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Re: Cthulhu Ventures

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Post by DoofusOfDeath »

lilyball wrote: post #18

I appreciate their commitment to the bit. I wish their team included slightly more diversity however.

I just had mandatory diversity training, and TBH I'm genuinely confused about what is considered acceptable by its proponents.

If your comment is based on diversity of gender, it seems to run afoul of several "diversity" tenets I was just taught:

- It infers their physical gender based on their appearance.

- It conflates physical gender with gender identity.

- It infers race based on physical appearance.

- It infers ethnicity based on apparent race.

- If brings up the topic of those particular persons' races, ethnicities, physical gender, and perhaps gender identities, when you can't be sure they want them to be discussed.

I'm not trying to be snarky with this comment. I genuinely don't understand what it is that the diversity-advocating crowd is advocating regarding acceptable discussion.

Re: Cthulhu Ventures

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Post by Lambdanaut »

DoofusOfDeath wrote: post #62

Slightly off-topic, but is "The Call of Cthulu" still worth reading? I haven't read it yet, so I'm curious if it's somewhat dated, or tame according to modern sensibilities.

It's very short. Go for it. Personally it's one of my least favorite short stories by Lovecraft and it's amusing to me that Cthulhu became so wrapped up in popular culture when there are many far more interesting beasties in his lore.

Re: Cthulhu Ventures

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Post by DoofusOfDeath »

Lambdanaut wrote: post #63
DoofusOfDeath wrote: post #62

Slightly off-topic, but is "The Call of Cthulu" still worth reading? I haven't read it yet, so I'm curious if it's somewhat dated, or tame according to modern sensibilities.

It's very short. Go for it. Personally it's one of my least favorite short stories by Lovecraft and it's amusing to me that Cthulhu became so wrapped up in popular culture when there are many far more interesting beasties in his lore.

Thanks! Which of his stories would you most recommend?

Re: Cthulhu Ventures

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Post by sdmike1 »

DoofusOfDeath wrote: post #62

Slightly off-topic, but is "The Call of Cthulu" still worth reading? I haven't read it yet, so I'm curious if it's somewhat dated, or tame according to modern sensibilities.

I enjoyed it, however I have something of a weakness for "cosmic horror" and the whole "mysteries beyond our understanding" thing that Lovecraft does.

It mostly holds up, but the proliferation of the themes explored by it and the memeification of Cthulu and the "Great Old Ones" does probably make it more tame than reading it without foreknowledge of the contents.

You can find most of Lovecraft's works (and some of his ghostwriting) as audiobooks on youtube if you want to give them a try [1].

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XM9Z39D1yyI

Re: Cthulhu Ventures

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Post by sdmike1 »

DoofusOfDeath wrote: post #64
Lambdanaut wrote: post #63

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's very short. Go for it. Personally it's one of my least favorite short stories by Lovecraft and it's amusing to me that Cthulhu became so wrapped up in popular culture when there are many far more interesting beasties in his lore.

Thanks! Which of his stories would you most recommend?

The color out of Space[1] is pretty good! However the Dunwich Horror[2], The Shadow over Innsmouth[3], At the Mountains of Madness[4], and of course, the Call of Cthulhu[5] are all good.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TXyda5iiGEo

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gKkya1pMhMQ

[3] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gviofDcypzE

[4] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e2iSmE129uQ

[5] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XM9Z39D1yyI

Re: Cthulhu Ventures

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Post by DoreenMichele »

IceCreamGondola wrote: post #38
DoreenMichele wrote: post #30

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Clearly, one will never become the next unicorn using silly mythical names (or other references). https://bizfluent.com/info-7791011-businesses-use-mythologic...

See my response to TeMPOral downstream. Using names isn't the problem, saturating your company with the mythology is.

It's a fictional mythos made up not hugely long ago. Odds are good that it was an expression of skepticism about the supposed loving God of Christian culture. It describes a reality in which the gods not only don't care about you, but you should actively seek to avoid being noticed by them because having their attention is very much a bad thing.

This is consistent with the experience of a lot of children who are better off trying to handle certain things themselves rather than telling their parents or teachers. It's also consistent with how terribly homosexuals (among others) were punished by the authorities for simply existing probably around the time of the birth of this fictional mythos.

The company positioning fairly openly acknowledges that a successful startup is "a destroyer of worlds." Wildly succeeding with a disruptive new tech creates a new reality that may or may not have its good points, but the old order is gone. The Cthulhu plreference is at a minimum left-handed acknowledgement that corporate culture is widely understood to be fundamentally uncaring and psychopathic.

This might actually be a perfectly healthy thing to embrace. Much evil in the world grows out of the need to have a good reputation which creates friction because looking good and doing good tend to part ways at some point. Being in the public eye comes with inherent moral challenges that are frequently glossed over in discussions that place an excess of importance on things like transparency.

Often, those critiquing the choices of people or entities in the public eye lack both the full story and first-hand experience with dealing with an equally uncaring and often openly hostile public that seeks to hold others to a standard it makes zero effort to pretend to try to meet itself.

Re: Cthulhu Ventures

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Post by SideburnsOfDoom »

arethuza wrote: post #55
SideburnsOfDoom wrote: post #34

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Nyarlatothep 2020: The Dark Pharao for President! He's standing for Prime Minister of the UK, but in his views, that doesn't disqualify him from running for president too. No "dirty laundry", so to speak.

I take it you are a fan of the Laundry Files then? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Laundry_Files

You might very well think that; I couldn't possibly comment.

Re: Cthulhu Ventures

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Post by vinceguidry »

DoreenMichele wrote: post #68
IceCreamGondola wrote: post #38

Earlier quoted context omitted.

See my response to TeMPOral downstream. Using names isn't the problem, saturating your company with the mythology is.

It's a fictional mythos made up not hugely long ago. Odds are good that it was an expression of skepticism about the supposed loving God of Christian culture. It describes a reality in which the gods not only don't care about you, but you should actively seek to avoid being noticed by them because having their attention is very much a bad thing. This is consistent with the experience of a lot of children who are bett…

Worth a read, particularly the comments:

https://www.quora.com/What-is-Lovecraftian-horror/answer/Dim...

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