I’d love to see more developers with this attitude.
Atmosphere? Love it. Dread? Great! Darkness? Tolerable. Jump Scare? No thank you.
Jump scares are like the fart jokes of horror. Cheap thrills, low craftsmanship, and turns people off of the market.
And that’s not to say I don’t appreciate the occasional jump scare. They can be tastefully made, or used sparingly. Less is often more with these, and it helps add to the tension knowing it might come up again. But if they’re just non stop they lose their payoff quickly.
My native american father in law prefers to call himself an Indian.
From his point of view he wouldn’t call himself a “native american” because he belongs to an actual nation and indigenous people aren’t a homogenous group.
He prefers Indian because it makes white people look bad. Incredibly based