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A Common Thread... LoveCraft


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(excerpt from a discussion of, well, various games)

 

 

if you think i'm a bit silly ( and you're right ) in connecting all this, well -

 

consider this: x-com, esp 2 & 3, was very influenced by HP lovecraft - ( who basicaly said 'demons and hell' were the ether of 'warpspace': aka aliens

 

and the WH folks never made ANY secret they were Lovecraft fans...

 

the guys at Blizzard North - who basically told the same story thru Diablo to Warcraft to hellgate - (of the 'burning crusade' of chaos)

( before they left blizzard due to "creative differences "over WoW)...

 

never made any secret that THEY were fans of Warhammer...

 

it's not stealing; it's all homage, all attempts to revel in...

 

something creepy.

 

so : If the myrmecols are the ultimate LoveCraftian Yog-Sothoth "warp demons" of elder demon badness...

https://images.uulyrics.com/cover/s/sepultura/album-arise.jpg

...does that mean the original myrmy, in (Aftershock's re-imagining of AfterMath events)...

-when earth got "spored" ( - and what a great way to start a game that was - 28 days later with a nasty twist)

 

 

'she' was a giant tyrannid "genestealer" who basically sprayed our whole planet....

 

with her "SPERM" ???

 

NASTY!!!

 

greetings, earth;

you've been tyrannid-ed!

 

 

PREPARE TO MUTATE.

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Yuck.

 

On a related note, I re-read Wyndham's The Kraken Wakes recently, and it got me playing TFTD once more. The aliens in TKW are a bit Lovecraftian, hardly anything is known about them, blobs of ooze, etc.

https://miscellany.lolthulhu.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/12/rubio-kraken-scaled.jpg

 

the kraken awakes?

was it dread cthulhu, using his dream powers to make cultists on my laputa?

 

btw;

i was directed to this b/cas of my quibbling re: aftershock & the "space hulk" mission:

 

 

Thanks, Full-Auto; i'll check that out, after I re-install Combat Mission ;)

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