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Posted: Wed Jan 31, 2007 12:46 pm
by JJ Burke
lecter better watch his step, because i have thumbtacks and a shoelace and i've seen home alone several times
Posted: Wed Jan 31, 2007 2:23 pm
by Eternities End
I Got the hack saw and the wheel barrow...you know...for carrying stuff
Posted: Wed Jan 31, 2007 4:14 pm
by E.A. Lovecraft
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.
Posted: Wed Jan 31, 2007 4:18 pm
by Jesus Prime
They'd probably be dead-set against it.
Sorry...
Posted: Wed Jan 31, 2007 5:30 pm
by JJ Burke
damn right you are
Posted: Thu Feb 01, 2007 9:28 pm
by krakenten
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!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Posted: Thu Feb 01, 2007 9:42 pm
by odin2
You have not role played, until you have role played with props!
Posted: Thu Feb 01, 2007 10:27 pm
by Ward13
Posted: Thu Feb 01, 2007 10:57 pm
by JJ Burke
now that's just silly
Posted: Thu Feb 01, 2007 11:34 pm
by Ward13
Posted: Fri Feb 02, 2007 1:08 am
by JJ Burke
can't deny that
Posted: Fri Feb 02, 2007 8:15 am
by krakenten
My dear God!
That's an outrage!
Posted: Fri Feb 02, 2007 5:55 pm
by Ward13
It is outrageous...poor Floppie
Posted: Fri Feb 02, 2007 11:50 pm
by Eternities End
Thats not silly, thats cool!
Posted: Sat Feb 03, 2007 10:13 pm
by krakenten
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.
