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#1 Pyrate_Jib Oct 18, 2012 11:48:30	Where is the best Haunted House/ Event you have ever experienced? What made it so scary and fun?
#2 zombie_babies Oct 18, 2012 12:08:23	None. They're not scary, they're dumb. Waste of money and time.
#3 DoctorNecrotic Oct 18, 2012 12:51:47	Me thinks you've never been to the one in Tuxedo Park, NY. Sure, you get your typical jump-scare crap, but there's plenty of fun to be had. Plus, it's rated #3 in the U.S. But, like anything in the horror genre, you have to play along with it and/or buy into it (even the Paranormal Activity series, even though I think it sucks), otherwise it's a game of "what monster's going to pop up next?"
#4 zombie_babies Oct 18, 2012 13:02:37	You'd have to be able to convince yourself that the people there aren't people that are legally prohibited from doing you any sort of harm to be scared. That's just not possible for a lot of people.
#5 mellored Oct 18, 2012 13:57:16	The maze ones. Cause they are mazes, which can be mildly fun. And the occasional lighting effects or optical illusion, which can be fun to figure out how they did it. And there was a maze of mirrors i went in once, except it didn't work too well. The mirrors where a different color then the plexi-glass walls. Edit: Oh, i guess the scariest was the one where they guy ran around with a chainsaw. I mean, we've only got ~40 years of oil left, and he's just burning it like it's nothing. Not to mention the effect on the enviroment.
#6 zombie_babies Oct 18, 2012 14:16:45	Edit: Oh, i guess the scariest was the one where they guy ran around with a chainsaw. I mean, we've only got ~40 years of oil left, and he's just burning it like it's nothing. Not to mention the effect on the enviroment. I'm afraid it's even more terrifying than you realize. You see, chainsaws use two stroke engines. What that means is that instead of having a separate oil system to keep the moving parts in the engine lubricated, oil has to be mixed in with the fuel so that it can be carried directly to the moving parts. That smoke you see emanating from a chainsaw? Burning oil. It's just how two stroke engines work, I'm afraid. A car may have four to six quarts of oil in its engine but that oil stays there for (today) up to 7500 miles. The oil in a chainsaw is burnt at the same rate that the fuel is. Yes, you only use only a small ratio of oil to fuel (50:1, 40:1, 32:1, etc) but that oil is as good as gone. Can't recycle it like you can motor oil used in a four stroke. It's simply burnt off and shot into the depleted atmosphere. So it's far more wasteful than it appears on the surface - insidiously scary. Oh, and it gets worse You see, chainsaw blades are also a metal on metal affair - like moving engine parts. They have to be continually oiled in order to not burn up. So there's even more waste as a separate oil container is used to apply oil to the blade and keep it running. Muahahaha!! How's that for a Halloween spooky story?
#7 mellored Oct 19, 2012 11:06:16	You see, chainsaw blades are also a metal on metal affair - like moving engine parts. They have to be continually oiled in order to not burn up. So there's even more waste as a separate oil container is used to apply oil to the blade and keep it running. Muahahaha!! How's that for a Halloween spooky story? Blades... They wheren't cutting anything...
#8 zombie_babies Oct 19, 2012 11:38:07	Oh, they were. They were.
#9 Pyrate_Jib Oct 25, 2012 11:31:11	A friend of mine mentioned a Haunted Park that in which you were pushed through the event in a wheel chair. He said it was quite frightening since you had less control.
#10 zombie_babies Oct 25, 2012 12:58:06	Kinda disrespectful of the handicapped, yo. Like, I'm sure they'd be happy to hear that your able bodied friend thinks that their situation means they have less control over themselves. Cute.
#11 homicidal_squirrel Oct 25, 2012 22:05:03	A friend of mine mentioned a Haunted Park that in which you were pushed through the event in a wheel chair. He said it was quite frightening since you had less control. That would be the Heart Attack Grill.

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Pyrate_Jib

Oct 18, 2012 11:48:30

Where is the best Haunted House/ Event you have ever experienced? What made it so scary and fun?

zombie_babies

Oct 18, 2012 12:08:23

None. They're not scary, they're dumb. Waste of money and time.

DoctorNecrotic

Oct 18, 2012 12:51:47

Me thinks you've never been to the one in Tuxedo Park, NY. Sure, you get your typical jump-scare crap, but there's plenty of fun to be had. Plus, it's rated #3 in the U.S.

But, like anything in the horror genre, you have to play along with it and/or buy into it (even the Paranormal Activity series, even though I think it sucks), otherwise it's a game of "what monster's going to pop up next?"

zombie_babies

Oct 18, 2012 13:02:37

You'd have to be able to convince yourself that the people there aren't people that are legally prohibited from doing you any sort of harm to be scared. That's just not possible for a lot of people.

mellored

Oct 18, 2012 13:57:16

The maze ones. Cause they are mazes, which can be mildly fun.

And the occasional lighting effects or optical illusion, which can be fun to figure out how they did it.

And there was a maze of mirrors i went in once, except it didn't work too well. The mirrors where a different color then the plexi-glass walls.

Edit: Oh, i guess the scariest was the one where they guy ran around with a chainsaw. I mean, we've only got ~40 years of oil left, and he's just burning it like it's nothing. Not to mention the effect on the enviroment.

zombie_babies

Oct 18, 2012 14:16:45

Edit: Oh, i guess the scariest was the one where they guy ran around with a chainsaw. I mean, we've only got ~40 years of oil left, and he's just burning it like it's nothing. Not to mention the effect on the enviroment.

I'm afraid it's even more terrifying than you realize. You see, chainsaws use two stroke engines. What that means is that instead of having a separate oil system to keep the moving parts in the engine lubricated, oil has to be mixed in with the fuel so that it can be carried directly to the moving parts. That smoke you see emanating from a chainsaw? Burning oil. It's just how two stroke engines work, I'm afraid. A car may have four to six quarts of oil in its engine but that oil stays there for (today) up to 7500 miles. The oil in a chainsaw is burnt at the same rate that the fuel is. Yes, you only use only a small ratio of oil to fuel (50:1, 40:1, 32:1, etc) but that oil is as good as gone. Can't recycle it like you can motor oil used in a four stroke. It's simply burnt off and shot into the depleted atmosphere. So it's far more wasteful than it appears on the surface - insidiously scary.

Oh, and it gets worse

You see, chainsaw blades are also a metal on metal affair - like moving engine parts. They have to be continually oiled in order to not burn up. So there's even more waste as a separate oil container is used to apply oil to the blade and keep it running. Muahahaha!! How's that for a Halloween spooky story?

mellored

Oct 19, 2012 11:06:16

You see, chainsaw blades are also a metal on metal affair - like moving engine parts. They have to be continually oiled in order to not burn up. So there's even more waste as a separate oil container is used to apply oil to the blade and keep it running. Muahahaha!! How's that for a Halloween spooky story?

Blades...

They wheren't cutting anything...

zombie_babies

Oct 19, 2012 11:38:07

Oh, they were. They were.

Pyrate_Jib

Oct 25, 2012 11:31:11

A friend of mine mentioned a Haunted Park that in which you were pushed through the event in a wheel chair. He said it was quite frightening since you had less control.

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zombie_babies

Oct 25, 2012 12:58:06

Kinda disrespectful of the handicapped, yo. Like, I'm sure they'd be happy to hear that your able bodied friend thinks that their situation means they have less control over themselves. Cute.

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homicidal_squirrel

Oct 25, 2012 22:05:03

A friend of mine mentioned a Haunted Park that in which you were pushed through the event in a wheel chair. He said it was quite frightening since you had less control.

That would be the Heart Attack Grill.