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  • I felt that it really crafted a great mythos that, while wearing its lovecraftian inspiration on it's sleeve, was very attractive.

    January 25, 2010 scrnwrtinghack 2010

  • It has a lovecraftian feel---always a plus in my book.

    New Lumley Zillabob 2008

  • I still hold by my belief that Trek should take it up a level: travel out into some heretofore unexplored quadrant and find that it is heavily populated by Type II Kardashev cultures, lovecraftian ancients, Kirby-esque star gods, Matrioshka brain AIs trying to tap reality's source-code, post-singularity societies like Banks Culture or Hamilton's Edenists, etc.

    Is a Star Trek "Re-Imagining" Overdue? 2006

  • One of the tactics I've taken up in the anarchist economics wars is to refer to our modern corporatist/mercantilist/lovecraftian mix of economic systems as "Kapitalism" and when referencing Ancaps go out of my way to use "Anarcho"-Capitalist and Anarcho-"Capitalist" as distinct labels.

    Archive 2008-11-01 Patrick Vessey 2008

  • This is coming from Dell and has a very 80's like horror cover, even uses the worlds "lovecraftian horror" in the review (though the reviewer doesn't seem to understand that Lovecraft is a name, and thus a Proper noun, and should be capitalized).

    Home for the day -- disconcertig Publisher's Weekly stuff... deep_bluze 2004

  • Points will be awarded for comedy value, lovecraftian themes, and excessive use of the words Flatulent, and Despotic.

    As If I Needed Another Reason To Hate The Government hammerforge 2002

  • I don't know how to thank you, o Santa Claus with a lovecraftian pseudonym!!!

    AvaxHome Erich Zann 2010

  • The PAX 2008 Collection, due out in early September, will include tracks from nerd-folk artist Jonathan Coulton, nerdcore rapper MC Frontalot, and lovecraftian doomsayers The Darkest of the Hillside Thickets - all of whom ...

    Megite Technology News: What's Happening Right Now 2008

  • The PAX 2008 Collection, due out in early September, will include tracks from nerd-folk artist Jonathan Coulton, nerdcore rapper MC Frontalot, and lovecraftian doomsayers The Darkest of the Hillside Thickets - all of whom ...

    Megite Technology News: What's Happening Right Now 2008

  • Snowy mountains (Dwarves/Gnomes), lush forests (Elves), English countryside (Humans), American plains (Tauren), American southwest/mesa (Orc/Troll), and lovecraftian forest (Undead).

    The Golden 1M: Please Welcome the Next Candidate, World of Warcraft 2004

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