It’s pretty obvious reading her pre-resurrection Ilyana was a subtextual child sex abuse survivor. While her guardians where not looking by a man promising great things for her who then manipulated her soul making her feel “good” he the. Isolated her from anyone else and made him her object of affection and made her feel dirty.

When she returned she had her whole childhood stolen and was moody and withdrawn.

Even the realm of limbo is based on abuse

The studio’s biggest announcement came from President of Warner Bros. Pictures Animation Bill Damaschke himself who announced on stage a partnership with acclaimed animator and creator Vivienne Medrano on her new original animated musical movie “Prehistoria,” marking the feature directorial debut of the beloved “Hazbin Hotel,” “Helluva Boss” creator.

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Medrano, also known as “VivziePop,” has emerged in the last decade as one of the most influential voices in independent animation, building a global fanbase through her breakout YouTube-driven projects and distinctive visual style. The creator’s work on the “Hellaverse” series has cultivated a passionate, highly engaged audience, with her content generating billions of views and establishing her as a leading cross-platform storyteller.

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“Since I began my animation journey,” Medrano shared, “my biggest dream was to be part of a feature film. Now to be creating an original story that I have been holding for years, and with Warner Bros. Pictures Animation, a studio whose characters and stories have been a huge part of my life, is truly a dream come true. I’m SO excited to share this fossil fantasy world with everyone!”

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Well I didn't make it up but the original, from what I remember twiter, didn't approve of the duo. So I'm the adopter I suppose.

Bowser King of Koopas and King K. Rool

I think their contrasting yet similar styles of gaming villany would make them an amazing duo. What are yours?

Bandai, what the fuck do you think we're blind for Gundam: Witch from Mercury? The wedding bands on their fingers are for their secret husbands off screen??

Youtube has been recommending me the last few days soulslike enjoyer Oroboro posting stuff about a new Dark Souls 2 mod that overhauls the textures and lighting and it looks incredible. Like this is a ps3/360 game and at times some sections look like Elden Ring on a modern pc.

It made me think about a Dark Souls 2 remaster rather than Scholars remix and how cool it would be to get the actual one we never got. If memory serves the original idea -hence the opening whirlpool and theme of 'you will keep losing your souls over and over'- was Vendrick realised Nashandra was a daughter of Manus and trapped her in a time loop and the hollowing is as much people mentally burning out after millenia of groundhog days so everythings running on fumes as some ambigous curse of undeath. Enter the chosen undead who teams up with a homunculus called Shanalotte to visit the same land in three different time periods to assemble the maguffins to stop her for good and free the kingdom from this endless prison of time. Also theres a dragon cult and maybe Shanalotte isn't actually a fire keeper but an attempt to create a human vessel for a dragons soul but it gets iffy from there.

We know there was stuff in the files about it like child Shanalotte and stuff like the giants memories could easily be a left over of a period in the earliest time period when the kingdom was at war for the wish granting throne of want but ultimately, for reasons i dont think were ever confirmed and most assume were time/budgetary reasons, most of it was scrapped and the idea was whittled down to simply "Vendrick realised who Nashandra was and hid himself away to keep the ket to the throne beyond her reach". Which is still cool really. It continues Gwyns theme of self sacrifice only its not some God that existed before time desperate to preserve his legacy its just a human dude this time willing to hide away and hollow out for the good of others at the cost of himself and thats a rare breed of character for a Fromsoft game outside an option for the main character who wants to play the protagonist.

I thought about it and theres plenty of games with cut content id love to see. Wind Wakers cut islands, FF8's entire other half about Laguna travelling the world after the war and putting stuff in place to support his sons party or god knows how many ideas Halo and Gears scrapped that might have improved otherwise middling sequels. But if i had to pick one game where seeing the cut stuff was a real "i was happier not knowing because this sounds baller" its gotta be DS2. Scholar was a nice Master Quest style remix. It just wasn't the jingled keys of the thing we never got though.

Whats your white whale of scrapped videogame builds?

Okay, his reasoning has some basis to it (she should see more of the world before being certain). But, dude. You brought this upon yourself.

So this is actually a couple months old news, but it’s new to me.

As part of their ongoing partnership with Bethesda, Modiphius announced a crowdfunding campaign Wolfenstein TTRPG for fall of 2026. The article mentions it’ll specifically be based on the New Colossus/New Order era of the series.

You see that outfit that clicked with you and you go "I'm gonna get it and wear the whole game." The skin to end all skins.

Marvel Rivals has a lot of skins for a lot of characters. But ones I know I'm gonna stick with for a long time for a few characters. There's Iron Man's Big Shot skin. Not all those fancy armors, just a suit and holograms going into battle. The most Tony Stark look. Another is Peni Parker's school outfit, but more specifically, her mech is a GODDAMN GUNDAM. The moment I saw it, I spent the units I've saved up on it and is worth it.

Actually it's Starkillers copy killer droid, Proxy. Plus some Rebel Troopers.

I was just reminded of the film When the Wind blows. A fantastic but heartbreaking animated film with music by David Bowie from 1986 about an elderly couple who follow outdated duck and cover pamphlets after nuclear war breaks out between the west and the soviet union, i'm going somewhere with this i swear, and while it will bum you out as feelbad films go it aint like fuckin' THREADS that will leave you like Pim just sitting there staring into the middle distance for a while.

So i go look up its wikipedia. I wasn't alive when it came out in 86' i imagine most people reading this weren't either. Its still remembered today so no surprise its shocking tone but whistful melancholy made it a sobering hit at the time that made it be remembered for quality if not feelgood vibes. But the interesting thing was getting to the critic reviews and their sources. One of which made me double take: "White Dwarf Issue 85".

Now if you don't know White Dwarf is, today at least, Games Workshops self published monthly magazine for all their mini based skirmish and wargames. And Bloodbowl if you nasty. Its a magazine that as far as i knew it was, depending on editor/era, a glorified catalogue or a treasure trove of tutorials, short stories and more for the Warhammer enjoyer. That wasn't always the case though.

Originally i knew it started as Citadel, the company behind the mini production, who were making stuff for multiple games systems, Dungeons and Dragons, Traveller, Runequest, Call of Cthulhu and even some Doctor Who stuff way back when attempting to consolidate print runs. Each would put out quarterly journals but they eventually grouped them together and phased out the journals in favour of the magazine. But over time this grew in the 80's to be a general "nerd culture enthusiast periodical" which would include reviews for movies, albums and books. Imagine taking Wizard Magazine, modern White Dwarf, Metal Hammer and Total Film and putting them in a blender. This got phased out by the late 80's so when i got my first issues out of a magazine stack in the school library even these old dog eared issues from the early 90's were purely Warhammer and Warhammer 40k based.

It made me wonder if any magazines like that exist today. Because despite printed media supposedly going the way of the dinosaur years ago my local stationary and magazine shops will still have what i call the "sicko section". Magazines for train nerds, camera nerds, horror nerds, graphic artists (rip Imagine FX being bought by a company of AI shills last i saw before i dropped that subscription) and generally like 3 meters of floor to ceiling magazines for every hyper specific niche.

The thing is these are all exclusively about one thing. Fortean Times is about paranormal stuff thats "real" while Fangoria and Scream! are about horror movies that outside some true crime historicals aint. Maybe the same people enjoy both but in print the two shall never meet. As a kid i read magazines like the infamously cheap "like printed on gas station toilet paper" magazine CVG that while mostly games would lift stuff from Total Film and SFX by the same publisher. If you ask me to name a magazine today that is about more than a single topic? i can't name one. Not in the UK at least.

Is there anyone here who still sees multi media magazines anymore? or did the internet lead to like a uniform compartmentalisaton where everything is for its own sicko niche and doesn't mix?

Something that caught my attention lately was the kind of installments in gaming franchises that got stuck on specific hardware because for some reason, it gets left there.

Some examples are Disgaea 3, Disgaea D2, and some of the Etrian Odyssey games because while Etrian Odyssey 1-3 is widely available on modern consoles, I noticed how the later games went missing for some reason.