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Burnage
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Lovecraftian stuff is pretty rad and probably to blame for how weird the universe has gotten since 2016
Q: Will CERN awaken the Elder Gods?
Physicist: At the risk of over-simplifying the situation; yes, absolutely.
For years dark and unexplainable events have been the norm in particle accelerator laboratories around the world. However, it was not until a meta-analysis of the 2001 “blood running up the walls incident” in Fermilab, the 1983 “unfortunate undead incident” in Daresbury, the 2011 “faster-than-light neutrino incident” at CERN, and the “howling vortex of pain effect” common to employees of KEK, that a subtle underlying pattern was uncovered.
In addition, some concerns were voiced when it became apparent that the user’s manual for the Large Hadron Collider had been written, entirely by accident, as a nearly verbatim translation of the Necronomicon.
But ultimately, the call for a comprehensive study by the NSF was sparked by an experiment by Dr. Damian “The Unblinking” Shoggoth (PhD., occult particle cosmology, music history), involving the ALTAS detector at CERN, and the still-beating hearts of three virgin employees. While Dr. Shoggoth’s experiment successfully demonstrated an effective means of tauon generation, it also created a dark fissure between the Mortal World and the Dreaming.
According to Rolf-Dieter Heuer, the director general of CERN, “… strange experimental artifacts are just a part of doing [science]. When you hear screaming every time the beam is active you tend … to assume that it’s the result of some unknown mechanism; metal fatigue, poorly tuned resonators. One-time events, like the combined terror of every human sacrifice … bleeding through from a dimension of pure agony is difficult to take into account, given our current scientific model.”.
For thousands of years particle accelerators have been used by isolated groups of occultists to commune with their Dark Lords. The Toltec ziggurat reactor, the Stone Henge synchrotron, the Nuclear Pile at Miskatonic, and the Nazca linear accelerators are just a few examples. But of course, with ever greater technology comes ever more violent violations of the natural order. It wasn’t until accelerators capable of giga-electronvolt power came into common use, for example, that secret physicist covens discovered reliable methods for creating weakly-interacting neutrino–golems, to slay their enemies.
The findings of the NSF study show that when CERN is finally brought to full power it will almost certainly summon the Outsider, and begin the Age of Torment.
Said Heuer, “We’re living at the dawning of a new age of discovery, understanding, and unending darkness. With any luck, by 2013 we’ll have confirmed or discomfirmed the existence of the Higgs boson and been devoured by our dread master, Lord Cthulhu.”
But, I suppose time (what’s let of it) will tell. The joy of science is in the surprise and the eldritch horror.
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I am jealous! But it is her thing to do, not mine
Good response time, horror themed op, nice work, Burnage!
*stamps seal of approval*
Whoever alerted the mods to recycle last thread are literally worse than the Nazi's that worked auschwitz for the indignity I just suffered having to lose my post.
Switch - SW-7373-3669-3011
Fuck Joe Manchin
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Robert Howard and Lovecraft being friends makes sense on such a fundamental level.
never post on page 100
*collapses*
*feebly raises hand...*
they can be... scheduled...
Or any page after 100, for that is the way in which madness lies.
Years of anime have left you soft and weak and any fight you would get into with that person would end in a beatdown for you.
Or copy and paste and be prepared.
and anime
I'm all in on madness personally.
There are times when you will be tempted
A cool new indie point and click adventure game will be released for Windows only and you will be tempted to sully your MacBook with a boot camp partition
But stay strong and know that Jobs willing, that cool indie game will be ported over in a couple of months
Between this and "nothing good happens after midnight", I feel like I have solid life advice all around.
Sounds like a way better time than Sunday Mass as a Catholic.
poor dude
I'd love it if you took a look at my art and my PATREON!
I thought even Blizzard had given up on porting games over to OSX?
COMMAND ME, LORD!
Overwatch at least yeah
It is very interesting that a professor would willing to be vulnerable enough with a student to tell them that.
I guess it's humanizing and probably ok?
mine worked until the weird ass anniversary edition or whatever got pushed out, now it doesn't do shit
Vy am I dripings wiv goo
They were being geese about this.
There's actually no laws against sex clubs in Nashville, they just have to be in industrial areas and 100 feet or more away from certain buildings. (schools, churches, etc)
So TSC decides to set up NEXT TO A CHURCH SCHOOL, then pretends to be a church, and literally goes out on the blueprints and like marks out dildo room and sex chamber and writes in "chorus room" and "confessional booths" and shit, with the other terms still visible.
The point of banning terminology like that isn't to spare your feelings. It's about the feelings of the group targeted by a given banned word (which you may or may not be part of, but only one single member of the group).
Incidentally, since you brought up microaggressions, you have things a bit backwards. If someone insults or attacks you directly, it's not a microaggression even if they use couched language. It's just aggression. Using terminology that dehumanizes a group or is associated with bigotry could be considered a microaggression, especially if you're using it more casually and don't mean it to historical extents.
you have to wonder what the city inspectors did when "infiltrating" the place
It's like the author has never even heard of a sex cult
I guess if I was desperate enough because the Windows Update stuff was really fucking with me I'd do it, but paying $100 for a single feature that's buried in the guts of the OS when it should just be part of the basic update process is not at all reasonable.
Weird, mines been pretty functional here at work.
*shrugs*
Still better than 8.1
The line we draw between what people are responsible for and what they are not responsible for seems, much of the time, to be very arbitrary.
All human decisions are caused. It is not trivial or useless or impractical to follow those causal chains as far as we can. Personal responsibility is a reasonable and valuable principle but it does not mean removing someone from the circumstances that created them. Nor does it absence mean absolution. If someone does not take responsibility when they should, there is a reason they did not do so, and maybe they need intervention to gain that capacity.