> A tactic used in horror movies to scare people, the jump scare is used by unimaginative filmmakers as a cheap method of frightening the audience; i.e, making them literally "jump" out of their seats. This device is being increasingly employed in modern horror movies, along with gratuitous amounts of gore, because the directors have forgotten how to actually scare people.
A scantily clad, bosomy teenager who hears a suspicious noise in her empty house on a rainy night while watching a movie gets up from the couch to investigate its source. Walking slowly, she calls out, "Is anybody there?"…
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Couldn't let this go, so here is another one:
$f = fopen('/dev/random','r');
$s = fread($f, 4);
fclose($f);
$names = ['John', 'Jeff', 'Emma', 'Steve', 'Julie'];
echo $names[$s % count($names)];
