LogFAQs > #945689797

Fictional gore doesn't really mean anything to me.

I used to watch CSI when they'd be talking about how someone's body liquefied after having been stuffed inside a bag for months, and then they poured out this black viscous goo with a few bones in it, and I'd be eating my dinner at the time with not a moment's hesitation.

I'm not sure it would actually BE possible to make a film or game that would gross me out to a degree where I'd feel physically ill. The only sort of thing I can even remotely think of was the eye-cutting scene in Un Chien Andalou, and that just kind of makes me a bit uneasy.

Though that kind of ties into the sorts of things that DO tend to squick me out - actual things that my brain knows are REAL. I find the sort of shows with knee surgery or open-heart surgery to be more shudder-inducing that gallons of artificial blood or gore could ever be. In the same vein, the only thing other than either sickness or alcohol that's ever led me to come close to vomiting in my entire life is strong "wrong" smells (like rotting animal carcass or feces).

So, I suppose until gaming either gets so immersive that I can literally be playing without being aware that I'm playing, or they add smell-o-vision that blasts me with week-old skunk roadkill, games will never cross (or even come anywhere near) my vomit threshold.
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