Halloween Special: H. P. Lovecraft

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  • Опубликовано: 22 дек 2024

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  • @OverlySarcasticProductions
    @OverlySarcasticProductions  6 лет назад +23897

    Hey gang! Can't help but notice the comment section is a little bit on fire. That's all good with me, but one recurring complaint I've noticed has started to get under my skin - namely that my explanation of non-euclidean geometry was insufficient, or even - dare I say - inaccurate. Now this is a fair complaint, because after a lifetime of experience finding that people's eyes glaze over when I talk math at them, I concluded that interrupting a half-hour horror video with a long-winded explanation of a mathematical concept wouldn't go over too well. I put it in layman's terms and used a simple example to illustrate the point. However, since some of the more mathematically-inclined of you took offense, I now present in full a short (but comprehensive) explanation of what exactly non-euclidean geometry is.
    First, we axiomatically establish euclidean geometry. Euclidean geometry has five axioms:
    1. We can draw a straight line between any two points.
    2. We can infinitely extend a finite straight line.
    3. We can draw a circle with any center and radius.
    4. All right angles are equal to one another.
    5. If two lines intersect with a third line, and the sum of the inner angles of those intersections is less than 180º, then those two lines must intersect if extended far enough.
    Axiom #5 is known as the PARALLEL POSTULATE. It has many equivalent statements, including the Triangle Postulate ("the sum of the angles in every triangle is 180º") and Playfair's Axiom ("given a line and a point not on that line, there exists ONE line parallel to the given line that intersects the given point").
    Euclidean geometry is, broadly, how geometry works on a flat plane.
    However, there are geometries where the parallel postulate DOES NOT hold. These geometries are called "non-euclidean geometries". There are, in fact, an infinite number of these geometries, and because the only defining characteristic is "the parallel postulate does not hold", they can be all kinds of crazy shapes. (As you can see, my explanation of "this is just how geometry works on a curved surface" is quite reductive, but at the same time serves to get the general impression across without going into too much detail.)
    An example of a non-euclidean geometry is "Elliptic geometry", geometry on n-dimensional ellipses, which includes "Spherical geometry" as a subset. Spherical geometry is, predictably enough, how geometry works on the two-dimensional surface of a three-dimensional sphere.
    In spherical geometry, "points" are defined the same as in euclidean geometry, but "line" is redefined to be "the shortest distance between two points over the surface of the sphere", since there is no such thing as a "straight line" on a curved surface. All "lines" in spherical geometry are segments of "great circles" (which is defined as the set of points that exist at the intersection between the sphere and a plane passing through the center of that sphere).
    The axiom that separates spherical geometry from euclidean geometry and replaces the parallel postulate is "5. There are NO parallel lines". In spherical geometry, every line is a segment of a great circle, and any two great circles intersect at exactly two points. If two lines intersect when extended, they cannot be parallel, and thus there are no parallel lines in spherical geometry.
    Since the Parallel Postulate is equivalent to Playfair's Axiom, the fact that no parallel lines exist in spherical geometry negates Playfair's Axiom, which thus negates the Parallel Postulate and defines spherical geometry as a non-euclidean geometry. Also, since the Triangle Postulate is another equivalent property to the Parallel Postulate, it is thus negated in spherical geometry. Hence, my use in-video of an example of a triangle drawn on the surface of a sphere whose inner angles sum greater than 180º.
    Hope that cleared things up (and helped explain why I didn't want to say "see, non-euclidean geometry is just a geometry where Euclid's Parallel Postulate doesn't hold - hold on, let me get the chalkboard to explain what THAT is-" in the video)
    Peace!
    -R ✌️

    • @blackvial
      @blackvial 6 лет назад +3469

      *brain drips out of both ears* Right

    • @leonr8255
      @leonr8255 6 лет назад +2089

      Man, and I thought Tolkien's fanboys were toxic after you called him a hack in your Poetic Edda video. Keep up the good work, and thanks for the little math lesson! 😊

    • @mickeycastronovo7162
      @mickeycastronovo7162 6 лет назад +1629

      Oh she big smart.

    • @TheFiresloth
      @TheFiresloth 6 лет назад +782

      Okay, for me, that was just trying to invoke Nyarlathotep, but there's probably some math athletes out there for wich it made perfect sense.
      Ignore the bigots and keep up the good work ! You're the boss, Red !

    • @TheFiresloth
      @TheFiresloth 6 лет назад +166

      Bigots for everything else you just said, actually. Like, buzzwords ? Seriously ?

  • @0katsuki0
    @0katsuki0 2 года назад +4518

    can we just appreciate the name 'lovecraft'? imagine if his last name had been johnson. 'Johnsonian' just dosnt sound as mythical as 'Lovecraftian'.

    • @jerkchickenblog
      @jerkchickenblog Год назад +107

      it would if his name has been johnson or smith for the most part. this is how it works with all names. but it does sound a tad more colorful

    • @Excelsior1937
      @Excelsior1937 Год назад +170

      @@jerkchickenblogWell enough other people are also named Johnson that the association wouldn’t really hold I don’t think. You’re right about how subjects give their names their vibe and not the other way around, but there are dozens of recognizable Johnson’s, thousands of more mundane Johnson’s, and only one incredibly recognizable Lovecraft.

    • @Asahamana
      @Asahamana Год назад +130

      Or Gaylord that gets me every time.

    • @chloeedmund4350
      @chloeedmund4350 Год назад +24

      I think he once wrote a parody of a love story.

    • @menhera758
      @menhera758 Год назад +119

      ​@@Asahamanaah yes, the gaylordian mythos

  • @christopherrobinhood9802
    @christopherrobinhood9802 3 года назад +6287

    Tbh, although this was very unintentional, The Color Out of Space always read like radiation poisoning.

    • @patrickcross1571
      @patrickcross1571 3 года назад +781

      Right? I mean radiation as a concept was still being explored at the time, so it’d make sense that Howie here would try and make a poorly researched horror story based on it.

    • @christopherrobinhood9802
      @christopherrobinhood9802 3 года назад +272

      @@patrickcross1571 But yeah lets not forget what Lovecraft actually wrote this story like.

    • @mackenziewoloschuk7375
      @mackenziewoloschuk7375 3 года назад +420

      That's what I thought it was too after a bit of thinking. It could also be read as Mercury poisoning, since the substance of mercury is rather toxic and does indeed cause madness and even death if taken in the proper doses(the mad hatter was based off this since olden day hat makers would use mercury in the process which would drive the hatters insane).
      The kids suffer death with the eldest one going insane before they go, and the wife just goes insane before succumbing.

    • @brandonporter8509
      @brandonporter8509 3 года назад +172

      And now I kind of want to create something in like a low magic rp setting that’s color out of space inspired but with a better grasp on actual real
      World physics chemistry and biology.
      The liquid could be a kind of radioactive liquid mercury alloy and once it fell into a well that would be mercury alloy and radiation water table contamination. And the strange color could be a combination of the color of the item itself and the wavelength of radioactive glow it emits maybe it’s a magenta object emitting a yellow green light or even more unnaturally a yellow green substance with a radioactive magenta glow creating a visual of something simultaneously two opposite complimentary colors that can’t mix into one singular color. The reason for choosing magenta on this is because magenta is the mind point on the gap in the visible light spectrum you get when combining near infrared red with near ultraviolet violet making it a color that Literially does not exist in the spectrum but simultaneously would lie in ultraviolet or in infrared but also exists from a certain perspective behind and equal to yellow green. Making the light magenta would really drive home the idea of unnatural light.
      So if you want a color out of space like object description with a less outlandish foundation here’s my go at one:
      The impossibly smooth and shiny, yellow green rock bubbled like an animals stomach packed with blood and being boiled from the inside bulging in places. With each second it seemed to shrink ever so slightly, As if evaporating away like a chunk of dry ice but evaporating and melting from the inside evidenced by the occasional bubble of escaping gas rising to the semisolid metallic exterior to pop and the metal surface to heal
      Itself back into that smooth shiny shell.
      When cut it acted like a putty that the deeper down it was cut the less putty and more liquid it became. Almost like a sick bastardization of a lava cake. As it slowly boiled away and the occasional bubble rose through the semisolid skin and popped like a bubble yellow green vapor escaped that seemed to emit an unearthly magenta glow creating for instances this unknowable combination of yellowish green vapor and reddish violet light. A sickly impossible green magenta flash that never lingered long enough to truly be comprehended as a proper color that ever existed, one that never could exist and yet it did.
      The object would basically be some kind or radioactive mercury alloy that fell to earth around the turn of the 20th century. Before we really knew and understood radiation was a bad thing. My vision for hat it is to ruin the mystery I don’t know some piece of an alien space probe similar in nature to our voyager probe maybe like some alien version of a nuclear radioactive mercury like alloy battery?
      Nothing malevolent just you know the result if one day In the far far future long after the sun as became a stellar corpse voyager ends up just crashing in some redneck alien’s flower garden.

    • @christopherrobinhood9802
      @christopherrobinhood9802 3 года назад +21

      @@brandonporter8509 I've actually been working on something like this for some time now.

  • @Galimeer5
    @Galimeer5 2 года назад +7669

    "Colors that man can't comprehend and are dangerous to and warp the biology of flora and fauna" is actually a reasonable description of gamma radiation, and radioactive meteorites are real so Color Out Of Space is technically the most scientifically realistic Lovecraft story

    • @KalafinaBTS
      @KalafinaBTS 2 года назад +590

      Omg this!!! When she explained that book, the first thing that came to mind is radiation

    • @saxogatley1166
      @saxogatley1166 Год назад +457

      @@KalafinaBTSLovecraft wrote the Color Out of Space in reaction to the Radium Girls incident, or at least that’s what I heard

    • @WolfAmaril
      @WolfAmaril Год назад +171

      So would the actual color just be Chernikov Radiation?

    • @LordDaret
      @LordDaret Год назад +366

      @@WolfAmaril it would be an angelic blue in the worst case scenario, like the first hour after the Chernobyl disaster. So alluring to look at, and yet so devastatingly deadly to even observe.

    • @WolfAmaril
      @WolfAmaril Год назад +132

      @@LordDaret that is a pretty accurate description of Chernikov Radiation

  • @Cpt_Corsair
    @Cpt_Corsair 2 года назад +2875

    I love how the mug on the AC obsessed doctors desk says the “worlds alivest doctor”

    • @mrs_mothra547
      @mrs_mothra547 2 года назад +34

      Ahhhhahaha I didn't notice!

    • @anna_in_aotearoa3166
      @anna_in_aotearoa3166 2 года назад +106

      See also the "world's sanest professor" mug at 3:35 and elsewhere! 😆 The Muñoz one got by me despite multiple re-viewings, though, so thanks for spotlighting that!

    • @matilda5753
      @matilda5753 Год назад +25

      10:19 if anyone was wondering

    • @EllpaFox47
      @EllpaFox47 Месяц назад +3

      And I thought the archetypal “worlds okayest doctor” mug was funny

  • @megancress1384
    @megancress1384 5 лет назад +17166

    I just realized the color he's describing is just magenta

    • @edslushie570
      @edslushie570 5 лет назад +1196

      This needs more likes. I would not have thought of that but yeah, it works.

    • @mewsingsbynatk
      @mewsingsbynatk 5 лет назад +660

      My favorite color is magenta.

    • @camilaferrabonel4622
      @camilaferrabonel4622 5 лет назад +1530

      Magenta doesn't exist and that's a fact.

    • @mewsingsbynatk
      @mewsingsbynatk 5 лет назад +345

      @@camilaferrabonel4622 How do you explain magenta pencil crayons, ignoramus?

    • @yuuri_
      @yuuri_ 5 лет назад +1031

      magenta doesn't exist
      nice try liberal

  • @cultofloki8361
    @cultofloki8361 2 года назад +3088

    Entire city: *brings relics and literal spells to counter the horror*
    Morgan: “If it eats another shed, we’ll pump it with lead. If it even breathes, we’ll shatter it’s knees”

    • @DonPatrono
      @DonPatrono 2 года назад +337

      "Professor Morgan, please detail us why did you decide to bring a gun to our bout with the chtonic entity"
      "But of course my esteemed colleagues, as you can see on this graph, there is this function of y=x that has a linear increase, whereas on the X axis you can find the amount of "shagging around" while on the Y axis there is the correspective amount of "encountering results", and given the linear increase it's obvious that the more you fuck around, the more you find out, and that eldritch being has fucked around quite a lot over yonder and is in dire need to find out"
      "Marvelous, professor, reminds me of the fourth principle of Enthropy, Stay Strapped or Get Hyperdimensionally Clapped"
      "Truly great words of wisdom"

    • @scumbaggaming9418
      @scumbaggaming9418 Год назад +144

      Morgan decided to approach an eldritch horror like the Scout in TF2
      "Think fast, chucklenuts!"
      "Grass grows, birds fly, and brotha? I hurt people."
      *"Yo what's up?"*

    • @skem9622
      @skem9622 Год назад +31

      @@DonPatrono now that is good

    • @Allium95
      @Allium95 Год назад +22

      That's the definition of american

    • @ValeBridges
      @ValeBridges Год назад +54

      @@scumbaggaming9418 Or Engineer, "I solve practical problems. F'rinstance, how am I gonna stop some big mean mother hubbard from tearing me a structurally non-Euclidean new behind? The answer... use a gun. And if that don't work... use more gun."

  • @Dylan_Otto
    @Dylan_Otto 4 года назад +2473

    "One trips on a corner and clips through the map"
    There has never been a better sentence to describe a man being swallowed by the one thing he is supposed to stand on

    • @babiiesketches5257
      @babiiesketches5257 4 года назад +82

      *Wait that actually happens*

    • @GodOfOrphans
      @GodOfOrphans 4 года назад +114

      @@babiiesketches5257 I just checked my copy of Call of Cthulu and yeah kinda, the prose is a lot less comical but that is basically what happens.

    • @mr.potato2223
      @mr.potato2223 4 года назад +9

      Can you quote?

    • @GodOfOrphans
      @GodOfOrphans 4 года назад +162

      @@mr.potato2223 "Parker slipped as the other three were plunging frenziedly over endless vistas of green-crusted rock to the boat, and Johansen swears he was swallowed up by an angle of masonry which shouldn't have been there; an angle which was acute, but behaved as if it were obtuse." quoted directly from Call of Cthulu.

    • @mr.potato2223
      @mr.potato2223 4 года назад +14

      @@GodOfOrphans thank you

  • @arirenzi-surprenant
    @arirenzi-surprenant Год назад +1286

    I’m indigenous and I had no idea I was so villainous! I guess it’s time to enter my villain era.

  • @KillahMate
    @KillahMate 4 года назад +2783

    I love that "JUST MOVE AWAY" comment, since of course the story was written by a dude for whom moving to a new place would be about as scary as having his life drained by an alien lifeform.

    • @sheepbeeps3369
      @sheepbeeps3369 4 года назад +119

      yup. Most people would've packed up and left, even facing hardship and poverty. Once the wife starts mutating.

    • @c.o7993
      @c.o7993 4 года назад +41

      Wish I could afford to pack up and move at the drop of a hat

    • @nicksuazo4377
      @nicksuazo4377 4 года назад +5

      Not gonna lie, I probably would of stayed until the last minute. Just like the reader, I wanna see what happens at the end.

    • @nicksuazo4377
      @nicksuazo4377 4 года назад

      @sluttyMapleSyrup Same 😆

    • @roshiron1816
      @roshiron1816 4 года назад +13

      @@c.o7993 Homeless vs Dead/Mutated. *shrugs* It's debatable which is worse I suppose.

  • @dallasrover5515
    @dallasrover5515 3 года назад +3198

    I love how everyone at the University is horrified while the dog is there just so proud of himself.

    • @CelestialAnamoly
      @CelestialAnamoly 3 года назад +174

      Such a good pupper!

    • @Xbalanque84
      @Xbalanque84 3 года назад +10

      Frankly, he should be.

    • @supersam0388
      @supersam0388 2 года назад +83

      I thought he was wearing a tiny suit jacket until I realized he just tore the fabric and buttons off Wilbur

    • @havel4385
      @havel4385 2 года назад +48

      Throw dogs at the great old ones and no more great old ones

    • @Someonecalledeli
      @Someonecalledeli 2 года назад +17

      Good boy! (Or girl) :D

  • @minimonkeymasher8888
    @minimonkeymasher8888 4 года назад +3373

    Lovecraft's horror aesthetic reminds of when you close your eyes and you see a bunch of random patterns under your eyelids. A constantly shifting, random assortment of patterns not seen in the natural world. Lovecraft managed to turn that into something physical and dark. Super cool. Shame about the... everything-except-rich-white-people-phobia and rampant paranoia.

    • @morantNO1
      @morantNO1 3 года назад +206

      I recommend "The Magnus Archives" podcast. Super cool Lovecraftian horror without the racism and bad writing. Red also recommended them in her trope talk about horror, that is how I discovered them.

    • @JonathanHarker7523
      @JonathanHarker7523 3 года назад +18

      @@morantNO1 Same! What’s your favorite episode?

    • @morantNO1
      @morantNO1 3 года назад +27

      @@JonathanHarker7523 Spoiler warning for the show I guess. I am at episode 151 and my favourite was probably 142 - scrutiny, where the archivist is the horror of the day. Amazing concept.

    • @catatoblob8598
      @catatoblob8598 3 года назад +37

      While I also love the Magnus Archives, and think that racism is bad, I think we're judging lovecraft by the standards of a world where information is much more readily available and its easier to understand people from different backgrounds from yourself. Paranoia, xenophobia, and the fear of the unknowable are as intrinsic to the lovecraftian horror aethetic as the amorphous crawling horrors are.

    • @kingstarscream320
      @kingstarscream320 3 года назад +6

      @@morantNO1 You wish you could write as well as Lovecraft

  • @SwordlordRoy
    @SwordlordRoy Год назад +583

    The best way I have heard Lovecraft described was from Mr. Welch's Call of Cthulhu Mad Musing:
    "The man was clinically phobic, and I don't mean violent hatred but more curling up in the fetal position and sucking his thumb. The man didn't have Issues, he had Volumes."

    • @LordZadrenoss
      @LordZadrenoss Год назад +20

      HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH!

    • @Hulkzilla0
      @Hulkzilla0 6 месяцев назад +33

      "He didn't have issues. He had VOLUMES." is an incredible description.

  • @pescavelho6151
    @pescavelho6151 2 года назад +5371

    The twist in Shadow Over Innsmouth reads differently once you find that H. P. Lovecraft came up with the story after finding out his great-grandmother was Welsh.

    • @adriftinglink
      @adriftinglink 2 года назад +11

      Guess he wanted to show he would obviously never give into that ancestry, so that’s why Mr 1/16 fish boy becomes a fish person fanatic despite hating them all. Makes no sense to me, but I guess ya can’t expect much from a (to put it as light as a feather) paranoid person.

    • @sagecolvard9644
      @sagecolvard9644 2 года назад +474

      Beautiful.

    • @robinchesterfield42
      @robinchesterfield42 2 года назад +919

      Wait, wait...WELSH = "actually descended from immortal (and immoral) FISH people?
      (looks down at self)
      Huh, no wonder I've always kinda liked seafood and island music...

    • @mathphysicsnerd
      @mathphysicsnerd 2 года назад +620

      Could've been worse
      He could've written the monster people as weresheep

    • @argus2389
      @argus2389 2 года назад +242

      I nearly burst out laughing when I read this. Thank you

  • @Raziera
    @Raziera 5 лет назад +1321

    The odd thing about color out of space is that a lot of what it does sounds like nuclear radiation ( or at least the magical comic book versions of it) before nuclear radiation.

    • @robinchesterfield42
      @robinchesterfield42 4 года назад +188

      Yeah. He kind of gave everyone and everything living in that area supernatural space-cancer. That slowly and very painfully kills you over time.
      Checks out!

    • @valterfara5027
      @valterfara5027 4 года назад +55

      How much radiation is that thing emitting so your fucking bones turn into the liquid of a glow stick?

    • @richard6196
      @richard6196 4 года назад +59

      Reminds me of the fallout version of radiation which has a approx. 80% chance of turning you into a immortal radiation zombie-sorta. Fallout also took some inpiration from H. P. for some minor locarions/quests.

    • @sashimimisha
      @sashimimisha 4 года назад +29

      He was ahead of his time in some regards. Maybe the idea of radiation had been discussed at the time which gave him some ideas, even if it hadn't been broadly applied within practical science.

    • @sofieselene
      @sofieselene 4 года назад +28

      Nuclear radiation was known in Lovecraft's time, and in fact was extremely popular for a while as its newness and obscurity caused snake oil salesmen to claim that it was, among other things, a panacea.

  • @CthulhuianBunny
    @CthulhuianBunny 4 года назад +6628

    Just pointing this out because I find it funny: Cthulhu is the grandchild of Yog-Sothoth. So Wilbur Whately & The Dunwich Horror are Cthulhu's uncles.

    • @themystic115demon6
      @themystic115demon6 4 года назад +696

      That would be an awkward family reunion.

    • @sebastianlepper1431
      @sebastianlepper1431 4 года назад +719

      @@themystic115demon6 you’d have all these big ass world devouring monsters and then a goat dude shows up with a gun

    • @Me-io3wg
      @Me-io3wg 4 года назад +597

      @@sebastianlepper1431 he has the best world devouring weapon of all: a glock

    • @mccookies3664
      @mccookies3664 4 года назад +556

      "Wilbur Whately and the Dunwich Horror" also sounds like a band name

    • @trashcanyounot1798
      @trashcanyounot1798 4 года назад +149

      @@themystic115demon6 Ok, Red needs to draw this lol

  • @Halloweenish
    @Halloweenish Год назад +2546

    Interviewer: “So, Mr Lovecraft, everyone’s dying to know. How do you write such effective horror stories?”
    HP: “Well, what can I say? I just wrote based on what scared me.”
    Interviewer: “Ah, I see, so you wrote based on yours fears of existentialism and cosmic nightmares?”
    HP: “Yes, among other things…”
    *sips tea while glaring at an AC vent*

    • @menhera758
      @menhera758 Год назад +45

      Underrated comment

    • @springfaux6991
      @springfaux6991 Год назад +175

      *Also staring at minorities with sheer horror*

    • @discmanthecdlord
      @discmanthecdlord Год назад +110

      ​@@springfaux6991also stares at the ocean with sheer horror

    • @wjzav1971
      @wjzav1971 Год назад +30

      To be fair, ACs are pretty creepy when you think about it.

    • @Van-Leo
      @Van-Leo Год назад +78

      *stares at interviewer until he can assess their race*

  • @theman6422
    @theman6422 4 года назад +4978

    One of my friends explained Lovecraft to me as:
    “Earthbound but if it was made by an LSD abuser who went scuba diving one day”

    • @babiiesketches5257
      @babiiesketches5257 4 года назад +180

      WHY IS THAT ACCURATE XD

    • @tyto9188
      @tyto9188 4 года назад +131

      I really can't argue against this...
      This is surprisingly true...

    • @calamitygroove6738
      @calamitygroove6738 4 года назад +57

      id say subnautica

    • @mothtoflame4843
      @mothtoflame4843 4 года назад +37

      Now i need to go diving after taking an acid tab

    • @grimble4564
      @grimble4564 4 года назад +90

      Also don't forget the racism

  • @Lily-Sinful
    @Lily-Sinful 5 лет назад +9847

    i remember reading Colour Out Of Space when i was twelve or so, and my immediate reaction being "Ah, beige."

    • @thalesvondasos
      @thalesvondasos 5 лет назад +407

      Have you never seen sand as a kid?!

    • @catherinemoul9160
      @catherinemoul9160 5 лет назад +1565

      Why is this funny, I just imagine a bored looking 12 year old reading 'unseen color' saying "beige" then going back to reading

    • @Kralisedra
      @Kralisedra 5 лет назад +1280

      I didn’t read it until college, and there’s an actual color we can see but doesn’t actually exist on the spectrum: magenta! It’s just the color our brains link between red and violet, but it doesn’t exist and that fact still gives me a headache

    • @firstnamelastname5230
      @firstnamelastname5230 5 лет назад +592

      Beige
      The unholy color

    • @averagecoloniser4586
      @averagecoloniser4586 5 лет назад +444

      Such a horror... b e i g e

  • @Pratchettgaiman
    @Pratchettgaiman 2 года назад +3234

    By the way, for people who haven’t read Dunwich Horror, Old Whately literally does cite an actual page number for Wilbur to consult in his spooky book of spookiness, that wasn’t a joke by Red

    • @theinimitablejora522
      @theinimitablejora522 2 года назад +352

      I see
      We appear to have found the one thing Lovecraft wasn’t afraid of
      *Page numbers*

    • @HECKproductions
      @HECKproductions 2 года назад +392

      a suprising amount of things that one would assume are jokes are actually quite literal
      like the dude who "trips on a corner and clips through the map"

    • @Green24152
      @Green24152 2 года назад +197

      @@HECKproductions He was the first man to find the Backrooms.

    • @rowanbarnfather7776
      @rowanbarnfather7776 2 года назад +302

      “He tripped on an obtuse angle that acted acute, and fell into a void.” That’s pretty much the full quote, I might have gotten the angles wrong.

    • @SpyrosKoronis
      @SpyrosKoronis 2 года назад +179

      @@rowanbarnfather7776 I read that as "acting cute" and now I have a mental image of a corner with a sweatdrop and blush marks.

  • @stewartgames6697
    @stewartgames6697 2 года назад +895

    A common theme that Lovecraft had in his writing was that evil fate and sin - in the form of madness, bodily pollution, & mutation - was inheritable and passed down through the bloodline. You see it in texts like "The Shadow Over Innsmouth" and "The Rats in the Walls" - past decadence or excess inevitably leaking down the ages to infect and change the living heir, who becomes just as foul and misbegotten as their ancestors. It's basically Lovecraft admitting through his writing that he lived his whole life in constant fear that he would fall to madness & hysteric fits as his mother had. This also explains his racism - once you assume that the past misdeeds of a person's family shape the person themselves, it is logical to assume that people who are poorer or otherwise don't quite fit in with "high society" must come from bad bloodlines where their ancestors were wicked and deplorable, and that such people, too, will do evil and wrong, because it is in their genetic makeup to act that way. It's actually something that still happens today, with ideas like Prosperity Gospel, and it was how Nazism justified itself. All were "logical/rational" conclusions, but based on a faulty assumption: that the capacity to do good and evil is genetically hardwired.

    • @lego007guym8
      @lego007guym8 2 года назад +90

      The ideology of Nazism is focused more on ethnic groups as whole than certain bloodlines, but yeah its still pretty damn similar.

    • @Hoogalindo
      @Hoogalindo 2 года назад

      I can only pity Lovecraft. That man was fucked.

    • @silverhawkscape2677
      @silverhawkscape2677 Год назад +2

      Unless you had high psychopathic tendencies.

    • @IceQueen975
      @IceQueen975 Год назад +10

      Critical Race Theory does this too.

    • @LioTangg
      @LioTangg Год назад +74

      @@IceQueen975 It quite literally does not

  • @Swaxeman
    @Swaxeman 4 года назад +585

    Honestly my favorite plot twist in a HP Lovecraft story is in the alchemist, where a curse is placed on a family, where every member is doomed to die at age 35, and it turns out that the thing killing them is the person who placed the curse, now immortal, just stabs them or something

    • @bluemariomedia8351
      @bluemariomedia8351 3 года назад +63

      So he just stab them when they are 35?

    • @Swaxeman
      @Swaxeman 3 года назад +66

      @@bluemariomedia8351 I think he poisons them, my bad

    • @inkmaster5480
      @inkmaster5480 3 года назад +28

      I think there's a relatively new Blue Oyster Cult song based on that book.

    • @Swaxeman
      @Swaxeman 3 года назад +16

      @@inkmaster5480 Oh my god there is that is so weird

    • @clockworktri
      @clockworktri 3 года назад +16

      Okay, that's hilarious!

  • @fantasticalfox
    @fantasticalfox 4 года назад +2647

    “armitage has some latin spells,rice has a bug spray bottle full of not being invisible anymore juice and morgan just brought a really big gun”
    there are three kinds of people

    • @lenatrask-trafton190
      @lenatrask-trafton190 4 года назад +43

      alice l tag yourself, i’m armitage

    • @fantasticalfox
      @fantasticalfox 4 года назад +46

      I’m probably a mix of armitage and morgan. mostly morgan

    • @robinchesterfield42
      @robinchesterfield42 4 года назад +65

      "not being invisible anymore juice" so THAT'S where that one weird powder comes from in "Dungeons of Dredmor". Huh! It does exactly that in the game, too--although the description is worded more like "makes things seen that should have remained unseen". So yeah, Lovecraftian vibe there too.

    • @YaBoiKeith
      @YaBoiKeith 4 года назад +56

      @@fantasticalfox Magic, science, and gun.

    • @craftynerdybookish
      @craftynerdybookish 4 года назад +54

      Cleric, wizard, fighter

  • @jacklandismusic
    @jacklandismusic 5 лет назад +3616

    When you were talking about the island casualties in "The Call of Cthulhu" and said that "one trips on a corner and clips through the map", I thought that was just total bullshit for a joke. Then I read the story, and I now wouldn't describe it any other way.

  • @hjt091
    @hjt091 Год назад +1633

    The Call of Cthulhu: the journal of a man reading the journal of a man listening to the story of a man who had weird nightmare

    • @anna_in_aotearoa3166
      @anna_in_aotearoa3166 Год назад +85

      Yeah, gotta say the multiple onion-layers of re-tellers, expositors and writers of letters, journals etc often make it pretty hard for me to keep track of who's who not just in Lovecraft but also in Victorian Gothic as well...! 😅
      It's a weird literary device, & I don't quite understand why they did it. Trying to make the horrific more tolerable by adding emotional distance...? 🤷🏻‍♀️ Attempting to add some kind of suspense via nested narrators...? Gaining freedom to kill off more key characters by allowing them to exposit in writing after their death...??

    • @cal_ward
      @cal_ward Год назад +60

      It's like Frankenstein's :Sad life(Monster) story in whining life story (Frankenstein's) in depressing life story(Robert Walton) in a letter sent to some dude's sister(Robert's sister) all written by another person who had a sad life (Mary Shelley)

    • @salem-01
      @salem-01 Год назад +17

      @@anna_in_aotearoa3166while I’m definitely not a fan of it I can kind of understand it to a point. With it you can do multiple layers of people discovering some new horror and dropping subtle or outright hints to the plot to create a lot of slow or very sudden reveals. It’s pretty fucking stupid but for Lovecrafts style of horror it becomes less horrifically boring and convoluted and more of a barely passable writing device

    • @salem-01
      @salem-01 Год назад +12

      @@cal_warddon’t forget the part where the monster is describing another random family describing their soap opera like life which to Frankenstein who is describing it to Robert and you get the idea

    • @anna_in_aotearoa3166
      @anna_in_aotearoa3166 Год назад +3

      @@salem-01 That makes it makes at least a little bit of sense; thank you! I can kind of get my head around using that type of narration-nesting as a way of layering suspense (even if, like you, I'm definitely not a fan 😆)

  • @raptalos9412
    @raptalos9412 3 года назад +5120

    Is no one gonna talk about two people brought MAGIC and the third dude was like “Hey, here’s a GUN!”

    • @natmorse-noland9133
      @natmorse-noland9133 3 года назад +596

      "Behold, the most powerful spell of all!"

    • @stratigangames508
      @stratigangames508 3 года назад +205

      @@natmorse-noland9133 kaboom

    • @jangmo-othewarrior3602
      @jangmo-othewarrior3602 3 года назад +258

      My favorite Lovecraft character based on that along.

    • @Phantom-qr1ug
      @Phantom-qr1ug 3 года назад +229

      *Bald Eagle screeches in the distance*

    • @jito7377
      @jito7377 3 года назад +122

      @@Phantom-qr1ug Thanks for illustrating my thoughts. It's ju so 'Murica.

  • @plumey7593
    @plumey7593 4 года назад +9189

    I can just imagine a posh math teacher chastising a student now:
    “By god, your level of understanding for non-euclidean geometry is downright Lovecraftian!”

    • @viirinsoftworks1304
      @viirinsoftworks1304 3 года назад +340

      I had to read that twice. I thought you said "I can just imagine a plush math teacher"...

    • @dheemantanil
      @dheemantanil 3 года назад +152

      Now why does it sounds like my Lovecraftian Lover Maths teacher when i seriouly fubbed my Maths test

    • @mathematicalcabbage
      @mathematicalcabbage 3 года назад +104

      Ngl, as someone who will prolly end up as a math professor, I'd totally say that. I definitely think it from time to time

    • @JaelinBezel
      @JaelinBezel 3 года назад +7

      God should be capitalized as a proper noun?

    • @mathematicalcabbage
      @mathematicalcabbage 3 года назад +69

      @@JaelinBezel perhaps this hypothetical posh math teacher isn't a part of a monotheistic religion but kept on to the cultural usage of "by god" or "oh my god" as an exclamation? Of not then yes, it probably should be. Luckily this hypothetical teacher isn't an English major

  • @tsulee7876
    @tsulee7876 5 лет назад +799

    “ ‘Protagonist discovers secret fish-person ancestry and is invited to live in luxury under the sea’: plot of Shadow Over Innsmouth, Aquaman, and Barbie in a Mermaid Tale?”
    This has to be one of or the most hilarious thing I’ve read in the credits!

  • @dadab22
    @dadab22 2 года назад +1357

    The color out of space is actually one of my favorites, if shift just one element...replace "color" with "radiation." Then literally everything makes more sense, and even becomes a cautionary tale about how radiation is indiscriminate, and the dangers of nuclear waste...and how often times, goverments don't take proper caution around toxic waste, as they are literally going to turn the area into a water resivoir.

    • @runman624
      @runman624 2 года назад +158

      A modern folktale for the wrong reason

    • @dadab22
      @dadab22 2 года назад +48

      @@runman624 couldn't have explained it better

    • @robinchesterfield42
      @robinchesterfield42 2 года назад +113

      Dude that would SO work. It's a horrifying _environmental_ cautionary tale just waiting to happen!
      Now we just need to figure out an actually _plausible_ reason why the family wouldn't JUST! FLIPPIN'! MOVE! and we're all set.

    • @dadab22
      @dadab22 2 года назад +2

      @@robinchesterfield42 Very simple. They can't afford to. Their harvest was ruined by the radiation, meaning they don't have the money. You'd be suprised how many people are hin horrible, even lethal living conditions in the real world, and are unable to move because they have literally no where else to go.

    • @Beacuzz
      @Beacuzz 2 года назад +89

      @@robinchesterfield42 broke.
      Selling a farm that isn't growing good food gets hard

  • @angusrosecranz4178
    @angusrosecranz4178 6 лет назад +6084

    the secret to immortality? Air Conditioning

    • @nullpoint3346
      @nullpoint3346 6 лет назад +228

      No, that's just to reduce the rate of decay.

    • @somebodycooliguess1597
      @somebodycooliguess1597 6 лет назад +300

      And/or fish breeding

    • @lego007guym8
      @lego007guym8 6 лет назад +47

      Yep, makes sense

    • @atlasfragilis9971
      @atlasfragilis9971 6 лет назад +112

      What about fish over ice, get immortality and reduction of decay in one go!

    • @pmikky6808
      @pmikky6808 6 лет назад +189

      Can confirm. My house has AC and I have never died

  • @RitcheyRich
    @RitcheyRich 4 года назад +3271

    Every picture of Lovecraft makes it look like he's holding a frog in his mouth

    • @MerkhVision
      @MerkhVision 4 года назад +70

      You’re right lol wtf

    • @beccag2758
      @beccag2758 4 года назад +34

      Oh my gosh you’re right😂😂

    • @Elm04
      @Elm04 4 года назад +182

      Tom Holland is secretly HP Lovecraft.

    • @massmoney829
      @massmoney829 4 года назад +8

      Lmfao, I'm dead 😂

    • @codybroadfoot7386
      @codybroadfoot7386 4 года назад +10

      Maybe his teeth probably just sucked

  • @augmenautus
    @augmenautus 4 года назад +5399

    "He lacked the constitution for math" So an English major?

  • @lukeroberson2115
    @lukeroberson2115 Год назад +762

    "Too delicate of a constitution for math" is HILARIOUS when you remember Red has a math degree.

    • @ANDELE3025
      @ANDELE3025 Год назад +16

      Its even funnier for anyone who knows how the base and field axioms work and thus know when one is broken with a projection, conversion and transition of field based representation when it comes to cross field or outright multidisciplinary problems, giving us the truth that Red herself has a constitution far weaker than Lovecrafts for math despite her degree and his complete lack of advanced professional education on the topic.
      Or to make it simpler, a to b and parallel c to d dont cease being parallel just because you placed them on a sphere. If they would, you would have to do irl playthroughs of hyperbolica or manifold daily.

    • @TerryBradstreet
      @TerryBradstreet Год назад +15

      Someone in another comment pointed out that studying in non-air conditioned homes could be really dusty and hot and generally bad for people with weak lungs.

    • @redpup112
      @redpup112 Год назад +3

      @@TerryBradstreet and yet, as is self-evident through his work, Lovecraft *hated* AC!

    • @TerryBradstreet
      @TerryBradstreet Год назад +1

      @@redpup112 it didn’t even exist when he was a kid; he encountered it as an adult. And if he couldn’t stand its noise and noxious smells and leaking as an adult, he surely wouldn’t want to put up with it as a child

    • @ammarhusain6235
      @ammarhusain6235 Год назад +2

      Thurston was a master of non-euclidean geometry, so sharing a name with this character is also funny.

  • @Alza.art4518
    @Alza.art4518 3 года назад +5894

    It’s weird, H.P. Lovecraft feels like a fictional character from Edgar Allen poe

    • @demonslayeredits6491
      @demonslayeredits6491 2 года назад +250

      Agreed, we are now am Fictional characters in an Edger Alan Poe Poem/Short Story

    • @coyotedelamancha
      @coyotedelamancha 2 года назад +1

      Curses, they have discovered the terrible truth. Now we have to kill them.

    • @centristcommisar7828
      @centristcommisar7828 2 года назад +640

      Seems like his style:
      A paranoid thirty-something-year-old man so afraid of progress and other people that he imagines enemies and Eldritch Horrors after seeing something as benal as an Air Conditioner.

    • @dylangroves6527
      @dylangroves6527 2 года назад +48

      I know what you mean.

    • @RequiemPoete
      @RequiemPoete 2 года назад +211

      And so the A/C kept on clanking, clanking at my chamber door. The doctor's stank when too close was irritating ever more. That is why I H.P. Lovecraft
      Brought down the ax upon the dark skinned doctor with a final laugh.

  • @batking4342
    @batking4342 4 года назад +3161

    Why does HP Lovecraft look like Zuckerberg

    • @ansrfururactions
      @ansrfururactions 4 года назад +272

      You mean "why does H.P. lovecraft look like a robot"

    • @thedapperassassin3717
      @thedapperassassin3717 4 года назад +98

      Damnit, those nuts in Dunwich are at it again.

    • @Vajrapani108
      @Vajrapani108 4 года назад +88

      "The case of mark Zuckerberg"

    • @failuretv814
      @failuretv814 4 года назад +66

      You mean "why is HP lovecraft a Lizard person" ?

    • @tortis6342
      @tortis6342 4 года назад +77

      @@Vajrapani108 missed opportunity for “The Mark of Zuckerburg”

  • @iapetusmccool
    @iapetusmccool 5 лет назад +2499

    Lovecraft had lots of phobias that influenced his stories. You mentioned several, but there was one other that seemed to stand out for me:
    Old buildings.
    And by "old" I mean "more than 100 years old".
    I don't know how he'd cope if visited the UK.

    • @Eshanas
      @Eshanas 5 лет назад +120

      He goes to Europe and becomes a massive conspiracist. Huh, maybe he should had, being of old British (and Welsh?) stock.

    • @Alusnovalotus
      @Alusnovalotus 5 лет назад +62

      Iapetus McCool that’s why no one took him seriously during his lifetime.

    • @vikramkrishnan6414
      @vikramkrishnan6414 5 лет назад +36

      Rats in the Walls, anyone?

    • @levongevorgyan6789
      @levongevorgyan6789 5 лет назад +37

      He wrote about an old England Priory actually. Exham Priory. And by old I mean built on an altar of Cybelle and Attis old.
      Rats in the Walls. Scariest book her wrote.

    • @instinctbrosgaming9699
      @instinctbrosgaming9699 4 года назад +10

      I mean, he put an old house in his second-ever story "The Alcemist" so yeah

  • @Fluffkitscripts
    @Fluffkitscripts Год назад +175

    I can only presume lovecraft would be scared of salsa
    -somewhat foreign
    -wet
    -red like blood with weird chunks in it
    -horrors too spicy for delicate New England palate to comprehend (even the mild flavor)

    • @Space_Snax
      @Space_Snax 8 месяцев назад +12

      He’d make a story based on it 100%

    • @AnimeSunglasses
      @AnimeSunglasses 6 месяцев назад +10

      For hot second I thought you meant the dance. Which quite frankly, I'm sure HPL would have ALSO hated.

  • @wratched
    @wratched 4 года назад +3651

    One massive historical irony: Lovecraft loved Irish people, because he thought they were all descended from Celtic druids and so were all psychic. This was at a time when people were putting up signs saying "No blacks, no dogs, no Irish". Also, he loved Hispanic people. Two of his best bred heroes are Hispanics. He thought they were all descended from Aztecs so were in tune with the whole "dark alien gods" thing.

    • @leooreillydoyle7990
      @leooreillydoyle7990 4 года назад +1193

      As an Irish person, i am incredibly flattered/confused/insulted

    • @admin.slayerenryu
      @admin.slayerenryu 4 года назад +857

      @@leooreillydoyle7990 As a Mexican person, I agree.

    • @hysterical5408
      @hysterical5408 4 года назад +329

      Huh... guess I'm Psychic then.

    • @mikd157
      @mikd157 4 года назад +605

      As someone who’s both Irish and Hispanic, I also feel flattered/insulted/confused

    • @SorowFame
      @SorowFame 4 года назад +300

      I guess that makes sense if Lovecraft cared more about breeding than race.

  • @atoaster1209
    @atoaster1209 3 года назад +24078

    As a mixed-race person, I like referring to myself as a Lovecraftian horror.

    • @xzenitramx666
      @xzenitramx666 3 года назад +921

      I know the feeling

    • @atoaster1209
      @atoaster1209 3 года назад +1251

      @@xzenitramx666 Hello, fellow Lovecraftian nightmare!

    • @xzenitramx666
      @xzenitramx666 3 года назад +749

      @@atoaster1209 both of us are the bad guys in HP lovecraft universe

    • @unclearety9371
      @unclearety9371 3 года назад +270

      underrated comment

    • @orrorsaness5942
      @orrorsaness5942 3 года назад +134

      At least you aren’t a white hillbilly.
      They’re even worse villains.

  • @mrraisintheawsome
    @mrraisintheawsome 3 года назад +4114

    I'm a history major and "the world must never know that 'for ritual purposes' is code for 'we have no idea what this is'" is one of the most hilariously and painfully accurate things I've heard in a while 🤣

    • @Tekdruid
      @Tekdruid 3 года назад +356

      Future archaeologists unearthing a Furby:
      "So... ritual purposes I guess?"
      _"Yeeeeeah..."_

    • @moasamuelson
      @moasamuelson 3 года назад +156

      @@Tekdruid Even better, long Furby

    • @carolinemcgovern4488
      @carolinemcgovern4488 3 года назад +121

      I mean, half the time it's gonna be accurate because everything we do is a ritual for something,

    • @ciphergacha9100
      @ciphergacha9100 2 года назад +15

      @@Tekdruid well to be fair

    • @WaituSnaiku
      @WaituSnaiku 2 года назад +28

      @@Tekdruid are you saying that furbys are for ritual purposes

  • @John_Weiss
    @John_Weiss 2 года назад +1771

    3:17 Horrible Phobias Lovecraft
    8:44 Hippopotamus Lovecraft
    9:40 Hates Progress Lovecraft

    • @Ark...........
      @Ark........... 2 года назад +15

      Ha

    • @Swordhand1
      @Swordhand1 Год назад +100

      Hot Pockets Lovecraft. Hewlett Packard Lovecraft. Hoi Polloi Lovecraft. Let's keep the jokes going!

    • @hexiguex6968
      @hexiguex6968 Год назад +33

      Hot Potatoes Lovecraft, House (of) Pancakes Lovecraft, Howdy Pardner Lovecraft

    • @John_Weiss
      @John_Weiss Год назад +34

      ​@@hexiguex6968 Hairy Palms Lovecraft
      Hellish Planets Lovecraft
      Humiliatingly Poor Lovecraft
      Hit Points Lovecraft
      Hopelessly Prude Lovecraft

    • @londonmason6129
      @londonmason6129 Год назад +21

      @@Swordhand1 hopelessly pathetic lovecraft

  • @peelslowly28
    @peelslowly28 3 года назад +1749

    Honestly, with the air conditioning story, he claims that his demise is "thanks to the failure of modern technology" when in reality that modern technology kept him alive 18 years after his natural expiration date. So honestly I'd say it was worth it.

    • @erinfinn2273
      @erinfinn2273 3 года назад +155

      Also, if he's smart enough to stay alive using an AC and a cocktail of chemicals, why wouldn't he have a back up AC?

    • @nathansingleton7532
      @nathansingleton7532 2 года назад +104

      @@erinfinn2273 I mean....wasn't air conditioning by the time the story was written basically a new technology? Probably just _couldn't_ get a backup because it's really rare and expensive

    • @metaparalysis3441
      @metaparalysis3441 2 года назад +14

      @@nathansingleton7532 your life or your dough?

    • @chimera9818
      @chimera9818 2 года назад +40

      @@nathansingleton7532 true but you would assume you will have some backup if it was so important to your existence even if it was expensive

    • @SerialElfYT
      @SerialElfYT 2 года назад +11

      @@chimera9818 He had a backup, it's called asking the kindly neighbour kid to fetch some ice and a repair man.

  • @geekgirl_luv4262
    @geekgirl_luv4262 3 года назад +8771

    So Color Out of Space is basically just “what if magenta was sentient and wanted you dead?”

    • @Mossprite21
      @Mossprite21 3 года назад +297

      This is amazing and it’s needs more attention

    • @moistnugget4147
      @moistnugget4147 3 года назад +450

      It could also have been chartreuse or beige

    • @geekgirl_luv4262
      @geekgirl_luv4262 3 года назад +546

      @@moistnugget4147 the holy trinity of technically non-existent colors go on a murder spree

    • @REDACTEDbox
      @REDACTEDbox 3 года назад +152

      magentient

    • @andersonborba2060
      @andersonborba2060 3 года назад +124

      @@geekgirl_luv4262 as I was so properly corrected in this comment section there is an entire spectrum of non-single wavelength colors, including magenta, pink, brown, beige (and any other color that cannot be reproduced with a single wavelength)... To be fair the rarity is the actual spectral colors which exist in the infinite space between 400 and 790 THz...

  • @indigosteel5702
    @indigosteel5702 2 года назад +6432

    "I got the Eye of Raznogshi'ni'yn!"
    "I got a magical super-poison!"
    "...I got a Glock."

    • @Kortegard0341
      @Kortegard0341 2 года назад +327

      Ah, good ol' Smith & Wesson

    • @RedBlitzen
      @RedBlitzen 2 года назад +382

      While just rewatching that scene I thought of a good quote for any story where guns and supernatural threats both exist.
      "While it's frustratingly common for firearms to inconvenience them at best and hurt you instead of them at worst, so far it's never been the wrong choice to bring one along to double check. Especially if it's a high caliber."

    • @seamuswalker6879
      @seamuswalker6879 2 года назад +125

      And this, is a bucket

    • @justinnelson5960
      @justinnelson5960 2 года назад +93

      @@seamuswalker6879 dear god

    • @seamuswalker6879
      @seamuswalker6879 2 года назад +86

      @@justinnelson5960 there’s more

  • @onikoneko
    @onikoneko Год назад +132

    "...and writes her off as pretty thoroughly dead" I think the implication here is that Ammi killed her, because at that point in the story the narrator goes on about how people can do terrible things out of necessity, that Ammi had a broken-off chair leg in his hands that he didn't remember picking up, and that he was certain there was nothing left alive in the attic after he left.

    • @slwrabbits
      @slwrabbits Год назад +30

      That's honestly pretty horrifying, as I'm guessing the implication is that he dissociated while killing her. Yikes.

  • @1015chrissy
    @1015chrissy 4 года назад +4416

    “He’s also super ugly...”
    Continues to draw Wilbur grow up to look creepishly handsome

    • @elshelalu2027
      @elshelalu2027 4 года назад +30

      L?

    • @ForrestFox626
      @ForrestFox626 4 года назад +381

      That is just Red's great artwork.

    • @marymccann3500
      @marymccann3500 4 года назад +222

      The monsterfuckers would be all over this guy if this story came out today

    • @woomyinkling3765
      @woomyinkling3765 4 года назад +72

      Fan girls draw Wilbur too yaoi ish

    • @melvinmerkelhopper5752
      @melvinmerkelhopper5752 4 года назад +125

      @@marymccann3500 Some guy named Stanley Sargent wrote a story called The Black Brat of Dunwich in which WIlbur is portrayed as a hero.

  • @edslushie570
    @edslushie570 5 лет назад +9924

    “Half-Human, Half-Octopus, Half-Dragon.”
    “This is what happens when you lack the constitution for math.”

    • @lyndacrnmr
      @lyndacrnmr 5 лет назад +1154

      No, no. You don’t understand. It has three halves because it is non-Euclidean!

    • @bonogiamboni4830
      @bonogiamboni4830 5 лет назад +407

      Half man, half bear and half pig.

    • @Guardsman--ku9wi
      @Guardsman--ku9wi 5 лет назад +214

      @@bonogiamboni4830 I see you are also a man of culture.

    • @toprak3479
      @toprak3479 5 лет назад +108

      @@bonogiamboni4830 Does it also bear the ability to levitate?

    • @bonogiamboni4830
      @bonogiamboni4830 5 лет назад +66

      @@toprak3479 sure, why not.

  • @PaulGAckerman
    @PaulGAckerman 3 года назад +4121

    I died every time Red cuts herself off when saying "unlike any seen on Earth."

    • @PaganBradTube
      @PaganBradTube 3 года назад +95

      8 times in total, in case anyone was wondering.

    • @SophieFox947
      @SophieFox947 3 года назад +62

      @@PaganBradTube Just enough for him to be on his ninth life... He's a cat person, I suppose.

    • @Ashley-the-fox
      @Ashley-the-fox 3 года назад +6

      @@SophieFox947 red isn't a dude

    • @achmodinivswe9500
      @achmodinivswe9500 3 года назад +29

      @@Ashley-the-fox I think he was referring to Paul

    • @Ashley-the-fox
      @Ashley-the-fox 3 года назад +10

      @@achmodinivswe9500 ok sorry enjoy your day friend

  • @kokodoko4798
    @kokodoko4798 2 года назад +750

    In all fairness, Cool Air sounds more like a Junji Ito type story

    • @VitaNewbo
      @VitaNewbo 2 года назад +131

      So, also in the comments is the idea that the story would work better if there was a final twist of the narrator being dead, and the Ac now keeping the narrator alive instead of the doctor. That to me is very, very Junji Ito.

    • @jadenbryant9283
      @jadenbryant9283 Год назад +55

      @@VitaNewbo and Junji Ito stories do kinda have a lovecraft feel to them

    • @Cheezbuckets
      @Cheezbuckets Год назад +54

      I’m about 80% sure that Junji Ito has said somewhere at some point that Lovecraftian horror was an inspiration for him. I can’t remember where I read or hear that, but Junji Ito’s reoccurring themes of mind-bending horrors that are beyond human comprehension (particularly in Spiral/Uzumaki and Hellstar Remina, imo) certainly seems Lovecraft-inspired.

    • @chrll
      @chrll 9 месяцев назад +8

      "This is my AC! It was made for me!"

    • @catbatrat1760
      @catbatrat1760 Месяц назад +1

      @@chrll NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO 😭

  • @paulinet68
    @paulinet68 3 года назад +1018

    The color unlike any on Earth seems to just be radiation. Makes things glow, makes crops weird, makes area uninhabitable, and is on the radiation wave spectrum. If we look at a meteor as just a very radioactive meteor, possibly made from incredibly enriched uranium (or an isotope that doesn't occur on Earth), the story would partially make sense.

    • @thekinginyellowmessiahofha6308
      @thekinginyellowmessiahofha6308 2 года назад +85

      This is a setting with ancient alien gods and sentient cats in space, pretty sure it’s just living color.

    • @jellofish2590
      @jellofish2590 2 года назад +70

      Oh yeah and uranium is a metal so it wouldn't chip, like what they said in the book

    • @Xalerdane
      @Xalerdane 2 года назад +16

      Remember, you have a higher degree of education than the dingbat racist who wrote the story.

    • @raymondwiggins354
      @raymondwiggins354 2 года назад +27

      14:10 she says "mysterious colors unlike any on earth"so much she just cuts herself off

    • @dull_demon4717
      @dull_demon4717 2 года назад +6

      that- thats the point

  • @SgtKaneGunlock
    @SgtKaneGunlock 5 лет назад +2743

    "why can't you just Nuke Cthulhu?"
    "Because it'll just reform and this time it'll be Radioactive"

    • @DimitrisGenn
      @DimitrisGenn 5 лет назад +109

      That can't be good

    • @glarnboudin4462
      @glarnboudin4462 5 лет назад +152

      Then call Godzilla.

    • @XwX1001
      @XwX1001 5 лет назад +59

      Also because it was the 20's.

    • @fleecemanjenkins6648
      @fleecemanjenkins6648 5 лет назад +39

      Replace Cthulhu with 682 and the statement still stands

    • @justas423
      @justas423 5 лет назад +40

      Also he's a god and stuff so our plebian nukes would be like chucking a pebble at human.

  • @Alucard-A-La-Carte
    @Alucard-A-La-Carte 3 года назад +2210

    I've read that Lovecraft was likely born with syphilis transmitted to his mother by his philandering father, which would explain his mother's slow descent as well as his consistent horror around inherited sin and sickness. But I don't think it's confirmed, still an interesting notion.
    Also I never get over the humor of Cthulhu, god of the old gods, ancient and unknowable nightmare that lurks beneath the waves, whose mere stirring sends artists and thinkers into screaming madness, is overcome by slamming a boat into its face.

    • @AGrumpyPanda
      @AGrumpyPanda 3 года назад +269

      Not overcome, just temporarily inconvenienced. As Red said, you can't deal with an Old One the way you deal with a Disney villain.

    • @jansasiadek2507
      @jansasiadek2507 3 года назад +34

      Lovecraft was an Ateist, but he still could hate sins probably

    • @XanderPGK
      @XanderPGK 3 года назад +31

      Lovecraft predicted The Little Mermaid! 😂

    • @starwarsnerd100
      @starwarsnerd100 3 года назад +128

      In modern stories they show how powerful the kaiju or alien mothership is by having it shrug off a nuclear bomb with minimal damage. I guess back then their equivalent of that trope was hitting it with a steam boat? It was probably a lot more impressive at the time.

    • @oculttheexegaming2509
      @oculttheexegaming2509 3 года назад +39

      And that's how the "Did you just punch out Cthulhu?" trope was born.

  • @eldritchmayosandwich
    @eldritchmayosandwich Год назад +451

    Petition to resurrect Lovecraft and have him play Subnautica, a game practically built on eldritch horrors.
    (Edit: punctuation, because yes.)

    • @justvibin1447
      @justvibin1447 Год назад +58

      Also make him watch "Shape of Water"

    • @springfaux6991
      @springfaux6991 Год назад +20

      "MAKE HIM PLAY FALLEN LONDON"

    • @misteraskman3668
      @misteraskman3668 Год назад +40

      Just the concept of Aquaman would make him shortcircuit.

    • @jadenbryant9283
      @jadenbryant9283 Год назад +17

      ​@@misteraskman3668which is funny because there is a verison of aquaman that is related to the lovecraftain mythos that being the kryptonian epic version

    • @irisoftheeye
      @irisoftheeye 9 месяцев назад +12

      Imagine him listening to The Magnus Archives. Lovecraftian horror AND gay people. Literally the stuff of nightmares for him

  • @LordDeathwing17
    @LordDeathwing17 2 года назад +6601

    When an archeologist says something was for “ritual purposes,” they mean “we have no idea what this thing is.” When they say something was for “fertility ritual purposes,” they mean “using the term ‘ancient dildo’ in academic papers is heavily frowned upon.”

    • @nasdfghidgf8081
      @nasdfghidgf8081 2 года назад +470

      This made me laugh more then it should have

    • @arandomkobold8403
      @arandomkobold8403 2 года назад +646

      Also "field release" means you dropped the little bastard, "impromptu dissection" means you just squashed it.

    • @annakilifa331
      @annakilifa331 Год назад +112

      @@arandomkobold8403 well, that's not exactly an archeology thing. ...I hope. 🤔😅

    • @arandomkobold8403
      @arandomkobold8403 Год назад +174

      @@annakilifa331 not with that attitude

    • @Slayerlord13
      @Slayerlord13 Год назад

      I support making the term "ancient dildo" acceptable in academic papers!

  • @neptunes-nebula6233
    @neptunes-nebula6233 2 года назад +3153

    I can't get over him having "too delicate a constitution for math"

    • @Ramsey276one
      @Ramsey276one 2 года назад +35

      O
      M
      G
      XD

    • @merlenclownshuffles
      @merlenclownshuffles 2 года назад

      @@Ramsey276one itym Mt

    • @kylajensen1957
      @kylajensen1957 2 года назад +126

      Hey, it's a big fat mood, especially for someone in remedial algebra who flunked their last chemistry exam 💀

    • @DragonbIaze052
      @DragonbIaze052 2 года назад +167

      Imagine applying that logic to games like D&D. "Ah yes, your Intelligence is 20, but your Constitution is only a 6, so you can't figure out how math works."

    • @darrylatkins5049
      @darrylatkins5049 2 года назад +58

      Idk. I'm a writer and philosopher and I can't stand math and am not very good at it

  • @catp6946
    @catp6946 6 лет назад +9801

    I assume someone's mentioned this joke: "Lovecraft was afraid of his shadow because it was black."

  • @Jarakin
    @Jarakin Год назад +161

    “Exit, pursued by Cthulhu” may just be the greatest Shakespeare reference I’ve ever heard

  • @aidanchilders9043
    @aidanchilders9043 6 лет назад +15666

    *All the famous horror authors of history are sitting together, having a spooky story contest.*
    *Stephen King:* Okay so once there was this really smart magic black guy-
    *Lovecraft:* AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
    *Stephen King:* Howard I haven't gotten to the scary part yet
    *Lovecraft:* _AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA_

    • @petervansan1054
      @petervansan1054 6 лет назад +1134

      at least lovecraft doesn't have magical orphan girls

    • @greatpower6063
      @greatpower6063 6 лет назад +1586

      Lovecraft: I'm sorry for screaming, it's just always on my mind the fragility of the lives we all live. We don't know what's real and what's not...the very concept of life and death is a dichotomy we both fear and try to sublimate but can never escape the finality of. No matter how long we are awake or dreaming, our lives are subject to a myriad of things, circumstances and other entities which we may not even consciously detect. As sudden as we are thrust into the world, a creature as small as a germ or as fearsome as a fervid madness may drag us away screaming to be a prisoner in our own mind and body. But please, Stephen continue to tell me about your story.
      Michael Jackson: Did someone say magical black man?
      Denzel Washington: Did someone say magical black man?
      Forest Whitaker: Did someone say magical black man?
      Dave Chapelle: Did someone say magical black man?

    • @ochsliker
      @ochsliker 6 лет назад +458

      Then Mary & Poe are just in the corner like what is MA lif

    • @admin.slayerenryu
      @admin.slayerenryu 6 лет назад +637

      Lovecraft: *AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH*

    • @rowdiken4837
      @rowdiken4837 6 лет назад +753

      Nah more like this
      Stephan:ok so like there is this supernatural stuff right?
      Lovecraft:AND IT GOT TENTICALS RIGHT!

  • @msun6526
    @msun6526 5 лет назад +1737

    Art teachers be like:
    *MYSTERIOUS COLOURS UNLIKE ANY SEEN ON EARTH*

    • @queenkaterose
      @queenkaterose 4 года назад +7

      here were dragons apparently there’s (maybe just) one color/colour we can see it’s magenta

    • @gracec7225
      @gracec7225 4 года назад +2

      as an art student I want to say you're wrong... but also kind of not really.....

    • @aldijanazukic9813
      @aldijanazukic9813 4 года назад +3

      I’M BLUE ABUDE ABUDIE ABUDE ABUDIE!

  • @BowandSvent
    @BowandSvent 3 года назад +5006

    "OH GOD ITS DARK WHAT COSMOLOGICAL HORROR IS THIS?!" "You blinked, Lovecraft."

    • @Dustifer
      @Dustifer 2 года назад +418

      "WHAT MIGHT THIS DARKNESS BE CAPABLE OF"

    • @matthewgallaway3675
      @matthewgallaway3675 2 года назад +231

      @@Dustifer “It dies real fast Howard. That’s what it’s capable of.”

    • @alexconn7473
      @alexconn7473 2 года назад +205

      @@matthewgallaway3675 "oh don't bother trying to explain it to him that Lovecraft is a fool who's scared of everything" pulls out hand mirror "here Howard look at this" "gah what manner of ungodly abomination is this?!" "See what I mean?"

    • @_AniMason_
      @_AniMason_ 2 года назад +88

      Actually Lovecraft never closed his eyes because all he would see would be black

    • @ghazghkullthraka9714
      @ghazghkullthraka9714 2 года назад +128

      ‘BUT WHAT OF THE LONG DARKNESS?!’
      ‘You took a nap, you moron’

  • @joshleggett4551
    @joshleggett4551 Год назад +184

    When you read At The Mountains of Madness you realize just how much Lovecraft feared penguins

    • @billuraral1870
      @billuraral1870 Год назад +24

      The Penguins of Madagascar would give him a stroke

    • @slwrabbits
      @slwrabbits Год назад +33

      Everything I learn about this guy just keeps topping itself in incredulousness and hilarity.

    • @AskMia411
      @AskMia411 7 месяцев назад +14

      YES OMG!!! Finally someone else brought this up! I had to put the book down and laugh hysterically for a good twenty minutes when the protagonist nearly pissed himself over a penguin waddling out of the darkness. In a story filled with truly scary and ominous horrors, a *penguin* of all things (granted, a very large penguin) terrifying the narrator is one of the funniest things I’ve ever read.
      And it’s not just the giant penguins he’s scared of. Earlier in the story he finds regular penguins horrifying and creepy. Which is Lovecraft’s fatal flaw in writing- he assumes that things he finds creepy are inherently creepy to everyone, and therefore doesn’t explain WHY they’re creepy.

  • @baldbeardedbassist
    @baldbeardedbassist 5 лет назад +1182

    "You mean there exist colors that man has never seen? WHAT MIGHT THEY BE CAPABLE OF?"
    very quotable, very good

    • @notoffensivenpc8400
      @notoffensivenpc8400 5 лет назад +39

      chernobyl: let me show you
      hiroshima and nagasaki: oh let us do that first
      fukushima: is the partys till going?
      the sun: keep getting rid of that ozone layer and you will see

    • @darensomintegillardig20
      @darensomintegillardig20 5 лет назад +2

      Skin cancer

    • @asingularitytypeofperson9917
      @asingularitytypeofperson9917 5 лет назад +9

      Everything from microwave ovens to everybody dies of nuclear fallout and radiation poisoning, apparently.

    • @votecthulhu9378
      @votecthulhu9378 5 лет назад +4

      I mean regular colored people are already capable of a lot of violence... what might those people be capable of?

    • @richmcgee434
      @richmcgee434 5 лет назад +13

      Relevant facts - the 1904 World's Fair featured an ancestor of modern medical imaging X-Ray machines, and X-Rays themselves were discovered in 1895. The idea of colors outside the visible spectrum was a well-established fact by the time Howie was in grade school.

  • @victorconway444
    @victorconway444 4 года назад +6144

    "Hates Progress Lovecraft" lmao that was gold

  • @samfromtheshire6761
    @samfromtheshire6761 5 лет назад +3207

    Fears: *Rural Massachusetts*
    Me: *lives in rural Massachusetts* That’s valid

    • @Yeeishaw
      @Yeeishaw 5 лет назад +15

      Sam From the Shire lmao

    • @tashabeck4121
      @tashabeck4121 5 лет назад +90

      All the farms are truly terrifying. One near me houses a peacock

    • @samfromtheshire6761
      @samfromtheshire6761 5 лет назад +101

      Tasha Beck rural MA is a combination of every creepy forest in horror films, huge empty farms, and those cabins in the woods

    • @tashabeck4121
      @tashabeck4121 5 лет назад +11

      Sam From the Shire all the reasons I don’t take night walks

    • @samfromtheshire6761
      @samfromtheshire6761 5 лет назад +25

      Tasha Beck I live right outside the woods and my backyard has an old shed and a bunch of trees so if I need to go out their at night it’s just “I’m going to be murdered”

  • @noizepusher7594
    @noizepusher7594 2 года назад +232

    Imagine being so anxious that you create a new fear.

    • @animalia5554
      @animalia5554 Месяц назад

      Sounds like me, my anxiety knows no limits

  • @jy3n2
    @jy3n2 4 года назад +2938

    I wonder what Lovecraft would have made of imaginary numbers.

    • @Cyfrik
      @Cyfrik 4 года назад +280

      As a complete tonal U-turn from this, I recall reading somewhere that imaginary numbers are what inspired Lewis Carrol to write Alice's Adventures in Wonderland.

    • @luisdaniel9542
      @luisdaniel9542 4 года назад +113

      @@Cyfrik yes, also stuff like limits and infinite sums, to him it was nothing but useless junk that had no real purpose

    • @xzenitramx666
      @xzenitramx666 4 года назад +23

      Aleph nule omega will blow up his mind

    • @redwitch12
      @redwitch12 4 года назад +128

      Become seized by confused panic and existential terror, then go on to write a story about an inbred rural cult somehow using imaginary numbers to open the gateway to the unknowable realm where the Old Ones lie entombed, only to be thwarted at the last moment by scholarly upper-middle-class New Englanders. Obviously.

    • @7superdaimajin
      @7superdaimajin 4 года назад +129

      What would Lovecraft have made of imaginary numbers?
      Nothing. Upon hearing of them, Lovecraft would have fainted.
      Weak constitution, you know.

  • @adiraiju9336
    @adiraiju9336 4 года назад +1245

    Personally, I thought "Cool Air" was easily the creepiest of the bunch. Partly because I'm a New Yorker who's relying on A/C to deal with the latest heat wave, but also because it's less... I dunno, less extreme than the others. No evil alien gods or incomprehensible horrors here, just a guy who should have died some time ago discovering that his time is up, and the horror of the people around him discovering it should have been up years ago in spectacularly gory fashion.

    • @douglassilva4057
      @douglassilva4057 4 года назад +32

      If you haven't read yet, hebert west is also very good.

    • @SingingSealRiana
      @SingingSealRiana 4 года назад +20

      My favorit too.
      Well my absolut favorits are the case of Charles dexter ward and the thing on the doorstep but the vibe is similar, the real horror is human

    • @levongevorgyan6789
      @levongevorgyan6789 4 года назад +3

      I thought Rats in the Walls was the worst.

    • @mothpawbs027
      @mothpawbs027 4 года назад +17

      Personally I think Polaris is one of his freakiest, about a guy who sees a magical city appear on the marsh (or moorland?? Can't remember) outside his house and begins exploring the city every night while his reality fades around him. That and Color Out Of Space are my personal favorites

    • @SingingSealRiana
      @SingingSealRiana 4 года назад +4

      @@mothpawbs027 sounds great, thanks for the recommendation ^^

  • @commanderjason7786
    @commanderjason7786 3 года назад +1951

    Y'know, if Lovecraft lived long enough to witness the Atomic Age, I wonder what he would've made in reaction to hearing about bombs that can wipe out cities in one go, while leaving a strange, invisible, and deadly force (radiation) around it. He'd probably try making some kind of sequel to Color Out Of Space including radiation, if anything.

    • @Joetheknight406
      @Joetheknight406 3 года назад +234

      Maybe the uranium could be the remains of an old one, and by using it we are spreading his influence

    • @commanderjason7786
      @commanderjason7786 3 года назад +137

      @@Joetheknight406 I can imagine him using uranium as the remains, that's actually a really good idea. Kinda reminds me how the Apothicons from COD Zombies used Element 115 to corrupt humans.

    • @ThePa1riot
      @ThePa1riot 3 года назад +48

      H.P.: CALLED IT!

    • @Dustifer
      @Dustifer 3 года назад +37

      He would write godzilla, which is already something about atomic bombs

    • @Joetheknight406
      @Joetheknight406 3 года назад +26

      @@Dustifer originally it was more about the ecological impact.

  • @thebaldcat6708
    @thebaldcat6708 2 года назад +172

    0:00 Intro
    0:48 Lovecraft’s life
    3:20 The Call of Cthulhu
    8:41 Cool Air
    10:37 The Color Out of Space
    14:38 The Dunwich Horror
    19:33 The Shadow Over Innsmouth

  • @joshuakim5240
    @joshuakim5240 5 лет назад +659

    My favorite drawing among this entire video is the one with the fish people procession purely because the leader of the procession is literally just a bipedal fish in dapper clothes. It's like he's saying: "Bitch i may be a fish, but i'm still more suave than you'll ever be." to any humans that might happen to see him.

    • @1krani
      @1krani 5 лет назад +24

      Clearly, Mr. Codfish has hooked up with some shady characters since leaving Nabumbu Lagoon.

    • @dawnlandspodcast8217
      @dawnlandspodcast8217 5 лет назад +44

      It's Obed Marsh's fishman son. He always liked to look nice, and damned if being an Eldritch horror is gonna stop him

    • @samlevy9897
      @samlevy9897 5 лет назад +7

      @@dawnlandspodcast8217 I love it

    • @iceluvndiva21
      @iceluvndiva21 5 лет назад +2

      XD yaaaaaaaaaas!

    • @gabrielbastos18
      @gabrielbastos18 5 лет назад +3

      @@dawnlandspodcast8217 Actually, it is his grandson, who is a son of his 1st son from his 1st (human) wife. Barnaba's (Old Man Marsh) mother, however, was a fish-person; his father was called, and I kid you not, Onesiphorus.

  • @aro7889
    @aro7889 4 года назад +2099

    I know I'm replying on a vid from a few years ago but I wanted to shed some light on the bit of the video that mentions that H. P. Lovecraft having "To delicate of a constitution for math". I asked a few college math professors I know and this is what they told me:
    Back around 1890 ~ 1920 there were obviously no computers, as such all math was usually done in rooms with tons of chalkboard or in lecture rooms with stacks of paper. A lot of the time these rooms were windowless or just had very poor ventilation. This was also before air conditioners were really a thing - as mentioned in the video.
    Because of all this the rooms were usually very hot and likely had tons of chalk dust in the air, especially if there was more than one person in the room. This would / could result in someone with a weak constitution passing out fairly regularly; this is likely what the comment about him being too delicate for math was based off.

    • @scouttyra
      @scouttyra 4 года назад +247

      This is very interesting.
      My first thought was that he possibly had dyscalculia.

    • @kryptonavenger2024
      @kryptonavenger2024 4 года назад +94

      Huh, neat. Learn something new everyday.

    • @southpakrules
      @southpakrules 4 года назад +54

      You came here for logic, reason & method? C'mon...

    • @beatle4-117
      @beatle4-117 4 года назад +147

      Damn, I think I also would've had too weak a constitution for math. That sounds extremely not fun.

    • @oryanstudios2252
      @oryanstudios2252 4 года назад +170

      So back in the day... only those with the toughest lungs could be mathematicians. Cool

  • @gabewright5571
    @gabewright5571 5 лет назад +2730

    Returning to this knowing that Mark Zuckerberg looks like Lovecraft makes everything so much more hilarious

    • @0riginal_zer030
      @0riginal_zer030 5 лет назад +291

      People say Zucc is a lizard person, but I think he's actually a fish.

    • @sprooch1043
      @sprooch1043 5 лет назад +71

      Aaron Wright Ok I knew he looked familiar, but I just couldn’t pin him down!

    • @themostbritishpersonalive868
      @themostbritishpersonalive868 5 лет назад +98

      @@sprooch1043 theory: hippopotamus Lovecraft never died he just hibernated until he returned under the name mark Zuckerberg

    • @raymondhamill270
      @raymondhamill270 5 лет назад +53

      @@0riginal_zer030 so Mark Zuckerberg is a fish person who worships Dagon

    • @themostbritishpersonalive868
      @themostbritishpersonalive868 5 лет назад +16

      @@barisops1884 *now with three arms* no it was colour unlike any seen on earth

  • @cyfrostan
    @cyfrostan 11 месяцев назад +161

    I feel like Red strikes a good ballance between calling out Lovecraft's bigotry, making fun of the stuff that's silly in his stories, acknowledging the unique strengths of his creative work and even having some sympathy for this man's awful life.
    I cannot overstate how much I appreciate a nuanced perspective like that.

    • @davidthor4405
      @davidthor4405 7 месяцев назад +4

      THIS! The intellectual scene needs more Reds

    • @catloverandminionbeliever
      @catloverandminionbeliever 4 месяца назад +8

      right, a lot of people are complaining how red highlights his VERY MUCH REAL racism and bigotry (you should see the name of his cat) and are missing their point completely. lovecraft is a renowned author that influenced a lot of our culture today, he’s famous for his work for a reason. ppl don’t understand that you can like Lovecraft and his work while also acknowledging he was a racist, instead of jumping through mountains to prove he wasnt.

  • @brunoenzo16
    @brunoenzo16 5 лет назад +2108

    Lavinia Whateley: *Gives birth two sons from an old demon god*
    Lavinia Whateley: N E A T!

    • @skeletongamer548
      @skeletongamer548 5 лет назад +89

      Yeah. One of which looks like a goat and octopus had rough sex with a human and the other looks like an incestuous relationship between Father(In his original appearance before Hohenheim) and Slimer from Ghostbusters

    • @chickenman6308
      @chickenman6308 5 лет назад +36

      (Randomly clicks on comment to see the conversation actually happening)
      Well gentlemen, remember those suicide pills I gave you for only special situations?

    • @queenalice7483
      @queenalice7483 5 лет назад +9

      N E A T O
      B U R R I T O* first of all

    • @CreepyTVChannel
      @CreepyTVChannel 5 лет назад

      ruclips.net/user/creepytvchannel

    • @SoupStores
      @SoupStores 5 лет назад +2

      Hey! That's pretty good!

  • @ianwhelan-miller90
    @ianwhelan-miller90 2 года назад +1321

    As silly as the light thing is in Color out of Space, it does kind of capture the utter horror that is acute radiation syndrome and environmental damage from unseen sources such as groundwater contamination and other pollution factors...

    • @merlenclownshuffles
      @merlenclownshuffles 2 года назад +5

      Ground water?

    • @neeklmamp4955
      @neeklmamp4955 2 года назад +49

      Ground water contamination

    • @secondairy
      @secondairy 2 года назад +48

      @@merlenclownshuffles there's pockets of water underground called aquifers that's why we build wells

    • @RainaRamsay
      @RainaRamsay 2 года назад +11

      That's ... true.

    • @mrs_mothra547
      @mrs_mothra547 2 года назад +18

      Yeah, that one actually freaks me out

  • @andersonborba2060
    @andersonborba2060 3 года назад +907

    So, fun fact: the color out of space is weirdly accurate, though Lovecraft didn't intend it. There is a color the humans perceive that is not on the visible spectrum (this color does not have a wavelength).
    TL; DR: Lovecraft basically described Magenta. A colour that we often see, but that has no wavelength associated with it. The reason we see it is because our visual recognition system does not allow for a specific redundancy (A small visual glitch).
    So for some context: The way our brain perceives color is through specific cells in our eyes that get stimulated to the maximum when an electromagnetic wave of a specific wavelength reaches them. We have three types of photoreceptor cells in our eyes, each is stimulated to the maximum by a particular wave. The color for each type of cell is Red, Green and Blue. The colors in between in the electromagnetic spectrum are recreated in our brain because our cells are being stimulated to lesser degrees and our brain does an averaging to reach back to the original color associated with the wave that created the stimulus on those cells.
    Now Magenta.
    The thing is: the in-between color when our red and blue cells are stimulated should be a shade of green (on account of a perfect average), but already have a green receptor that is not being stimulated. What does our brain do? what does best: it fills in the blanks, it creates something that not necessarily exists in the spectrum of light.
    Now comes the question: How can we perceive a color that has no wavelength associated with it? How come there is a way to stimulate the cells at both ends of the visible spectrum without stimulating the one in the middle? The answer is: by putting two wave-emitters really close together. The fun fact is that we cannot tell how many waves are stimulating a region containing hundreds of photoreceivers. So the only way to perceive is by having a "not green" group of waves stimulating a specific point in the retina.

    • @bloodstoneore4630
      @bloodstoneore4630 3 года назад +25

      Finally someone explains it

    • @katyajohnson790
      @katyajohnson790 3 года назад +81

      This is a fun explanation, but it obscures some of the scientific basis. Magenta does not have *a* wavelength, but it is not accurate to say it has *no* associated wavelength. It has two associated wavelengths - those for red and blue. It's not a 'glitch' to be able to perceive a combination of two wavelengths! For the same reason, our brain is not 'creating something that does not exist in the spectrum of light' for magenta, it is interpreting a combination of wavelengths, just like it does for pretty much all visual information.
      There are many other colours that are associated with more than one wavelength - they are called extra-spectral colours. Other examples are grey, white, black, pink, and brown.

    • @lissaquon607
      @lissaquon607 3 года назад +11

      Well that explains why my family can't look at the magenta grow lamp for too long. It gives us headaches and weird color vibrations afterwards.

    • @HowardHank
      @HowardHank 3 года назад +6

      My head hurts

    • @henryfleischer404
      @henryfleischer404 3 года назад +19

      I wonder if this is why a magenta and black checkerboard is sometimes used to denote a missing texture.

  • @stephanielester7571
    @stephanielester7571 Год назад +103

    Me, watching the Call of Cthulhu summary: "Wait, that's where it ends? What about Cthulhu? What about the cult? Hey Lovecraft, you left a dangling plotline, take it back!" 😅

  • @deaniesaurus
    @deaniesaurus 4 года назад +2616

    _a mysterious colour, unlike any seen on earth-_

    • @cozycr8485
      @cozycr8485 4 года назад +203

      aka magenta

    • @anastasianicolaenco4476
      @anastasianicolaenco4476 4 года назад +56

      I just love the delivery here hahaha

    • @GreyAngel
      @GreyAngel 4 года назад +19

      My favorite quote

    • @maxteraform
      @maxteraform 4 года назад +64

      Since this is Lovecraft, it was probably black

    • @goldenegg8of100
      @goldenegg8of100 4 года назад +38

      @@cozycr8485 it’s magenta, with blobs and streaks of orange and pink.

  • @Deidara525
    @Deidara525 5 лет назад +1565

    I love the anthropology joke of "ritual purposes?" "we already knew that."
    For those that don't know, in archaeology and anthropology, if you don't know what something is, you say it's for ritual because really, anything is ritual. Brushing your teeth? Ritual. Cooking? Ritual. Praying to some unknowable god who will destroy your world? Ritual! Getting ready for bed? By golly, you guessed it, that's ritual! It's a catch all for "heck if I know."

    • @khamulthewack4732
      @khamulthewack4732 5 лет назад +174

      I am now wiser and apparently more zealously ritualistic than I had realized. My refrigerator is practically an altar.

    • @iceluvndiva21
      @iceluvndiva21 5 лет назад +51

      Ritual or Routine..... You decide!

    • @guyjay
      @guyjay 5 лет назад +119

      It's also code for "this was clearly used for masturbation, but we don't want to acknowledge it." Sometimes the word "fertility" will be attached to it if it very obviously looks like genitalia and it is impossible to dismiss it as something else, but if there's even the slightest bit of ambiguity - "ritual."

    • @Valery0p5
      @Valery0p5 5 лет назад +7

      @@guyjay talk about the Linga and the Yoni 😅

    • @caitlinbrewer4843
      @caitlinbrewer4843 5 лет назад +48

      Fertility ritual = ancient dildo

  • @OverlordZenith
    @OverlordZenith 3 года назад +8170

    There is one thing Lovecraft fears more than anything else:
    Describing things.

    • @dlee827
      @dlee827 3 года назад +291

      The word "cyclopean" does appear an awful lot in Mountains of Madness.

    • @Fleshi_Guy615
      @Fleshi_Guy615 3 года назад +186

      I suppose he dislikes Tolkien

    • @VL-rh5tu
      @VL-rh5tu 3 года назад +309

      Yep, everything is just "unlike anything seen on earth" 😱☠️

    • @helast3916
      @helast3916 3 года назад +113

      And Brown people

    • @chumplestiltskin7927
      @chumplestiltskin7927 3 года назад +172

      I once partook in a drinking game wherein you took a shot everything he said queer to describe something.

  • @TheHutchy01
    @TheHutchy01 2 года назад +188

    Imagine old Howard's reaction to the new Little Mermaid. Non-white fish people is pretty much the worst thing he could ever imagine

    • @saisameer8771
      @saisameer8771 Год назад +17

      Well the movie did flop.

    • @ForrestFox626
      @ForrestFox626 11 месяцев назад +7

      I think a lot of new things would cause H.P. to have a massive heart attack

    • @Flt.Hawkeye
      @Flt.Hawkeye 10 месяцев назад +5

      ​@@ForrestFox626or 7. Simultaiously

  • @CartoonHero1986
    @CartoonHero1986 3 года назад +1667

    I just like to laugh at the fact that Lovecraft spent his life writing up horrors that would haunt anyone's nightmares if you think about them too much, but all it would take to elicit that same irrational fear and terror in Lovecraft is introduce him to a person of South East Asian heritage.

    • @reine-du-ciel
      @reine-du-ciel 3 года назад +240

      as a southeast asian, the idea of someone being terrified just by knowing me is amusing.

    • @pakki6555
      @pakki6555 3 года назад +46

      Me being from south asia like 😂😂😂

    • @bleddynwolf8463
      @bleddynwolf8463 3 года назад +159

      @@reine-du-ciel go my child, take pleasure in your power to strike fear in the hearts of conservative white dudes

    • @Messilegend1000
      @Messilegend1000 3 года назад +133

      @@reine-du-ciel "He is...Southern??? And Eastern??? And ASIAN??? What, and he eats fish too? Dont tell me he also eats ri- he does??? Not the rice. Anything but fish n rice. Oh god oh man"

    • @mistertea603
      @mistertea603 3 года назад +19

      @@reine-du-ciel you know that scene in spongebob with the two cops...? I emagine doing that with your picture

  • @jurassickaiju14
    @jurassickaiju14 3 года назад +2729

    Can we take a moment to appreciate how _good_ the art gets here? The shading and coloring in the sequences of Wilcox's nightmares and Armitage looking at Wilbur's readings of Yog-Sothoh are darkly gorgeous, and the depictions of what happens to the Gardner family are downright _nightmarish._

    • @anna_in_aotearoa3166
      @anna_in_aotearoa3166 3 года назад +67

      Thank you for noting this! Was just looking at the undersea dream sequence and going "WOW"!! The colouring, edge lighting & use of semi-transparency are super impressive... AND she can sing and tell stories well, this is an unfair amount of talent in one person! 🤪

    • @BNK2442
      @BNK2442 3 года назад +2

      Or how bad the writing was.

    • @Natoursofcourse
      @Natoursofcourse 3 года назад +13

      @@BNK2442 or are you just mad because the book was written by a racist. Tough cakes dude but roughly 70% of what narrative and historical structure is written off of is written and documented by a person with some kind of -phobe Or- cist

    • @Sacchi_Hikaru
      @Sacchi_Hikaru 3 года назад +42

      @@Natoursofcourse is this supposed to be some kind of gotcha
      Lovecraft was so racist even his fellow racists told him to dial it back a little

    • @Natoursofcourse
      @Natoursofcourse 3 года назад +9

      @@Sacchi_Hikaru yea lmao. Sorry I had a bad day. Still, i wont think this video or the books are poorly written

  • @VandanaSingh-zr9ji
    @VandanaSingh-zr9ji 4 года назад +1019

    He would be seriously scared of shrimps for being super powerful eye monster because they can see a lot more colours

    • @DarkestElemental616
      @DarkestElemental616 4 года назад +88

      Also they punch with the force of a bullet. Rainbow death.

    • @DiamondsRexpensive
      @DiamondsRexpensive 3 года назад +29

      If they can see more colors than us, then my dream is to become a shrimp.

    • @themardbard9096
      @themardbard9096 3 года назад +96

      Evidence:
      Shrimp can see many colors humans cannot, and shrimp are from the very scary ocean.
      Conclusion:
      Shrimp are descendents of the Great Old Ones.

    • @anomisk4789
      @anomisk4789 3 года назад +10

      I'm honestly more surprised he wasn't writing more horror stories about birds 🤣

    • @tpxt-rexpredatorxenomorph9200
      @tpxt-rexpredatorxenomorph9200 3 года назад +8

      You mean mantis shrimp or the pistol shrimp

  • @IronpenWorldbuilding
    @IronpenWorldbuilding 2 года назад +268

    I don’t know why, but H. P. Lovecraft with googly eyes is probably the most bizarrely hilarious thing I’ve ever seen. 11:03

  • @bibniebt
    @bibniebt 5 лет назад +532

    In spite of the sarcastic style, the summaries of the stories, especially Shadow over Insmouth, were actually still quite suspenseful. Red's got some damn fine talent at drawing a creepy scene

    • @ChloeStarz_
      @ChloeStarz_ 5 лет назад +2

      rick mann ????

    • @holden_7597
      @holden_7597 5 лет назад +10

      Lynlee 831 I’m gonna guess that someone deleted their racist comment.

    • @gewreid5946
      @gewreid5946 5 лет назад +5

      Yeah, that color out of space section was disturbing. Fits the story so well.
      That was actually one of the only lovecraft stories to really spook me.

    • @sebastianmorataboada9795
      @sebastianmorataboada9795 5 лет назад +1

      Yeah, that color would have genuinely spooked me if it weren't of the anticlimatic 'uNliKE aNy oThEr'

    • @pietrayday9915
      @pietrayday9915 4 года назад +9

      It's a testament to the stories as well that, even when you're pointing out the worst or most ludicrous things about them while skimming over the stories' strengths, they still stand up well as effective horror stories, enough so that they inspire even a harsh critic of them to draw such moody and unsettling illustrations.

  • @Telawin
    @Telawin 3 года назад +1964

    I feel like the ending of "Cold Air" sums up everything about lovecraft's views on science perfectly
    this man was kept alive for 18 years past his own death. but because he did die eventually it was "the failure of medical science"

    • @christophermacintyre5890
      @christophermacintyre5890 3 года назад +175

      He probably didn't believe in buying extended warranties either.

    • @OsirusHandle
      @OsirusHandle 3 года назад +38

      @@christophermacintyre5890 Thats how everyone thinks about it today.

    • @mattisvov
      @mattisvov 2 года назад +30

      I actually didn't thought about that. But you make a very good point.

    • @jgray1831
      @jgray1831 2 года назад +43

      Also shows his clear misunderstanding of science by saying “survived 18 years after his death” lmao

    • @TheKingDaMan
      @TheKingDaMan 2 года назад +29

      Him dying was due to modern medicine failing. Doesn't diminish modern science succeeding gloriously for 18 years one bit.

  • @bobbyiaconis7335
    @bobbyiaconis7335 5 лет назад +3445

    He bumped into a... BLACK GUY... *dramatic music and a gasp*
    I laughed a bit too hard

    • @CollinMcLean
      @CollinMcLean 5 лет назад +170

      It's honestly funny just how weirdly racist he is...

    • @jalaiclay6843
      @jalaiclay6843 5 лет назад +18

      Alright? Hopefully people aren’t like that right?

    • @Bronasaxon
      @Bronasaxon 5 лет назад +47

      The black guy who was strongly implied to be a cultist who killed the professor with a poisoned needle. He did NOT literally die because he was in proximity of a black person.

    • @00Trademark00
      @00Trademark00 5 лет назад +93

      @@Bronasaxon I guess the point is that every single villian in Lovecraft's stories is someone non-English. The more non-English you are the more suspicious you are. However, Lovecraft wasn't a Nazi or even a Dixieland kind of white supremacist, he was really an "English supremacist". I think it is quite important to note that his wife was Jewish, I think he was really very literally xenophobic - afraid of the unknown, not really racist in any other way. I find his racism almost funny - I had a chuckle when I read a story of his where there are three ne'er-do-wells (who end up very badly,basiscally in some sort of soul jars) who are Irish, Polish and Czech - I'm Czech. Obviously he describes how uneducated and primitive these three guys are and how questionable their morals are. Still, I don't think Lovecraft's stories aged badly - the racism is so over-the-top and yet so "innocent" that it doesn't really feel insulting at all, at times it even feels like a parody of racism. And it is not like it is the central part of his stories, the evil tribes from Oceania, black voodoo cultists, degenerate immigrants (white, by modern US standards anyway ... but for Lovecraft even Germans are not really "white" - Prussians perhaps, Bavarians definitely not :-) ) are just a backdrop and could be replaced by anyone else. The stories revolve about unknown and unfathomable evils from the vastness of the universe, not really about racism even though racism definitely is present in most stories.

    • @Dimizar
      @Dimizar 5 лет назад +19

      "I like how the story says bumped by "an aquatic looking n***o."

  • @irisoftheeye
    @irisoftheeye 2 года назад +98

    I love how everyone has different reasons for researching Lovecraft. Some read the stories and wanted to know more, some like Lovecraft-inspired horror, some heard about his cat, some wanted to make fun of the guy. For me, I need Yog-Sothoth related knowledge to write a fanfic about murderous space pirates and their eldritch Norse friend.

    • @notthed6534
      @notthed6534 Год назад +10

      Some heard about his cat. 😂😂😂 I forgot about his cat.

    • @arcainchaos
      @arcainchaos 11 месяцев назад +3

      …Would these space pirates happen to be The Mechanisms?

    • @irisoftheeye
      @irisoftheeye 11 месяцев назад +2

      @@arcainchaos and i said no, you know, like a liar.

  • @mikekazz5353
    @mikekazz5353 5 лет назад +1549

    I kinda want a Bob Ross esque tutorial on an Eldritch creature painting.
    "Let's use titanium white to highlight the burnt sienna skin tone, here *tsk,* here, and here, and you know what let's add an happy uncanny mouth right here oh the forehead, and for fun we'll put a decrepit little cabin in the background, now don't tell anyone it's our little secret."

    • @arandomzoomer4837
      @arandomzoomer4837 5 лет назад +64

      This deserves more likes. Yeah and then it would be funny to see the audience go mad as he painted it.

    • @SStarry_Days
      @SStarry_Days 5 лет назад +19

      I wish this happened.

    • @Samrules888
      @Samrules888 5 лет назад +4

      starbound frackinuniverse?

    • @SStarry_Days
      @SStarry_Days 5 лет назад +22

      Now let’s add a happy little cult.

    • @sesfilmsllc
      @sesfilmsllc 5 лет назад +21

      Now let’s give this happy little Elder god a friend.

  • @abbie_joan
    @abbie_joan 5 лет назад +1564

    "One trips on a corner and falls through the map"
    "homeboy's face is jacked"
    "UNLike anY sEEn oN EArtH"
    "JUST MOVE AWAY"
    *plays 'Man In The Mirror' to reflect someone's worst decisions*
    *plays 'Under The Sea'*
    i love the humor in these videos
    Edit: this comment has the most like I've gotten thank y'all for getting me

    • @dreadpiratedan4664
      @dreadpiratedan4664 4 года назад +3

      abbiejoa *sigh* me too

    • @sable7687
      @sable7687 4 года назад +2

      *oh THANK GOD*

    • @ForrestFox626
      @ForrestFox626 4 года назад +12

      Red is entertainment incarnate.

    • @acebalistic1358
      @acebalistic1358 4 года назад +17

      jojomilles the tripping of the corner was accurate. Boom says he tripped off a acute angle and just......kept falling
      So basically he did fall of the corner of the map
      Edit: book not boom 🤣

    • @omnicupid6694
      @omnicupid6694 4 года назад +9

      "AAAAAAAAAnd place your bets everyone."

  • @phantomwraith1984
    @phantomwraith1984 4 года назад +740

    "Armitage has some Latin spells, Rice has some bug spray of not invisible juice and Morgan just brought a really big gun."
    Morgan is my spirit animal

    • @magosexploratoradeon6409
      @magosexploratoradeon6409 4 года назад +33

      When all lost. Gun is your friend.

    • @devak6698
      @devak6698 4 года назад +15

      The essence of America

    • @kryptonavenger2024
      @kryptonavenger2024 4 года назад +30

      Clearly Morgan went to the DOOM school of killing unholy abominations.

    • @7superdaimajin
      @7superdaimajin 4 года назад +13

      Morgan's gun proves totally useless against the monster, just as the professors warned. It's basically Morgan's security blanket.

    • @Grim_Sister
      @Grim_Sister 4 года назад +5

      Truly, only Morgan is the real American here

  • @eclipsedmoon87
    @eclipsedmoon87 Год назад +37

    7:57 the fact that one guy clips through the map is arguably the best part of Call of Cthulhu

  • @Ajehy
    @Ajehy 4 года назад +1028

    Why do so many of the creepy things in his stories happen in February? Did HP Lovecraft also hate Valentine’s Day?
    ...probably yes.

    • @xzenitramx666
      @xzenitramx666 4 года назад +74

      Because he hated the number 28 and 29 also hated countries with celebrtion with that day, is wierd.

    • @thedapperassassin3717
      @thedapperassassin3717 4 года назад +41

      It could also have something to do with leap year and February being the shortest month.

    • @CarrotConsumer
      @CarrotConsumer 4 года назад +23

      Probably because it's very cold that month. He seems to like winter/cold as a devise.

    • @DiamondsRexpensive
      @DiamondsRexpensive 3 года назад +15

      Ironic his surname is lovecraft.

    • @DiamondsRexpensive
      @DiamondsRexpensive 3 года назад

      xzenitramx666 what other celebrations are there besides v day?

  • @amadhollow635
    @amadhollow635 3 года назад +2734

    Fun fact, he stopped being racist around 33 and called himself out about it
    I forget if it's in his memoirs or letters to a friend, but if I recall "how shameful for me to not grow up until 33, but better then than not at all" is the best quote talking about it.

    • @royalpayn4089
      @royalpayn4089 3 года назад +551

      He also joined the Socialist party before he died, which... I'm not sure what to make of that.

    • @alexschalk5439
      @alexschalk5439 3 года назад +1237

      I wouldn't say he stopped being racist. Started taking efforts to be less racist would be better.

    • @burnyoulearn
      @burnyoulearn 3 года назад +62

      Noooo! we cant say that! we must still burn effigies of him in the streets to appease the hyper-sensitive ones....

    • @burnyoulearn
      @burnyoulearn 3 года назад +402

      @@royalpayn4089 Socialism was rather vogue among poor, working-class Americans during that time. He grew up during the Gilded Age and witnessed the 1% machine gunning of striking coal miners. Even the "Roaring Twenties" furthered the divide between working class and their capitalist overlords. This was a prime time to join a union and advocate for a social safety net.

    • @burnyoulearn
      @burnyoulearn 3 года назад +67

      @EL AUTENTICO HIs tombstone reads, "I am Providence"

  • @Howtragicforyou
    @Howtragicforyou 3 года назад +1010

    There is this wonderful moment in “At the Mountains of Madness” where Dyer admits that he doesn’t blame the elder things for what they did to his people because it was much the same as any of his people would do to them. It’s this weird little moment of lucidity.

    • @toprak3479
      @toprak3479 3 года назад +172

      That one is one of his latest works and I consider it proof that Lovecraft was starting to see the flaws in his views

    • @LocutusBorgOf
      @LocutusBorgOf 3 года назад +54

      @@toprak3479 there's a wonderful hbomberguy video about Lovecraft that expands on this point, I imagine you've seen it

    • @toprak3479
      @toprak3479 3 года назад +26

      @@LocutusBorgOf No I haven't. I don't even know who that is lol but I'll check that out

    • @piratekingomega3292
      @piratekingomega3292 3 года назад +184

      @@toprak3479 During the great depression his world view basically collapsed. There was no noble aristocracy coming in to save the day, no proof of white “superiority”. white men and women were suffering just the same as black men and women and it broke him. He began to realize that all of his work was advocating for a belief he personally saw get disproven…and then immediately died of cancer. He wrote only a few books about this new world view with an underlying sense of dread that people might read them to support a cause he no longer believed, to justify oppressing people he started to feel sorry for.

    • @dradronicgaming744
      @dradronicgaming744 3 года назад +81

      @@piratekingomega3292 that is genuinely depressing

  • @Brainflayer
    @Brainflayer Год назад +62

    In my opinion, the way the Color Out Of Space movie handled the story's adaptation was pretty good, namely by making the color in question visibly portrayed as bright Magenta Pink, a color that appears nowhere in the natural world.

    • @Firebender554
      @Firebender554 7 месяцев назад +1

      I got curious so I looked up when Magenta was invented and Google said 1859

  • @marnsdnfois7006
    @marnsdnfois7006 6 лет назад +1304

    To give Lovecraft some slack, I also lack the constitution for math.

    • @Mathignihilcehk
      @Mathignihilcehk 6 лет назад +43

      I mean, small chance you do have a lack of constitution for math, but most likely you just never had decent instruction on math. Which should be more common than it is, because the k-12 system is not designed to teach math (or any subject) and it is a miracle people somehow learn things during that period anyways.
      Unless you mean you don’t enjoy math... Which is even more common, probably for the same reason. There is a rare set of people who enjoy math, even at the highest levels...

    • @obsidironpumicia4074
      @obsidironpumicia4074 6 лет назад +36

      Damn those geometric whatchacallems...

    • @jon9828
      @jon9828 6 лет назад +9

      @@Mathignihilcehk it's the sad reality we find ourselves in. Not necessarily one that can't be changed though.

    • @jamesverner9132
      @jamesverner9132 6 лет назад

      That was his choice and a mistake

    • @Mathignihilcehk
      @Mathignihilcehk 6 лет назад +15

      ​@@jon9828 "Not necessarily one that can't be changed though." I mean, I wouldn't mind trying to change it if it wasn't for the legal system and mankind's stubborn adherence to tradition. The entire educational system, from the ground up, is cripplingly flawed. The problem with improving it, is you are always going to drag those flaws with you unless you start from scratch. You'd have to convince families to donate children to this experiment and you'd still have the government breathing down your back telling you to stop innovating, because it doesn't fit their formulas.
      For example, consider the grading system. Do you think it's a natural progression system designed to explore every subject systematically so that students learn everything they need to by the time they reach 12th grade? On some superficial level, it is supposed to look like that is how it is designed, but it isn't. It's designed to find the best students and isolate them from the rest of the waste so that they can be inducted into the federal government. That's not what it is used for, but that is how "grading" works. You know the word "grading" like when you talk about different rock grades. Well your government thinks your children are no different from rocks. The method was intended to be repurposed to make public education more affordable and universal, but I'd argue that failed on every level. A lack of creativity resulted in that method dominating the system, and then tradition locked it in.
      It doesn't take a genius to come up with a superior system to "have children take progressively harder tests and ignore the results of the tests, while punishing those who score poorly but forcing them to continue anyways". It also doesn't take a genius to figure out that at all ages children develop differently. We learn to talk at different times, we learn to read at different rates, we get better at numerical manipulation and logic at different rates, we mature at different rates, etc. I know! Let's force everyone to do all of those activities at the same exact rate...
      But, abolishing the grading system entirely is problematic because of tradition. Try telling the government your children are in school but not in a grade. They end up forcing you to adhere to the grading system by taking end of year tests and comparing them with schools which focus their student's effort on doing well on those tests, as opposed to the actual content of the tests.
      I don't actually know what an ideal educational system would look like. But I know what it wouldn't contain. It wouldn't contain lectures where multiple students attend the same lecture at the same time. It wouldn't contain tests where moderate performance is considered passable. It wouldn't contain grades that span multiple subjects. And it probably wouldn't require students to sit still in desks despite the lack of ergonomics therein, nor would it label students, whose mental learning habits (which are common across humanity) aren't those favored by the school, as mentally ill.

  • @MathMasterism
    @MathMasterism 6 лет назад +804

    Shopkeep: "Everything's for sale my friend. Everything!"
    What do you got for sale?
    Can you train me in speechcraft?
    What can you tell me about Insmouth?

    • @lego007guym8
      @lego007guym8 6 лет назад +47

      ...And thus the lone wander ventured into point lookout where more adventures awaited him.

    • @nullpoint3346
      @nullpoint3346 6 лет назад +33

      I heard a Skyrim voice actor say that, do I have a problem?

    • @brigidtheirish
      @brigidtheirish 6 лет назад +6

      @@nullpoint3346 No, just means you get the joke.

    • @BoltofGreece
      @BoltofGreece 6 лет назад +8

      I loved that quest

    • @MathMasterism
      @MathMasterism 6 лет назад +1

      @@nullpoint3346 No, that what the point.

  • @GraveRobbinJake
    @GraveRobbinJake 4 года назад +756

    19:29 can we just say how precious the whately twins look, such adorable little abominations

    • @Billious
      @Billious 4 года назад +36

      Yes, very cute

    • @Picking.a.name.is.hard1
      @Picking.a.name.is.hard1 3 года назад +33

      I want plushies of them!

    • @VoidKing666
      @VoidKing666 2 года назад +2

      Agreed!

    • @VoidKing666
      @VoidKing666 2 года назад +8

      @@Picking.a.name.is.hard1 GIVE ME SOME PLUSHIES OR I WILL DEST-
      **cough**
      I would also like some plushies, please ^^