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pikaglove · 2 years

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Haunt actors are just the more feral cousins of theater kids

#actor #theatre #theater #haunt actor #haunt acting #acting #haunted attraction #actress

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ordinarydoodles · 4 months

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I've been wanting to post something from the haunted attraction I work at forever, and I just realized I had a photo from our Valentine's event that didn't have identifying information. This was probably my favorite costume I've worn so far. I actually ended up in the promotional material this year!

#real face jumpscare #I played this guy like a revivalist preacher and got so many good reactions #I kind of want to play the preacher character again but I'm not sure I could keep that voice up all season long #The Valentine's event was only 2 nights long so I was willing to go ham on the voice since I knew I'd have the recovery time #scare acting #haunt acting #personal stuff #I got a visiting actor from another haunt real good. I'm still proud of that. Do you know how hard it is to scare a scare actor?

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saltciphblr · 10 months

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Highlights from work yesterday:

I was in the kitchen, which is dark and loud and has a strobe that's activated when guests enter the room. It's covered in blood and gore and is Such a fun room to scare in.

Girl and her friend come in, I lunge and start my scare and she basically screams back in my face so I snarl out "Those are some nice vocal chords you have there, can I rip them out?" and her IMMEDIATE response was "Can I rip your dick off??"

before I could even think of what to say to THAT, she was babbling an apology "I don't know why I said that, I'm so sorry, that was rude." As she was fearfully shuffling out of the room. HILARIOUS.

Other good interaction was two boys, prolly 13/14, as they're getting to the entrance of my room I hear one of them shout "This is NOT fucking PG-13" which is probably one of the funniest things I've heard a kid scream with his whole terrified chest. Also in the .2 seconds it took me to lunge and actually start my scare that kid DISAPPEARED. I didn't even see him run he was just Gone back into the previous room when I jumped out and his friend (after screaming so loud it drowned out the audio tracks) had to go back to find him.

God I love my job.

#salt post #haunt actor #scare actor #haunt acting #haunt stories

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ranchhands · 7 months

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so I work in a pretty high-end haunted house, & today we had the wrap party, and we were given free reign to look around the haunt with the lights on n shit. so like I'm walking through right, and I'm alone, so I come up to this one spot that has a suspiciously crotch-level hole in it and I go "hehe glory hole" WHEN ALL OF A SUDDEN I HEAR MY SWEET 60-SOMETHING OLD LADY COWORKER (she's literally my mom okay in spirit she's my mother) TALKING TO ME. THIS WOMAN JUST APPEARED BEHIND ME RIGHT AS I WENT "hehe glory hole"........

#actually shes really cool & fun #she literally said “red heads have more fun” when i told her i was dying my hair red #yes she has red hair #i love her #haunt actor #haunt acting #haunted house

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gahd-its-ron · 7 months

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I'm a new scare actor wrapping up my first season. Here's my thoughts on haunted houses and things to remember when you go into them.

The fear is real, the danger isn't. Everything in there is fake. All the bodies are latex dummies or mannequins (you still shouldn't touch them tho.) Animatronics are usually obviously fake. I am deadly afraid of zombies but the animatronic figure of zombies eating a dude that's next to my usual placement is so clunky and obvious that it doesn't bother me.

The rules are there for a reason and it's usually that someone has been injured. We have no running and no touching rules in my haunt. The no touching rule is mostly to protect actors from rowdy customers while the no running rule protects customers from each other and themselves. Customers have been removed for not following one or more of the house rules.

We absolutely can accommodate mobility needs. Just this season, I have seen people with canes, walkers, and wheelchairs come through. Often they are accompanied by staff that can direct them toward accessible paths. We also offer lights on tours and a "Monster Free Hour" where there are no actors in the house with you for people who want spooky fun but don't want jumpscares.

Under the costume and makeup, actors are people too. Like I said, some of the haunted house rules are to protect actors. It's not uncommon for some of us to be hit, kicked, and groped by rude or drunk customers. It's even more common for customers to insult us, hit on us, yell in our faces, make fun of us, and many other things. We have to stay in character and keep on scaring unless a customer touches us or there is a different emergency. Be nice to the creature popping out of the closet and failing that, don't actively be a dick.

#halloween #happy halloween #spooky season #haunted house #scare actor #haunt actor #haunt acting #scare acting #haunted houses #spooky stuff #info post #advice

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3jane-rosen · 8 months

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It's spirit week at work and tonight's theme is Wizards and Witches and someone correctly identified my vibe as "witch-core." I feel valid.

#personal #me #scare acting #scare actor #haunt acting #haunt actor #haunted house actor #theater kid

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zoethehead · 2 years

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welp, tonight was a stressful haunt night. on the upside; i got to hear "Spillways" on the radio

#ghost bc #ghost #ghost band #vent tw #haunt acting

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mostlysignssomeportents · 11 months

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Tesla's Dieselgate

Elon Musk lies a lot. He lies about being a “utopian socialist.” He lies about being a “free speech absolutist.” He lies about which companies he founded:

https://www.businessinsider.com/tesla-cofounder-martin-eberhard-interview-history-elon-musk-ev-market-2023-2 He lies about being the “chief engineer” of those companies:

https://www.quora.com/Was-Elon-Musk-the-actual-engineer-behind-SpaceX-and-Tesla

He lies about really stupid stuff, like claiming that comsats that share the same spectrum will deliver steady broadband speeds as they add more users who each get a narrower slice of that spectrum:

https://www.eff.org/wp/case-fiber-home-today-why-fiber-superior-medium-21st-century-broadband

The fundamental laws of physics don’t care about this bullshit, but people do. The comsat lie convinced a bunch of people that pulling fiber to all our homes is literally impossible — as though the electrical and phone lines that come to our homes now were installed by an ancient, lost civilization. Pulling new cabling isn’t a mysterious art, like embalming pharaohs. We do it all the time. One of the poorest places in America installed universal fiber with a mule named “Ole Bub”:

https://www.newyorker.com/tech/annals-of-technology/the-one-traffic-light-town-with-some-of-the-fastest-internet-in-the-us

Previous tech barons had “reality distortion fields,” but Musk just blithely contradicts himself and pretends he isn’t doing so, like a budget Steve Jobs. There’s an entire site devoted to cataloging Musk’s public lies:

https://elonmusk.today/

But while Musk lacks the charm of earlier Silicon Valley grifters, he’s much better than they ever were at running a long con. For years, he’s been promising “full self driving…next year.”

https://pluralistic.net/2022/10/09/herbies-revenge/#100-billion-here-100-billion-there-pretty-soon-youre-talking-real-money

He’s hasn’t delivered, but he keeps claiming he has, making Teslas some of the deadliest cars on the road:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2023/06/10/tesla-autopilot-crashes-elon-musk/

Tesla is a giant shell-game masquerading as a car company. The important thing about Tesla isn’t its cars, it’s Tesla’s business arrangement, the Tesla-Financial Complex:

https://pluralistic.net/2021/11/24/no-puedo-pagar-no-pagara/#Rat

Once you start unpacking Tesla’s balance sheets, you start to realize how much the company depends on government subsidies and tax-breaks, combined with selling carbon credits that make huge, planet-destroying SUVs possible, under the pretense that this is somehow good for the environment:

https://pluralistic.net/2021/04/14/for-sale-green-indulgences/#killer-analogy

But even with all those financial shenanigans, Tesla’s got an absurdly high valuation, soaring at times to 1600x its profitability:

https://pluralistic.net/2021/01/15/hoover-calling/#intangibles

That valuation represents a bet on Tesla’s ability to extract ever-higher rents from its customers. Take Tesla’s batteries: you pay for the battery when you buy your car, but you don’t own that battery. You have to rent the right to use its full capacity, with Tesla reserving the right to reduce how far you go on a charge based on your willingness to pay:

https://memex.craphound.com/2017/09/10/teslas-demon-haunted-cars-in-irmas-path-get-a-temporary-battery-life-boost/

That’s just one of the many rent-a-features that Tesla drivers have to shell out for. You don’t own your car at all: when you sell it as a used vehicle, Tesla strips out these features you paid for and makes the next driver pay again, reducing the value of your used car and transfering it to Tesla’s shareholders:

https://www.theverge.com/2020/2/6/21127243/tesla-model-s-autopilot-disabled-remotely-used-car-update

To maintain this rent-extraction racket, Tesla uses DRM that makes it a felony to alter your own car’s software without Tesla’s permission. This is the root of all autoenshittification:

https://pluralistic.net/2023/07/24/rent-to-pwn/#kitt-is-a-demon

This is technofeudalism. Whereas capitalists seek profits (income from selling things), feudalists seek rents (income from owning the things other people use). If Telsa were a capitalist enterprise, then entrepreneurs could enter the market and sell mods that let you unlock the functionality in your own car:

https://pluralistic.net/2020/06/11/1-in-3/#boost-50

But because Tesla is a feudal enterprise, capitalists must first secure permission from the fief, Elon Musk, who decides which companies are allowed to compete with him, and how.

Once a company owns the right to decide which software you can run, there’s no limit to the ways it can extract rent from you. Blocking you from changing your device’s software lets a company run overt scams on you. For example, they can block you from getting your car independently repaired with third-party parts.

But they can also screw you in sneaky ways. Once a device has DRM on it, Section 1201 of the DMCA makes it a felony to bypass that DRM, even for legitimate purposes. That means that your DRM-locked device can spy on you, and because no one is allowed to explore how that surveillance works, the manufacturer can be incredibly sloppy with all the personal info they gather:

https://www.cnbc.com/2019/03/29/tesla-model-3-keeps-data-like-crash-videos-location-phone-contacts.html

All kinds of hidden anti-features can lurk in your DRM-locked car, protected from discovery, analysis and criticism by the illegality of bypassing the DRM. For example, Teslas have a hidden feature that lets them lock out their owners and summon a repo man to drive them away if you have a dispute about a late payment:

https://tiremeetsroad.com/2021/03/18/tesla-allegedly-remotely-unlocks-model-3-owners-car-uses-smart-summon-to-help-repo-agent/

DRM is a gun on the mantlepiece in Act I, and by Act III, it goes off, revealing some kind of ugly and often dangerous scam. Remember Dieselgate? Volkswagen created a line of demon-haunted cars: if they thought they were being scrutinized (by regulators measuring their emissions), they switched into a mode that traded performance for low emissions. But when they believed themselves to be unobserved, they reversed this, emitting deadly levels of NOX but delivering superior mileage.

The conversion of the VW diesel fleet into mobile gas-chambers wouldn’t have been possible without DRM. DRM adds a layer of serious criminal jeopardy to anyone attempting to reverse-engineer and study any device, from a phone to a car. DRM let Apple claim to be a champion of its users’ privacy even as it spied on them from asshole to appetite:

https://pluralistic.net/2022/11/14/luxury-surveillance/#liar-liar

Now, Tesla is having its own Dieselgate scandal. A stunning investigation by Steve Stecklow and Norihiko Shirouzu for Reuters reveals how Tesla was able to create its own demon-haunted car, which systematically deceived drivers about its driving range, and the increasingly desperate measures the company turned to as customers discovered the ruse:

https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/tesla-batteries-range/

The root of the deception is very simple: Tesla mis-sells its cars by falsely claiming ranges that those cars can’t attain. Every person who ever bought a Tesla was defrauded.

But this fraud would be easy to detect. If you bought a Tesla rated for 353 miles on a charge, but the dashboard range predictor told you that your fully charged car could only go 150 miles, you’d immediately figure something was up. So your Telsa tells another lie: the range predictor tells you that you can go 353 miles.

But again, if the car continued to tell you it has 203 miles of range when it was about to run out of charge, you’d figure something was up pretty quick — like, the first time your car ran out of battery while the dashboard cheerily informed you that you had 203 miles of range left.

So Teslas tell a third lie: when the battery charge reached about 50%, the fake range is replaced with the real one. That way, drivers aren’t getting mass-stranded by the roadside, and the scam can continue.

But there’s a new problem: drivers whose cars are rated for 353 miles but can’t go anything like that far on a full charge naturally assume that something is wrong with their cars, so they start calling Tesla service and asking to have the car checked over.

This creates a problem for Tesla: those service calls can cost the company $1,000, and of course, there’s nothing wrong with the car. It’s performing exactly as designed. So Tesla created its boldest fraud yet: a boiler-room full of anti-salespeople charged with convincing people that their cars weren’t broken.

This new unit — the “diversion team” — was headquartered in a Nevada satellite office, which was equipped with a metal xylophone that would be rung in triumph every time a Tesla owner was successfully conned into thinking that their car wasn’t defrauding them.

When a Tesla owner called this boiler room, the diverter would run remote diagnostics on their car, then pronounce it fine, and chide the driver for having energy-hungry driving habits (shades of Steve Jobs’s “You’re holding it wrong”):

https://www.wired.com/2010/06/iphone-4-holding-it-wrong/

The drivers who called the Diversion Team weren’t just lied to, they were also punished. The Tesla app was silently altered so that anyone who filed a complaint about their car’s range was no longer able to book a service appointment for any reason. If their car malfunctioned, they’d have to request a callback, which could take several days.

Meanwhile, the diverters on the diversion team were instructed not to inform drivers if the remote diagnostics they performed detected any other defects in the cars.

The diversion team had a 750 complaint/week quota: to juke this stat, diverters would close the case for any driver who failed to answer the phone when they were eventually called back. The center received 2,000+ calls every week. Diverters were ordered to keep calls to five minutes or less.

Eventually, diverters were ordered to cease performing any remote diagnostics on drivers’ cars: a source told Reuters that “Thousands of customers were told there is nothing wrong with their car” without any diagnostics being performed.

Predicting EV range is an inexact science as many factors can affect battery life, notably whether a journey is uphill or downhill. Every EV automaker has to come up with a figure that represents some kind of best guess under a mix of conditions. But while other manufacturers err on the side of caution, Tesla has the most inaccurate mileage estimates in the industry, double the industry average.

Other countries’ regulators have taken note. In Korea, Tesla was fined millions and Elon Musk was personally required to state that he had deceived Tesla buyers. The Korean regulator found that the true range of Teslas under normal winter conditions was less than half of the claimed range.

Now, many companies have been run by malignant narcissists who lied compulsively — think of Thomas Edison, archnemesis of Nikola Tesla himself. The difference here isn’t merely that Musk is a deeply unfit monster of a human being — but rather, that DRM allows him to defraud his customers behind a state-enforced opaque veil. The digital computers at the heart of a Tesla aren’t just demons haunting the car, changing its performance based on whether it believes it is being observed — they also allow Musk to invoke the power of the US government to felonize anyone who tries to peer into the black box where he commits his frauds.

If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this post to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:

https://pluralistic.net/2023/07/28/edison-not-tesla/#demon-haunted-world

This Sunday (July 30) at 1530h, I’m appearing on a panel at Midsummer Scream in Long Beach, CA, to discuss the wonderful, award-winning “Ghost Post” Haunted Mansion project I worked on for Disney Imagineering.

Image ID [A scene out of an 11th century tome on demon-summoning called 'Compendium rarissimum totius Artis Magicae sistematisatae per celeberrimos Artis hujus Magistros. Anno 1057. Noli me tangere.' It depicts a demon tormenting two unlucky would-be demon-summoners who have dug up a grave in a graveyard. One summoner is held aloft by his hair, screaming; the other screams from inside the grave he is digging up. The scene has been altered to remove the demon's prominent, urinating penis, to add in a Tesla supercharger, and a red Tesla Model S nosing into the scene.]

Image: Steve Jurvetson (modified) https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Tesla_Model_S_Indoors.jpg

CC BY 2.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/deed.en

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ordinarytalk · 8 months

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Anyone want to see some scare acting memes that were shared on my haunted attraction's employees-only Facebook page?

#scare acting #haunt acting #haunted attraction #haunted attractions #personal stuff

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pikaglove · 2 years

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I may do the haunts, but I'll be a pussy doing so

#haunt acting #haunt actor #scare actor #haunted attraction #haunted house #happy halloween #halloween makeup #actor #acting #spooky season #halloween

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saltciphblr · 11 months

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Highlight of my shift today:

Holding out my hand to collect the guests tickets and one of the guys thinks I'm asking for a handshake and when he tries to shake my hand gets all embarrassed when he realizes that is in fact, Not, what I was trying to do.

To which I responded "I mean if you want a handshake I can shake your hand. Nice to meet you." Obviously in character with my raspy ass voice.

He shakes my hand and I pleasantly let him know he's cursed now :)

And then he proceeds with his group to get the shit scared out of him. 10/10 interaction.

#haunt acting #scare actor #haunt stories #salt post

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soliloquytothevoid · 3 days

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So... I didn't know you can talk to loop twice after the ghost event, and I feel like putting it here because all those videos about the ghost event never show the loop's convo after it, and it's just. So important to me!?!

#in stars and time #isat #isat spoilers #from the act 4 house's haunted side quest #loop regretting what they said right away #and the 'you really love them all don't you?' followed by both of them going silent #they make me feel so ill /pos

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tanglepelt · 9 months

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Dc x dp idea 123

Danny is haunting the watchtower. No regrets. He was just so fed up with the lack of action.

Seriously they had a whole bs site claiming they were pro meta and basic rights. Like it had links on where to “report” breaches. All utter bs.

Nothing about the anti ecto acts. He personally called in and reported it many times. And nothing happened. As the king. He had a duty to his ppl. Now he didn’t want to hurt anyone or declare war.

But he will absolutely in the middle of their meeting change the screens of the computer to the site to report breaches. Mayhaps add bloody green text seemingly dripping in all cap LIARS and maybe YOU IgNORED US.

Was it a tad much to leave a stabbed article about the anti ecto acts in the middle of the meeting room ozzing ectoplasm. Or maybe the whispering in the ears of anyone who slept here.

He certainly didn’t think so.

So now the screens occasionally flickered the failed experiments of the GIW. Sure no one’s been killed yet. But the justice league didn’t know that. Danny is great at breaking them out.

#dcxdp #dpxdc #dcxdp prompt #dpxdc prompt #Danny is pissed #like they ain’t helping #clearly those acts set a bad precedent #at least that’s what sam told him #yet they did nothing!#just ignore them all #like rude #enjoy being haunted #technus helped Danny #ghost king danny #cause i love that #danny is a little shit #danny is a gremlin #danny will prank them for the rest of time if he has to

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