• GarbageShoot [he/him]@hexbear.net
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    1 year ago

    People say Lovecraft was a bad writer, and they aren’t totally wrong, but his century of imitators have demonstrated how much worse he could have been.

    • UlyssesT [he/him]@hexbear.net
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      That’s my main beef with BG3 (though it didn’t start with BG3 at all): Illithids are boring to me. I’ve been sick of them since the 90s and they rarely ever do anything new/interesting as much as show up and pretty much hijack any story they’re in until they eventually go away again and I don’t get anything fun out of their presence. They’re knockoff Lovecraft in a way that’s just unpleasant and tedious to me.