Knight Plug

I called the police in Australia before, and I was told I needed to file a report with my local (REDACTED) police first. Only after I did it three or more times due to his persistence, they only had a chat with me, claiming they could do nothing because he's overseas. Once, I got an IP address that wasn't a proxy, though, and it is linked to (REDACTED). When he found out I acquired this information from one of his Wikipedia edits, he boasted of how I had found my winning lottery numbers, or something. He isn't a fan of my acting. In fact, he kept posting on other forums in the past when he flooded them with spam, saying I suck at acting and that I use my "retard checks" to pay producers to be an extra in their films. Which I did do occasionally, but he's so invested in my business, that I think he also contacted some of those people to grass me up about publishing a movie on Internet Archive, or to tell them not to hire me. Well, I was suspicious about a few things that happened. Wherever I go online the most though, he's usually there. So maybe I should give up all of my current pseudonyms. Forever. There's a way to email the police in (REDACTED), but the catch is that you have to add an (REDACTED) state. If you're outside of (REDACTED), I cannot proceed with the report because they seemingly don't accept complaints from anyone who is international. But I do know his real name. The sad thing is, I have known this guy online since 2004, because he was a moderator on The Horror Is Alive, Capcom Europe, and other websites to do with Resident Evil. All of which I posted on, but it was years ago. To be honest, I may just delete my YouTube account now and only donate to users from now on. He's like a cockroach on that wiki too, so I think I will just outright abandon it. It's not at all useful anyway. They're probably not even appreciative of my contributions. The administrator doesn't even respond to complaints, and he would just sign up again if he got banned.

So I've got this stalker, who I know from an old (REDACTED) site. He has bothered me on multiple forums and YouTube for going on years by this point, as well as being a nuisance on (REDACTED), and similar websites where I put my filmography. On a horror films wiki I use, he edits every page that I do, then eventually closes his accounts. Well, he soon comes back, basically repeating the cycle. He even revives pages where I was the last contributor, from about 2 years ago. This is all he ever does, day in and day out. But it's likely something he deliberately does, because it subscribes users to the pages they interact with, so he can receive emails when somebody else has edited the pages. This also applies to edits that were made with just an IP address. However, it seems really weird as to why someone would do that with pages they are likely not interested in at all. Other than to be an annoying cretin, what's the point to constantly doing that? I've reported him to the police already, but I'm not from Australia, so they don't do anything to help.

This sounds better than RE8 (which IMO, is a very silly and pointless sequel). 🤑 By the way, please edit this post and embed this video. It never works for me. Moderator Edit: Edited the post to embed the video. Adding videos is just a simple case of copying and pasting the URL that YouTube gives you under the "share" tab. I wonder why you're having troubles. If the problem persists let either @Shagger or @DC know.

Clock Tower is awesome. I remember playing it in 2004 and I loved the cheesy dialogue. It was like playing a slasher film, because you didn't know the identity of your stalker, Scissorman. But when you did uncover the secrets, it came as a shock. You couldn't retaliate with firearms. One of the sequels had a guy helping you who was a cop or a detective, however. Zombies busted into a hospital, and you had to quickly shoot all of them. It was funny, because it felt out of place a little in a game that saw you running away, or hiding most of the time...

Oh, man. All jokes aside, I want to talk about RE8 for a bit... Today, I watched somebody playing the game for about one hour. And I swear, it's literally not even really like any Resident Evil game of the past at all. In fact, there's hardly any link to RE7 either, despite the fact that Ethan Winters is the main character, and his wife returns, and obviously Chris Redfield is shoehorned in again. They never explain bugger all about the story. You just like, play through the adventure, and it's hard to understand any of it. The dialogue is like, so bad. I know that's something the series is pretty much renowned for, but it's not even done in a good way like the original game is. It's just flat out bad. And the enemies are like, some of the weirdest antagonists ever, in a Tim Burton wannabe game. Like, if you thought Alexia Ashford was a strange villain, wait until you see the roster of enemies this game has to offer you. It's hard to stomach.

Well, if you were in charge of developing RE9 starring Rosemary Winters (perhaps), what enemies would you be likely to want to have included? Aliens? Mummies? Dinosaurs? :) The reviews are now in, for RE8 aka Village. Now as I so often like to say, it's a good enough horror game in general. But is it really supposed to be RE? Nah. I guess it's an odd fit. The reason I asked this though, is because I think the entire series makes no sense any longer, when it comes to the enemy types. We may as well have fun and get creative. LMAO. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bsi5RjXWuq4

Including the Wii shooters, the Gun Survivor ones, Outbreaks 1 and 2, the Revelations games, animated movies and so much more, yeah, it's a mess... Another problem is that one story seems to create more plot threads, that Capcom never seems to bother continuing. By the next game, they are doing something vastly different, that in turn seems to create a bigger mess. And it's just like, oh my God. And even if they involve characters like Chris Redfield, I think that's just something they like to do for fan service, really. I won't ever stop being a fan to an extent, but the story matters to me so much, and even Capcom just doesn't know what the hell to do anymore. That's why I am now a low key fan. After April is over, I will be focusing on other facets of my life. Resident Evil will mostly be a good memory.

The game seems very creepy and challenging, and it's out in just over a week. I like that you cannot just shoot everything carelessly like you do in games such as RE4, etc. There's actually a smarter way of going about things. Like you can place a mine on the ground and hope that the werewolf looking things will go near it. Unfortunately, the gameplay seems like it's nothing new. I think it's mostly the same mechanics as the other RE Engine based games we have gotten from Capcom since 2017. Somebody starts following you around in certain areas, that you have to run away from. There's a car you have to hop inside. You find the same type of things again. However, the atmosphere seems too quiet. In games like Code: Veronica, we had eerie piano music being heard in the palace, as you were exploring the environment. In this game, you could let one rip and the whole world could hear you breaking wind on the air. LOL. Silence isn't always golden, you know. And is it just me, or does the colouring in the textures look a bit washed out? The story on the other hand, hardly feels connected to the other games, apart from RE7, obviously. There is definitely a link there, since Ethan Winters and his wife Mia, come back. But having Chris returning and showing off the Umbrella logo on a little pillar maybe one time so that people get excited over nothing special, hardly qualifies as much of a connection with the prior titles, in my opinion. But Capcom likes to do that a lot. A tiny reference for the sake of rubbing salt in our wounds. I am glad that the Duke knows the merchant from RE4. Finally, Capcom. You acknowledged that he is a character we all miss dearly. Well, not so much myself. I didn't like him that much. LMAO. Maybe they are supposed to be cousins. "What are ya selling?" The last thing I want to point out, is that the multiplayer game that was intended to launch with it, has been delayed to June. But oh well. It didn't look all that impressive anyway.

Thank you, DC. 🙂

Can I have my name changed to Candy Stick? I would rather give up my current alias. Been getting pestered and would prefer to use a new nickname online.

"Man's love of money is the root of all evil!" So said a very smart person once. 🤑 I would rather have a remake in a distant year. Like, say 2035. That way, they can build up a series, going off of what they have established up to this point. Or at least make the franchise into a trilogy. All good things come in threes, after all. Yes?

Ooh. That reminds me. 😅 https://youtu.be/ZAno6eOPhYE

Australia has great bands as well. I discovered them through the YouTube channel nzoz1982, etc. I am in Scotland, so I know that many of them didn't even chart in the UK.

Anyone like the Chills, Coconut Rough, Split Enz, DD Smash, and groups like that? 😃

Is it even worth getting a PS5 at this rate? 😐

All franchises are at their best in their stage of infancy. Once they branch them out, they just end up milking it into the dirt. The original is a splendid example of art, but they know fans will buy it anyway. Would they even rehire Ashley and Troy?

Money talks, I guess. 🤧 It's sad to see Naughty Dog going the route of Capcom, who have been going overboard with the Resident Evil franchise for years now. But I always felt as if Naughty Dog knew better than to mess up their baby. To make matters worse, I don't think we will be receiving a sequel to Days Gone either, unfortunately. https://youtu.be/MH9Ve6AehnQ

Well, I think I would prefer to have a seminal reboot that continues the franchise, as opposed to a full on remake that takes us back to the beginning. Too often, companies get kind of lazy and think that nostalgia is the key to getting quick cash. But I hate that. It suggests they cannot come up with anything more original anymore.

Yep. That's what I was getting at here as well. In most of the Silent Hill games, you get to find notes that yield references, but the plot is otherwise primarily its own thing. Save for the third game, which is intended to be a sequel to the original. In the RE universe though, the games originally had a common link with each sequel for many years, with Umbrella, the members of STARS, and whatnot, all being involved. But after RE4, the series became incredibly bizarre, and the games hardly feel connected anymore. But I think that Capcom doesn't care about any of that stuff anyway. The games still get that cash flowing in regardless. But generally speaking, the darn franchise is really convuluted now, and kind of silly in some manner. What do you think? Are you right into that fat merchant? He's so deliberately big, that it's just laughable when people like to say this is good for the longevity of the franchise. 🤓

Yeah. I reckon they probably do.

At least in the Silent Hill games, we normally got a new storyline and a new protagonist, practically each time. The advantage to that was it stayed fresh, but at the same time, it sort of withdrew from the faults of the previous entry. Well, sometimes anyway. Some of these sequels still had their bad points as well. In fact, Silent Hill 3 is more or less the only sequel that even delivered as a true sequel, as it was about Heather, the girl who was the baby at the end of the first game, adopted by Harry Mason. That same cult later killed Harry in his house if you remember, so that Heather would fall into their trap by venturing out to Silent Hill to try to avenge his murder. But the other games were primarily unrelated in terms of what was going on in them. OK. So the second game has a news piece concerning 4's antagonist, but you know what I mean. They were never really linked like actual sequels usually are. They were just their own thing, I guess you could say. The thing with Resident Evil though, is that the stories are supposed to be somewhat more interconnected, giving how Umbrella started doing all of these experiments and viruses, and so on and so forth. And yes, it's obviously more of a commercial franchise too, with the emphasis on action. But I swear, the plot now is so disjointed. Like, I am not even kidding here. Just about every game that Capcom makes now just makes an even bigger mess of the general timeline, because they end it in such a way that implies a continuation will occur, but then the next game is about something else entirely. It's as if they just make up stories that feature the main characters, just to like continue padding it out. You know? But it hardly even makes any sense anymore. Giving how it's a series that now has vampire women and fat merchants, which certainly rings true. Oh my Lord. But anyway, hopefully we will hear some important news this summer. Listen out for the sirens...

The game he did was basically just a demo, that was intended to hype up the real thing. However, the demo was never going to be a part of the eventual game. Just like the Maiden demo for RE8 is just to showcase the crappy gameplay, which we have already seen in better games over the years. Walking simulator, much? Anyway, we will NEVER know what the actual Silent Hills game was gonna end up being like, so I don't see why people on YouTube and whatnot, always have the need to say it "saved" the franchise, when the game got cancelled by Konami themselves. Therefore, it doesn't even apply here. Since that time, we've had to rely on random hearsay from users like Dusk Golem to give us something to debate over. Otherwise, the series is just essentially another dead franchise. One of many. These stories on the Internet about the series supposedly returning are inclined to get annoying, because until Konami actually reveals that a new game, or potentially two games, is in the pipeline, it's hard to maintain much hope. So Hideo Kojima, in all honesty, had zilch to do with the franchise becoming the household name it is in the world of survival horror. People just praised his butt because of his reputation with all of the other games he worked on beforehand, like the Metal Gear Solid franchise. But believe me when I say that Team Silent deserves to have all of the glory here. They worked their asses off to make these games special, and for Konami to eventually disband them in support of horror games becoming more about action, it's clear they just seen dollar signs in their eyes. Just like with Capcom today. In fact, Capcom has been doing this since like, 2005. Gradually, yet evidently. It's fine to like a person's work, but never give praise to anyone where that praise has little merit. You know? Konami had been releasing a lot of games in the series, way before Hideo Kojima started to work on a new installment. RE4 is basically overrated garbage. As a general game, it's not bad. But calling it a real RE game is just laughable. I've never personally felt the plot in that game nor the gameplay overall, was worth tossing over either. Especially since it doesn't even have anything to do with the lore established up to that point in time. All you do is shoot villagers and zealots. There's no major atmospheric moments. There's a couple, I guess. But it's just very platonic in nature. RE5 and 6 are worse, but RE6 did improve the control system. Really, though. RE8 looks to be doing the same precise thing. It's also set in a village with enemies featured throughout, that are not actually typically seen in any older RE titles. And there's a castle you visit, and the standard casual jump scares, exploration, a few easy as pish, simplistic puzzles, and a heavy emphasis on shooting and looting, as well as upgrading your equipment. It's just more of what they've been doing now, for years. It's not even innovative in any way, shape, or form. As a matter of fact, all these idiots online care more about, is how attractive Alcina, the lady vampire, is. Probably more than the actual gameplay and story. It just makes no sense. But like I said, Capcom knows that people support whatever games they make regardless of whether things make logical sense or not. Go watch the promotional stuff. All the producer does is shill about how beautiful and immersive the game is. But it hardly even looks that new. It's all just things he says a lot to get people excited for, what I suspect, will be a mediocre, and all around, convuluted experience. But that's just my opinions. Give or take, I've noticed that Capcom loves to milk this franchise into the ground.

Another thing that people overlook, is that Hideo Kojima did not begin the series. So many people on the Internet give the man way too much praise. It was Team Silent who created the bulk of the franchise, but these developers then left during or after 2004. 😛

Seeing as how they were already outsourcing the games after they split up Team Silent, I don't know why they've left the series alone for this long. My guess is that the bad blood between Konami and Hideo Kojima had to fizzle down first, which has taken quite a few years. But with how Capcom has handled the RE series, and the recognition they're getting nowadays, I thought Konami would have tried to do something to rebound. You know? Capitalize on what's happening in this genre. Yet I've never really considered Capcom and Konami to be rivals, nor do I get the frequent comparisons online. They're both a survival horror series, but they are drastically different. Some people say the genre is stale and has a limited fanbase. But I disagree. Horror games, if done right, can be fantastic with a 2021 take on it. However, I want two things to be ignored. That being remakes and first person. It's just that I like neither. A "soft reboot" is okay, because you can make something new without fully ignoring the legacy of that particular franchise. But doing remakes and whatnot, just feels lazy. It's like if there's already a story they can use, it's like they can sort of cheat their way through the development stages. Do you know what I mean? Anyway, this summer should be a hot one indeed!

Two, eh? TWO! 😍 https://youtu.be/mGwKNq54NZo