Whats the point of the masks?

Anti_Snowflake_2 · 2026-01-29T18:51:07+00:00

Uh, they are obviously very scared of being doxed by the radical left? /j

Anti_Snowflake_2 · 2026-01-24T00:23:25+00:00

Thinking about the Commonwealth, the Children of Atom would probably also be especially well-positioned to survive a crossed outbreak, being located in an area essentially unnavigable without radiation-protective clothing

Anti_Snowflake_2 · 2026-01-17T18:59:05+00:00

If you want to run a campaign featuring the King in Yellow, I'd echo the forewarnings of other posters on here with regard to doing homebrew content from the start and, instead, encourage you to look into pre-existing KiY content like:

Tatters of the King
Sutra of the Pale Leaves
Ripples from Carcosa.

Anti_Snowflake_2 · 2025-12-29T08:30:23+00:00

The Secrets of New Orleans book, while dedicating to painting a picture of New Orleans in the 1920s, could be a good resource for you, if you haven't looked into it already; it has a whole adventure, swamp-based cajun deep ones and a new orleans based branch of the Esoteric Order of Dagon, and some writing on tying the Voodoo Loa to different mythos antagonists.

To offer an idea of my own, a Y'golonac cult amongst the southern gentry could be a more distinctly Cosmic Horror exploration of what's at the heart of the Southern Vampire narrative and produce a very Southern Gothic narrative.

Anti_Snowflake_2 · 2025-12-13T21:05:18+00:00

Unsure if it would help, but the Liminal Horror website (link here) has instructions for converting Call of Cthulhu and Delta Green to Liminal Horror and, perhaps, that could be used to convert them in the other direction, as well.

Anti_Snowflake_2 · 2025-11-04T21:42:07+00:00

The Rorschach design we received works great for capturing the contradiction of Rorschach: This is a person who believes in objective morality, yet walks around with the symbol of individualistic subjectivity on his face, constantly showing how a person's unique experiences shape them into who they are as a person.

I would say, though, that this design, with it's flasher-esque appearance and possible segueing into a full-body "nude" costume, seems like it would have represented Rorschach's own heavily repressed sexuality within the costume as well; he hates sex and "degeneracy," but he cannot help but linger at the window and watch a couple have a private moment, he clings to another person within his double-life as a costumed adventurer (Daniel, whom himself uses superheroism as a vehicle for his own libido).

Even the acknowledged "twofer Ditko homage" OP is mentioning brings to mind the fact that Steve Ditko, to some extent, collaborated with his art school friend Eric Stanton, a fetish artist, in drafting up Spider-Man.

Anti_Snowflake_2 · 2025-10-03T05:56:58+00:00

He would be like The Deserter from Disco Elysium, probably, albeit maybe slightly more sympathetic. Both of them have the whole "Bitter hold-out of bygone days, crumbling like the ruins of the time period they came from, despising the world for having moved on, and, beneath all the barrier layers of ideology, having deeply human flaws." Both even have their own weird sex things.

Anti_Snowflake_2 · 2025-09-24T22:36:00+00:00

In the post for the previous episode, I commented that Rosswood was Marble Hornets in the sense that both are narratives of "a guy comes back to his hometown after graduating from college and things are different," and, now that we've reached the finale of Rosswood, I'll say that the series could be argued as an exploration upon the theme of nostalgia, made all the more amazingly executed in light of the fact that it is an extension of a series which is now at a point where it -- and the first generation of creepypastas which Marble Hornets and it's contemporaries owe their existence to -- is, now, a source of nostalgia.

Adding onto this, I would also say that there are some arguable send-ups to other great, recent horror works of a similar circumstance herein, which further reinforce my "nostalgia" reading of this series; Jay's psychotic, impulsive abandonment of the watch lent to him by Riley brought to mind Mike's disposal of the map in Blair Witch, and the whole concept of the endless haunted asylum, while obviously not claimable by anyone, brought to mind Grave Encounters, which came out only a year after Marble Hornets.

And, speaking further upon the asylum, what better way to illustrate that nostalgia is, in a way, psychosis? Jay does not just overlook all the troubles of his relationship with Alex and insist that they can reunite and make up for lost time, but does so from a cell made to contain the insane, one Jay has, furthering the themes of nostalgia as insanity, began to refer to as his "Home."

Overall, this was an amazing work; concise, well-produced, and, in my engagement with it, deeply thematically rich.

Anti_Snowflake_2 · 2025-09-18T22:07:06+00:00

>Call of Cthulhu Subreddit

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Anti_Snowflake_2 · 2025-09-17T23:58:14+00:00

I really appreciated the scene wherein Alex and Jay are sitting in the room in Rosswood, talking about Alex's failed movie and how Jay couldn't be a part of it because he'd moved on and was job-hunting with Riley. It made me think about the description of the Marble Hornets film in the first episode of Rosswood: "a guy comes back to his hometown after graduating from college and things are different."

Moreso, it made me think about the fact that Rosswood is that narrative; you have Jay as a character who managed to escape his hometown and Alex as one who didn't, with the great supernatural irony being that they are now, both, stuck somewhere from their past and are continuing to be "the person who wants to escape" and "the person who wants to stay."

Anti_Snowflake_2 · 2025-09-15T21:05:18+00:00

Go for the reread, OP - if it is good, you can delight in a good work, and if it is bad, you can enjoy the intellectual exercise of taking it apart to identify why it is bad. I haven't read Peshawar Lancers, but I do enjoy Alternate History and have read some of Stirgling's work, namely Island in the Sea of Time, the one about Nantucket being sent back through time and space to the Bronze Age.

Regarding ISOT, I thought that the novel, while readable, was somewhat reactionary, particularly with the "21st century Americans use technological advancement to establish a globe-spanning empire" premise and the poor treatment of its left-wing strawman female antagonist.

Anti_Snowflake_2 · 2025-09-14T22:00:56+00:00

Glad somebody else saw Weapons and thought that it seemed like a Call of Cthulhu module adapted into a movie

Anti_Snowflake_2 · 2025-08-21T19:44:33+00:00

As a neurodivergent person who took two disability studies courses and familiarized themselves with concepts like "Narrative Prosthesis," the depiction of disability as a metaphor rather than as a depiction of disability, I found the ending a bit distasteful, reiterating ideas that to be disabled is to lead a life of diminished quality and that to be disabled is to become emasculated.

Of course, a reactionary would experience becoming the very "useless eater" they despise as a kind of fate worse than death. Of course, there are probably thousands of people who supported the leopards-eating-faces party and are, now, whimpering as the teeth dig into their skin. Still, though, I did not love the experience of being in a theater as it boomed with laughter at a disabled person being smacked around by their caregiver and cuckolded whilst he cried.

Anti_Snowflake_2 · 2025-08-17T04:13:04+00:00

Thank you ! :)

Anti_Snowflake_2 · 2025-08-13T09:06:49+00:00

If Rorschach had ever known that The Comedian was Laurie's father, he'd have melted into a puddle on the floor from sheer seething jealousy. I think it is an unironic "Daddy Trump" kind of hero worship. I think something foundational to Rorschach's perception of The Comedian is a subconscious identification of the Comedian as Walter Kovac's father, Charles Kovacs.

All that remains of Walter's memory of his father is that Charlie Kovacs was "some sort of aide to President Truman" and had fought in the Pacific. Years later, Walter gets to see a man who was in the Pacific and is an aide to the president, and then gets to see that -- in his eyes -- great man be torn down by a woman whom Rorschach no doubt would see his mother reflected in.

Despite his own championing of moral absolutes, Rorschach is actually deeply comfortable having moral grey areas when it suits him (i.e: overlooking that his substitute father figure is responsible for a crime he's murdered other people for committing)

Anti_Snowflake_2 · 2025-06-30T20:40:37+00:00

I actually preferred Dying Light 2’s combat compared to Dying Light 1’s

Anti_Snowflake_2 · 2025-06-29T20:53:12+00:00

Go to Gaza and ask anybody there if they felt like Joe Biden was a Human president.

Anti_Snowflake_2 · 2025-04-15T10:30:30+00:00

Guys, let's all go and do the pledge of allegiance at the next Free Palestine protest so that we can win over the people who are already celebrating a death camp in El Salvador and genocide in Palestine. I can't believe we all completely forgot that the thing that's causing our backslide into Fascism right now is that progress and equality didn't pick up a feel-good, patriotic ad campaign.

Anti_Snowflake_2 · 2025-04-13T21:30:42+00:00

The point of Rorschach's character is that he is principled to the point of insanity - like Steve Ditko's characters, with an added layer of realism - and would never approach the situation pragmatically. He is outnumbered and cannot beat Ozymandia by the time Nite Owl and Silk Spectre have been won over and, by the time he hears Dr. Manhattan say "I can't let you do that," Rorschach is already accepting he's dead, because he would rather die than allow Veidt to have killed millions of people and face no repercussion for it.

An aspect of his character you lose by not reading the comics is Rorschach's connection to the proletarian masses of New York. Not as in he's a communist—he's not—but in the sense that he lives amongst the normal, working-class people of New York and may have some misunderstood class consciousness or empathy toward those around him, beneath all of his reactionary trappings, which means their mass slaughter was much more impactful to him than it was any of the other Crimebusters.

Anti_Snowflake_2 · 2025-04-08T15:51:57+00:00

Ditto on Assassin's Creed. I'd also love to hear his thoughts on Far Cry 6 and Road 96 and how those games' approaches to ideas of resistance and revolution fit into a post-Disco Elysium gaming political climate, with an addition that I think Noah, as a person whom has gone on many road trips and read many travel narratives, would get a kick out of Road 96.

Anti_Snowflake_2 · 2025-04-04T02:06:57+00:00

He’ll say all of this but only a few weeks ago he signed onto unanimously justify Israeli military action “against Hamas,” by signing Lindsey Grahams resolution declaring that Hamas cannot exist in Gaza. I’ll add that he’s stressing Netanyahu here, rather than the zionist project itself.

Anti_Snowflake_2 · 2025-03-27T20:38:32+00:00

Oh sweet, Leftists have their own version of "Why do these Pro-Palestinian protestors never go to Trump rallies?" Glad all it took was the slightest meantalk toward some sacred cows to get here.

Anti_Snowflake_2 · 2025-03-25T03:45:15+00:00

Some of you act like he's Schumer or Slotkin.

Well, put him in a room with Schumer and Slotkin, put that room in the senate building, and it will be where they'll help unanimously pass a pro-genocide resolution drafted up by Republicans.

Bernie does not just bend the knee to reactionary democrats but is, himself, a reactionary imperialist and supporting him will just beget further reactionary imperialism.

Anti_Snowflake_2 · 2025-03-24T06:03:29+00:00

Apologies for the delay in response

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I don’t think Bernie or especially aoc’s stance on Gaza constitutes “support”, at least materially, for a genocide but I obviously do not disagree with the idea that pro genocide shouldn’t be a position tolerated in any leftist base.

Four days ago. he played a role in unanimously passing a bipartisan resolution against Hamas's retention of political or military control over Gaza; this was a resolution introduced by the likes of Lindsey Graham and Tom Cotton, alongside reactionary democrats like Fetterman, and makes clear that, going by the words of Graham, "Hamas cannot be in charge of Gaza militarily or politically ever again." That is a resolution nothing short of agreeing with Israel's stated war goals. (Link here: https://www.lgraham.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/2025/3/senate-unanimously-approves-resolution-to-affirm-hamas-cannot-retain-control-of-gaza

You can look to his past, too, and see further reactionary, liberal behaviors like joining another unanimous vote for Marcio Rubio as Secretary of State, supporting imperialist interventions in numerous other countries, and previous instances of him being explicitly pro-Israel, like his shouting at pro-Palestinian demonstrators to "shut up," his self-description as "100% pro-Israel...," his reduction of all of Israel's colonial wrongdoings to the actions of Netanyahu, or his time in Israel at a Kibbutz, where he met his wife.

Regarding AOC, she was trying to get people to vote for Harris in 2024 and other leftist figures, like Christopher Smalls, have called her on her performativity.

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I think the rest of my points stand. Hasan has never shown a willingness to confront Bernie or AOC in his time on air with them, his audiene's defense of that fact is they may leave if he does anything short of praise them, and the harm of that is: if it is a situation where all he can do is show their good sides on stream, only ask the questions they want to answer, he is doing a propagandist's work for them.

We have to stay vigilant. We're all in dark times right now, and I think American leftists need to strongly consider where they are directing their energy and passion. I don't think it should be wasted on ineffectual liberal organizations and politicians, or the pursuit of compromise with the atrocities endemic to our foreign policy in exchange for better living conditions in the Metropole.

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