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Sad Satan
Imagine you're a fisherman trawling the ocean for fish, around you is nothing but ocean. No land, just ocean as far as the eye can see! In goes your net and what you collect is but the smallest fraction of the bounty the ocean has to offer. What if that net could cover the whole ocean? Your net can only stretch so far, you're missing what the ocean has to offer! Welcome to the Deep Web, it's dangerous to go alone!
The internet is what we seem reliant on in todays world but how does it work? Your trusted search engine whether you be a fan of Google or Bing, or one of the others, will use what is known as "web crawlers", these follow hyperlinks through known protocol virtual port numbers. This allows us to see content on the internet, take, say, the Game Lounge! Everytime I make a new tag it opens a new known protocol virtual port number so you can see which posts relate to BEN Drowned and which ones relate to the festival of horror! The internet is huge and we needed a way to index its contents, however, sometimes things slip through the cracks, things get left unindexed and the Web Crawlers have no way to access it, this is known as the Deep Web. It's believed that the Deep Web is atleast 550 times bigger than the internet and growing exponentially all the time! Think back to your fishing boat fishing in an ocean that's constantly getting bigger! The Deep Web is the darker side of the internet, a place that exists outside the rules of the World Wide Web, not that there are too many.
The first thing to note about the Deep Web is that there is no way to trace the activities going on there, you can literally upload anything and no one can find you! On the normal web there exists the currency known as Bitcoins, but these aren't the things you need to build that extra floor in Tiny Tower this currency cannot be traced! If a website asks you to convert your money into Bitcoins you're probably looking at something illegal! This is how the Deep Web works, so finally let's get to the main question: how does this relate to the title? Last time I mentioned that the Deep Web bred one of the most terrifying horror games of all time: Sad Satan! Let's hop over to YouTube and we find the Obscure Horror Corner channel and find that the host, Jamie, found Sad Satan in the Deep Web.
What can be said about Sad Satan? The gameplay is very lack luster but the atmosphere is horrifying! The game is in black and white and you have to put up with a distorted view. The graphics are also like the old static screens were an art form and you could make them into pictures. There is no explaination to why the game exists, no apparent aim to the game and no one seems to know why it exists! You walk through an ever changing maze of light and shadow, as you advance you will occasionally come across static images or creepy sounds. The images are random, one sees Jimmy Saville and Margaret Thatcher at an awards ceremony... ok then. Another sees a man wearing antlers surrounded by dozens of deer heads and standing at the top of a staircase... the images are just weird! Apparently Jamie deleted Sad Satan from the normal web after his YouTube vidoes of the game, he claimed that after he downloaded the game off of the Deep Web a Notepad file kept writing itself with gibberish text and the numbers 666!
The game may have been deleted but after people of the internet downloaded the game and their testimony of the game is shocking! According to these heroes of our day some of the sounds are the screams of young children, real screams! That with Jimmy Saville and you can probably sense a theme, but that's just the start! You know how when you visit a website you will often get a cookie working in the background, your search engine uses these cookies to see patterns of things you are interested in. These cookies are good cookies, your chocolate chips of the cookie world! Sad Satan, however, gives you horrible cookies, think sailing ship cookies from the 1700s! No? They had things like maggots in them, no? Let's move on then! These are tracking cookies, basically they can see what you look at on the internet, remember when we talked about hacking claw machines, this is, in effect, a way a hacker can learn about you! Anyhow, in the game a message frequently appears reading "I can track you" which makes you think: who is tracking me? The creator? The devil when he's not writing potential ancient aramaic on Notepad? Couple this with the game installing a worm virus onto your computer! According to those who downloaded it the game, when downloaded, was malware and virus free! Not like Cube World then...
Even the videos on YouTube can be distressing for viewers. This game, if you can find it, is not advised! All of this is well and good but there's an elephant in the room: who do you and me get into the vast ocean that is the Deep Web? You can't use Google, you can't use Bing! There exists search engines designed to access the Deep Web, to somewhat index what can't be indexed using engines like DeepPeep and maybe you, on your fishing boat with your new, bigger net, could find Sad Satan again! Maybe you could bring it back to the gaming universe! But be warned, the Deep Web is a scary place, you never know what terrors your net could scoop up!
