Do We Really Want our Children Spending Five Nights at Freddy’s?
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For those of you who have yet to be introduced, allow me; Five Nights at Freddy's (FNAF) is a point-and-click survival horror game developed by Scott Cawthon. In the games (now 4 of them), you're cast as a nighttime security guard at Freddy Fazbear's Pizza; a kid party venue that's similar to Chuck E Cheese's, the difference is that these animatronic puppets want you dead.
The player needs to constantly monitor the puppets' movements on the venue's security cameras, and protect yourself from their "visits", the puppets move when you are not monitoring them. The player must survive through five nights at Freddy's. And these nights are creepy thanks to a combination of jump-scares and subtle fights that wear down the player psychologically. This game is a clever, clever deception to reel players into a deeper darker place…becoming part of the fan-base where all the players are joined together by reams of conspiracy theories and art dealing with the games' characters and overarching story plots of murder, hauntings, and revenge. “Good guys might be bad guys, and that ferocious teddy bear who wants to chew your face off may not be as bad as he seems. In other words, there's a lot going on in this pizzeria, and secrets aren't restricted to what gets fished out of the deep fryer every morning.”
One of the background stories is something you would find straight out of a horror flick;
The fan-base claims FNAF is based on real events (though no real evidence has ever been found). The story takes place in the 1980s when Freddy Fazbear's Pizza was constructed as a lure for the owner Freddy Fazbear to have access to children. Mr. Fazbear would dress up as one of his characters from the restaurant and invite an unattended child into the back to murder them. He would stuff their bodies into the puppets. Over time people noticed a foul smell and even notice blood coming out of the robot's mouth. "In the game If you look around on the walls during the latter nights, there is a poster of 4 kids laughing which turns into 4 kids crying." Knowing the background story the game becomes much more sinister.Before we move forward I would like to touch a little more on the huge fan-base and what exactly does that mean in relation to our children playing "just" the video game, After all, many will think it is nothing more than allowing a child to watch a scary movie. Kissmetrics Analytics, Marketing, and Testing tells us about the Importance of a fan base;
"People are the lifeblood of your business. Building relationships with people foster loyalty. As a result, loyalty has the potential to increase profits."
"An excellent way to start building relationships with people who share similar interests is by developing a fan base. There are many ways in which a fan base can make a real difference... so learn to nurture it."
And that is just what Scott Cawthon has done, FNAF has a huge fan-base, like them or not. And I am going to choose not. Youtube, DeviantArt or just plain Google (Image) FNAF and your child will be exposed to all kinds of sexualized and demonic Freddy characters...not that the fans need to emphasize the demons, they are already present.
Dude...people are sick.
Psalm 101:3-4
I will not set before my eyes anything that is worthless. I hate the work of those who fall away; it shall not cling to me. A perverse heart shall be far from me; I will know nothing of evil.
1 Thessalonians 5:22
Abstain from every form of evil.
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Because we live in evil times and I see that EVERYTHING set before me,
set before the eyes of my children, my babies...is evil.
It is especially easy because we are so "plugged in".
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