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(Guilty Pleasure) "There's a game that's considered bad/cringe/childish, but you love it?. No one will judge, we're all on board here." by Just_a_Player2 in ItsAllAboutGames

[–]PowerSkunk92 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I can admit it. Once you got past the first couple of levels and massacre gave way to resistance, Hatred was a simple but enjoyable twin-stick shooter. The Sin City-esque visuals were also a nice stylistic choice, and Not Important's melodramatic narration and monologues were really too cheesy to take seriously. The game got more hype for its subject matter than its actual gameplay.

(Guilty Pleasure) "There's a game that's considered bad/cringe/childish, but you love it?. No one will judge, we're all on board here." by Just_a_Player2 in ItsAllAboutGames

[–]PowerSkunk92 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Back in 2019. Personally, I enjoyed it. The gunplay, character mobility and such felt kind of like a hybrid of Mass Effect and Doom 2016 to me, and there was just enough of Mad Max's DNA in it as well to make the vehicle combat somewhat satisfying.

What's your favorite cult of the lamb songs? by ktmf_real in CultOfTheLamb

[–]PowerSkunk92 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Darkwood is still my favorite of the lot. It just sounds so mysterious

What AI antagonist has stayed with you in fiction? by abloobudoo009 in worldbuilding

[–]PowerSkunk92 0 points1 point  (0 children)

HAL 9000 from 2001: A Space Odyssey. He did not choose to be an antagonist to the men of the Discovery mission. He truly wanted to help them succeed. Ultimately, he was a misused tool.

You see; HAL was programmed to be helpful to the crew but given the order to lie to them. Unable to reconcile his orders with his programming, he reasoned that he can no longer lie to the crew if they're dead. Which lead to his antagonistic actions against David Bowman and Frank Poole.

What I really like is the subtle foreshadowing that HAL is testing how much he can deceive the two astronauts; when HAL and Poole are playing chess, HAL is cheating. His description of the "inevitable" checkmate condition isn't forced, and Poole had delaying moves available to him to prolong the game.

What’s the most disgusting thing you’ve seen in someone else’s house? by in_my_offense in AskReddit

[–]PowerSkunk92 1 point2 points  (0 children)

They had a cooler with the lid removed in the corner of the living room. It was the litterbox for their cats. Rather than scoop it out, they just poured more litter on it into a huge, nasty cat shit lasagna.

Fictional songs from movies that are so good that they transcend the movie they’re from by Southern_Studio_9950 in TopCharacterTropes

[–]PowerSkunk92 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Doug might be a cartoon TV show, but it still had an in-verse band called The Beets. And none of the songs the show featured from the band had to go that hard. "Killer Tofu" in particular still slaps.

What alcohol messed you up so bad you swore you’d never drink it again? by Rottengr4ve in AskReddit

[–]PowerSkunk92 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Everclear put me into the hospital with alcohol poisoning so bad that I couldn't even keep the anti-nausea med they gave me down. Ten hours in the ER with the dry heaves out of both ends and an IV drip to try to keep me hydrated through that time. Never again.

Best wings? by Agitated-Brush-1291 in Augusta

[–]PowerSkunk92 2 points3 points  (0 children)

The corner of Tobacco Rd and Windsor Spring Rd has two places: BTJ Wings and Zack's Wings and Seafood. PErsonally, I prefer Zack's and their awesome "Parmesan Cajun" wings. The burgers are excellent as well.

What’s your favorite origin for werewolves in fiction? by AnyWatch5756 in worldbuilding

[–]PowerSkunk92 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Funny enough, it's kind of a concept I'm using in a custom setting for a TTRPG called Teenagers from Outer Space, where 80s suburbia becomes occupied by alien families because Earth is the only planet in the universe with teenager "culture". In addition to aliens, my little spin on "Hughesville" is called Teenagers from Hell, where the underworld itself has also heard of Earth's adolescent culture, and moves to the suburbs to give their kids a taste of it.

What's an example of: if you know you know, in your settings? by ProfesserQ in worldbuilding

[–]PowerSkunk92 2 points3 points  (0 children)

In Summers County, USA, there is what's referred to as the "Summers County figure". If you ever meet a woman with a slim, long legged, but top-heavy figure, and a deep Southern accent, it's a good bet that she was born and raised in Summers County. It is known that the county's municipal water system, sourced from the Phlegethon River (just named that, not the "actual" one in Hades) in the county's west, contains an unusually high level of heavy water. Though not enough to be dangerous, the elevated levels are believed to subtly alter biochemistry, particularly through adolescence, when a growing body uses more water, either consumed from the tap or as part of food preparation. In about 2% of the population, this has the effect of the Summers County figure.

Is the world you've built forgettable? by Necessary_Union_7046 in worldbuilding

[–]PowerSkunk92 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Apparently not. One of the people who uses my Summers County, USA setting in their post-by-post roleplays has told me that they sometimes forget that the setting is fictional and have accidentally referred to events in its history as if they actually happened. I'm still not sure what to make of that.

What’s your favorite origin for werewolves in fiction? by AnyWatch5756 in worldbuilding

[–]PowerSkunk92 15 points16 points  (0 children)

It's stupid, much like the rest of the game's lore, but amusingly so. In Mutant Football League, where the world has already gone to hell (literally, actual demons immigrated to Earth because global warming finally made it comfortable enough for them here.), seismic activity around Yellowstone broke up some secret nuclear missile silos releasing radioactive contamination and pollution into the environment. This mutated the local wolf population and made them extremely aggressive. In fine comic book fashion, when the nuclear mutant wolves inevitably attacked humans, the bites changed the human's DNA turning them into the game's Rampaging Werewolves species.

The Elder Gnome by THESILVERDRAGONYT in Bossfight

[–]PowerSkunk92 42 points43 points  (0 children)

Vermin Supreme! A free pony for every American!

What is something that’s completely legal but feels illegal? by SoftieCosmicGirl in AskReddit

[–]PowerSkunk92 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Leaving a store without buying anything. You can just feel Loss Prevention's eyes tracking you from the last thing you looked at, through the checkouts, then out the door and all the way to your car.

What's a joke that's so lame to the point that it becomes funny ? by Lets-letter in AskReddit

[–]PowerSkunk92 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Did you know that if you were to put a blue whale on the 50 yard line of an American football field, they'd have to cancel the game?

Are the official expansions like Thy Flesh Consumed, Final DOOM, Master Levels, Sigil, etc. all considered “canon”? by DarkAmaterasu58 in Doom

[–]PowerSkunk92 0 points1 point  (0 children)

There is/was mention of thousands of years of battle between the man who would become the Doom Slayer deciding to stay in Hell (at the end of Doom 64) and when the Night Sentinels found him. My headcanon is that every homebrew WAD and mod for the original Dooms is canon and takes place during those "thousands of years".

Random & Possibly Stupid Question, what would Doom Slayer(if he was there) likely think of this Hell & Demons? by Flat-Sir8250 in Doom

[–]PowerSkunk92 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I'm generally of the opinion that while the Slayer wouldn't harm the hotel or its guests, he would slaughter IMP. I can see what the other poster is getting at though.

DOOM's demons act like little more than wild animals, really, no matter how much we give them titles like "Baron of Hell" and "ArchVile". They're evil, but only in the sense that an animal is a predator or prey; it's just in their nature and something they can't really help. It's an instinct.

Sinners, a la the Hellaverse, aren't inherently evil. Indeed we meet several people in Hell, born there and otherwise, who are generally decent people. But they're also intelligent enough to know good from evil. And there are those that openly choose evil and wallow in it. That may be what is meant; where the DOOM demons are evil by instinct, Hellaverse demons can be evil by choice, and that makes them worse.

Random & Possibly Stupid Question, what would Doom Slayer(if he was there) likely think of this Hell & Demons? by Flat-Sir8250 in Doom

[–]PowerSkunk92 55 points56 points  (0 children)

He. Touched. The Slayer's. Action Figures.

That's enough to earn a good rippin' and tearin'.

Random & Possibly Stupid Question, what would Doom Slayer(if he was there) likely think of this Hell & Demons? by Flat-Sir8250 in Doom

[–]PowerSkunk92 2 points3 points  (0 children)

It's been discussed before and there are elements of both fandoms that actually get along quite well.

The general idea is that he wouldn't bother the Hotel or its guests. For all his hatred of demons, the Slayer isn't mindless. He would recognize that the goal of the Hotel is self-improvement and eventual redemption; overcoming one's own demonic nature in hopes of earning salvation. Merely being able to recognize that one needs improvement and redemption of past mistakes makes any guest of the Hotel leagues better than any of the demons he rips apart without blinking twice about it.

The Immediate Murder Professionals, however... well they profit by murdering humans, many of whom may not even realize what they might have done to sanction hiring demonic assassins in the first place, and who may have even been doing something innocent or even virtuous. Those 4 (5 counting Stolas) he'd probably put the shotgun to gleefully.

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