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[–] taiyang@lemmy.world 35 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Was it DSM I or II that had PMS as a psychosis? I like to think of Cthulhu giving a player irritability and cramps.

[–] TwilightVulpine@kbin.social 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Truly an eldritch horror for Cthulhu to inflict over a cis man

[–] flicker@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago

...suddenly being a cultist sounds appealing.

Could just be the cramps talking.

[–] TwilightVulpine@kbin.social 27 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Given HP Lovecraft's known status as a paranoid raging bigot, I wonder if there's some game where the elder gods are cool actually, the "cultists" are just people broadening their horizons into cosmic queer transhumanism, and the investigators are just close-minded people wishing to restore their own sense of normalcy. Which, true to form, about half the time awaken into these horizons anyway.

[–] flicker@lemmy.world 16 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I don't know but I'm now very much considering writing that book, as a scathing critique of how those books are "products of their time," and as a metaphor for how times change.

[–] TwilightVulpine@kbin.social 7 points 1 year ago

I'd love to read it! Sometimes I wish to do it but I don't think I could do it justice. I'm but a fledgeling bi occultist.

[–] TheGreatDarkness@ttrpg.network 20 points 1 year ago (3 children)

The op of that tumblr thread blocked me after I asked him about the fact things he claimed were common knowledge about a video game I played extensively as a kid do nopt line up with my memory. So I'd take his claims with a grain of salt.

[–] GCanuck@lemmy.world 14 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Ya, I earned my bones playing Palladium games as my first TTRPG and I never recall “gay” being part of any madness (or insanity as it was actually called).

Disclaimer: I’m old. My memory might be shit.

[–] MeaanBeaan@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What game was it? Just curious.

[–] DAMunzy@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 1 year ago

Not OP but Rifts was such a cool setting

[–] SkaveRat@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 1 year ago

I did some digging (and by that, looked at the first result on google) and it seems to be correct.

https://www.reddit.com/r/rpg/comments/17nafie/if_you_own_the_original_tmnt_rpg_could_you_find/

in case the link in the thread goes down:

[–] Zehzin@lemmy.world 19 points 1 year ago

Broke: I'm autistic

Bespoke: I have gazed into the eyes of the endless one and became aware of the beginning and the end

[–] unreasonabro@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

it reads like the first warning signs of enshittification

hey look, these guys don't really give a shit about the work they're putting out! maybe that shoulda been a clue