Wendigoon Thread

Wendi's audio is shit for the old episodes and there's nonstop technical issues but the actual content is super fun. I almost want to buy a 5090 so I can spin up my own LLM and replace his voice with his voice from other content. If there was an edited down (cutting out the tech support segments and most of the superchats because 90% of them are people getting the Aidens to say 'Wendussy') version with normalized audio I think it'd be a lot more popular than it is. Haven't watched the new episode to comment on it specifically

I basically have to listen to it on my bone conduction headphones, any other pair makes it too uncomfortable. I basically have to max out the volume to be able to hear Wendi but the Lore Lodge guys have reasonable volume
 
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I've never watched this podcast, never even heard of it since this thread started mentioning it recently.
Is it like a bible class? does it dunk on other religions (respectfully)? Or is Wendi too nice to say the obvious things, and keeps it relegated to his faith?
 
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I've never watched this podcast, never even heard of it since this thread started mentioning it recently.
Is it like a bible class? does it dunk on other religions (respectfully)? Or is Wendi too nice to say the obvious things, and keeps it relegated to his faith?
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Mostly it just covers goofy stuff in the bible that probably won't come up in a sermon. Like, you might hear about Saul losing God's favor, but you probably won't hear about how immediately afterwards Saul went full schizo and attempted to murder David by hurling spears at him every time he saw him only for David to dodge them all like a Naruto character before pulling out his lyre and playing a song for Saul to calm him down

A bible class is probably a good way to describe it, just with a bit more focus on being entertaining over trying to teach a lesson. I think they try to let the lessons teach themselves so that atheists don't feel put off by it. It never comes across as preachy or anything. I'm sure they appreciate having an audience with which to share their faith but it feels like they just want to have a good time talking about something they care about
 
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TheOtherSideofMakeBelieve said:
Mostly it just covers goofy stuff in the bible that probably won't come up in a sermon. Like, you might hear about Saul losing God's favor, but you probably won't hear about how immediately afterwards Saul went full schizo and attempted to murder David by hurling spears at him every time he saw him only for David to dodge them all like a Naruto character before pulling out his lyre and playing a song for Saul to calm him down
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I feel like if they included stories like that church attendance might be higher. If it's in the bible, it's in the bible, not reading it all is how we get assholes that cherry pick what parts of the bible they want to follow.
 
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Kari Kamiya said:
"The guy who started your religion was a pedophile, maybe it's not a good religion." - Aidan when talking about the Satanic Temple
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Most sensible thing he's ever said.
Meth Dick said:
I feel like if they included stories like that church attendance might be higher. If it's in the bible, it's in the bible, not reading it all is how we get assholes that cherry pick what parts of the bible they want to follow.
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That's what Bible class/Bible study is for. That's also, partly, what you'd do during Sunday School as well. Plus let's be real, there's nothing anyone can actually do to increase attendance(other than stop pretending like being a faggot isn't a sin I guess) or to stop the cherry pickers.

People have to want to go to church on their own and they need to have their own desire to explore the bible. Horse to water and all that.
TheOtherSideofMakeBelieve said:
If there was an edited down (cutting out the tech support segments and most of the superchats because 90% of them are people getting the Aidens to say 'Wendussy') version with normalized audio I think it'd be a lot more popular than it is.
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This is one of the things that keeps me from listening regularly. Idk why they insist on doing it as a stream. There's always some sort of issue, the chats are fucking annoying, and it's too tempting to play to the audience instead of actually talking about the subject.
 
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Rick The Stick said:
This is one of the things that keeps me from listening regularly. Idk why they insist on doing it as a stream. There's always some sort of issue, the chats are fucking annoying, and it's too tempting to play to the audience instead of actually talking about the subject.
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Yeah, I was super excited when they mentioned that they were doing an in-person pre-recorded episode, I thought maybe they were shifting to a new format. The in-person part would have been a nice way to have a special first episode of the new format even if it wasn't a regular thing.

I'm not always a fan of the Lore Lodge content but I really like their presentation, where they do the pre-recorded video on Friday and then on Monday they follow it up with a livestream where people can superchat their questions, they can cover things that they thought were interesting surrounding the subject but didn't relate directly enough to make it into the video, make corrections or add new information that people share with them over the weekend, etc.

Weird Bible moving in that direction would be a good change imo. It's not like it gets a ton of views so I don't think a format shift would hurt them much

As to why they do it the way they do, it's probably just easier and doesn't make enough money on its own to justify hiring an editor
 
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Wendigoon covered the Hinterkaifeck murders.
Pretty decent, some of his pronunciations were setting my teeth on edge, but I'll overlook it.
There were a few things I would argue with him over, like he said that a knife that was found in the attic was used on one of the victims and I don't think that was the case, other little things that I can't recall clearly right now.
Not a bad video of a complex situation, all in all.

(yeah, I know, late af. lol I am tired)
 
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FatalTater said:
Wendigoon covered the Hinterkaifeck murders.
Pretty decent, some of his pronunciations were setting my teeth on edge, but I'll overlook it.
There were a few things I would argue with him over, like he said that a knife that was found in the attic was used on one of the victims and I don't think that was the case, other little things that I can't recall clearly right now.
Not a bad video of a complex situation, all in all.

(yeah, I know, late af. lol I am tired)
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Seems similar to the Wolf family massacre of North Dakota 2 years prior. Hopefully Wendi covers that at some point too.
 
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PyrrhicRustle said:
It’s a multiple short story episode, really wish they’d mark them more obviously in the title.
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The first story was the best: it all fits together nicely, and requires no herculean suspension of disbelief.

The rest of the stories - and creepypasta stories generally - suffer from autistic focus on "high concept" payoff destroying verisimilitude: either nothing is elaborated on and the high concept exists alone, a transparent absurdity, or the stories tie themselves into knots revealing just enough that you realize it makes no sense. To this episode's credit, its high concept stories are of the former sort, and don't get bogged down in inadequate rationalization.

An example of a high concept tale that does get destroyed by the details is the astronaut story Creepcast did a while back: the high concept of "signal from outer space predicts your future/rewrites you biologically" is fun, but why would an alien intelligence that can clearly influence events (if it was just predicting things the dead astronaut wouldn't have been transformed postmortem) resurrect someone as a monster, only for that monster to then be orchestrated to get incinerated in orbit? If the signal can reprogram someone to evolve into a space-dwelling monster using such low bandwidth, and anticipate their death, why not engineer that monster to not make such an elementary mistake of behaving like a retarded animal and getting itself killed? Why instead also inform them of their second death when your very prescience and capability to affect outcomes should imply some ability to set things on an optimal path? To incinerate your creation achieves nothing! Of course, the reason why the evil space signal is a self-defeating moron exists entirely outside of the narrative: if the space monster the signal made was clever the protagonist wouldn't get away, and wouldn't be able to tell the high-concept story in the form of a recollection. It decays thanks to it's own elaboration, and makes me appreciate old "spooky" authors like Lovecraft all the more, who usually managed to give more explanation and internal consistency than given popular credit for.

This isn't to say I like everything spelled out, but I do appreciate works where, though perhaps the author won't reveal everything to the reader, it is nonetheless clear the author has a preexisting structure around or from which which their story unfolds. Contrast this with creepypasta authors, where it seems they think "wouldn't X be spooky?" and then start typing.

Edit: on putting this into words, I think this is why I appreciate analog horror more than creepypasta: bastardized as both are, functional analog horror gives an excellent sense that the creator has a fleshed-out fictional cosmos that they are revealing facets of - which isn't to say they aren't pulling a Lost on me, but until they flub the ending I at least get to believe there's some unifying framework to explain the phenomena, whereas creepypasta can rarely achieve that sense of hiding something thought-out underneath the spectacle.
 
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The pigeon story was good up until the doppelganger concept was confirmed in the unneeded updates. Doppelgangers in real life would be horrifying, but it's been so done to death in creepypastas that it does nothing for me anymore, and it seems to be a default motif for lazy, uninspired writers who don't want to think too hard about their horror concept. I'm in desperate need of some sci-fi horror, cosmic horror or just some plain old serial killer thrills. I think the story they covered last week would have been immediately improved if it was some creep living in her home á la Penpal versus another mimic monster.

@crowabunga I didn't really like the astronaut story either, which surprises me as I enjoyed the Husband/Wife roleplay stories from the same author; I don't think the writer's style suited the particular horror he was going for. However, to defend the story's ending I think the implication was that the alien was nothing more than a glorified incubator; the intelligence always intended for the monster to die and hit Earth, as then parts of the "vessel" would split off and reproduce.

You're also right that the first-person perspective kills many of these stories - it's why I'll always love Psychosis as the author was able to be fully creative and wasn't hampered by some Reddit mod's dumb rules. A good 60% of these stories would be improved by being written in a third-person perspective alone.
 
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