Sorry to be the bearer of bad news.
https://twitter.com/EvilHatOfficial/status/1218223310367903744
They've only doubled down since then. This was my introduction to Evil Hat, and I gotta say I wasn't impressed.
Evil Hat is pure cancer, one of the scummiest companies around who will gleefully take up the content of an author and simultaneous shit all over them while making money off their name. They want to have it both ways and the community told them to go fuck themselves with an axe handle.
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Right, because many modern lovecrafts fans don't acknowledge his rascism while continuing to enjoy his works...wait.
Seriously though,, this is a glorified trigger warning people.
You know what’s pure cancer? Shitheads like you thinking nobody is allowed to make things accessible because at your very heart, you’re a control freak psychopaths, who can’t live with people they hate enjoying themselves.
Based on the responses to that tweet, there are a lot of people out there who hold the views that “profiting off the public domain is bad”, “content warning about old-timey racism is bad”, and “if you do both at the same time by profiting off public domain works which have roots in old-timey racism and give content warning about the old-timey racism you stripped out in case they want to do some research on the source material, you are a hypocritical monster”. And also a few here and there who insist that Lovecraft’s works weren’t racist (to be fair, most of the best-known stories in the Cthulu Mythos weren’t even written by Lovecraft, so they might just be oblivious).
And also people who seem to think that it’s literally impossible to both enjoy a work and be critical of it, and only a cynical greedhead would dare to profit off something they hate. Assuming they’re serious and not just saying whatever they think will score some anti-SJW points, somebody needs to smack them upside the head and tell them that this is not at all how it works for most other people.
Lovecraft was super racist, at least in his youth. You can be aware of that and still enjoy his work.
And honestly, I'm so sick of both sides of this. The man has been dead for 90 years and his work is public domain. He gains nothing from it. There's more stuff about Cthulhu out there by all kinds of authors now than he ever got close to writing. Liking Lovecraftian horror does not make me racist, and enjoying different takes and interpretations doesn't mean that I never liked his work.
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Wales/Welsh comes from a Germanic word meaning foreign, to designate those southern Britons that still spoke a Celtic language. It shares this root not just with Cornwall, but also with Vallachia (the people of Carpathia who spoke a language that was neither German nor Slavic - the word was loaned to several Slavic languages), the Walloons, the “Welschschweitzer” (francophone Swissfolk) and the walnut (the “foreign nut”, as it was introduced to Britain and Central Europe through the Italians and the Frech).
Wels and Waller on the other hand comes from a Proto-Indoeuropean word meaning “big fish”, because sheatfishes can get freaking huge (indeed, with a common size of one and a half metres, a documented record length of 2.78 and less reliable reports pre-overfishing claiming sizes up to five metres, they are the largest true freshwater fishes of Europe and West Asia, surpassed only by the Beluga sturgeon who however is a sea fish who only migrates to the rivers for spawning) - the other derivate of the word is whale.
First off, Evil Hat has made some awesome games. Second, a lot of people (self included) know Lovecraft was racist as all hell. Doesn’t stop us from enjoying the Mythos. Finally, “the community” as far as I’m aware doesn’t hate Evil Hat Productions. Personally, I love their stuff and I know plenty of others who do as well
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