When you're struggling to make ends meet paycheck to paycheck, the unfathomable Eldritch horror no longer seems very threatening.
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Yeah... I'm not exactly worried about some random demon summoning itself in the middle of my bedroom. That's whatever. At least something new and interesting to spice it up. I am worried about the constant flip flop of paying for bills or medication or being unable to do anything in life because I can barely afford rent.
Bring it on demon daddy.
I mean, the least the horror could do is help out some, then it can get back to the whole “I will murder your existence for all eternity in dimensions not even possible.” thing, y’know? Maybe erase a debt collections agency, delete some computer records? Maybe contribute to the cause, there, horror.
You become immune to cosmic horror when your sense of self worth has been so blunted by capitalism that the Cthulhu mythos tells you you're worthless in the grand scheme of things and you're just like "yeah that's what Nelnet tells me, you don't have to rub it in fucker."
IDK, I feel like capitalism just enhances the appeal of cosmic horror. I feel like encountering horrors beyond my comprehension would be reassuring after a lifetime of experiencing manmade horrors within my comprehension
If it's beyond our comprehension, it's hard to be scared of it.
Wut? People being afraid of things they don't understand is the whole basis of religion...
Yeah, the whole fear of the unknown sort of died alongside the xenophobia of the old generation.
There's a lot of this going on. I've seen a few YouTube shorts and stuff with similar themes.
None of you are wrong. If aliens invaded tomorrow, we would all still drag ourselves to our day jobs like, whelp, that's not the most fucked up thing that's happened this year....
Replace aliens with demons or whatever, the story is the same.
There's a particularly chilling Doctor Who episode where aliens took over the world a year ago, but have been telling everyone that it has been that way forever, and punishing those that publicly deny it. 99.9% of people simply go on repeating it and accepting it and just going about their days as normally as possible, despite everyone knowing it isn't really true.
Was that the Silence, or am I confusing the episode with another?
https://tardis.fandom.com/wiki/The_Lie_of_the_Land_(TV_story)
"The Monks have ruled the world since humanity took its very first baby steps towards the Sun. One problem... they haven't always been there. And only Bill Potts sees the truth. But where is the Doctor? And how can Bill make the rest of the world see?"
Ahhhh, right. Creepy tall monks, that's the one. I don't remember liking the episode much, to be honest
I remember that. I'm rewatching the new series (since 2005), and I'm not quite at that episode yet.
Quite a similar theme to 1984.
These images get even more incomprehensible the more Webp they become. Who is even making these trash images in that format? I've downloaded PNG from lemmy before so it can't be automatic.
Nothing to do with the image format and everything to do with reuploading to services that use compression
But this service we're on right now isn't compressing all of the images with Google's proprietary image format, some of them are still normal. So where are they coming from? That's what my whole comment was about, I'm just confused about why it's happening when nobody I've ever met exports or converts to that format.
I think the lower the quality, the funnier it gets
Biblically accurate angel
Actually not, though. The old scrolls and texts generally translate to a many winged being whose eyes were covered
Some dingus out there mistranslated that as covered in eyes and suddenly the children all started memeing about it despite being completely wrong.
It could make for a biblically accurate Ophenim but is that even really an angel? They pretty much showed up one time as wheels of a cart.
to a many winged being whose eyes were covered
Seraphim, you're talking about Seraphim. Who are one choir of angels.
The one the gets me though is Cherubim/Cherubs. How does a being with four wings, four faces (three of which come from animals), and the hooves of an ox, become a fat infant?
Seraphim, you’re talking about Seraphim. Who are one choir of angels.
Yes and also the source of the covered in eyes mistranslation from Isaiah 6
Needs another panel with "Yeah...same."