says the monster intent on genocide
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I'm a lovecraftian horror from space. What is your excuse?
Man, Cthulhu has lived in the murky depths of the ocean for TENS OF MILLIONS of years now, and people still comment on where it's from originally. /s
Earth is technically in space tho
So... are we the aliens? ๐คฏ
Humans are the true cosmic horror.
Maybe Cthulhu wants to kill us all because we make it's brain hurt to look at.
I think that part is referring to humans.
from the perspective of any less powerful creature from any part of the universe that isnt earth, so are humans?
Cthulu: Shut up you monster, I'm older than you.
same
Dexter rules, if you genocide serial genociders then it's net positive.
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Yeah, that one rings a bit hollow, although I guess it could use it as an argument we're dumb, because we're doing it to ourselves. All the rest could theoretically apply, though.
"could, theoretically", sure.
but in practice those condemnations are too broadly applied and don't reflect the constant struggle for progress or range of human success.
What an appropriate subject of conversation, because I'm pretty sure by the art style this is Existential Comics.
The use of "in practice" suggests an absolute morality, which I think Lovecraft would object to, and I think many Lemmy users would as well. That aside, pretty much the only counter to this is that we've toned down the war, slavery and brutal exploitation over the last 200 years. The last 10,000 before that and probably the last 200,000 before that are kind of the same thing happening over and over again. What's more, nobody can adequately explain why it's suddenly started to improve, or if it will stay that way. For all we know, we live in the turbulent transition period between agrarian hereditary autocracy and dystopian high-tech hereditary autocracy.
All in all, humanity is (morally) shit by humanity's own standards. By nihilistic or existential standards humanity is neutral, as is everything else. Cthulhu's standards are canonically beyond comprehension.
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It's the genocide to end all genocide.
Last time something similar was said it went wonderful I think...
what could go wrong?
I like how this is illustrated, Cthulhu looks like a dude with a dad bod in a loose fitting wetsuit.
Dude hasn't moved his ass for 10,000 years.
How any Outer Gods would actually answer:
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Yes, please destroy us.
"A whole ass country just re-elected the crawling chaos Nyarlathotep."
How can you say that - it's a totally different color?
(The rest of the looks are there tho)
If we're going with Cthulhu Wars colors, the orange faction is the Sleeper, and their Great Old One is Tsathoggua. I'd like to quote a description from "The Tale of Satampra Zeiro" for no particular reason :
He was very squat and pot-bellied, his head was more like a monstrous toad than a deity
Could you just destroy our systems of organization based on scarcity, trauma, and inadequate understanding of the world around us, instead?
"Listen, I am an ancient eldritch god, not Santa Claus..."
And the people who think those things are good.
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Ok, so what are you bringing to the table with "your" destruction plan?
I thought he was gonna realize that we are gonna destroy ourselves anyway so he can just go back to sleep
Same, I thought he'd come around to figuring that we're going to torture humanity way more thoroughly than cosmic horrors would.
I would help our great ancient one, no questions asked.
The moral implications of not choosing extermination of humans are just too big for me to even contemplate.
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