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Comments Show 17 - Delayed-Action Mystery Pooper (Patreon)

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2019-09-30 23:10:46
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We're talking comments from the month of August - Invisible Mans and Werewolf Ghosts!

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Anonymous

My most noteworthy comments that got read on this one were my explanation of the place of law in society and anarchist political thought, and my musings on invisible shit. Oh yeah. It smells like HPPodcraft tonight.

Anonymous
>>27385869

(Just gonna preface this by saying it may get a touch political, so feel free to ignore it and keep on truckin' to the other comments.) ... By the way, Chad, RE you sometimes having doubts about representative democracy--try taking your train of thought in the *opposite* direction and think of what a direct democracy would be like, instead of an oligarchy. (Which we already have, economically speaking.) This may not be a surprise, but I'm a bit of (absolutely) an anarchist myself, and I would point to power as the source of most large-scale problems in human society. After all, the more power you have, the more power you have to *grab* power. This holds true whether you're talking about economic power or political power--which have fallen into a vile little mamba of corruption in the States, to say the least. A combination of corporate money in politics, gerrymandering, unbending party loyalty, and a refusal from both sides to recognize anything but different flavors of liberalism (or fascism) as "serious," "legitimate" political discourse all combine to limit the candidates one even CAN vote for in most cases to nothing but the most milquetoast protectors of the status quo and corporatist whores. The issue is less that everybody has a say, and more that we don't. The ruling class toss a multiple choice question in front of us, and *they* selected the answers for it. If we don't wanna pick any of their preferred options...well, as the talking flytrap would say: Tough. Tittay. Would a direct democracy in which economic power is distributed laterally fix everything? Hell naw. A perfect society is an ideal to strive for, not something you can *attain.* But it'd drastically limit the ways (and the degree) in which the system can be abused to benefit a minority interest. You can't fix everything, but you can strive to leave behind a better society than the one you found. And with that, I should probably retire from commenting for tonight.

Anonymous

The comment about being trans and wanting to be invisible got to me.

Anonymous

If anyone has seen the Amazon Prime show “The Boys” ,Chad’s musing about hidden objects in “your can” and would they be invisible is answerable, Translucent Lol.

Anonymous

I always felt Signs should have been called "God versus the Aliens." The end of that movie did ruin it for me not because of the existence of God per se, but because of having us accept "one more thing" as you said. Was this supposed to be a modern remake of Santa Claus vs the Martians? Hmm.

Anonymous

An observation I recently made that is connected to S.T. Joshi. First off, I am not well versed on his stances on anything really. My impression from what I’ve heard about him is he is someone who would rail about “SJWs invading” the field of Weird fiction but I don’t really know any details of the bad blood or social media feuds or whatnot. I also don’t really read any modern weird fiction and stick to mostly the type of stuff you guys cover. However after hearing Copping Squid, I went out and bought a collection of modern weird fiction that contained it within. It was Black Wings edited by ST Joshi who selected all the included stories. After reading the whole thing I’ve come to the conclusion that their are two types of Lovecraft fans. One type of fan who reads Lovecraft’s xenophobic and racially insensitive lines as an unfortunate by product of the time he lived in and who seeks to bring the rest of the work into the modern era without those sentiments. The other type apparently seeks to emulate Lovecraft’s fear of minorities exactly because in several of the stories in the collection such wording was reproduced with care. I actually laughed out loud at this because the idea that those bad parts of Lovecraft we have to take and understand with the good would be faithfully reproduced, purposefully, never occurred to me. One story was exactly a modern day Horror in Red Hook. I laughed because when I was reading I got the feeling of course Joshi would pick this one.

Anonymous

Appreciated, as always, gents. Just to clarify: Yup, if you were the only one to visibly display a super power, you'd be hunted. Government agencies for sure. Mob folks? Probably. I honestly never considered folks with long guns taking pot shots at you, just 'cause, but that'd probably happen, too. Remember that as the one person with a super power, you'd not only be a very valuable commodity, you'd be something folks would want to study for your whole life. And a threat people would want to eliminate. And the object of anger and frustration as your very existence makes folks feel lesser-than. If you're the only one with a super power, you better make sure you can hide the heck out of it. Or nearly never use it. Going to the government to volunteer your services, well call me a cynic, but I don't think that would work out with them saying, "Gosh that's swell! Have a cape and a badge you precious darling!"

Anonymous

It's been a long time since I've seen the movie 'Signs', but I came across an interesting "Fan Theory" awhile back. Someone else will have to confirm this, but apparently it's never really out right made clear that it is in fact an 'Alien' invasion. The theory suggested that they were infact demons, or demonic like entities. And the only reason the water hurt them was due to the fact the little girl was converting the glasses into holy water. (Presumably without knowing it) Since it would not make sense for an Alien species to invade a planet of mostly water given that weakness. So maybe it still fits within Orwellian law?

Anonymous
>>27410992

And even if they did you'd suddenly be subject to their orders, with refusal being a criminal offense. Lord knows you don't want to *think* about the kinds of things they'd want you to do.

Anonymous

New take on invisibility or flight: Invisibility, because with flight you might lose your luggage.

Steve

There was a 2000AD strip called the visible man. Only his skin was invisible and without makeup, his internal organs would get sunburned. http://bronzeageofblogs.blogspot.com/2015/05/the-visible-man.html

Anonymous

Oh, Chad, you mention knowing about "Tyger, Tyger" because of Spiderman. Feel you no shame--I know about the poem because of... HPPodcraft! A passing allusion was made to it in "The Crawling Chaos" and you guys brought it up so many years ago. I still didn't read any of the actual poem, though, until I finally picked up Watchmen and got to the chapter "Fearful Symmetry."

Anonymous

Such wonderful usernames! Mine feels so lame in comparison. While we are blessed to be in the presence of royalty and whatever buttcraft is, here I am, Robert. Great show! Loved the discussion.

Anonymous

I remember the Tyger, Tyger episode of the Batman: The Animated Series. A geneticist kidnapped Selina Kyle and tried to turn her into an actual human-feline hybrid. Any fans of BTAS ought to know that the show recently got a High Definition makeover. I bought the boxed set last Halloween. It's Bat-tastic!

Anonymous
>>27470586

I still need to get it, but it's a good sixty bucks and I'm living paycheck to paycheck. I also need to get the set for Batman Beyond. Thinking back on my vague childhood memory of the episode, I recall feeling very sad during it, though I'm having trouble remembering the story beyond there being a pair of catfolk--husband and wife, I think. It...may also have contributed to my latter-day furryism.

Anonymous

Regarding the underprivileged invisible people, I've had to make similar calculations about what might happen if I got sick or my car broke - much less having to call off work due to invisibility (see how fast you get fired). It's hard enough to get by in the world even if you're a visible person working a full time job. I loved the discussion about ethics, the nature of humans etc. and the resulting comments. There are other places I can go to find discussions of philosophy and ethics AND invisible excrement, but not that many.

Anonymous
>>27477114

Invisible poop really sets the bar for philosophical discussion in America.

Anonymous

Oh, you guys didn't read any comments from last month's comments episode. Was this due to a lack of noteworthy comments, or was it accidental?

Anonymous

Great discussion, guys! Weird question, but have you thought about covering any movies? The Boris Karloff Mummy in particular has a ton of weird imagery.

Anonymous

A little aside about Tyger, Tyger. Its a Blake poem, a wonderful one of course but it also inspired the title of Alfred Bester’s 1956 novel “Tiger! Tiger!” Which you might know better under its later re-title of “The Stars My Destination”. Blake’s verse is reproduced on the first page of the book as well. The book is simply the best science fiction I have ever read. It’s the ancestor of the entire Cyberpunk genre. If you wondered where Gibson and his circle got their ideas from it was this 1950s book.

Anonymous
>>27533106

As an aside to the aside, Alfred Bester inspired the name of Bester, the fascist Psi Cop on Babylon 5, played by the exceptional Walter Koenig. (Who played Chekhov on Star Trek: TOS.) There's a lot of fantastic characters on that show--but as far as scumbags go, Bester is the bestest!

Anonymous
>>27408220

This might be what you are thinking of - https://www.theguardian.com/books/2015/nov/11/hp-lovecraft-biographer-rages-against-ditching-of-author-as-fantasy-prize-emblem - Joshi is upset because the World Fantasy Awards stopped using HPL's image for a trophy. I just finished reading a short series of Mythos stories/novels by Ruthanna Emrys - The Litany of Earth, Winter Tide, and Deep Roots. Joshi would hate it. I loved it, because it is Lovecraft without the bigotry. The monsters literally are the characters - Deep Ones, K'n-yani, Mi-Go, Ghouls, etc... Not to mention people of color, and people who are not heterosexual *gasp*. The characters even say in the books "We're all monsters here." But none of them are monsters. They are just people who are different.

Anonymous
>>27482933

They've done some, available above the basic patron tier. They did Alien a couple of months ago.

Frederic

I don’t recall which show had comment thread about monster manual podcast, but to add to it. I found this incredibly well researched youtube channel on dnd monsters : https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL-Tj3kmYOOy2OVjoqTO8joausM-6JjcI-