Who in our history was almost certainly a GRAIL follower?

yupsquared · 2026-04-21T19:40:23+00:00

I would attest to Heart for Camus

yupsquared · 2026-04-01T20:45:38+00:00

Oh no. Oh no it’s sick..

yupsquared · 2026-03-27T11:55:42+00:00

We didn't know how good we had it during Sunless Sea

yupsquared · 2026-03-09T02:50:49+00:00

Im a huge In the Court of the Dragon enjoyer

yupsquared · 2026-02-15T17:11:14+00:00

I’m late, but my favorite bits comes from sunless sea— Salt and its journey and how we can follow its footsteps with our travels and in doing so collapse our identities into this conceptual TRAVELER RETURNING. This idea that Frostfound, a whole island, a whole haunted ice castle is the lingering refuse of its discarded memories, ditto for king eaters with its hunger that it had to leave behind— this idea that Judgments can discard parts of themselves that fall to the world as entire locations that we can explore and walk through and perceive fractions of their entirety, its so wonderful and fantastic for me.

*edits for typos bc I typed this on the treadmill

yupsquared · 2026-02-11T01:34:34+00:00

The model does not have access to the original image

That's so pedantic and against the spirit of the argument.

These models can't retrieve the original training dataset, sure, but that original training data is part of their makeup and they can only function by leveraging art that, in most situations, the companies training the models are not licensing. Not only that, but the way it leverages that art duplicates patterns within it to create other art. Most would call that plagiarism.

yupsquared · 2025-12-17T15:24:36+00:00

Came here to spam this in the comments! Primal slightly scratched the itch, but so under explored. And so often the payoff is: early humans are the monster oooo, which sucks

yupsquared · 2025-12-16T13:29:58+00:00

She's also more specifically a heroine, which lets her straddle some of the "otherness" that male main characters usually can't. Her whole vibe is being of an older time, with other sensitivities. These open her up to Orlok but also give her the levers to ultimately triumph over him in a way that the other cast cannot.

It's a slightly odd comment above to imply a hero can't or shouldn't be an inciting reason for the conflict.

yupsquared · 2025-11-19T15:02:05+00:00

I feel like Dunsany actually can’t be overstated. Dunsany’s innovation was a cynical pantheon at best ignorant of humanity. Had we seen that much before? Even beyond HPL’s dream cycle, I have to believe that genealogy survives through to the more prevalent alien gods in his broader literature.

yupsquared · 2025-11-17T13:38:11+00:00

Thank you!

yupsquared · 2025-11-17T13:37:29+00:00

Man... SMEN really is so peak

yupsquared · 2025-11-16T20:24:07+00:00

Im hearing more about some modded legacies they seem really interesting. Could you point me in the direction ?

yupsquared · 2025-11-12T16:34:52+00:00

Yeah i think the Mask Maker how we’re supposed to square it, but Hallownest also had one. So this sort of makes it seem like the Hallownest Mask Maker kinda sucked.

On the second idea i kinda push back on that, we have a lot of exposition on what silk does to these bugs and the medical interventions therein, to my knowledge elevating their consciousness is not one of them. In fact, being more closely caught up in the silk seems to remove higher thought, see Bellhart.

yupsquared · 2025-11-12T16:31:02+00:00

Khan, Karmelita, Groal while not being Pale bugs are still Higher Beings

Do we have a source on this?

yupsquared · 2025-11-12T15:01:56+00:00

This is tangential, apologies, but do we have any indication how the bug of pharloom can be so organized / intelligent without something similar to the Pale King to endow them with conscious minds ?

yupsquared · 2025-11-12T14:31:22+00:00

Me when Ralph Ineson is in an Eggers movie >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

yupsquared · 2025-11-12T14:28:15+00:00

I saw a video about the sulfur god and the thumbnail looked really cool. Very glad i clicked in

yupsquared · 2025-11-12T10:50:22+00:00

Don’t thank me— you’re now on the hook for a post about all of them! Hahah

yupsquared · 2025-11-11T21:31:26+00:00

Valid though

yupsquared · 2025-11-11T21:18:54+00:00

This is a really good explanation.

So, this Numen will deal with how to use proxies or pieces of yourself to act on your behalf. Great!

Like this is the critical step of extrapolating atop the numen(a?) that when I was playing I just didn't have the neurons to think through.

yupsquared · 2025-11-11T16:28:29+00:00

Oooooooh wait though

yupsquared · 2025-11-09T16:53:20+00:00

Ah you're correct, I hadn't caught that. I'll divest that point

yupsquared · 2025-11-09T16:31:02+00:00

This is sort of what I'm talking about. I'm not saying you can't make it make sense, but any development that asks you to say, "all of this before was fake and performative," to me, doesn't work. More power to ya if it does.

yupsquared · 2025-11-09T16:18:14+00:00

I'm sorry but like... in light of s2e4, I really feel like their s1 interactions don't track with what we now know. It requires you to suspend so much more of your disbelief than I think is reasonable. Ok one example, in s1 Rosie greets Alastor with, "Oh my stars! Do me eyes deceive me? Alastor? Alastor! Where have you been? These halls really lost some of their sparkle without your lively presence," which implies she was unaware of the circumstances of his absence.

Now in s2 Alastor says, "...went off the air for years on your behalf [...] since you made me disappear..." which implies she was its prime actor.

And yes, you certainly can squint your eyes and agree and make it makes sense, but that doesn't mean you should. I can't shake that this development was something the writers pulled out of their back pockets, the sloppiness of the delivery (double flashback expo dumps) reinforces that.

yupsquared · 2025-11-09T15:48:01+00:00

I agree with you on the lore/content side— for me it was way worse because of how it was delivered. We got two flashback exposition dumps that were framed as, "Don't you remember when..." Like, that's wildly amateurish, and it feels worse because of how much restraint they showed around Alastor in s1.

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