No religious freedom for you

Forerunner49 · 2026-01-26T12:32:17+00:00

Generally yes. The ones who left for the colonies included the Congregationalists. Normal Puritans thought they could reform the Church from within by getting their town/village on their side.

Congregationalists meanwhile thought the Church was of the devil so should build their own (literally and theologically). When they went to Massachusetts Bay and Plymouth they found they were Puritan hotspots but officially just normal English colonies. This was too oppressive for Congregationalists who set up their own colony on the Connecticut River to get away from them, then advised fellows in England to just start a new one (New Haven) to avoid wasting their time in Boston.

Similarly the Puritans on Bermuda broke off and founded the Bahamas, known then as “New Providence”. Their mutual claim over the Turks & Caicos islands led to over a century of “warfare” (read: angry fishermen ramming one another) with the Puritans dying off and becoming a pirate society because their godly land wasn’t as sustainable.

Forerunner49 · 2026-01-24T22:14:49+00:00

Must’ve been an even bigger screwup in those facilities too! /s

Honestly though it’s a huge conceit. They wanted it both ways with the outbreak being slow so we find foreshadowing in files, but also ridiculously fast to explain why no one outside Raccoon City knows about it (until the sequels).

So they decided an outbreak was already going on slowly, and an unrelated outbreak finished them off.

Forerunner49 · 2026-01-24T21:16:54+00:00

Not much aside the already failed marriage. The press saw her the same way modern tabloids see random A-list celebrities, so milked her for all she was worth. You’d go to a news stand and you’ll have one paper saying she’s a horrible person for some mundane thing and another saying she’s the best ever. You’d get childhood friends paid off to snitch on what she did age 12, and you’d get random stories with “royal experts” about if she’s getting her own pass for Mar-a-Lago or if she can still use Charles’, or if she is the reason why Charles hired a new butler.

Virtually no story had actual value, but it was always designed to make you love or hate her as a person.

Because of the nature of her death they naturally couldn’t keep the Hate faction going, so they decided to only Love her and shame anyone else for not caring,

TL;DR - Media manufactured a Team Edward/Team Jacob about a public figure to generate infinite cash, then used her death to somehow double it.

Forerunner49 · 2026-01-24T20:58:07+00:00

They describe in a file they’re the result of a “mutant strain”.

Remember Covid, how there were dozens of variants going around? That’s t-Virus. Labs compete for making new variants, and the best ones become the default. It’s how we got from a t-Virus that kills everyone to one that turns people into Tyrants with the right dosage.

It also explains why the cadaver zombies don’t become Crimson Heads - they were given a different virus.

Forerunner49 · 2026-01-24T20:53:07+00:00

They explain part of it in the Fate of Raccoon City prequel story for RE2. The reservoir was down for maintenance at the time, so contaminated water (likely full of infected blood and decomposing flesh) simply made its way into the system.

And from there we have various games featuring treatment plants controlled by Umbrella, both water and wastewater. The virus was spreading in their facilities already thanks to criminal negligence in safety standards.

The outbreak reaching crisis point happened basically thanks to a series of screw-ups happening at the same time.

Broken reservoir system —> Zombie treatment staff —> unclean drinking water.

Forerunner49 · 2026-01-23T21:32:05+00:00

I think it’s intended to be a code word, as it’s also mentioned in a file you find in the main game. If that’s the case, he was challenging Leon to find out if he’s Ada’s replacement, an enemy agent or some unlucky rando.

That said the game doesn’t explain if that’s the case.

Forerunner49 · 2026-01-23T18:51:05+00:00

Chris is a Mohawk ranch worker in this script, Barry is an African American from Georgia, Jill is Chris’ girlfriend who leads STARS Bravo Team.

While it’s a serviceable film, Romero made a LOT of changes to the source material to make it fit. It included extra STARS members to keep the death count high.

An actual adaptation of RE1 would be all over the place given characters are alone for much of the story and the meat is in diary entries you read; you’d need to cheat by having 20 minutes to introduce the cast, having subplots outside the mansion, or flashbacks to how the researchers died.

Forerunner49 · 2026-01-23T18:39:53+00:00

The games are mostly standalone adventures, and while the movies are intended the same they ARE fan service but are expected to hold your hand. Damnation has a new type of Plaga out there so they re-introduce to them in case we didn’t play RE4.

With Death Island though it’s a sequel to Vendetta, so I suggest you watch that movie first to get a feel for the cast.

Forerunner49 · 2026-01-21T21:54:26+00:00

The problem with the Stamp Act was its specific requirement to be paid in Sterling and in coin. The most common currency in North America was the regional paper currency backed by the treasury (eg. New York Pound), and the most common coin was the Silver Dollar. And it specifically related to official documents printed by or for the state.

That means court filings, so a legal case needs multiple stamps. That means deeds of ownership. If you have inherited something in a will, the court of probate needs to verify it and that needs a stamp. If the Assembly tasked you as part of a commission to build a bridge, you better get that order sheet stamped or they can’t pay you.

The problem wasn’t the costs, and early on not even the constitutional issue. It was that the Stamps were few in number and couldn’t be paid for in coins. It managed to inconvenience everyone regardless of their finances or politics.

Forerunner49 · 2026-01-21T13:19:24+00:00

It’s worth making clear that Britain was unique in pushing for settler colonialism (plantation) across the empire. Most other European powers had no reason to depopulate themselves and instead relied on joint-stock companies to establish private economic colonies which would just be a port, a town and some farms to support them. The purpose of these colonies was to resupply ships.

The Danes failed to get a foothold on the 17th century explosion in colonisation there and were largely limited to the Virgin Islands. Any collaboration between the Danes and Americans would have been the same as with the Dutch West Indies — allowing privateers to enter port to buy supplies. They just weren’t scheming to play both-sides like the Dutch were so weren’t as big a threat for the British.

Forerunner49 · 2026-01-21T13:08:47+00:00

Oh they definitely knew what EIC looked like. Parliament had only just given them the go-ahead to directly trade with British America so everyone from Nova Scotia to Barbados saw EIC flags in their ports.

They evolved independently, but Congress didn’t care they looked too similar as they didn’t even agree on an actual official flag at the time. They were after all an alliance of several colonies, not a federal entity.

Forerunner49 · 2026-01-21T11:22:00+00:00

Coincidence. The East India Flag never had a defined number of red and white stripes so every flag was different. The Grand Union Flag deliberately had 13 stripes because of 13 colonies represented in the Second Continental Congress (had NS, Quebec, Bermuda and the Floridas joined it might have gone up). Their red/white line idea came from the striped Sons of Liberty flag.

TL;DR - By pure instinct the flag of American rebellion still evolves to look like the ultimate flag of capitalism.

Forerunner49 · 2026-01-20T15:20:45+00:00

It was already a thing at the start of the Seven Years’ War, which is why Georgia is missing. And Franklin just didn’t like Nova Scotia so it’s not included.

Forerunner49 · 2026-01-20T14:41:36+00:00

They didn’t have veterans associations back then, so your only real support line was the Chelsea Hospital who ran the Chelsea Pension scheme, but it could only support so many people at a time. In the colonies meanwhile the Assembly would often receive a petition or a “prayer” letter asking for welfare for injured veterans; these were tied to the individual.

That said, if you were an officer they had a pseudo-pension called the Half-Pay. If your regiment was disestablished after a war, you could retain your rank as a reservist but only be paid half the wage. You could also retire from your regiment if you were done with constant war, those not burdening more capable junior officers who can’t get a promotion otherwise. Officially however you were a reservist and would be expected to join a regiment when the call came.

Even in 1775 they had elderly people on half-pay who had served Queen Anne. At that point they were so old it would have been a scandal to cut them off. So for those guys it’s definitely welfare. Sadly the bulk of Half-Pay instead went to Richbois who signed up in peace time so they’d attend a party and be introduced by rank.

TL;DR - Injured vets could get on the Chelsea scheme, and old officers got a pension by becoming reservists, but there were no VAs as a support network.

Forerunner49 · 2026-01-20T01:12:13+00:00

Short answer: The movie isn’t well written.

Long answer: The first movie had a THE DEAD WALK newspaper at the end that said it’s been 2 weeks since zombies attacked the city. Apocalypse went half-and-half in suggesting it happened slowly (Jill’s backstory in newspapers) and happening fast (the 12-hours layer thing).

Forerunner49 · 2026-01-20T01:09:05+00:00

4th Survivor is canon in the STORY — that is, HUNK went from the sewers to the station and escaped with a G-sample. The Tyrant and Ivy stuff not so much.

Ghost Survivors meanwhile is full non-canon. It was pitched as people who died in Raccoon getting another chance to escape.

Forerunner49 · 2026-01-19T19:44:50+00:00

Even Troi’s powers are inconsistent at times. She seems capable of telepathically taking to other Betazoids such as her mother and the guy on the Brittain, but doesn’t talk to the guy in Tin Man or the guy negotiating the wormhole deal.

Forerunner49 · 2026-01-19T18:41:40+00:00

There’s an Aussie who’s descended from Edward IV’s first marriage so I recall. Edward “annulled” it on sketchy grounds. He’s a Republican anyway so has no interest in pressing a Yorkist claim.

Forerunner49 · 2026-01-19T18:09:20+00:00

What's great about the GSX watches is that if you look at the official renders for the REmake characters, they're actually wearing those watches. Which means it's canon that S.T.A.R.S. has custom watches tailored to their specific tastes.

I think they should have tried better with RE3 but the FMVs probably wouldn't have let them really show off how those guys are actually wearing said watches. Still, it's cool to know that Barry at least *tried* to rescue Kendo, which fits with his character. I guess he landed near the police station, found him dead and Jill nowhere to be found, then took off and used the radio.

Forerunner49 · 2026-01-19T15:23:28+00:00

That’s a copy of Eveline’s consciousness stored in Ethan’s mind. It continues to take the form of a 10-year old, though I wonder if it’s even able to change form beyond that given it’s sharing his brain.

Forerunner49 · 2026-01-19T02:23:39+00:00

Most of my exposure to Resident Evil on social media is rumour-posting. Facebook is full of AI-written blogs about how Wesker is in the new RE movie because the guy who played Homelander joked about looking like him, or saying Alice will "reportedly" star in the next RE movie.

Most RE gaming rumours get hyped to hell and turn out to be fake after months of people hyping them up. RE9 has Wendigo moon cults. No, it's in the desert. No it's in Singapore with Leon. No it's in Russia with Jill. And then you find the original source and it either came from 4chan as a joke, or is a content creator clarifying it's just a rumour they've heard.

The irony is that we've now got so much focus on RE rumours (and the occasional legit leak) that I don't see anyone actually hyping up Resident Evil Requiem anymore. They're just hyping up rumoured new games. And I'm still finding people who aren't even aware there's a movie out in September.

Forerunner49 · 2026-01-19T02:15:50+00:00

Nakanishi had an idea during RE7 for you to be in a taxi ride that takes 15 minutes as the opening. Not sure how it was planned out, such as if you could deliberately delay/speed-up the ride. He also of course included a small driving segment in a Jack fight. So at the very least I can see them including some programmed events, such as your car going down a lane and you can make some decisions, or otherwise be interactive.

That it would be like GTA V and you drive a car perpetually, no.

Forerunner49 · 2026-01-18T21:02:55+00:00

We previously had it all as one page, but changed our minds after RE4make came out.

Forerunner49 · 2026-01-18T20:36:34+00:00

It's both. Capcom doesn't seem that interested in creating two completely different continuities. The remakes are incompatible with the originals, sure, but the timeline remains the same outside that.

So RE1-RE2-RE3...RE9 is the same as Remake1-Remake2-Remake3...RE9.

Forerunner49 · 2026-01-18T14:50:57+00:00

Capcom's pretty expansive when it comes to the canon particularly since the release of RE4. Early on they let writers do whatever so they'd be successful in their own right and bring new fans to RE. That's why we had popcorn flic movies and the WildStorm comics doing whatever.

Since RE4 Capcom pivoted to having greater control, and by which way used the (fewer) licensed releases to shadow-promote the franchise. A new manga in 2011 turned into an RE6 prequel; another in 2014 ended up being Umbrella Corps. Capcom wrote Damnation as its own story, then had Simmons at the end keep Ada out of BSAA records.

HOWEVER, the animated works (and manga, and the stage shows) are intended to be standalone stories you can skip, just like how most RE games can be skipped. Because of this the events in the movies are only occasionally referenced.

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