Wendigoon Thread

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Catgirl Tyranid said:
The giant spiral eye radiating warmth upon its congregation of content worshipers made warped stone statues kind of lends itself to that idea.

A whirlwind clearly prevents female lead, the final survivor, from falling to her death in the last chapter when no one is there to help her is pretty blatant unless you want to chalk it up to Junji Ito saving his character with a Deus Ex Machina moment. He could have just as easily had her make the small jump she failed. Not to mention that the prior rules established that the whirlwinds were no longer happening within the area of the spiral longhouse. So either Junji Ito glaringly broke his own rules of his world, or the spiral went out of its way to save her.
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Doesn't the heroine die at the end though? And the idea she spread the curse doesn't work if the comic isn't an in-universe way of informing others of its existence. It reminds me too much of Left Right Game where god forbid the final girl isn't the most important person in the world. Japanese horror is creepy for not having actual rules (or having very arbitrary ones).
 
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Crocodylus Acutus said:
I've always heard of Junji Ito, but never read any of his stuff. This new video makes me want to crack open some of his manga though. Anyone who has read Ito's stories before, which ones would you suggest?
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These are my personal favorites, all one shots:

- The Window Next Door
- The Long Dream
- The Enigma of Amigara Fault
- Dissection Girl
- Layers of Fear

(I have a thing for body horror and uncanny valley, if you can't tell.)
 
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fishercat said:
A lot of Junji Ito's work is basically "wouldn't it be fucked up if this happened" and then it runs with that idea and very little gets explained.
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Ayy, we're back to the same fucking point. Horror is good when shit's not explained to it's fullest, so fear of the unknown kicks in. And your imagination starts filling in the blanks, coming up with terrifying shit. That's the true hard hitting horror.

Unfortunately, Wendigoon is one of those zoomer brains that lacks the ability to gain enjoyment from imagining the unexplained and has to have absolutely everything meticulously explained or else he can't enjoy it. Shit's gay as fuck and he deserves to be mocked for it.
 
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Absurdist Laughter said:
It's a sad day when passion and inquisitiveness is viewed as not a virtue but a negative personality trait.
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idk about passion in the latest video, felt like generic "patreon topic", without doing the extra work of looking at other horror manga to get a comparison. As for inquisitiveness, it's more making shit up for some weird internal logic.
 
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New Creep Cast if anyone hasn't already been made aware of this. Hope the story's good this time around but we're already starting off with some failed novelist shit.

Yeah that was bad. Guess I was right in thinking it was gonna be some guy's shitty self-insert horror novella posted directly to Reddit. It's a shame cause the original premise really did have potential: a Redditor is stuck at home during lockdowns when something in his basement starts talking to him, pleading him to go down there as he slowly loses his sanity over this whole ordeal. But no, the author just had to go and do some X-Files ripoff while the actually interesting story is pushed off to the side in the cheesiest way imaginable. And I think it later on it does some The Thing shit too? Not the movie, but the comics where the thing escapes out into the rest of the world. It's that weird.

Overall probably one of my favorite episodes so far. Don't think they should continue it, to be completely honest. Not if they actually try and take it seriously and be respectful to the author and all that gay shit. The story's nowhere near good enough for that.

Also lol it got age-restricted. Guess they really aren't gonna continue it after all, then.
 
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The story is so bad it doesn't even deserve a critical breakdown.

The only thing I keep thinking about after this episode is, are they genuinely retarded? Dyslexic? Some form of ADHD? Because they keep doing these fucking things that drive me up the wall. One being how their brains somehow completely glaze over information. Like how at the very beginning the author explicitly describes smoking a pack and drinking beer, all in view of a detective, and yet they somehow reach the conclusion that the narrator must be 12-15 years old. Or when the narrator, also at the very beginning, reveals his name is Clancy yet Hunter thinks his name is "sonny" because that's what the detective called him, and Wendigoon had to explain to him that "sonny" is like calling someone "son" (how the hell does an American man not even know that?)
How did I immediately notice all those things when I was only listening to this as background noise while doing chores, yet these guys who actively read and narrate it out loud don't? Is it actual disability?
Second is when they straight up misread stuff that completely change the context of the situation. I didn't even notice it until I read the comments, because as I've said I was listening to this in the background, not watching; but someone pointed out how the text quotes the sister saying she DOES wish she could speak to her mother, but Hunter misreads it as her saying she doesn't,. Which leads into a minutes long discussion between them about how interesting of a conundrum that is, when the story itself never even went in that direction.
 
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Their reaction on how terribly written this is has me excited for them to continue and find out it doesn't get better. Though, that does bring up another point of genuine worry, they sort of front loaded the good stuff when it should have been dispersed over time. I wonder where they'll have to pivot and to what.
 
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I don't think there's any worry of them running out of good stuff, there's a bunch of good youtube stuff and SCP entries, and they could probably just review movies if they wanted (which they've done in the past on the Papa Meat channel), but even if they do if it became the creepypasta version of Best of the Worst that'd be totally fine with me. The Jeff the Killer and The Thing in the Basement episodes are my two favorites so far by a pretty good margin
 
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I swear, creepypasta titles just keep getting longer and goofier. They almost sound like parodies now, its alway shit like:

"I woke up at midnight, on a Saturday, because I had to take a piss. That's when I found out, that the evil piss monster was waiting in my toilet, and he was thirsty."

I get it, you need to differentiate your story from the thousands of other mediocre creepypastas that already exist, but be brief you negros.
 
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Crocodylus Acutus said:
I swear, creepypasta titles just keep getting longer and goofier. They almost sound like parodies now, its alway shit like:

"I woke up at midnight, on a Saturday, because I had to take a piss. That's when I found out, that the evil piss monster was waiting in my toilet, and he was thirsty."

I get it, you need to differentiate your story from the thousands of other mediocre creepypastas that already exist, but be brief you negros.
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That's more of a nosleep thing honsetly:

"I'm a Search and Rescue Officer for the US Forest Service. I Have Stories to Tell"

"My Dead Girlfriend Keeps Messaging Me on Facebook. I've Got Screenshots. I Don't Know What to do."

"I'm the Owner of a Small Diner in the Middle of Nowhere, and I Like to Give Travellers Who Come in a Discount Provided They Tell Me a Story About Their Lives. Over the Last Decade I've Heard Some Really Terrifying Things."

No idea why they do it though. Probably something in the pages upon pages of rules that requires it to be this way.
 
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We should have a thread devoted to shitty creepypastas since the topic is interesting and keeps bloating this thread.
Godchu said:
That's more of a nosleep thing honsetly:

"I'm a Search and Rescue Officer for the US Forest Service. I Have Stories to Tell"

"My Dead Girlfriend Keeps Messaging Me on Facebook. I've Got Screenshots. I Don't Know What to do."

"I'm the Owner of a Small Diner in the Middle of Nowhere, and I Like to Give Travellers Who Come in a Discount Provided They Tell Me a Story About Their Lives. Over the Last Decade I've Heard Some Really Terrifying Things."

No idea why they do it though. Probably something in the pages upon pages of rules that requires it to be this way.
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Like with Japanese LN, it's a copy of a copy of a copy. Starting with shit like Sandman, real crime and horror myths. Then copied with SCP and nerd myths, and by now it's filtered into something that is more search tags than idea.
 
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Godchu said:
That's more of a nosleep thing honsetly:

"I'm a Search and Rescue Officer for the US Forest Service. I Have Stories to Tell"

"My Dead Girlfriend Keeps Messaging Me on Facebook. I've Got Screenshots. I Don't Know What to do."

"I'm the Owner of a Small Diner in the Middle of Nowhere, and I Like to Give Travellers Who Come in a Discount Provided They Tell Me a Story About Their Lives. Over the Last Decade I've Heard Some Really Terrifying Things."

No idea why they do it though. Probably something in the pages upon pages of rules that requires it to be this way.
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I assume they're trying to come off as normal Reddit posts.
 
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