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Saturday, August 25
Lovecraft's influence on gaming
by
alandp
on Sat 25 Aug 2007 08:36 PM CDT
I didn't mention it at the time, because I didn't do a whole lot of anything related to blogging this week, but this past Tuesday, August 21, was H.P. Lovecraft's 117th birthday (or it would be, were he still alive). "[Games] are, in their superior forms, simply by-products of excess intellectuality, which I haven't the honour to possess. In their inferior forms they are of course simply avenues of escape for persons with too poorly proportioned and correlated a perspective to distinguish betwixt the frivolous and the relevant ... " - H.P. Lovecraft to James F. Morton, February 3, 1932 The Escapist has a good article about Lovecraft's influence on modern gaming, from the text-based and now quaint The Lurking Horror to the recently-released Call of Cthulhu: Dark Corners of the Earth. Lovecraft has sparked the imaginations of countless horror enthusiasts since his death. The time you spent dreading the shadows on the wall after reading "The Call of Cthulhu" shouldn't embarrass you. You were affected, changed, by the words of a writer who knew that the shadows were more than they seemed. That night, touched by his words, you saw that there were things you didn't know and were shaken. In a way, your love of gaming today may be because of a writer from
Providence. After all, the fun part of gaming is the mastery of the unknown, the conquering of the darkness; the stock and trade of Howard Philips Lovecraft.
Sunday, August 19
Cthulhu Fractal
by
alandp
on Sun 19 Aug 2007 07:48 PM CDT
Sunday, August 12
So that's settled
by
alandp
on Sun 12 Aug 2007 07:00 PM CDT
One time someone asked me who I thought would win in a fight: Azathoth or Toschi the Deathless. I said Azathoth. I was right. Yes, these are the kinds of discussions that come about when two fantasy/sci-fi/folklore nerds get together and don't have anything better to do.
The Mi-Go/Zombie Alliance
by
alandp
on Sun 12 Aug 2007 04:48 PM CDT
Saturday, August 11
Hideous Icon of Origami
by
alandp
on Sat 11 Aug 2007 05:04 PM CDT
See the whole process at Power Word Fold.
Sunday, August 5
Cthulhu Cthomics
by
alandp
on Sun 05 Aug 2007 03:13 PM CDT
UNSPEAKABLE VAULT (Of Doom) is a collection of comics featuring such characters as Cthulhoo, Shubby, and Nyarly. Very humorous if you're into that sort of thing. Here's an early one: Check it out if you're in the mood for some Lovecraftian humor...er, humour.
Saturday, August 4
When the old polyhedrons just aren't eldritch enough...
by
alandp
on Sat 04 Aug 2007 11:01 PM CDT
Friday, August 3
If the Surgeon General had graduated from Miskatonic U
by
alandp
on Fri 03 Aug 2007 10:42 PM CDT
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