Anti-Piracy Screens Are Unnerving. But, why? 

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What a good day to play mario kart

You put the same link for DKC3’s anti piracy for Super Mario All Stars’ anti piracy.

Nowadays all it's all just fake antipiracy videos. I wish there was a way for me to find videos on real ones.

@@Dante_Sparda_DMC You and me both.

@@Dante_Sparda_DMC yeah i dont know which one is real or fake

@@Dante_Sparda_DMC spyro 3 and earthbound

Yeah it's kinda stupid.

SpongeBob telling kids to pay their taxes.

@@DKMarioplayR Can you assure me that Mr Krabs has been doing this?

Isn't Nicklodeon cable TV??

Days later, a man in florida is put on probation and is sevely charged 500$ dollars for every minute of TV he wasted on air He is being investigated for charges of extortion and impersonation of federal authority

“Your cable TV provider forgot to renew their license to stream Nickelodeon, time to pay us $500 for watching Nickelodeon on cable while your provider forgot to renew their license”

You are so right! Like, the fake ones are waayyy over the top.

for real, like the spongebob one demanding $500 💀

I think the only fun fake one I seen is "Piracy is no party" for Mario Party DS, tho maybe just early on and without the police stuff

agree

@@mariotheundying the Nintendogs one is pretty good too in my opinion... though a little bit dark. But the atmosphere and execution in it is crazy good, and seems like it could've legit happened.

Also, I think I remember several fake Pokemon anti-piracy screens in which your Pokemon will either kill/eat you, run away, or die.

Oof that sounds really unsettling :(

and they make you attached to it too :(

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@@Random-rv2xf yes

Agreed.

well if the character like angrily explains

@@vehicleunhandler yea

It feels out of nowhere. As a kid u see the media as something comforting that can take ur attention away from the world or fill the air with background noise, but then WHAM that repetition/expectation is broken by an unnerving silence (or loud noise if it's a weather/amber alert). It's so disconnected from both the source material and your own routine that it triggers some sort of fight or flight response. Almost like something is just out of sight toying with you. Honestly can't decide if the cut to silence or something loud is worse. Obviously the loud noise is sudden and gives a sense of immediate danger like a jumpscare. Though, idk, having the room go silent and it's up to you to figure out why is creepy af. Sometimes it can sneak up on you if it's a show or movie playing in the background.

@@hexreapers162 yeah the eeriness of dead silence and a black/dark screen that seems sudden and inexplicable because it doesn’t have anything to do with the game or its plot is a factor too

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It’s when your in your room at night and it goes dark, it’s like someone did it, and you are about to find out who. (Or at least that’s how it feels when your a kid)

or perhaps when u get caught for doing it

It's like when I first played ddlc (Doki Doki Literature Club) and when Yuri was s3/f h@rming I just got terrified Also when I was younger I couldn't get it so I played a different version on Google and it was asking for my location and knew my name. It was so scared Also when a game just goes silent I just can't it's too scary. Or when there's an error or loud/static-y sounds

Well, if you think about deltarune, we use Kris as a vessel in order to play the game, this applies to the other games aswell, such as Mario, sure, I get that went completing a level, you don't control him after the cutscene ends, but still, any character that you play as is a vessel that YOU use to play the game, which means the character your playing as doesn't have control and YOU do (I'm sorry for writing a whole paragraph btw) Also, whenever an anti piracy screen happens, your barely in control of your character as they bring their own emotions, like for example, in the donkey dong country 3 anti piracy screen (what he shown on the video), the characters are doing something YOUR not doing, clearly something happened, and just like he said, they're forced to face an impending doom

⁠@@daherotimetrio1632 I don’t quite think it’s losing control of the character and vessel that makes these scary, but rather losing control of the system itself. After all, you brought up deltarune, when Kris takes control, yes the player loses control, but also the game is still doing what it’s scripted to do, which is usually why I don’t find fourth wall breaks to be scary as they immediately remind me that I’m just playing a game. This is also why I find the over exaggerated fake anti piracy screens not to be scary as they’re just not believable. On the other hand, actual anti piracy screens means the system itself is not doing what you wanted it to do, it’s not just pretending to turn against you, but it actually is, and succeeds by preventing you from playing the game.

dude oh my god i hated that

oh my god it scared me

the roku start up scares the shit outta me LMFAO

as a latin american, the FBI screen was funny as hell, seeing as how piracy is basically second nature to us and the screen would usually appear in movies my family bought from the nearby market lmao

Omg I remember that screen scaring me for some reason and didn’t know why, still scared of it till this day almost 17 😂😭

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@@Lainlainl What the hell

that one scared the crap out of me as well, its so unnerving

Saw that one too, I think what makes it work so well is what makes analog / digital horror really work for me, not the machine turning evil, as that just isn’t too believable, but instead the machine doing what it’s supposed to do, and the situation itself being the horror factor. I think this is also what makes EAS alarms scary (well, on top of the fact they’re supposed to make you alert).

NOW I AM SCARED TO USE WEBTOON 💀

Wait what why would you be in trouble?? Also if that happened to me when I was younger I would have actually peed and cried ain’t no way 😰

@@palfixeye1844 I ALMOST DID LOL

Wait how do you even pirate ON the app?

@@db5094 buying another episode for coins instead of waiting

And how it feels like the game is directly speaking to you or is even aware of you. Like a glitch that shouldn’t be seen, something bad or evil.

@@the_kleetus-yeeyee48yes this is exactly why them screens are scaring me a lot since childhood

I couldnt put it better man

Yesss

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That is so true!

To me that kind of feeling is my worst fear. It just sends this almost primal fear running through my body and I can feel it at my very core

Or maybe it's because I don't wanna go to jail for eight years because of mario

I don't know. They still feel a bit unnerving to me, but I never felt guilty about it. "Oh no! I just pirated a game! So tragic!!!"

@@Shrek_es_mi_pastor But... you wouldn't steal a car

sonic 1 has an anti-piracy screen?

@@SonikkuBoy I think it was more of an illegal operation screen with code

@@Skipatronic ohh yeah the illegal instruction error you mean? thats just because the game has crashed you were probably in labyrinth zone when that appeared or the cartridge was dirty or not inserted properly

Doesn't take much to scare you. Lol

@@user-vi4xy1jw7e you don’t get it

Repetitive noises just sounds stupid imo

​@@duncan3932 yeah sometimes, but it can also be scary

True

Yeah

Same slow burning horror hurts more, in a good way.

the fbi warnings were one of the creepiest parts of childhood

@@charmJL i was out here, young as fuck trying to watch lilo and stich and that warning would pop up. My timbers were shivered every time

Ikr the SpongeBob one outright made me laugh.

yeah

the SpongeBob story Reminds me of some shitty octonauts creepypasta I read. ThEy BoauGhT a VhS TaPe FrOm A sHaDy StOrE ThEy WaTCh iT AnD CapTaIn BaRnAcLeS StAbBed EvRy Other ChaReCtEr AnD JuMpEd ThRoGh ThE Tv!!1!1111

@@Marchingvenusaur Which one was that?

@@K1ng_Squ1dZ hehehe

I thought I was the only one to see that and it fucked me up

For a second my heart sank into my stomach when i saw that

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@@coralgamer6410same

I still can't tell if that one is fake or not!

same that happened to me *A LOT*

FINALLY SOMEONE ELSE RELATES TO THAT

Or when the VHS has stopped rolling and it goes to static afterwards.

HOLY SHIT AT LEAST IM NOT ALONE HERE

WAIT NO LITERALLY ITS THE EXACT SAME VIBE

Yeah. Beta Mario has it the worst

Metal gear solid and spyro and also the stanley parable

@@alexanderyt4610 The Stanley Parable has a piracy screen?

@@Moald A piracy ending, its kinda like the metal gear solid 1 one were they just lock you up in a room and just start lecturing you (if i remember right)

@@alexanderyt4610 its called The Serious Room and its used for people who try to use the console commands

Nah I think it's fine

​@@Kade-c0gh4THAT IS NOT FINE

i hadnt paid atention

When I was, like, 5, I would always hide in the bathroom when the PS2 Error came up lol.

Shit gave me nightmares as a kid

It was only scary because i didnt know if my game or ps2 was fucked. We werent rich for multiple

IK it scared the shit out of me

The PS2 disk read error will always hold a special place in my heart and leave it feeling constantly terrified

This will age so well.

@@rachelisverycoo like a bottle of milk. (It didnt age like a bottle of milk, fuck sonic gather battle)

Sonic gather battle

@@realtek2514 fr that game is seriously terrible lmao

It Already exists lmao Sonic gather battle

i live in North Carolina, never knew that code existed, lol.

Nah, as a kid if you see the word prosecution and court you’re like uhhh huh? But as an adult it means more and scares you more. The off visuals are more scary to kids

@@SoggySlopster even if you don’t understand the exact wording, kids are still scared of doing something wrong. I was also kinda creeped out by those “you wouldn’t steal a car” ads because I knew what crime meant and I knew that it meant it was wrong

@@SoggySlopster YOU WILL GYRE AND GYMBLE IN THE WABE.

*emergency alert system

@@the_mariocrafter k

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Forgive the ignorance, but what's an amber alert? We don't have them in Ireland (to my knowledge)

@@kermitenthusiast485 guy who wrote the comment didn't make much sense, basically yk how there's alerts when a child gets kidnapped? That's basically what it is

Yeah, I’m surprised that nobody has mentioned it. The feeling that the game is aware that you pirated it unsettles you a lot aswell. Willing to bet that the sm64 and Mario party DS ones are the best ones at this.

You can watch a video about the psychology of fourth-wall breaks, if you want.

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@Dio brando average money corporation fan:

I read this in a pirate voice lol

It kinda sucks though cause most of the time it's out of your control like "yay! Daddy just got me the new Mario cart!" Sike! Daddy got a fake copy in order to save some money and now you've got nightmare foder for days. It especially sucks when the TV just so happens to be in your bedroom. You sit there staring at the black screen expecting dead eye peach to come after you for something that wasn't your fault.

so real

CHALLENGE ACCEPTED!

Alot of the time they make the game progressivly harder turning the pirated game into a demo. Like spyro 3 erases eggs(your McGuffin for progression), Batman: Arkham Asylum has batman drop like a rock when gliding, GTA4 will constantly have the 'drunk' effect on (shaky screen and you can't drive for shit and Game Dev Tycoon has piracy make a bigger and bigger cut into your profits.

I think I remember for jsab there being a piracy screen being instead of the "you a criminal piracy is bad and you'll go to jail and F yourself" stuff it's more like "yeah I did the same thing as a kid, it's fine"

Not a antipiracy but a anti mod one was spyro 3 on the ps1 Bassically if u had a modded ps1 U could unlock ur region Spyro 3 after boot up would call for the region code that in the normal case would fail since the only time that can be called out is by the console itself on startup before the game gets loaded but since ur console is modded it will not hesistate to accept the call for the code and since the game could call the code now knows its an modified console and will show u a black screen with a forbidden symbol with the following text Software terminated console MAY have been modified call (insert regional number sony blah blah blah) or in Japan 強制終了しました。 本体が改造されている おそれがあります。 So far I know this can happen with these games Crash Bash Dino Crisis Doko Demo Issho MediEvil 2 PoporoGue Resident Evil 3: Nemesis Resident Evil: Survivor Spyro: Year of the Dragon Tomba! 2: The Evil Swine Return Um Jammer Lammy Vandal Hearts II Wild Arms 2 Yu-Gi-Oh! Forbidden Memories The code in question is called libcrypt mostly use by sce(sony computer entertainment) and bandai namco

@@gunmunz idk the first two game names but I'll add them anyways (saw em on a top ten list) Game 1; the game freezes and repeats "pirate" Game 2; indi game dev gives you a heart to heart speach A Zelda ds game (spirit train?) Runs forever

The SpongeBob one was pretty creepy to me until he read the backstory. It was so ridiculous it immediately lost all sense of scariness for me

@@magpierrot I don't think any of these are scary because they try too hard to be scary

creepypastas on video games or shows have been run into the ground. they've been overplayed for atleast 7 years.

​@@Moald I agree

I think it would be better if they didn't just hit you with the cold water immediately, have them fuck with you at the start, make it so the game starts and plays fine, until it slowly degrades more and more until it becomes unplayable

The song in the background is also called badsum

that reminds me of how sometimes, the tv in my house as a kid used to glitch, and when it did there would be a black screen with text in the corner that said someth along the lines of, "your tv has encountered an error. if this message continues to appear you may have to perform a factory reset." and then occasionally there would be a screen with this weird twisty 3d looking graphic that seemed to be of piped twisting around each other, and it just said in white text underneath: *error!* i don't know what it is, but the abrupt emptiness and lack of sound or anything, especially on the pipe screen, always unnerved me. it just said clearly, "something is wrong. something is broken."

This comment is better than this whole stupid video

Or the Earthbound anti piracy which is surprisingly similar.

What happens in both of em?

@@kaelell4697 spyro 3 progressively makes the game harder to play (deleting things you collected, making you take damage randomly, etc), and earthbound crashes and deletes your save file right before the final boss

@@bulbybuds OH SHIT I mean the earthbound one is kinda funny

@@bulbybuds EarthBound also increases the enemy spawn rate to absurd amounts, including putting enemies where there normally should be none or having stronger enemies from later in the game appear much earlier. So you'd have to play through a much more difficult and tedious version of the game, before it crashes and deletes your save right before the final boss. lmao

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It didn’t?

Oh god...

Its edited in there so its meant to scare u

Weirdly specific but yeah

same, i DON'T know why

Those old windows errors with horrific sounds in full game screens with no "windowed" option Terrifying

@@Ultimatedogfan for real

This This is something that scared me a lot Even today i still get rlly nervous when a piece of software doesnt work correctly That damn ps2 red screen

I love the Baldi one, even if it could be fake, its like 'hey there buddy, something isn't adding up' which is so lighthearted to me. I know the 'hey there buddy' isn't in the message, but it should be, it would be better to add that for the younger audience playing the game, which would add a bit more emotion to the game to make it more human.

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Out of jokes, it's fire

certified hood classic.

When I was young I always got scared of those custom loading screens on dvd's, usually having a character or object important to the movie spin in place. I guess the fact that it just appeared in the darkness and started moving without any sound freaked me out.

@@metl6929 some movies i used to watch at school had that too but the reason i was scared was because a wierd logo came in a green blue and yellow background and it would blast loud music i would love to see it again tho

@@batbat4043 We had dvd's of the Peanut's holiday specials, and after the special features (a 15-minute documentary about how it was made), a logo for Trailer Park (some company) would appear silently and it scared me really bad, and I still don't know why.

@@metl6929 that would not scare me but i think the logo i saw was called brein tv ( brein means brain ) and now i am going to search for it

@@metl6929 i found it quickly and its much different than i remember would you like to see it ?

It unnerves even me

I actually have a theory on this. There's a fear or creepiness associated with busy places that you experience at night in an empty setting. Things like airports or malls late at night when empty. Or empty old multiplayer maps. It's called Kenopsia. My guess is these screens with little color or happy music feels extra creepy due to the void of what's normally there or expected

The scariest thing what I saw is Tails doll fan art. It's bloody creature with claws and evil smile.

Blue Screen Of Death in older windows.

Yes, like a horror movie disc i inserted into a device by the TV. It played part 1 and then cut off suddenly. So i left to ask about part 2 and the person I borrowed from said part 2 is in that disc. So we ended up putting the disc back in. It had this glitchy start and then the movie started as usual once stable; there was indeed a part 2, it was just oddly cut off after an absurdly creepy scene. And what i was told after the movie: the old movie was a series of 6 parts, and that incident with the part 1 cutting off could have been just like the original series. It was a strange night, I'll say. Horror movie discs seem to act up with only me.

Rip

happens to me sometimes

I HATE those I stayed up playing some random game on my laptop one night and it blue screened out of nowhere Almost gave me nightmares

Bruh I agree When I play on my mom’s desktop, it used to show that LITERALLY out of nowhere.

i hate the blue screen, one time i got a virus and it would show that every 20 minutes. I got used to it though so it wouldnt even be that bad however after getting it fixed it felt like i was a new man

The warnings or blue screens on tv still terrify me (I get anxious all the time)

I KNOW RIGHT? Not these lame ass tryhard creepypasta ones

fr the first 5 minutes I was 😨😲, then the rest of the video I was: 😐😴

Same

Me too. FUCKKKKKKKK

examples? im interested too

Hey little Timmy, did your cable provider make a slight error? Well you better pay up or else you're going to jail for the rest of your life!

i saw the sponge bob blink

@@nyanu907 same

@@jiamedina4237 same

Or they could've just modified the hex values that makes the console think that the ROM was pirated.

It's quite difficult to find illegally distributed copies of most popular games that will trip any piracy detection. You have to do that yourself, manually "break" the games again lol.

Bro same

there's also two versions of the gc antipiracy screen where if you pressed yes, it would take you to some sort of disc verifier, with both passing and failing the verification

@@superknux13isaid yup. But still, if you didnt know it was pirated, you're toast

@Alt Account Number 20 complete a CAPTCHA

Kind of on the topic of “destroy the machine” Iirc Capcom’s CPS3 arcade boards have this feature where if it detects pirate copies of its games, or if you’ve been tinkering with the board in some way, shape or form, it activates a kill switch that sends a jolt of electricity to the motherboard making it absolutely useless. Tl;Dr Capcom has an arcade board that kills itself if it detects piracy

Now I'm scared of buying vintage games

How’s that work?

@@linenist1900 basically some games have steam verification files or connect to the steam servers or their own servers and if it fails to connect most of them crash the game without anything just the game goes poof a hat in time does that but in skullgirls it is far more better but ineffective at gaining money because you finish the whole game but get trolled by the devs if you post about it some games put an error code spesifically to catch piraters online

I’d argue I think it was sims 4? Where the game would get very pixelated to look like it’s bugged is the best one because of how similarly effective it was It’s kinda funny how people just show that they pirated a videogame honestly

"You didn't collect all the stars" "Now everyone in the observatory will die" *general creepypasta stuff*

Yeah, fantastic galaxy 2 mod that is edgy and tries to be creepy by mentioning death and other things like slurs and ultra violence, like most of the pokemon rom hacks.

I remember one of my teachers for one of my senior year electives mentioned this. He's so laid back and casually admitted to watching pirated footage of a few movies with his wife. He was afraid he'd get reported after that, but of the students in that class mentioned that it's completely legal and now he tells all his classes you can't get in trouble for watching pirated film lol. Best thing I learned senior year hands down.

Maybe the creator intended this to be a broadcast signal intrusion? That would make more sense

he clearly said that this was fan made, dude. are u deaf?

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If you purchased this book without a cover, you should be aware that this book is stolen property. It was reported as "unsold and destroyed", and neither the author nor the publisher has received payment for this "stripped book".

@@unicornman147 i remember reading that in a Goosebumps book once years ago when i was a kid. needless to say, it kinda freaked me out. like, the idea of having a "stripped book" and not knowing about it was just freaky.

@@jermfanaccount oh god, every Goosebumps collection I've ever seen had at least one book without a cover.

You. I like you.

Add g()r`/ stuff, red or black eyes, jumpscare, uncanny glitch sounds, and a message " YOU¡ITSILLEGALTOPIRATEGAMES!WHYDIDYOUEVENPLAYTHISRJWAAAAAAOSOAOAOADWKCKGE¡¡¡!!!!!'"

Yes.

More like sh*t your soul

An idea I've thought of. Kind of has to tie in with worldbuilding of the game I've imagined overtime, where there are many universes resting upon a giant multiversal tree, and your home universe is on an outer branch. You play through the very beginning of the game as normal, and before you get into multiverse travel, you meet up with an important NPC (preferably one with a lot of knowledge on the multiverse as a whole.) The important NPC, as per normal, explains the multiversal tree and how the branches work, then slowly begins to trail off and discuss what unknowable horrors lurk below the tree. Immediately after that, they inform you that some disturbance, an error in the fabric of reality, has disconnected the branch. "...You wouldn't happen to know why, would you?" "Not like it'll matter in a minute." Cut to black with glitched sound. Briefly show a heavily darkened, glitched and distorted face of said NPC screaming in agony; the glitchy sound briefly intensifying before the game closes itself. Future attempts to open the game will then briefly display said NPC'S agonized face in 3 different states of decay, each in a different pose, after which the game will close again. After those 3 attempts, the game will no longer boot up, even with a legit copy.

Fr or did u just see the blink that was there on purpose

The letters were unusually stretched, which, I guess, made it more uncomfortable and brought in the 'corpse' parallels. You can look it up but odds are you remember it. The message of the text was localized. Fascinating what psyche can come up with.

Should've took a shit before playing video games

which windows release? xp or something? i need to look this up, im interested. i mostly use linux these days so i always get really interested hearing about spooky stuff happening in windows (i dont get that spooked feeling in linux since i can just fix everything in the command line in another tty, i kinda miss it lol). reminds me of so many childhood memories of me getting scared when my dads windows 98 tower would change the screen resolution and use 16-bit color when running an old game lmao.

@@saltdad5263 I found it. Try googling "it's now safe to turn off your computer". It's from 95 era, from what I can gather.

​@@simpy5499 OHH yeah that is pretty intimidating lol, its funny how tech limitations can make stuff like that look so unintentionally creepy. weirdly it actually looks very similar to my acer laptops secure boot error screen with the stretched out text, black background, and this really compressed stretched out image of a pad lock that always gave me the creeps while i was installing linux and the screen would trigger if i screwed something up (you can just look up "acer security boot fail" and youll run into some images of it).

I actually found out that the Baldi in the anti-piracy screen is actually called ‘Checksum’. I like how it has a double meaning, it’s the checksum of the game, but also the fact that the game is about sums (Math shit) And Checksum *is* technically different from Baldi, only difference being the colour of the shirt

Super Metroid would only give me an anti piracy warning if I loaded the game with certain cheat codes turned on. If I disabled them it would start up fine, and then I could instantly re-enable them.

@@Bro-cx2jc since cheat codes are outside of the parameters the devs expect, maybe the cheat accidentally makes the checksum fail? Very strange.

@@tootsie_ I dunno. I don't speak programming or whatever language so I can only assume, maybe cheat codes particularly modify some kind of value that gets checked alongside the checksum. Does that happen? Or is it only the checksum that is verified?

@@Bro-cx2jc honestly, don't know. If i was a smarter boy who wanted to dive headfirst into the assembly code that duct tapes old nintendo games together i could probably figure it out but that sounds like a whole lot of effort, but it's likely. Either that, or the game genie was poorly maintained and it was messing with the pins in the same way as dust would.

Thought it was just me tbh

I looked away so quick

the vibes were rancid

When I saw him blink I looked away

Jesus Christ i thought i was the only one. Holy shit nearly shit myself

Oh no 😨

Same here, probably because of how many vinesauce corruption streams I've watched

The background screen is reutilised from the Game Over screen, but it still feels unnerving, there's something about the SNES DKC trilogy Game Over screens that feels creepy as shit to me. Even after all these years and having grown up it still makes me feel somewhat uneasy.

At the begging?

The subtlety is what makes them good. The modern ones try way too hard and just become creepypastas.

@@Ijjklll yes, in his massage.

I did not see it blinking tbh

7:38 watch at 0.25

I saw him blink as weel

Same😂

that scared the shit out of me

Pirating is nO gewd

No

Sonic says If you use an illegitimate copy of a game, or pirate it, that schmidt, well that's no good!

Fr

It's probably really rare to get an anti piracy screen on a legitimate copy. I've only heard something anti-piracy related happening on legitimate copies of the Japanese version of Mega Man X, and it's not even a screen.

its the unknown that scares ppl the most yeah. its like if u knew thered b a jumpscare, you wouldnt even watch it in the night for starters

@@walmart_enjoyerwalmart_e-mo4cj I started seeing these screens on legit store bought copies years after playing them and never seeing them. When the games or console become dirty, sometimes it begins to trigger these screens in error.

@@RickyRockstarTNS oh but how does the game being dirty even trigger anti-piracy measures I wanna know

​@walmart_enjoyerwalmart_e-mo4cj the dirt or a corroded pin can cause the console to access the wrong data sector. Cartridge tilting can do it too.

ngl most of them are just fan fictions lmao

@@Blendz_ that's a funny way of spelling "creepypasta"

@@Somespideronline Yes

The Super Mario Kart one was so close to being decent but then,,, but then he say "GET OFF MY TRACK" and he haves BLOOD EYES AND THE TRACK IS RED!!!! SCARY!!!!!!!

@@Somespideronline creepypasta is fanfiction tho, so he is not wrong, especially those that are about "deleted episodes" or cartoon characters taking a dark and edgy turn, it's fanfiction.

Oh everyone!!! Hear ye hear ye!! The wise owl wants you to scroll down 17 comments before you watch your intended video so you can read his points first!!

@@swisserty I wasn’t implying that at all, I just wanted to put down my immediate thoughts and people happened to take notice. idk what you mean by “intended video”; your language and conduct seem unbalanced.

@@thewiseowl8804 unbalanced old wankhestimo, listen here old wise cracking hooter, get your own smarmy language banked down or i will be forced to reol

@@swisserty shut up

@@swissertythey were just explaining why the screens are so scary or unsettling

Because they're not funny messages or something innocent

Mr Incredible says: Man, that was uncanny!

i think it has to do with the sudden change of mood and atmosphere in (usually) bright and cheery games, and how bizarrely confrontational it feels to the point its incredibly intimidating. kinda has the same vibe as those ominous game over screens that made a lot of people really uncomfortable as a kid. it just looks so out-of-place, which is probably why it makes a lot of people so uncomfortable

You can't speak for everyone