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## Personal Time With Greg: Lovecraft Mythos

* Author: u/traverseda  *With dread but cautious optimism**
* URL: http://youtu.be/RKNkuJKti08?list=UUSNd59iRYuFSqo-vb0qjJuQ
* Score: 6

* Created: 2014-10-11T16:13:31

### Post:

[Link to content](http://youtu.be/RKNkuJKti08?list=UUSNd59iRYuFSqo-vb0qjJuQ)

### Comments:

> **u/traverseda** [+3]  *With dread but cautious optimism* (a minute later)
> 
> I keep on trying to get you guys into dawnSomewhere, and it keeps not happening.
> 
> But he mentions HPMOR in this one, so yay.
> 
> I recommend the [mechwarrior series](https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLNC_sRuPtMonAOP46gqW9Q6E4ESFmum6d) on the same channel. Politics, economics, giant robots, guerrilla warfare, and military tactics.
> 
> This is mostly just him rambling on about all the lovecraft tropes, fair warning.

>> **u/natron88** [+2]  *Ankh-Morpork City Watch* (7 hours later)
>> 
>> I watch some of the series from this content creator, although I was already into it before you posted the mechwarrior video.
>> 
>> But hey, now you know at least two people in this subreddit watch Dawn Somewhere, so that's nice.

>> **u/Transfuturist** [+1]  *Carthago delenda est.* (2 days later)
>> 
>> God, I love Dawn Somewhere. Greg's rambles aren't necessarily the best introduction, though.

> **u/None** [+2]  (34 minutes later)
> 
> Ooh, Lovecraft! I'd love to watch this whole video, but it's half an hour long and he seems to ramble a little bit. He repeats himself a lot, and the "but"s and "yeah" in this video are off the charts. Maybe a script would help him get to the point more quickly.
> 
> On that note, what story should I read as an introduction to the mythos?

>> **u/traverseda** [+2]  *With dread but cautious optimism* (an hour later)
>> 
>> Couldn't say, he has a few suggestion in the video, but they've slipped my mind.
>> 
>> Consistently outputting content is important, and I think that's he idea behind the personal times. Quick low-production-cost video's. He seems to be trying to do things across a range of production values, to see what sticks.
>> 
>> But yeah, I honestly don't expect this to be very appealing to most of the people here. I generally watch them in the background, while I'm doing something else.
>> 
>> Added a disclaimer to my root-level comment.

> **u/Bowbreaker** [+2]  *Solitary Locust* (an hour later)
> 
> This is half an hour of a guy talking. I have to know what it is and what it is about before investing that amount of time. As far as I know it could just be a guy rambling on for half an hour trying to rationally deconstruct Lovecraftian horror stories or something.

>> **u/traverseda** [+1]  *With dread but cautious optimism* (an hour later)
>> 
>> >This is half an hour of a guy talking.
>> 
>> Yeah, that's about it honestly. He occasionally has interesting points. I tend to put it on in the background.
>> 
>> I expected this to be downvoted, it's not as good as most of the rest of the stuff, particularly [this](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y8Jd5Vsca9Y&list=UUSNd59iRYuFSqo-vb0qjJuQ) (for sheer production quality), which hasn't historically done well here. Video's aren't a format I think most of us like. And none of it is really rationalist.

>>> **u/Bowbreaker** [+1]  *Solitary Locust* (an hour later)
>>> 
>>> I'm confused. What then was your rationale for posting this video in particular? Also I don't think people have a problem with videos. They just have to know what they are investing into. And of course they have to be both relevant, interesting and of some quality.

>>>> **u/traverseda** [+1]  *With dread but cautious optimism* (an hour later)
>>>> 
>>>> My rationale was mostly that he mentioned hpmor in this one, and that I think you guys should probably watch the [mechwarrior series](https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLNC_sRuPtMonAOP46gqW9Q6E4ESFmum6d) by the same studio.
>>>> 
>>>> I tried to more or less imply as much in [this](http://www.reddit.com/r/rational/comments/2iybwh/personal_time_with_greg_lovecraft_mythos/cl6l9x3) comment.
>>>> 
>>>> Last time I posted his mechwarrior series, it didn't get much of a response. Because it starts off a bit rough, and it is a time commitment. My hope is that by associating the author with the whole "lesswrong cluster" people will be more inclined to see it through, and one of the rare video-things I enjoy will get more viewers. Hopefully making his viewership more rational-subculture and less pony-subculture.
>>>> 
>>>> Especially since he's trying to get into original content for legal reasons.

>>>>> **u/Bowbreaker** [+1]  *Solitary Locust* (an hour later)
>>>>> 
>>>>> Is mechwarrior rational media then? I don't even know if said mechwarrior show you want us to see is a narrated fanfic or a cartoon made by him or him just talking *about* something called mechwarrior.

>>>>>> **u/traverseda** [+2]  *With dread but cautious optimism* (3 hours later)
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> It is a parody, so no, not rationalist *per se*. But it's a parody that will happily talk about debt based economies for a while. I wouldn't call pratchett "rational" it's a fantasy world that doesn't really run on reductionism. But at the same time, it talks about the real world.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> So sort of like that.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Consider that series to be mechwarrior fanfiction, basically.

>>>>>>> **u/Bowbreaker** [+4]  *Solitary Locust* (3 hours later)
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> So let me follow your thought pattern. In order to gain more viewers for a show you like (that is an intelligent parody of another show) you take a monologue of the guy who makes said show and post it on a subreddit that was first inspired by a fanfic that is mentioned in passing in said monologue, this being the only relation between show and subreddit?
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> mechwarrior parody <-> half-hour monologue by same person with passing mention of a fanfic <-> subreddit about rational fiction inspired by fanfic
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> Seems like a bit of a convoluted way of doing things.

>>>>>>>> **u/traverseda** [+2]  *With dread but cautious optimism* (10 hours later)
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> I like all of the work by that person, and you never know what's going to catch the eye of a particular audience.

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