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interesting article on lovecraft and the cthulhu mythos:
http://www.epberglund.com/RGttCM/nightscapes/NS04/hplnf3.htm That's the standard understanding - Derleth was good for bringing Lovecraft's work more into the mainstream but his understanding of the concept was basically flawed.
He missed the whole nihilistic aspect that was Lovecraft's strongest theme. is that i have had no exposure to Derleth's work, or any of the people that came afterwords, and haven't played any "Call of Chtulhu" or similar RPG games.
My exposure to Lovecraft is entirely reading his original stories, so I'm actually not totally familiar with the ways in which the Mythos has been corrupted. Of course, I see movies like Hellboy and Ghostbusters and recognize the basic influences there, but I don't consider them "corruptions" because they were merely inspired by Lovecraft, not directly trying to add to his universe. Same with Quake, I don't think id software was trying to say "this is set in Lovecraft's universe." I thought the basic principe of ID was the freudian guesture human beings primitive behaviour is only perceived in the basic of search of new environement and willing to fight to obtain that area.
You can interprent that in all kinds of directions, sexually or the deep need of ancient people to protect or conquer new land. Lovecraft suggest more the demonic thread of the human mind, as with HellBoy.., wasn't he walking with he corps of Raspoutin? Also a strange personality in world's history. Same with Quake, I don't think id software was trying to say "this is set in Lovecraft's universe."
Pentagrams, crosses and Hellknights, plus level names like Satan's Dark Delight or Hell's Atrium, tell a different story, yes. http://www.train2game.com/
I just filled in the form. I'd like to hear a third party opinion on this. Do you give your details to anyone that easily? Search for "Scheidegger scam" for a start. That took me 5 minutes to find.
He was more of a publisher / collator than anything.
Lovecraft was in contact with a bunch of people who were writing similar stories (like Clark Ashton Smith) and sharing characters and concepts. Years later along comes Derleth who tries to gather all the stuff into a cohesive whole and call it the Mythos. from too much demon rum and diabolatry, and thus the smiley icon with the sunglasses looks to these eyes to be a pirates patch in the stead.
It is a nice change of pace. Arrrrrr I've been away from the scene for some years, but I'm interested in making some new levels for Quake. Could you guys tell me, what are the best compilers to use nowadays? I'm going to be using GTKRadiant 1.5 for mapping. Thanks.
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I had some email exchanges with him last week. He is actually working on Quake2 engines and tools as far as I understood.
I think he was looking for a more quiet community... though... Anyway, I think he his always ready to help, so if you have specific questions, you can ask him directly ;) If you filter all the crap, this community is pretty quiet. But wait, if th
NONSENSE DETECTED!!! NONSENSE DETECTED!!! NONSENSE DETECTED!!! POST FILTERED!!! BUFFER OVERFLOW IN POST FIELD!!! TRUNCATING!!! ERROR!!! He emailed me last October just to see if I was OK! He thought it had been a while since I last had a load of problems/questions to ask him, and emailed me just incase I needed any technical advice or testing.
Great guy, he's an email away. #145 posted by Spirit [213.39.158.187] on 2009/02/27 11:37:52
Trinca, we were laughing about your tiny PENIS. ;-) in the Coagula threath! You said yours was too small for a (screen-)shot!
And that was my last post about your wang. :p
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