Cosmic Horror Games Debate

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What games do cosmic horror correctly? The weirder and more incomprehensible, the better. Cosmic "horror" is too abstract a concept to be genuinely scary. Lovecraft never wrote a good horror story. >Boötes Void who even lives there?

What it means

An imageboard thread debates what makes cosmic horror effective, contrasting a preference for strange, incomprehensible games with skepticism about abstract horror and Lovecraft. A reply invokes the Boötes Void, joking that such an enormous empty region of space is frightening precisely because nobody could live there. EN: An imageboard thread debates what makes cosmic horror effective, contrasting a preference for strange, incomprehensible games with skepticism about abstract horror and Lovecraft. A reply invokes the Boötes Void, joking that such an enormous empty region of space is frightening precisely because nobody could live there.

Who

H. P. Lovecraft (Говард Филлипс Лавкрафт)

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imageboard screenshot / скриншот имиджборда black hole / чёрная дыра star field / звёздное поле galaxies / галактики deep space / глубокий космос text post / текстовый пост thread replies / ответы в треде red reply text / красный текст ответа green reply text / зелёный текст ответа empty space / пустое пространство