The Nameless City by H.P. Lovecraft (Audiobook) 

The scp's called "forget me not" I believe

@@filipsperl yes, thank you. I was having trouble.. remembering.. something..

@@filipsperlsuch a good SCP, sad too

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You're in for a treat! This is one of the best scp channels on yt.

Another for the algorithm👍👍👍

Here's how the new algorithm works ... just gonna roll D20 and whatever comes up is what you get 😄

I was just on another one of his videos and I seen you said the same thing on that video. So I looked at more of his videos and you say the same thing on all of his videos

So you defected AL for GI...

If you think about it, it's funny that people criticize Lovecraft (among other things, that actually deserve criticism) for calling everything "indescribable" and "being too lazy to describe something", when in his best stories he indeed tries to describe the monstrosities. The fact that he starts by calling something "indescribable" and still tries, just shows how hollow the effort of describing the monster is imo.

@Cody Ingram That's the thing - I heard both "arguments", sometimes from the same person. "He uses too much adjectives, he uses whole pages to describe one little thing." And yet people *also* say, "he's being lazy by calling everything "indescribable"." Shows how much they actually read his stories.

@Cody Ingram I actually have read the story you mentioned, but it's been a while since then. My mind jumps to the message of the story whenever I hear these arguments and I agree that it was very likely his excessive use of adjectives was intentionally. (what good is an author that doesn't use certain words on purpose?) I should read it again, this time in english. (I'm not a native speaker) I'm interested if his stories maybe were "dumbed down" when they were translated into my native language because I never really had much trouble understanding the words he used. (most of the time at least)

lovecraft in a nutshell

The man was actually a xenophobic asshole, and his psychological condition kept him very introverted and antisocial. Perhaps his writings stem from a deep regret for the life he lived. For such an ignorant man, he imposed his own suffering. His dreams haunted him and he truly deserved it.

@@MrRaisinBran But thats the thing, is his writing like thid because he regrets not seeing the world, or are the "horrible eldritch monsters" just fanfictions he wrote about all the people and places he didnt like based on his own personal xenohpobic bias?

@@MrRaisinBran His xenophobia was definitely reflected in his works, but at the same time he shows such a curiosity for the dark mysteries of the world. It seems like he warns against curiosity and experiencing other cultures, yet it's that same curiosity that made him write. I think you might be right, he likely did regret his lifestyle choices and may have wished to be better. I remember reading that he was apparently maturing with his views by the end of his life, and had he lived longer maybe his extreme racism might lessened with age, though that's likely giving him a bit too much credit.

Well, like in the story, curiosity and fear fight for dominance in the mind. Curiosity wins out for his characters while fear conquered the author himself. He had many aspirations as a boy but his own anxiety and lack of self worth had him give up on much of it. Even as a writer he heavily undervalued his work contributing to his poverty and obscurity. It makes sense that a man who even as a young child was considered monsterous and sickly by his own mother and cloistered away in his grandfather's library, would have such a terrible fear of the outside while also being drawn to it through the stories he read. Of course, fear and hate are so often entwined. Much of what we hate in others is really what hate in ourselves. Our shadow. The overarching trait in much of his prejudice is about corruption and degeneracy. For Lovecraft, there are high cultures which are honorable (England, Rome, Egypt etc) and then you have the savage cultures (african Americans, native Americans, Eurasian immigrants). I believe this fear of degeneration comes from his own life. His father contracted syphilis and died in an asylum when he was but a boy. His family's money was lost after his grandfather died. His mothergoes mad and dies in the same asylum as his father. And again, his mother always described him as a little monster. His very body was made degenerate by his mother's words. No wonder so many of his protagonists go insane or find some horrific truth about their ancestory. Hell, when the man found out he was part Welsh he was distraught. I think he had an ever present fear of ruin and entropy.

@@salomaogomes7311 The horrors he describes are more about the unknowns of the world rather than some manifestation of his xenophobia. The Call of Cthullu is a good example of this. When he was writing, science was just starting to really come into public eye. He basically says that science is gaining so much info in all different subjects that seem to be intertwined and that we will either go mad from learning the truths of the universe or want to go back to a dark age out of fear of what we learn. Also, later in life, he said he expressed regret for his racist/xenophopic ideas.

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Honestly, that's the kind of direction I want to see in a game like Tomb Raider or Uncharted. Have it start out like an Uncharted/Tomb Raider game, only for things to get particularly eldritch as the explorer descends further and further into the forbidden city, at which point both the narrative and the mechanics lean closer to Amnesia or Penumbra. The adventurer could still kinda defend themselves, but the resources have gotten so scarce that they start relying on stealth to avoid costly clashes with the unspeakable inhabitants of these places, and where attempts at stealth fail during moments of overconfidence, they start relying on improvised weaponry rather than wasting precious bullets. And that would only be the first of the ruined abysses. For in the adventurer's descent, they would find no way back to the world above, but at the very bottom of that first abyss, they would find an unnatural aperture of massive gnarled roots, with a rippling curtain of light within. With no way back, and the only way out being through, the adventurer would, through the player's own intrigue, step through the gateway to another world, and behold the shattered husk of a cyclopean star-scraping redwood. What mad miracle is this? This incalculably massive tree. Its carcass towers beyond the sight of mortal eyes, neither top nor bottom visible in the void. ...yet sundered as it is, its roots still burrow into the Worlds Beyond. And now, with nothing left to lose, the adventurer sets forth to explore whatever worlds they can reach, in the vain hopes of finding a way home. Or, failing that, a world that would accept them as they are.

@@GmodPlusWoW A Tomb Raider game can do this, I admit, what with their alternate continuities. However, the Uncharted games are better off left alone now. We don't want a fifth game ruining the otherwise "perfect" series.

Sydney Fox and Rick McConnell would need to come along.

@@GmodPlusWoW first Tomb Raider was very fantastical and esoteric from what I remember. You had all manners of creatures and undead attacking you in the later game.

@don't matter I didn't flex. That wasn't a flex. What are you talking about?

@don't matter Saying that one has a methodical and scientific mindset is not a flex. Not at all. Which I didn't even say to begin with, I said I admired the characters methodical and scientific mindset. Huge difference. But dwarfs can seem like giants when one is looking up at them from down a hole, true.

@don't matter bro, that's not a whooosh moment. Your dumb joke simply didn't land.

The game's graphics are still good in a retro way, though. However, a remake/remaster with the option to switch to the original gameplay and graphics could be a good idea.

It has been almostt a year

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Agreed, I listen too a story a night. Every night.lol

These crocodilians were of a more recent vintage than the ophidian intelligences of the Triassic---Valusians who survives by living underground.

It is to archeologists.

thank u :)

@@autosadist your welcome

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Best thing ever to be. The triad of Lovecraft~Howard~Smith interacted and took from each other.

He escaped and went back to report to Miskatonic U. When that bronze door slammed shut he was outside.

Turdsack.

they dressed up real snazzy today

Never trust a snazzy dresser.

@Caleb Thiago Yup, I have been watching on KaldroStream for since december myself :)

@Caleb Thiago Yup, been using kaldroStream for months myself :)

@Caleb Thiago definitely, been watching on kaldroStream for months myself =)

Or, with a different presentation, the start to a fun Sci-Fi adventure. Which is fairly common with Lovecraft's stuff. Happens when a good author is also really, really, really racist. EDIT: Actually, I suppose it's not entirely fair. A big part of it is that some of the big cornerstones of Cosmic Horror are things that some outlooks won't find scary- for people like Carl Sagan, there is no horror in finding out that humanity is insignificant, because the ego of humanity is replaced with the wonder of the universe, what Transcendentalists called 'The Sublime.' In stories like this, however, the horror may be hinged on the fear of all that space and time, the intellectual equivalent of the gut feeling when you look at the stars and almost think you'll fall up into them. Perhaps, that's part of the enduring appeal- the things Cosmic Horror deals with are things that are at once frightening, yet also fascinating. We want to know more about the terrors because they are constructed from the ideas we are most curious about. Because while fear of the unknown is the most primal, humanity is also defined by the quest to discover it.

@Johnathan Monsen I am very surprised to hear someone else talk about "falling up, into the stars." I thought I was alone in that. Good to know I'm not:)

spoiler alert...

@@johnathanmonsen6567 lol ... "he rayciss" is the best you can do? its such a banal accusation in the west, where by default everyone is "rayciss" lol.

@@rickdeckard1075 ...No? I wasn't trying my best to insult him, I was simply acknowledging a problem that does exist. I myself am a fan of his works, but I won't ignore his flaws.

No in real life we accept what we don't know and move on

Over the body of his work, I'm also impressed with how Randolph Carter develops. In "The Statement of Randolph Carter" he's considered by the somewhat more knowledgeable Harley Warren to be reliable enough to stay on the surface and receive reports, but definitely not able to come down into the crypt. By "Through the Gates of the Silver Key" Carter has become as skilled and ruthless as any villain in the stories.

@Ярослав Л lmfao

@@jmarch_503 not everyone does. How do you think we know what we know

@@Primus-kz3ri epistemology

I have noticed that, as awesome as they are, Lovecrafts stories do tend to end somewhat abruptly.

@@johnconti1329as is life

You win the creative writing contest.

Remain safe 👍

Don’t commit any war crimes.

Stay safe my man

What branch are you in?

@@MercurialStatic ok arab

Why Dr. Bright? Isn't he *not* supposed to bring people to "Wonderland"?

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Best comment. Lol

I thought it was just me. His writing style is so bloated with tangents detailing every single little thing I can’t follow what’s actually going on at all. It just sounds like gibberish.

@@snorgonofborkkad it's definitely a writing style you have to get used to. The story can get lost in the details. I guess when you're describing undescribable horrors, it takes a lot more... description.

Lovecraft was definitely known for this style. It's something of an homage to an old British formal style of writing (Lord Dunsany), that's more like reporting/documenting and less like speaking.

@@KharBrons he was quite the anglophile which I'll never understand.

@@snorgonofborkkad beyond your abilities methinks.

People: "Okay. Okay. Ive calmed down a bit." LC: "Also there are some ugly lizards." People: * have heart attacks *

Yeah, the more I listen to Lovecraft the less I understand why he is liked so much.

@@scarecrow2621 my guess is that Lovecraft was one of the first writers to do this genre of writing. The horror of reality breaking was more “novel”. More modern stories borrow the same ideas, but refined them with more horrifying details with mediums other than just pen and paper

Yeah, that extreme side of his personality is part of why he’s such a unique writer. Broken people make for good art.

Imagine being some of the first people to discover sites like Gobleki Tepe or Caral. Imagine seeing the ruins of civilizations that even cultures we consider ancient and long-dead would have considered mythological in nature.

Smiles in Daevite.

his cat

Italians

Question - What's the scariest Lovecraft monster? Answer - Yes . . .