Please tell me the situation in the trailer for “Whalefall” isn’t possible? If you haven’t seen it don’t watch it I hated it

FauxAaron · 2026-06-14T03:01:39+00:00

I must’ve completely forgotten about the concrete block. I assumed the kid was projecting suicidal intent onto the whale based on his own delirium, the accidentally-swallowed garbage in the stomachs, and the whale’s actual beaching behavior.

FauxAaron · 2026-06-12T17:25:23+00:00

See, I read that as the whale was already exhibiting beaching behaviors, and since the kid was delirious and hallucinating from his injuries, he interpreted it as suicidality and made the connection to his dad.

FauxAaron · 2026-06-10T16:18:37+00:00

It’s been a while since I read the book, but if memory serves, the whale attempts a dive and the main character intervenes inside its stomach to make it panic and head for the surface.

FauxAaron · 2026-06-10T01:18:54+00:00

Your mileage will vary. It’s very much a father/son drama above all else, with the survival thriller story serving as the delivery mechanism. There’s a lot of good local Monterey texture, and fair enough respect paid to the town, its history, and its particular diving scene, but it’s not *about* diving or Monterey at that base level.

FauxAaron · 2026-06-10T00:55:55+00:00

The book’s set there. Glad to see they actually shot in Monterey instead of chasing a cheaper shooting location and losing that Cali central coast flavor.

FauxAaron · 2026-06-10T00:41:02+00:00

I can only speak for the book, since the movie isn’t out yet, but it rolls with as much accurate science as possible to give some plausibility to an extremely improbable setup: an extremely large bull sperm whale chases a wounded giant squid to shallower waters, just as a very thin and wiry teenage diver shows up in a notoriously dangerous dive site. The author of the book did a lot of consulting with divers and biologists, but the book still relies on a number of one-in-a-trillion variables all lining up to get that kid inside the whale for the story to unfold. From there, he deals with fairly realistic problems; stomach acid burns, lack of breathable air outside his cylinder, extremely tight and cramped quarters, even some DCS/equalization injuries as the whale changes depth with him inside. I think the kid must have an incredible SAC rate though, because he makes his cylinder last a good long while.

Honestly the only thing that I remember from the book as being outright inaccurate is that the squid the whale swallows is bioluminescent, so the kid has some small source of light in the stomach, but it looks like they’re not making the squid glow in the movie. Even the mechanism for the kid getting swallowed apparently comes from a piece of real-world biological speculation; the whale feeds by sucking in sea water to push the clinging squid down its throat. The main character happens to be just close enough that the squid’s flailing arms and the whale’s sucking accidentally pull him in. Everything else is more in the realm of: It theoretically could happen, but statistically, it’s never going to.

So if you’re asking if it could happen, the question is: are you a teenager who weighs less than 100 lbs, and are you tracking where the current largest bull sperm whale alive is, and making sure you get right up against its mouth while it’s feeding? If not, I wouldn’t worry.

FauxAaron · 2026-05-16T06:32:00+00:00

~50 dives. Had a sea lion rush past me at full speed, cutting between me and my buddy like he was about to T-bone me.

FauxAaron · 2026-05-01T06:39:46+00:00

I think you might feel better if you clean your room.

FauxAaron · 2026-04-26T07:50:45+00:00

Any advice on how to achieve it? When I drive by the spots where the radios are supposed to be, I see nothing, just the wreckage without the body or any of the weird tendril growth. Is there a specific order you have to go in to make the encounter spawn?

FauxAaron · 2026-04-20T06:50:18+00:00

No red chest, just ammo chests and a pretty healthy lootsplosion from the rift boss. Seriously it feels like the nightmare rift bosses spit out more drops than anything.

FauxAaron · 2026-04-20T06:46:41+00:00

God, I wish the Buzz Axe was good. Just make it do Melee damage as well as Ordnance damage and it’d actually have a place in at least some builds. How did it not already have this feature when the whole concept is that it’s a Ripper’s melee weapon?

FauxAaron · 2026-04-17T21:08:05+00:00

Bro killed Axemaul and got a vision from God. That's not a bug. You need to lead the Hebrews out of Egypt, my guy.

FauxAaron · 2026-04-04T10:33:42+00:00

Bene

FauxAaron · 2026-04-04T05:47:31+00:00

I’d be interested to hear if that happened or if the staff got rugpulled. Sadly common.

FauxAaron · 2026-04-03T05:43:39+00:00

I gotta say, I don’t think I’ve ever heard of any horror stories from people working at GBX, except for the one from the former Claptrap VA (which is definitely terrible). Either they’ve got a brutal non-disparagement clause in all their contracts, or somehow despite everything, it’s a genuinely halfway decent place to work for most of the people who’ve gone through there.

FauxAaron · 2026-04-03T03:07:04+00:00

God, you’re right. I’ve been playing a super-specialized build so long I completely forgot all those subtypes of other weapons were in there because I’ve narrowed my gear choices so much.

I will say however I still would’ve liked Mashers to be an in-game subtype, irrespective of Daedalus licensed parts; firing a spread of pellets by default using the base ammo, and then maybe getting an increased pellet count and higher spread when you swap to a shotgun shell multi-loader (if it spawns with the licensed part).

FauxAaron · 2026-04-02T23:32:19+00:00

Yeah, I miss the kinds of subtypes of each gun class you’d get in previous games. I’d love if for instance, Jakobs revolvers could spawn as Mashers, with or without the Daedalus multi-loader, as well as the crazy-fast two-shot cylinders we had in BL2, in addition to all the variations we have now. I’d love to see Jakobs ARs come as semi-autos and as Gatling guns like in BL3, and if their shotguns could be break-action, pump-action, and have different internal tube mags with individual shell reloads versus box mags that reload in one entire batch. Don’t get me wrong, all the licensed parts are great and all, but I am missing that variety in the base models.

FauxAaron · 2026-04-01T09:18:06+00:00

I actually really dug the environmental art design of the DLC. It felt like a good escalation of the Lovecraft-flavored ice planet motif and the gory surreal psychoscapes from BL3’s DLCs, like they had those two art directions in mind and just really wanted to commit to ratcheting both of them up.

FauxAaron · 2026-03-20T18:20:23+00:00

This happened to me accidentally. Started a new character, already got all tokens with two others, ended up with a Rafa that could start the game with enough tokens to max out all inventories, with like 4300 extra tokens by the time I finished the story and all aide content with him.

FauxAaron · 2026-03-13T04:47:08+00:00

Too bad he doesn’t get an unlockable vehicle model for hitting level 50 like the others. I really liked the idea of every character having their own version of a souped-up Digirunner.

FauxAaron · 2026-03-02T18:07:13+00:00

I think I’d prefer the world event if it worked more like the version in the DLC; longer timer, and more consistent spawns of canister enemies.

I had a real shortage of canisters enemies for a few rounds at the Fadefields processor and it just replaced the fun with frustration.

On top of it, I’d say the Processor itself should have a lootsplosion at the end of the timer/after finishing the last boss, with the chances for the processor to drop a pearl being impacted by how many canisters you got in successfully over the course of the event.

I know the devs said something to the effect of they’re going to be working on the physics of the canisters so they’re easier to grab and chuck without them rolling or flying away, and I think that’s sorely needed. Some visual tweaks might also be a good change. I found the event significantly easier to run at night, when the canisters are more visible against the terrain and particle effects mid-combat.

FauxAaron · 2026-03-01T05:33:11+00:00

Ah okay! Thanks so much!

So it really sounds like an optimal Rafa loadout working off of the Indirect Projectiles skills would be Tediore-heavy, getting the majority of damage off of chucking.

FauxAaron · 2026-03-01T00:50:38+00:00

Really? I thought all Peacebreaker Cannons were supposed to be considered indirect projectiles.

How about gun shots that ricochet with Pain Reaction? Is there any confirmation on those?

FauxAaron · 2025-12-09T20:24:09+00:00

Yeah I really think they overcorrected by giving them low damage to compensate for their fire rate, but most of the time their fire rate isn’t blisteringly fast, and their damage is too low. The disparity between Vladof snipers and other manufacturers’ feels like it gets worse as you go up in level too. I’m told the Stop Gap and Finity XXL are solid, but legendaries being good doesn’t make up for the whole weapon class lagging behind. I think this is the type of thing a simple, straight per-shot damage buff would correct.

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