[-] setsneedtofeed@lemmy.world 1 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago)

Lovecraft's stuff has that reputation, but on a listen through his works, he had a tendency to actually be properly descriptive when it was appropriate. I think it's a case of later, lesser writers gloming onto to making things indescribable as a lazy crutch that made the reputation of the mythos like that.

I think only 'The Unnamable' by Lovecraft really goes incredibly vague at a point where it should be describing the creature, but that story feels like a joke about this exact topic.

[-] setsneedtofeed@lemmy.world 1 points 11 hours ago

Michael Shea's mythos stuff is pretty good I think. 'Demiurge' is a book collecting all his stories. He updates them to the then contemporary 1980s, keeping the elements of cosmic horror but putting them in more modern and relatable situations rather than attempting to make them period pieces.

[-] setsneedtofeed@lemmy.world 6 points 11 hours ago

Tom Clancy has entered the chat and has started describing a submarine engine. Please help.

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[-] setsneedtofeed@lemmy.world 6 points 13 hours ago

I know it's a comic, but I'm always bothered by ultra extreme regeneration powers where the mass seems to come from nowhere. If Wolverine is burned down to little more than a skeleton, what is giving him the raw material to create regrown muscles?

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[-] setsneedtofeed@lemmy.world 10 points 4 days ago

Yuggoth, Great Cthulhu, Tsathoggua, Yog-Sothoth, R'lyeh, Nyarlathotep, Azathoth, Hastur, Yian, Leng, the Lake of Hali, Bethmoora, the Yellow Sign, L’mur-Kathulos, Bran, and the Magnum Innominandum…

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[-] setsneedtofeed@lemmy.world 14 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

Don't be paranoid. It's okay to let your guard down. Everything will be fine. Just fine.

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[-] setsneedtofeed@lemmy.world 13 points 5 days ago

I look away. Tears in my eyes.

Sir, I'm afraid. I'm afraid that it will...be a while.

[-] setsneedtofeed@lemmy.world 12 points 5 days ago

Added credit to title.

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[-] setsneedtofeed@lemmy.world 14 points 5 days ago

It will see you later.

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[-] setsneedtofeed@lemmy.world 41 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

As someone who isn't a fan of Guilliman coming back and actually being a noble ruler (as opposed to previously the super sketchy high lords, who I thought fit a grim dark degraded tone much more), I've always considered 40k to be the bad ending. If there was a video game, the 40k we know would be an ending slide that happened when the player had truly made terrible choices. The game is over and we are stuck in the bad outcome. It won't get better.

Humanity in 40k is collectively a corpse that doesn't know or accept that it's already dead (just like the emperor himself- symbolism!). The most humanity can do are have brief moments of staving of things getting worse. Humanity can at massive cost and misery preserve a terrible status quo every now and then and call it a victory, but even the victories just lead to losses and the losses keep leading to the final death of humanity.

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