how can you ignore the existence of Old Gods that can at any moment wake up and decimate the world? Or total cosmic horror?

Hurr not that impressive

but all these stories are about people explicitly being confronted by something that they can't even comprehend

if Cthulhu comes out of the ocean right in front of you you can't just "ignore it"

that's the point

>arguing Lovecraft with someone who has never read a book in his life

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a lot of his stories have long passages of people trying to ignore or deal with the weird shit around them until it becomes too much

and I do think if you were confronted with a cosmic horror you wouldn't walk out the other end "dealing with it"

people can't deal with things that aren't cosmic horror

rape, assault etc

people get broken by something as simple as the end of a relationship

much less somehting from the depths of space emerging at you

but

in the fantasy world they do

I guarantee if something horrific makes itself known to the earth tomorrow morning people aren't just going to cope with that

I don't think that's them going insane. I think that's literally something so powerful and cryptic that it burns your eyes out to look at.

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in Lovecraft people go insane typically

Like, I always thought the Lovecraftian gods always *generated* insanity rather than being greeted with it.

But I haven't ever really read Lovecraft so I could be wrong

Nah, he never really describes something like Cthulhu, he's cryptic because he wants it to be something unimaginably horrific

which no one can really illustrate

which is a cool idea because I think people would struggle with that in real life too

But why the fuck did they make an anime of it.

And worse yet, why is there no fuckable Chthulhu?

@cjharmer73 I think the point of the depiction is that, while in the real world yes probably people would cope, but that's the not point. The point is that it's SO VERY BAD, what you thought previously as the worst possible thing is not relevant anymore, because what ever is depicted is WORSE. That's the whole point, the notion that there's something that can turn up evil to 11.

anybody watched that film the Void?

from the guys who made the physical effects for the Thing prequel

p good

Bullshit

hah

we're probably rather tame

We have plenty of firepower. We just have a system that works more or less.

All we really have to do is coast it out until we're more advanced, then by that point our culture and mindshare is so coherent and positive that terrorism and corruption phases itself out along with scarcity.

That's the recipe for a type 1 civilization.

We already have weapons that would destroy 99% of livable area

You're kidding yourself if you think the nuclear threat is anything other than planetary.

We have missile defense systems but they couldn't handle it if the thousands to tens of thousands of warheads in existence were launched.

You realize the radioactive fallout from the sheer number of missiles launched would cake the Earth's atmosphere

We fucking do