Given HP Lovecraft’s known status as a paranoid raging bigot, I wonder if there’s some game where the elder gods are cool actually, the “cultists” are just people broadening their horizons into cosmic queer transhumanism, and the investigators are just close-minded people wishing to restore their own sense of normalcy. Which, true to form, about half the time awaken into these horizons anyway.
I don’t know but I’m now very much considering writing that book, as a scathing critique of how those books are “products of their time,” and as a metaphor for how times change.
The op of that tumblr thread blocked me after I asked him about the fact things he claimed were common knowledge about a video game I played extensively as a kid do nopt line up with my memory. So I’d take his claims with a grain of salt.
I did some digging (and by that, looked at the first result on google) and it seems to be correct.
https://www.reddit.com/r/rpg/comments/17nafie/if_you_own_the_original_tmnt_rpg_could_you_find/
in case the link in the thread goes down:
What game was it? Just curious.
Not OP but Rifts was such a cool setting
it reads like the first warning signs of enshittification
hey look, these guys don’t really give a shit about the work they’re putting out! maybe that shoulda been a clue