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I can only recommend Necronomicon: The Best Weird Tales of H.P. Lovecraft as it's the only book of his I've owned and read (just this morning have I finished The Call of Cthulhu, despite having owned it since my college days), but I think it does a good enough job of showing off his 'Cthulhu Mythos' (what he's most famous for) and some of his 'standalone' horror works. Not really, no. Despite how generously fleshed out Lovecraft's works were during his life, they're still very cryptic and most adaptations revolve around others' work. Take for example the Call of Cthulhu (2018) video game - as I've just discovered it had virtually nothing to do with the short story of the same name, barring the tone and lots of green. However it was developed in collaboration with the rights holders of the tabletop roleplaying game, Call of Cthulhu, by Chaosim Inc. As said before, some stories are part of the Cthulhu Mythos (a 'Lovecraft Cinematic Universe', one might say), wherein the Great Old Ones are incomprehensible and more hauntingly, inevitable. Others are simple eerie stories about rats. I personally would recommend looking up some Lovecraftian imagery to get a better idea in one's mind's eye when reading the original work, however what's said in the book has been lovingly recreated since. I'm surprised how true to the source material the look of Cthulhu and the Great Old Ones has remained over a century later, if a lot of the themes of the books have been downplayed because it's easier to acknowledge that Cthulhu's a big bad tentacle monster. I'm afraid I can't fully answer this question, but here's my observations as to the central themes of good Lovecraftian writing: The monsters don't can't die. While a Call of Cthulhu game can have combat, it's usually a pointless affair. While many cultist worshippers of the Great Old Ones are mortal and can be gunned down, some have been blessed with near invulnerability and features akin to their tentacled gods. As for Cthulhu Itself.... It can't die. It can be made to go away, but it will come back because its cult has existed since the first men, and will be there long after the last. This is always at no small cost to life and sanity. 'Tis better to die than to go insane. Dying is considered the win state in the grim darkness of the Cthulhu Mythos. You can't possibly hope to lead a normal life knowing what you do about the Necronomicon, the non-Euclidean architecture of Cthulhu's resting place, and shooting as many loathesome hellspawn as you'll encounter. Alternatively, being ignorant of these things is for the best. Chances are we won't see Cthulhu in our lifetime given how many countless millenia It and Its kin have existed, and it's a good idea to keep it that way. A product of its time. While Cthulhu's exploits have been recorded in Ancient Rome, the Cold War all the way to the Cyberpunk future of 1994, Cthulhu is at its best in my opinion when it's set in its gaslight era of the early 1900s, or before its author's time in the 1800s. I don't say this just because of the unfortunately liberal use of racist language common for Lovecraft's region of New England, but because nobody could conceive his eldritch horrors at the time. They'd thought the worst was over with the decline of religious supernatural belief, the rise of world-changing political ideologies and the Great War finally ending, and now they have to contend with the notion they don't have everything figured out? It was the perfect time to say science didn't have all the answers, for all the advancements it had made. So with all that said, what games do I recommend? Not many as I still need to familiarise myself, but here goes: The Amnesia series. This was one of the earliest indie games to revitalise the horror genre for mainstream audiences after the so-called AAA industry had had enough of it. A first person puzzle and stealth game, the player is typically tasked with remembering what it is they're doing in the haunted house they're stuck in, chased by horrific flesh constructs and having to look at candles to stay sane. Call of Cthulu (2018) and Call of Cthulu: Dark Corners of the Earth for the obvious reasons. You might also try Achtung! Cthulu Tactics for a game based on the WW2 tabletop roleplaying game of the same name (barring the 'tactics' addition). I was going to mention a few Warhammer titles like Space Hulk and Vermintide, but they don't quite do enough to capture the whole Lovecraftian theme, not that they try to however much inspiration they take. I think once you've read a few of his stories you'll end up seeing influences everywhere, and might say "this could be a Lovecraft story if it weren't for this being explained already", like I did in regards to Resident Evil lately.

In Witcher 3 there are a number of cabins with cozy interiors of the old woodland life. I've even taken a number of pics to dream about it. Here at home I would throw down a bale of hay right in my living room floor and hang out drinking. That was in my hay days. I've seen some cool houses in RDR2 also. I find it kind of cool in AC Origins they would have small stone houses and sleep outdoor on the roof, or right on the floor with no doors or anything and just enjoy the life. So I like either a wood cabin or all stone and open air.

So many games I've played so much, that I don't even feel a sense of accomplishment or like I've received any rewards in anymore. Others, I'm so lost that even seeing an unfamiliar tree feels like a reward. As for in the middle, I can think of two. Blaster Master and Legacy Of The Wizard. Blaster Master - Obviously like all games, BM gets progressively harder as you progress through the game. But BM takes it up another notch. Finding the right subdungeon room that holds the boss of the area is just the beginning. You have to then figure out how to fight and kill it. Then you have to find the entrance to the next area. Which is hell on earth. I was in my teens before I found the entrance to area 4. From area one you go to area 2. From area 2 you go to area 3. Seems to reason that from area 3 you would go to area 4, right? Nope. From area 3 you go to area 2. From area 2 you go to area 1. And from area 1 you go all the way to the starting point in the level. There you use your new hover ability to hover up past several booby trapped platforms, and hope you don't run out of hover power before you make it to the top. Then you have found the way to area 4. How many kids do you think were calling Sunsoft and going "WHAT THE FUCK?!?!?!?!?!" Legacy Of The Wizard - Where do I even begin. Many of you have seen me bitch about this one. It should be simple enough. Collect 4 crowns, wake a slumbering dragon, kill said dragon, win the game. Bull-shit. This game was released in North America in April of 1989, and I got a used copy that same year from a kid who hated it. he knew I liked fantasy stuff and agreed to sell it to me for cheap. So that's 31 years. I have, as of today, found one single fucking crown. In 31 god damn years. I've been playing that game, hoping to at least find a halfway point at 2 crowns, longer than many of you reading this have even been in existence. If a video game could be prosecuted, I would want this one to get the fucking chair. But I can't quit until I have beaten it. I won't use online guides because I've been playing it longer than the internet has existed. I'm not entirely opposed to a Game Genie at this point. I may try it at some point. If a game can cause an aneurysm..... Fuck. You . Brøderbund.

I've run into scalpers at hockey games several times. When the Red Wings would come to St. Louis to play against the Blues, I would get early entry since I'm in a wheelchair. These assholes are outside and trying to charge people $60+ for $20 tickets. And all too often, the tickets would turn out to be fake, and the dumb son of a bitch that bought from the scalper would be royally fucked. I had one jackass try to sell me a ticket. I punched him in the throat right on his Adam's Apple, took the fake tickets (a 4 year old could have done a better job) and went inside. Scalpers are one of the few specific people that I'm a severe bigot against. If someone buys a game system and has to turn around and sell it for unforseen reasons, they're not a scalper. I want to clear that up right now. They just got some shitty luck. Someone who buys an item with the intention of reselling it for a 300% markup, that is the one who will meet a severe bigot when they lay eyes on me. And I don't give a shit what anyone says. I'm proud to be bigoted towards the worthless scum. I'm not much more than white trash myself, but at least I'm not some greedy piece of shit that's out trying to rip people off.

Nope, would never pay anything extra to a scalper. The idea that these people get away with it, sickens me, but that's the nature of new devices. Sadly, it seems to be happening a lot more for these new gen consoles than I would have expected.

I won't, they are literally abusing the situtation of stock in this pandemic, i won't simply motivate some selfish guy to do it again and again and make people pay more than the double for a product that it costs less

I once recommended Euro Truck Simulator 2 to my dad, since he's a trucker in real life as well, but his driving there was so horrible that he started claiming gaming is only for kids xD

No fucking way. I value honesty, and despise greed, and would never support some piece of shit like that. If some scalper tried to sell me one, I would knock their worthless ass to the ground then squat down and piss on their face. After that I would just raid their pockets and take their console. Yes, I would rob them.

There is no defense. It's pure greed and nothing else. That's not a bad idea, but would be ineffective. Just because Scalper-1 is recorded, it doesn't mean their friends and family are. Also they could offer people x amount of money to go in, buy one with the scalpers money, and bring it out to the scalper. There's a million ways around these things.

There's no real defense of their practices because every one else is also being affected by Covid. I think most retailers need to start implementing captcha (the difficult ones) among other strategies to limit the scalper's business and make it time-consuming and ineffective. Then again, most retailers only care about the money they receive so...

No way! I'd just wait for a couple of months until the supply catches up to the demand and purchase it for the original market price. Consoles aren't an essential item so I can do without it for a few months.

I'm a fan of the Idea that many developers have done and that's force cheaters to only play with each other. It's karmac by showing these annoying twit's what it's like to play with them, keeps them away from legitimate players and developers don't have to deal with assholes on Reddit drumming up a "controversy" by being "unfairly banned", when in 95% of cases it is 100% justified. So you see, everybody wins.