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Yep, just as long as it's about ineffable horrors/settings which have them, or anything relating to them (hell, even discussing Mass Effect Reapers is fine) it's good.

Quote from: Xantalos on March 02, 2015, 02:52:09 pm

Oh.
I don't know how to rank them anymore anyway - I ended my yugioh streak after I got those three legendary beasts and a thing of Exodia in one card and just won the game every second move.

...How?

Question on the main topic of the thread: As you are a selfadmitted Eldrich Being, have you met any of the Lovecraftian Old Ones, Elder Gods, Outer Gods, etc.

Got really lucky with the decks I bought. And I bought about a billion of them.

As for the Outer Gods, well, there are some that need to be interfaced with to gain access to here, namely Yog-Sothoth and Shub-Niggurath. I've also incidentally met Nyarlathotep, The Blackness From The Stars, Darkness, which is the progenitor of Shub-Niggurath, etc. They're ... hard to describe like this, but alright in interfacing.
Except for Nyar. He's a dick.

Quote from: Neonivek on March 02, 2015, 02:07:59 pm

Well...

I just found out that TERRIBLE Starwars apprentice name "Starkiller"... Was apparently not a name the creators of that game made up...

George Lucas created that name.

and OHH MY GAWD! George Lucas made so many terrible names... and this is before he stopped caring about Starwars and did dumb stuff to it just for fun...

Before Charmed did it... he did "Darklighter"

Lucas's work contains exactly two naming conventions:
1. Luke Nounverber.
2. Random syllables.
3. Yoda.

No idea if he actually came up with Yoda's name though.

Oh.
I don't know how to rank them anymore anyway - I ended my yugioh streak after I got those three legendary beasts and a thing of Exodia in one card and just won the game every second move.

No, Great Ones. Great Old Ones are the cosmic space monsters, Great Ones are dream gods which are powerful but still ultimately powerless aginst basically everything from outside.
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Yeah Howard didn't have the best naming scheme.

Derleth also tried to associate humanity to the Elder Gods, making them "the gods of humanity" in a way, while in Lovecraft's works, humanity is nearly as insignificant as any other animal of earth, apart from the fact we were created through experiments by the Elder Things or as side effects of such experiments (I dont remember if Lovecraft actualy wrote that or it was another author though, so I might be wrong on that).

However, Lovecraft did associate the "great ones" that live in Kadath with humans, saying that "they rule over earth/humanity's dreamland". He never did specify who these Great Ones are or if they have anything to do with the Great Old Ones though, unless I'm mistaken.

The Great Ones are the gods of Earth's Dreamland, and judging by that I'm guessing they're manifestations of collective humanity's psyche or something.

Huh. I really should stop getting out of control of myself.

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