What Happens After a God Goes Mad?

“In the beginning; God made everything. This has made a lot of people very angry and widely regarded as a bad move.” -The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy

Curious Archive is like an eclipse. It takes a while to appear, but when it does, everyone gathers to watch.

I'll admit, I clicked on this video hoping to see the Radiance from Hollow Knight. I mean, come on. Old goddess of light and dreams, scorned and usurped, brings about a horrific plague in retaliation? I think about her a lot. How she'd been forgotten by seemingly supernatural means, and in her attempts to make people remember, she ends up damaging their minds and filling them with her light and wrath. I wonder if the first failures made her hesitate, thinking of how many would die if she did this. I wonder if she could have ever been reasoned with at all. Instead, she let her own fury consume her, and she brought death upon an entire kingdom and it's surrounding settlements. Showing nothing but wrath up until the moment of her death.

"it's mad gods all the way down" - I'd like this on a minimalist shirt

“Belief in a cruel god makes a cruel man.” - Thomas Paine

Another thing about Rain world, Five Pebbles and the other AIs like him (called iterators in the setting) Have computing power so vast that they require metric fucktons of water as coolant in order to not melt down. This water gets expelled as vapor en masse which immediately descends as the crushing rain that the game is named after. Even scarier, the “terrible frost” that encompasses the saints campaign is only occurring because all the Iterator superstructures were the only source of heat on the entire planet. With them all nonfunctional, no longer expelling hot vapor to temper the climate, the world lies still.

This reminds me a part in Guardians of the galaxy 3, when the High evolutionary finds out that the people he placed onto Half-World to be a perfect utopia aren’t perfect, he says “I’m going to have to raze it all and start again” and then he literally destroys the planet and the species he created

I’ve played God Simulators and often I go full Mad God when I’m bored. I create nations, civilizations rise and fall, I watch over them all and sometimes I find one person I’m invested in but otherwise I leave well enough alone. Then after a while the job of watching over everyone gets boring, I cause a natural disaster here, maybe drop a villain there, then I start getting curious. I make a plauge then try to empower the ones I think can cure it, I cause infernos, unleash demons as people struggle against my senseless chaos and destruction. The struggle gets more interesting.

When talking about Gods and Berserk, we need to mention the "Lost Chapter" of the manga, and a character who's status in canon is currently in question. Between chapters 82 and 83, amid the Eclipse, Griffith meets "The Idea of Evil". A grotesque beating heart that seems to funnel souls and speaks through Griffith's mind, the implication seems to be that The Idea is a God of humanity's making. In a world of violence, pain, and suffering, people demanded a meaning for that suffering. There needed to be a reason, and their collective unconcious created that reason. The Idea is as much of a God as humanity is IT'S God, and it continues to create pain and sacrifice thanks to humanity's hope that all of that suffering will have meaning.

wow never thought that gods also have generational trauma

GOD, do I love claymation. Somehow it feels like the more work needs to be put into a creative work, the more you can just feel the creativity dripping from said work.

In Pathfinder the most noteable mad god is the god of magic. All magic. It's not good for his sanity. He sort of "learned the truth of the universe" in my mind that means the man fourth walled and became a god. Zon Kuthon met something out in the dark and it warped him.

What happens after Curious Archive goes mad

If Sheogorath taught us anything it's this: after gods go mad they'll order lots of cheese and have a pretty good time actually.

One thing that is interesting about berserk is the redacted chapter in wich griffith meets God, not the god hand, but the entity that created them : a giant heart at the center of a maelstrom of emotion, pain, ambition, pleasure, hate, sufffering, joy, love, despair... he explains that he is not an evil nor benevolent god, but the DESIRED god, the pure chaotic reflection of human nature and its inherent desires. Not unlike the chaos gods from warhammer, born from the emotions of every sentient being since the dawn of creation.

There is a line that has stuck with me since I first saw it in a sci fi show that once upon a time dominated the world many years ago: "To know the face of God is to know madness".

I'm not sure if Teridax taking over Mata Nui's body in Bionicle counts as a god going mad, but.. it's close enough to bring it up.

I love how you go over so many different games rather than hyper focusing on one, because video game design and discussion is collaborative. There are so many games out there that deserve a chance at being under the spotlight for what they offer to the table of game design innovation.

The mysterious stranger reminds me so much of gnosticism. Its actually fascinating how many stories contain a gnostic demiurge at the center of it all. Even my own books contain entities like this. The flawed creator is something very relatable to the human experience.

There is a game called "Realm of the Mad God" that follows a story after a God goes well, 'Mad'. Its a perma-death RPG game with an 8-bit art style. I would really recommend the game because it doesn't get enough recognition even though its a really fun free game.