While I’ve read a lot of Lovecraft’s works, and have a special interest in eldritch/cosmic horror, it was another thing entirely to play a game inspired by that particular subgenre of horror. I started with Dungeons and Dragons, and I still play the system (both as a player and as a DM), but last year I was introduced to Call of Cthulhu, which, as the name suggests, is a tabletop game inspired by works in what’s broadly known as the Cthulhu Mythos. I got into it in 2019, but with the pandemic keeping a lot of people at home (at least in my country), there has been more time to really get into TTRPGs. With a horror novel, it’s easy to put it down when things get too scary I can’t say the same for a virus causing a global pandemic, which seems to be mutating in new and scary ways that science can barely keep up with (no thanks to privileged white anti-vaxxers.)īut another thing that I’ve been doing to help cope with the current situation of the world is tabletop gaming. This has mostly to do with the fact that I am, in fact, a scaredy-cat, but as it turns out, COVID-19 is far, far scarier, and much more difficult to control than my ability to consume horror-related content. I still read my other, usual genres, but this intense interest in horror is rather new. Continue reading “Deus Ex Machina, In More Ways Than One – A Review of The Outside by Ada Hoffmann” →Įver since the start of the pandemic, my interest in the horror genre has gone up considerably. This isn’t meant to discredit the technological miracles created in order to explore other planets, of course, but even the scientists who rely upon these technologies will admit that even the most advanced rovers are poor substitutes for real live human scientists actually doing the work themselves on location. We believe we understand and know what’s within our solar system, but everything we know so far has been based on information sent to us by cameras and satellites, not firsthand knowledge. It is almost a dimension unto itself, one which we may never be able to completely comprehend, no matter how many resources or brilliant minds we throw at it. (Provided, of course, that our species can get its act together long enough to do so, and without killing ourselves through war, capitalism, or climate change before then.)īut for some people, even if we find ways and means of getting around the dangers presented by space travel, space is still quite scary. One day some day, humanity will be able to comprehend it enough to minimize the risks of going there, and our species will travel space in much the same way it travels the surface of our planet now. This view is also supported by a considerable amount of actual science: seen through the eyes of the scientists both on Earth and currently in orbit, space might be dangerous, but it isn’t necessarily something to be scared of. This isn’t usually how most people see space nowadays both Star Wars and Star Trek have altered the view of outer space, turning into a grand stage for epic drama ( Star Wars), or a literally never-ending frontier of exploration and discovery ( Star Trek). Please be aware that the page may contain spoilers. Trigger warnings for this novel can be found here, c/o.
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