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Boo from Super Mario only moves when your back is turned
It originated in Super Mario Bros 3 in 1988.
Good point. I don't know how I didn't think of that
When I saw Dr. Who, I thought you were going to say this was from an episode in the 60's or something, haha
Statues (game) has been around since the eighties at least, and was one of the inspirations for the weeping angels.
Also, cats https://youtu.be/NbwpgyRUv5g
That Wikipedia link doesn't actually go to an article
It does in the web version. :/ Which client are you using?
For me in Jerboa the closing parenthesis is not included in the link, so when clicked it can't find that article. This should work:
[Statues (game)](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Statues_(game))
testing: Statues (game)
edit: yep, works
Thanks! Annoying behavior of web client. If it wasn't stored as a link, it shouldn't render it as one.
Yup, that was the issue! I can see it now lol I'm on Jerboa too
Neither link is working for me in Mlem
Perhaps one's supposed to escape them with backslashes like so
[Statues (game)](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Statues_\(game\))
edit: This still works for me,should have thought of it sooner...
That one did work in Mlem
There we go! Thanks
Neither of the links work for me. The closing parenthesis still missing on both. I'm on Sync for Lemmy.
Works fine for me on Boost
Also from 2007 (before Blink aired) someone posted to 4chan a similar creepypasta that would become the first entry in the SCP Foundation.
Funny enough, a number of years ago a giant 4chan archive surfaced which included a lot of the very first SCP posts that had been lost. It actually confirmed that 173 was posted after Blink aired, meaning it was almost certainly inspired by the episode. Not that it makes the SCP worse, but it's some interesting lore.
Good to know, thanks!
Cats do it and people have been living around cats for thousands of years
That was adorable.
I was going to say, I think this originated with cats!
The hedge animals from Stephen King's "The Shining", 1977, was a great part of the book that didn't make it to the movie.
There was a segment in the 2005 game "Condemned: Criminal Origins" where mannequins in a department store at night would only move (and surround you) when you weren't looking. Scared the shit of me way back then.
Neat. I've had that on my list of games I should play for a while now
It's kind of an inversion of "don't look back", which is thousands of years old.
“Don’t not look.”
The ghosts in Super Mario Brothers 3 (1988) would pursue Mario only when he looked away. When he faced them they would stop and hide their faces.
SMB3 was from 1988? Lies.
Released October 23, 1988... In Japan.
Us gaijin did not get it until 1990.
this is how cats have operated since the beginning of time.
Check out They Bite by Anthony Boucher, written in 1943.
Edit: this is my favorite horror short story. Read it at night if you want to start jumping at every shadow in the corner of your eye for the next three days or something.
In physics quantum particles have been proven to behave differently when they are being observed, maybe he got the idea there?
“Observation” in quantum mechanics doesn’t mean a person looking at them, it means taking a measurement, which involves interacting with the particles somehow. It’s that interaction that causes the particles to behave differently. In other words, photons behave as a wave (moving according to a wave function) until another particle interacts with them, at which point they behave as a particle (moving in a straight line). See the various different double slit experiments for evidence of this.
From what I remember they didn't intend for Watson to behave that way, they just forgot to add the animations to him.
There's also SCP-173 who was originally posted as a creepypasta on the /x/ (paranormal) board of 4chan on June 22, 2007
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