I’m pissed off. I’ve accidentally clicked on links lately that have led me to some of the most disturbing and frightening images i’ve ever seen. Some of you have already probably been to these sites (ogrish.com, rotten.com). If you have not been yet, I am begging you with all my soul to PLEASE not go. If you have gone, I want to know how you handle that stuff, or how you get those images out of your head. some people aren’t bothered by it and i just dont understand. 1/2 of me is REALLY angry at the people who sent me those links, as well as the creaters of those websites. the other 1/2 of me is trembling with fear. someone, please tell me how to think happy thoughts again and to make my mind pure again. i’m too young to just be able to shrug off what i just saw. perhaps the best way to stop thinking about it is to tell someone, so i guess thats what im doing here…
I AGREE! I hate rotten.com, people at my school like it. They’re insane. A lot of those pictures are fake, though.
I’ve never been to ogrish.com, though. Should I? No? Okay.
EDIT if you can’t get those pictures out of your mind, just think of chipmunks dancing through your mind. I do that when I’m running track, it takes my mind off of the pain.
Either that, or I do math problems. Or I spell long words backwards.
Those two and goat.cx (which was shut down due to its nature). Everyone at my school thinks those sites rule. I don’t know why. Woe it’s late. Pope Biographies and learning how to idle sure make time fly.
For Windows 2000/XP the hosts file is located in
[Windows install directory]\system32\drivers\etc
It’s just “hosts” with no file extension. It’s a text file.
That will stop you from getting there by following a link that uses the domain name, but won’t stop you if you follow a link that uses the IP address for the site.
You can use your software firewall or hardware router/switch/firewall to block the IP address for those sites. Some firewalls will also allow you to block sites based on domain name or words in the URL.
If you’re not running a software firewall and/or hardware router/switch/firewall, you really really should be. It’s not safe to connect to the internet without a firewall.
thank you john for you help. let me start out by saying i have windows xp. i found the hosts file, but when i double clicked on it, an error window popped up saying "windows cannot open this file… blah blah blah (see the attached picture). i clicked on “use the web service to find the appropriate program”, but “the page cannot be found”. sorry im really stupid when it comes to computers so my jargon is really sloppy, sorry. since that didn’t work, i tried selecting wordpad to open it. It looked like it was working fine; I added the two lines of code you told me to, then tried to save the changes. however, it seems that no matter what i save it as, another error comes up saying “You are about to save the document in a text only format, which will remove all formatting. Are you sure you want to do this?” So anyway, if you have any suggestions i’d sure appreciate it. im so glad theres a way to stop my friends from tricking me into going to these sites, i just can’t quite figure out how to change the hosts file…
YEAH! someone send me a somewhat simillar site (which will remain un named) and it tottaly freaked me out!..but what freaked me out even more was that the guy actually thought it was FUNNY!
Unfortunately the hosts file has no extension so when you double-click on it Windows is not going to know what to do.
The hosts file is a plain old text file. Best bet is to open it with Notepad cause Notepad will always save it as a text file. You can also use Word Pad, but just make sure that it gets saved as a plain text file. So you’re on the right track. Just have Word Pad save it as a plain text file.
When you’re editing system files like that, it is a good idea to make a backup copy of the file before you edit it. That way if things go wrong you can easily go back to the previous copy. Copy the current hosts file to something like “hosts.000” and save it for safe keeping.
What the hosts file does is tell your computer what IP address to use for specific domains. So what we’re doing is lying to your computer and telling it that rotten.com is at 127.0.0.1 rather than it’s real IP address. That way your computer won’t be able to find the rotten.com web site out on the internet.
After you save your changes to the hosts file, you can test the new settings by trying to open rotten.com in your web browser. You should get a server not found error.
leo, i want you to explain to me how you do it. is it just that you’ve seen so many pictures/videos of that nature that it doesn’t affect you anymore? Or have you always found it funny?
I consider myself pretty mature for my age and very strong stomached. I have yet to watch a horror movie that has made me truly scared. I dont even flinch watching saving private ryan. but seeing REAL videos and REAL pictures is completely different, isn’t it?
Perhaps i’m just being unreasonable. It seems like a lot of people enjoy these websites. Why can’t i handle it? i just dont understand. so many people can blow it off, so many adults can just look at it and then forget about it. o well.
First, next time, after the first bad picture, stop looking, then you won’t see more of them!
Now go and rent a bunch of old movies. Avoid megaviolent action thrilloramas. You’re looking for silliness, uplift, things working out for the best in an imperfect world, that sort of thing. Just a few that come to mind, probably just because I haven’t seen them in a while, in no particular order:
Breaking Away - Corny in a plausibly human 70’s sort of way.
The General or any collection of Buster Keaton shorts - Possibly the most gifted physical comedian of the film age.
The Karate Kid - Show me paint-the-fence!
Quick Change - An often-overlooked Bill Murray heist comedy.
Earth Girls Are Easy - Monumentally silly film, but I’ve always had a bit of a Geena Davis thing goin’.
The Secret of Roan Inish - Slow-moving but absorbing tale of a child unraveling a family mystery involving Irish legend.
Young Frankenstein - My favorite Mel Brooks film. Familiarity with the original Frankenstein and Bride of Frankenstein
Gamera Guardian of the Universe (1995) - (Kaiju violence is okay!) Finally the giant flying space turtle gets the big-budget treatment he deserves. Two sequels whose titles I can not recall have followed so far, both well-received by kaijuphiles.
Well they work for me. But then, I’m old. Anyone else have some movies to make Grant happy again…?
It is possible to use the hosts file to block ads. You can also use the hosts file to block sites that are known to attempt to hijack browsers and do other evil stuff. There are links here to sites with lots of information about using the hosts file to block sites. There are also block lists there for sites to add to your hosts file.
The list of lists is a great source for high quality links dealing with general computer stuff and computer security. Check it out. That’s where I got the links for the stuff on the hosts file.
I have never been on it i no what’s on there and that’s why i no people who go on it but i just don’t see what’ s cool about seeing people who have been killed in nasty ways and stuff like that leo why the link why!!!I addmit i did get as far as rottendotcom’s homepage but just thought no,no,NO!
Ben
It may be the modern counterpart of the old carnival freakshow, where people would pay to gawk at the Elephant Man or Penguin Boy or whatever. See the amazing Lizard Girl swallow a live rat before your very eyes! Step right up, five cents please, thank you sir. People who find this sort of thing funny or cool, or get off on it in whatever way, are mysteries to me. But I suppose I can see a certain element of there but for the grace of God in it too. Seeing how transcendentally sucky someone else’s life is can put one’s own problems in perspective. Personally I don’t feel a need; things in my life will have to get a whole lot suckier before I need to see a picture of some guy whose face has been ripped off by a passing train or whatever in order to feel good about myself. And of course this can work both ways; you can respond either with, “Well, at least that didn’t happen to me!” and feel blessed, or with, “Criminy, that could happen to me!” and get freaked.
That’s one advantage of a slow dialup connection; you have a few seconds to read the page title and figure out where you are before the pictures come up…
hmm i agree with all of this, i dont find those picture funny at all i used to look at rotten.com abit when i was younger, but ive matured since then, its not right to have people displyed on the net like that. the pictures dont really make me feel sick i just know that i shouldnt be looking at stuff like that. I dont really find pictures that disturbing, i could look at a rotten.com pic and feel fine, but sometimes just seeing a roadkill squirrel on thr road makes me want to heave, i thinkits to do with seeing things that are actually there, rather than just having a photo.
I think the sites (or I’m assuming because I’ve never been there) are similar to horror movies in that they tempt people to test their fear thresholds.
Who sais I only see it on pictures/video, I maight have seen situations I could’nt turn of with a remote control or mouse.
Internal body parts hanging in threes, or very sticked into asphalt, or just spread over hundreds of meters.
I was very young and never had any bad dream about it.
Why I can handle it? Don’t know possible because I faced (my own) dead very early and because accepted that I’m human excisting from parts that may break.
As a matter of fact I’m happy that one day I will die, you would’nt like to stay on this world forever, don’t you?
To see other people died painfull deads is not fun, but I’m maybe not trieng to fantasize how it must feel. But just look at the situation plain as it is. Mybe just like doctors do.
As a matter of fact I share your question:
Why do people call the things on rotten.com entertainment when it is done by Tom & Jerry?
Go have another look how horrible they are!
I must have been 11 when I realized myself that when Sonny Crocket shoots someone, it is not normal to enjoy it, or celebrate it.
How many kids were looking at programs like Miami Vice or simular shows where killing is glorified?
What was the age-limit for watching Jaws…?
I bet an age on which you should realize it is sick to rent this movie as home-entertainment.
And for horror (that you seem to watch)… I don’t understand why people want to scare themself that way. I never watch any fiction movies (well except the Matrix, but it has more reality than average people will take for truth).
I hate Jaws, I hate Miamy Vice, I don’t like Tom & Jerry too much, as a matter of fact I live without TV for years now. I have no problems with the existing of rotten.com. I certainly do not enjoy it, and I never re-visit their main site.
I don’t consider it as entertainment or funny. But I would refuse to filter it (unless in a commercial environtment where people should do where they were paid for).
The weirdest is that the late-news followed after a horror is not broadcasting all of the bloody truth. I think that is sick.
I would like you all to point you to zen tv as well. Have another look at what you’ve accepted as normal in your livingroom.
