If any of mine did that their console would be locked up in the loft for the foreseeable and their smartphone disabled so much it turned into a brick for a week.

thatstakingalongtimetoboil · 08/07/2024 17:57

You say the other parents are lax but you are letting your child play it saying you can't stop him. Really ? That's not how parenting usually works!