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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Celebrim" data-source="post: 3577123" data-attributes="member: 4937">Heh.  You sound like a level headed kinda guy.  I think I like you already.  Yeah, the cheap substitution of profanity and blasphemy and other cheap shock for any actual writing talent is one of my pet peeves.  See for example, 'The Preacher'.  Seems like everybody these days that writes anything thinks you can throw a couple f-bombs around, and heh, that's funny.  Reminds me of a couple of school kids giggling over Grand Tetons and pianists.Unfortunately, there are alot of fan boys that try hard to live up to the sterotype.  My theory is that they never quite got comfortable in thier nerdiness so they think they can somehow achieve some respect by throwing out a few four letter words and playing a game that is 'mature'.  Frankly, it annoys me, but what can you do except not listen much to the hype.I hope you aren't saying that like it is high praise.  Or, if you are, I hope you can understand why it doesn't sound like high praise to everyone, and forgive me for thinking you made a good joke.The thing about a highly developed cosmology is that they are really easy to rip off from a real world religion - in this case gnosticism.  The trouble is, though that's a really easy thing to do, it isn't necessarily the smartest thing to do.  When you drag something out of the real world into your fantasy, it tends to have alot of baggage that comes along with it - like as just one example, the actual people who believe this stuff.  I suppose its ok if you are one of the actual people that believe this stuff, or if you don't actually know any people that believe this stuff.  But for me, well, let's just say I can't talk about religion at EnWorld.Someone said that it wasn't easy to pin a category on Kult.  I don't agree with that.  X-Files was a big hit as a TV show.  It wasn't original either.  It was drawn from its own well-developed cosmology built over the years by the ufo-ology people, which I can hope I can talk about.  The problem I had taking the show seriously is that I actually knew some of the people that believed in little grey guys and that Egypt was founded by giant coneheaded aliens with stargates and for that matter that 'life here began out there'.  And at the risk of offending people, I think they are rather silly people.  So, I personally had a real problem taking the show seriously because it seemed to think that it was science fiction horror, when really it was science fiction comedy that played in my head for yucks.  As you can imagine, I kinda have the same sort of problem with Delta Green.  I can take it seriously, as a reflection of sommething in the real world, it which case it is just sad.  Or I can take it not seriously, as a spoof of something in the real world I find ridiculous, in which case it is funny.  But what I can't do is take it not seriously enough to treat it as a game, but yet seriously enough to treat it as horror.Kult is kinda like that for me, only more so, because gnosticism is inherently less funny than ufo-ology.</blockquote>

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