Since there are Lovecraft references all over the base game (and a Cthulhu-like monster in the xpac) I figured I’d spend the next week looking over Lovecraft’s works to see from where else the GD team might have drawn inspiration. A huge amount of his writing is available for free here: http://www.hplovecraft.com/writings/
Shouldn’t this be in the “What Books are you reading?” thread?
Oh, probably. I don’t browse this section of the forum often so I didn’t already know it had its own topic. In retrospect, considering how heavily GD draws from Lovecraft, I don’t think it’s entirely redundant to have a separate topic though.
You can also find Lovecraft audio books on Spotify.
I wonder if it would be wise to listen to those while I work my graveyard shifts :eek:
I did read all his works when i was a youngling (16/17 yrs ) i had an edition with several volumes chronologically ordered. His first work were just generic gothic stuff , not very entartaining. Maturity i a different story, that divinities pantheon he invented and that peculiar otherwordly atmosphere trasuding from those tales is just charming. It’s not a case everybody remember him for that, well and for being a xenophobe but that’s another story.
Did you know there are people in this world who actually believe his works are non-fiction?
Wait, so Cthulhu isn’t real?
So what do i get for murdering those folks? 
Prison!
Womp womp!
People believe i everything i guess.
I mean when people follow a guy who said some pretty random stuff by looking into a hat or a guy who told us aliens spirits are the reason we’re unhappy and they need to spend trillions of dollars to fix themselves this isn’t too far fetched
Heck i’d probably be more willing to serve Cthulhu over any of the other cults err…religions
Cthulhu doesn’t care if you serve it or not, you are not but a plancton in the ocean for him.
I’m with you on that. Religion, in my opinion, is the most horrible destructive force ever to exist on this planet.
That’s a very common thought nowadays, heritage of positivism/ illuministic moral. I strongly disagree but i don’t think this is the right place to talk about this topic.
I disagree with this also. Mainly because our branch of Christianity is conservative and promotes traditionalism and caring.
That’s good, and I’m glad you guys have your religions; but the fact remains, that absolute heinous atrocities have been committed in our time as a species on this earth under the name of religion (and in their minds it was justified, because their religion told them it was so).
Your particular religious practices may be peaceful and great. That’s good. But unfortunately, it’s not always the case.
I would say yes, it does hold back progress. But I always look at it this way, in the worst of times we all need some form of support structure. Those of us who have always had one might need new ones in such times. Religion provides just that, it teaches you some nice stuff, adds some sense of direction and discipline to the lost souls who are too broken to think for themselves.
It’s like fire for primitive men, that helps them get through the dark. In the darkest of hours we tend to cling onto something and often that something is figment of our imagination. Not saying necessarily God is imaginary but rather referring to the manner in which the entity has been portrayed. Most texts portray it as the light at the end of tunnel or a source of good. There’s no “otherworldly” aspect there, it’s just basic motherhood/fatherhood we see in such divine beings. Always the benevolent entity. It would be arrogant in my opinion to presume otherworldly beings do not exist, as smart as we are as species I prefer to think something has been where we are at some point but whatever that entity might hasn’t been accurately represented in such books
But I digress, as I said people can actually use religion as a guide post for when they’re lost problem is religion is seldom preached in such a helpful manner and is mostly practiced in a fashion similar to a cult i.e creating a dependency. The entire concept of sin and eternal hellfire is reason why many simple minded people abstain from acting like self entitled assholes. They believe in all the supernatural stuff because fear is induced to them by appealing to their predilection of all things binary to make them believe in “consequences” that await them in the event they do not believe
Apologies if my view on this topic is far too simple but I tend to not think too hard about this stuff
In human history atrocities were committed under every possible flag (atheism included) if this is your meter of judgment you could not take any position whatsoever being it political, spiritual or religious.
Can we get this thread back onto the topic of Cthulu and Lovecraft? I’m not interested about your churches or cults and I’m not sure this is the appropriate thread to argue who has the best one