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	Re: Bungie Rip-Offs, Revisited
	Posted By: SiliconDream =PN=	Date: 2/4/02 1:29 a.m.
	In Response To: Bungie Rip-Offs, Revisited (Beer Can) : Greetings: Well, it appears I've gotten something started here, eh? : But wait: There's more. : Has anyone mentioned that this so-called "Sleeping God" is directly : similar to Lovecraft's "Cthulhu"? I mean, come : on..."Cthulhu sleeping, lies dreaming"? : And how about those "Lovecraftian" spellings, like R'Leah (sp?), : and so on, present in all the Bungie stuff. Yep. :-) http://marathon.bungie.org/story/cthulhu.html : And still more... : Myth: The Necromancers and the Ghols, almost directly lifted from Clark : Ashton Smith's "Zothique." You may say the Necromancer character : is but similar...yet the Ghols are just about the same creature, far as I : can tell. : Do read the Zothique story, "Isle of the Necromancers." Hell, read : the whole of "Zothique." I can't remember which story the Ghols : appear in, but it's during a desert sequence... http://carnage.bungie.org/myth/asylum/asylum.forum.pl?read=7309 ;-) I'd say the Myth Ghols are half and half Smith and Lovecraft in origin. Plus the baboon-fighting episode of the Simpsons. If you recognize more examples of Smith/Lovecraft influence on Myth, I'd be interested to hear about them. Legends and Lore catalogued a few of the obvious Lovecraft ones, but I'm sure there's piles more. : So if these Bungie guys (God love 'em) have no qualms about : "borrowing" from Lovecraft, C.A. Smith, and major films like : PREDATOR, they'll borrow from anything. And everything. Oh, hardly. Everyone borrows from Lovecraft, Smith and/or Howard. That's why they're the Big Three of weird fiction. Bungie just did it more explicitly, which is part of what makes it cool. : Just an interesting observation. : I still love their games, however. : P.S. Lovecraft and Smith were good buddies..and Lovecraft even joking used C. : A. Smith as a character in one of his stories, name of "K'lar : K'ashton," or somesuch. Klarkash-Ton, Atlantean priest. They signed their letters to each other like that sometimes. A lot of the writers in that circle swapped characters and featured each other in their stories...no doubt you've read the Robert Blake reference (as mentioned on the Story Page). --SiliconDream

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	Bungie Rip-Offs, Revisited	Beer Can	2/4/02 12:44 a.m.
	Re: Bungie Rip-Offs, Revisited	SiliconDream =PN=	2/4/02 1:29 a.m.
	Re: Bungie Rip-Offs, Revisited	Beer Can	2/4/02 5:26 p.m.
	Re: Bungie Rip-Offs, Revisited	SiliconDream =PN=	2/5/02 1:01 a.m.
	Re: Bungie Rip-Offs, Revisited	AJS	2/4/02 11:31 p.m.
	Re: Bungie Rip-Offs, Revisited	Max Etchemendy	2/5/02 9:13 p.m.
	Re: Bungie Rip-Offs, Revisited	Beer Can	2/6/02 1:09 a.m.
	Re: Bungie Rip-Offs, Revisited	Max Etchemendy	2/6/02 3:44 p.m.
	My apologies...	SiliconDream =PN=	2/6/02 5:37 p.m.
	Re: Bungie Rip-Offs, Revisited	Beer Can	2/6/02 9:40 p.m.
	Re: Bungie Rip-Offs, Revisited	SiliconDream =PN=	2/6/02 5:35 p.m.
	Re: Bungie Rip-Offs, Revisited	Beer Can	2/7/02 12:13 a.m.
	Re: Bungie Rip-Offs, Revisited	SiliconDream =PN=	2/7/02 1:04 a.m.
	Rabid? Ha!	poenadare	2/7/02 2:44 a.m.
	Impossible	mnemesis	2/7/02 12:47 p.m.
	Re: Impossible	M-Class	2/7/02 7:21 p.m.
	Re: Impossible	Mark Levin	2/8/02 4:02 p.m.
	Re: Impossible	mnemesis	2/9/02 10:05 a.m.

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