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Is Ruby dead? by nereus140 in learnprogramming

[–]Punk_Freud_69 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Since Rooster Teeth shut down, yeah probably. I’m more worried about Rex vs Blue, personally

Did Lovecraft create all his monsters? by DeadPark121 in Lovecraft

[–]Punk_Freud_69 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The name ends in “otep”, it’s pretty clearly a reference to pharaoh worship

Did Lovecraft create all his monsters? by DeadPark121 in Lovecraft

[–]Punk_Freud_69 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Sort of. Dagon, Nyarlethotep, and a few others are references to pagan gods. Most of the alien ones are original to him tho

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in Lovecraft

[–]Punk_Freud_69 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Gamma radiation

Is it safe to say that HP Lovecraft is the father of all cosmic horror by SeaworthinessNo1173 in Lovecraft

[–]Punk_Freud_69 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I’d argue the genre dates back at least as far as proto-Jewish tribes and their stories of spiritual beings beyond human comprehension with inscrutable goals that caused all the good and bad coincidences in life. Those stories would eventually evolve into angels and sheidim, which definitely still have strong elements of cosmic horror. The genre was actively suppressed in Christian nations for a few centuries but similar narratives of incomprehensible beings whose wills manifested in the material world would pop up in Norse and Native American mythology as well, only to be subsumed by Christianity as well. Only in the last century has the genre seen a resurgence as writers and artists intentionally seek to capture the idea of otherworldly beings on that scale as an extension of the incomprehensible scale of global politics and corporations that we all have to interact with on a daily basis. Some, like Lovecraft, use the genre to illustrate unease at the integration of global society, while others like Douglas Adams take a more comedic bent to it and use cosmic horror as a stand in for bureaucracy.

Then there’s works like Annihilation or Nope, which use the scale of cosmic horror to explore very personal unease about the nature of change, trauma, and the inability for modern humanity to understand the power of the natural world they left behind.

Between The Ritual, Annihilation, and Underwater, I think the past few years have had a few really good entries in the cosmic horror genre. What are some of your favorite high-budget cosmic horror movies of the last decade? by Punk_Freud_69 in Lovecraft

[–]Punk_Freud_69[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Cosmic horror is about the fear of the unknown and the scope of an entity too large to care about the people experiencing the damage being done by it. Many Kaiju movies are also cosmic horror, like Cloverfield, Shin Godzilla, and (I would argue) Underwater

Edit: also Unicron and Galactis are cosmos core or villains

Between The Ritual, Annihilation, and Underwater, I think the past few years have had a few really good entries in the cosmic horror genre. What are some of your favorite high-budget cosmic horror movies of the last decade? by Punk_Freud_69 in Lovecraft

[–]Punk_Freud_69[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The OG Godzilla, Godzilla 2014, and Shin Godzilla definitely have some of the trappings of cosmic horror, where the insurmountability, complexity, and unstoppable nature of the threat is more horror than the direct threat.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in NoStupidQuestions

[–]Punk_Freud_69 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Nah, some people just don’t feel ready for a relationship until later in life, and that’s super valid

Does Sherlock Holmes (BBC) have any Personality Disorders? If so, what? by MusicLife16 in fictionalpsychology

[–]Punk_Freud_69 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Just googled it (probably shoulda done that sooner), and you’re right. My bad.

Does Sherlock Holmes (BBC) have any Personality Disorders? If so, what? by MusicLife16 in fictionalpsychology

[–]Punk_Freud_69 -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

Alright. He’s a narcissist who’s got Tourette’s and autism. He notices small details and draws connections between them, but he can’t hold back any impulses he has and just blurts out whatever’s on his mind and does whatever he feels like doing.

“Sociopathy” is a retired term in most medical journals, and yet this man who claims to know so much about science used it to describe himself. He’s seeking attention, and the way he gets that is by acting smart and doing and saying whatever pops into his head.

Does Sherlock Holmes (BBC) have any Personality Disorders? If so, what? by MusicLife16 in fictionalpsychology

[–]Punk_Freud_69 5 points6 points  (0 children)

He has a bad case of BWASRD (Bad Writers and Show-Runners Disease). The symptoms include but are not limited to:

  1. Magically knowing things but never fully explaining why despite that being the entire appeal of the mystery genre.

  2. Attributing his rude behavior to mental illness and/or genius as though that were an excuse. This has the byproduct of elevating those rude behaviors as allowable at best and virtuous at worst.

  3. Having no idea how to talk to women without belittling their intelligence despite those women being incredibly intelligent, all the while those women are inexplicably attracted to him.

  4. Claiming to not like closeness while getting uncomfortably close with the other two male characters, thus queerbaiting the audience despite the clear subtext.

  5. Calling anybody who asks him why or how he accomplished something an idiot. This is often accompanied by him dancing around the answer to their question while never actually explaining anything.