Coltan Scrivner

Same thing with fear, right?

So people like having their fear, like kind of right at the edge of where, okay, it's scaring me, but I'm still able to tell this is a fiction.

I'm okay.

I can handle it.

I can regulate it.

So yeah, there does seem to be this sweet spot of fear and everybody's is about a seven out of 10, but again, every seven out of 10 is a little different.

And so finding that is a good way to find stuff then that you can engage with that's fun for you still.

And for some people that might be the black phone for other people, it might be, you know, saw six or whatever.

And the protagonists are, you know, they're not resonating with the protagonist very much because the protagonists are kids.

I think the exception to that are people who grew up maybe in that time era where serial killing had its golden era, like in the 70s and 80s.

And the danger of stranger in the van to kidnap you as a kid was probably a real fear for some kids that age.

And so that might actually work for some people in that age range who experienced that.

It's only kind of an aside.

I think it is related to some of the stuff we're talking about.

Yeah, if you look at juveniles and other animals,

Most animals have a pretty short juvenile state.

And that makes sense because childhood is very expensive.

Like it's energetically costly for the individual.

It's costly for the family because the juveniles don't engage in food gathering or any other kind of thing.

They just consume resources.