I knew it. You had Bioshock Infinite as one of your inspirations for What Madness Is This?Okay, so it turns out I forgot, among others, American Pyscho, Apocalypse Now, Wolf of Wall Street, and Bioshock. I have been and continue to use them for inspiration. I actually haven't seen Wolf in its entirety, but I am very familiar with the entire plot. Also, Once Upon a Time In Hollywood, which I even parodied the trailer of in Vol I. Which I will post again because it tremendously entertained me:
*wealthy dinner for MDP elites*
Nixon: "I'm Dick Nixon. It is a pleasure, Mr. Goldstein."
Goldstein: "Call me Midas. That your son?" *laughs*
Nixon: "No, that's my associate, Leslie King."
Goldstein at dinner table: "LAST NIGHT WE WATCHED A LEE OSWALD DOUBLE-FEATURE. ALL THE SHOOTING, OI VEY! I love that stuff, you know, with all the killing."
Nixon: "Lotta killing."
LEE OSWALD AS ZAP ZEPHYR: "ANYBODY ORDER FRIED LUCKY CHARMS? FRY YOU INFEE BASTARDS! HAHAHAH!"
*scene of flickering exploitation space opera as Zap Zephyr uses a flame thrower on alien scum that are Irish stereotypes*
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PHILADELPHIA 1969
Girl: "You a soldier?"
King: "No, I'm a RUMP commander."
*montage of raids and crackdowns*
Hendrick: "So you still raid Infee cells?"
King: "Still here."
Patton to Nixon: "You can do anything you want to 'im."
*montage of Chuck Oswald shaking Nixon's hand and squeezing it to the point of pain. Nixon conveys hatred as their eyes meet*
Goldstein: "I heard you could be a President, Dick. Not an Oswald gopher boy. You're better than that."
*Clip of Oswald making a fool out of Nixon on national TV as Nixon stammers*
*clip of Nixon throwing things things in his office*
Nixon: "EMBARRASS YOURSELF IN FRONT OF ALL THOSE G**-DAMNED PEOPLE! BUH-BUH-BUH AROOOO. F-"
*clip of King and Nixon standing on a portico lighting up Mortons*
King: "All right, what's the matter, Dick?"
Nixon: "It's official, old chum. I'm a has-been. Here I am, flat on my ass, and who do I got living next to me? Oswald's girlfriend? One of my company's stars!"
*clip of Mundy at ticket-booth of a Nixolodeon*
Mary-Jane Mundy: "I'm Mary-Jane Mundy. I'm in the movie."
Clerk: "You're in this?"
Mundy: "That's me! I play Princess Stareena, the Pinnacle warrior princess."
*clip of white-robbed fanatics surrounding Leslie King as a high-ranking acolyte reaches out her hand*
Acolyte: "Billy's gonna dig you."
AND THAT GOSPEL GROUP, TELLIN' YOU AND ME...
Billy Graham turns around from his Roadfuhrer and smiles at King, teeth pearly white. He holds up an AFC Standard and looks to the sky*
Hendrick: "In Philadelphia, it can all change..."
*Nixon grabs revolver*
Hendrick: "...Like that."
*clip of Nixon leaving a staff car*
King: "Hey..."
*Nixon turns around*
King: "You're Dick fucking Nixon. Don't you forget it."
*Nixon snaps his finger, blows his cheeks, and does the hunched Ed Sullivan-style Nixon walk into the Presidential Mansion*
Didn't Bioshock Infinite only come out after the original version of this started?
I knew it. You had Bioshock Infinite as one of your inspirations for What Madness Is This?
I'm in the middle if reading Mitch Horowitz' Occult America. Anyone who likes WMIT will love it! It even described the "Yankee Prophet of the New Jerusalem." Its history of Ouija and other toystore spiritualist items gave me some cool ideas as well.
Yeah, I was already developing many of the concepts wayyy before I even knew Infinite was getting made. It's just super Americanism. The only thing I directly took as inspiration from Infinite was the Patriot-Saints being similar to statues of Father Franklin, etc. And even "Father Abe" was taken from "We are Coming, Father Abraham, 300,000 More."
So while inspiration does seep in, not as much as one might assume! Bioshock Infinite was just a parody of ultra nationalist, spiritualist 1890s America. And WMIT covers a similar topic.
The Fraternal Order of the Raven... Honestly it's shame that the RU doesn't have it's own lamb destined drown in flames the mountains of man and bring forth a new eden. Who just so happens to be a naive girl who just wants to visit Paris.I'm in the middle if reading Mitch Horowitz' Occult America. Anyone who likes WMIT will love it! It even described the "Yankee Prophet of the New Jerusalem." Its history of Ouija and other toystore spiritualist items gave me some cool ideas as well.
Yeah, I was already developing many of the concepts wayyy before I even knew Infinite was getting made. It's just super Americanism. The only thing I directly took as inspiration from Infinite was the Patriot-Saints being similar to statues of Father Franklin, etc. And even "Father Abe" was taken from "We are Coming, Father Abraham, 300,000 More."
So while inspiration does seep in, not as much as one might assume! Bioshock Infinite was just a parody of ultra nationalist, spiritualist 1890s America. And WMIT covers a similar topic.
EDIT: And the Klan in Infinite (can't remember the name) also influenced the Council of Jehovah a smidge, but honestly Oh Brother Where Art Thou's huge Klan ritual scene was my actual inspiration.
So it sort of does resemble Bioshock Infinite minus the steampunk technology. I also saw you mention Star Wars as an inspiration, I'm guessing that you know the 6 Complete Saga films (not counting Disney's rehash of a Sequel Trilogy) but also Star Wars: The Clone Wars and the Star Wars Expanded Universe (novels, comics, video games, animated series, radio dramas and the Ewoks TV movies).I'm in the middle if reading Mitch Horowitz' Occult America. Anyone who likes WMIT will love it! It even described the "Yankee Prophet of the New Jerusalem." Its history of Ouija and other toystore spiritualist items gave me some cool ideas as well.
Yeah, I was already developing many of the concepts wayyy before I even knew Infinite was getting made. It's just super Americanism. The only thing I directly took as inspiration from Infinite was the Patriot-Saints being similar to statues of Father Franklin, etc. And even "Father Abe" was taken from "We are Coming, Father Abraham, 300,000 More."
So while inspiration does seep in, not as much as one might assume! Bioshock Infinite was just a parody of ultra nationalist, spiritualist 1890s America. And WMIT covers a similar topic.
EDIT: And the Klan in Infinite (can't remember the name) also influenced the Council of Jehovah a smidge, but honestly Oh Brother Where Art Thou's huge Klan ritual scene was my actual inspiration.
Oh but it will! Once Oswald's daughter outmaneuvers her idiot brother and seizes control of the New Jerusalem she'll fulfill her dream of visiting (the burned out ruins of) Paris. Elizabeth Arkham Custer-Steele-Oswald is truly the president we deserve! Our lady Elizabeth, Jev speed thy judgement!The Fraternal Order of the Raven... Honestly it's shame that the RU doesn't have it's own lamb destined drown in flames the mountains of man and bring forth a new eden. Who just so happens to be a naive girl who just wants to visit Paris.
Nah that's Graham's daughter the Seed of the Second Prophet!Oh but it will! Once Oswald's daughter outmaneuvers her idiot brother and seizes control of the New Jerusalem she'll fulfill her dream of visiting (the burned out ruins of) Paris. Elizabeth Arkham Custer-Steele-Oswald is truly the president we deserve! Our lady Elizabeth, Jev speed thy judgement!
Admittedly I am working on a timeline right now that's supposed to have plausible steampunk tech during the 19th century. Though with technology advancing beyond that to the point it becomes 80/90's cyberpunk a century later with some Crimson Skies action happening in between.So it sort of does resemble Bioshock Infinite minus the steampunk technology. I also saw you mention Star Wars as an inspiration, I'm guessing that you know the 6 Complete Saga films (not counting Disney's rehash of a Sequel Trilogy) but also Star Wars: The Clone Wars and the Star Wars Expanded Universe (novels, comics, video games, animated series, radio dramas and the Ewoks TV movies).
Oh? Is this TL posted yet?Nah that's Graham's daughter the Seed of the Second Prophet!
Admittedly I am working on a timeline right now that's supposed to have plausible steampunk tech during the 19th century. Though with technology advancing beyond that to the point it becomes 80/90's cyberpunk a century later with some Crimson Skies action happening in between.
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You will laugh. Or else.
"They even got the number of times i shot Patton wrong!"~President Oswald after seeing the movieLoomies Propaganda Film!
Hmn... I was thinking... In the case the supercatholics are defeated... And if the Illuminist Bloc intervenes... Aaaah, so that's how Illuminism expands more to Central and Eastern Europe!
I'm the only one who hadn't still thought of it and it was actually implied or I've actually made a new theory?
I actually did. IT IS TIME FOR GREATER ILLUMINIST GERMANY! AUSTRIA WILL JOIN THE ILLUMINATI GERMAN PEOPLE!Hmn... I was thinking... In the case the supercatholics are defeated... And if the Illuminist Bloc intervenes... Aaaah, so that's how Illuminism expands more to Central and Eastern Europe!
I'm the only one who hadn't still thought of it and it was actually implied or I've actually made a new theory?