The Whisperer in Darkness (2011) - Independent horror film directed by Sean Branney, produced by Andrew Leman and David Robertson, and distributed by the H.P. Lovecraft Historical Society.

The Call of Cthulhu

The Call of Cthulhu 2005 - Independent silent film adaptation produced by Sean Branney and Andrew Leman and distributed by the H. P. Lovecraft Historical Society

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Hollywood is increasingly turning to the internet for story ideas, with one of the latest being A24's Backrooms from web series creator Kane Parsons. Now, studios are turning to the horror fiction site SCP Foundation and showing how dealing with that community can go right, and wrong.

On the "wrong" side, A24 recently ruffled feathers when it unveiled an SCP Foundation-based V/H/S film without contacting the SCP Wiki team or promising to release it under an open-source license as required. That prompted criticism from the community and a warning about licensing restrictions from SCP Wiki's admin team.

After that pushback, Parasite and Anora distributor Neon took a different approach. The studio also announced that it's developing an anthology film based on the SCP Foundation community's horror fiction. However, Neon did contact the SCP Wiki's admin team and pledged to release it under the Foundation's required Creative Commons ShareAlike (CC BY-SA) license. The movie is slated to arrive in theaters next year.

The film will platform emerging filmmakers and showcase the talents of SCPF's community of creators. It won't be an "official" SCP film, though, as none of the staff are involved in the production and there's no compensation involved. The SCP will not be endorsing the film either, as that would run afoul of its own rules.

"The staff of the SCP Foundation Wiki and our community appreciate Neon's excellent communication and commitment to following the requirements of our license as well as the spirit of collaboration at the core of the SCP Foundation project," the SCP Wiki admin team wrote in a statement. In a separate post, the admins laid out its issues with A24's proposed film and said it would "love to sit down with A24, Spooky Pictures, and other involved parties to discuss options for how they could make and distribute a film while complying with CC BY-SA."

Read More: https://www.engadget.com/2274276/neon-scp-foundation-movie-open-source/

https://imaginativerealism.com/artists/leogonzales/

Leo Gonzales was born and raised in Pojoaque near Santa Fe, NM. His work has been exhibited in many group and solo shows in Santa Fe and Albuquerque, NM including the POP Gallery and KEEP Contemporary, as well as numerous showings in the Illuxcon Main Show and Evening Showcase. He has several paintings published in Infected By Art Volumes 8, 9, 10 , 11 and 12 as well as the gigantic 2 volume book set- The Bio-mech Encyclopedia (alongside luminaries in the field such as H R Giger, Zdislaw Beksinski, and Guy Aitchison).

https://www.artstation.com/erskinedesigns

• At the Mountains of Madness

• The Blind Idiot God

• Horror Awakening

A24 made several serious missteps following the release of Backrooms, angering fans by filing copyright claims against other Backrooms creators, before withdrawing them after director Kane Parsons intervened. So, A24 and its partners at Image Nation Studios and Spooky Pictures have been eager to clarify that they are not asserting exclusive rights to the SCP universe. A24 declined to comment, but Monique Levine, a spokesperson for Image Nation and Spooky, told The Verge that “A24’s worldwide rights pertain to the specific film project being produced.”

The problem is, under the license used by the SCP Foundation, nobody can claim exclusive rights to any SCP material. Creative Commons’ CEO Anna Tumadóttir told The Verge that, “Anyone can use works available under Creative Commons ShareAlike (CC BY-SA) license, even commercially,”

The staff and authors of the SCP Foundation Wiki (the real-life writing project behind the SCP Foundation universe and its official home) were not consulted or contacted regarding this film. We have been attempting to contact the filmmakers but haven't yet been successful. To be clear: we have not had any communication with the filmmakers, producers, or distributors for this project, despite our best efforts, and to the best of our knowledge they have not made any efforts to contact us. Furthermore, A24 does not and cannot have any exclusive rights to anything related to the SCP Foundation, including any films that Spooky Pictures or anyone else may choose to create. (...)

“Most of his stories, by virtue of their length, are better adapted to one-hour television programs or 30-minute television programs. I would love to adapt The Thing On the Threshold, The Shadow Over Innsmouth, or The Outsider, which is a horror story that is point of view until the final image.”

The time has come for some of us on the PC to finally face some fears, with the full launch of Cosmic Fear. This is that little indie title I brought up not too long ago that will delve deep into so many of the Lovecraftian mindset and horrors. All from a solo developer, and to help us all to see if humanity has any grasp on reality out there.

Cosmic Fear — Official Launch Trailer

Hideo Kojima's Metal Gear Solid Spiritual Successor Physint Will Now Be Published by Xbox Instead of Sony - https://www.ign.com/articles/hideo-kojimas-metal-gear-solid-spiritual-successor-physint-will-now-be-published-by-xbox-instead-of-sony

meme source - https://youtu.be/EyTQvR9T4EE

In 1983 Benjamin Libet found that brain activity predicts your movements before you are aware of deciding to move. The result has been reproduced many times, and it has been used ever since to argue that free will is an illusion. Three new papers say the measurements were fine but the interpretation was not. Let's take a look.

Sources:

Action fluency and conscious intention: being aware of what we are about to do

https://www.base-search.net/Search/Results?type=all&lookfor=Action+Fluency+and+conscious+intention&ling=1&oaboost=1&name=&thes=&refid=dcresen&newsearch=1%C3%B9

Undermining Free Will Belief Increases Forgiveness of Self and Others

👉 ((btw www.base-search.net is a great search engine for scientific papers))

https://flathub.org/en/apps/com.github.wwmm.easyeffects

https://github.com/wwmm/easyeffects

I highly suggest this app, especially on old pc with limited speakers or bad microphones. Even when you have good speakers is still great for any limited audio streams (podcasts/videos/web radio), the "Crystalizer" option does wonders.

Easy Effects is an advanced audio manipulation tool. It includes an equalizer, limiter, compressor and a reverberation tool, just to mention a few. To complement this there is also a built in spectrum analyzer. Easy Effects is the successor to PulseEffects. Easy Effects only supports PipeWire's audio server. PulseAudio users should instead use PulseEffects. Because Easy Effects uses the default PipeWire sound server it will work with most, if not all, applications you use. All supported applications are presented in the main window, where each can be enabled individually. Easy Effects is able to apply effects to an input device, such as a microphone. This is, for example, useful in audio recording, but it also works well during voice conversations.

Zach Cregger (Weapons, Barbarian, Resident Evil) and Brian Duffield (No One Will Save You, Whalefall) are teaming up to bring Siren Head to the big screen, with Duffield set to direct the film for Warner Bros.

And according to Cregger, there’s already a “super cool” story behind the viral monster.

“But look, Siren Head, I think that the story that we have is super cool, and so whether it was an internet meme or not, I would be interested in telling this story,” Cregger told Deadline. “And I think that’s the lesson. It should stand on its own.”

Created by Canadian artist Trevor Henderson in 2018, Siren Head is a towering, skeletal creature with two sirens in place of a head that exploded online, inspiring fan art, videos, games and an entire mythology around the creature.

Legends of Starkadia is a quirky turn-based RPG full of quick-time events and action-packed adventure! The Starkadian Empire is under attack by one of their own and it’s up to a team of unlikely heroes to assist the resistance to restore peace by defeating Niko and his legion of interstellar armies.

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Sept 14

With the release of Sinking City 2, I figured it was time to take a look back at some great games with some heavy Lovecraftian inspiration. You know, the cosmic horrors, descending into madness, creatures beyond our understanding. That kind of thing. And yeah, he wasn’t exactly a stellar guy, but he did create some pretty cool mythos. Without further ado, here are 10 Lovecraftian games that I think you should check out, in no particular order.

• Call of Cthulhu: Dark Corners of the Earth (2005)
• Call of Cthulhu (2018)
• Bloodborne (2015)
• Amnesia Series (2010-2023)
• Penumbra Series (2007-2008)
• SOMA (2015)
• Still Wakes the Deep (2024)
• Dredge (2023)
• Moons of Madness (2019)
• Alone in the Dark Series (1992-2024)
• The Lurking Horror (1987)

This video provides an update on how GN is navigating LLM and "AI" crawlers harvesting our data, poisoning AI through tampered images (we're testing them, but haven't rolled them out yet), and subsidizing our consumer review content with our deep-dives and documentaries. We're providing an overall "State of the Site" in the current climate and talking about some cool projects we have coming up, plus a major addition to our free GN Mega Charts pages that collect our data in a set of convenient web pages. The AI poisoning is in testing and will eventually go to the full site, but we need to do some more analysis first. If you have ideas, share them!

TIMESTAMPS

• 00:00 - THE INTERNET IS DEAD
• 03:06 - POISON the AI
• 05:20 - Paywalls, Ads, Slop, Death of the Internet
• 10:04 - Economics of In-Depth Reviews Right Now
• 15:41 - New Mega Charts Data Points
• 18:18 - CASE AND FAN MEGA CHARTS
• 22:54 - GPU MEGA CHARTS
• 25:43 - CPU MEGA CHARTS
• 28:23 - CPU COOLERS MEGA CHARTS
• 30:16 - ARTICLE ADAPTATIONS OF VIDEO
• 32:00 - Conclusion

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Every step forward is another step into hell. Synopsis Resident Evil is a survival horror film that reimagines the iconic video game franchise as a relentless, real-time descent into chaos, which follows Bryan, a medical courier who is thrust into a nonstop fight for survival when an ordinary night suddenly collapses into a citywide outbreak of violence and infection.

Let me say this: this is not breaking the rules of the games. I am the biggest worshiper of the games, so I’m telling a story that is a love letter to the games and follows the rules of the games. It is obedient to the lore of the games, it’s just a different story. I’m not going to tell Leon’s story, because Leon’s story is told in the games. [Fans] already have that.

It’s gonna be not at all like Barbarian and Weapons. It’s going to be a rock ’em, sock ’em… it’s for me to play. And turn my brain off and just make an… Evil Dead 2… get crazy with the camera. Austin Abrams is gonna be my guy. It’s a weird, fun, wild story.

Trailer - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SJPu1spHqfk&time_continue=14