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[smokedout]

[The video starts up a bit like an old 70's VHS tape; grainy quality, washed-out colors, that weird lilt in the music as it starts up. The specific music that plays is a bright and cheery tune from the 50's, like something one would find on the shopping channel back in the day.

What it actually shows is a crude puppet, with a scribbled-on baseball for a head and googly eyes that have weirdly realistic irises. It seems to be made to exist in a permanent state of shock, or... terror. Everything about the image is just a little bit wrong.]

Hey you! Yes, you!

[The words appear on a sort of title card, like a silent film, as if the creator hasn't mixed around with his vintage inspiration enough. And then the puppet can be seen spinning to look at the screen, its eyes jostled in their plastic sockets. Gross.]

Are you in need of PROTECTION AGAINST MONSTERS? Do you suspect someone isn't TELLING THE TRUTH?
Do you enjoy the RUSH OF FEAR? Do you seek to TEST YOUR LOYALTIES?
Do you wish to DEEPEN YOUR BONDS? (Or LIVEN YOUR INTIMATE LIFE?)

[In the style of certain vintage-themed video games, the puppet can be seen in between these pitches engaged in actions related to each question. Pointing a spear at a stuffed animal of some monster. Crying at his bedside. Hiding from shadows in a corner of a room. Shoving another puppet off of a cliff. Hugging another equally not-quite-right puppet... and then a very crude display in the last clip (but at least they're not anatomically correct).

Finally the brand name flashes across the screen, in bright, rainbow, neon letters.]

LAMPYR
is here for you.

Enroll below for beta testing of this sensational product!

[At the very bottom of the screen, very small and blurry text flashes by very fast; if one goes through it frame-by-frame and squints they may notice the words "Test subjects will be selected randomly. Experiments will occur when subjects least expect." Some frames also seem to be replaced by arcane symbols and satanic imagery, as if to scare those trying to read the small text. If one is watching at normal speed, this all flashes by in the blink of an eye before the video suddenly cuts out. Hmm...]

Comments

[bunnyblock]

Do I?

You don't really 'know me', so I wonder what kind of opinion that is.

[Not that dodger's entirely wrong--if it's just emotional manipulation, he's got no reason to be interested in it. He's not interested in changing peoples' emotions or opinions of him--less because he's smart, though: and more because he just doesn't care what people feel.]

[smokedout]

You have some skill in game creation - that means you can manipulate the moods of others as much as you want. You can find your own form of satisfaction in that.

Unless you have interest in horror VR games, you'll have nothing to gain from the product.

[bunnyblock]

[Ah, so he knows about that. Meaning whomever this is... was one of the dozens of people who talked to him about his game.
He's not really interested in figuring it out--it's of no interest to him, lucky for Dodger.]

VR makes you feel a variety of things. Emotions of different levels is one of them. Adrenaline rush, being a big one.

You'll see what it is that I like about it when I get it running, anyway.

...

Hm. No, I'm not interested in horror. Scaring people is cowardly.

[smokedout]

What about scaring yourself, is that also cowardly?

Some would argue it's just harmless fun.

[bunnyblock]

I think the term for that is 'masochistic' or 'adrenaline junkie'.

I'm neither of those.