Wendigoon Thread

[fishercat]

God I want to know what story 1 was. What could be so bad that MC just vetoed immediately.

I'm willing to bet it was I Dared My Best Friend to Ruin My Life. It got recommended a lot so I went to check it out, and it's so bad. It's like The Thing in the Basement, except it doesn't start off promising. It's bad right off the bat. The basic plot is that the protagonist dared his friend to ruin his life, his friend turned out to be an epic elite hacker man the whole time and he can't be caught by the cops because he's so smart. Then it turns out the protagonist was on to the friend the whole time and was two steps ahead and actually the friend should be the scared one. It's like someone watched one crime thriller and thought they could write a cat and mouse story but didn't know how to make it not cringe. Why people keep recommending it is beyond me.

 

[Edgeymcedgename]

I'm willing to bet it was I Dared My Best Friend to Ruin My Life. It got recommended a lot so I went to check it out, and it's so bad. It's like The Thing in the Basement, except it doesn't start off promising. It's bad right off the bat. The basic plot is that the protagonist dared his friend to ruin his life, his friend turned out to be an epic elite hacker man the whole time and he can't be caught by the cops because he's so smart. Then it turns out the protagonist was on to the friend the whole time and was two steps ahead and actually the friend should be the scared one. It's like someone watched one crime thriller and thought they could write a cat and mouse story but didn't know how to make it not cringe. Why people keep recommending it is beyond me.

It's cringe that's why

 

[Catgirl Tyranid]

I'm willing to bet it was I Dared My Best Friend to Ruin My Life. It got recommended a lot so I went to check it out, and it's so bad. It's like The Thing in the Basement, except it doesn't start off promising. It's bad right off the bat. The basic plot is that the protagonist dared his friend to ruin his life, his friend turned out to be an epic elite hacker man the whole time and he can't be caught by the cops because he's so smart. Then it turns out the protagonist was on to the friend the whole time and was two steps ahead and actually the friend should be the scared one. It's like someone watched one crime thriller and thought they could write a cat and mouse story but didn't know how to make it not cringe. Why people keep recommending it is beyond me.

There are two possibilities. Either it's to torture the hosts, or they have TERRIBLE TERRIBLE tastes and probably consider Marvel pique cinema.

 

[TerminalTryHard]

Well they managed to end the year on a high note. Glad they didn't end it on that cop story.

 

[Mnutu]

HiddenXperia Halo Collab from 4 days ago. I’m 8 minutes in and I’m grinding my fucking molars at how retarded both Wendi and XP are.

 

[Rick The Stick]

HiddenXperia Halo Collab from 4 days ago. I’m 8 minutes in and I’m grinding my fucking molars at how retarded both Wendi and XP are.

I'm not much of a Halo fag. How are they being retarded in it?

 

[Mnutu]

I'm not much of a Halo fag. How are they being retarded in it?

It’s meant to be a surface level dive on the connections between the Bible and Halo; a slam dunk, piss easy thing to do, but they’re missing glaringly obvious shit and not even bothering to bring up Joseph Campbell to explain the thought process. You can do that without diving in deep into it. Can’t just rely on “he’s a Baptist” when he leans real heavy on Dante.

In the first 8 minutes, he misses the point about Halos because “they’re not in the Bible” and that it’s just a cultural thing. Despite the Crowns, despite the glows, and despite the rainbows. He doesn’t even acknowledge the pretty unique title for Master Chief “the Reclaimer”, nor does he bother to make the connection to John the Baptist. He doesn’t even mention how the Arbiter is basically St. Paul.

Watching further: the “Schism” is actually the Sadducees and Pharisees, and the Brutes are like the Romans. The only connection to the Great Schism is its name.

This is an easy video to make, no one would’ve gotten points for making it, he could only fail, and boy did he.

EDIT : He’s not even talking about Cortana! If we’re going to let the Dante talk fly, you should touch on Tristan and Iseult!

 

[Edgeymcedgename]

It’s meant to be a surface level dive on the connections between the Bible and Halo; a slam dunk, piss easy thing to do, but they’re missing glaringly obvious shit and not even bothering to bring up Joseph Campbell to explain the thought process. You can do that without diving in deep into it. Can’t just rely on “he’s a Baptist” when he leans real heavy on Dante.

In the first 8 minutes, he misses the point about Halos because “they’re not in the Bible” and that it’s just a cultural thing. Despite the Crowns, despite the glows, and despite the rainbows. He doesn’t even acknowledge the pretty unique title for Master Chief “the Reclaimer”, nor does he bother to make the connection to John the Baptist. He doesn’t even mention how the Arbiter is basically St. Paul.

Watching further: the “Schism” is actually the Sadducees and Pharisees, and the Brutes are like the Romans. The only connection to the Great Schism is its name.

This is an easy video to make, no one would’ve gotten points for making it, he could only fail, and boy did he.

EDIT : He’s not even talking about Cortana! If we’re going to let the Dante talk fly, you should touch on Tristan and Iseult!

I thought the evil aliens were Muslims.

 

[Mnutu]

I thought the evil aliens were Muslims.

Elites are kind of Muslims in appearance, as Brutes are kind of Romans in appearance, and Jackals are just straight up Space Pirates. There’s a lot of fun creative liberties taken, but fundamentally, the Covenant (in its own name!) is Second Temple Judaism, and follow along those lines. A lot of people interpret them as Catholics, but that’s straight retarded: They’re a mix between Rome the Empire and the Jews, they have a few superficial similarities, but their behavior, beliefs, and motivations are Second Temple. This makes sense with the titles of Prophet, Arbiter, and Zealot. People forget or are just ignorant of how chaotic and divided Judaism was in that time period, post-Maccabean revolt where the Pharisitical Elders sided with the Romans to put down the Hasmonean Dynasty.

Another easy home run for biblical parallels is with Captain Keyes! Both Jacob (which is a rabbit hole of a fucking name) and Miranda Keyes are a reference to the “Keys to the Kingdom, to bind and loose on heaven and earth”. Jacob holds the knowledge of Earth from the flood; while Miranda is used by Tartarus in Halo 2 to activate the rings. Not one peep!

 

[Edgeymcedgename]

Elites are kind of Muslims in appearance, as Brutes are kind of Romans in appearance, and Jackals are just straight up Space Pirates. There’s a lot of fun creative liberties taken, but fundamentally, the Covenant (in its own name!) is Second Temple Judaism, and follow along those lines. A lot of people interpret them as Catholics, but that’s straight retarded: They’re a mix between Rome the Empire and the Jews, they have a few superficial similarities, but their behavior, beliefs, and motivations are Second Temple. This makes sense with the titles of Prophet, Arbiter, and Zealot. People forget or are just ignorant of how chaotic and divided Judaism was in that time period, post-Maccabean revolt where the Pharisitical Elders sided with the Romans to put down the Hasmonean Dynasty.

Another easy home run for biblical parallels is with Captain Keyes! Both Jacob (which is a rabbit hole of a fucking name) and Miranda Keyes are a reference to the “Keys to the Kingdom, to bind and loose on heaven and earth”. Jacob holds the knowledge of Earth from the flood; while Miranda is used by Tartarus in Halo 2 to activate the rings. Not one peep!

I just thought that the programmers were mad about 9/11.

But you clearly know more than I do.

 

[Rick The Stick]

Elites are kind of Muslims in appearance, as Brutes are kind of Romans in appearance, and Jackals are just straight up Space Pirates. There’s a lot of fun creative liberties taken, but fundamentally, the Covenant (in its own name!) is Second Temple Judaism, and follow along those lines. A lot of people interpret them as Catholics, but that’s straight retarded: They’re a mix between Rome the Empire and the Jews, they have a few superficial similarities, but their behavior, beliefs, and motivations are Second Temple. This makes sense with the titles of Prophet, Arbiter, and Zealot. People forget or are just ignorant of how chaotic and divided Judaism was in that time period, post-Maccabean revolt where the Pharisitical Elders sided with the Romans to put down the Hasmonean Dynasty.

Another easy home run for biblical parallels is with Captain Keyes! Both Jacob (which is a rabbit hole of a fucking name) and Miranda Keyes are a reference to the “Keys to the Kingdom, to bind and loose on heaven and earth”. Jacob holds the knowledge of Earth from the flood; while Miranda is used by Tartarus in Halo 2 to activate the rings. Not one peep!

Just think of all the soyfacing and "LET'S GOOOOO! BRO IM SO IN!" you'd get from Goon for this.

 

[Edgeymcedgename]

Just think of all the soyfacing and "LET'S GOOOOO! BRO IM SO IN!" you'd get from Goon for this.

He is more than a bit of a goober.

 

[FieldPiece]

I just thought that the programmers were mad about 9/11.

But you clearly know more than I do.

Alot of the people involved in writing Halo 1-3 were raised by pastors, Particularly Marcus Lehto, Joseph Staten, and I believe Marty O'donnell as well. Bungies games have always had lots of religious and ancient history callbacks all the way back to Marathon and Myth.

 

[Kari Kamiya]

 

[DenseDeerFather]

Listened to the video. It's actually quite good. Granted I've never heard of this incident before so by proxy the topic was quite interesting to me.

I think I like Wendi the most when he's talking about wild incidents through history or fed shit rather than analog horror or fictional media - even if I really like his Blood Meridian, FAITH, and No Country videos to name a few.

But by proxy those pieces of media are things I enjoy. Anyway, it feels like a topic he was genuinely interested in (perhaps because he has a moment where he can go off about guns or something)

The facial hair still needs some getting used to and I'm not sure I like the look he's going for, especially with that shirt. But alas, I am not the fashion police.

 

[wtfNeedSignUp]

Before watching the video I just want to say I really was tempted to add a comment of "which the FBI didn't directly responsible for"

 

[Catgirl Tyranid]

I wonder if it's possible to bully Wendi into reading and covering Don Quixote. If only so I can avoid reading Don Quixote since the last time I tried I literally fell asleep in my chair with the book open.

 

[Grayson Death Carlyle]

(Halo-Bible connections lore drop)

Are there any more resources that one could read or watch about this topic? I have been a Christian all my life with plenty of education on OT and NT history and I also played the original 4 Halo games and liked them, but I somehow missed all of this. I would love the chance to read or listen to a video that explains this in more detail.

 

[Mnutu]

Are there any more resources that one could read or watch about this topic? I have been a Christian all my life with plenty of education on OT and NT history and I also played the original 4 Halo games and liked them, but I somehow missed all of this. I would love the chance to read or listen to a video that explains this in more detail.

Here’s a pedia page that’ goes over most of it.
I never really watched a video about it, it’s one of those things that just clicks when you realize it. Remember, it’s not a 1:1 perfect allegory; Campbell is really important to begin to understand the fun crazy stuff Bungie used to do. Play it again, and I’m sure you’ll put a few things together on your own. The page itself also misses stuff and overvalues certain connections.

For example “transmissions” nails the biblical quote, but fails to point out the importance of Cortana saying it.

 

[wtfNeedSignUp]

Okay watched the new video, interesting background and movie worthy events once it started (especially the ending holy shit). The summary is basically these memes:

I still think the guy starting it was an idiot going full Leeroy Jenkins and causing the death of two of his coworkers. Like hindsight is 20/20 but just tailing the crooks with backup would have worked better than hoping the psychos driving don't pack something stronger than a revolver.