Chebcast #8: Ghosts
Channel: Cheb Gonaz
Date: 14/12/2020

00:00:00 - Every culture on earth has ghosts/spirits; why do people see ghosts?; why do we need to believe in ghosts?
00:04:00 - Belief in ghosts/souls/spirits due to fear of death; Afterlife; Hades;
00:06:58 - Pros/cons of ghosts as soldiers/servants to a necromancer; Intangibility; Resistance to physical, vulnerable to magic; 
00:09:18 - Ghosts as remnants of what people used to be; Things that anchor ghosts to the world so they cannot move on; Ghosts deteriorating over time, losing memories and personality; Degredation of ghosts over time
00:12:01 - What can a necromancer do to combat the deterioration of a ghost over time?; Ghostly possession;
00:13:27 - Are there any tangible ghosts?; Wights, revenants as tangible ghosts possessing their dead bodies; The Grudge; Bloody Mary; Ghosts as residue
00:17:38 - The Grudge continued
00:18:45 - Animal ghosts and nature spirits; Ghosts as remnants of a consciousness - including from a machine/inorganic consciousness; A robotic lich called the glitch that spreads like a worm;
00:21:36 - Ghosts as a cognitive hazard: only dangerous if you know about them; Ghosts as a result of boredom and lack of stimulation; Ghosts as a result of malfunctioning pattern recognition
00:24:22 - Cons of ghosts: can't be used as meatshields, possibly cannot damage artificial things like golems or doors; Difficulties in controlling them; Their deterioration makes them potentially incapable of advanced tasks
00:28:48 - Ghostly contracts
00:29:36 - Ghosts may be easier to control if they are reduced to the point of being embodiments of rage, anguish, etc.; Weakness to magic
00:30:49 - What actually happens when you destroy a ghost?; Lightly tangible ghosts like a wisp of cloud
00:32:04 - Favorite depictions of ghosts; SoHighForHentai: Ring Wraiths from LoTR; Why are Ring Wraiths invisible?; Symbolism in LoTR; What's the point of the rings?; More about LotR
00:38:04 - ItZghostUK: Ghosts in Dragons Dogma
00:40:21 - 7th Outpost: Poltergeists in the Stalker Games
00:41:28 - Cheb Gonaz: Oblivion's Wraiths, Dominions 5 Late Age Lemuria
00:45:20 - ItZghostUK: More favorites
00:47:14 - Regional ghosts: Australia's Min Min Light; Poland's White Lady, Haunted Houses; Britain Beast of Bodmin Moor, Banshees; USA: SoHighForHentai doesn't know
00:53:11 - TANGENT: Commercialization of Halloween
00:54:40 - Time travelling ghosts; A lack of differences between ghosts compared to other undead: Ghosts are ghosts
00:57:50 - Banshees; Justifications for banshees; iTzghostUK gets summoned and dragged away by pixies; Lights in swamps explained by combustable gases
01:00:48 - Shades; Shadow People; Sleep paralysis
01:04:44 - Our personal ghost encounters (or lack thereof)

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