Happy Birthday, H.P. Lovecraft

The man who inspired the Old Gods themes in Warcraft was born 130 years ago, this day. What is your favorite Old Gods-themed memory in WoW, or Warcraft in general?

For me, it’s probably C’thun or Yogg-Saron, even though I never did them when they were relevant. Those fights really mess with you when you run through solo. It will be interesting to see how N’Zoth fares on solo farm.

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Isn’t he slowly being cancelled by the cancel culture mob for being the dreaded “r” word these days?

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So he’s a void lord?

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Who the heck is H.P. Lovecraft?

He was racist. Lets just celebrate what he created without actually celebrating him

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Surprisingly, people 100 years ago were different from people today.

Also his life was really weird. He married someone from a group he claimed to be against, so it seems like his hatred was similar to a 14 year old xbox live kid.

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The creator of Cthulhu

i unfortunately just duckduckgo’d him and was inundated by trash main stream media sites grasping for clicks. i could almost hear their desperate wails through the web page.

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Woooosh!

:frowning:

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“Slowly being canceled”?? Boy has been cancelled, and for good reason. It is well known that he was racist as heck. You can like the art, while acknowledging the failings of the artist. Death of the author and all that.

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Oh cmon text is hard sometimes to detect humorous “who is that?” compared to a genuine question

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I see what you did there. Also, your name seems Old God-inspired. Care to elaborate? :wink:

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Some guy who invented Old God stuff but died in obscurity.

Yet his work went on to inspire Cthulu like works.

I like to think the idea of Old Ones is to give horrific substance to the dark corners of our undefined reality.

The comment below yours explains what I mean. My character’s name here is basically C’thulhu’s grandfather… the ruler of the outer gods.

I wasn’t aware

/shrug

It’s cool :stuck_out_tongue: I just wanted to see if anyone would catch it.

His works are also heavily included in homestuck.
Thats pretty awesome

I’m only annoyed by the people who trash him while simultaneously trying to cash in on his work.

"We here at blahblahblah think Lovecraft is a disgusting human and should burn for eternity. Having said that, buy our new book,game,clothing, cards,and stuffed toys based on his creations. We are…umm… reclaiming it for everyone or something. "

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Lovecraft is awesome! Greatest horror author that ever lived

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The fact that you know that likely means you are part of said mob. :smiley: