Can anyone explain to me why people would have any reason at all to look forward to this game?  It seems like such a disaster.

LOL! You’re fucking kidding me rn, right?

Have I mentioned Saudi Arabia is evil as fuck? And the GOP has been in bed with them for decades?

Mad Jack is one of the greatest people to have ever lived. Where are the magnificent nutters like that today?

FFS, the Queen cannot override the rules of succession, that’s Parliament’s job. If you’re going to report about the Royal Family, do some bloody research.

It’s called understatement. People use it as a rhetorical device sometimes.

Weren’t both sides of WWI approximately as bad, though?

Honestly I can understand his sentiment about world war one.

Lovecraft is such a problematic fav, I’m kind of fine with his legacy being distorted and made adorable and laughable. That the outsiders in his stories of “fear the unkown outsiders” have become so known and quantified that they just don’t carry that same unsettling edge they once did.

I think, like others have said—and this article both addresses and skirts around—the issue with “Cthulhu not being scary anymore,” has less to do with the ideas behind the mythos, but more how people are implementing them. Games like Bloodborne, Amnesia: The Dark Descent, Eternal Darkness, The Legacy of Kain: Soul…

Homeboy promoted eugenics, and was an anti-vaxxer before anti-vax folks primarily followed the advice of “influencers.”

Oh, and he was a “both sides are equally bad” guy when it came to WW I.

The only way Lovecraftian horror can surprise us these days is if it wriggles it’s tentacles into some other genre and lurks just underneath the surface.

To be fair, Cthulhu doesn’t die, just gets knocked out in the story. Even then, death to a lovecraft deity isn’t as final as it is for humans. Strange Aeons and all that.

It’s the curse of all horror franchises. There’s a reason why the long running franchises wind up almost turning into parodies of themselves. Lovecraft is especially prone to this, because the whole point of Lovecraft is being forced to confront something you can’t predict. If something is sold to you under the…

Actually The King in Yellow isn’t entirely a creation of Lovecraft. It first appears in a collection of short stories called The King in Yellow by Robert W. Chambers (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_King_in_Yellow). Lovecraft just incorporated elements from Chambers’ stories into his own works.

When I was younger, in the halcyon days of the 2000s and the 90s, there were tiers of science fiction and fantasy. Levels of concepts related to the threat presented by them, and what sort of impact they might have on say, a DnD campaign.

At this point, because it’s such a known quantity, I think the only way to make Lovecraftian horror work is to sneak it in where it’s not expected. Bloodborne’s got the look and feel of classic gothic horror- oh shit, celestial beings and great ones! True Detective, Season 1 is an investigation into an occult murder-…

Be Best. We Free.

Guess it depends on the context... after all, there’s a liberal hierarchy at work here. As Dunham’s a woman, men (especially) can’t say anything derogatory about her without being accussed of sexism. However, racism trumps sexism in liberal circles, so a woman can’t say anything deemed derogatory or negative about a…

I find it fascinating that, as usual, there is more from women toward another woman than toward the man actually accused of sexual assault.