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this post was submitted on 31 Jan 2024
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You didn't lose a wisdom roll, you won a perception/mythos roll
Oh wait saving throw, I get it now. Yeah, those are getting harder
Yeah, I was thinking, "roll for 1d4 sanity damage".
That's the glass being half full, comrade. Thank you. What is a mythos roll? Looked like it was eldritch adjacent and that makes it of particular interest to me.
It's from Call of Cthulu, it's basically when you see some cosmic horror but you already know enough about the eldritch forces beneath the surface of reality that you understand exactly what you're looking at where others cannot. Knowing what kind of monster you're encountering helps you fight it better, but it also takes a toll on your sanity.
I and many others like to draw parallels between that and having an understanding of capitalism, because the comparisons are practically one to one. That, and I truly believe that Capital is semi-literally a living dead god, but that's a longer explanation than I feel up to giving right now.
When you do feel like giving it, I'm loving it. Like a god in that you must worship it while it extends its tendrils until it's profoundly wound up in the culture, environment, and your own mind?
https://ianwrightsite.wordpress.com/2020/09/03/marx-on-capital-as-a-real-god-2/
Basically this
Huge! I'll get to this in a second. Thank you so much!