davidn

I've just had one of the most disturbing experiences of my life (not including Chemistry's GLC video.) It's a German work safety video about forklift trucks... it starts off very mild but it gets rather... extreme by the end of it. Now, I should warn you that the following link constitutes an extreme danger to life force - don't watch it if you happen to be me, but in that case it's already too late.

Do not click this link under any circumstances

And the worst thing is that everyone else (at least male) who watches the video will find it hilarious, and post mocking replies to this journal entry.

What can I say about why this "funny" video disturbs me so much? Some will say that it's obviously fake and not realistic at all. I don't see whether it's fake or not, though - all I see is people being shown being impaled, torn apart... in very violent and graphic ways. And it's the circumstances as well. In things like Quake 3, a good example, gore does not disturb me at all because I would never be in that situation in real life. However, things like this (and for that matter Thrill Drive 2) involve the imagery of being killed in a way that I realistically could die. Not that I ever will, of course, because my eventual fate is on the end of a tech support line. Damn.