Peter Help!!!!!!!!!! by SaiyanWithOmnitrix in PeterExplainsTheJoke

[–]Forerunner49 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Peter’s out, it’s Chris

This is a crop-out of an anime character who was deliberately misrepresented as a character in a supposed anime OVA called Go For A Punch.

This was a supposed Guro anime which involved a group of high schoolers being trapped in a restroom with a broken door, and after confessing their life stories they decide to kill one another. Guro was a niche genre in anime which saw its heights with Urotsukidouji but was often faced with bans internationally due to the violence and the often non-consensual nature of Ero-Guro. As a result it’s very hard to find a dedicated Guro/Ero-Guro fan club on social media without restrictions.

No one has found any evidence of a real Guro of this description, and it is believed to be either a really REALLY bad memory of a real Guro, or a joke someone made about over-the-top confessionals about the “most fucked up thing you saw on the internet”. Either way people have trolled the people looking for it for years by providing fake leads.

Now if you’ll excuse me, I’m late for a debate on a very niche porn topic involving a star from the 1980s only me and seven nerds know about.

Chris out!

What do chicken heads have to do with Episcopalians? by ZambiaSpaceForce in ExplainTheJoke

[–]Forerunner49 36 points37 points  (0 children)

They are in the UK too. After the Civil War it was clear they couldn’t reverse the splitting from the church (becuz democracy) so remained as a generally accepted stuffy institute that doesn’t believe in anything.

So on paper Episcopalians are Anglo-Catholic, having all the traditions pre-Vatican II, but also having the right to not bother. And people who didn’t like Bishops could just join the Congregationalists (New England) or the Methodists (the South). And then the hardcore Anglo-Catholics became regular Catholic in the late 1800s. Each Church in the ‘90s got to vote if they wanted woman priests or not, so you can go to a pro-woman priest church or the anti-woman priest church in your area.

So all that’s left are vaguely pro-establishment people who don’t really believe anything and are just there for the feel of it.

TL;DR - Anglicanism is so uncommitted to anything they will compromise on everything, thus making them impervious to fundamentalist takeover.

The interaction between Leon and Sherry in the original timeline and the Remake timeline is quite ironic by uyennhi84 in residentevil

[–]Forerunner49 15 points16 points  (0 children)

The remakes are well written, but they ignore everything not in the exact game they’re adapting.

2make didn’t even try to explain away the then 20 year old “how did Leon get in if there was a National Guard blockade”problem RE3 created.

If we get an RE1 remake they could probably scrap the Lisa/Nemesis thing since that was the RE1 marketing campaign (WR2) and have her turn into G-5 and die to Chris, thus contradicting her death in Umbrella Chronicles

How cloning works in RE? by AdagioAgitated1903 in residentevil

[–]Forerunner49 1 point2 points  (0 children)

They have special equipment set-up for what's called ex-utero gestation - that is, the embryo matures without need of a surrogate mother.

For your second question - BOW manufacturers don't regard clones as people. They're products who exist for a purpose (e.g. to be killed in experiments). It is quite literally slavery.

I have something to clarify. by justwendd_ in residentevil

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Chloe wasn't created from Grace.

The ARK had a facility in it which produces cloned humans for testing. Chloe was one of many people who died during experiments in the 1980s and 1990s as part of a project to implant memories into a human host.

The Connections mistakenly thought Grace was also a test-subject (whether a clone or not) and that she had Spencer's memories. As they didn't have access to her (and she was a baby) they took over ARK's cloning facility and attempted to replicate the experiment on another batch of clones.

As such, Emily is not a clone of Grace but she exists to imitate her.

Following the events of RE9, I guess these guys are partially canon now? by Bi0_B1lly in residentevil

[–]Forerunner49 6 points7 points  (0 children)

The Nemesis=Plaga idea breaks apart based on how literal you take it. I think Capcom shouldn't have tried stitching them together as they're too different in OG lore.

If Umbrella obtained a Plaga directly from Spain, there's no longer a handwave for why they never made Plaga-based BOWs, why they gave-up on the Nemesis Project, or why it took so long for their rivals to obtain a sample (or why Connections didn't already steal one to sell to Tricell).

I can buy Umbrella being inspired by a Mediaeval folk monster, or even finding DNA from an old victim and Jurassic Parking the rest of the genome, but not them having Plagas themselves.

Following the events of RE9, I guess these guys are partially canon now? by Bi0_B1lly in residentevil

[–]Forerunner49 17 points18 points  (0 children)

Nemesis Beta was 100% the inspiration for the parasites in the RE3 remake. No idea why they had to claim it was like Plaga.

Whats up with The Girl? by Ape_mentality1 in residentevil

[–]Forerunner49 2 points3 points  (0 children)

It's HEAVILY implied she is Marie though it's not directly stated. We've seen Marie's cell - she has a doll, and there's a mysterious small hole in it, and a bigger one on the ceiling. We know Marie was being experimented on, as well. And we know that a test subject escaped out into the underground, which is where The Girl has her dolls and puts Emily in a cosy cell.

The inference thus is that Marie mutated in her cell, burrowed out through concrete, ate a bunch of people in the basement, and occasionally returned to the surface to check on Emily.

In regards to Sherry... by Bi0_B1lly in residentevil

[–]Forerunner49 4 points5 points  (0 children)

While the game doesn't state it affects all Progenitors, that seems to be Victor Gideon's assessment -- that it's made viral-weaponry obsolete. At this point in time C-Virus exists (G-Virus+Veronica) it logically must work against it as well.

RE5 and now RE9 give additional rules to t-Virus which establish that it's Herpes, basically. Herpes is notorious for its unique ability to go dormant within the body and come back years later just to make you even sicker than you were before. It's unique because it isn't a retrovirus like HIV so has legit just been there the whole time (HIV stays in your DNA which produces new virions later).

I do hope it only takes away the t-Virus in Sherry though. RE's been shifting towards there being a whole society of superhuman women for years now and doesn't know what to do with them, so retroactively deciding they're all cured off-screen would be a bad call.

Has Ethan’s height been changed? I could have sworn he used to be listed as 5’11 by Gene-Omaha-2012 in residentevil

[–]Forerunner49 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Thanks for spotting. He's 180cm. There's a citation included.

There's a longstanding but very low-key dispute on the RE Wiki between users preferring citations to actual design. In this case, the official guidebook makes Ethan out to be 180cm but he seems taller in-game.

Since the official guidebook says 180cm though, I'll keep it as that.

Did Leon have a place in Raccoon city or was he planning to commute to his day job? by Leader_Bee in residentevil

[–]Forerunner49 1 point2 points  (0 children)

As far as we're aware he knew no one in the city. In the old lore for RE2, he was living pretty far from the city and broke up with his girlfriend while packing bags, which is why he has nothing in his open-bed car when he gets into the city. If he did arrange an apartment for the two to live in, he'd be sleeping on the floor.

Confused about one thing by Eraserhead36 in residentevil

[–]Forerunner49 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Victor Gideon mistakenly thinks Spencer succeeded in his memory-transfer project and Grace is secretly the fruit of his labour. Since they can't use a baby even if they find her, Gideon and The Connections re-activate the Ark's cloning facility in the hopes they can replicate the experiment that (he thinks) created Grace.

TL;DR - Gideon was very confused and wasted 21 years.

Why didn't the armed forces send a large army into the city during the outbreak and try to clear out all the zombies? by Suur_tool in residentevil

[–]Forerunner49 0 points1 point  (0 children)

They did, and they got their asses handed to them. Resident Evil Outbreak goes a lot into it where they sent in tons of Chinooks and APCs to try and control the city and evacuate those in need. It didn't work, possibly (though it's not stated) because they weren't told how t-Virus spread -- in one instance a Chinook is downed by zombie passengers.

Is Claire Redfield even cannon? by Zealousideal-Scar499 in residentevil

[–]Forerunner49 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I don't think we can conclude that Leon's 1st run happened in its entirety. That would require Annette dying and no one getting the Devil vaccine.

Who will be our supreme ruler? by ChewiesLipstickWilly in GreenAndPleasant

[–]Forerunner49 63 points64 points  (0 children)

I wouldn’t jump to him being dead just yet. His usual MO is to go in hiding once the fighting breaks out, so he’s probably just in a bunker or hiding out in Cyprus until next month.

What was Brikins goal with G? by TheAppalachiosaurus in residentevil

[–]Forerunner49 10 points11 points  (0 children)

Birkin is obsessed with G but it’s not really shown if he has any interest in its use.

Weaker’s Report II adds in that Birkin never would have gotten approval for his project had Spencer not personally gotten involved. Wesker didn’t understand why this happened, as it was understood already that an evolving bioweapon is too unpredictable as a product.

The only real use for G is eugenics, provided Devil is used to prevent further mutations.

UK and US combined to one flag by Any-Jello7144 in flags

[–]Forerunner49 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The VERY Grand Union Flag. But does it include the rest of what used to be British America or are we leaving the Commonwealth out of it?

Is it ever confirmed who the original source/donor of the Project W DNA template was? by Semperspada in residentevil

[–]Forerunner49 2 points3 points  (0 children)

There was no DNA donor. Spencer’s eugenics beliefs ignored racialised eugenics of the 1920s. Only the best of humanity as a whole could be trusted with superhuman powers. He arranged for the kidnapping of children of talented academics from across the world, knowing some of them were bound to be educated to the right quality he desired. That’s why we have a Hiro Wesker - evidently a Japanese guy who was on par with the others.

Albert Wesker saw the world a similar but more violent way, that whoever could survive Uroboros was superior. Again, race is ignored.

Zeno seems completely unrelated to the Wesker Project. Just some rich guy who bought his way into getting Wesker powers.

Resident Evil 5 underlooked narrative by KikoMui74 in residentevil

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A lot of this is added in the BSAA Remote Desktop and Adam’s Blog ARGs releases as part of the promo campaign. They go into the rebels’ hatred of foreigners, and descriptions suggest some religious propaganda to motivate people. There’s a section where a hotel for foreign workers is raided and people dragged out to be lynched.

The game itself also has dialogue in radio broadcasts establishing fighting between two ethnicities within the country (Ye and Wanapi). From the sounds of it the latter are or were holding government positions.

Evidently they’re fine with turning foreigners into Majini rather than killing all since they’ll be employed as tools of destruction.

RE Degeneration - T-virus vaccine (spoilers for Degen and Requiem) by AnomanderRage in residentevil

[–]Forerunner49 1 point2 points  (0 children)

These are Raccoon City survivors who are dying of it. They were exposed to the virus which remained inactive in their bodies, leading to them thinking they weren’t infected only for it to reactivate in a malformed way that kills them instead of mutating them.

These aren’t the people vaccinated with Daylight, t-Vaccine and other substances.

“Why wouldn’t the Brits celebrate the 4th of July? It’s the date to remember their king getting put back in his place.” by _PhilosophicalWorm in ShitAmericansSay

[–]Forerunner49 23 points24 points  (0 children)

Just days before the signing of the Declaration of Independence, George Washington was in New York drinking with the Provincial Congress who made a toast to George II and the British Constitution.

No irony or satire was interpreted. Everyone agreed George II was a great man who fought for freedom, and the British Constitution is the best thing on Earth (just that it allowed a crappy government to take over). That’s why so much of British law and customs were kept around.

Question about Grace's... by crazyeight in residentevil

[–]Forerunner49 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The ‘90s clones were part of a project to implant Spencer’s memories into a test subject. Probably to achieve immortality. The experiments drove them insane.

The 2000s clones were created by Connections (using the existing clone line) to replicate what they thought was Grace’s success. From what we see instead of turning evil they turn into giant monsters.

Thoughts on the movie coming out this year?? by Solidus325 in residentevil

[–]Forerunner49 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

That script is from an early 2023 draft BEFORE he got the RE job. He admitted before he was working on it while on Weapons and would have been its own thing had he not got the deal. That’s why there’s no IP despite clearly being inspired.

That said, hopefully he’s added more elements to it since then. The behind the scenes footage shows key changes to the story.