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Godchu said:
Second story is about Cthulhu right? I'm not going insane?

E: it was pretty mid anyway
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Creepcast fan submissions have a tendency to be the most overdone mid tropes ever, but use so much flowery language and esoterritronic references that the Iceberg man is fooled into thinking they're peak.
 
Oongok said:
Creepcast fan submissions have a tendency to be the most overdone mid tropes ever, but use so much flowery language and esoterritronic references that the Iceberg man is fooled into thinking they're peak.
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The issue with fan submitted stuff is they are writing for Wendi's tastes. The guy is an open book on what he likes and so naturally fans writing stories for the podcasts will just reuse the same tropes over and over again because they know he likes them.
 
Oongok said:
but use so much flowery language and esoterritronic references that the Iceberg man is fooled into thinking they're peak.
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I dread whenever I read something and it references esoteric bible lore. It's become so popular recently and it's done with absolutely no restraint. In The Thing On The Door Step, by Lovecraft, the antagonist is named Asenath, pulled from the bible. The name means "of her Father" or "belongs to her father". If you know the meaning of the name, the story becomes a lot more fun with the hints he throws as the story progresses. He doesn't gloat on it or even mention that he threw that in there. Lovecraft also references "The King in Yellow" but he didn't lay it on like lacquer.
I was reading some old horror stories and was appreciating how quaint they were. "Yup there was a ghost, he threw roof shingles at me, I had to run away" or "I dug up an ancient tomb and was cursed" they all were short little fun bursts, small and self-contained. I think that being lost in modern writing is a really bad thing.
 
Zhores Medvedev said:
I dread whenever I read something and it references esoteric bible lore. It's become so popular recently and it's done with absolutely no restraint. In The Thing On The Door Step, by Lovecraft, the antagonist is named Asenath, pulled from the bible. The name means "of her Father" or "belongs to her father". If you know the meaning of the name, the story becomes a lot more fun with the hints he throws as the story progresses. He doesn't gloat on it or even mention that he threw that in there. Lovecraft also references "The King in Yellow" but he didn't lay it on like lacquer.
I was reading some old horror stories and was appreciating how quaint they were. "Yup there was a ghost, he threw roof shingles at me, I had to run away" or "I dug up an ancient tomb and was cursed" they all were short little fun bursts, small and self-contained. I think that being lost in modern writing is a really bad thing.
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Modern authors don't trust their audience to think on the story rather than consoom it and move to the next one (due to it beint their own behaviour), so everything is exaggerated and there is no subtext.
 
Oongok said:
Creepcast fan submissions have a tendency to be the most overdone mid tropes ever, but use so much flowery language and esoterritronic references that the Iceberg man is fooled into thinking they're peak.
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It's the worst kind of purple prose, cliche purple prose I want to make a fan submission on missing a deadline and wondering if a person is going to have a job in the morning. A different kind of horror.
 
Hunter actually covered the crazy sun lady in his horrible kickstarters video:


He also included the author of the webcomic Pictures for Sad Children, who burned over a hundred copies of his anthology book on camera and refused to give refunds.

And I'm also surprised that they didn't bring up the Sleeping One in the last episode.
 
TheMonkeyMan said:
Hunter actually covered the crazy sun lady in his horrible kickstarters video:


He also included the author of the webcomic Pictures for Sad Children, who burned over a hundred copies of his anthology book on camera and refused to give refunds.

And I'm also surprised that they didn't bring up the Sleeping One in the last episode.
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I like how Hunter was able to summarize the cooler issues in a minute at the start because he knows it isn’t that interesting. Also, how lazy is Wendi's "researcher"? Did he simply Google "worst kickstarter project" and went with the first result or did he see this video and decide to cover the kickstarter Meat skimmed over. It was published a month ago.
 
I guess they're doing vlogs in the patreon now
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Plus some other weird shit
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This does not bode well.
 
I ended up listening to The Coolest Cooler video. Like I said before, it's a very meh topic and doesn't even have the hilarious comedy of getting a refund of 20$ after spending 10 times that and 5 years waiting. Wendie keeps bringing up "just sell out to investors" which the creators probably tried too late after it was clear the pricing was way unrealistically low and a lot of good will was evaporated, for what is pretty much a one and done product that only sold due to hype.

A more interesting criticism of it would have been why the fuck was it made in China rather than the USA, when the components would have been cheaper just being individually sent to the USA to be assembled by a non retarded gook who'd do it more efficiently and faster.
 
wtfNeedSignUp said:
Wendie keeps bringing up "just sell out to investors" which the creators probably tried too late after it was clear the pricing was way unrealistically low and a lot of good will was evaporated
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Kinda echos the "Just sell merch to pay for artists" from his Angel Engine video after he poisoned the potential market with his video. Youtube economics of just having shit thrown at you for being popular has warped his brain on how real econonics work. I pray that Wendi saved up enough to retire once youtube stops being profitable because I don't think he has the skills or business sense to survive doing anything else.
 
FILTH Tourist said:
Anything to get out of the house I suppose. "Sorry babe I can't watch Tonka tonight, I gotta meet up with Hunter so we can go hunt ghosts."
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They probably saw that NickCrowley and Nexpo were making some money as ghost hunters and decided they could use some of that money themselves! The type of greed they talk about in the bible!!
FILTH Tourist said:
Kinda echos the "Just sell merch to pay for artists" from his Angel Engine video after he poisoned the potential market with his video. Youtube economics of just having shit thrown at you for being popular has warped his brain on how real econonics work. I pray that Wendi saved up enough to retire once youtube stops being profitable because I don't think he has the skills or business sense to survive doing anything else.
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Like no Wendi people can't just go ask rich people for money. How would the owner of a small cooler company even get in contact with a billionaire?

rapeseed said:
it seems to me that he had an assumption of how Angel Engine was created and he wrote the script based on that premise, and then after learning his beliefs were incorrect he said fuck it and pulled the trigger anyway
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Had to bring this back because it is true in this video too. They wanted this guy to be a scammer and a villain so they kept treating him as one. He was just a guy who made some dumb decisions. But the script was just so agressive towards him. Like save that energy for the guys who did the laser razor.
 
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