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Steam Lovecraftian Days 2024 sale (store.steampowered.com)
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[–] sugar_in_your_tea 20 points 7 months ago (2 children)

How is that relevant to the worlds and creatures he created or the works inspired by his work?

[–] tumbleweed05 14 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I always find folks that can’t separate the art from the artist to be missing out. every human is pretty shitty in some way but that doesn’t detract from the great art they create.

[–] sugar_in_your_tea 7 points 7 months ago

Well, it certainly can. But I think the concern here is completely misplaced since we're not even talking about Lovecraft's work, but works based on the ideas he created. So the only association is a genre, so that's a pretty weak criticism...

[–] [email protected] 7 points 7 months ago

Having read some of his works, it sometimes is scarring to read how he pictures arabic or black peope.

He definitely let his personal racism seep into his stories.
So I think the argument can be made, that one shouldn't just consume his works without critically reflecting on the author.

There is one story set in Egypt that I remember, where the open racism kept on breaking my immersion repeatedly.

But I agree that calling Valve tone deaf for highlighting lovecraftian games misses the spot.
Lovecraftian art is inspired by the tone and the mystery of Lovecrafts works and not of his racism.