Cthulhupunk: The Most Baffling TTRPG Setting Ever Written

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Welcome to Acceptable Losses! This week, DK and Possum decided to subject Kirioth to a completely blind reading of one of the most baffling TTRPG settings ever written: GURPS Cthulhupunk. Kirioth purposefully didn't read the script beforehand, and the result is two hours of us completely losing our sanity over a world that blends cyberpunk dystopias with Lovecraftian cosmic horror in the most unhinged ways imaginable. From the invention of the first boomerang in Poland 13,000 years ago to the inexplicable assassination of Boris Yeltsin in 1996, this timeline gave us severe whiplash. Grab a drink and join us as we try (and fail) to take this seriously.

Highlights:
The timeline jumps aggressively from ancient sunken continents straight to the 1990s.

"Mindfry chips" that plug into cyber-guitars to play the maddening flute music of Azathoth's court.

The entirety of the digital "Net" is actually just Yog-Sothoth manifesting as encrypted mathematics.

Lovecraft thought the lost continent of Lemuria was real for some reason.

Bootleg R'yleh cyberware.

The USA annexes Canada. Again.