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    Aww all of those answers are cute, except the God and Jesus one. That's just very disappointing. I really liked "ginormous rock with lava."
     
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    Please tell me this is a kindergarten class.
     
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    It was an eight grade class in Houston, Texas.
     
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    I for one must commend Noah on how directly he answered the question. I believe we have a future propagator of many conspiracy theories.

    EDIT: Also, I'm unsure of how these are cute; all I'm getting from this is an extreme sense of disappointment and a terrible urge to facepalm. Except for Noah. Noah knows what's up.
     
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    All I learned is that Mrs. Gibbs is a shoddy teacher. :sigh:
     
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    @Ridley Wolf So I'm reading your comments on derpibooru, and I'm beginning to realize I've drunk far too much gin.
     
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    *Quickly logs into Derpibooru and glances at past comments*

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    Ok thats it, i officially quit the human race, again.

    Unrelated. I find maude pie as interesting a character as a slightly damp kitchen sponge.

    Her whole thing is rocks. Rocks are boring. She's not even going into the interesting stuff like minerals and ores. just normal boring grey rocks.
     
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    She's boring, alright.
     
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    She's still the most boring thing i've seen on the show besides maybe sombra. Atleast he was a rip off of an interesting character*Cough*Sauron*cough*
     
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    Sombra was an excellent villain, and easily the darkest character ever shown on MLP.
    He was cruel, violent and unambiguously evil, which is something rarely seen in cartoon antagonists.
    More than that, however, he was competent.
     
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    He was generic give him credit, he's better than nightmare moon ever was.

    Atleast Discord was somewhat original.
     
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    He was less generic than he could have been; he could have been an alicorn, at which point he'd be comparable to a bad OC.

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    He was practically one already. Somehow.

    Also i find most short horror stories to be kind of a letdown.

    Maybe my sense of fear has been numbed.

    Well not really i still can't play SCP containment breach for more than five minutes
     
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    I find nearly everything in the horror genre incredibly dull because I'm not easily startled, and most things in the field are driven by 'jump-scares' nowadays. I just find them incredibly foreseeable and unsurprising. Even when they aren't, they still rarely startle me.

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    In my opinion the best kind of horror is abstract and suspenseful

    Because there is nothing more terrifying than being lost right? Imagine being lost in a completely alien dimension. Or screwed up part of space and time where nothing makes sense and there are creatures there that'd make HP Lovecraft jealous.
     
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    INTP; I actually just find that kind of thing interesting. In all honesty, I consider humans the scariest and most evil things on earth, given humans are the only thing on earth that has a concept and understanding of evil. The word evil is something we created to describe a concept that is intensely bad, outwardly horrifying, inwardly malevolent, and completely, utterly and uniquely human.

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    I still prefer shub niggurath to jason vorhees.
     
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    It seems many people form that opinion based on the fact that he was given zero backstory, but whether the lack thereof qualifies a character as 'generic' is up to each individual. Some people prefer so much backstory that they end up knowing more about the villains than the heroes, and perhaps this is preferable to them because they want bad guys they can relate to.

    I actually prefer less be known about the villains; the more unclear their intentions are, the more threatening they seem to me. That's why Ganon from the original Legend of Zelda scared the bajeezus out of me as a kid - he was briefly mentioned in the manual, even less so in the game, and wasn't actually seen till the final fight. And even then, he was invisible for most of the fight. Nothing more intimidating to me than a villain I can neither understand nor see.

    Had Sombra not been so laughably defeated over the course of a single episode, I'd have liked him better than Chrysalis. Truly a wasted character.
     

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