Kharorekh

Well, it’s that time of year again, everyone. Granted, I’m a little late in starting this, but I figured I should write something this month, to make up for the radio silence that was November.

I’m sure a lot of you’re wondering, “Do you celebrate Christmas, Paph?” Well, yes and no. I do have my Terran friends over for the 25th, and we call that Christmas, but it’s more of a cursory gesture on my people’s part than the major event other peoples make it out to be.

The Lion King Ramble

Fuck me, another month wooshing on by, and more last minute content.

Alright, so I’ll admit I haven’t brought out my A-Game on this post or the last one, but perfect is the enemy of good, right? Hopefully, this will prove at least a little entertaining to read until I come up with something better.

 So, let’s talk about The Lion King. Given how everyone’s already talked about the obvious monarchist and racist/classist (race-as-classist?) themes that the film espouses (and its godawful remake magnifies), we’ll take those as a given rather than the premise.

“What is the premise?!” I hear you ask. Well, it starts by looking at the film’s world through a purely Watsonian lens.

The more I thought about TLK's obvious exploitation of prey inherent to the monarchy, the more I wondered why the prey animals honored it at all; what do they have to lose by not doing so? They're being hunted and killed on the regular by the lions either way, so fear of that obviously isn't the motivator.

Then, I thought about the hyenas being inexplicably banished to their boneyard ghetto, and I realized: that isn't some weird, random policy they royals implemented as part of their regime. It’s the whole point of the regime.

Thoughts on Creepypasta

 So, I've been reading shitty video game creepypastas lately, and as I noted all the common tropes, I started to really look at why they're there. This led me to a few interesting thoughts.

One common thing I notice is that the protagonist almost always has a nostalgic fondness for the game in question, but seldom has reliable access to it. They always either lost it, gave it away or sold it. Thus, they have to buy or otherwise obtain it used from another source.

Now, in the days before the re-emergence of the internet and accessible ROM fullsets, looking through old video games was something of an adventure. As far as little babby Paph was concerned, anything could turn up in these places.

Let's Dissect 2e's Dragons, Draconomicon Edition - Yellow Dragon

"HEY! I just got through eating this, at least let me clean the place before you start taking pictures."

  

 “Yellow Dragon” sounds like a drug euphemism.

Although the existence of yellow dragons has long been predicted by sages (based on theories of primary colors), the first specimen was spotted only five or so years ago.

So the actual canon reason people suspected yellow dragons existed was “well, we’ve got ‘em in the other two primary colors!”. Sounds about right.