I was wondering, what people would actually do in that situation. Its somewhat expectable thing in some horror games, but i dont think i have seen the concept explored in this light.

Lets say you get an emergency message to your phone, the one they use to inform people of things like toxic chemical spills, accidents and everything. The message informs you to stay indoors and expressively says that you should not look outside no matter what, but does not clarify further why. And the message is repeated enough times that its clear its not joke/hoax/error.

What would you do?

  • friend_of_satanEnglish
    3·
    17 hours ago

    I don’t think there’s anything that would convince me that such a message is not bullshit, so I’d probably look outside, and then search the internet to see who hacked what to pull such a stunt. The reason is that I can’t think of anything that could happen that would make looking outside a bad idea no matter where you are, and surely there are people who are physically outside and it is unlikely that they are all in mortal danger.

    • Echo Dot@feddit.uk
      4·
      13 hours ago

      I can’t think of any event that could occur that would be dangerous to observe but not so dangerous that any additional action other than not observing it needs to be taken.