What does it stand for? F.A.T.A.L looses the acronym when I google it.
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Evil Hat Productions (Fate of Cthulhu devs) on Twitter: "If you don't like the politics included in our games, don't buy them."
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What does it stand for? F.A.T.A.L looses the acronym when I google it.
Spoiler there is a whole table on how Jews should roll to see how hairy they are
F.A.T.A.L RPG, Fantasy Adventure to Adult Lechery.
EDIT: Beaten. Anyway, I recommend reading this review of it: https://www.rpg.net/reviews/archive/14/14567.phtml
This review is quite something. That FATAL game seems like a huge pile of steaming shit. This part of the review is frankly amazing.
Just wait until you figure out who Lovecraft is describing in The Horror at Red Hook
Jesus Christ, dude. Literally going into a frothing ire over brown/black people in his vicinity.
The amount of people in the replies who are either incredulous at the idea of calling Lovecraft racist or clearly think this is a video game is entertaining.
Good on them for making such a clear statement. I also need to take a look into some of those books they mentioned.
Good on them for making such a clear statement. I also need to take a look into some of those books they mentioned.
Lovecraft was a creative mind who made his fears into a new genre. His fears were mostly born of racism tho, and denying it makes no one a favour. And getting mad because someone calls an author who talks about "mongoloid races breeding" a racist, makes no fucking sense.
I don't like the "if you don't agree don't buy it" argument, it's not a good response to criticism (it's often used by bigots when minorities have issues with a piece of media). That said, fuck count dumbfuckular, hypocritical piece of shit
as a huge fan of Lovecraft's work*, it still pleasantly surprises and kind of astonishes me whenever people seem to just find out about his cat's name and his blatant, excessive-even-by-the-standards-of-the-time racism. dude was a freakish insane garbage bag who was literally in constant fear of everything that wasn't... well, H.P. Lovecraft.
as we've seen from the tweets, edgelords and fuckfaces the world over will fall all over themselves exclaiming that Howie did nothing wrong - they, like him, are of course capital W wrong, but there will never be any convincing them.
like Evil Hat seems to be doing, the best we can accomplish going forward is taking what he refined - which is a genuinely interesting and welcome addition of cosmicism and existential meaninglessness to the horror milieu - and continue to improve upon it, which will of course inevitably (and necessarily) require inclusion. the list of works they included, such as Dream Quest of Vellitt Boe, Ballad of Black Tom, and Hammers on Bone (i'd also recommend Lovecraft Country) are excellent places to start and i hope we see more like them as time goes on.
*well, maybe not his "work" specifically (although there are stories of his that i love) so much as the concept of what we refer to as "Lovecraftian horror".
as we've seen from the tweets, edgelords and fuckfaces the world over will fall all over themselves exclaiming that Howie did nothing wrong - they, like him, are of course capital W wrong, but there will never be any convincing them.
like Evil Hat seems to be doing, the best we can accomplish going forward is taking what he refined - which is a genuinely interesting and welcome addition of cosmicism and existential meaninglessness to the horror milieu - and continue to improve upon it, which will of course inevitably (and necessarily) require inclusion. the list of works they included, such as Dream Quest of Vellitt Boe, Ballad of Black Tom, and Hammers on Bone (i'd also recommend Lovecraft Country) are excellent places to start and i hope we see more like them as time goes on.
*well, maybe not his "work" specifically (although there are stories of his that i love) so much as the concept of what we refer to as "Lovecraftian horror".
Wow. That fucking sucks. What a soulless, unfunny, desperate gimmick.
I don't remember if I had previously looked up the cat's name and then forgot/repressed it but holy fucking lol I was not ready for that
He would be on Twitter spewing white supremacy garbage all day long.
I love the modern stories that are inspired by his works while also calling out he was a shitty racist.
"Carter and Lovecraft" is a series about a PI and Lovecraft's granddaughter, who is black and revels in that fact considering his views, dealing with cosmic nightmares.
I've not read Lovecraft Country, but I hope they address what he was in that series as well.
"Carter and Lovecraft" is a series about a PI and Lovecraft's granddaughter, who is black and revels in that fact considering his views, dealing with cosmic nightmares.
I've not read Lovecraft Country, but I hope they address what he was in that series as well.
I'm always surprised that more people don't know how horrible he was considered how popular his work is.
That fucking cat name man. The story in which it appears is one of my absolute favorites of his too and everytime I read it it's like a fuckin' giant ass record scratch every 20 seconds.
Can we please stop spreading this nonsense that HP Lovecrafts racism "exceeded even the standards of the time racism". Anytime I hear somebody say this, I know they don't know shit about American history and all the shit that occurred during Lovecraft's lifetime.
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If anything bloodborne kind of flips the message of Lovecraft by making everything an open secret controlled by the highest orders of a society and not some backwards people living in the middle of nowhere.
Well I think most people just think of specifically Cthulhu when they hear the name.
the people complaining about this were never the people buying their stuff.
This shouldn't be controversial. Lovecraft was VERY racist and anti-semitic.
Edit: Lovecraft didn't join the Klan probably because of class snobbishness, not because of disagreement.
Edit: Lovecraft didn't join the Klan probably because of class snobbishness, not because of disagreement.
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I don't know what your point is besides being vaguely threatening
As long as you think the same freedom extends to platform holders and they can deny a game for whatever reason. Like Sony/Steam etc. And social media platforms should have the freedom to remove whatever person they want from their ecosystem for whatever reason.
They are deeply tied to his xenophobia. Fear of the unknown, fear of strangers, fear of alien cultures
