• @Soup
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    It’s like, at some point, horror is horror and we know that we’ve seen or imagined in some way the potential of bad stuff that would mess with us. We know the feeling of helplessness to enough of a degree to dampen the effect, too. I’m sure it would be awful, the visions from an eldritch horror, but I doubt it would have the same effect as it would on the people who had barely the imagination to picture science fiction as any further along than still using propellers to creat lift.

    It’s the difference between introducing a whole new hell and showing something we’ve seen before just way worse. And it makes me wonder if there’s something we’ve missed with our greatly expanded collective imagination and if our allowances for the unknown have limits we can’t see yet.

    • @[email protected]
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      17 hours ago

      I dunno about can’t, but most people seem stuck on the won’t part.

      Like every single member of your family being already dead, and it being your fault, and now you have the disease too and have decided retroactively that you would like the vaccine now, except that’s not how that works and now you are going to die as well, leaving your kids behind as orphans.

      Now see if you can guess which disease I even mean - hint, you probably think you know, but keep going and you can come up with more than a handful without too much effort, and with a bit more thinking even a handful of entirely distinct categories (edit: for the latter I mean leaving behind the literal definition of “vaccine”).

      We would do much better if we would fear more than we currently allow ourselves to, collectively as a society I mean.

  • 👍Maximum Derek👍
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    481 day ago

    For this to be truly lovecraftian there needs to be a panel about how the horror on the phone is indescribable. Then there needs to be roughly 200 additional panels describing it.

    • @BreadOven
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      181 day ago

      You forgot non-euclidean geometry as well.

      • @NegativeInf
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        111 day ago

        My phone contains non-euclidian geometry.

        • idunnololz
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          Not to brag but so does my butthole

        • @BreadOven
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          321 hours ago

          The Welsh were the citizens of Innsmouth I think. But yeah, Italians are on the list of undescribable horrors according to Howard.

  • @Rolando
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    111 day ago

    Bonus panel:

    • Human: “…and WE pay THEM… to spy on our every move!”
    • Cthulhu: “NOOOOOOO!!!”