Wendigoon Thread

[Godchu]

New video on the kudzu vines. Sounds like it's another case of government subsidies to ease one problem ended up making things all the worse in every other way imaginable.

 

[Ralph Barnhardt]

New video on the kudzu vines. Sounds like it's another case of government subsidies to ease one problem ended up making things all the worse in every other way imaginable.

Is it just me or does it look like Isaiah has trimmed up a little bit?

 

[wtfNeedSignUp]

The funny thing is that if you looked at Yellowstone without all its history, nobody in 2024 would make the decision to let the average dipshit be separated from bison and boiling acidic pools by nothing but a wooden railing and informative signs.

The log is the only thing that falls a little flat, too. Ancient Indian ritual device is a bit of an ass-pull, but the rest of the Pit has built up a lot of goodwill by then.

The author also has a repeated typo, but I've forgotten what it is. Something along the line of using the wrong "its," whether in dry internal memos, cheerful park pamphlets, or motel advertisements.

Mystery Flesh Pits are such a fantastic setting for a survival horror game (actual one, not indieshit). Especially if you allow the being underneath to awake and go full on Dead Space.

 

[Aunt Carol]

Mystery Flesh Pits are such a fantastic setting for a survival horror game (actual one, not indieshit). Especially if you allow the being underneath to awake and go full on Dead Space.

Especially if it's the 1970s and you're a teenager in the National Parks' Youth Conservation Corps. Starter equipment: flashlight, mullet, inadvisably short shorts.

 

[wtfNeedSignUp]

Especially if it's the 1970s and you're a teenager in the National Parks' Youth Conservation Corps. Starter equipment: flashlight, mullet, inadvisably short shorts.

It needs to be the classic case of having doomed protagonists you can find their fate with the current character.

 

[Ralph Barnhardt]

Mystery Flesh Pits are such a fantastic setting for a survival horror game (actual one, not indieshit). Especially if you allow the being underneath to awake and go full on Dead Space.

I see it working for a Metroidvania type game. You're a worker tasked to do clean ups and scout out new pathways in flesh pit. On top of the creatures there you have to deal with environmental hazards that either melt you into other creatures like the clown thing or psycho actively mess with you like the stuff in the Coke Heartthrob. If you die or loose control you respawn back in the last save station but now you have to go and deal with the abomination that used to be you or your insane, former self, kinda like in The Mummy Demastered.

 

[Gog & Magog]

New video on the kudzu vines. Sounds like it's another case of government subsidies to ease one problem ended up making things all the worse in every other way imaginable.

NOOOO NOT WAFFLE HOUSE AHHHHH

 

[Catgirl Tyranid]

I see it working for a Metroidvania type game. You're a worker tasked to do clean ups and scout out new pathways in flesh pit. On top of the creatures there you have to deal with environmental hazards that either melt you into other creatures like the clown thing or psycho actively mess with you like the stuff in the Coke Heartthrob. If you die or loose control you respawn back in the last save station but now you have to go and deal with the abomination that used to be you or your insane, former self, kinda like in The Mummy Demastered.

Especially if it's the 1970s and you're a teenager in the National Parks' Youth Conservation Corps. Starter equipment: flashlight, mullet, inadvisably short shorts.

Rather than going the Medtroidvania track, I feel like it'd work better in game similar to Firewatch. Follow an intern over multiple excursions into the park for various maintenance activities and take away the agency to kill things similar to Amnesia. That way the mounting horror and dread of what the player is seeing can be contrasted with the blasé way your superiors act given that the park is mostly a known entity to them until SHTF.

 

[FILTH Tourist]

Local 58's beauty is its simplicity, mystery, and really tight show not tell sort of mentality. I noticed that certain series like Mandala get way too wordy and expository.

Gemini Home Entertainment and maybe the Meat Pit one, imo, were the last good ones before it became played out like the original Saw series aside from the latest film.

The Local 58 and GHE creators knew what they were trying to replicate and stuck with it for the most part. That made those series so cool and made them feel authentic because local 58 really captured the vibe of watching cable late at night and GHE going for the styling of old educational tapes. Most analog horror either don't quite hit the right note with the analog medium they are copying (Vita Carnis trying to do a old 80s or 90s educational tape style like GHE, but the robotic AI voice and 50's stock music clashes with the aesthetic it set out for) or the series just completely abandons the analog horror format and just do a normal horror series with a grainy camera filter like MC or Backrooms.

 

[Rick The Stick]

Red Threads is fucking terrible, holy shit. I thought CreepCast was bad, but at least CC has Wendi and Meat actually enjoying themselves.

This show/podcast is just an hour and change of Charlie, Wendi and Jackson reading Jackson's summary of an event after spending a couple hours on Wikipedia, in the most disinterested monotonous way possible. Not to mention how Jackson slips his own horseshit takes into his little write-ups.

And then there's the fact that all of the topics are extremely well documented and have been covered to death. As well as covered better. The Bohemian Grove episode that just dropped is a good example. Like there's nothing in this episode that, unironically, hasn't been covered better and in more depth by Alex Jones.

Red Threads is completely pointless and I see no reason for it to exist beyond yet another source of income. It would at least be slightly more interesting if they swapped Charlie for that shit head Kaya/Kaia(?) from the Official Podcast.

 

[Aunt Carol]

The Bohemian Grove episode that just dropped is a good exampl

I was surprised at how scandalized Wendi was acting about what sounded like a standard, early 1900s lodge ceremony; more like a skit. Doesn't he have a friend who's a Mason? An owl mascot based on Greek mythology--oh no, an owl-demon exists! That seems pretty thin; most of the spooky/deadly animals have a demon that looks like them because that's how character design works.

I'm not in any fraternal organizations, but I've read on some of the national ones, and their secret rituals sound way more like Girl Scout ceremonies I participated in as a kid than Satanist rituals. In the heyday of fraternal organizations, novelty catalogs and/or the organizations' suppliers sold a lot of pranks specifically designed for ceremonies. Mostly initiation ceremonies. There's a lot of "put a blindfold on the guy and scare him, then make him touch this electrified thing we will sell you for $1.50. Laffs aplenty." I suspect everyone was supposed to be half-drunk by this point.

Anyway, I don't trust the rich and powerful, but it feels like the other stuff they're planning when they schmooze together in a small area is a lot more worrisome than camp skits. So I guess I agree with noted scholar Charlie, who also seemed a bit bored by this one.

The Red Thread seems like a group project for school where one person did all the work. The rest of the group is at least helping with the presentation, but they're bringing different levels of enthusiasm.

 

[Kari Kamiya]

It sounds like The Red Thread might've gotten too big for their britches after the Boeing whistleblower video, they have boomers as their listening audience now from that.

 

[Blue Gem Kosher Queen]

On the series itself: it's some anime shit. And I mean that literally: from comments there's a shitton of anime "references" put into the series—the whole death row inmate thing is ripped straight from Death Note, there's apparently some Chainsaw Man references here and there, and the whole surface-level application of biblical / esoteric iconography (and only the ones everyone already knows about to boot) for aesthetic reasons is obviously from Evangelion, etc. etc. It's almost as though the creator took all the "cool" parts from his favorite shows and mushed it all together to make Midwest Angelica, leaving out everything else that made those shows good in the first place. And I really wouldn't mind it if either a) the guy showed any amount of restraint and gave his revelations some kind of buildup instead of jumping head first into things as he had, and/or b) the worldbuilding went farther than it does. You have a literal biblical apocalypse going and yet it doesn't feel that it's really gone beyond whatever county it began in.

And also why not adapt Revelation? Is it not supposed to be end-times of our post-Christ world? It's not even that hard to read, especially when you don't need to actually try and decipher it and figure out what John was actually writing about. There's a bunch of cool imagery there the guy could've used as well to make his thing a lot more unique than just ripping off the Babel story.

All the same the presentation is really good for an analog horror series. Had it been made two, or even three years earlier I could imagine it'd have been a big hit.

You just expressed how I feel about Midwest Angelica and I actually enjoyed myself watching it. Visual and sound design are probably the best in the genre and it gets downgraded because of the story, or rather those certified weeb moments that detract from the story.
I think the only reason all of these analogs that use Christian imagery/ideas as a basis don't straight up adapt anything is because then they can't add their own stupid little lore about it. They include religious stuff for shock value like upside down crosses you can buy at Hot Topic or whatever alt-chic local equivalent serves your area. Is safe edgy, simple as. Death Note, Evangelion and Chainsaw Man just so happen to be baby's first seinen.
I don't even dislike MA. Call it hopium but I want to see the team behind it restraining the pop culture references and improving because they have something cool in their hands. Is up to them if they ruin it like 90% of Internet made micro celebrities that get big of reference heavy fanfics.

 

[FILTH Tourist]

Red Threads is fucking terrible, holy shit. I thought CreepCast was bad, but at least CC has Wendi and Meat actually enjoying themselves.

This show/podcast is just an hour and change of Charlie, Wendi and Jackson reading Jackson's summary of an event after spending a couple hours on Wikipedia, in the most disinterested monotonous way possible. Not to mention how Jackson slips his own horseshit takes into his little write-ups.

And then there's the fact that all of the topics are extremely well documented and have been covered to death. As well as covered better. The Bohemian Grove episode that just dropped is a good example. Like there's nothing in this episode that, unironically, hasn't been covered better and in more depth by Alex Jones.

Red Threads is completely pointless and I see no reason for it to exist beyond yet another source of income. It would at least be slightly more interesting if they swapped Charlie for that shit head Kaya/Kaia(?) from the Official Podcast.

I remember the episode they did on the disappearance of the Indonesian airliner a while back and they kept referencing "Mentour Pilot" as their source. So I clicked off of their video and just watch his instead (Turns out MP is actually a pretty good channel for air disaster breakdows BTW so thanks Red Thread for helping me find someone better). The Epstine episode was also annoying because Jackson in all his "research" conveniently leaves out the tidbit on how Trump played a key role in helping the victims during Epstine's first conviction.

 

[Rick The Stick]

Liked the Kudzu video. That was actually informative and interesting. Very random thing to do a video on though, even for Gooner.

I was surprised at how scandalized Wendi was acting about what sounded like a standard, early 1900s lodge ceremony; more like a skit. Doesn't he have a friend who's a Mason?

That's how he acts over a lot of rather mundane things tbh. And yes, the main Aiden fag from Lore Lodge is a Mason. Which means fuck all in current year.

sound way more like Girl Scout ceremonies I participated in as a kid than Satanist rituals. In the heyday of fraternal organizations, novelty catalogs and/or the organizations' suppliers sold a lot of pranks specifically designed for ceremonies. Mostly initiation ceremonies. There's a lot of "put a blindfold on the guy and scare him, then make him touch this electrified thing we will sell you for $1.50. Laffs aplenty."

That's exactly what the vast majority of fraternity/club rituals are. Hazing and jokes. Any truly satanic or occult shit isn't going to be so easily found out. Least of all a secret satanic club full of the most powerful people in the world. I dont trust the elite either, and I think the Grove is sketchy and super weird, but I don't think any Baphomet or moloch or any other demon worship is happening there.

 

[Catmannjew]

kudzu

This video made me nostalgic. It was a lovely video to watch.

You never want to walk in it because of bugs (there are the kadzu bugs.) Some media in the last twenty years includes kadzu vines, including aesthetics.

 

[wtfNeedSignUp]

That's exactly what the vast majority of fraternity/club rituals are. Hazing and jokes. Any truly satanic or occult shit isn't going to be so easily found out. Least of all a secret satanic club full of the most powerful people in the world. I dont trust the elite either, and I think the Grove is sketchy and super weird, but I don't think any Baphomet or moloch or any other demon worship is happening there.

Tbf, if you want to introduce someone to a daemonic worship you'd start really light on the references, and scale them up incrementally as people go in rank.

 

[PyrrhicRustle]

New Creepcast, on Feed the Pig.

Story isn’t my cup of tea. Looks like they’ve rearranged the dates for the tour a bit.

 

[The Crescent King]

New Creepcast.

Looks like they’ve rearranged the dates for the tour a bit.
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You beat me to it, was quite literally just about to post this. It seems that they're not doing Stolen Tongues this week as they said.

Has anyone that the intros for the podcast are getting longer? They don't start the story until nine minutes in.

 

[PyrrhicRustle]

Has anyone that the intros for the podcast are getting longer? They don't start the story until nine minutes in.

They made a point of mentioning that fact. Right before dropping in the sponsorship.