Wendigoon Thread

[Edgeymcedgename]

I liked this one a good bit. It has some room for a little bit better dialogue and speeds past or drops some potentially interesting plot points, but handles things well has a nice twist and an ending that isn't total dogshit.

Hunter says something like "The ending feels like And we're done" and while I agree, I'd rather have a sudden "We're done" that isn't trash as opposed to the absolute dogshit we've seen. Well okay unless that dogshit is entertaining. I do love how bad Deepwoods becomes.

You guys are really hyping up how terrible the deepwoods additions are.

 

[The Bogwater Rises]

You guys are really hyping up how terrible the deepwoods additions are.

Part 4 was awful and hilarious.

 

[Jarch6]

Everything you said is irrelevant to what I wrote.

No, as I was just responding to you when you said

American Protestants are known for being lukewarm,

Otherwise, I actually largely agree with the rest of what you said about wendi's rather unbalanced views on morality.

While far from perfect (with some easily noticeable plotholes in particular) this was definitely a palette cleanser compared to the previous story (and a rather good episode to boot) — besides being an overall much better story, the fact it didn't overstay its welcome made it particularly refreshing.

 

[Spergetti]

Really strong premise, but Marc is a naive retard at moments that pulled me out of the narrative. A stupid/foolhardy protagonist is understandable in a horror story insofar if it is meant to allow the story to continue, but after finding out some of his coworkers and his boss are stone cold killers Marc actually says, "b-b-but this is illegal!" and "that's my personal property." These lines literally made me think of the gigachad yes meme, and it sucked out the tension for me. Wendi's theory about Marc trying to convince himself not to go along with Silva's operation was interesting, and it saved my interest in the story to see if Marc would commit to being a busboy, but that doesn't pan out. Also, Hunter is 100% correct that the ending is rushed because the author was ready to be done with the story. Pros: Hot milf and tall goth mommy, God bless you A.P. Royal. Overall, it's a 7/10 for me.

 

[TheOtherSideofMakeBelieve]

Finally caught up on the last couple of episodes of Creep Cast

Really liked The Hidden Webpage. Pretty obvious allegory for a guy getting catfished by a predator when he was a kid but taking it at face value I loved all the twists and turns it took. Definitely curious about the sequels

Stuck on an Abandoned Ship was absolutely crippled by being a no-sleep story and the ending was terrible. Probably works better as a short story but it really needs some rewrites. The writing gave me Russell Greer vibes with how every third line or so was about what he was feeling or how he was reacting to things he had no control over which I appreciate (in a good-bad way). By the end the word 'scream' had me laughing almost uncontrollably. I enjoyed the episode but it's in the same camp as Dared My Best Friend to Ruin My Life where there's a good bit of funny moments but not to the point where I want to sit through it for four hours so I'll definitely be sticking to the Darbo highlight reel

Azalea's Cookhouse I really enjoyed. It just flew by, I can't believe it was a two hour episode, it felt like an hour tops. Some goofy moments but not so much they took me out of the story (especially since I started it immediately after Abandoned Ship) and the overall premise is awesome. Very interested in more of the author's stuff, it really wouldn't take much to make Azalea's Cookhouse a lot better so something that he took his time on rather than just shitting it out on Reddit is probably great

 

[Godchu]

New video is nearly four hours long, yet it feels like he's covered less than his other deep dives, even his hour-long ones.

I really don't understand the appeal of Petscop at all. This shit is just so boring.

 

[TheOtherSideofMakeBelieve]

I tried watching a Petscop video by someone else and just couldn't pay attention to it at all. Haven't tried Wendi's video on it yet, might give it a shot tomorrow since I'm caught up on creepcast and need content to get through the work day but I'm not expecting much

 

[Active User]

Yeah, same experience here. I can't even really identify anything specifically wrong with his video, the subject just can't hold my attention.

 

[Aunt Carol]

I really don't understand the appeal of Petscop at all. This shit is just so boring.

We may just be old now.

I usually watch these "easily-scared nerd retells an analog horror series he enjoyed" videos because I cannot be bothered to watch the incredibly long original, yet I like vaguely knowing what's going on in online culture. For me, Wendi is providing the Reader's Digest Condensed Books version.

But this one was still really, really bland and pointless. I skipped about 90 minutes in the middle to no obvious effect.

 

[Absurdist Laughter]

I wasn't aware that there was a trans Petscop theory; I'm also not surprised. Ironically, I blame Rowling for revealing some HP characters are gay. It was about that same time that I started noticing lgbtq retcons everywhere.

 

[Korpon]

I remember first watching Petscop when it was only like 6 episodes and thought it was a decent concept and was interested to see where it would go, but after watching the video I'm thankful I never bothered keeping up with it. Either I'm retarded or the series is retarded (or both) and it makes no sense. So some guy had his friend disappear with a windmill when they were kids, then years later decides to "groom"/murder other kids in his family to try and make them like his old childhood friend? And his nephew was making this kids game, randomly decides to turn it into some kinda haunted bullshit to go against his uncle after finding out he's a evil dude (instead of going to the police/killing him), and the game somehow has the ghosts of the kids that got murdered? But also has parts or copies of other people including the evil guy and the dude recording the gameplay; Paul? And he does this to find what, where the kids' bodies are buried and to torture the evil guy? Like did I miss something like a moron or is this just a shitty knock off FNAF.

I also really don't see the tranny symbolism either, I get it has the whole "rebirthing" stuff in there but that was clearly just copied from the whole Newmaker case thing (RIP to that girl).

 

[The Bogwater Rises]

Finally finished the Petscop video while at work. I didn't hate it. I liked Wendi's take on it (caveat later), but if you quizzed me to tell you 3 things that actually happened I would fail. It was just kind of white noise in the background. I was actually getting kind of interested to look into the Petscop stuff myself. Then Wendi mentioned the 100+ page Reddit Doc and the fact that basically everything he said could be wrong because "up to interpretation". So I'm just going to pretend my vague knowledge I gained from Wendi is all there is to it and accept that.

I am 100% sure I would not have finished the video if I didn't need some background noise at work. I did try listening to it over the weekend and just moved to another video each time.

 

[Rick The Stick]

From what I gather, Petscop sounds gay and it's 4 hours. So I'll skip that. Skipped quite a few of his main channel videos tbh. And really haven't cared for the recent stories either. I did get a kick out of wendi showing his powerlevel a bit when he talked about the random Twitter user who just rates his videos "good/bad" with zero explanation, and how it bothers him. He would be the kinda autist who'd get annoyed over something like that.

Ironically, I blame Rowling for revealing some HP characters are gay. It was about that same time that I started noticing lgbtq retcons everywhere.

She was also one of the first people I saw being totally down for replacing white characters with niggers because she was in favor of some Lovely Lady playing Hermione in a stage play, and then I believe she later said that she never really pictured Hermione as white to begin with(despite describing her as and approving of all the artwork that depicted her as white).

 

[Catgirl Tyranid]

Azalea's Cookhouse I really enjoyed. It just flew by, I can't believe it was a two hour episode, it felt like an hour tops. Some goofy moments but not so much they took me out of the story (especially since I started it immediately after Abandoned Ship) and the overall premise is awesome. Very interested in more of the author's stuff, it really wouldn't take much to make Azalea's Cookhouse a lot better so something that he took his time on rather than just shitting it out on Reddit is probably great

Azalea's cookhouse seems like a good premise, but the author rushed the reveal and wasted potential with many of his concepts. The MC having his judgement clouded by the black widow was fun, but for that to end with him just spilling his spaghetti? It came off as comedic and then the guy's sister just muddied the waters.

I'm glad the author knew to end it though. Better a rushed ending than a drawn out mauling of the original premise.

 

[wtfNeedSignUp]

I wasn't aware that there was a trans Petscop theory; I'm also not surprised. Ironically, I blame Rowling for revealing some HP characters are gay. It was about that same time that I started noticing lgbtq retcons everywhere.

Tbf it was Tumblr that massively popularized pooners and yaoi consumption. Niggerizing and faggoting existing characters was always done by people too cowardly for the financial risk.

 

[TheOtherSideofMakeBelieve]

I got about half an hour into the Petscop vid, paused it to talk to someone, then like an hour later I realized I didn't hit play again and didn't bother to keep going even after that, so I guess roughly the same level of engagement as I got from the first video about it that I tried. Just waited until I took a break to find something else to watch

 

[Jarch6]

New video is nearly four hours long, yet it feels like he's covered less than his other deep dives, even his hour-long ones.

I really don't understand the appeal of Petscop at all. This shit is just so boring.

Agree, I can see why pyrocynical never released a second part to his vid on it.

 

[Raisincrest]

I should clarify: I liked Wendi's theory for Petscop, but it needs a supercut that removes the entire retelling of Petscop.

People who haven't watched Petscop are going to be confused and/or bored, and people who have watched Petscop are going to just be bored for most of it. I do think, outside of the theory, Wendi did provide a couple of observations I didn't notice.

That being said, it baffles me that he didn't explain that the reason that demo Paul (i.e., "pall") is mispelled is because the language doesn't include proper nouns. That's why Marvin, Lina, or Paul can't be found in the table, but tiara, bell, and care can.

If the video was remade to focus on just the theory with support evidence, then it would probably only be about an hour long at most.

 

[Chin of Campbell]

Petscop's problem is that the novelty is 100% in the presentation while the story itself is bordering on nonsensical. It's very cool that Tony Bologna or whoever made a little PS1 game to tell his story WAAAAAAY before that became the gayest most tranniest thing ever to do, seriously. But when you lay everything out as "Here you go, this is it" it loses most if not all appeal. Someone previously mentioned his old story Tapers and his writing style is very interesting. Weird and quirky without being "weird" and "quirky".

 

[likeacrackado]