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I’ve been digging into Cult of the Lamb lore at the same time I’ve been playing Portals of Phereon, and the former really recontextualizes the latter. I mean, Siena’s already an apocalypse cultist in thrall to a manipulative deity associated with tentacles and body horror.

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That idiot holding a blue-ringed octopus seems like he sums up a certain kind of . . . Privilege, I want to say? It’s a worldview that focuses a lot on aesthetic beauty, especially “natural” beauty, without going to much effort to understand how “natural” things work and how they interact with each other. headspace_hotel writes takedowns of these people sometimes, and a recurring theme is that they seem to think of “nature” as a thing they can only act upon and not be acted upon by. So they think a bear or whatever is cute, and then they’re surprised when the bear eats them, because they didn’t think the bear would respond to their presence unless they wanted it to.

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I just thought of something. When a story is monotheists vs. atheists, monotheists vs. nature-worshipers, or atheists vs. nature-worshipers, one side tends to get viciously smeared while the other is unambiguous “good guys.” The original Elex has all three of these, but it achieves a sort of balance by making all of them complete assholes.

Then again, Elex breaks trends just by having monotheists who love science. And atheists who love drugs, for that matter, since that’s usually a nature-worshiper thing.