Being Dumb Is a Superpower In Lovecraft
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- Опубликовано: 19 авг 2024
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"That dog is sick!"
"That's an eldritch horror."
"Ok but I don't need to know what breed it is to know that dog is sick!"
* Proceeds to remove mind warping splinter from "paw" *
* Eldritch Horror leaves of its own account because its problem was resolved *
"Tol'ja"
@@benjaminstorace6699 Dog was sick, jus needed a lil help is all! No need to be all scared it weren't foamin er nuthin'
@@benjaminstorace6699 I just imagined the cartoon "pop" sound after he pulls out the splinter and it's suddenly a more "normal" shape before leaving calmly despite having been a snarling mass of violence just moments before.
@@Grabnok classic tom n jerry shenanigans
I love that eldritch horror genuinely sounds like a dog breed in that context 🤣
In a game of Call of Cthulhu I played in years ago, one of the investigators was a real salt-of-the-earth southern old man. The running gag was that every time he passed a sanity check, he just said "that ain't real" and went on about his business like it never happened. To this day the phrase "that ain't real" makes me laugh.
Lmao that's good
Lmfao
That ain’t real
That ain't real
That ain't real
"Man that's a big octopus."
"Why is there so much silly lookin' fish?"
"Hank! That's Cthulhu the elder god!"
"That's a weird name for a fish...
Is it tasty?"
@@conq1273 cthulhu is a great old one
Elder gods are the beings who sealed him
@@SEEKER_Of_CULTURE Dey sealed him with salt? I like salty fish.
The voice is so much like Wally's that I'm just thinking about Wally as a Warlock who thinks his eldritch patron is his best friend
"A GIFT FROM RAT JESUS, PRAISE BE"
Oh I NEED that now!
I did a character like this in a campaign. It was this unknowable arcane sigil that followed her around. It used to be an archangel but it fell. I was playing a little elf girl who had not an ounce of sense to her. She trusted everyone implicitly, including this fallen archangelic sigil and so much of the time her patron was just effectively getting her out of trouble that she put herself in, because it knew that if she died so did it.
It was trying to teach her how to survive, and any advice that revolved around abandoning faith in any individual she would brush off, like "no, no they're just playing." Or "no silly, people are inherently good, we can't just leave them, they'll get hurt." When in truth they were like, brigands or cultists.
Two of the main dmnpcs that started following us around we're actually just randomly generated enemies at one point who didn't want to let her down.
@@alansmithee1412 "No Wally, that's the Great Horned Rat. Where did you even GET Warpstone in New York?!"
crossover episode where Wally gets to meet J'er'em'ih
Himboism: the only protection against cosmic horror.
Another reason why himbos are our true saviors
I don't know if you've every seen, "If the Emperor had a Text to Speech Device," but draws the exact same conclusion, and I am here for it.
@@cogsworther1639 i 100% agree
@@cogsworther1639 What episode?
@@moemuxhagi or whatever other imbo you are!
In the universe of the Magnus Archives, most monsters feed on fear more than actual people (not that they won't kill people, but that's not typically their goal), and one person survived an improbably long amount of time because she just fainted whenever she saw something scary and then these horrific abominations couldn't frighten her any more and just kinda moved on.
then there's that other lady who had an experience with The End and now she doesn't feel fear like even at all.
There was also that one guy that The Stranger was trying to feed on and he just Didn't Notice for a while.
@@curlygurly2112 Georgie didn't survive because she was ignorant though, she basically survived super depression and most of the paranormal bullshit decided she wasn't worth it anymore
what episode is this
@@emmajaramillo9160 well Georgie told her story in Dead Woman Walking while Fiona (the one who fainted upon getting scared) was discussed in a Season 5 episode where we got a bit of an infodump about Gertrude's assistants
We really need a season using the Call of Cthulhu system. I wanna see how Brennan just goes absolutely wild on some like vacuum cleaner salespeople or something
Maybe have Becca DM
Seconded
Prolly have to play pulp cthulhu if they want a season and not just.... Two episodes and a tpk haha!
That or like Delta Green
Itd be similar to his evil one off he did with Matt and them
Old Man Henderson works on a similar concept. He’s already, diagnosably, insane; so he dismisses eldritch things as either “the ugliest damn poodle I’ve ever seen”, or as hallucinations, because he knows he gets them sometimes.
Also he uses a necronomicon page to roll a jumbo-sized blunt at one point. Irrelevant, but I’ve always loved it.
literally smoked Cthulhu out
Lol
Remember that Old Man Henderson went out KILLING AN ELDER GOD.
@@Lode422 no, no, no, he went out *sharing a blunt with an elder god before they both died*. And Hastur never even learned whether Henderson was his first or last name...
I actually almost laughed myself to death the first time I read the tale of Old Man Henderson. Wife had to ask if i was ok because i was just wheezing on the floor 😂
Conclusion: Ricky "I always believed in Santa Claus" Matsui and Walter "I love you, Rat Jesus" Kugrich would fucking factory reset Cthulhu's ass into the next layer of reality
this is the best comment I've ever fucking read
This comment should be framed and hung in the Louvre
Why i am i crying
Poetry
When you stare into the void... and the void blinks first...
Mostly because you forgot how/what blinking works/is.
I love that Brennan is such a nerd that he drops the term "hound of Tindalos" into a conversation.
the smartest man in any room
love how he can't remember "hank or ox" but he can remember hound of tindalos.
I love the fuck out of him for it. Hounds of Tindalos are one of the coolest Lovecraftian creatures.
If you’ve ever heard of Alan Resnick before who did This House Has People In It and Unedited Footage Of A Bear, you should watch Children of the Mirror. It has some awesome lovecraft references in it you might enjoy, it’s funny, but also disturbing in a super subtle way. Highly recommended.
It's similarly reflected in bloodborne. At low insight, the winter lanterns have to deal a lot more frenzy damage to fuck you up; but at high insight, a single glance at them could rob you of your entire life gauge
I just love how thematic it is that insight, mechanically, does absolutely nothing. It's literally just for lore and completion purposes, but in regular gameplay it's nothing but a liability. It's literally Miyazaki saying: "Well, if you insist in gaining knowledge that will benefit you in literally no way, all you have to do is lower your frenzy resistance. Have fun facing the cosmic horror!"
Oddly enough there's another way Bloodborne shows how this kind of stuff could be avoided with the Skeptic Man NPC. He's the only NPC with a questline that never ends with him going insane and it's not because he's dumb - he's actually one of the most lucid and intelligent NPCs in the game. Rather it's because every time you interact with him he calls you a liar while claiming HE knows the REAL truth, any advice you give him he'll do the opposite, and any time he comments on other NPCs and what he thinks of them his interpretation is always the exact opposite to what they're actually like. He literally avoids insanity by stubbornly just living by a "I reject your reality and substitute my own" mentality and interpreting everything he sees as some kind of trick that he's "too smart to fall for."
@@chazaqiel2319 don’t you need like forty insight to see the amygdalas and be transported by their grasp rather than killed? Or is that just a coincidence that I’ve just passed that threshold every time I am able to perceive them
@@kittyplayz1480 been a while but I’m pretty sure you only get transported if you survive the damage, regardless of insight. I know you can get there with zero insight, as I dumped all my insight in my first play through and still ended up there… but I don’t remember how exactly. Might be tied to game progression.
@@asherandai2633 so it is the tonsil stone for the base game one, then, and the eye of a blood drunk hunter for the dlc. I could never figure that out
In Germany, there's a P&P game called "Plüsch, Power und Plunder" (something like Plush, Power, and Trinkets). You play as stuffed animals which have the task to protect the children and each stuffed animal has unique powers. One of them is the ability to fly which is possible because the stuffed animal is too dumb to know that it can't fly.
I don't know German, but plunder is an English word (generally referring to valuables gained from conquest/adventure). So, Plush, Power and Plunder probably fits just fine.
@@GuybrushTThreepwood Unfortunately not in German. We have the verb "plündern" from the same root, which indeed means "looting", but the noun "Plunder" isn't used for "loot" (which would rather be the term "Beute"). Instead Plunder is used to invoke the image of random junk items of low value that you may want to get rid of at a flea market.
I see. Trinkets, or perhaps baubles would be a good good translation then.
@@dschehutinefer5627 I would say that thats a more modern understanding of the term though. I think just two generations ago, people would have used Plunder just generally for a collection of mixed items. Without the devalueing undertone
Perfect
My group that I play that game with on tabletop simulator had a round where I ended up as Hank. By the end of the game he was an absolute monster. He never lost sanity and he rolled like 20 dice at once to attack things, he was just annihilating everything on sight. We maintain the reason the Great Old One didn't wake up during that round was because it learned to fear Hank as he ascended to divinity
“Hehe that blobo looks funny,ima smack it” and just like that he killed a god
@@claraclenky9843lmao
That's just called "having an open mind", just because your house pet doesn't conform to the laws of the Euclidian space and Newtonian physics, that doesn't mean he's not a good boy.
That's the most wholesome, dimensionally tolerant thing I've ever heard.
Like in Monster Hunter International. The characters need to have "flexible minds." Cause they do occasionally kill Old Ones. Or thier servants.
An open mind is like a fortress with its gate unbarred.
@@JoshSweetvale how does that work?
@@okkoheinio5139 enemy soldiers no longer have to assault the fortress. They just walk in through the unbarred gate
"That dog is sick" [demonic noises] "yup, that dog is sick"
I now love his power
This was a rule in 6th edition of Cthulhu. If I remember correctly, if you were going to gain an insanity you rolled an INTx5 check, and if you *failed* you didn't go mad because you didn't comprehend what you saw. I scrapped it because I ran for a lot of min-maxing fiends who would absolutely make the stupidest possible characters. Fun fact: you rolled Size and Int in the same pool of results, so people can be big or smart. So I was faced with a lot of 8 foot barbarian professors and detectives who could barely tie their own shoes until I instigated that rule.
"What is your doctorate in?"
"Smaathing..."
"Damn bro, where do you work out?"
"The Library"
-Snap cut to an 8ft, 40IQ beefcake pumping iron between stacks of unread books, slamming protein shakes and dunking on nerds
@@The1337Duke Nah he helps sort the books and carries the blind visitors to the braille section and back again.
Idk that sounds hilarious
Chthulu vs. the LA Lakers
This man would see an Eldritch Being Lurking from beyond this layer of reality and just be like "Y'know, what the dog doin'?"
In a world of gods and monsters who warp the sapient mind, it pays to just barely count as such.
Or to already be warped beyond recognition
Blessed is the mind too small for doubt.
So what we're essentially saying is, Homer Simpson could theoretically defeat an Elder God?
pretty sure Homer is an Elder God at this point
He's immortal and just being near him did drive Frank Grimes to insanity.
I mean, he did get briefly sent down to Hell to be punished for his gluttony by eating infinite doughnuts, and he managed to somehow make Hell run out of doughnuts. He was literally able to consume infinity of something - an Elder God would be a cakewalk
He has just enough sense(at least most of the time), I feel like Cletus would be the actual one who could. Him and his infinite spawn
He beat Cthulhu in an eating contest, chopped his body to pieces, and then boiled and ate him.
And it wasn't out of some vengeance or desire to save the world, either. (Though he was threatened into the contest at first) He just enjoyed the eating contest until Cthulhu passed out from overeating, then guessed that his undying flesh would make a good gumbo.
@@fairystail1 Kind of like Fry from Futurama, who *Spoiler alert* defeated the flying brains thanks to his stupidity.
"Ya can't break what's already broken" -Fiddleford McGucket
god i NEED to see brenden's take on CoC. after baron, i feel like he could give us all nightmares for decades, even as we laughed ourselves to sleep
Brennan.
coc...
Call Of Cthulhu
@Amel Gris clash of clans
There are few greater highs in Arkham Horror than playing Hank with Shotgun.
George: "My god, what is that horrid creature??"
[chik-BOOM]
Hank: "Dead."
Eldritch horror must be the only game where having low awareness is good
it can be a blessing or a curse or both
I suppose if you're going to get eaten by a brain shattering horror from beyond darkest nightmares of man it's better to have absolutely no idea that's about to happen.
Just blissful ignorance and then BAM! Turbodeath, no desperate eye gouging or bloody gargling as you try scream yourself to death for having seen the thing
“The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents.”
I dunno bout them fancy words, but I think that there big green fella has something in his beard.
More powerful then is the human mind that cannot correlate ANY of its contents!
My mother is a neuroscientist and she has an intense love/hate relationship with this
Conan the Barbarian was able to face off against a number of eldritch horrors basically by not caring about the grand revelation of the cosmos. He sees a corner-hound or a mi-go and is just like "pfft, whatever," and hits it with a sword.
So what, he's shown like, the heat death of the universe and he's just like "meh, unimpressive" *BONK*?
@@dianauwu1312 "Whatever man, I've got my own shit going on"
Cthulhu: I am Cthulhu! I shall destroy this world and consume your soul!
Dumb character: Ahahahaha... funny looking squid...
Got a li'l sumpin' in ya beard, buddy!
*slowly pulls out a bottle of hot sauce*
Dumb investigator: what the dog doin'?
That is some Old Man Henderson shit, and I love it.
Now I'm just imagining Hank just threw a fishnet to the fucking cthulhu while yelling "jackpot!"
*Encounters a cultist twisted by the abyss knowledge*
Are you ok my boy? May i offer you some dried peaches?
The opening line to call of cthulhu is basically "if humans were any smarter we'd all be dead"
That basically sums up Hank Samson lol. He doesn't need to make Sanity checks if he wins a fight.
The best protection against your brain shorting out is not having any wires to begin with 🤣
Reminds me of how grog kept getting successful on wisdom saving throws against kraven edge and they just said it was because he was too dumb to be corrupted lol
Probably the only person that could befriend chthulhu truly
Eh, check the SCP Cthulu. All he wants is the news and to play video games. I'm not kidding. He literally is kept in a underground containment building, because he's tired of all the cults that form to worship/free/kill for him. All he wants is to keep up with news-newspapers though, and to play video games. It's HYSTERICAL. A eldtrich horror who'd rather be playing WOW.
"No Hank that's an Eldrich horror" lmao
that would honestly be an amazing defensive/immunity superpower.
Makes me think of that vid where this lady’s filming this juvenile gator, and all you hear is this kid in the back sayin “CaN i PeT dAt DoWg!?”
If people are wondering the character is Hank Samson introduced in Innsmouth Horror.
This does highlight the real horror of a good eldritch horror story: to fight against the monstrosities you need to understand them, but to understand them is to invite insanity; thus your choices are to die in ignorance or to fight until you go insane.
They made the human flaw most despised by Lovecraft into a superpower
which is funny because health potions lovecraft was actually very poorly educated and not the sharpest bulb ie. every time he mentioned non-euclidean geometry as horrific and unknowable
@@liamzakhaev He was actually s pretty brilliant man, in his own right. For someone who left school after highschool, he self taught astronomy as well as many other things. He wasn't dumb by no account.
@@megatronbee The man failed at math so thoroughly that he thought non-euclidian geometry was some esoteric madness rather than just geometry on a curved surface.
@@thomasparkin259 Pretty much lol
He was really bad at math, but pretty well written
@@thomasparkin259
I don't know man, some people who graduated from College here can barely point to Utah on a map, and I saw one girl take 4 minutes to answer the question " How many moons does Earth have."
Failing advanced Calculus doesn't seem as big a sin.
i certainly need to do another lovecraft campaign
I'm imagining some scientist-type character who's _way_ too fascinated to go insane
Like everyone else is slowly losing their minds to the unthreading of everything they thought was true and the character is just "Wow that's awesome I need to write this down!"
This is basically how Ogryns work in 40k.
Once played a schizophrenic character who actually dealt with Eldridge horrors pretty well because to them nothing made sense already
My friend and I say “that dog is sick!” To each other at least once a week because of this video
He’s like the dad from invader zim, he doesn’t acknowledge/know what happened
Glad to hear the Henderson method is alive and well
Honestly, being dumb as a superpower really speaks to Lovecraft as an author. Always writing "intelligent" curious protagonists that get their minds blown and then comes Hank just overthrowing those classist views
Considering what Lovecraft thought of anyone who wasn't an old money, formally educated, urban Massachusetts resident, you're being waaaaaaaay too generous with your credit. People give Lovecraft shit for his racism (even by the standards of the time), but while he was certainly that, it was just the tip of the crazy iceberg. Dude was seriously mentally damaged. Take a look at what he thought about anybody from a small town before you give him credit for overthrowing classism.
@@neodav00001 Totally agree, Lovecraft was a garbage person. But it’s nice to see people making him spin in his grave.
@@neodav00001
I knew about the racism but he was really that much trash?
@@marcoboscarol2420 Yes, he definitely was, but only as a younger man. By the time he died he actively denounced his former views as idiotic and reactionary.
People tend to ignore and downplay that, but if people - even, or arguably especially, the worst of us - aren’t allowed to change for the better, what’s even the point? So I think it important to note.
@@CelticPheonix101 He was still kind of shitty even when older, but I have no doubt he would have mellowed out even more if he didn't die so young.
"When you don't know enough to realise you don't know enough, you can achieve thing ordinary people can't."-Red Dwarf.
Love the game and character. With one of the expansions he gets a personal mission which is dramatic for most characters but for him it’s to find his Pa. When Eldridge Horror came out and he was added I just imagine him traveling all over the world in search of his Pa.
Now I’m just imagining Wally in a CoC campaign
Blessed is the mind too small for doubt
Facts: There was a clip with Brennan, Lou, and Siobhan talking about characters inspired by fairytales. No there is a video about eldritch Horror.
Theory:The next campaign is Lovecraftian Horror meets Grimms Fairytales.
Sounds a lot like either Changling the Lost or Changeling the Dreaming to me
And how right you were
I love that Brennan used the hounds of tindalos. One of my favorite eldritch beasts.
LOL Hank the Farmhand! Yeah doesn’t need to do a sanity check when first encountering a monster! :p
This makes me hope we mgiht get a Call of Cthulhu game for Halloween.
Hank Sampson! One of my favorites in Arkham horror.
This is when the monsters need to respond or something. Almost a Scooby Doo moment
How the fuck did that guy not burst out laughing at that impression 😂
That voice 😭 it's so adorable hahaha
Guy sees an eldritch horror
Guy: What the dog doing?
" That dog is sick" so I can make the character say "what the dog doing"
I like how in this context, “Ox” and “Hank” are just perfectly acceptable names to get confused with one another lol.
This, well another clip of it, was like one of my first introductions to Brennen and I still love it
I'm sitting here, clutching my stomach, laughing at "That dog is sick!" 🤣
Tindalos hound coming out the corner and he "what the dog doing"
I think about *"That dawg's sick!"* at least once a day
"That dog gotta be put down lik Old Yeller."
We called him "Hank the God puncher" in our games. He was a group favorite.
This is literally what I say whenever I find a non-humanoid boss in Elden Ring.
Hank Samson! *long stare* Hank Samson! *covered in blood*
"BEHOLD! HORRORS BEYOND YOUR COMPREHENSION"
"i don't get it. they're beyond my comprehension"
“That well sure is glowing a strange color”
“Ah sweet, eldritch cosmical horrors beyond my comprehension”
This video has one downvote. I would presume it was from Hank, but was he smart enough to even find this video?
Hank thought he was upvoting.
It's not from Hank, it's from a Cornerhound that resents being reminded of its failure.
Was it ox or Hank ?
I was running a call of cthulhu campaign and my boy ended up with a character exactly like this
Alternative line: "what de dog doin?"
In Call of Cuthulhu there is a similar mechanic. When you lose more than 5 sanity in a single moment, there is a chance for your character to go Temporarity Insane, which is really bad news. You roll an Intelligence check and if you FAIL, then you do not comprehend what you are seeing and do not slip into temporary insanity.
Fry from Futurama when he defeated the brains by being too stupid to brainwash
I'm worried that I'm the exceptional dumb investigator. It speaks to my soul.
My brother always played Ox Bellows like "OX THINKS THIS STUPID"
Monster appears
Character so dumb: "I know whats wrong with it, ain't got no gas in it."
Hank witnessing eldritch horrors beyond human comprehension:
🤨 (He doesn't comprehend it)
"DAT DOG NEED T'GO TO THA VET!". 🐕🦺🐕🐩🧬
This gave me the best movie idea. “Mr. Bean vs Cthulhu”
That dog is sick….cut to the dog doing a kick flip
This is part of the reason why I exclusively play Ox Bellows in the board game "Betrayal at the House on the Hill".
Not much of an actual mechanical benefit against sanity at all, but it's just fun to play the dumb man-mountain in the horror scenario sometimes.
His southern accent is on point lmao
That stuttering in the beginning is me.
Oh god why did I just now imagine an Eldritch themed Dimension 20 season? I would fucking love that.
Old Man Henderson: "That's the ugliest damn poodle I've ever seen."
"That dog needs some essential oils."
"Well I'd admit it purdy dang confusin' but on da other hand mos thins are so what ya gonna do"
Wheatley not understanding the paradox in portal 2
Feel like this man's the only DM that would make eldritch horror fun for me
We all need a Hank in our lives
This is super cannon to Lovecraft’s stories too
Reminds me of old man Hendrson.
Can't go insane if you don't know how to spell it