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<blockquote data-quote="Celebrim" data-source="post: 9609047" data-attributes="member: 4937">Gore horror isn't even to me horror because the emotion it's tickling isn't fear but squeamishness.&nbsp; It's forcing disgust and not fear, and disgust is a very different thing than fear.&nbsp; Disgust tends to accompany either anger or pity, but fear really only gets involved with disgust if you are a child and inexperienced with things - like &quot;I've never held a frog/worms/maggot before&quot; sort of thing.&nbsp; Once you've worked fast food, gutted your own animals, changed diapers, cleaned up your wife's vomit, then the association between fear and disgust goes away, and my response at least to &quot;gore horror&quot; starts to be less disgust at the fake blood on the screen but disgust at the meta level of the mindset that is producing or consuming such content willingly.&nbsp; And I imagine a professional nurse is way further along that scale than I am, having to dispense with squeamishness long time ago.&nbsp; It's one of the real problems I have enjoying horror games is quite often the writer seems to not distinguish between invoking disgust and invoking fear, terror, or horror.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Celebrim, post: 9609047, member: 4937"] Gore horror isn't even to me horror because the emotion it's tickling isn't fear but squeamishness. It's forcing disgust and not fear, and disgust is a very different thing than fear. Disgust tends to accompany either anger or pity, but fear really only gets involved with disgust if you are a child and inexperienced with things - like "I've never held a frog/worms/maggot before" sort of thing. Once you've worked fast food, gutted your own animals, changed diapers, cleaned up your wife's vomit, then the association between fear and disgust goes away, and my response at least to "gore horror" starts to be less disgust at the fake blood on the screen but disgust at the meta level of the mindset that is producing or consuming such content willingly. And I imagine a professional nurse is way further along that scale than I am, having to dispense with squeamishness long time ago. It's one of the real problems I have enjoying horror games is quite often the writer seems to not distinguish between invoking disgust and invoking fear, terror, or horror. [/QUOTE]

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