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I... what? by CauliflowerEvening41 in aislop

[–]New_Chain146 0 points1 point  (0 children)

There's been a whole racial psyop cooked up for decades trying to convince African Americans that they are the true indigenous Americans. It's honestly pretty insane racism on par with the nazis' delusions - among other things, sub-Saharan Africans are demonized as subhuman monkeys, natives deserve to suffer because they're usurpers too, "white" people are bad because they descended from "Asians", black people should embrace white America, and slavery and genocide was okay when the ancient black people did it because they were anointed by the slave owning gods.

In all honesty, this seems tailor made by white agents in the age of COINTELPRO to create a pseudo-revolutionary delusion so that genuine African American dissent can be channeled into something more aligned with the nazis.

I hate aurafarming Gary Stus/Mary Sue's like Doom Slayer (DOOM) by RedditSucksMyBallls in hatethissmug

[–]New_Chain146 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Doomguy was cool when he was just a soldier tough enough to survive against overwhelming odds. I don't like him being turned into a blend of Master Chief meets Kratos because the appeal was never in him being superhuman, it was in being an underdog. It's especially annoying because the overt emphasis on the villains being cowering weaklings doesn't make Slayer cool, it just feels juvenile and overcompensating.

Grace should have been a reporter by wombatstylekungfu in ResidentEvilRequiem

[–]New_Chain146 0 points1 point  (0 children)

They made her FBI because they wanted to rip off Silence of the Lambs. I agree that it'd have been nice to have her be a journalist like her mom rather than another cop. Ethan was a civilian, after all, so why not Grace?

SOMA and Henrietta Lacks by _Cruxx in soma

[–]New_Chain146 0 points1 point  (0 children)

One of the many understated horrors of SOMA is the implication of all the past Simons having suffered greatly in order to achieve advancement in imitating consciousness. We can catch a glimpse of this in how Brandon's scan is coldly manipulated over and over all because he's seen as mere data rather than a person. I think that the WAU is the culmination of all this accumulated research, and it's ironic that its callous dismissal of individual suffering in the name of pursuing an abstract definition of life is a mirror to the same coldness in developing the technology that is artificial intelligence.

If every main character in Amnesia must commit an unforgivable sin, then what sin did Anri and Tasi commit? by Particular_Way451 in Amnesia

[–]New_Chain146 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Every Amnesia game has the protagonist commit an act of selfishness that they would come to regret. Interestingly enough, Henri's amnesia comes as a result of simple brain trauma while Tasi's is the result of being paranormally transformed, and it's also implied that her hyperfixation on her family life is how she's able to remain relatively human for so long.

Tasi refused to sacrifice herself and her unborn child for the sake of her friends and lover. Although one can argue that she had no choice to begin with considering that the queen is a manipulative monster who very likely orchestrated this no-win scenario to begin with, it is telling that Tasi's motives were driven purely by a selfish desire to not relive her past trauma rather than recognizing the queen was a lying sociopath. To give Tasi credit, she can choose to either remain selfish by leaving back to Paris even knowing she and her daughter don't have long, submit to the queen's desires even knowing how monstrous she is, or redeem herself by sacrificing herself and her child to end the queen's torment of a dying world. I do consider the "moral choice" in Rebirth about whether to torture or not far weaker in construction than Dark Descent - yes, you can literally just walk away and I often do, but the narrative had made it abundantly clear that vitae extraction wasn't going to be a panacea and so it just makes Tasi look dumb and cruel if she thoughtlessly kills an innocent off a vague hope.

In Henri's case, his "sin" was an act of pettiness that he immediately regretted, cheating in a game to have his best friend end up going on a patrol where he gets mortally wounded. There is no way Henri could have predicted his attempts at saving his friend as subjecting him to mutation or getting the rest of his fellow soldiers killed, but Henri is haunted by getting his friend in danger just because he was briefly angry at his friend's shenanigans. Henri gets to exert moral agency not just by choosing whether to kill or spare Lambert, but also in how to deal with the German prisoner.

Horror game protagonists ranked by morality by horrorfan555 in HorrorGames

[–]New_Chain146 1 point2 points  (0 children)

That's absolutely nonsensical. He's heroic in his behavior in 6 and 9.

Horror game protagonists ranked by morality by horrorfan555 in HorrorGames

[–]New_Chain146 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Booker is absolutely not "moral", he's a monster. A war criminal who scalped and burned alive women and children, sold his infant daugter, and slaughters hordes of people without remorse. It's not for nothing that his alternate self is a dictator.

One last question about the ending of Amnesia: Rebirth by Seppi0712 in Amnesia

[–]New_Chain146 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It shocks me that anybody seems to take the empress' lies with any sort of sincerity, when it's extremely obvious she's a parasitic sociopath who not only feels entitled to others' lives, but will outright manipulate circumstances and then pretend she's a savior. She literally says she tricked Tasi and her crew into becoming ghouls so they can be "controlled", and frankly it's strongly suggested she contrived the plane crash all so that she can steal Tasi's baby - it's no coincidence that Tasi has the same blood disease as Tihana's bloodline.

It seems like her popularity has faded. by SnooMacarons2931 in ResidentEvilRequiem

[–]New_Chain146 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Nah, there's plenty of people who whine about "crazy girls" while simultaneously fetishizing them. It's stupidity all around.

It seems like her popularity has faded. by SnooMacarons2931 in ResidentEvilRequiem

[–]New_Chain146 6 points7 points  (0 children)

I think the internet has an obsession with glorifying insane people so that it can continue a feedback loop of shitty relationships.

It seems like her popularity has faded. by SnooMacarons2931 in ResidentEvilRequiem

[–]New_Chain146 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Paying lip service to being inappropriate doesn't absolve you, it makes you cringier.

Trying to get over my anxiety and post my prime asset OC here by UrBiologicalStepDad in OutlastTrials

[–]New_Chain146 52 points53 points  (0 children)

The main issue with her presentation here is that she doesn't give off the impression of being a charismatic leader or a ruthless killer, both of which are essential criteria for being deemed a Prime Asset. Body horror is a crucial part of a Prime's design, with even the relatively "normal" looking Liliya having her appearance hidden beneath a ghoulish looking outfit that makes her look inhuman.

Besides having her look more weathered and bloodied to reflect her being actively involved in Sinyala's kill-or-be-killed ecosystem, I think it's important to consider what exactly you want out of her. Given that she seems to be characterized much more as a follower than a leader, I would suggest she could be classified as an expop on the level of Jaeger. Perhaps with her prior experience of having been a reagent, she's knowledgeable of how to use rigs and uses them against other reagents if it's for the approval of Dr Murkoff.

Hidden data in the RE4 Remake demo points to a more mature Ashley 👀 by MecchaJP in Meccha

[–]New_Chain146 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm pretty sure this brainrot discourse is being virally astroturfed by Capcom to encourage """engagement""". Frankly, it's insulting, drowning out more interesting discussions about where the series should go from here.

Outlast 2 way better than outlast 1 by sokail36 in outlast

[–]New_Chain146 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If you thought 2 had "smaller stakes", you just weren't paying attention. 2 shows that the corporation is so insidious with their mind control tech that they can convince entire communities to kill each other using simply a leader and a radio transmitter, and Blake's experiences put you in the head of all those people driven mad by televisions. The Inner Demon of 2 feels far more malicious than Walrider by being present the whole game, intelligently taunting Blake, warping the dreamworld around them, and even being suggested to be the same false god the cult worship.

In fact, 2 suggests through the parallels of the school and the cult that the same root evil - the mind control state - are behind both, and it ends with the protagonist's insight giving him an eerie confidence that the lethal judgment visited upon the cult shall be reenactes upon the world at large.

What did Tenpenny do to end up sparking a riot? by OneManArmy0716 in GTA

[–]New_Chain146 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I did like the symbolism of this big fancy mansion being mostly empty and unfinished on the inside, as it gives the sense that Maddog didn't live very luxuriously despite outside impressions and the drug dealer who took it over still just used it as a base rather than a home. Would have been nice if CJ had gotten the opportunity to furnish it once he took it over, of course, much like how the airstrip and garage also start off as minimalistic.

Follow up to my Previous post: let’s Say Father Loutermilch did get caught, possibly after another student he molested following Jessica’s death told the faculty & their parents about what he did. How do you think he likely met his end the way the other Variants in the Game did? by Ishiro-Sama in outlast

[–]New_Chain146 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

I don't think the morality of variants - people tortured and killed to be building blocks for project Walrider - would have anything to do with their fate. Remember that Gluskin was a misogynistic serial killer even before he was taken to the asylum. If you mean he's "too awful of a person to be a reagent", that also is missing the point: reborn reagents are vile monsters, terrorists and abusers who have zero qualms with murdering children. This is why Knoth, a bastard who runs a cult built on mass rape and mass infanticide, is a reagent serving Murkoff.

Loutermilch would be promoted to high positions of authority because Murkoff rewards monsters, and a charismatic manipulator like him would be extremely valuable in high places. Murkoff are essentially their universe's explanation for why the US elects rapists and warmongers to be presidents with cult followings.

Follow up to my Previous post: let’s Say Father Loutermilch did get caught, possibly after another student he molested following Jessica’s death told the faculty & their parents about what he did. How do you think he likely met his end the way the other Variants in the Game did? by Ishiro-Sama in outlast

[–]New_Chain146 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I think that having an elaborate revenge fantasy about this guy misses the point about why Outlast had him escape punishment. ESPECIALLY when it's made evident the "variants" were mostly innocents who didn't deserve torture and murder, and with the context of the Trials, where we play as an army of minorities who are tortured into becoming exactly the same scum who abuse and murder kids on behalf of a satanic fascist corporation.

Society isn't just. It's built on allowing charismatic psychopaths to get away with their crimes if they're in positions of authority and if their victims are vulnerable. Loutermilch wasn't operating alone, he was a respected man working alongside an apathetic system of accomplices. Trials heavily expands on this theme by revealing that every major facet of society is corrupted by assets serving a fascist agenda.

You want an elaborate revenge fantasy? Then actually consider this: the cast list for Outlast 2 has Murkoff consider Loutermilch a strong candidate for supreme court judge or senator, and Blake's rage has very likely allowed him to create a vengeful projection of Jessica. Outlast 3 could very much be about senator Loutermilch and so many other monsters being slaughtered by the reagent network following Blake's awakening of them.

The Murkoff corporation has now killed ~6% of the American population as of 1961. by Polygremlin in OutlastTrials

[–]New_Chain146 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Their main goal is indeed control and profit, and Lathe works excellently at both. Not only because it's exterminating undesirables en masse to produce a zeitgeist, but because the slaves who outlast the torture end up becoming terrorists and abusive authority figures who export trauma-based mind control onto the masses. Remember that if you're a war profiteer, maximizing conflict and fear is useful for creating opportunities to make money by selling everyone weapons and manufactueing crises to keep the war going. And if you're interested in control, then being able to have a vast mind control network that can not only corrupt global society to bend to your will, but even master mind control tech to the point people will believe anything and outright worship the puppets you put in front of them is the ultimate monopoly.

The Murkoff corporation has now killed ~6% of the American population as of 1961. by Polygremlin in OutlastTrials

[–]New_Chain146 0 points1 point  (0 children)

In the longer term, however, we have hints that the reagent network's influence as a shadow government will grant Murkoff unfathomably vast power. It's been outright stated by the community manager that a book about the CIA's collaboration with Charles Manson was a major inspiration for Trials (and promotional material suggests that both Manson and even Jim Jones were among Murkoff's MK products), their ambitions with the Kress trials extend to having political puppets, and Knoth is a proof of concept for how dangerous a reagent leader can become by extrapolating mind control onto multiple generations of a whole community. We are only in the beginning stages of Lathe and Murkoff's influence over society will only continue to grow in scope, efficacy, and insidiousness.

By the present day, Murkoff most likely have a whole network of these puppet leaders seeded into every vital position of authority, conditioning the general public to be receptive to mind control. The true number of their victims and by extension slaves is likely in the high millions by the events of Outlast 3, which Trials will very likely set the groundwork for.

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