Gen Chat 9: THE HORROR!

Just installed my new heatsink. Stable temps, woo!

-Mazer wrote:Caleb. Shall we discuss Ash?

Yes.

-Mazer wrote:It's called building intensity, atmosphere, and getting to know your characters. Alien was about Suspense more than anything else.

-Mazer wrote:

TensePsychopath wrote:Agree with Mazer. I love the slow buildup and atmosphere. There's no effective tension if you just jump into the action right away.

That's what most of the newer Alien/Predator films have been - action. To me, the only good action version of Alien is the 2nd one because it follows the sequel rule of "Bigger, better, more". But Aliens follows ALIEN by focusing on story, suspense, and tension. The action is there yes but there are a lot of moments of down time where people are scared out of their minds and surrounded without knowing what will happen.

Horror movies today never introduce you to the characters. We just  go in and start the killing.

The GREAT horror films (Conjuring, Sinister, Insidious) follow characters and give us more atmosphere and character development before actually getting into the horror.

I'm not even talking about action and I like that you brought up Sinister. Sinister grabs your attention immediately and keeps you hooked throughout the entire movie with the mystery surrounding bagul. The first 3rd of Alien just feels like straight padding, arguably there is a good bit of world building, but the only thing that really sticks out during the first 3rd is Parker complaining about bonuses and shares. The buildup, to me, doesn't truly begin until after Kane wakes up and subsequently dies.

I do probably need to rewatch the first half since I was busy mostly fighting to stay awake since I put it on like around 11pm >.> but, as it stands, the first 30 minutes to me is just throw away filler, along with other random chunks throughout the movie.

Spoiler:

LegendX48 wrote:

Spoiler:

Admit it, that's why didn't like it.

Cybersix wrote:Just installed my new heatsink. Stable temps, woo!

-Mazer wrote:Caleb. Shall we discuss Ash?

Yes.

Pros:

Spoiler:

-Mazer wrote:

Cybersix wrote:Just installed my new heatsink. Stable temps, woo!

-Mazer wrote:Caleb. Shall we discuss Ash?

Yes.

Pros:

Spoiler:

You pretty much hit on everything I was going to talk about.

Spoiler:

that cgi doll looked turrible :p

......
So angry at Comcast.

That's...ungood.



My current...still waiting for them to up it. I should call tomorrow...

My internet has been this bad for about two days.
I just got a new modem from them, too. The Internet was great until yesterday.
No idea why.

Guess you're gonna have to call too. What's your usual service like?

Hmm... About a B+ in the Speed Test?
I can't even stream a video from Crunchyroll on SD or 480p with this shoddy connection. The internet has been severely unstable.

I hate when that happens. It's usually on their end too and they lag to respond to it.

*hops on Steam*
*Sees Sonic Lost World*
Wait what?

So, it's November 3rd aka the 3rd day of NaNoWriMo and I sort of initially decided that I wasn't gonna do this cause Inktober wore me out, big time.....

Right now I'm debating jumping in or not. I'd have to hit 5k words by tonight in order to be on track....

welp, I have Win 10 on my desktop pc now

LegendX48 wrote:So, it's November 3rd aka the 3rd day of NaNoWriMo and I sort of initially decided that I wasn't gonna do this cause Inktober wore me out, big time.....

Right now I'm debating jumping in or not. I'd have to hit 5k words by tonight in order to be on track....

I'm sure you have fantasized about life is strange characters enough to make a 50k romantic novel

just remember you can repeat these lines a lot
"oh god." 2 words
"oh my god chloe" 4 words
"oh my god max" 4 words
"you are so good" 4 words


best part is you can rewind time and do the sex scenes multiple times with just slight variations MWA HA HA HA
thus you will get to 50k words in no time >.>

Legend is writing erotica?

Luna wrote:Legend is writing erotica?

he most likely won't, but it's always my answer on how people can win nanowrimo.
legend likely won't do it because he would feel like he will be bad at it.

zulux21 wrote:

LegendX48 wrote:So, it's November 3rd aka the 3rd day of NaNoWriMo and I sort of initially decided that I wasn't gonna do this cause Inktober wore me out, big time.....

Right now I'm debating jumping in or not. I'd have to hit 5k words by tonight in order to be on track....

I'm sure you have fantasized about life is strange characters enough to make a 50k romantic novel

just remember you can repeat these lines a lot
"oh god." 2 words
"oh my god chloe" 4 words
"oh my god max" 4 words
"you are so good" 4 words


best part is you can rewind time and do the sex scenes multiple times with just slight variations MWA HA HA HA
thus you will get to 50k words in no time >.>

Also put a lot of memes in it, to make it resemble the game more.

Sounds amusing.....to an extent.

TensePsychopath wrote:

Also put a lot of memes in it, to make it resemble the game more.

oh how could I forget. totally need these lines.

"This feels hella good chloe."
"Hella YES!"
"You look hella awesome."

and need to make sure chloe randomly swears to pad out words too.

yeah... no

I'm just gonna do the 5th draft of Dead_Legend ._.

Whatever that is, it sounds awful. D:

Luna wrote:Whatever that is, it sounds awful. D:

Well that makes me feel good about it >.>






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;-;

Not you, I'm talking about what Zulux was talking about.