cthulhu

Ars Magica, Shadowrun, and Call of Cthulhu would be my picks to look at for magic different than D&D and its cohorts.

The dreaming in Call of Cthulhu is a natural force that obeys laws.

There should definitely be a challenge involving table functions all the way down - combined with a Call of Cthulhu esque sanity system...

To have a situation where intelligent humans are possible but intelligent computers are impossible, you need a decree from Cthulhu saying humans are special.

If I flip a coin to predict whether Cthulhu will rise tomorrow, I have a 50% chance of getting it right.

Most recently, I finished Stephen King's Dark Tower series, and I'm currently going through a bunch of HP Lovecraft (it feels good to finally understand the Cthulhu mythos and all that it implies).

And the new ones show many new things in the hyperbolic plane, like wars between huge armies (the Hive), large circles (Camelot, where you have to find the center of a circle of radius 28, and this is challenging), and horocycles (infinite circles -- the Temple of Cthulhu and the Caribbean).

The original was "Cthulhu swims left": a metaphor of how Western society has inexorably proceeded leftward.

> "Cthulhu" was swimming rightwards from roughly the late 1960s until maybe 2013-2014 I have no idea what this means.

I always wondered what was up with the Welsh sneaking their language into famous phrases, like "Klaatu barada nikto" and "Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn".

"Cthulhu only swims left" is Moldbug's way of saying, "Politics only ever moves leftward." As I noted, there was a substantial rightward sing from roughly the late 1960s until roughly 2013, at least in the West.

It is exactly about this theme: Seeking knowledge to save mankind and Cthulhu.

While I agree that using regexes for one-off jobs is not the kind of thing that would summon Cthulhu.

At the same time, I was getting into guitar with my cousins and playing instrumentals such as Metallica's Orion or Call of Cthulhu.