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[hypocrisyofandrewdobson]

The Part 2 link for the plebcomics story gets redirected to a porn blog that has "hypocricy" instead of "hypocrisy" in its URL.

I see. I’ll correct all that now.

EDIT: All links for the Dobson’s hypocrisy have been updated to avoid the porn bot account, but tumblr will most likely take a bit to update them in the post itself. If you do end up on the porn bot blog, just got to the web address and change it from “hypocricyofandrewdobson” to “hypocrisyofandrewdobson”

[takashi0]

Green horse, I'm re-reading an MLP fanfic series I fucking loved when I found it and it's still good shit, mostly because it uses the best headcanon in the fandom: Granny Smith being secretly a badass in a legit martial arts monk kind of way.

Good shit my dude. What else?

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maquasi replied to your post: I can’t believe we’re getting full price DLC for...

If I ask will I want to buy a rope for myself?

If the concept of re-releasing Endgame and Spider-Man: Far From Home in cineams with 4 minutes of extra footage makes your head shudder uncontrollably, then yes, probably!

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Black Sabbath

I can’t ever choose just one, so here’s a top [insert number]

Bal-Sagoth, a sometimes epic, sometimes gleefully cheesy symphonic power/black metal band from England full of concept albums about fantasy realms and cosmic demigods, in the tradition of pulp sword and sorcery. Often have absurdly long song titles. ‘Star-fire Burning Upon the Ice-Veiled Throne of Ultima Thule’ and ‘The Power Cosmic’ are their best albums, I think.

Technically not metal, they’re Neue Deutsch Harte, but Rammstein appear at enough metal festivals to be included. One of the horniest bands on Earth, too. Mutter and Reise, Reise are damn good albums.

Anaal Nathrakh are the self-styled ‘soundtrack to Armageddon’, an extreme black metal/grindcore duo dedicated to releasing malevolent walls of sounds in album form. Recent released were pretty bad (Desideratum was particularly shit) but their last album, A New Kind of Horror, shows signs of sluggish life. ‘Hell is Empty and All the Devils are Here’ and ‘In the Constellation of the Black Widow’ are universally liked albums. People also like ‘Codex Necro’, but not me so much. I really have to stress that this band isn’t for everyone.

Judas Priest, Manowar, Dio/Rainbow, can’t go wrong with them either! Painkiller, Sons of Odin and Stargazer are all great songs.

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It was just a few months ago that you were saying “I can’t sit down and play it for longer than an hour”, though.

That’s before I played DaSR and didn’t really enjoy myself at all, went back to DaS3 and found it more generally just fun to play. I’ve done, I think, three or four playthroughs of DaS3, didn’t want to go back to DaSR at all after I finished it.

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Penny for your thoughts on eldritch abominations taking a human-like form?Traits that their presentation should have, quirks, and such?

The way I see it, the term eldritch abomination has a pretty distinct meaning these days: the generic big tentacled monster of post-Lovecraftian media, the ‘old gods’ or ‘elder gods’ that probably have an apostrophe in their names somewhere, who posses a host of powers derived from misconceptions of Lovecraftian horror, like ‘drives things insane by mere presence’, that kind of thing. Eldritch abominations have little to no relation to actual beings portrayed in cosmic horror, they don’t serve the same thematic purpose, so really it’s up to the writer just what exactly the traits of such creatures are. All you’ve got is the paint job of ‘really big tentacle alien’. They’re almost always overtly malevolent and monstrous, have some sinister, hidden motive only a madman would find appealing. Cult leaders, the heads of dubious megacorporations, etc. Like dragons in Shadowrun, I think, the powers behind stuff. Cold, cunning, aloof. Potentially smug and superior.

As an admittedly snobbish cosmic horror purist, I feel like actual Lovecraftian beings taking on human form makes such things too similar to the gods of mythology taking on forms to walk about the world, like Odin’s guise of the traveller, or the popular image of the Devil as a man in a fancy suit. I’m not a fan of the idea. These things aren’t meant to be represented by anything familiar, they aren’t meant to be immediate, that’s why Cthulhu only kinda sorta looks like a bunch of different shit mushed together and has dwelt under the ocean for some incomprehensible span of time. It doesn’t really exist like anything in particular we can compare it to. And jamming that into a human form for...what purpose would this serve? They don’t take action in the world, they exist in the far, far background. Yeah there’s Nyarlathotep, who is is famously thousand-formed, but there is no default Nyarlathotep, just a series of different facades people encounter in different times and places. And it always appears in the background even when actively featured in a story. And frankly I wouldn’t even know where to begin talking about the potential personality of Yog-Sothoth wearing a business suit.

Of course I may have just MASSIVELY misread your ask and you mean spooky space gods kinda sorta having humanoid forms, then in that case, I think it needs to be handled carefully but isn’t necessarily a bad thing. I mean, Cthulhu had a generally humanoid outline, but whose to say that’s a humanoid outline? That’s from our perspective. Who’s to say that the outline intelligent life manifests isn’t one head, two arms and two legs? The idea of ‘oh we happen to look like it’ can work and can be made to work to be more sinister.

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Any thoughts of Local58? Seems to be at least somewhat up your alley in terms of horror.

I haven’t heard of it, actually, just looked it up and it seems quite interesting, gonna watch however many there while my Dragon’s Dogma pawns farm discipline points for me.

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maquasi replied to your post: Things that describe themselves or are advertised...

Stop getting mad at little things.

Absolutely never