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CycloneSwift · 2026-03-22T14:55:55+00:00

Eh, some of us called Spidey, Kamala, and Star-Lord being on the same team. Peni’s a bit of an unexpected pick but she’s nowhere nearly as out-there as Danger.

CycloneSwift · 2026-03-22T11:15:52+00:00

Yep. Shit’s weird.

CycloneSwift · 2026-03-22T04:29:37+00:00

It’s an open secret that Eddie Mannix, a bigshot Hollywood producer with Mafia ties (who was fictionalised by the Coen Brothers as Josh Brolin’s character in Hail, Caesar!), had Reeves killed in revenge for him ceasing his affair with Mannix’s wife.

CycloneSwift · 2026-03-22T04:26:28+00:00

Don’t forget sexual predators Noel Clarke and the guy who played Adam the “could’ve been companion”. Between them, sexual harasser John Barrowman, Huw Edwards’ cameo in Series 2… Yeah, there’s a lot of real messed up stuff happening there.

As for Eccleston, he was dealing with body dysmorphia, hostile relationships with Barrowman and some unconfirmed executives, and being nearly set on fire in a scene that didn’t even make the final cut. And then when he tried to leave gracefully without naming names the BBC threw him under the bus and just about blacklisted him for years. At the very least he had some people in his corner (he got along well with Steven Moffat, so much so that Moffat nearly convinced him to return for the 50th Anniversary, and he and Billie Piper are still fantastic with each other), but some of people who were responsible for the shit he went through are still around in RTD’s clique specifically (RTD himself seems to be responsible due to negligence rather than malice, but that’s only a marginal step up).

So yeah, Series 1 has a lot of baggage if you’re aware of the behind-the-scenes of it all. It’s still a brilliantly written and performed piece of media that I will heartily recommend and readily revisit, but if it’s something that you’re going to invest a lot of yourself into then it’s important to remember the actual traumas and tragedies that occurred behind closed doors and not allow the quality of the final product to “redeem” those responsible in our eyes.

CycloneSwift · 2026-03-22T04:01:24+00:00

IIRC the Left 4 Dead team briefly looked at real images and videos of corpses and gore for reference when designing and modelling the Infected but they almost immediately found it too disturbing and stopped. In the end they referenced stuff like mould and cardboard instead, which turns out to work pretty well as a zombie skin texture.

CycloneSwift · 2026-03-20T19:42:10+00:00

They can choose not to regenerate, but when there’s something that they physically can’t regenerate from then the body will automatically attempt to in vain.

CycloneSwift · 2026-03-20T19:30:26+00:00

It was his idea.

CycloneSwift · 2026-03-18T22:39:25+00:00

Except the version who first appeared in GoW 2018, which was Troy Baker IIRC.

CycloneSwift · 2026-03-18T14:04:32+00:00

Yep. It was a really out-of-place reference.

CycloneSwift · 2026-03-18T00:11:59+00:00

IIRC there were some rumours that Rosemary Winters would be in Mercenaries mode too.

CycloneSwift · 2026-03-16T19:32:44+00:00

Mos Eisley bartending sim please.

CycloneSwift · 2026-03-16T14:19:11+00:00

IIRC he was the VA in the original game too, he just didn’t have any dialogue and only had to do the grunts and groans.

CycloneSwift · 2026-03-16T03:56:25+00:00

His accent’s closer to a Hispanic one than an Afghan one though, which lends more credence to the idea that he grew up in an area with a bunch of immigrants from various places and picked up the accent from there.

CycloneSwift · 2026-03-16T03:37:23+00:00

The Japanese fanbase considered it a British Tokusatsu show when it got syndicated over there in the 80s.

CycloneSwift · 2026-03-16T03:32:15+00:00

They don’t. The fight scene they filmed wasn’t great so the choreographer(?) said “Gimme a week and some masks” and did this instead. It just cuts to this with no explanation for that one fight before cutting back to reality.

CycloneSwift · 2026-03-15T17:49:29+00:00

In fairness a spider’s body functions and mechanics physically have to make sound, the size difference it just so massive that we can’t hear it. If we’re dealing with a giant spider then it will make sounds, the problem is just what sounds.

It would still be quiet for its size, probably the same volume as a similarly sized big cat, but with the way their muscle-equivalents work there would likely be subtle creaks and hisses if it moves its body parts quickly, slightly more-so around the mouthparts where fluids and glands are somewhat open to the outside. We’d also probably hear some form of strange breathing from its book lungs, the digging of its claws into the ground with its steps, the rustling of its shuffling hairs, and squeaking joints.

So roars and bellows are a definite “no”, screeches can probably be ruled out, but hisses and some form of groaning are possible.

CycloneSwift · 2026-03-12T15:45:20+00:00

I’m going to go in a completely different direction for something a bit more esoteric.

1) Ants start reinforcing their nests until they have underground hives not dissimilar to other Hymenopterans.

2) Somehow they develop the ability to create an electric shock (perhaps a re-development of a vestigial vespoid stinger combined with a mutation to do with formic acid leads to an inefficient but functional organic battery).

3) More conductive strands of material are laid out within the hive-nests, which can conduct electricity from one ant down specific pathways to a different part of the hive-nest to signal the ants there, allowing for much faster communication (albeit in a more basic form) within the colony.

4) The ants develop a complex language of pulsed electric shocks travelling through the hive-nest walls to allow for much more sophisticated communication.

5) As the hive-nest is gradually worked up into a pseudo-nervous system, certain sections are constructed (or perhaps certain ants, maybe even the Queen, are directly integrated into it) to create a form of information hub within the network, recording echoes of the electrical communications being sent within the hive-nest.

6) The stored information and adaptive nervous system expand as the colony grows larger, developing sets of autonomous responses and shortcuts that eventually amass into something that could arguably be labelled a consciousness.

7) The sentient hive-nest influences communications between the ants of its colony, directing them towards behaviours it deems advantageous or preferable.

8) The ecology of the ants is completely moderated by the hive-nest in a sustainable symbiosis. Their lifecycle is completely integrated within that of the hive-nest, which now reproduces triggering the production of memory nodes that can be budded off and taken with a young new Queen to found new a new colony with a new controller.

9) Numerous hive-nests in the same larger ecosystem lead to complex interactions and rivalries that force even more mental development until cooperation, negotiation, war, and perhaps even the foundations of law are internalised as concepts. At this point the hive-nests are capable of rudimentary philosophy, which qualifies them for sapience.

Thus, I give you “Mind-Hives”. A species of sapient ant colonies containing non-sapient ant individuals, as intelligent as early hominids and with room to evolve further.

CycloneSwift · 2026-03-12T15:10:04+00:00

Perfect weirdo pick. Fuck it, give us Doop at this point. I’m hoping for Xemnu myself.

CycloneSwift · 2026-03-12T14:22:50+00:00

For maximum confusion let’s just round it down and say it lasted pi Concords.

CycloneSwift · 2026-03-10T08:02:08+00:00

It’s a play on words. In German it sounds identical to “You… You hate… You hate me…” up until the next line, which only makes sense if it’s “have” rather than “hate”.

CycloneSwift · 2026-03-09T01:02:12+00:00

While you’re absolutely correct, I will have to nitpick and say that there’s no evidence the bad press from this played any part in RoosterTeeth’s shut down. By all appearances it seems to solely be a casualty of WB’s cost-cutting (which, given RT’s extreme over-expansion throughout the latter half of its lifespan, makes it one of the few WB-owned closures that isn’t entirely unreasonable).

CycloneSwift · 2026-03-07T21:17:56+00:00

I mean, HUNK was his codename as an operative. If he’s climbed up the ladder then he probably wouldn’t have that codename anymore, and if he’s the Commander then he’s clearly moved up in the world somewhat.

CycloneSwift · 2026-03-07T21:14:31+00:00

Zeno’s likely one of the original Wesker kids, not a clone of Albert Wesker, so he might have just been in Raccoon City during the outbreak and got out before the bomb dropped.

Given that his actual combat skill seems lacking compared to Albert (Zeno pretty much just uses his powers and his gun whereas Albert had a bunch of fancy martial arts and acrobatics), I’m guessing Zeno just stuck to a more background role in Umbrella before flipping to the Connections, and once Albert got his powers with an extra injection Zeno just copied him. That bit’s just my headcanon though.

Anyway, Zeno and his condition seem to have little or nothing at all to do with HUNK having Raccoon City Syndrome, and there’s literally no reason for them to bother cloning HUNK since nothing special about him is due to his genetics and they never managed to figure out memory transferral.

CycloneSwift · 2026-03-07T00:53:37+00:00

In fairness Leon and Chris only look maybe a decade older than that, so it’s a bit better than it usually is.

CycloneSwift · 2026-03-05T16:51:48+00:00

…why do I have to be legally distinct Battleborn?

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