Viewers simply looking for a good scary movie, however, may leave unsatiated.
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It's hard to imagine anyone walking out of this movie with their appetite for destruction unsatiated.
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It was the desire and inability to know, the unsatiated appetite, that made these stories seem tantalizing in the first place.
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Red Dead Redemption 2 is particularly emblematic of this trend of unsatiated, nonstop game binging that we all seem to participate in nowadays, with the viral social media a testament to how fast and eagerly we unearth a game's secrets and share them immediately with the world.
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Some are creeped out: Some just roll with it: Some see a profit in it: Others are impressed: But the best reaction by far comes from fellow-nudist Hetsu: Link's exposed body is causing quite a stir both inside and outside the world of Hyrule, with some unsatiated gamers looking for a little bit more than Breath of the Wild is able to provide while maintaining its ESRB rating of Everyone 10+.
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Sigmund Freud explained erotomania as a defense mechanism to ward off homosexual impulses which can lead to strong feelings of paranoia, denial, displacement and projection. Similarly, it has been explained as a way to cope with severe loneliness or ego deficit following a major loss. Erotomania may also be linked to unsatiated urges dealing with homosexuality or narcissism. Some research shows brain abnormalities occurring in patients with erotomania such as heightened temporal lobe asymmetry and greater volumes of lateral ventricles than those with no mental disorders.
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If, as Ovid proposes, the lemures are an unsatiated, malevolent and wandering form of Lares, then they and their mother also find their way into Lemuralia, when the hungry Lemures gather in Roman houses and claim cult from the living. The paterfamilias must redeem himself and his family with the offer of midnight libations of spring-water, and black beans spat onto the floor. Any lemures dissatisfied with these offerings are scared away by the loud clashing of bronze pots. Taylor notes the chthonic character of offerings made to fall - or deliberately expelled - towards the earth.
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She smears this with pitch then pierces and roasts it; this, she says, binds hostile tongues to silence. She thus invokes Tacita (silence). If, as Macrobius proposes, the Lemures are unsatiated and malevolent forms of Lares, then they and their mother also find their way into Lemuralia, when the vagrant and malicious Lemures and (perhaps) Larvae must be placated by midnight libations of spring-water and offerings of black beans, spat from the mouth of the paterfamilias to the floor of the domus. Again, Taylor notes the chthonic character of offerings made to fall - or deliberately expelled - towards the earth.
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Lemures may represent the wandering and vengeful spirits of those not afforded proper burial, funeral rites or affectionate cult by the living: they are thus not attested by tomb or votive inscriptions. Ovid interprets them as vagrant, unsatiated and potentially vengeful di manes or di parentes, ancestral gods or spirits of the underworld. To him, the rites of their cult suggest an incomprehensibly archaic, quasi-magical and probably very ancient rural tradition. Lemures were formless and liminal, associated with darkness and its dread. In Republican and Imperial Rome, May 9, 11, and 13 were dedicated to their placation in the household practices of Lemuralia or Lemuria.
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