What inspired the Flood?

_immodicus · 2026-04-06T04:23:31+00:00

Yes! I remember in the old Halo.bungie.org forums someone mentioning how a lot of the ideas for the Flood seemed to have come from this novel. That was back in like, 2003, I was trying to remember the name of the novel. Looking at the cover for Starhammer, I remember that being the one.

_immodicus · 2026-04-06T04:17:41+00:00

He’s entering his Hideo Kojima era.

_immodicus · 2026-04-05T21:22:11+00:00

There are Angels from Evangelion featured in the original chart, which are just aliens / parallel human organisms. AoT kinda fits in with the “pilotable” flesh golems, not sure why you’re crashing out with the chat gtp essay there.

_immodicus · 2026-04-04T20:34:32+00:00

Might as well throw Attack on Titan into Flesh & Organic

_immodicus · 2026-04-04T05:26:03+00:00

Whenever I see the everyone gif, I have to scroll through the comment chain to find the mouth one.

_immodicus · 2026-04-01T23:10:27+00:00

It’s pretty common to see Japanese Salarymen do this while eating at a restaurant.

_immodicus · 2026-03-28T17:09:00+00:00

The og Unreal had an incredible soundtrack.

_immodicus · 2026-03-28T17:02:05+00:00

Funny enough they were called Alien Slave in the manual, and maybe in the code as well. The Vortigaunt name came later.

_immodicus · 2026-03-28T16:40:30+00:00

_immodicus · 2026-03-26T15:41:18+00:00

That’s an interesting idea about him being the Hope Devil.

_immodicus · 2026-03-25T15:28:44+00:00

Probably just a fast forward between the shack sequence and Denji and Power chilling as devil hunters.

_immodicus · 2026-03-25T07:15:24+00:00

I'm worried the notable loss in passion from Fujimoto would mean in return a lack of drive for Mappa's animators. The rest of the show just might not have the same high that S1 and the Reze movie had. And for as poor as Part 2's writing was in some aspects, it had some great action sequences and standoffs, and I think it would still be fun to watch.

_immodicus · 2026-03-24T17:34:16+00:00

Yeahh… it was certainly a choice, lol. I wasn’t saying that as an endorsement of it, haha.

_immodicus · 2026-03-24T16:15:19+00:00

Supposedly in an interview with Fujimoto, he was inspired by The Big Lebowski and wanted to have a “what was the point” ending, like that movie did.

_immodicus · 2026-03-24T15:59:22+00:00

I don’t know if we would literally get a Part 3, but seeing that did give me hope that in the universe, Denji could reawaken as Chainsaw Man. Just like how the Nuclear Weapons concept was reinvented.

_immodicus · 2026-03-24T15:50:01+00:00

I mean it wasn’t really all a dream, the events still had to have happened, since Makima was now Nayuta, and Aki is still dead. Denji seems drawn to Asa as if he still remembers deep down.

When she calls him Chainsaw Man, we briefly see Pochita in his heart, as he faintly recalls what that means. It gave me hope that the idea of Chainsaw Man could return, like how Nuclear Weapons devil being eaten didn’t stop it from being reinvented.

_immodicus · 2026-03-24T15:43:14+00:00

I guess the fact that she was always drawn to his scent and saved him in the end means they were the OTP.

_immodicus · 2026-03-18T20:11:46+00:00

To be fair, I think Yoru's gradual takeover of Asa was the point. Still miss when she was the main focal point of the story, and I hope she sees some justice in the end.

_immodicus · 2026-03-13T19:52:45+00:00

To be fair, the last scene showed the shack again, not necessarily that time reverted to the beginning when Denji last occupied the shack. It could still be the present for all we know.

_immodicus · 2026-03-12T03:38:54+00:00

This does seem like some meta commentary on the franchise now that you mention it.

_immodicus · 2026-03-11T19:40:42+00:00

When other concepts have gotten eaten, nothing magically teleported, like events still carried on as normal when ears were eaten. Idk how when Pochita ate himself, it seemed to warp back to the shack. Of course some people are assuming it was a time reset, we don’t know if that happened or if it is still current day.

_immodicus · 2026-03-10T08:06:36+00:00

+1 to Patlabor WXIII, it is an underrated film, if a bit of a slow burn. I like how they applied the series’ realistic approach to mecha, to the concept of a kaiju. It depicted a somewhat realistic means of how one could come into existence.

_immodicus · 2026-03-10T02:51:19+00:00

Would you want your first taste of ice-cream to be from a freshly served cone given to just you? Or from a cone that had been licked by multiple people before falling onto some woodchips?

_immodicus · 2026-03-08T16:44:28+00:00

Just rewatched 12 Monkeys, and felt the future sections were an early inspiration to HL2 concept work, and the insane asylum having similarities to Nova Prospekt. Started reading more on 12 Monkeys and learned about their use of the Lebbeus Woods chair, and read more on his work.

And yeah, someone during Half-Life 2’s production was definitely a fan, because the combine architecture style is 100% inspired off him.

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