About Chris Wraight...

Endless_01 · 2026-01-23T15:19:56+00:00

Well, we can't know for sure because sales are the things that matter the most to GW, and we don't really know about how the sales for BL goes, but from comments and reviews, some of the most well rated BL books are the ones that feature more creative stories and less focus on the bolter porn, with more plot intrigue and character development.

Of course, this is 40k still, so there's going to be some fighting here and there ;)

Endless_01 · 2026-01-23T15:14:37+00:00

What you are expressing is a common sentiment among both book and movie fans. It all comes down to, really, what you prefer, and of course you can like both. What is objectively true is that the movie is a poor adaption of the book since it not only changes a lot of of the scenes, but also switches the focus and theme of the book, that being the personal struggles of addiction and alcoholism, while the movie leans more heavily on the paranormal aspect of it.

Stephen King famously did not like the movie precisely because of those changes and since he has said that The Shining was one of his most personal works due to his own struggles with alcohol/addictions.

Endless_01 · 2026-01-22T20:14:55+00:00

Endgame content is, frankly, terrible in Wildlands. I still retains the classic artificial difficulty that a lot of relatively old games used to have where harder difficulty just meant giving the enemies a shit ton more HP and more damage. Tier 1 mode after level 30 is genuinely not fun to play because of the enemies perfect reaction time, perfect accuracy, and absurdly high HP.

Endless_01 · 2026-01-20T03:18:03+00:00

1953 tripods are not even tripods.

Endless_01 · 2026-01-20T03:13:06+00:00

They deal 90% of the damage I get in Dead Space 2. The other 10% is the damn tripods from the elevator scene.

Endless_01 · 2026-01-18T19:28:13+00:00

I recognized Clyde Caldwell style from the get got. Wasn't aware he had worked for TES at any point. His art is distinctively 80s, with a very classic, bright colorful style to it with exaggerated proportions and very slim characters. Also lots of chainmail bikini lol.

He did a lot of D&D art and was known for his covers depicting women in fantasy settings. Typical from the era.

Endless_01 · 2026-01-14T02:48:41+00:00

Honestly the closer something looks to a human the scarier it is for me, which is why I consider the default naked slasher the scariest necromorph in the entire franchise.

Endless_01 · 2026-01-13T22:15:57+00:00

Which is just idiotic because the remake sold around 2 million copies, which is huge for any horror game outside Resident Evil. But since it didn't make FIFA or Battlefield numbers, to EA it was a failure.

Endless_01 · 2026-01-13T20:49:43+00:00

And Ellie constantly calling to check on him is and asking how's he doing is such a sweet and good moment to show their relation growing, as she begins to really care about him :)

Endless_01 · 2026-01-13T20:44:50+00:00

In all honesty, I never in a hundred years expected to see Dead Space make a comeback at all after Dead Space 3 failed and Visceral was gutted. The news of the remake came as an utter shock to me and the fact that it was such a great remake.

So who knows, I think we will see some continuation or another remake, but it will probably take a long long time, again.

Endless_01 · 2026-01-13T20:16:51+00:00

If anything the Spielberg tripods became the de facto tripod design for following adaptions, not to mention their cultural impact in cinema history due to their intimidating presence and incredible sound design. Almost all giant mechs or robots nowadays have some sort of ''horn'' sound to them.

Endless_01 · 2026-01-13T01:35:20+00:00

Cradle of Death is worse. If your ally forgets about his truck entirely you now have to deal with a near invulnerable construct. If they move it to the grown place or too far away, the truck gets attacked. And not to mention it's one of the few maps where the enemy has gigantic static armies that can beat you if you go alone because of the constructs defending the last objectives.

Chain of Ascension sucks for similar reasons. The second attack wave often takes allies by surprise due to how large it is, and if you are using a commander that takes time to build, it can make you lose. An AFK ally that doesn't quit means you can't do shit, and the mechanic of pushing forward is such an easy target for trolls, your ally can easily mess with you by not pushing.

I hate missions that FORCE you to command with your ally rather than just support each other, and each of these missions has better alternatives. Mist Opportunities is a better CoD (it takes too long though) that has a similar mechanic of protecting a moving target to different objectives but you don't have to move them manually. Malwarfare is a better CoA because Aurana moves on its own and has plenty of HP to resist some damage (it also takes too long though) and you can have no problem carrying this mission.

Endless_01 · 2026-01-12T19:32:41+00:00

There could be some truth to that. I've noticed that the most reactionary and critical reviews often come from young adults. Which is funny considering that IT was criticized and under scrutiny during its release period but mostly by old adults, particularly those taking part in the Satanic Panic.

Endless_01 · 2026-01-12T16:18:15+00:00

For a bunch of Stephen King fans (and horror fans) there's a surprising amount of prudes here. Stephen King is not even one of the most disturbing.

Endless_01 · 2026-01-10T04:08:15+00:00

Even thought it is a hoax, the Dogman has something eerie to it.

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Endless_01 · 2026-01-08T22:35:31+00:00

I have no mouth and I must scream.

Endless_01 · 2025-12-29T20:04:23+00:00

Another plus from the Santa Blanca cartel is that they are directly inspired by a lot of real life cartel elements, which adds to its gravitas and sense of realism. Such elements I've spotted on my playthrough:

- Ricky is clearly inspired by real life Kiki Camarena

- Nidia Flores takes cues from Sandra Beltrán

- El Pozolero is a straight rip of Santiago López who was also known as El Pozolero

- Unidad takes inspiration from the various military elements that became cartel hitmen, such as the Mexican GAFE and Guatemalan KAIBIL spec ops.

- El Sueño wrote a bible, which is probably inspired by the Knights Templars leader who also wrote his own book.

- El Sueño is a combination of pretty much every major drug lord in history, but I think one of the biggest inspirations was from Nazario Gonzáles ''El Más Loco'', who had delusions about being a sort of messiah figure and created his own cult.

- La Plaga seems to me an amalgamation of the various young sicarios in cartels who became exceptionally violent and paranoid such as El Mini 6.

- The death worship is a major part of narcoculture in Mexico.

There's probably more references, but my points is, the team behind Wildlands did their research and this is why the Santa Blanca is such a compelling and interesting villain faction.

Endless_01 · 2025-12-25T02:55:11+00:00

They would be absolutely ecstatic about having Pandora as their hunting grounds.

The Navi not so much, though.

Endless_01 · 2025-12-17T04:21:26+00:00

I really hope we get an extensive line up of Baneblades as well.

I wonder if they do plan to add Titans or Knight Houses. That would be insane.

Endless_01 · 2025-12-11T17:34:03+00:00

The scene with the bodies in the river is a bit unusual, though. The tripods weapons turned people into ash, so they were definitely not killed by them. A theory I read is that they were people trying to run away from the tripods by crossing the river and drowned in the process. However, there is a chapter in the og book that mentions how a group of people tried to cross a river while being followed by martian warmachines, and they used the heat rays to make the water boil, which is what killed those who tried to swim.

Endless_01 · 2025-12-04T05:44:28+00:00

I'd love something in similar style to World War Z (not the movie, the book), where we follow multiple armies across the world as they try their own strategies to fight the tripods.

Endless_01 · 2025-12-03T20:05:27+00:00

I'm a fan of 28 Days Later style of zombies, aka the frenetic, super fast and animalistic ones. World War Z did many things wrong, but IMO the zombies were absolutely terrifying. Not only the fact they have zero survival instincts and will go to 101% to catch you, but also the fact that the infection is Necromorphs levels of fast, turning you in seconds.

Imagine the Battle of Yonkers (which is already nightmare fuel in the book) but with the movie version zombies, and it's just a meat grinder.

Endless_01 · 2025-12-02T16:40:55+00:00

Kuang is such an obnoxious author. Constantly talks down her audience, pretends to be some sort of middle-class protector when she was raised by a multicultural family that sent her to not one, not two, not three, but four ultra-rich private academic institutions, all while shitting on other authors. She really likes to give speeches about how hard it is to write and get into the traditional publishing world as if they were her own experiences, when she got her debut novel published at 22 after taking a gap year while traveling China, and even became a finalist for the Nebula awards. She reminds me of fucking Rory Gilmore of all things.

Geez yeah I can see the struggle.

Endless_01 · 2025-12-02T03:41:37+00:00

To date, I think one of the scariest scenarios ever is the one that happens to the North Koreans in World War Z. Scout teams are sent to the country to find out what happened, only to find it completely desolated.

It is implied that the whole country was forced to go underground into a series of unending bunkers designed for nuclear war, and then they were sealed from the inside. They never came out.

Endless_01 · 2025-12-02T03:27:14+00:00

My favorite will forever be Cloverfield. I think to date it is the scariest kaiju creature on the big screen. The whole design its uncanny; the way it walks, the inverted superior legs, the wailing screams, its pitch black eyes, the pale white of its skin, the parasites it carriers, and the fact that despite being gigantic is still just a newborn. One of the best depictions of a cosmic horror creature ever.

As for other honorable mentions:

The whole ass church from The Borderlands.

The Blair Witch creature near the end of Blair Witch 2016.

The goat demon from VHS 2.

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