100% Blind Reaction To EVERY H.P. Lovecraft Story & Lore... 

I feel sorry for him.. his whole family has a history of going mad. He was basically mentally and emotionally abused by his mom who went mad which in turn basically stunted his mental and emotional growth

It's ironic that Howard. Philips. Lovecraft believed that nothing could live on the bottom of the ocean. But after discovering more & more of the sea, the creatures become more Lovecraftian in appearence

Gotta love how the air conditioner story is literally just Lovecraft going “You mean there exists mechanisms that conjure sudden cold winds? WHAT MIGHT THEY BE CAPABLE OF?!?!”

Some points many don't talk about Lovecraft is his racism was pointed out by his only close friends, those in this writing group, one of those being Howard the writer of Conan. This did actually have him reevaluate himself and change to a large degree.

In Lovecraft's defense, his mum was highly overprotective during his childhood so he barely attended school and didn't leave the house much, so his resources for learning about the world around him was limited to mainly old books in his home from the previous century... hence the racism lmao Ironically, he actually had a few friends of different ethnicities and towards the end of his life was showing signs of reevaluating his world views but sadly he died of intestinal cancer soon afterwards :(

I recommend Nux watch Weaponized Nerd Rage’s video on Lovecraft the man himself. He honestly needed a hug with how broken his home life was. Also the cat wasn’t technically his and just came with the name. He also gradually changed his mind on a lot of things especially where race was concerned. Lovecraft was a man born too late for the time period he romanticized and too early for the one that was coming forth. He was a “man out of time” figuratively speaking.

Imagine if Lovecraft was alive today. Seeing how incredibly diverse the Americans are, the very concept of Nuclear Weapons (Remember, he died shortly before Project Manhattan began,) The image of a Black Hole and what some of the sea creatures of the deepest depths look like.

Fun fact the color magenta has no corresponding wavelength and thusly should not exist but we can see it anyway.

"The horror, it's so awful that it's indescribable." *proceeds to describe it in verbose detail*

False Advertising, this is not "EVERY H.P. Lovecraft Story & Lore...". This does not have the Albino Penguins

The idea of light that mutates everything it touches is scary, The very fact that you are seeing it means that it's always changing you. I imagine it as your eyes mutating as the light touches them, growing new cones allowing you to experience new shades of color.

Ok Nux just don’t ask what Lovecraft’s cat is called

Fun Fact: In the Hearts of Iron 4 mod Kaiserredux, you can get H.P. Lovecraft to rule New England. It is an extremely instane path, and i absolutely love it. Btw, Nux should react to Kaiserreich/Kaiserredux lore. It is also insane.

In Lovercraft's defence. He never uses the word black. He uses much more poetic words.

Weird fact. It’s implied that the cosmic horrors of the Lovecraft mythos existing is canon to the 40K universe. And that during the Emperor’s Great Crusade-The Dark Angels Space Marine Legion killed Cthulhu

There's a couple of facts I found out that Overly Sarcastic Productions missed, 1. His father was a traveling salesman, who later in life when Lovecraft was a toddler, was committed to a mental asylum due to, what we now know thanks to modern medicine, generic syphilis 2. Lovecraft's mother used a low amount of cyanide, as a makeshift makeup quick fix, due to its power to tighten muscle, which would later in her life, drive her off the deep end(pun unintended) 3. Before Lovecraft moved in with his grandfather (a role model in his early years and a merchant sailor), Lovecraft's mother dressed H.P. in little girl clothes until he was 7 or was it 8 years old (never got that part right) however, when mother and son moved in with the grandfather, he firmly told her to stop it and the books that H.P. read were from his grandfather's library. Now, I may or may not be wrong, this is just a personal opinion on the facts, but yes, he was casually racist but he didn't know that his editor was secretly gay, also he would become acquainted with master escape artist, Harry Houdini, at least in his later years, both even tried to make an astrology article with no religious context, which was very unwise at that time period, so much so, that Houdini, while taking care of Lovecraft's apartment, would get attacked by a zealous convert wielding a penknife and stabbed him in the kidney or liver, he survived until the unfortunate incident of the water torture tank. Take these facts and opinions with a grain of salt cause yes, he was racist and a mild misanthrope caused by childhood trauma but created the largest fan following that grows day by day and one of the greatest genres of horror of all time(also this is the largest comment I've done😥). (Weird noises from behind) what was that? (Noises continue) 🤤oh no, you don't! 😨Quickly, the window, I must escape through the window! 😈😂, just kidding, I am alright, little joke.

There’s a roleplaying game called The Call of Cthulhu, its most prominent characteristic is that all playing characters got a number of Sanity Points, each time you meet a Lovecraft monster or witness a gruesome event you roll against Sanity, and lose a certain amount of points, you lose them all you die of fright or go irreversibly mad. Those sailors in R’lyeh not only saw Cthulhu, they received the full telepathic blast of his alien mind, which broadcasts alien thoughts all around the planet, giving artistic types a world away nightmares. In game terms, they lost 1d100 Sanity, they either died of fright, were mangled and/or devoured by Cthulhu, the only guy save Johansen who made it to the boat spent a couple of days continuously shouting on the deck until he died, and Johansen whose hair went white and descended to an early grave (but he beat f***ing Cthulhu, damnit!)

Fun fact: According to available documentation tentacle hentai was invented by Katsushika Hokusai in the work The Dream of the Fisherman's Wife.

Me when I timetravel to meet Lovecraft: "The stars in the sky can wipe away our atmosphere and oceans in moments. The laws of physics can spontaneously change somewhere in the middle of space, and erase everything. Exotic matter more stable than normal matter could randomly hit earth, turning it into a sphere of subatomic soup smaller than a city. All these things actually might be possible, and we'd have no warning. No intelligent force behind it, and no consideration for what's destroyed. "

I recomed the Tale Foundary's video on H. P. Lovecraft's writing técnicamente for a better understanding of how he managed to describe horror while describing nothing at all, how something sounds so stupid when abriged, sounds so horrifying when you read the original. It is more of a literary dive than a lore dive, but very interesting if you want to understand why it became so loved and popular, why Cathulu is everywhere today despite coming from something so simple.

“Thoroughly racist even by the standards of the time.” Untrue. He was casually racist for his times, reflecting the fact that he had almost no contact with other races. It’s important to remember that Lovecraft was writing in the 1920s, which immediately followed the “nadir of race relations”.

Was he racist? Sure. Are we judging a man who lived 100 years ago by modern societal standards? Yup. Is it ridiculous? Definitely.

Lovecraft at publication "Cosmic Horrors beyond your comprehension" Lovecraft today "Average thursday"

Lovecraft submitted his stories to magazines for his income. So they couldn’t be very long in the first place

I can explain some things on Lovecraft and his works as I am a reluctant fan because the dude was an interesting wreck of a man. -the constitution for Math was due to physical illnesses as most classrooms were known for being extremely dusty. He couldn't BE in a math classroom because he would suffer horribly from his weak constitution against chalkdust. -we do have a theory over what happened to his mother, as it sounds like she was schizophrenic as she, like her son would do soon, would describe seeing horrifying figures lurking in shadows. Figures that Lovecraft codeified as the demonic Night-Gaunt in the ACTUAL book he hated (but I kinda like the trippy freaky fun idea of), "Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath." We don't know for certain because the sanatorium she was held in burned down along with all patient records. But we also know that she's one reason for Lovecraft's shit behaviors to others as she was horribly abusive to him, mentally and emotionally. -the Xenophobia thing was based in his very limited understanding of cults in areas like Africa or Samoa. It's why stuff like the "White Ape Goddess" and "Cult of Dagon" are a thing; pretty common for a Progressive of the 1920's. Ironically, he was both a xenophobic douche that was abusive to his Jewish wife, and a legit good friend that included works by his friends into his Cosmology. Including American author extraordinaire, Robert E Howard, creator of Conan the Barbarian and Solomon Kane. If you had a freaky addition that could add something new and scary, and you wanted to add it to the admittedly communal Eldritch Cosmology, he'd be like "Oh sure dude, go right ahead." -that said, most of his more "diverse" antagonists were not cartoonish or tropey, as the common link between them all is gaining knowledge of and worshipping Gods from beyond human comprehension. One recurring figure, the "Mad Arab" Abdul Al-Hazred, is mentioned as writing the original copies of the Necronomicon, which is how these cults learn to summon and banish these gods. While race plays more into it, the bigger focus as I've seen is based more in gaining knowledge beyond what humans SHOULD know. Ironically, my preferred work of his, Shadow over Innsmouth, not only painted these cults as particularly evil of those from their race, such as the Dagon worshipping Pacific Islanders who raided their neighbors for sacrifices to Dagon and the Deep Ones, but was also a self-insert story as the main character of Innsmouth is based on Lovecraft. This was because he found out his father's mother was Welsh; aka not purely British. --- 47:49 Actually, Red kind of washes over it for comedy and expediency, but the Exposition on Innsmouth was told by the bus station clerk to Olmstead to dissuade him from going. It was an "Are You Crazy!?!" Sort of lore drop, especially as, in the story, everybody in New England is scared to be within 5 miles of Innsmouth, and outsiders have a habit of disappearing in Innsmouth. Forever. It's also indicative of an expert skill Lovecraft had: he knew how to make lore dumps work, either by working them into the situation organically or by making horrifying visions unto the protagonists (see also: At the Mountains of Madness.) -While I do enjoy his works (especially the Gou Tanabe manga adapting them) and effects on culture in general, his works when he was alive were not popular at all. His pulps and novels would sell rather poorly, even his Romantic Comedy and poetry works. The only reason he got published to begin with was that he had friends with ties that also published his other manuscripts after his death. He's one of those authors that got popular after his death. Compared to L Ron Hubbard, who was and is a shit Sci-Fi author that only got popular because he invented a religion based on his shit books as an alternative to psychology. -a thing about the Color that Red didn't mention is that it's effects on the farm are similar-ish to radiation. In fact, it's kind of a meme that if Lovecraft were to live long enough to learn about the Atomic Bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, or the Chernobyl Elephant's Foot, he'd scream "I KNEW IT" while panicking like mad. -A funny note about Cthulhu that Red and MANY others before her tend to ignore is that, while Cthulhu is extremely, riculously powerful, he ISN'T a Great Old One. He's something conceptually scarier: Cthulu is the PRIEST of the Great Old Ones. Yes, a horrifying entity like Cthulhu is only the Preacher of their teachings, AND THAT WHICH HE WORSHIPS ARE *STRONGER THAN HIM!* THINK ABOUT THAT! If you can, try to find a complete Works volume of his works or do what I did: start by trying out the Gou Tanabe manga that adapt his stories. I guaran-goddamn-tee you will not be disappointed. He's even adapting Call of Cthulhu as his next manga.

See “At The Mountains of Madness” for the deep lore of the Old Ones “Dreams in the Witch House” for peak Mind Horror See “Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath” to see just how much of an insane acid trip Lovecraft stories can turn into. You’ve just scratched the surface of how nutty the Lovecraft Mythos gets

He should just do a DEEP DIVE into OSP wonderful people following them since college

Nux, you don’t just look at a Great Old One and die. A normal dude looked at one of the strongest gods in H.P. Lovecraft's universe and only went to the hospital for a while. You die from looking at the Great Old One only if you have weak mental fortitude.

If Nux likes the Lovecraft horror thrn I guess he is gonna love " Lord of the Mysteries " anime which is based upon this theme when it gets animated

HP Lovecraft? we making it into cancellation with this one 🔥

I gotta say, Lovecraft’s got one hell of a legacy that he never would have predicted. If it wasn’t for him, we would have never gotten awesome things such as the Call of Cthulhu RPG, Delta Green, Cthulhutech, and Sucker for Love.

Nothing is more essentially Lovecraft than being terrified of a different color

nux is slowly ticking off the boxes of my favorite shit recently. first adventure time now lovecraft lore? the simulation is working in my favor

"The Color Out of Space" got turned into a film starring Nicholas Cage, and imo it's one of his better movies where he gets to flex his balls-to-the-wall-crazy acting talents in recent years.

no way we get Nux reacting to OSP and Bricky before GTA 6

Nux Should watch How strong are the Lovecraftian Gods His mind will BREAK

HOLY SHIT U REACTED TO OSP JAJAJAA!!! SOME OF MY FAVOURITE RU-vidRS ON THE SAME SCREEN AAHHHHH (also H.P. Lovecraft do be a weirdo)

I find it funny Nux labels his videos "100% blind reaction" probably so he doesn't have to keep saying he didn't pre watch

Old Ones didn't create the Necrons, they upset and then were killed by them. xD

A lot of people forget he was more accepting of others in his older years. So he became less racist but most people don’t view him that way for some reason.

There is a guy called “Literary who” who has a great video on describing how powerful and ridiculous the lovecraft mythos is. Edit: “one dude who does powerscaling.” Yup, pretty sure its this guy.

The trick is, the "mythic" part of the mythos is largely the work of other authors, largely organized by August Derleth.

Thats what I like about lovecrafts characters. They DONT matter. Its like another layer to the cosmic horror

20:30 Euclidean geometry derives an entire system of geometric logic from 8 basic assumptions. One of those assumptions is that parallel lines never intersect. This seems like a pretty safe assumption until you look at the longitude lines on a globe and realize that Euclid's proofs fall completely apart in a world with more than 2 dimensions. The mathematical world of Lovecraft's youth was rather upended by the horrifying realization that we might not actually be so sure about all the proofs written over the last 2000 years. While a more complete system of n-dimensional math was eventually developed, it was a hammer blow against The Age of Reason, which wouldn't be equaled until Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle mathematically proved that in order to know certain things, we must give up on knowing certain other things. Math is a quest for perfect understanding through logic, and the hope had always been that a truly complete mathematical system would allow perfect knowledge of everything, so the goals of mathematics are fundamentally challenged by the idea of the unknowable.

YOU HAVE NO IDEA HOW HAPPY SEEING THIS COLLISION OF RU-vidRS MAKES ME Recommendations for future OSP content: I'd primarily focus on Red instead of Blue's content in terms of what you and your audience will mostly find entertaining, as Red focuses on Classic Lit, fictional tropes, and mythology whereas Blue's focus is on factual history. Though people do find his "Pope Fights" videos very entertaining too. Now, for other LORE dives in classic lit like Lovecraft here, you got other horror bangers she made Halloween videos on like Frankenstein, Dracula, Jekyl & Hyde, and a handful of Poe's stories... Aside from the Misc Myths which in and of themselves are treats, you also get the deeper timeline dives for NuxaLore on various Gods/Goddesses like Hermes, Aphrodite, and Dionysus... AND her ongoing Journey to the West series that, from the very creation of the Monkey King in episode 1, cements itself as relevant to Nux's weebness as the proto-Dragon Ball series. One-offs I really enjoy and would recommend is anything to do with Hades & Persephone, "the Underworld myths", you'll probably be interested in learning more about JP myths (ya weeb), and hey with June coming up there's a compilation of "Pride Tales" too (and maybe bring in your homeboy Kwite for that one). Just saying, ideas for the taking ;)

Speaking of classic horror literature, please check out Wendigoon's Frankenstein summary. After watching it, Frankenstein's Monster just became so relatable.

I recently read Lovecraft’s longest story and it was super well done, the mystery and unknown of it all was perfect for instilling the aura of fear and worry about what was going on and I still don’t understand all of it completely, absolute worthwhile read!

Overly sarcastic production! YES!!! Please do more.

I don't like how people characterized hp Lovecraft as racist. He wasn't so much a race supremacist as he was terrified of absolutely everyone who wasn't the little social circle his mother put him in.

Can Nux try the Journey to the West Lore video series by Overly Sarcastic Productions? I know its like not even done yet but here me out, anyway. One of my favorite video by Red. (Under the Sea~)

With “the color of space”, if you think about it logically the color itself wasn’t the villain. It was probably a space virus that just so happened to glow A MYSTERIOUS COLOR UNLIKE ANY SEEN ON EARTH.

Slightly off topic but OSP is a fantastic channel that people should definitely check out

An OSP reaction? This is gonna be good

To be fair, that cat was his childhood cat at like 7 years old, named by his grandfather. Edit after finishing: She was pretty unfair to Lovecraft, regardless of the channel name. Many of the ideas she shits on were actually pretty revolutionary and much more complex, than she gives them credit. The Colour Out of Space especially plays with the fears of radiation and the idea that alien beings can be as abstract as just a colour, not vapour, not gas, just colour. Add to that the visual idea of "imagine a new colour", and it perfectly encapsulates cosmic horror, in my opinion. He was also not as much of a racist, as an everythingist. The poor man didn't even think he was superior, he fucking hated and was disgusted with himself and basically all of his works. He was a broken, scared and overly sheltered person in a very racist era. The "mental health is #1" crowd is so quick to take back sympathy, the MOMENT the mentally ill person has an opinion they don't like.

“The most merciful thing in the world, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far.” is my fav Lovecraft quote.

Saya no uta is my first venture into lovecraft inspired horror god its such great story, gen urobochi you madman you killed it it portays cosmic horror both in a beautiful sense and in a horrifying sense and the ost is also god tier

Meh, her breakdown is fine but a little much, I'm here for the deeper mythos lore!

To REALLY know the lovecraftian eldritch horrors you should play the educational game, sucker for love

_"The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far. The sciences, each straining in its own direction, have hitherto harmed us little; but some day the piecing together of dissociated knowledge will open up such terrifying vistas of reality, and of our frightful position therein, that we shall either go mad from the revelation or flee from the light into the peace and safety of a new dark age."_ Lovecraft

Nux reacting to OSP? And it's the H P Lovecraft video?? We are truly blessed this day!!!

DID SOMEONE SAY *ELDRITCH HORROR NOISES* PRAISE THE OLD MAD GOD!!

HP Lovecraft Historical Society. They make great audio dramas of the Lovecraft's works.

You really knew how to peak my interest on a Saturday Nux. 🤣 Funny vid overall

People love to harp on about Lovecraft racism and homophobia, but always fails to mentioned that his wife was Jewish and his best friend who helped published his stories after he died was gay. He's was a sad lonely man that suffered so much tragedy at a young age, and was scared of the rapidly changing world that was happening around him. Never hurted anyone, suffered mentally from paranoia, and died alone at the hospital from intestine cancer. Also fun fact he never gave his cat that name, it was his father.

love overlysarcastic productions

Oh, Lord Nuxalore…I have something you might wanna do video on…and it’s five oh-so important words: Mystery Flesh Pit National Park!

There's a book called Strange Eons. The premise, Lovecraft work was Not fiction. Everyone just assumed it was.

Oooo , , , Overly Sarcastic Productions is a nice channel

You should really read the books over listening to whoever this is. she kinda brushes over and simpliefies a lot of what is happening and sounds a lot like she's reading from an irate blogger who really just didn't like Lovecraft's work.

if anyone wants to know the background music in the beginning I believe its called “smokey review” from interspecies reviewers

13:56 And suddenly I know where the inspiration for the Alan Wake games came from

Lovecraft teaches us that in the vastness of space the real horror are the immigrants we let in all along.

That's not the best lore video about Lovecraft, it is all correct but it's also very negative and uncharitable, OSP is a great channel, but she really dislikes him and his fiction, which is fine, again all facts are correct, but not the best intro for Lovecraft. There are better videos about Lovecraft, all without sugar-coating his very problematic views but also contextualizing It in his background and going deeper in his philosophy of writing and existence and his relationships with family and friends. There is story about the great lenghts his friends went to preserve and maintain the relevance of his body of work after his death.

o the gods aren't fighting, they already won, all reality belongs to them

I really don't think this video gives H.P. Lovecraft horror justice

Damn it, I was looking forward to this but it's the infamous OSP video that cant get over itself when it comes to "racism bad" (no shit) Hopefully Nux watches another video on the topic later

Lovecraft didnt hate races other than white, he was afraid of and didnt trust anyone except like 3 people, and he was just as afraid and disconcerted with rhode island as he was everywhere else, making it a point to have just as many, if not more, new england and rhode island white people. I love osp and red, but she did let some bias sneak in as he wasnt as racist and hateful as she portrays, hes a classic im not racist. I distrust everyone equally. Also fun fact his best friend, who he only corresponded with through letters, was the creator of conan of Cimarron

My sister and I saw something incomprehensible in a forest once. You'd be surprised how well the mind actually deals with it. Your brain will rapidly grasp at explanations for what you are seeing but in the end you just don't know, you only have vagaries of things parts of it almost reminds you of. What we saw was partially obscured by a large old tree in the middle of a campsite clearing... it was a place where you can buy camp sites, but some people buy them and put trailers or even prefabs to live on them, others just use them for RV camping on vacation. So this wasn't someplace remote, there were people around just down the gravel road we were on. We felt a strange sense of energy in the air and a sense of being watched before we spotted it. At first I thought it was some sort of rusting dirty junk leaned up against the tree, but it looked too top heavy. It had to have been very tall if it was standing on the ground. The more we looked at it and tried to reposition ourselves to see around the tree without getting closer, the weirder it looked... more organic. A chill ran up my spine thinking it could be a rotting corpse of a s***ide victim hanging from the tree, but there was no odor... and then it moved in a way it could only move if it was standing on the ground and ducking behind the tree to not be seen so clearly. Suddenly I had the sense of it indeed having a vaguely humanoid shape and body language, and it was massive. It was blurry in ways... like our minds couldn't interpret the sensory perception of our eyes, struggling to fill in gaps in the info. The colors were browns, tans, beige hints of pink, rust, and red. It was such a surreal experience, and we definitely had the sense that this was paranormal, because if you've felt that electric feeling in the presence of the otherworldly, you JUST KNOW. I felt no hostility or threat from it, so I wanted to get a closer look but my sister begged me not to and I did get a sense that it didn't want me to come closer ether. This was back when film cameras were only just being phased out in the mainstream, and digital cameras were common and ran on disposable batteries. I had a fairly cheap one with fairly fresh batteries, a good third of the charge left. When I tried to take a photo, the classic thing happened where the camera shut it's self off. I then asked permission to take one photo and my camera turned back on, and I got one staticky looking photo. In the photo, further back in the clearing, there's a bluish apparition of the shape of a person hanging from a noose. It's not gory, it's not super detailed, but you can see the shapes of the head, torso, arms, legs... the pants of the apparition are darker than the shirt... the face can not be seen... the rope has the clear shapes of the knots... it's extremely disturbing. Closer to us, behind the tree directly, there's a bit of distorted outline of a dark shape obscured by the tree, but you can't make out much of the entity we were seeing with the naked eye. I had thanked the spirit for letting me take a photo, and we moved on. The sun was going down, then, so we had to get back to our family's camp site.

The Color out of Space actually got a Nickolas Cage movie heavily based on the original story in 2019. It was an absolute fever dream

It has to be said that Overly Sarcastic Productions don't portray Lovecraft's works in the best light in their video. Which honestly isn't at all surprising as they obviously have no respect for the man himself or his life struggles that led to his many neuroses and attitudes. In my opinion the channel tends to be a little too eager to appeal to the 'modern audience' with all the virtue signalling and moral superiority that usually entails and that gets in the way of any information they may be trying to impart. You can literally hear the disdain in the presenter's voice when speaking about certain subjects or authors. There are MUCH better videos out there by content creators who actually appreciate and understand Lovecraft's work if you ever wish to expand your knowledge of the lore.

What i always find bizarre about peoples view on HP Lovecraft. Is the expectation of him being a "good guy" or something that wasn't fucked up. He's remembered for his work. Shamed for who he really is, only decades later. Yet to be immortalized for his views and imaginations. If you want to be memorable, stand out.

nux u need to know about the lore of “I have no mouth and I must scream”, it’s a short horror story that is getting popular again, it’s really good even more knowing it was made in the 90s, take care

Nux and OSP colliding?! Oh joyous day!

This woman frames some of these stories poorly in terms of the effects on the minds of the characters.

Please go through the stories yourself or watch someone who doesnt actively hate him recap the stories. This presenter is ruining all of the endings

This was my first time hearing these stories, and it made me realize the "colors of madness" expansion to darkest dungeon is so obviously based on that "evil colors on the farm" story.

20:41 Red is an expert. She studied the stuff. As someone who also studies the stuff at uni, I’ll co-sign her

I love how she trashes him for being 'racist' & not a single blurb on him being abused. He was xenophobic. Maybe we should also trash ppl for being arachnophobic.

You could've watched a Tale Foundry video on the principle's of Lovecraft's writing, but instead you chose this GARBAGE. I absolutely hate this OSP video because they sacrifice all accuracy or even comprehension just to take dunks on Lovecraft because he's "the bad racist", ironically making themselves out to be the kind of ignorant dolts they try to portray Lovecraft as. If people want to dunk on Lovecraft for his politics don't just extrapolate from his fictional writings, he wrote actual political articles that you can read and then maybe map them onto the themes of his writing. But the irony people overlook is that in Lovecraft's stories all the groups that he is prejudiced against TURN OUT TO BE RIGHT, they are the only ones who know the truth while the protagonists are the ones who go mad once they learn it. Call of Cthulhu - non-euclidean just means NOT euclidean, there are two traditional types of non-euclidean geometry: hyperbolic and elliptic. There's also kinematic. You can look up on youtube videos of people creating 3d environments made with these geometric models, one guy is even making a game where mastering the environment of these geometries is the key, those videos are interesting and give you an idea of what an actual non-euclidean geometric space might look like and it will give you a headache, so imagining an entire CITY FROM THE BOTTOM OF THE OCEAN MADE WITH ALIEN ARCHITECTURE that also follows SOME kind of non-euclidean geometry principles IS in fact a daunting proposition, it's not Lovecraft being dumb, it's OSP being stupid. But more than that, again, the point of the term NON-euclidean is to just say what it isn't, i.e. euclidean. But it doesn't say what it is. Knowing Lovecraft's style this was just his way of once again introducing a term for the unexplainable because it defies comprehension, because the geometry in this instance might be so bizzare and beyond human understanding that all you CAN call it is non-euclidean. In cold air the air-conditioner IS WHAT KEEPS THE EVIL AT BAY, how does that translate to Lovecraft being afraid of air conditioners or not trusting their function? And in Color out of Space they again try to make it sound like he doesn't understand some scientific fact, when in the very story Lovecraft specifies that the titular "color" was only called that by analogy, the thing was likewise beyond comprehension or description but if one were to choose the best approximate word to describe it, then it'd have to be color. In reality Lovecraft was fairly interested in the scientific discoveries of the day, but they clearly served as inspirations to him, because they are the new and our understanding of those things is only scratching the surface at the time, I doubt he was outright AFRAID of them but instead utilized them to illustrate a point. When Pluto was discovered he too used it to spin a narrative but not because he was afraid of an extra planet. Lovecraft wrote a new kind of horror that was specifically meant for the rationalist thinker, the triumphant man of science who had banished all the spooky nonsense like vampires, werewolves and other gothic horror classics and random folksy superstitions away from man's domain with the light of progress. That is his typical protagonist, the man of science, a materialist atheist, a skeptic, someone arrogant in his belief that man has already conquered the universe with reason and it if there is anything left unexplored and unknown, man will find it and conquer it too. And here comes Lovecraft and goes "ignorance is bliss" and creates the notion that there are things so far beyond a human mind's ability to comprehend and rationalize that it just shatters upon merely witnessing the thing in question, not only that, but that man is brought down from his self-aggrandizing pedestal and rendered to be so insignificant that he is beyond notice of these greater unknown powers who can destroy all his works without even noticing, for man is to them like an ant is to man. Lovecraft wrote horror for the rationalist mind that scoffs at classic and gothic horror, simple as. And he succeeded in scaring the rationalist.

45:43 they did actually matter she says that they explained that it half existed in this reality so they made it not exist they were the ones who did it I think the lightning is just like when you beat a boss and it explodes

I like OSP, but they really do Lovecraft dirty in this video. I'm sure Red's just following the established 21st century academic consensus, but the racism, xenophobia, and ignorance are way overexaggerated compared to the impression I got personally reading Lovecraft. There are elements of Lovecraft's racism coming through here and there, but the main driving theme I see throughout Lovecraft's stories is, "Human science and technology is laughably inadequate to grapple with what's really out there." The Old Ones and all the other various horrors that appear in Lovecraft's stories defy all ordinary scientific understanding, and are largely impervious to any technology we might bring to bear to try to oppose them. The closest we can come to understanding them is through a religious lens -- and specifically a pagan or even demoniacal lens that both Lovecraft and his audience at the time would typically view as dark superstitions that had long since been overturned by Christianity and/or enlightened scientific reason. Even the racialized elements, where they do come up, play into this larger theme: The villains are typically non-whites and/or low-status backwater whites, not *because* of their race, but because they are *cultists*. And even a relatively progressive writer in Lovecraft's time would agree that in those days, it would be *highly* unusual for a well-off, respected, and educated white person to be involved with such superstitious practices. And it's not like Lovecraft portrays these dark cults as somehow typical of non-WASPs -- for instance, as OSP's video notes, in "The Shadow Over Innsmouth", while the Dagon cult is brought to Innsmouth from a Polynesian island, those islanders and their practices were viewed with horror even by other Polynesians. "Dark superstitions of this sort mostly survive only among non-WASP groups" could still maybe be considered kinda racist, but it's a far cry from the way Lovecraft is usually presented.

What's ironic is that many of the Lovecraftian gods have the trait of "if you look at them too long, you'll go insane", and that's the same thing as many of the biblically accurate angels.

Bro , nux saying horror as "harr" and "harrers" has me dying

Fun Fact: the final plot-twist for "Shadow Over Innsmouth" was based on how H.P. Lovecraft learned that he was actually part Welsh after doing some in-depth studying of his family's genealogy. I'm not kidding.

Glad Nux understands cosmic horror. Also, Lovecraft was racist even for his time, and he wrote a horror story for an *A/C,* but bigots nowadays give us Lady Ballers. Note: Spare me any "he was normal for his time," for I do not care and he was called out back in his day, so no. NO "um, actually" either. He was, shut up!

Eh... This is a horrible video choice. Overly Sarcastic Production is a simply disgusting channel heavily prone to liying CONSISTENTLY and have a childish grasp of the material they cover. For example how she brands Lovecraft "as really racist even for his time", which is an abject lie. Compared to his peers Lovecraft was very progressive. He believed Cultures of different advancment levels should not mix. Which.... I mean look at the *trade* rates in UK and Sweden, and you start to quite sympathize with Mr. Lovecraft. Now having branded Lovecraft as Le Racismus Man gives the least charitable and snarky remark his knowledge on scientific fields, while Lovecraft was quite a prodigy, being able to read and write at the age of 3. And beyond that she does not understand cosmic horror AT ALL. Cosmic Horror is only partially about hopeless inevitablity of an uncaring world. Lovecraft was a man of Logic and Rational, he was from the beginning of the age of human hubris. He believed everything could be understood through science, but if that qas not the case? What if there are things beyond science? What if the the Religious who are disgarded as stupid are actually correct? What if humanity has grown so bold in its own hubris that has lost its path from the watching Gods? Lovecraft is not about uncaring gods, it is about CARING GODS, and that is much more horrible to a man of science

I think Nux would like OSP's series on The Journey to the West. For an anime lover, and for those with not enough time to read through the entirety of that tale, it's a fun summarization.

Hey Nux, long time watcher, first time commentor. If you ever need some deep lore involving Eldritch Gods, cabals of world load-bearing wizrds, blood hungry vampires, soul thirsty wraiths, and millenia spanning conspiracies involving temoral paradoxes, may I recommend the lore of the Legacy of Kain series. More specifically the videos of said lore posted by StrictlyFantasy. I believe it would be right up your alley.

Hmm I love your reaction but the videos clear hate of the h.p Lovecraft was a turn off. I understand he was racist, it is very clear in his writing. Yet despite that he effectively created a new genre of stories and the uncontained mockery of the writing is really annoying.

NGL i think i understand the 'no constitution for math'. When i was in middle school anytime a teacher had a writing assignment that wasn't based on fact, like write a short story. I would get splitting headaches, a fever, and needs to sleep which i did in the nurses office for about half an hour to an hour. This only happened during those times, and eventually i was except from imaginative writing assignments, my parents had to talk to the school about it and instead i got more book assignments. Eventually that went away with age, but i imagine it was something like that.