Wendigoon Thread

[A Humble Moose]

Koresh did nothing wrong.

Koresh married his wife when she was only 14 and he was an adult, and there were allegations that he was grooming children on the compound for sex. The reason Waco was a tragedy that people are still rightfully pissed about to this day is because of how it was handled. What could have been resolved by doing a search of the property for evidence of broken firearm laws (which the Branch Dividians welcomed and suggested multiple times) and conducting an actual investigation into the child abuse allegations instead became a siege that ended the lives of a lot of people including those same children being allegedly abused. The people being payed by our tax dollars to protect us, uphold the law, and "be the good guys" instead acted in an insane and violent manner when it was completely unnecessary. That's the tragedy of Waco. I hope Koresh is burning in hell.

 

[Crocodylus Acutus]

Koresh married his wife when she was only 14 and he was an adult, and there were allegations that he was grooming children on the compound for sex. The reason Waco was a tragedy that people are still rightfully pissed about to this day is because of how it was handled. What could have been resolved by doing a search of the property for evidence of broken firearm laws (which the Branch Dividians welcomed and suggested multiple times) and conducting an actual investigation into the child abuse allegations instead became a siege that ended the lives of a lot of people including those same children being allegedly abused. The people being payed by our tax dollars to protect us, uphold the law, and "be the good guys" instead acted in an insane and violent manner when it was completely unnecessary. That's the tragedy of Waco. I hope Koresh is burning in hell.

Both sides were scum, but while Koresh was alleged to be abusing children, the ATF and FBI undoubtedly let those same children be subjected to the horrors of the siege, and eventually be burned alive. We live under a government that is somehow more heinous than a pedophile cult leader.

 

[Kari Kamiya]

Isaiah made a Vaush reference about an hour and six minutes in because a poem about the Bluecifer statue mentions private parts.

 

[Aunt Carol]

because a poem about the Bluecifer statue mentions private parts.

TO BE FAIR:

This really should have come up sooner in the research.

 

[Coptakhenaten]

Anyone see his creepcast video? Am I the crazy one who thinks the Left Right game story got SUPER retarded after the first half? Nobody acts like people anymore and it loses the prime creepy factor of "this could almost be real".
Also

This but unironically

I like that the story jumped the shark not gonna lie. It was already getting too crazy with the suburbs section to try keeping itself restrained.

It was alright. It ended up being better than some people made it sound. Ending really wasn't bad. So far the best story they've covered has in my opinion been Penpals, but while this one wasn't really scary, it was still entertaining.

I found the whole story entertaining even if it wasn't that scary (Ted and Penpal are the scariest ones they read) but LR Game felt like someone threw Twin Peaks, the Backrooms, and As Above So Below into a blender and made some fun trippy backrooms adventure story and I liked that.

Koresh married his wife when she was only 14 and he was an adult, and there were allegations that he was grooming children on the compound for sex. The reason Waco was a tragedy that people are still rightfully pissed about to this day is because of how it was handled. What could have been resolved by doing a search of the property for evidence of broken firearm laws (which the Branch Dividians welcomed and suggested multiple times) and conducting an actual investigation into the child abuse allegations instead became a siege that ended the lives of a lot of people including those same children being allegedly abused. The people being payed by our tax dollars to protect us, uphold the law, and "be the good guys" instead acted in an insane and violent manner when it was completely unnecessary. That's the tragedy of Waco. I hope Koresh is burning in hell.

Given his religious cult was effectively a cousin to the Anthill Kids cult (Both were 7th Day Adventist) I wouldn't be surprised if he was depraved.

 

[DenseDeerFather]

McVeigh did nothing wrong.

I dunno, I don't think those injured or the loved ones of the deceased would agree with you on that.

McVeigh had noble reasons (Ruby Ridge and Waco) but it falls apart when you hurt innocents in the process.

well i mean there was the child abuse thing

Wasn't that false? I recall hearing that it was a rumor started by the feds to make the public turn on Koresh to justify the siege because the locals were pretty chill with him and his commune.

Anthill Kids cult

Aw damn, really?

 

[Coptakhenaten]

I dunno, I don't think those injured or the loved ones of the deceased would agree with you on that.

McVeigh had noble reasons (Ruby Ridge and Waco) but it falls apart when you hurt innocents in the process.

Wasn't that false? I recall hearing that it was a rumor started by the feds to make the public turn on Koresh to justify the siege because the locals were pretty chill with him and his commune.

Aw damn, really?

I'm not saying they were as bad as anthill kids, but they still were both divergent offshoots of 7th Day Adventists, who are wackos up there with Mormons, Jehovah's Witnesses, and Scientific Christians.

 

[TheOtherSideofMakeBelieve]

Personally I think a better way to have written the Left Right Game would have been to have make it an endless series of roads where you can go anywhere but you have to take the correct path back to get home and just have the antagonists be people who are lost and, despite being able to run into other people who've wandered inside, they can't just follow them out to get out because they need to take their own way back home

I definitely liked the aspect of it where the vehicles used less gas and people needed less food and were more resistant to injuries the deeper they went in. The way I would have used that would have been to have the other people who are inside, at least early on, just be bored/lonely, so they try to trick other people who come in into getting lost so that they're forced to stay as well (basically akin to the hitchhiker which was probably my favorite part). Going deeper, towns of people who've gotten lost would be good (like that endless Ikea SCP), and deeper still you could run into 'monsters', people who've started mutilating themselves just to feel something because they've been alone so long, and want to cripple anyone who comes along just to have a novel experience on tap, which is kind of what happened in the desert city I guess, minus the mutilation. There's so much you can do with the horror of not being able to die

Overall I still liked it pretty well. It definitely started off stronger than it ended, with the ending being probably the best version of my least favorite trope because of how the entity just refused to engage with Alice when it didn't need to. Meat's voice for the entity added a ton to it as well.

They mentioned there being a Q Code version like there was with Borrasca so I think I'm going to check that out. I'm kinda eh on Borrasca as a story but I did really appreciate the production value. Thinking back on it it was definitely a super cozy experience to listen to it

 

[Coptakhenaten]

One thing I remember disagreeing with Wendi's Ruby Ridge video is apparently Randy himself said he was a white separatist, and not a white supremacist. That's more something along the lines of "whites get their own nation, blacks get their own. That ends racial conflict." That can be called racist but not supremacist. I forgot where I read this but if that's true Wendi painted Randy a bit too negatively there. I liked the video overall however.

 

[RandallBoggs]

I gotta sperg a little now that I'm back and can finally share my little autistic musings so forgive me.

LR Game struck a cord with me, maybe it's the Backrooms/liminal space vibes others mentioned. It wasn't "horrifying," simply unsettling, which is the core of liminal horror. I'm mixed on which one I like more, the original pasta or QCode.

Spoiler: LR spoilers

On one hand I love the Tom B-plot, it added to the existential horror a ton. On the other hand, QCode left out some pretty important details in my opinion, which is understandable in some cases as its obviously harder to deliver certain stuff in that format, but it was also weirder stuff like lines of dialogue that could've easily been fitted in. IIRC didn't QCode remove the entity's "I care more than you can imagine" line? Like they mentioned on CC, it adds a lot to the theory that the entity is future Alice and this is all weird time-warp fuckery. I don't understand why it wasn't in there, unless I'm an actual retard and missed it somehow. Also I can't be the only one who despised Eve and Lilith's acting, right? How bizarre is it that Wendi and Meat did a better job acting their scenes than paid fucking actors, unreal. The contrast between them and the rest of the cast gave me whiplash.

QCode Borrasca is leagues better than nosleep Borrasca, I have to get this shit off my chest. Sure it's well written but it devolves into such absurd levels of shock value and cartoonish-ly evil characters it was really hard to take serious at times, at least QCode added a lot more content and the production value/acting carried it. There's so much shit I just don't understand.

Spoiler: Borrasca spoilers

If the Feds weren't in cahoots with Drisking, why did it take so long to get their attention when there's literally hundreds of young girls going missing, not to mention all of it happening around insanely suspicious circumstances? You want to tell me not a single kid thought to tip off the FBI? Is the entire town fucking retarded?

All the bad guys are so over the top like I've mentioned, it's unbearable and not because it's genuinely scary, but because it feels like I'm reading a villain of the week comic book. Only instead of the set dressing being some guy who wants to rule the world, it's human trafficking and rape. The disconnect is unreal. None of them felt like real people, ESPECIALLY Sam's dad, where the fuck did that character "development" come from? He went from loving normal dad to cartoon villain for absolutely no good reason, nothing in the story appropriately built up to him ending up that way. If you want to compare it to the LR Game, at least Blue Jay's descent into madness had narrative logic. She didn't pull a Daenerys and simply go "okay I'm an evil bitch now because the narrative demands so."

The ending also felt way too unrealistic, and again, cartoony. Like it was gonna unironically end on an "and they lived happily ever after." card. There's no way Sam and Kimber got out of that with 0 legal repercussions, that shit's straight out of a kid's fantasy of "if you're a good guy the law will forgive you for committing crimes!" The PO, at best, would've lost her fucking job for the amount of abetting she'd done. And there's also no way Kyle went from non-verbal vegetable for a whole decade to sober and mobile within what, two years of therapy?

God, if there's one thing I hate more than shitty stories, it's stories that could be good but fall on their fucking face.

 

[fishercat]

IIRC the fifth part of Borrasca was written for people who wanted a happy ending. If it feels like a fan-pleasing sequel that doesn't really need to exist, that's because it is.

 

[wtfNeedSignUp]

Okay finished LR Game. Best way I can summarise it is "imagine you thought you were reading Americana Horror story only to midway through it switched into a Doctor Who inspired "my magical waifu" story with tons of boring relationship drama".

Basically, everything happened because the heroine is the most important person in the world and needs to get to the end to become god. This is retarded primarily because the heroine barely did anything and didn't really face any challenges since the game itself is dead simple and only in the penultimate chapter there is any real roadblock (that of course is solved by someone else).

 

[John R. Brown M.D.]

I love to wendigoon my wendicock for hours and then wendicoom all over the fucking table.

 

[Godchu]

New cryptid video just dropped. Barely started watching it, and maybe it's just me but I'm getting the impression he's unironically getting really frustrated over the whole thing. Anyone else feel that?

 

[DenseDeerFather]

Jehovah's Witnesses

Ah, I am unfortunately familiar with that one on a far deeper level than I wanted. Didn't know they were related to the other loon goon squads.

Guess it all makes sense when I think about it.

New cryptid video just dropped. Barely started watching it, and maybe it's just me but I'm getting the impression he's unironically getting really frustrated over the whole thing. Anyone else feel that?

That title is a sign of something looming on the horizon. Feels like a clickbait title too ngl.

 

[wtfNeedSignUp]

New cryptid video just dropped. Barely started watching it, and maybe it's just me but I'm getting the impression he's unironically getting really frustrated over the whole thing. Anyone else feel that?

Is there even anything new to go through anymore? It's all derivatives of the same shit.

 

[Party Hat Wurmple]

QCode Borrasca is leagues better than nosleep Borrasca, I have to get this shit off my chest. Sure it's well written but it devolves into such absurd levels of shock value and cartoonish-ly evil characters it was really hard to take serious at times, at least QCode added a lot more content and the production value/acting carried it. There's so much shit I just don't understand.

You were never getting around characters suddenly seeming cartoonishly evil. It's the worst part of Penpal too and it all has to do with the format of this story. This type of story just can't function that way. When the horror of a story functions on your MC simply not being aware of it everything going on a sort of pseudo mystery, it's always going to seem cartoonishly evil and full of stupid plot holes when the writer has to reveal the truth at the end. You need to do a lot of planning and caretaking to prevent this. You're just not going to get that level of writing from a creepypasta. If you read enough books and creepypastas, you notice the better stories either A. Don't reveal their entire hand, like in "My Father Finally Told Me What Happened That Day", B. Do a double twist reveal like "1999", or C. Don't answer any questions at all, like in "Book of Sands" and just leave it up to the reader to put shit together on their own.

 

[Coptakhenaten]

You were never getting around characters suddenly seeming cartoonishly evil. It's the worst part of Penpal too and it all has to do with the format of this story. This type of story just can't function that way. When the horror of a story functions on your MC simply not being aware of it everything going on a sort of pseudo mystery, it's always going to seem cartoonishly evil and full of stupid plot holes when the writer has to reveal the truth at the end. You need to do a lot of planning and caretaking to prevent this. You're just not going to get that level of writing from a creepypasta. If you read enough books and creepypastas, you notice the better stories either A. Don't reveal their entire hand, like in "My Father Finally Told Me What Happened That Day", B. Do a double twist reveal like "1999", or C. Don't answer any questions at all, like in "Book of Sands" and just leave it up to the reader to put shit together on their own.

I felt the stalker in Penpal wasn't that cartoonish. Listening to tons of true crimes/stalker stories, he didn't seem that unrealistic, let alone compared to what happens Borrasca. The story was set in a poorer more run down area where crime might be more overlooked and Josh's family had every reason to be ignorant due to the mother's poor communications with her son which allowed the stalker to do far more damage than had she actually been proactive and told the truth. The only part that didn't make sense was the main character not remembering and putting everything together much earlier.

New cryptid video just dropped. Barely started watching it, and maybe it's just me but I'm getting the impression he's unironically getting really frustrated over the whole thing. Anyone else feel that?

Wendi wants stuff similar to Skinwalkers, Wendigos, Mothmen, or the Goatman, or hell creepypastas like the Rake or Slenderman. The whole allure of Cryptids to me is the terror of being attacked by something eldritch and being both afraid and thrilled to seek them out and live to tell the tale. The fiftieth peace loving Plesiosaur mascot gets tiring.

 

[Party Hat Wurmple]

I felt the stalker in Penpal wasn't that cartoonish. Listening to tons of true crimes/stalker stories, he didn't seem that unrealistic, let alone compared to what happens Borrasca. The story was set in a poorer more run down area where crime might be more overlooked and Josh's family had every reason to be ignorant due to the mother's poor communications with her son which allowed the stalker to do far more damage than had she actually been proactive and told the truth. The only part that didn't make sense was the main character not remembering and putting everything together much earlier

Penpal only fell apart at the end with the last couple chapters. There's a couple plot holes here and there. The story is pretty solid through Boxes. Pictures and the ending though...is a little awkward and only gets by because the delivery is decent enough to keep us from asking questions. The story should've ended sooner though. The whole theme of the story is that sometimes our efforts to protect our children actually puts them in more danger. Talk to your kids and be honest with them. Borrasca is a much sloppier story though. I liked it at first but in hindsight, it fumbles the ball big time and kind of just guns it for that shock value. It's just not a great story. The sequel is almost an improvement for that reason alone. It's just not that great. I recommend "My Father Finally Told Me What Happened That Day". It's a MUCH better story in that regard.

 

[FILTH Tourist]

New cryptid video just dropped. Barely started watching it, and maybe it's just me but I'm getting the impression he's unironically getting really frustrated over the whole thing. Anyone else feel that?

Yeah I got that too. The most telling thing is that there is no rhyme or reason for the "iceberg". It really feels like he is drawing from a hat at this point.