#you can't escape because you can't possibly comprehend what is going on behind its circuits

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So many indie horror series are trying to be FNAF But Good and I feel like none yet have quite managed it, at least not in the way I wish they did.

The thing is that, for me, a killer robot is not scary because it's made of metal and super strong. It's scary because it's not a person. If a person kills you, it's because they want you dead. But a robot doesn't want you dead. It can't want you dead. It can't want anything. No matter how much it looks like a person, it's not, and it isn't killing you because of rage or bloodthirst or a desire for revenge or any relatable human emotion, it's killing you because some line of code deep in its CPU is telling it that that is the best action to take. It feels nothing on the matter. It probably doesn't even understand what killing is, not like a living thing would, but its programming is telling it to deconstruct you until it stops detecting a heartbeat, so it's going to do exactly thay.

Robots aren't scary if they're ghosts, because being a ghost makes them human, and they're scary because they're not human.