Wendigoon Thread

[Seafarer]

Wendi appeared on some podcast called “Forehead Fables Podcast” no clue who they are, but it is always cool to see Wendigoon just chilling with other people:

 

[xXx: State of the Union]

It's really crazy how I've seen a bunch of youtubers suddenly start talking about the book since Wendigoon put his video up. It's not just the algorithm showing me old videos but new videos.

Damn, is he an "influencer" now?

 

[Sinner's Sandwich]

I wonder if Blood Meridian would be best adapted as a video game. You can have voiceover plus that first-person perspective, and there could be a gauge that you fill up with murders until it unlocks a revelation about the human experience.

Oh god. Imagine a video game where you can brutally murder native americans en masse or just show graphic cutscenes of this shit. Can you imagine the insane shitstorm and cancelling that this would cause?

That's never going to happen. Even making a movie out of this is very questionable.

 

[VeteranOfTheRetardWars]

Oh god. Imagine a video game where you can brutally murder native americans en masse or just show graphic cutscenes of this shit. Can you imagine the insane shitstorm and cancelling that this would cause?

That's never going to happen. Even making a movie out of this is very questionable.

Imagine speedrunning the baby scalping segment.

 

[Bunny Tracks]

Oh god. Imagine a video game where you can brutally murder native americans en masse or just show graphic cutscenes of this shit. Can you imagine the insane shitstorm and cancelling that this would cause?

That's never going to happen. Even making a movie out of this is very questionable.

The natives are exactly why a game like this would never be made unless by an indie developer who doesn't give a shit.

The industry is extremely adverse to depicting natives in general, let alone as anything as other than peaceful victims of circumstance, and even then, showing them being violently killed on-screen is still a huge no-no.

Not even Rockstar allowed it, and they went even further by cutting the majority of native american content from RDR2, and actively preventing the player from hurting, or even just antagonizing them by keeping the vast majority of them segregated in this shithole reservation where those options are disabled.

Reminder that you can antagonize literally everyone else in the game, including a fucking four-year-old, but not the natives. Let that sink in.

When even the company behind GTA coddles them this much, you know a game based on Blood Meridian has a snowball's chance in hell of ever actually happening.

 

[wtfNeedSignUp]

It's really crazy how I've seen a bunch of youtubers suddenly start talking about the book since Wendigoon put his video up. It's not just the algorithm showing me old videos but new videos.

Damn, is he an "influencer" now?

I feel like the term itself is tainted. Like an influencer is someone who makes kids buy some globohomo product rather than read classic American literature

 

[Probably a deer]

A Blood Meridian game will absolutely never happen but it's fun to imagine the shitstorm it would cause if it did. Twitter would be in an uproar for weeks.

 

[Aunt Carol]

A Blood Meridian game will absolutely never happen but it's fun to imagine the shitstorm it would cause if it did. Twitter would be in an uproar for weeks.

It'd be like The Stanley Parable except longer and with horrendous violence. Also if you look away from an NPC while he's soliloquizing, you take damage.

 

[Seafarer]

New Wendigoon:

You’d think after that 5-hour Blood Meridian video he’d have less output for a little while after, but he’s had two longish videos this week.

 

[VeteranOfTheRetardWars]

The Virgin K-Pop Stan vs The Chad Old Blues Enthusiast.

MY WOMAN
SHE DON'T LOOOOVE ME NO MOOORE
*DISGUSTING GUITAR LICKS*

 

[Dan of Steel]

If Blood Meridian were to ever be adapted in a way that's faithful and carries the same impact as the book, it can't be a two hour movie. The Road and No Country For Old Men at least could be condensed down to films due to their smaller scope, but because the whole point of Blood Meridian is to show in excruciating detail the extreme violence and depravity the Glanton Gang inflict on others, softening up the violence and shortening it is entirely missing the point of the book. If it were to be adapted, it'd have to be an HBO-style limited series around 10-12 hours, or 10-12 episodes. Although personally, I feel like the way to adapt Blood Meridian best is in animation. I don't think any actor could ever properly convey just how uncanny of a monster Judge Holden really is, and a lot of the more mystical/religious elements I think would make more sense in an animated world rather than using CGI effects.

Also latest video was great, Robert Johnson is my nigga:

 

[Turtles McDougal]

I wonder if Blood Meridian would be best adapted as a video game. You can have voiceover plus that first-person perspective, and there could be a gauge that you fill up with murders until it unlocks a revelation about the human experience.

The final boss is fighting The Judge in the outhouse.

2nd phase he is just nekkid.

 

[Toolbox]

The natives are exactly why a game like this would never be made unless by an indie developer who doesn't give a shit.

The industry is extremely adverse to depicting natives in general, let alone as anything as other than peaceful victims of circumstance, and even then, showing them being violently killed on-screen is still a huge no-no.

Not even Rockstar allowed it, and they went even further by cutting the majority of native american content from RDR2, and actively preventing the player from hurting, or even just antagonizing them by keeping the vast majority of them segregated in this shithole reservation where those options are disabled.

Reminder that you can antagonize literally everyone else in the game, including a fucking four-year-old, but not the natives. Let that sink in.

When even the company behind GTA coddles them this much, you know a game based on Blood Meridian has a snowball's chance in hell of ever actually happening.

Was Prey (2006) that last big title to actually have a major part of the game depicting native american culture and people? I don't think it'd fly at all today.

 

[Vapewizard]

Although personally, I feel like the way to adapt Blood Meridian best is in animation. I don't think any actor could ever properly convey just how uncanny of a monster Judge Holden really is, and a lot of the more mystical/religious elements I think would make more sense in an animated world rather than using CGI effects.

Now my mind is going places, thinking of how 80s anime OVAs could get notoriously gory and imagining some weird alternate timeline where a westaboo JP animator found the book and got inspired.

 

[Pitbull Victim]

The natives are exactly why a game like this would never be made unless by an indie developer who doesn't give a shit.

The industry is extremely adverse to depicting natives in general, let alone as anything as other than peaceful victims of circumstance, and even then, showing them being violently killed on-screen is still a huge no-no.

Not even Rockstar allowed it, and they went even further by cutting the majority of native american content from RDR2, and actively preventing the player from hurting, or even just antagonizing them by keeping the vast majority of them segregated in this shithole reservation where those options are disabled.

Reminder that you can antagonize literally everyone else in the game, including a fucking four-year-old, but not the natives. Let that sink in.

When even the company behind GTA coddles them this much, you know a game based on Blood Meridian has a snowball's chance in hell of ever actually happening.

I don't play a ton of video games, but the last game I can think of where natives were an enemy was Gun all the way back in 2005. Not only did you fight natives, but you could straight up scalp them while they were dying, which is pretty wild in retrospect. Unsurprisingly, this caused a minor shitfit:

 

[Bunny Tracks]

Was Prey (2006) that last big title to actually have a major part of the game depicting native american culture and people? I don't think it'd fly at all today.

I'm not actually sure. I think RDR2 still counts if only because it does depict native american culture, and people albeit only very briefly, and to be blunt, kind of insultingly because they just exist to be pawns for Dutch, and to create misery porn.

Not to derail the thread, but for what it's worth, they originally weren't supposed to be like that. The natives were supposed to play a much bigger part in the game. They had their own sidequests, encounters, locations, variants, and possibly even their own gang that was scrapped, and turned into the Skinner Brothers, but all of that is a whole 'nother story.

All of it was just cut for unclear reasons, although the biggest theories are them causing problems for the plot, and fears of creating accusations of racism. The latter of which sounds ridiculous, but the OG RDR did face those because of its depiction natives, so it makes sense for Rockstar not to want to go through that again.

I don't play a ton of video games, but the last game I can think of where natives were an enemy was Gun all the way back in 2005. Not only did you fight natives, but you could straight up scalp them while they were dying, which is pretty wild in retrospect. Unsurprisingly, this caused a minor shitfit:

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Like I mentioned above, the same thing happened with RDR1. To put it simply, natives were not depicted well in that game, and Rockstar faced some backlash for it which might be one of the reasons they depicted natives as they did in the sequel, and cut so much content involving them.

 

[Probably a deer]

I'm starting to believe someone (preferably someone better at OPs than I) should make this into a thread before this becomes the unofficial Blood Meridian Thread.

 

[Catgirl Tyranid]

I'm starting to believe someone (preferably someone better at OPs than I) should make this into a thread before this becomes the unofficial Blood Meridian Thread.

I don't think that's necessary. We're in the off-topic forum so I don't think getting off-topic is that big a deal since the conversation was spurred by the subject of the thread.

 

[Seafarer]

New vid: haven‘t watched it yet, but I know he’s been teasing a vid on Blood Meridian for a while.

Also it’s FIVE FUCKING HOURS LONG!!!

I know this is kinda late, but I was rewatching some of this video and for some reason when it got to the part around the beginning where a priest is giving a sermon and Judge Holden accuses him of raping children and goats, I imagined the priest retorting in Null’s Patrick Tomlinson impression, like “no I did not rape that goat stalker child, that is one of your delusions, enjoy prison stalker ” and started hysterically laughing for like 5 minutes straight.

 

[Probably a deer]

I know this is kinda late, but I was rewatching some of this video and for some reason when it got to the part around the beginning where a priest is giving a sermon and Judge Holden accuses him of raping children and goats, I imagined the priest retorting in Null’s Patrick Tomlinson impression, like “no I did not rape that goat stalker child, that is one of your delusions, enjoy prison stalker ” and started hysterically laughing for like 5 minutes straight.

God damn it, now I'm never unhearing this, thanks.