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They need to have the right to withdraw whenever they want.

zubblewu wrote:

this is probably the most hilarious troll ive seen here yet

calebxy wrote:

They need to have the right to withdraw whenever they want.

We don't want to see them go TOO crazy. 

calebxy wrote:

They need to have the right to withdraw whenever they want.

They will. That's what the "beg for mercy" part was about.

zubblewu wrote:

"After our data is collected and the experiment over, we will remind the subject that they signed a non-disclosure form mandating severe tortures and a complete frontal lobotomy if they so happen to tell others about the specifics of the experiment. Then we give them free cookies"


i guarantee you this isn't real

It is. At least mostly 

soupoftomato wrote:

It's not good enough as an actual science project though.

I mean, I'm pretty sure you aren't serious about this but what you need to do is select several scary video games (perhaps for different reasons or styles, too). Try things like, Amnesia, Slender, XCOM, etc. on each subject.

Record the immediate reactions, and then let any willing participants continue the experiment for a more extended amount of time. Let them play a bit each day and monitor them over, say, a week.

Of course, abort buttons are for the weak, so those should be entirely excluded.

What we plan to do is, after the initial data collection, alter the game to try and find out what about it makes it scary.

soupoftomato wrote:

It's not good enough as an actual science project though.

I mean, I'm pretty sure you aren't serious about this but what you need to do is select several scary video games (perhaps for different reasons or styles, too). Try things like, Amnesia, Slender, XCOM, etc. on each subject.

Record the immediate reactions, and then let any willing participants continue the experiment for a more extended amount of time. Let them play a bit each day and monitor them over, say, a week.

Of course, abort buttons are for the weak, so those should be entirely excluded.

XCOM isn't scary.

If you really want to troll your subjects, make sure the cookies are oatmeal raisin.

Spaxxy wrote:

banana500 wrote:

If you really want to troll your subjects, make sure the cookies are oatmeal raisin.

This isn't for lulz, it's for science! (the lulz is a nice bonus)

Sciiiiiiiiieeeence! Hope your experiment goes well! i'd love to participate, but I seem be living in another town then yours.

In a real experiment, you would need a control of both a person not playing, and of someone playing a calm non explicit video game ( racing game) and a violent but not scary video game. I think that a more interesting topic would be to base your study on how subjects that never play violent video games, always play violent video games , or have just played their first violentVideo game as well as basing the study on two games. One should be a game in which the violence is on people who are a threat to you, and a game where the violence is afflicted on an innocent person, and then ask them questions involving empathy, sympathy, or dealing with a life or death situation. Also show a clip of an animated biolent act or something similiar, and record the reaction of the subject.

soupoftomato wrote:

Necromaster wrote:

soupoftomato wrote:

It's not good enough as an actual science project though.

I mean, I'm pretty sure you aren't serious about this but what you need to do is select several scary video games (perhaps for different reasons or styles, too). Try things like, Amnesia, Slender, XCOM, etc. on each subject.

Record the immediate reactions, and then let any willing participants continue the experiment for a more extended amount of time. Let them play a bit each day and monitor them over, say, a week.

Of course, abort buttons are for the weak, so those should be entirely excluded.

XCOM isn't scary.

Sorry I was under the impression it was partly horror

It's supposed to be

But it isn't

Is the Scary Maze Game a horror game?

It can cause sore throat through screaming and a sprained ankle through jumping off the chair in older cases and in toddlers.