• AdolfSchmitler@lemmy.world
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    3 hours ago

    The best explanation I’ve heard is imagine an ant. All it really does is gather food, eat food, protect the queen, you know, simple stuff. Then it comes across a circuit board. And suddenly the ant is filled with knowledge of how the circuit board works, what electricity is and how the components all work together. Then it goes back to being just an ant again, but it still kind of remembers that knowledge but can’t understand any of it anymore. And now it has to try to go on being just an ant again.

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    8 hours ago

    This is why Lovecraft’s writing was so special, it only really works in written form and allows your brain to do the heavy lifting (though unfortunate that his terror of the unknown came from his deep racism. Don’t look up the name of his dog cat 😬).

    If people are impressed by the reply in the OP, they should try reading The Shadow over Innsmouth, or At the Mountains of Madness.

    No offense to OP, but it makes that look like a child wrote it.

    Read books, y’all!

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    8 hours ago

    I love something like the hounds of tindalos.

    Not tentacled monsters, but still strange monsters that have very strict limits, yet never give up.

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      I love those in particular just because of how absolutely inescapable they are. If the Hounds are hunting you then you’re going to be found. Period, done, end of story. You can’t exist in a place that has geometry without throwing open a door for them.

      I’m sure at least one mad wizard has sealed himself inside a perfect spherical prison with no corners only to find that the Cornerhounds don’t much care what corners they come from, and your knees and elbows work just fine if better solutions aren’t available.