hpl: bigoted newt, or just misunderstood?

JJ Burke · Post by **JJ Burke** » Wed Jan 31, 2007 12:46 pm

lecter better watch his step, because i have thumbtacks and a shoelace and i've seen home alone several times

Eternities End · Post by **Eternities End** » Wed Jan 31, 2007 2:23 pm

I Got the hack saw and the wheel barrow...you know...for carrying stuff

E.A. Lovecraft · Post by **E.A. Lovecraft** » Wed Jan 31, 2007 4:14 pm

The man is dead, let's not dig him up and chastise him, ok?

We could always dig him up, forego the chastisement, and use the corpse as a prop in a roleplaying game.

Unless some of the players are minorities, of course. That might get a little awkward.

Jesus Prime · Post by **Jesus Prime** » Wed Jan 31, 2007 4:18 pm

They'd probably be dead-set against it.

Sorry...

JJ Burke · Post by **JJ Burke** » Wed Jan 31, 2007 5:30 pm

damn right you are

krakenten · Post by **krakenten** » Thu Feb 01, 2007 9:28 pm

This use of props in RPGs kinda unsettles me.
Is it a game, a play or a re-enactment?
Seems decadent-there are people starving and we squander money on props for games?
On the other hand, we were put here on Earth for a good time, not a long time, those bums are so smelly, AND THE STARS ARE RIGHT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

odin2 · Post by **odin2** » Thu Feb 01, 2007 9:42 pm

You have not role played, until you have role played with props!

Ward13 · Post by **Ward13** » Thu Feb 01, 2007 10:27 pm

Damn skippy

http://www.usedprop.com/images/lh_prop.gif

JJ Burke · Post by **JJ Burke** » Thu Feb 01, 2007 10:57 pm

now that's just silly

Ward13 · Post by **Ward13** » Thu Feb 01, 2007 11:34 pm

Not as silly as this.

http://www.howtobeamegastar.com/floppie/index.html

JJ Burke · Post by **JJ Burke** » Fri Feb 02, 2007 1:08 am

can't deny that

krakenten · Post by **krakenten** » Fri Feb 02, 2007 8:15 am

My dear God!
That's an outrage!

Ward13 · Post by **Ward13** » Fri Feb 02, 2007 5:55 pm

It is outrageous...poor Floppie

Eternities End · Post by **Eternities End** » Fri Feb 02, 2007 11:50 pm

Ward13 wrote:Not as silly as this.

http://www.howtobeamegastar.com/floppie/index.html

Thats not silly, thats cool!

krakenten · Post by **krakenten** » Sat Feb 03, 2007 10:13 pm

HPL was a 18th Century man at heart.
He was also sadly unable to come to terms with his family's slide into poverty.
Lovecraft's father died of syphlis, in a madhouse, and his comfortable lifestyle went to Hell in Tinky-Winky's handbag.
He felt cheated and deprived, suffering from that ever so dangerous sense of entitlement denied, the very potting soil of the serious racist.
The mindset of the pulps was racist-Fu Manchu and the Si-Fan, dacoits and assorted badmash all about, Malay and Filipino deprave-o's lurking in the slums, ready to indulge in rapine, cannibalism and goety of darkest dye upon any caucasian they got hold of.
Was HPL a racist?
You bet your sweet bippy he was, so was Robert E. Howard, Sax Rohmer, A. Merritt, Dashiell Hammett(who had a long love affair with Lillian Hellman, a Jewess, and was such a committed pinko that he went to jail during the McCarthy era for refusing to name names he couldn't actually dredge up out of the alcoholic fog he usually lived in. Hammett painted patronizing and condesending pictures of the Chinese, once said of Filipinos, 'whatever else the Spanish do to people they conquer, they sure make them polite', and referred to black people as dark meat, dinges and darkies.)
Diana Gabaldon refers to the desire to post-date PC as, 'presentism', and wisely deems it as foolish and unworkable.
These attitudes gave us the Final Solution, and having seen them put into practice, most of us have known horror and fled.
We can only go forward, leaving this sort of thing behind.