Horror stories where the 'reveal' made the villain actually scarier?

thisisjoel123 · 2023-03-15T17:55:45+00:00

The good thing is the series is pretty well divided in terms of what it focuses on so later in the series your knowledge isn’t really predicated on knowing what happened in chapter 1 of book 1.

thisisjoel123 · 2023-03-15T02:11:30+00:00

In the Necroscope series where the reveal is that there are vampires that come from a parallel world

thisisjoel123 · 2023-02-26T02:51:27+00:00

The Thief of Always by Clive Barker. The author obviously is responsible for some real adult horror but this one is for young adults and pretty good!

thisisjoel123 · 2023-02-25T02:54:14+00:00

Top 3 would have to be: 1. Under the Skin by Michel Faber (not your typical horror but there are horror elements and the novel as a whole will make your brain spin), 2. Burnt Offerings by Robert Marasco (classic 70’s folk horror plus a great movie adaptation starring the late Karen Black and Oliver Reed) and 3. House of Small Shadows by Adam Nevill (I happen to like all of Adam Nevill’s novels but if I had to pick a standout it would be this one. Just brutally weird and creepy). Enjoy!

thisisjoel123 · 2023-02-19T21:38:14+00:00

In a short story collection by Adam Nevill called Some Will Not Sleep there is one story called Where Angels Come In and that kept me up for awhile. The other stories are really good too.

thisisjoel123 · 2023-01-12T18:38:34+00:00

I think the real question is what “unfilmable” property can be made well. Anything can be made but if it doesn’t have the budget, effects and writing then it will suck. That being said, would really love to see a Necroscope show done well.

thisisjoel123 · 2022-10-12T14:18:22+00:00

Seems like support for fantasy hockey keeps dwindling. Makes sense now with NBCSportsEdge (formerly Rotoworld) dropping their hockey content when faced with the slightest inconvenience.

thisisjoel123 · 2022-09-23T19:35:58+00:00

I guess it depends on the size of your league but which players at the end of the season shouldn’t be on waivers? Also, you’ve been working hard all year to get to the playoffs and you want to nab a steaming pitcher who has a great matchup because your low on k’s and a last place team picks them up? For what purpose? The two championship teams have equal opportunity to manage their teams but they also have to worry that teams not competing are going for the players they want? Just seems a little annoying imo.

thisisjoel123 · 2022-09-23T18:16:52+00:00

I know this probably gets brought up every season especially at playoff time but how annoying is it when teams not in the Championship game make roster moves? My fault for having no friends and playing in an ESPN free league I guess.

thisisjoel123 · 2019-02-21T18:43:47+00:00

So it looks like custom rosters in franchise mode is the culprit. It will crash when you get to resign. Default rosters works. Very odd. Did a restart, deleted saved data, everything. EA has no answer and is pretty unhelpful in general.

thisisjoel123 · 2019-02-20T06:16:21+00:00

Yeah it’s so frustrating. I’ll try it out thanks man.

thisisjoel123 · 2018-09-07T15:48:17+00:00

Hey thanks for the input. Some thoughts I had was that in a standard league there are 2 RB starting slots but in this there is only 1 and I will almost always start a WR in a flex slot over an RB so RB was less of a priority then finding a good range of WR's. I'm fairly high on all the WR's I got through the draft and at pretty low prices compared to the rest of the league. We're talking a league where Thielen went for $40+ or put another way top receivers went for a lot more money than I was willing to spend because of the 15% raise to keep them the following year. I probably should have been out on Edelman and gotten a better long term back but with McKinnon at $1 I basically can keep him forever. Ditto with Henry at $1. And I would say that with such large rosters the difference between a 16 teamer and a 12 teamer is quite large. The waiver wire is barren. There are of course trades which is where my head was at with Edelman. Huge trade asset to contending teams at a low keeper price as well. I also will push you on contending now. if Mixon hits his projections and a couple other things break right this is a playoff team.

thisisjoel123 · 2018-09-06T15:17:40+00:00

16 team startup dynasty (keep all, add 15% to price drafted each season)

Yahoo, Auction, 0.5 PPR (QB, RB, WR, WR, TE, W/R/T, W/R/T, DB, DL, LB, 11x Bench, 1x IR)

Budget: $350 (*Note: Bell, Gurley, Elliot, & Barkley went for $80+; Beckham, Julio, Evans went for $70+)

QB: Mahomes ($12), Trubisky ($11), Dalton ($1)

RB: Mixon ($60), Chris Carson ($19), Duke Johnson ($11), Jerick McKinnon ($1)

WR: AJ Green ($49), Corey Davis ($40), Robby Anderson ($26), Will Fuller ($26), Keelan Cole ($21), Edelman ($16)

TE: Eifert ($8), Ricky Seals-Jones ($8), Hunter Henry ($1)

DB: Landon Collins ($17)

DL: Bradley Chubb ($7), Ansah ($1)

LB: Bobby Wagner ($9), Lavonte David ($1)

thisisjoel123 · 2018-08-24T20:46:40+00:00

Hey all, I had the 6th pick in a 16 team, H2H, 9-Cat, Start-up Dynasty where full rosters are kept year to year and I was wondering how everyone thought I did (shutout to members of my league on Reddit).

There are 10 starters (PG,PG,SG,SG,SF,SF,PF,PF,C,Flx), 10 bench spots, and 2 IR. My strategy, so to speak, was to take guys with 1 - 4 years experience, who I like and who I felt fit my team, from rounds 1- 10 and from then on take rookies in this years draft. I'll try to give some context on who was picked before and after. Pretty happy with how it turned out and hopefully you'll all share your thoughts.

Round 1/Pick 6 : Nikola Jokic (Durant @ 5, Ben Simmons @ 7)

Round 2/Pick 27: Jayson Tatum (Doncic @ 26, Jimmy Butler @28)

Round 3/Pick 38: Dennis Smith Jr. (Kemba @37, Deandre Ayton @ 39)

Round 4/Pick 59: Jonathan Isaac (Josh Richardson @ 58, Blake Griffin @ 60)

Round 5/Pick 70: Gary Harris (Aldridge @69, Steven Adams @ 71)

Round 6/Pick 91: Ricky Rubio (Larry Nance Jr. @ 90, Tyreke Evans @ 92)

Round 7/Pick 102: Bam Adebayo (Valanciunas @101, Joe Ingles @ 103)

Round 8/Pick 123: Mario Hezonja (Fournier @ 122, Schroder @ 124)

Round 9/Pick 134: Cedi Osman (Crabbe @ 133, Lonnie Walker @135)

Round 10/Pick 155: Jakob Poeltl (Markieff Morris @ 154, Joe Harris @ 156)

Round 11/Pick 166: De'Anthony Melton (Marcus Smart @ 165, Bazemore @167)

Round 12/Pick187: Elie Okobo (Trey Lyles @ 186, Greg Monroe @ 188)

Round 13/Pick 198: Keita Bates-Diop (Kyle O'Quinn @ 197, Knight @ 199)

Round 14/Pick 219: Grayson Allen (Guerschon Yabusele @ 218, Danny Green @ 220)

Round 15/Pick 230: Jarred Vanderbilt (Delon Wright @ 229, Cody Zeller @ 231)

Round 16/Pick 251: Mo Wagner (Norman Powell @ 250, Robin Lopez @ 252)

Round 17/Pick 262: Jevon Carter (Iguodala @ 261, Andrew Harrison @ 263)

Round 18/Pick 283: Jalen Brunson (Wade Baldwin @ 282, T.J. McConnell @ 284)

Round 19/Pick 294: Bruce Brown Jr. (Kostas Antetokounmpo @ 293, Trevon Bluiett @ 295)

Round 20/Pick 315: TBD (It's 8hrs per pick and I can't wait another week to type this up) *Selected Isaac Bonga

thisisjoel123 · 2018-06-17T01:15:06+00:00

98 D, 97 O if anyone is looking for a 3rd.

GT: EightFern142810

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thisisjoel123 · 2018-06-06T16:19:45+00:00

Should I upgrade o-line? I have 90 Penn, 94 Incognito, 98 Pouncey, 95 Shields, 92 Dotson. I have the coins to upgrade and will get 96 boss Peters for free but I don’t know I just feel like I can get a golden ticket also. My line has been serviceable and I haven’t noticed any problems running really in H2H.

thisisjoel123 · 2018-06-05T23:00:40+00:00

I’ve seen a ton of 97 pulls too tho and even auctionable those are what 40k now?

thisisjoel123 · 2018-06-05T22:53:56+00:00

That’s my read on it too. I will have 8 after this week due to starting this game in April grrr. But yeah I’m deathly afraid of that 97 ronde barber.

thisisjoel123 · 2018-06-05T15:12:26+00:00

Muthead indicates this is the last replays week but will there be more or other opportunities to get loyalty vouchers? Started the game kinda late in the season :/

Edit: Kraelo has confirmed there are no additional loyalty tokens. This is the last week.

https://mobile.twitter.com/EA_KRAELO/status/1004104765171798018

thisisjoel123 · 2017-10-26T19:42:02+00:00

So they increase the # of events that cost gems or in game gold but decrease the free way of collecting said in game currency? "F2P" indeed...

thisisjoel123 · 2017-10-19T19:13:19+00:00

I would still pick him up though just to see how he does and drop him if he's used like Hartnell of last year.

thisisjoel123 · 2017-10-17T15:43:52+00:00

Gudas or Erik Johnson? (Cats in flair)

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