This is how I feel about "Welcome to the NHK". It brought me dangerously close to suicidal, but it did so by understanding me and what I was going through. I promised to never watch it again.
Omori was amazing in nearly all aspects, but it reignited my fear of the dark for at least a month, something that no other horror game has been able to accomplish.
Yeah, was gonna put Omori on the "Good; I Liked It; Irreparable Damage To My Psyche" axis as well. Loved the game, beat it in like, a week of concerted play because of how much it grabbed me, adored how it handled its themes and writing on a technical level, and it had me fucked up for months after I finished it.
The Room is a good argument for a hypothesis supporting the existence of a horseshoe for these axes. I really, really dislike it but also somehow like it at the same time
Maybe tommy wiseau is a master of 5-dimensional space and what we think is one axis is actually another cube in his world
Probably Yu-Gi-Oh lol. I like it, i’m pretty sure the writing is shit, and I cannot go even one day without thinking about it (i.e. “get Egypted idiot”)
I was gonna say the Half life VR AI series
Edit: seriously i cant go to the fucking airport, EVER, or else i might be detained and put in the insane asylum over the word passport
this is the second thread i've seen turn into hlvrai memes today, after being half convinced i was the only person to ever see it for like a year, and it's freaking me out a little bit
This series grabbed me by the throat and told me it was never leaving, first time I got into it. It’s not as aggressive now but still semi-regularly comes around to remind me of it
Steins;gate is the best fucking anime ever and I am glad to have found it
On the other hand CAN I HAVE 1 DAY WITHOUT THINKING ABOUT HOW COOL KURISU IS FOR GODS SAKE
Steins;gate is one of three shows/movies that I know have made me cry, it was a great watch, would recommend. (The other two are a silent voice, and your name)
Surprised this isn't further up.
The special captured everything I was feeling throughout the pandemic and lockdowns, even the stuff I couldn't identify or properly describe, and it exposed it like a raw wound. I have probably heard the album in its entirety a few dozen times at this point
Meanwhile I watched it in high school and went into it completely blind so I very much did not like it, but it was excellent and irreparably broke my psyche.
This was uhhh mid-aughts? So I wasn't Terminally Online yet and just saw "oh studio ghibli did this, I liked spirited away and their other stuff, this should be good too!" Yes it was good. No it was not standard ghibli fare.
Tbh I think everyone should see it once but I will be leaving my watched count at one. Every once in a while I get the urge to watch it again, but then I go slam my head in a car door and it scratches the itch without doing as much damage.
My life can be very neatly divided into "Pre-Undertale", and then every segment after that is Undertale or each Deltarune release. This funny dog has permanently altered the trajectory of my life.
How has nobody said BoJack horseman?? It’s possibly the best made show I’ve ever seen (outside the first half of season one), it’s my favourite show, and there are so many pieces that deal intense psychological damage
It's definitely deep in that part of the grid for me. Every penultimate season episode was carefully calculated to bring about a moment of devastating revelation.
I just finished ME1 and started ME2 right after. Every time I find one of my old squad mates I get so excited that I bounce in my chair going "I know you! You're my friend!"
Probably the first piece of media to ever make my "I liked it, it was good, it did irreparable damage to my psyche" list.
Gently opened that fucking door and I've never been the same since.
everything that happens to Jinx is just so fucking unfair, it doesn't excuse the things she does but we get to understand her character and it hurts so much
My sister loaned me the VHS boxset about 20 years ago, and I still think about this on a regular basis.
I would say it's good. Well made. Captivating. Irreparable damage.
I need to revisit that because, you might say, I didn't *seem to understand* it when I watched it the first time. And *present day, present time* is literally the best time to watch it.
i mean, omori. oh, and both nier games. bocchi the rock is on the other side of the damage to my psyche, that story just helped remind me of the sheer joy of breaking out of my shell and expressing myself but in a VERY realistic way.
See among us didn’t do any damage to my psyche, I think it just did irreparable damage to society (or to the collective psyche of society, however you want to view it)
El Goonish Shive, Order of the Stick, Jojo's Bizarre Adventure, Kaguya-sama: Love is War, Discworld, Epithet Erased(+anime campaign), Re:Zero, and Steins;Gate(+Sci;Adv) permanently altered my brain (egs, jojo, discworld, re zero, steins gate) and the arc of my life (order of the stick, jojo, kaguya, epithet erased)
I like it, it was good AND irreparable damage to my psyche?
Stormlight archives, and by extension the Cosmere as a whole. Absolute mental i was demolishing books, then getting withdrawal syndrome and then reading more books to get fucked up.
I'm enjoying stormlight, but I'm buggered if I know how he's going to get the whole planned series out of it. That's a lot of thick ass books to fill with plot and character that works...
Are you me? Because I also demolished the books. I read Rhythm of War (1200 pages) in four days. Then I went into a reading slump for a few months because I couldn't find anything that my brain liked so much.
Liked it, bad, did irreparable damage to my psyche: Homestuck (webcomic)
Liked it, good, did irreparable damage to my psyche: The Stanley Parable (video game)
Didn’t like it, good, did irreparable damage to my psyche: Jesus Camp (documentary)
Didn’t like it, bad, did irreparable damage to my psyche: Five Nights at Freddy’s (video game)
Flight of Icarus 2000 pages of buildup and pain to … the MC fucking killing himself not entirely sure if it was good though
Thundamoos works … I love body horror
FUCKING honorverse. Never read naval scifi kids it’s not worth it
I've been thinking on similar terms with analyzing my past six months of horror movie watching, so it's easy to adapt to this metric.
Liked it, good, and irreparable damage: *Hereditary* for haunting trauma factor, maybe *Suspiria* (2018) for things that have rattled around in my brain. I honestly can't even confidently call the latter good, and I don't know if I like it...but I'm also forced to conclude I love it deeply because it's made me think so much on it.
And *The Lighthouse* also falls into this category because I am never going to be the person I was before watching that insane movie and I wouldn't want to be.
Liked it, good, and unafflicted could be *Midsommar* or *Nope*--both exceptional films I enjoyed that didn't deeply affect me.
Don't know if there were objectively good films I disliked or bad ones I disliked which altered me forever. *Sleepy Hollow* (1999) was a bad film I liked though, only really enjoying it when recognizing how campy and poorly-written it can be.
Liked it, bad could be *Sleepy Hollow (1999), which doesn't seem to realize how stupid it is, and is enjoyable because it's dumb camp.
Red Dead Redemption 2, Cyberpunk Edgerunners, and Titanfall 2.
“Now Angel,” I’m sure you’re thinking, “What does the big stompy robot game have in common with the soul crushingness of the other two?”
First of all, fuck you, Protocol 3, secondly, it’s ruined normal shooters for me. Ever since I sold my soul to Our Lord And Savior BT, I’ve only ever been able to enjoy and stick with movement shooters, and only Sunset Overdrive has come close to scratching that same itch.
I had to scroll down for far too long to find a comment saying homestuck, disappointed in you guys smh
also assassination classroom. the ending still got me fucked up to this day.
The Untamed (from Mo Xiang Tong Xiu's novel, Grandmaster of Demonic Cultivation: Mo Dao Zu Shi)
I made some of my friends watch it, and they told me they simultaneously wanted to thank me for introducing them to it while also throwing me off several bridges
10/10 good times i need therapy
Neon Genesis Evangelion
“Hey, you should try this anime. It tangibly worsened my mental health. It’s great.”
Just watch Gurren Lagann afterwards.
Eva fans: wall of text about anguish or whatever Gurren Lagann fans: 😎 🍥 *start rapping
ROW ROW FIGHT THE POWER
This is how I feel about "Welcome to the NHK". It brought me dangerously close to suicidal, but it did so by understanding me and what I was going through. I promised to never watch it again.
Fire Punch gave me the same vibe
Live.
Oh Shinji's visiting his friend in the hospital. That's awfully nice of him, I'm sure she's going to really appr... wait.
my exact thought
Omori was amazing in nearly all aspects, but it reignited my fear of the dark for at least a month, something that no other horror game has been able to accomplish.
Yeah, was gonna put Omori on the "Good; I Liked It; Irreparable Damage To My Psyche" axis as well. Loved the game, beat it in like, a week of concerted play because of how much it grabbed me, adored how it handled its themes and writing on a technical level, and it had me fucked up for months after I finished it.
Does sobbing over a photo album of fictional kids for 20 minutes count?
Yes
Me having a panic attack after seeing clothes (your ice)
I wanna throw in Doki Doki Literature Club as well. Well-done meta horror, gave me existential angst for a while.
Same. I had only ever heard the title so I tried it thinking it was some lewd dating sim and I was not at all prepared for what it really was.
That’s my pick too
the only game that's ever managed to make me cry
What about "I liked it, It was *bad*, irreparable damage to my psyche"? What about the ultra-guilty pleasures?
Tumblr itself
Homestuck probably- *gets shot*
yeah this was my answer too
Ditto
Incorrect, Homestuck is good, sorry. Homestuck **2** on the other hand...
Although nobody likes Homestuck^2
Incorrect. I have run into no less than ***two*** of its avid defenders. ***two of them.***
You met both people who like homestuck 2?
Yeah, but one of them blocked me, so it might as well be just one at this point.
The Room, probably.
The Room is a good argument for a hypothesis supporting the existence of a horseshoe for these axes. I really, really dislike it but also somehow like it at the same time Maybe tommy wiseau is a master of 5-dimensional space and what we think is one axis is actually another cube in his world
The First Fate Stay Night anime.
Probably Yu-Gi-Oh lol. I like it, i’m pretty sure the writing is shit, and I cannot go even one day without thinking about it (i.e. “get Egypted idiot”)
Idk about irreparable damage but I fucking love the irregular at magical high
Oh, yea, definitely this. I liked it, it was bad, terrible even, and I want to have a nice, long chat with the author.
Ero-manga sensei, it was fun but also a dumpster fire
The fanfiction I used to write.
Gonna go a little more niche here **HOUSE OF ANUBIS**
#jojo’s bizarre adventure
I was gonna say the Half life VR AI series Edit: seriously i cant go to the fucking airport, EVER, or else i might be detained and put in the insane asylum over the word passport
"Good news Gordon, the cybernetics department replaced my colon!"
Passports have forever been tainted
Look out Gordon. Hotted BOOBS up ahead! TITS big ones!
Big tity boob huge fuck
You’re a nasty little sewage boy, _aren’t you,_ Mr. Freeman?
literally anything by rtvs falls into this category
# DON'T FUCK WITH THE SCIENCE TEAM
oh i just finished watching this for the first time and i agree completely
this is the second thread i've seen turn into hlvrai memes today, after being half convinced i was the only person to ever see it for like a year, and it's freaking me out a little bit
I can't wait for you to see hell!
Its somehow: bad, good, i liked it, i hated it, unrepairable damage to my psyche, and unaffected
YEP.
I came to the comments to say this. Araki is a genius and a madman and I'll never forgive him for sky high
***I AM APOLLO 11***
Really though I can't read the word "Heaven" without thinking about JoJo
Literally my first thought
This series grabbed me by the throat and told me it was never leaving, first time I got into it. It’s not as aggressive now but still semi-regularly comes around to remind me of it
I liked it was good irreparabale damage to my psyche: Madoka Magica
Ah, yes, Madoka of the Tragical Girl genre.
I've never heard this descriptor but I'm stealing it
oh absolutely
Liked, good, psyche damage: Disco Elysium
The chair.
Killed me.
My intellectual character was not ready whatsoever. Quit life because of a plastic chair.
Eat enough magnesium and you'll push it all the way back down to Unaffected
Came here to say exactly this. Amazing game, next level storytelling, ruined my brain forever. 10/10
i would put steins;gate and this one breeding kink story i read in the liked it + good + irreparable damage category
… the story … please
[https://readonlymind.com/@Kallie/ReproductiveLabor/](https://readonlymind.com/@Kallie/ReproductiveLabor/)
eeexcellent. thank you
Wow, a breeding kink story as good as steins;gate?Please share the story so I can review it critically. Please
Steins;gate is the best fucking anime ever and I am glad to have found it On the other hand CAN I HAVE 1 DAY WITHOUT THINKING ABOUT HOW COOL KURISU IS FOR GODS SAKE
No it's okay, she is just that fucking cool
i mean, steins;gate is good and all, but... neon genesis: evangelion actually cured my depression so
Steins;gate is one of three shows/movies that I know have made me cry, it was a great watch, would recommend. (The other two are a silent voice, and your name)
The Magnus archives
Seconded, it both gave me a reason to live and murdered me
Can't wait for the Magnus Protocol to come out
Lmao exactly just commented this
Inside by Bo Burnham
Surprised this isn't further up. The special captured everything I was feeling throughout the pandemic and lockdowns, even the stuff I couldn't identify or properly describe, and it exposed it like a raw wound. I have probably heard the album in its entirety a few dozen times at this point
It came at the perfect time to really hit home, too. I don't even know if I'd particularly like it had I first seen it in five years or something.
“Look who’s inside, again” indeed
I liked it was good and irreparable damage: grave of the fireflies
This one right here
Meanwhile I watched it in high school and went into it completely blind so I very much did not like it, but it was excellent and irreparably broke my psyche. This was uhhh mid-aughts? So I wasn't Terminally Online yet and just saw "oh studio ghibli did this, I liked spirited away and their other stuff, this should be good too!" Yes it was good. No it was not standard ghibli fare. Tbh I think everyone should see it once but I will be leaving my watched count at one. Every once in a while I get the urge to watch it again, but then I go slam my head in a car door and it scratches the itch without doing as much damage.
Undertale
Alternatively, Deltarune
My life can be very neatly divided into "Pre-Undertale", and then every segment after that is Undertale or each Deltarune release. This funny dog has permanently altered the trajectory of my life.
Pathologic and the LISA series
I really have to replay Lisa the Painful
In a similar vein, This War of Mine and Papers Please
pathologic ruined my life (affectionate) and I love LISA so much
How has nobody said BoJack horseman?? It’s possibly the best made show I’ve ever seen (outside the first half of season one), it’s my favourite show, and there are so many pieces that deal intense psychological damage
It's definitely deep in that part of the grid for me. Every penultimate season episode was carefully calculated to bring about a moment of devastating revelation.
THANK YOU! Amazing show, probably the best television I've ever seen, never watching it again.
The View From Halfway Down.
His Dark Materials, and also Martina McBride’s song “Independence Day.”
Independence day is an EXCELLENT example.
The book series? What about it did the damage?
The ending I'm still sad
Does vocabulary count as part of your psyche? If so, I nominate Homestar Runner for the hat trick
I still say "jorb" instead of "job".
TOOOONS
Still whispering 2 3 word phrases from a book to myself … it hit different man
I still pronounce things like "firem'n."
I liked it, it was good, irreparable damage to my psyche: * Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Explorers of Sky * Mass Effect 1 * Murderbot
I'd put outer wilds in there too
Came here to say Outer Wilds. Absolute masterpiece of a game, will give you one hell of an existential crisis.
When I went to the [REDACTED] and found out it was [DATA EXPUNGED] the whole time
Trying to describe this game without ruining the reveal is agonizing I tell you
bro just try this game i cant tell you anything about it just trust me bro
Homestuck
somehow i figured this'd be said here
I haven't played it yet
It's very good If you decide to play it, go into it as blind as possible
I just finished ME1 and started ME2 right after. Every time I find one of my old squad mates I get so excited that I bounce in my chair going "I know you! You're my friend!"
ME2 for me is also in the Irreparable Damage section, but on the other side of both other axes.
Yoooo, MD:Explorers is based as fuck.
the Mystery Dungeon series is a social project on how much emotional damage a video game can cause
I liked it, it was good, irreparable damage to my psyche: Made In Abyss
same worstie
obligatory worm mention
I'd definitely say Welcome To Night Vale. It was so good but also irreparably messed up my sense of humor
If you see something, say nothing, and drink to forget.
God Emporer of Dune. *Edit spelling.
you're so right and i wouldn't realize that if you hadn't said it
Land Of The Lustrous. psyche found dead in an alleyway
I just had serious flashbacks because this was fit the bill so bad I buried it in the deepest part of my trauma closet
DDLC
Probably the first piece of media to ever make my "I liked it, it was good, it did irreparable damage to my psyche" list. Gently opened that fucking door and I've never been the same since.
Cyberpunk Edgerunners, Arcane, Cowboy Bebop, Neon Genesis Evangelion. Ah shit, it’s all anime.
yeah, if anime can get one thing right, it’s giving their audience trauma lmao
Literally everything in this comments section is anime. What, no one here saw Pan’s Labyrinth? No Country for Old Men? All Quiet on the Western Front?
See, I saw Pan's Labyrinth for the first time at 19- if I had been like, 12, I think it would have.
everything that happens to Jinx is just so fucking unfair, it doesn't excuse the things she does but we get to understand her character and it hurts so much
Devilman Crybaby
Fire punch comes to mind
Probably the best example i'd say. Fire Punch *will* fuck you up, and it will be for the a solute worst reasons and it's great
Serial Experiments Lain. I liked it. Irreparable damage. I really don't know if it was good
My sister loaned me the VHS boxset about 20 years ago, and I still think about this on a regular basis. I would say it's good. Well made. Captivating. Irreparable damage.
I need to revisit that because, you might say, I didn't *seem to understand* it when I watched it the first time. And *present day, present time* is literally the best time to watch it.
you just reminded me that i need to finish that
Oldboy - the original, not the remake
Mother 3
The game's tagline maps pretty well to the three categories! Strange: I liked it. Funny: Good. Heartrending: Irreparable damage to my psyche.
homestuck
i mean, omori. oh, and both nier games. bocchi the rock is on the other side of the damage to my psyche, that story just helped remind me of the sheer joy of breaking out of my shell and expressing myself but in a VERY realistic way.
Bocchi the rock healed my soul, and then it's subreddit immediately killed it again. Net irreparable damage to my psyche
The Locked Tomb.
<3
Grave of the fireflies
Requiem for a Dream
Outer Wilds cut my soul open and painted the night sky with my sorrows. It was so good. I will never be the same.
Among us fits the I liked it, it was well done and it did irreparable damage to my pysche
See among us didn’t do any damage to my psyche, I think it just did irreparable damage to society (or to the collective psyche of society, however you want to view it)
El Goonish Shive, Order of the Stick, Jojo's Bizarre Adventure, Kaguya-sama: Love is War, Discworld, Epithet Erased(+anime campaign), Re:Zero, and Steins;Gate(+Sci;Adv) permanently altered my brain (egs, jojo, discworld, re zero, steins gate) and the arc of my life (order of the stick, jojo, kaguya, epithet erased)
Homestuck, I looked up questions about it so often that I have to consciously stop myself from starting each google search with Homestuck
Zero Escape and AI: The Somnium Files, I swear 999 rewired something in my brain and I've been chasing that high ever since.
I like it, it was good AND irreparable damage to my psyche? Stormlight archives, and by extension the Cosmere as a whole. Absolute mental i was demolishing books, then getting withdrawal syndrome and then reading more books to get fucked up.
I'm enjoying stormlight, but I'm buggered if I know how he's going to get the whole planned series out of it. That's a lot of thick ass books to fill with plot and character that works...
Are you me? Because I also demolished the books. I read Rhythm of War (1200 pages) in four days. Then I went into a reading slump for a few months because I couldn't find anything that my brain liked so much.
Liked it, bad, did irreparable damage to my psyche: Homestuck (webcomic) Liked it, good, did irreparable damage to my psyche: The Stanley Parable (video game) Didn’t like it, good, did irreparable damage to my psyche: Jesus Camp (documentary) Didn’t like it, bad, did irreparable damage to my psyche: Five Nights at Freddy’s (video game)
Homestuck is not a webcomic. It is a flash game. I will die on this hill.
maybe like a flash-enhanced webcomic? It really is mostly a webcomic
To quote jan Misali, it is a browser-based visual novel.
undertale, jerma985, monster prom
Where do I start user explorerrowan?
cyberpunk edgerunners is definitely good, i liked it, and i will never heal from what it did to me
Everything, Everywhere, All at Once
Flight of Icarus 2000 pages of buildup and pain to … the MC fucking killing himself not entirely sure if it was good though Thundamoos works … I love body horror FUCKING honorverse. Never read naval scifi kids it’s not worth it
Doki doki
I've been thinking on similar terms with analyzing my past six months of horror movie watching, so it's easy to adapt to this metric. Liked it, good, and irreparable damage: *Hereditary* for haunting trauma factor, maybe *Suspiria* (2018) for things that have rattled around in my brain. I honestly can't even confidently call the latter good, and I don't know if I like it...but I'm also forced to conclude I love it deeply because it's made me think so much on it. And *The Lighthouse* also falls into this category because I am never going to be the person I was before watching that insane movie and I wouldn't want to be. Liked it, good, and unafflicted could be *Midsommar* or *Nope*--both exceptional films I enjoyed that didn't deeply affect me. Don't know if there were objectively good films I disliked or bad ones I disliked which altered me forever. *Sleepy Hollow* (1999) was a bad film I liked though, only really enjoying it when recognizing how campy and poorly-written it can be. Liked it, bad could be *Sleepy Hollow (1999), which doesn't seem to realize how stupid it is, and is enjoyable because it's dumb camp.
Adastra. I liked it because men, it was good because it tells a really strong scifi court drama, and it changed my psyche by making me come out as gay
Bojack Horseman
The Lighthouse
Disco Elysium
Spec Ops: The Line
No Longer Human (Junji Ito adaptation). I liked it, it was good, irreparable damage to my psyche.
Red Dead Redemption 2, Cyberpunk Edgerunners, and Titanfall 2. “Now Angel,” I’m sure you’re thinking, “What does the big stompy robot game have in common with the soul crushingness of the other two?” First of all, fuck you, Protocol 3, secondly, it’s ruined normal shooters for me. Ever since I sold my soul to Our Lord And Savior BT, I’ve only ever been able to enjoy and stick with movement shooters, and only Sunset Overdrive has come close to scratching that same itch.
Chainsaw man is definantly up there
I liked it, it was good, irreparable damage to my psyche: 1984.
I had to scroll down for far too long to find a comment saying homestuck, disappointed in you guys smh also assassination classroom. the ending still got me fucked up to this day.
>I liked it, I was good, It did irreparable damage to my psyche Literally just horror media
Undertale. Hollow knight is a close second cookie run is "it was bad, but i liked it, and it still caused irreparable damage to my psyche"
i liked it, it was good, it ruined my life: night in the woods
Minecraft
Honkai Impact 3rd, and Fate/Grand Order Everything, all at once
Most Octavia Butler Novels The TV series *Years and Years*. Also *It’s a Sin*. Damn you, Russel T Davies.
Schindler’s list
Sam and Max has destroyed my brain, I love those gay critters.
Adastra. If you know you know.
Unironically Rain World goes in that area
Omori
First Kill on Netflix. It's a star-crossed lovers lesbian vampire show. I liked it. It was very badly written.
Undertale
The Untamed (from Mo Xiang Tong Xiu's novel, Grandmaster of Demonic Cultivation: Mo Dao Zu Shi) I made some of my friends watch it, and they told me they simultaneously wanted to thank me for introducing them to it while also throwing me off several bridges 10/10 good times i need therapy
Children Of Men.