Recent content by Bohandas

That's exactly what I was looking for! Thank you!

Fair enough. Can you give me any advice on a good way to scan or photograph my copy without messing the binding up? EDIT: And can you recommend an app or program for transforming the scans/photos into a PDF?

That one has the heiroglyphics but is missing both the translation and the transliteration

Can anybody help me track down an unexpurgated PDF of E.A. Wallis Budge's 1895 translation and transliteration of the Egyptian Book of The Dead? A PDF should be around since it was published long enough ago to be in the public domain, but none of the digital files match my print copy. In my...

That's cursive for you. Very fast as long as nobody ever has to read it.

Somebody had to say it! Think about it. A product that somebody made but nobody uses is just a waste of resources, but a product that somebody uses but nobody made is - by the fact of somebody using it - as valid as anything. Over the past century and a half or so people have wasted so much...

They are WRITING things. They just aren't making pictures. EDIT: And for that matter they still wouldn't be making pictures if they hired a human artist. Either way they're not making the pictures themselves, so what's the difference?

I sign in cursive. Which is the only situation where I've ever used cursive after I learned it (I learned it in school but due to disuse I no longer remember how to make any letter that isn't in my name)

They are creating things themselves. They're just not needlessly hiring an artist to illustrate it. As long as that savings get passed on to the consumer that's fine with me; the consumer is the only important part of the economy. (That said, if they don't pass that savings on to the consumer...

Yeah. I mean Facebook is literally called "Facebook". Of course people would be sharing links to the Necronomicon

A game similar to the 1996 city builder Afterlife in which you build a heaven and hell, but with the following changes: *Better game balance *more modern flavor text and interface *More influence over the mortal world *You get to choose what is a virtue and what is a vice

Personally I tend to imagine things as working the way that they do in The Ring or In The Mouth of Madness ("what about people who don't read?" "There's a movie") or The Evil Dead (you may notice that in Parts 1, 2, and 5 the characters don't actually read from the book - They play a recording...

In the Dunwich Horror they let Whatley look at the book, things just get unfriendly when he asks to take it with him. In the time he spent reading and translating it he could have, with modern equipment, probably photographed a great deal of it. And what about something like The King In Yellow...

The Men Who Stare at Gods - Call of Cthulhu. Alternate history where the US government became aware of the mythos in the 1980's during the Stargate Project (a military investigation into the paranormal and whether it can be weaponized) and things have gone pear shaped