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40hz:
"Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn"
-wraith808 (June 26, 2014, 06:23 PM)
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Blimey @wraith808! I hadn't realised you spoke Welsh as well!
Diolch yn fawr.
-IainB (June 26, 2014, 08:48 PM)
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None of those words have enough letters to be Welsh words. And there's vowels in them... Can't be having vowels in proper Welsh words either! ;)
wraith808:
^ That. Though seeing Welsh translations, I'm not sure that some unknown Elder God wasn't behind it... ;D
40hz:
:P 40, you're cracking me up here.
-superboyac (June 26, 2014, 06:02 PM)
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It's all just as well... we are nothing but food for the Great Old Ones, and if you choose to be an egg... ;)
-Renegade (June 26, 2014, 08:23 PM)
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Interesting that you said that. Here's an interesting modern riff on a Lovecraftian theme...
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After you've read The Shadow Over Innsmouth if you haven't already, check out The Litany of Earth by Ruthanna Emrys.
For those of you who haven't read any Lovecraft here's the opening paragraphs for The Shadow Over Innsmouth. First published in 1936, they read almost like a news article from today with their hints of a government cover-up, secret prisons, and "rendition."
Innsmouth excerpt
During the winter of 1927–28 officials of the Federal government made a strange and secret investigation of certain conditions in the ancient Massachusetts seaport of Innsmouth. The public first learned of it in February, when a vast series of raids and arrests occurred, followed by the deliberate burning and dynamiting—under suitable precautions—of an enormous number of crumbling, worm-eaten, and supposedly empty houses along the abandoned waterfront. Uninquiring souls let this occurrence pass as one of the major clashes in a spasmodic war on liquor.
Keener news-followers, however, wondered at the prodigious number of arrests, the abnormally large force of men used in making them, and the secrecy surrounding the disposal of the prisoners. No trials, or even definite charges, were reported; nor were any of the captives seen thereafter in the regular gaols of the nation. There were vague statements about disease and concentration camps, and later about dispersal in various naval and military prisons, but nothing positive ever developed. Innsmouth itself was left almost depopulated, and is even now only beginning to shew signs of a sluggishly revived existence.
Complaints from many liberal organisations were met with long confidential discussions, and representatives were taken on trips to certain camps and prisons. As a result, these societies became surprisingly passive and reticent. Newspaper men were harder to manage, but seemed largely to coöperate with the government in the end. Only one paper—a tabloid always discounted because of its wild policy—mentioned the deep-diving submarine that discharged torpedoes downward in the marine abyss just beyond Devil Reef. That item, gathered by chance in a haunt of sailors, seemed indeed rather far-fetched; since the low, black reef lies a full mile and a half out from Innsmouth Harbour.
People around the country and in the nearby towns muttered a great deal among themselves, but said very little to the outer world. They had talked about dying and half-deserted Innsmouth for nearly a century, and nothing new could be wilder or more hideous than what they had whispered and hinted years before. Many things had taught them secretiveness, and there was now no need to exert pressure on them. Besides, they really knew very little; for wide salt marshes, desolate and unpeopled, keep neighbours off from Innsmouth on the landward side.
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Good stuff! And the makings of a good film if anybody ever decided to do one.
Renegade:
We are all but grains of rice or mustard seeds to them.
wraith808:
... and items can be added for any reason or no reason. As long as there is perceived 'offense'. And they are removed for... I'm at a loss.-wraith808 (June 25, 2014, 09:17 AM)
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Yup.
But it's predictable. Anything to start a conflict where there was none before, or to open old wounds, or to throw gasoline on a real conflict.
Invent a victim. Dig up a victim. Find a victim.
Order doesn't matter - just whatever works at the time.
Otherwise, what the hell good is it if it can't make headlines?
-Renegade (June 25, 2014, 09:51 AM)
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*sigh*
The best thing would be if after all of this blew over, he turned around and said...
"See! Exactly what I said in the article... happened. Grow up people! Realize what's going on!"
But more strangeness...
Shia LaBeouf removed from Broadway theater, arrested (via USA Today)
Does anyone not see... he needs help? Or do they need a male Lindsey Lohan?
The craziest details and jokes from Shia LaBeouf's Broadway arrest (via USA Today)
He had to be ... muzzled. And we make fun of this?
And something to lighten the mood...
Amy Adams Gives Up First Class Seat to US Soldier in Coach (via ABC)
... and it was reported by a tweet from someone else, not from any PR spectacle.
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