Wendigoon Thread

[Edgeymcedgename]

Neat

 

[Lil B's Strongest Soldier]

New main channel video, has some funky audio in the first minute. Not sure why he or the editor couldn't just cut that shit out and do another take

 

[wtfNeedSignUp]

An interesting event. Fuck those soldiers going muh PTSD from boot camp, they just want to cling on an easy excuse for their actions.

 

[Paradox Mystic]

An interesting event. Fuck those soldiers going muh PTSD from boot camp, they just want to cling on an easy excuse for their actions.

Drill Sgts give extra help and attention devoted to people if they start cracking from the pressure of being in bootcamp (assuming they don't get thrown out for being too fucked up.) It's not like someone breaks their leg and mentally/emotionally shatters and the Drill Sgts are like "How can we make this more cartoonishly evil?" especially since there is often paranoia the Army's equivalent of Internal Affairs is watching or close by.

 

[VeteranOfTheRetardWars]

Looks like this book:
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Which is a “humorous explanation of economics”. The author was a National Lampoon writer who went on to write books like “Give War a Chance: Eyewitness Accounts of Mankind's Struggle Against Tyranny, Injustice and Alcohol-Free Beer“ and “The Baby Boom: How It Got That Way (And It Wasn't My Fault) (And I'll Never Do It Again)”. He died in 2022 in a small town in New Hampshire, maybe the Spire got him.

Yeah, people forgot how huge a market ‘funny’ books were before the Internet came along.

 

[VeteranOfTheRetardWars]

Imagine being a peasant and one day two total lunatics just roll up and Immortan Joe your whole village, and because it’s the Medieval age nobody noticed until the bishop/lord had some dude tell him that shit was fucked so, logically, he laid siege and killed anyone who tried to gtfo.

 

[wtfNeedSignUp]

Drill Sgts give extra help and attention devoted to people if they start cracking from the pressure of being in bootcamp (assuming they don't get thrown out for being too fucked up.) It's not like someone breaks their leg and mentally/emotionally shatters and the Drill Sgts are like "How can we make this more cartoonishly evil?" especially since there is often paranoia the Army's equivalent of Internal Affairs is watching or close by.

Yeah I could understand the more hardcore corps having issues of hazing. But in Basic post 9/11? They didn't even have shortage of troops (from what I heard). Muh mental health is too easy of an excuse that hurts people that actually suffer, and ignores that the training is tough because those men are going to be shot at.

New main channel video, has some funky audio in the first minute. Not sure why he or the editor couldn't just cut that shit out and do another take

Absolute kino, could easily be a Warhammer Fantasy with how edgy and pointless it is. I like that every time Wendi talked about the cult it's basically those two memes:

Should do a version of the meme with Protestants.

 

[Paradox Mystic]

Yeah I could understand the more hardcore corps having issues of hazing. But in Basic post 9/11? They didn't even have shortage of troops (from what I heard). Muh mental health is too easy of an excuse that hurts people that actually suffer, and ignores that the training is tough because those men are going to be shot at.

A lot of it is the low IQ/egotistical mindset that they know how much they should or shouldn't be bossed around, like the people who say "Oh I could be a super soldier but I'd knock out a drill sgt who tried to talk shit to me."

In basic training people do have live rounds fired over them at one part but it's from like 25+ feet above them, it's not the bullets that is the annoying part it's having to low crawl one hundred meters.

 

[VeteranOfTheRetardWars]

Absolute kino, could easily be a Warhammer Fantasy with how edgy and pointless it is. I like that every time Wendi talked about the cult it's basically those two memes:

Understand, the Internet didn’t exist back then so if you wanted to have fun you had to do what you had to do.

 

[PyrrhicRustle]

New Creepcast, it’s Borrasca V. I probably won’t watch, but enjoy.

 

[Edgeymcedgename]

New Creepcast, it’s Borrasca V. I probably won’t watch, but enjoy.

45 min in, nothing awful yet but thanks to you guys I'm hyped!

 

[VeteranOfTheRetardWars]

How me and the boys be eating after four more hours of Borrasca drop

 

[TheOtherSideofMakeBelieve]

I will say it's been better than the QCode version so far, about three hours in, and I know the written version doesn't have the epilogue which was far and away the worst part, so it may end up being ok. I was expecting it to be on par with the last part of Deepwoods assuming that the QCode rewrite was mostly better (with the exception of the epilogue, obviously) but aside from the production value QCode was much worse up to this point. I can sum up the changes/epilogue once I finish if anyone is interested in that

I do miss the Kyle bants from the first two episodes

I was right when I said I thought Wendi would like it and I think he'll be satisfied with it overall. Probably Meat as well

 

[VeteranOfTheRetardWars]

I think living through Borrasca is actually a really reasonable explanation for using heroin.

 

[TheOtherSideofMakeBelieve]

ok it just got amazing. I'm going to have a lot of these by the time I get to the end

edit: I think I'm past the worst of it so here's what I've got. The sketchiest folder on my computer

Spoiler: rape memes

I love how jolly Meat looks here, might have to use this as a reaction image


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[Edgeymcedgename]

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ok it just got amazing. I'm going to have a lot of these by the time I get to the end

edit: I think I'm past the worst of it so here's what I've got. The sketchiest folder on my computer
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Spoiler: rape memes

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I love how jolly Meat looks here, might have to use this as a reaction image

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Iconic ep. Shit story

 

[TheOtherSideofMakeBelieve]

Definitely a super fun episode. It's my favorite style of episode, starts out strong only to take a turn for the terrible. I'll compare and contrast the no sleep/written versions to the podcast production by QCode. For a spoiler free TL:DR overall they both get very goofy at the end so they're mostly comparable in tone, but the written version was a bit grittier in a way that I appreciated leading into that crashout inducing finale. The podcast version has an epilogue that is holy fucking shit who the fuck signed off on this why in god's name would you write this

Spoiler: compare/contrast QCode vs NoSleep

For parts 1-4 the tone/quality is mostly the same between the two. Generally very good. The only big difference I remember is that the podcast has the people running Borrasca playing into the town's rumors. Whenever the Shiny Gentleman disposes of someone the town's kids throw a giant party at the triple tree. Women in robes and masks show up at midnight, selecting a couple of girls at the party to climb the triple tree. Inside the triple tree the girls' hands are cut with the women in robes collecting some of their blood.

One of these girls usually disappears shortly after. You don't find out til close to the end but the reason for the cutting is that they're performing some test on the blood collected to see if any of the girls are fertile, so the reason for their disappearance is to replace whoever had just died/gotten disposed of. Overall a fine change imo. A bit cheesy and over the top but it makes more sense than just grabbing a random girl and hoping she hasn't been rendered sterile by the town's water

One change that doesn't affect the story but might affect how you feel about the story going into it blind would be that Sam is on heroin from jump. It starts off shortly after he's gotten out of prison, and it has him explaining what happened to his parole officer as a narrative framing device. Initially the parole officer doesn't believe him but by the end she's part of the effort to take down Borrasca alongside Sam, Kimber, and Seth (who has a bigger part rather than being a plot device to hack the records)

For part V (the original four were titled 1-4, part 5 is specifically V, which in my opinion means it's just a 'fun' "what if?" scenario rather than the true ending, Drisking is thriving even harder under Sheriff Walker than it had been in the original, vs it being run down because Walker doesn't give a shit about the town since he's not from there and just wants money/women (because he's an ALPHA). I definitely prefer Walker running the town into the dirt to extract maximum profit. Makes Prescot's motivation more believable, since I think if the town was still thriving he wouldn't give a shit since he didn't actually seem interested in running it himself. Overall it has a lot more detail and, as mentioned, Seth has a bit more to do, he's frequently on the phone with them helping them come up with plans. I don't remember Sam's dad paying for all his heroin in the podcast version and that reveal was excruciatingly funny in the written version. The dialog was tweaked, I guess it was 'better', though I greatly enjoyed how ridiculously over the top it was in the written version.

Plays out pretty much the same, including flashing back to them coming up with the plan to have Kimber take the gun and the vest. I was busy making my memes while listening so I didn't pay the closest attention to them reading it but in the podcast version the plan was: Kimber takes gun (which was a Kimber 1911, not an unspecified Beretta pistol) and the plates from the vest. Sam was wearing a plate carrier stuffed to look like the plate was still in it, vs in this it just sounded like she had some kevlar vests

Then the epilogue... Ugh. Rather than ending with Kyle whispering "Kimber..." he end up having a full recovery aside from his nose ending up crooked. He, Sam, and Kimber all start college, rent a house together. Sam ends up moving out because while them making out in front of him as teenagers made him uncomfortable he couldn't stand listening to them fuck all the time. It's basically someone's consequence free incest fantasy since Kimber is permanently sterile from Drisking's water supply.

Meat I was 50/50 on enjoying this part going into it, then started leaning towards him enjoying it the further it got because I was enjoying it more than the podcast version. I was surprised Wendi crashed out as hard as he did on it, but I'm glad he did

 

[Rick The Stick]

I thought Wendi didn't like AI art? Isn't this intro all AI shit?

 

[Poteto]

New Creepcast, it’s Borrasca V. I probably won’t watch, but enjoy.

I haven't read a lot of this author's stuff, I'm only familiar with borrasca and The disappearance of Ashley morgan, which is also very good and not very long. If you haven't read it it's well worth your time. There is also a chilling tales for dark nights reading of it which is a good narration which was part of one of their Halloween contests, which iirc is called evil idol.

With that said, I have heard that her stuff is pretty consistently good when it is good. It's possible that she was just compelled to write something that is out of her wheelhouse and as a result it isn't good because it isn't the kind of story she's good at writing, but my charitable interpretation of why this one is so bad is that she wrote the bad parts on purpose out of spite and sarcasm toward everyone who kept bothering her for so long to write a happy ending for this despite that obviously not being the kind of ending that she wanted it to have, or she would have wrote that into the original run of the story.

On the other hand though, didn't she also write that story they covered where two kids go to an abandoned town and find a statue of a demon that makes that whole area disappear and then they meet back up later as adults and it's like a really shitty cringy action romance thing? I can't think of any reason why she would have wanted to make that bad on purpose, so it probably is more realistic that this turned out bad because that is just how it turned out. The stuff of hers that I like, I like so much that it makes want to run defense for her as a result and make excuses for her failures, but that isn't a realistic and honest way to approach this.

 

[Edgeymcedgename]

The end of episode cope was a bit "We're nice guys don't hurt her feelings" but I must say that this was really fun and extremely funny.