u/Sabesaroo

Just finished this manga, not 100% sure what to think of it but I was a bit disappointed.

To start, I don’t think I would even classify it as horror, it’s not really trying to scare the reader at all, and if you can get over the sexual content there’s nothing else particularly disturbing. It’s more like an action seinen, and the action isn’t incredible. All of what I’d read about it was about how disturbing and gorey it is so I assumed it was gonna be horror, but I guess not. I don’t even think there was that much gore, it felt pretty typical for seinen. For example when people get shot in the head it’s not like there’s any visible wound or brain matter or anything, it’s just a big circle cut out of their head, pretty standard stuff. The main character can regenerate from wounds but you never really see that happen, it’s usually in shadow. I guess in the grand scheme of things it’s relatively gorey, but it’s very tame compared to something like Franken Fran. There was some more intense gore in the early chapters but it stops pretty quickly, which is a problem I had with the manga in general. After a certain thing happens to the main character it feels like the tone shifts a lot and there are no more horror elements at all, it mostly becomes pretty tame fight scenes and characters explaining plot stuff. The horrible protagonists you follow also start being treated more sympathetically which felt a bit weird, one of the side characters is a paedophile who murders people to sell their organs and I think you’re genuinely supposed to care about him by the end.

Once that shift happens it also becomes a lot more focused on the overarching plot, and I may be a bit stupid here but I had a lot of difficulty following what exactly was going on and what all the characters wanted. I never really even understood why she wanted to be eaten by the wolf which is the main mystery of chapter one, or what the main villain wanted. I also have no idea what happened at the end, spoilers: >!She finally meets the wolf, there’s a big explosion and they both die? Why did that happen? Why did she want that to happen? Why did her regeneration even stop working? No idea.!< Maybe it’s something to do with the English translation which seemed a bit odd at times. The manga also has a habit of showing dialogue with loads of floating speech bubbles with no people visible, so it can be hard to track who’s saying what. Maybe that’s easier to follow in Japanese where they might have distinct styles of speaking?

The sexual stuff was a bit weird too. Obviously I knew a bit about that before reading. Not something I enjoy but not a complete deal breaker either. In the first few chapters though it’s quite disturbing and violent so thought it fit with the more horror tone, but then in the second half it just becomes like weird softcore porn, it gets more protracted and often has little to do with the plot. There’s standard manga censoring so I don’t know who this is for exactly, surely you could just go look at actual porn if you wanted? It’s still only a relatively small part of the manga I guess, but definitely did not help my impressions.

The art was pretty good overall, I guess that's the one mostly positive thing I have to say about it. Some of the fights are a bit hard to follow, but the still panels usually look good, and what gore there is is quite good too. The gritty style works pretty well, it reminds me of Q Hayashida's style a bit, but definitely not on her level.

I did think I’d enjoy it more since most of what I’d heard was it’s extreme horror with a villain protagonist, and dark Red Riding Hood stuff is always cool to me. Feel like I got baited a bit though. The first half or so I genuinely enjoyed, up until the necromancer fight it was pretty good, but just felt like it dragged after that, which wasn’t helped by me having trouble following the plot. It was definitely an interesting experience though, so I guess I’d recommend it if that’s what you’re looking for, it made me feel like typing all this out at least lol. I just don’t think it was particularly good overall, at least as a horror manga. So yeah, anyone else read the manga and have an opinion? Or have a recommendation for something I might like more? Thanks.

I haven't listened to doom for that long so not really sure about terminology and subgenres etc but I think it's sludge? Idk the exact definition of that though. Something I like about Cough is the mix of clean and harsh vocals, I don't mind 100% clean vocals either, but 100% harsh I don't really enjoy. I also like that the album is very heavy and bleak but still has quite distinct riffs kind of like stoner doom, and also sounds kind of ethereal as well as just being heavy, not sure how to describe that part tbh.

I enjoyed Still They Pray a lot as well but Ritual Abuse was my favourite. Need to listen to Sigillum Luciferi again tbh. So yeah anything heavy/aggressive/dark/bleak but with some melody as well. Don't mind too much about lyrics but dark or even violent is good. My five favourite Cough tracks are probably A Year in Suffering, Athame, Ritual Abuse, The Wounding Hours, and Crippled Wizard.

Some vaguely similar albums I enjoyed: Windhand - Soma, Electric Wizard - We Live, Conan - Existential Void Guardian, Faetooth - Labyrinthine, Black Bile - L'Oratoire, Bongripper - Satan Worshipping Doom (think most of their stuff fits).

Thanks.

Just finished the game. I've seen people mention a conversation with Iomestra a lot, but I don't think I ever had this. What did I miss exactly and where do you find her?

I am brand new to mini painting, about to start with DoK. I'll try some stuff out but my basic idea for a colour scheme right now is light grey skin, black armour, pale pink hair, pink cloth, and for the snakes, black scales with pink stripes and dark grey underbelly. So mostly black and grey with pink highlights which is a scheme I like in a lot of things.

So first question, does that sound like a good paint scheme, or might it be a bit too dark on some of the models? I'm not sure it would really work for Blood Hags mainly because they have mostly armour. I'm also not sure if painting stripes on the snakes is a good idea, I have no idea how difficult that will be, so maybe I should just paint them a solid colour.

Second question which is more general to mini painting, how do you know how many paints to get? Like I know I want pink paint, but for hair that's pinkish white, is it better to get a specific very pale pink paint for that, or can I just use one pink paint and then mix it with some white paint when I want it to be pale? Same with the belly scales, I'd want them to be slightly darker than the regular skin, so can I just use the same grey but add a bit of black, or is that not a great idea for something I'd be painting a lot of? I can get a bunch of paints if I need to, just don't want to waste money if they're not necessary.

Thanks.

Never played Warhammer or any tabletop game before but I would like to get into the hobby. I think I'd prefer AoS over 40K because it's a lot cheaper and from what I've heard the game flows better/rules are a lot less bloated. For 40k I'd 100% pick Sisters, but for AoS I'm not quite as sure.

The three armies that look the coolest to me are Soulblight Gravelords, Daughters of Khaine, and Gloomspite Gitz. I also really like a lot of Sylvaneth but I'm not convinced by the whole ghost elf thing, I think I'd rather there were just alive elves or none at all. I like Gitz as well but more the mushroom and spider side, and the spider models seem to all be very old, and I'm not as interested in the new models that they got. So that leaves me torn between Soulblight and Daughters. I've got some pros and cons in my mind for both of them, and just wondering if people with more experience have any input. Obviously I'll have to make up my own mind eventually but might help to hear some opinions.

For Soulblight, I like vampires and I like skeletons, so obviously lots of good stuff for me there. I like playing as the villains in games whenever possible too. I like the gothic horror aesthetic they have. I like the aristocratic vampire clans, and it's cool that some of the skeletons are sentient as well. The mounted wight lord model looks especially cool I'd definitely get that. Werewolf vampires are cool. Things I don't like as much; I'm not a big fan of the Neferata model even though I like the character. Not sure if she's likely to get a new one anytime soon. Also don't really like how ugly most of the vampires look, I think vampires are cooler when they appear dignified on the surface, if they just look like horrible monsters as well they lose some uniqueness to me. In some art they look pretty normal at least. I really hate the necromancer models as well, not sure how important they are or if there's any other models you can use to proxy.

For Daughters, they seem pretty evil again so that's a plus. I really like the monstrous parts of the faction, the snakes and bats. Morathi and Krethusa both look really cool, not sure which I'd get. Lore-wise I don't really care about the all-female part, but elf murder cult sounds cool. I'm not a huge fan of the mostly naked elves though, they just look a bit silly to me, would be cooler if they were wearing more. Also a bit worried that because of the naked elves the faction will attract people who like them just for the sex appeal. They don't seem to have a huge variety of models either but maybe they have enough, not really sure what is standard tbh. Also wonder if they might be very hard to paint.

Gameplay wise I don't have much specific in mind because I never played, but usually in games I like more complex factions/characters with room for skill expression and some creativity. Also wondering which of the two would be more expensive to collect. Anyway, would appreciate some input before I commit to something pricey, just wanna be very confident beforehand. Thanks.

i'm just finishing up day 1 and have the option to complete Class Conflict and pick wizard/cleric/druid. right now i'd pick wizard, but i know warlock is a class that becomes available later on. could i pick wizard now and then become a warlock later, or do i have to hold off on resolving the quest until warlock becomes an option?

thanks.

I have a cat who lives on my farm and is very good at hunting rabbits. She kills them, carries them back to her barn, and then tears pieces off them over a couple days to eat. What I don't quite get is how there isn't a single drop of blood visible anywhere. I get that blood clots after death, but I thought clotting just meant stemming the bleeding from small wounds, not decapitation etc. Does all blood in the body actually become completely solid?

Also, is this something unique to smaller animals, or would larger animals also not bleed when killed like that?

Thanks.

So when trying to make the background of an image or header fill the entire screen, I seem to have to put margin-left: -8px and margin-right: -8px. At 0px there's a small gap on the left and right edges of the screen. The element at the top of the screen I also have to put margin-top: 18px on. I feel like this can't be the intended way to do things and there's something obvious I'm missing but I'm not sure what. Also suspect my workaround might not work on different resolution screens. Putting padding to 0 doesn't fix it either. Googling this comes up with a lot of other people with the same issue but everyone just says to set margin and padding to 0.

Here's the code for my header for example:

text-align: center;

background-color: rgb(160, 20, 0);

padding-top: 8px;

padding-bottom: 8px;

margin-left: -8px;

margin-right: -8px;

Setting padding left and right to 0 has no effect, which I assume means they are already 0.

Is there something obviously dumb I've done? I've only just started learning CSS so I assume I've missed something pretty fundamental. Thanks.