Apologies if this isn't anything new but...
If you stand around Xûr in Eternity one of his ambient voice lines is "The Nine hear Mercury's cries of pain".
Is this a new voiceline regarding the vanishing of Mercury from the Pyramids? Which is further evidence that the planets the Pyramids take are not permanently gone but trapped somewhere somehow as we already guessed with Mars.
Maybe I'm overreacting but I'd love to hear your thoughts.
I've watched/read a lot of sci-fi. Star Trek(s), Stargate(s), Babylon5, Red Dwarf, Lexx, Farscape, BSG, Firefly, The Expanse and many, many others.
And in all of it, only the Borg (as depicted in TNG) stand as the only antagonist that truly affect me on a deeper level.
I remember as a kid watching Q Who and being legitimately scared of them. A relentless, faceless and incomprehensible (despite being sentient humanoid) enemy unlike any I'd seen before. And then watching BOBW and practically losing my mind.
The scene where the Enterprise first encounters the cube in BOBW still gives me the chills 30+ years later. I know how the story ends and that our crew saves the day, but I still have a primal fear response when I watch that scene. Everything about that scene is near perfect from the subtle performances to the ominous score.
And when Locutus walks into the frame and I see Picard, who was like a father figure to me, assimilated and made their puppet I still am angry and afraid. I remember that whole summer I worried about what would happen and how could my beloved captain possibly be saved.
Nothing else in sci-fi compares for me. The melodramatic cylons, the over the top space zombie reavers, and even the very similar enemies like the replicators (etc.) Just don't have 'it'. I'm not knocking those shows or their antagonists, they all work well in their setting, but none of them have the same lasting, primal resonance as the Borg.
Even the fact that after TNG the Borg get watered down, overused and suffer horrific villian decay somehow doesn't ruin the TNG depiction.
Watching Halloween Kills for the third time and starting the movie again it hit me that the music really fucking sets the tone that shit is gonna get real for the rest of the movie.
Hell even the name of the musical track over the logos is “Logo Kills”.
Regardless of what your opinion is of the overall movie. I think going into it the first time the opening logos set the perfect starting tone for the movie. Now whether you like the rest of it or think the overall movie is shit that’s another thing haha
Here’s the link to musical track btw-
https://youtu.be/FGK8P2O0awQ
“I have a foreboding of an America in my children's or grandchildren's time -- when the United States is a service and information economy; when nearly all the manufacturing industries have slipped away to other countries; when awesome technological powers are in the hands of a very few, and no one representing the public interest can even grasp the issues; when the people have lost the ability to set their own agendas or knowledgeably question those in authority; when, clutching our crystals and nervously consulting our horoscopes, our critical faculties in decline, unable to distinguish between what feels good and what's true, we slide, almost without noticing, back into superstition and darkness...
The dumbing down of American is most evident in the slow decay of substantive content in the enormously influential media, the 30 second sound bites (now down to 10 seconds or less), lowest common denominator programming, credulous presentations on pseudoscience and superstition, but especially a kind of celebration of ignorance”
- Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark
This book written in 1995 by Carl and his wife Ann Druyan almost seems like a prediction of the times we are living in today. What I appreciate about Ann and Carl is that they break down complex subjects into simple terms so that the layman can understand. The issues they talk about couldn’t be more important and needs to be understood by everyone.
I really wish this was a book they required in the schools to read. Everyone needs to have a healthy level of skepticism in the age of information where anything and everything is being posted online, even here on Reddit.
Every book by Carl has been its own gem and an eye opener to the universe and world we live on. Cosmos, Pale Blue Dot, or even his work of fiction Contact is truly spectacular.
Many of you have heard of Carl Sagan already but if you have not taken the time to read his work I highly recommend you start with this book.
As the title says, I’m looking for games set in a horror/dark fantasy world. Ideally games that have elements from mythology and folk stories. When I say foreboding, I mean that feeling of being in a dark forest or mountains as some giant creature lurks but you can just barely see it through the fog.
I’ve played stuff like Amnesia, RE8 & other RE titles, Souls franchise, Hellblade: Senua’s sacrifice, and even modded Skyrim to have a darker tone - All brilliantly capture a sense of doom when faced with a large or mysterious adversary.
I’ve also played the witcher and dragons dogma - both nailed the design of their creatures but aren’t aesthetically or thematically dark enough in what I’m looking for right now.
Since a day or so ago I noticed we were getting these weird fogs coming in every morning. Especially yesterday, like it felt like The Mist was playing out, and I actually started to get a bit worried when it stayed a bit longer then normal. Anybody else experiencing this? Any theories on why it is more eerie then normal? Portal experiment/CERN? Chemtrails? Matrix breaking down? Let now your thoughts on this?
For real, this track sounds like it came straight out of Silent Hill. What's it doing in a Winnie the Pooh game of all places?
I recently got to try the different aspects of Shadows, which I really like. I'm a big fan of Madness (for both horror thematic and gameplay reasons), but it's not a secret that people consider Foreboding to be their favorite. However, I was wondering how to best think about this aspect in a strategic way, how to truly understand what it is about.
At its core, the aspect seems to increase control for Shadows, as they now can generate movement with fear. Obviously, that makes it pointless to use in lands where invaders are about to be crushed, since there'll be nothing to move. However, unlike regular control powers, you can't just use it in a land where there is no fear generated, meaning it can't pick off Explorers after they've explored if nothing else has happened before in that land.
Here are some of the ideas I've had so far:
- If a land comes up twice in a row (ravage => build), and you can destroy some of the invaders (but not all) before or during, you can use it move the survivors out before they build.
- In general, causing any damage in a land lets you move survivors now.
- In lands with Cities, you can use [[Crops Wither and Fade]] to turn them into towns and then move them away (obviously, this also work with towns, but the it's even more effective against Cities).
- You don't have to choose between the alternatives for [[Delusions of Danger]], since you can cause the fear and then move the Explorer or Town.
- [[Concealing Shadows]] can be used to move Explorers in the fast phase (or a Town if you can generate more fear, which Foreboding can help with if you have two fire).
- Using [[Favors Called Due]] turns the Dahan into horror monsters that scare away invaders, which is cool (although you might end up giving them nothing to fight, which is risky in its own way).
[[Mantle of Dread]]can push an extra Town or two Explorers. If Crops is used in the same land, a land with a City, Town and an Explorer can be completely emptied (something Ocean would appreciate if said land is Coastal).
Anything I've missed?
Edit: So, Mantle isn't quite that strong, as the fear from the card targets a player, not a card.
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Events are happening now that will shape the future. Things that cannot be undone.
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The nature by which you came into my life is most auspicious and undeniably divine.
I have a lingering concern that these 2 facts may be tied by a string of fate. I’m not one to believe in coincidence.
(I think this counts as spoilers since it deals with stuff in later books.
My biggest bet about what that collective group of four brain cells called writers will more than likely do is try and make the Rats, if not specifically Mistle look like the best people ever and not the absolutely horrible scummy PoS they are.
(I'll be honest, I was going on a Listen marathon of the audiobooks back when season one of the show was the big hype. and I haven't been back to the books ever since listening to the part of the story of the Rats corrupting Ciri and what Mistle did to Ciri. I know what happens to them, and I genuinely think every one of them got what was coming to them.)
but back on topic, with how Netflix's track record has been with the characters (and their assassinations) so far....
*Looks at Netflix Cahir* Look at how they massacred my boy. It wouldn't surprise me in the slightest if they actually tried to GENUINELY make us root for the Rats. Because while Ciri herself gets a warped perception of how the Rats are, it never actually hides how they are shitty people.
*Deep breath.* I really needed to get that all out as it's been ruminating inside my head ever since season 1 came out. I am VERY reluctant to watch season 2, because if the rumors about what they plan to do to Eskle are anything to go on, the Writing is going to be shit that is only carried by the actors.
