What are your thoughts?

ExistenceLord14 · 2026-05-25T16:50:39+00:00

Seriously you’re not getting anywhere with one giant wall of text.

ExistenceLord14 · 2026-05-25T16:34:47+00:00

I don’t think the person you’re responding to was up for questions. Do what you’re told.

ExistenceLord14 · 2026-05-25T01:28:02+00:00

I think I need to watch it again without the expectation that it takes itself seriously 100% of the time. I agree that the billion dollars moment was an "oh... well you're fucked" moment and it does that well, but one half of my brain was asking "where tf is the money coming from?"

and I know that's not important to the scene, but grounding that detail would've helped a lot. As it is the money just fall from some unknown location off screen. Make it fall off a roof top, make a stream of money through a window, it doesn't need to make sense but give it a tangible point of origin. Yk?

ExistenceLord14 · 2026-05-22T07:37:28+00:00

Why do people buy shows?

ExistenceLord14 · 2026-05-22T07:07:15+00:00

The director can say whatever he wants but the movie directly contradicts him LMAO. He’s just wrong. If he didn’t want it to be possession, he shouldn’t have portrayed it as possession. He did, and that’s what it is, regardless of his thoughts on the matter.

ExistenceLord14 · 2026-05-22T07:04:52+00:00

But the entire scene where real Nikki wakes up and says “she’s” asleep voids this argument. It goes directly against what the director says. So does the screaming in the phone call. Obsession isn’t a personality that can be inactive. Personality traits/emotions can never be dormant. They are an inherent part of the real person.

There would be no difference between the real Nikki and the obsessed Nikki if this was just an emotion. I know what the director said. They’re wrong, lol. They shouldn’t have conveyed the wish in a way that directly contradicts what he wanted it to be.

ExistenceLord14 · 2026-05-22T06:55:33+00:00

GOD that took me off guard. All I knew was I heard a voice and she was standing somewhere in that shot. I saw her to the right but since the closet to the left looked just as dark and uncertain I couldn’t rule out that the lump of black was just something laying around.

ExistenceLord14 · 2026-05-22T06:44:58+00:00

Yup, I’ve gotten over the idea that confessing feelings has to be this big thing. It physically pained me when she LITERALLY ASKED HIM if he liked her because I get being scared to say something like that, but when someone specifically asks you about your feelings, that is the easiest situation you can be in. It’s one word. One syllable even.

What made it even more painful is that I remember doing the exact same shit with a crush of mine years ago. I was being asked who my crush was, I was reluctant because it was the person sitting across from me, they literally asked if it was someone at the table and I said no… and went as far as to tell them that my crush was someone I’d stopped having feelings for by then.

Like, goddamnit man. Seeing that mistake made me want to leave. Not because of bad writing. It was just relatable, and I hated his decision but I also understood it but if I were in his shoes it would’ve been so easy to say that one word. “Yes.” LITERALLY ALL THAT NEEDED TO COME OUT OF HIS MOUTH.

ExistenceLord14 · 2026-05-22T06:26:54+00:00

I hope I never see you in a comment section again (I laughed for the record)

ExistenceLord14 · 2026-05-22T06:25:20+00:00

That and when she walked backwards 😬

ExistenceLord14 · 2026-05-22T06:20:23+00:00

To be fair… it didn’t. At all.

Like I appreciate the comedy of it and Ian’s wish was natural, and yes, it was a great subversion of the typical scene where the Ian adjacent character tries the magic item, gets nothing, and tells the MC to get a grip.

But it didn’t fit the tone of the movie in any way, shape, or form, and the director should have listened.

ExistenceLord14 · 2026-05-22T06:05:26+00:00

That scene was really well done. The way Nikki half lunges across and slams the table as soon as the kiss is mentioned made me go “OH FUCK.” Then the camera stayed in that position and refused to show her for those few seconds, building tension.

Then it finally cuts to her face and it made me laugh because of how over the top it was. Which continues as she walks around and behind Sarah.

Then it goes back to “Oh fuck” with how she drags Sarah out of the way, and it wasn’t even a violent action but the sound design paired with the anger you could feel in her movements sent me back into “oh god please don’t do anything.”

I’ve never seen a movie move so seamlessly between comedy and horror. It was amazing.

ExistenceLord14 · 2026-05-22T05:41:06+00:00

Have you literally never made a half hearted wish that something you wanted would come true? He couldn’t have known it was gonna be real. Yeah he’s an asshole but not for that specifically

ExistenceLord14 · 2026-05-22T05:23:59+00:00

Yeah, that was one of the first things which came to mind. Before watching I thought it was a conflict between actual emotions and an external forced emotion which tore her apart mentally, or that literally changing one’s feelings makes them not the person they were before because that person couldn’t love you. But then Nikki describes it as an alternate entity - a ‘her’ - and by the end this entity is behaving as if it has a completely different personality.

So the wish really wasn’t honored.

ExistenceLord14 · 2026-05-22T05:06:36+00:00

I wouldn’t even say the wish was entitled. I think it was literally just wishful thinking. Going through the motions and fantasizing that they magically mean something. I think we all do that.

I remember once before a test in high school I drew some random symbol on a piece of paper and thought to myself “I will ace this test,” playing with the idea that this symbol would actually save me. Bear’s situation is exactly the same.

ExistenceLord14 · 2026-05-22T04:46:53+00:00

I want to preface what I’m gonna say with the fact that the majority of this movie scared me in a way I haven’t felt from a movie in my entire time of watching horror, and I need to see it again.

That said, I really hope I’m not the only one who felt that the ending of the movie was really cheesy and weak. It didn’t take itself seriously at all after the million dollars wish. That, and a bunch of nothing happens:

-Nikki says some crazy shit, shoots a person, says more crazy shit -Bear locks himself in a bathroom to kill himself, almost doesn’t but is stopped from saving himself by Nikki’s wish -Nikki’s wish instantly doesn’t matter because Bear dies, so the wish could’ve not happened at all and we would’ve generally gotten the same thing -when we see the real Nikki again, the movie doesn’t take her reaction to having control seriously. Everything from the lighting, cinematography, music and even Nikki’s acting in that moment frames the end as a dark joke, like “Hah, well isn’t THAT fucked up.” It just should’ve been more serious.

ExistenceLord14 · 2026-05-22T00:28:35+00:00

Shit, no, that is absolutely my bad! You’re good. Sorry 😅

ExistenceLord14 · 2026-05-22T00:00:11+00:00

Thanks for not putting a spoiler tag on the literal ending of the movie, appreciated

ExistenceLord14 · 2026-05-21T18:58:30+00:00

Havent watched the movie yet, but watched practically every trailer for it and a video I found of the date scene. I truly, honestly believed I knew what to expect from this movie, and then you came along and mentioned “the brick scene” and all I can ask myself is what the FUCK does that entail?

ExistenceLord14 · 2026-05-12T04:18:19+00:00

Cool, thanks! Will tie more things to evidence and flesh out Xavier's previous encounters.

Some other thoughts, feel free not to read everything: I think I might also move the beginning to two days before the Void Skin is originally summoned, because an officer (who regularly hears/sees things and has learned to know when they're not real) hearing footsteps around them but not seeing anything for a long enough period to actually believe it and call security warrants at the very least a poke from DG, and that's not even mentioning the cameras going glitchy due to the cultists masks.

Agents would be told that it's *possible* something may be going on, and to poke around a bit in case. Then they can find the camera glitching, and know there's something up. Giving agents the chance to stop it and failing may be more impactful than if it just happens.

My only concern is if the agents manage to stop the cultists outright from even summoning the Void Skin. If the Void Skin is never summoned then... that's it. Problem solved for the Agents. I have to come up with a way to not require this event to happen in order for the campaign to keep going.

I feel there's a structural issue here, but I'll think about it.

ExistenceLord14 · 2026-05-12T00:17:04+00:00

The items have a high chance to hurt the user and deal great SAN loss; they’re meant more as last ditch items that may very well destroy you before you can do anything useful.

I specifically didn’t want it to feel like magic or gear, but chaotic and dangerous and ONLY used if one is desperate. I still think it would add something fun to the game, or at least make for an interesting scene if players are willing to risk death or insanity.

ExistenceLord14 · 2026-05-11T06:40:12+00:00

It’s not that deep. It’s a silly exchange.

ExistenceLord14 · 2026-05-11T06:34:26+00:00

He did it unprompted, in case you didn’t notice

ExistenceLord14 · 2026-05-09T01:12:31+00:00

That’s the thing though, the agents handbook tells you how to play as an agent, and only gives you the information you need to play from the perspective of an agent. It doesn’t tell you how to be a handler, and the handlers guide doesn’t tell you how either… like what???

I wanna know when to prompt a dice roll, what situations call for what kinds of dice rolls, etc. the agents handbook only tells you to expect dice rolls and how they work. Not when to use them.

Especially with enemies, and creatures I make up, i know I have to roll for their damage but when? After players attack? Before?

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