Official Derailed thread... Wait, what?

Those are some detailed pieces. I like some of the pieces that Neckbeardia has as well. https://www.neckbeardia.co.uk/shop/artisan-guild

If you go to the Sci-fi section, I am amused by the "Very Sick Space Soldier" model.

 

neckbeardia as some nice spicy figures.

I never got into any of the space marines units however.

Current list is nids, tau, necrons, and dark eldar. this is where my dark eldar come from https://www.ragingheroes.com/collections/void-elves-ve-sf

I have nids painted the most.

Here is a good mortarian. I have a bunch of their greater good "tau" miniatures. Grabbed a bunch of the female ones to use as character units. They also have a bunch of bits to customize units. The mecha ork bits almost got me to add a ork army to my list of growing armies. decided not to and pick a fantasy army instead going wood elf or lizardmen.

https://wargameexclusive.com/shop/chaos/chaos-mortuary-prime-limited-edition/

 

The best part about this all is that all of GW IP is still based on unshamed IP theft that later was more or less diverged with fluff to be it's own thing but really the first thing anyone new sees when watching at GW is "omg they stole that stuff from this, that and those".

 

Someone tried to make a list of all of the things GW stole stuff from in one of the comment sections, and it just kept getting ridiculously long.

 

I don't even care that they stole, everyone steals but their own attitude of holier than thou is just evil.

 

If it weren't for public domain, there isn't a story left in it's original form that wouldn't have infringed upon another IP. Whether anyone was still around to argue the point is irrelevant. XD

 

Putting the infant back into infantry. Like the good old days.

 

Just watched Insidious. Jesus what the fuck was I thinking. I'd seen screen grabs of the visitor before and was like pft. Like I'm gonna be scared by some dumb Darth Maul lookin' mofo.

I didn't know.
I didn't know.
I didn't know.
rocks in the corner clutching a bottle

 

So...that's not just a generic horror jump-scare gore movie?

 

I think I'd compare it to sort of a mix between Poltergeist and Exorcist, or perhaps Babadook except more haunted and less psychological allegory. It's not gorey at all since when you think about it that's shocking but not actually very scary. It does have a lotta jump scares and you will see them all coming and it won't matter. Honestly I think that's why it works so well. Basically it seems like they sat down and decided to distil the ghost story genera down to its rawest undiluted form and then filmed the result.

I also really liked the variety of the ghosts. There's a bunch of them, all suffering from some pre-death trauma that traps them in this kinda limbo place, and all who exhibit varying degrees of malevolence from just standing there sobbing incessantly to themselves to mischievous tricks at the expense of the family to open hostility to outright aggression. Some don't even actually notice or care that the family is there because they're too distracted by constantly reliving their own personal hell. Riiiiiight up until they suddenly do... before going back to torturing themselves.

If I was gonna change one thing it'd be to continue not giving you a proper look at the visitor at the end. He (not to mention the other ghosts) works best if you never see him for longer than a second. His best scene is actually a paranormal investigator drawing something that only he can actually see.

 

I've never found gory to be on the same level of actually scary. The closest I've every seen anything gory that was scary was "The Men Behind the Sun", but that was more to do with the fact that it was based on what the Japanese actually did to their prisoners for research purposes.

This description makes me think of 13 Ghosts. That was a fun horror movie. Maybe I'll give this one a chance. I haven't been interested in too many horror movies over the years.

 

Yeah a lot of them just kinda aren’t very scary. Like they either veer into more thriller territory, like Saw, or they are splatter fests like Final Destination that are so over the top they’re almost funny.

The kinda horror I like is “you are basically fucked and there is nothing you can do about it.” Especially if it’s a case where you just happened to be in the wrong place at the wrong time.

The old Marble Hornets web original is another good example. They not only almost never show the operator, a lot of times they'll set up a situation where the genera savvy would expect him to show up and then he just doesn't. He's like "dude not everything always has to be about you, I've got my own shit to do sometimes." And then for bonus points they never bother explaining what that shit specifically is. Amusingly the whole series is about him but he's evidently only in it because by sheer coincidence he photobombed the entire channel.

 

Well. This is either going to be amazing or the worst thing ever. There won't be any in-between.

 

Yeah, I find the impossible-to-do-anything-about-it horror boring. Once that it becomes clear that is the situation, I check right out.

As for the new Matrix movie, I'm going with "Absolutely Horrible".

 

Well, I'm a big fan of Lovecraft-style horror where everything is so unfathomably beyond us that the antagonist doesn't ever even notice we exist, so stuff like that in other settings is right up my ally.

I'm holding out hope for Resurrections since White Rabbit is an inspired choice for the trailer--whoever picked that knows the song sounds like it's about drugs but is more about expanding perception, which is perfect for a Matrix movie. But... it's a reboot, they've only got one of the Wachowskis, and that whole psychiatrist scene is so cringe I have to wonder if it's deliberately awful. Guess we'll find out in a few months whether it's good.

 

Sounds like a good movie, maybe we'll watch it some evening.

 

Which one did you see? The latest one?

 

The first one. I hear the others are varying quality. Not terrible but not as good. It ends on an appropriate note so I’ll probably check them out someday but I’m not in a rush.

 

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