So who wants to tell them that the entire foundation for the Silent Hill franchise is the lingering psychic trauma of an abused child forced to become a cult's gestation pod?
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aug 31, 2025, 6:15 pm • 1,639 538 • view
You can always tell a fake fan by how loud they cry "woke"
aug 31, 2025, 10:06 pm • 8 0 • view
Something that I think applies to basically every non-white supremacist creation, really. Star Wars? Pokemon? Final Fantasy? Magic: The Gathering? Heavy Metal? Literal Subaru automobiles? Doesn't matter the subject; crying 'woke' proves you never paid attention in the first place.
aug 31, 2025, 10:39 pm • 7 0 • view
Same shit happened with Doctor who last few seasons too
aug 31, 2025, 11:21 pm • 3 0 • view
aug 31, 2025, 9:01 pm • 7 0 • view
Silent Hill 3 Heather kills a God, not just feminism but japanese feminism (women fight not only for their rights but also to kill (a) God(s))
aug 31, 2025, 7:50 pm • 21 2 • view
Heather gets an abortion onscreen after her abusive ex-family tries to force her to keep the evil god-fetus she doesn’t want to carry to term. She takes magic Plan B and everything.
aug 31, 2025, 8:30 pm • 23 1 • view
Heather >>>> James
aug 31, 2025, 8:34 pm • 6 0 • view
Ok class next session we will discuss Silent Hill 2 and all of James Sunderlands issues regarding women
aug 31, 2025, 7:24 pm • 71 7 • view
Those ppl in the screen "huhuhh relateable James, sick wives won't shut up amirite"
aug 31, 2025, 7:52 pm • 33 0 • view
The corridor walk to the final boss in Silent Hill 2, when you listen to Mary's emotional breakdown is one of the few things that reliably brings me to tears in any video game. She was only 25. She was choked with guilt for getting sick. The trauma on display in that game.
aug 31, 2025, 9:10 pm • 25 0 • view
Those people are assholes and morons, and I wonder what sort of situation they'd have to go through to develop the type of empathy for people in shitty circumstances that game uses as it's main horror.
aug 31, 2025, 9:10 pm • 18 0 • view
A lot of these losers hardly ever play the games they rage about, it's all about the performative outrage for them, once SHF comes out, they'll just argue about it for a few weeks before moving on to their next target. Pretty much definition of insanity.
aug 31, 2025, 9:20 pm • 1 0 • view
Even Eddy whose shitty circumstance is mostly his own damn fault, was failed by the adults in his life who never pushed him to really grow beyond being a man-child. That game is a masterclass in horror as empathy.
aug 31, 2025, 9:10 pm • 18 0 • view
And yet still expected too much of the average male gamer in that regard. I think Born From A Wish was in particular an attempt to course correct on that, a response to men interpreting Maria as some kind of manipulative villain.
aug 31, 2025, 9:24 pm • 12 0 • view
Ok I didnt know about Born From a Wish and looked it up. Its just weird. Maria is manifested due to James desires. It's why in a certain ending she starts coughing. Because he didnt resolve his issues.
aug 31, 2025, 9:45 pm • 1 0 • view
Yeah, Downpour plays into this with one of its concepts "Full Circle" Silent Hill is a tharapist, and if you don't get the lesson it's trying to teach you progress past the trauma it's exposing you to, you come back and try again And again And again And again.
aug 31, 2025, 9:48 pm • 4 0 • view
Silent Hill is not a therapist, not any more than a spider is an ecologist. It's an amoral entity that consumes guilt by mirroring one's own psychological hangups at them, and you either come to terms with your trauma or you die and become part of the town. Lisa from SH1 is the prime example.
sep 1, 2025, 7:16 pm • 0 0 • view
People dont get that silent hill, at least in 2, manifests your personal issues. Maria wasn't a villain as she only exists due to James own problems.
aug 31, 2025, 9:33 pm • 7 0 • view
Born from a Wish actually indicates it's likely that she existed as a real person first, and James's fucked up misogynist perception of Maria was imprinted into her. She's another victim of him, not an illusion.
aug 31, 2025, 9:51 pm • 8 0 • view
I've never actually played Born From a Wish but I guess that checks out. Since she starts coughing like Mary in the one of the endings I always thought she was just an illusion brought to life by his desires. Oh Silent Hill 2... brings me back to literature class.
aug 31, 2025, 10:48 pm • 2 0 • view
Are you suggesting that misogynist men see women as interchangeable and disposable and freely project their own issues onto the women they interact with? I am shocked!
aug 31, 2025, 11:02 pm • 7 0 • view
I actually assumed from Born from a Wish that she was created by the town based on his perception, but that didn't make her any less of a victim of it
sep 1, 2025, 12:11 am • 3 0 • view
No! Everyone knows the whole series is about a bad circumcision!! /s
sep 1, 2025, 12:39 am • 0 0 • view
And here I thought it was about circumcision!
aug 31, 2025, 7:41 pm • 29 0 • view
I can hear Luckybun storming off and slamming the door from here 🤣
aug 31, 2025, 10:05 pm • 1 0 • view
I had repressed the memory of that stupid... stupid theory.
aug 31, 2025, 9:26 pm • 3 0 • view
It's almost as if creatives in general lean further left, because to create means to expand your experience beyond your home town.
sep 1, 2025, 4:04 am • 3 0 • view
With that said, it's notable that those creatives who drift further right seem to stop creating along the way.
sep 1, 2025, 4:05 am • 1 0 • view
1 is about parenting girls, 2 is about men being married to women, 3 is about being a woman, all are about women having to deal with the influence of patriarchal society Like, there is a thematic through line and it's not subtle I could definitely scare something up about 4 if I had the juice
aug 31, 2025, 8:59 pm • 75 2 • view
Silent Hill 3 is also about escaping an abusive cult and taking your goddamn life back.
aug 31, 2025, 9:22 pm • 3 0 • view
Yeah that's what I said
aug 31, 2025, 9:24 pm • 1 0 • view
4 is about a deranged man trying to reconnect with what he assumes is his mother, and has a distinct nasty sexist streak with how specially cruel he is to his female victims.
aug 31, 2025, 9:11 pm • 35 0 • view
I honestly don't have the spoons to put together my thoughts about it at the moment but the core of what I'm seeing there is that after he's abandoned, Walter literally objectifies the role of Mother and uses her as an excuse to do what he wanted to do anyway There's something there, def
aug 31, 2025, 9:21 pm • 16 0 • view
So basically about why we need feminism, then. I think.
sep 1, 2025, 1:29 am • 3 0 • view
Pretty much, yeah, lol.
sep 1, 2025, 3:53 am • 1 0 • view
Imo, if you read between the lines in Silent Hill 4, it's about choosing to improve yourself and defend not just women but all those who are less able to fend for themselves... You can only get the best ending if you listen, try, be patient, and care about Eileen's safety and happiness
sep 1, 2025, 2:10 am • 1 0 • view
For sure, you have to be the opposite of Walter - care for your environment, the people around you, and yourself.
sep 1, 2025, 2:15 am • 0 0 • view
Man, if Silent Hill 3 came out today these guys would shit themselves.
sep 1, 2025, 3:27 am • 1 0 • view