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Appreciating Cruelty Squad: A Reading List
By Vampire Hunter D
"It's possible, you can never know, that the universe exists only for me. If so, it's sure going well for me, I must admit."
- Bill Gates
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Category: Gameplay Basics, Secrets, Story or Lore
Languages: English
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17 Jun, 2021 @ 10:50am
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Guide Index
Overview
Introduction 
Reading List 
Comments
Introduction
As a literary man, these works are what I'd consider an entry-level introduction to Cruelty Squad, the bare minimum required to enjoy the game.
Reading List
  • Against Heresies - Irenaeus
  • All Watched Over By Machines Of Loving Grace - Richard Brautigan
  • The Anatomy of Melancholy - Robert Burton
  • Anti-Oedipus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia - Deleuze and Guattari
  • Apophthegmata Patrum
  • The Art of Noises - Luigi Rossolo
  • Capital as Power - Nitzan and Bichler
  • The Collected Rants[www.bentoandstarchky.com] - Francis E. Dec, Esq.
  • Dead Sea Scrolls - The Essenes
  • --- Aramaic Enoch Scroll - Enoch (?)
  • DEATH sentences - Dr. Matthew C. Harris
  • Dildo Cay - Nelson Hayes
  • DOI 10.1088/0264-9381/18/21/301[ui.adsabs.harvard.edu] - Igor and Grichka Bogdanoff
  • Finnegans Wake - James Joyce
  • Godot Documentation[docs.godotengine.org] - Github
  • Harper's Illustrated Biochemistry - Rodwell, Bender, Botham, Kennelly, and Weil
  • I Did It For You All…[harmful.cat-v.org] - Pseudo-Bjarne Stroustrup
  • Interaction of Color - Josef Albers
  • Kalevala - Elias Lönnrot
  • The Legacy Of Totalitarianism In A Tundra - Anonymous
  • Metamorphoses - Ovid
  • Microsoft Windows 95 User Guide[archive.org]
  • The Museum of Bad Art: Art Too Bad to Be Ignored - Stankowicz and Jackson
  • My Years with General Motors - Alfred P. Sloan
  • Quake 4 Prima® Official Game Guide - Stephen and Brian Stratton
  • The Reign of Quantity and the Signs of the Times - René Guénon
  • Render unto God, Render unto Caesar - John Lapham
  • Sapiens Anonym[sapiensanonym.blogspot.com] - Lepht Anonym
  • The Sickness Unto Death - Søren Kierkegaard
  • Sonic Warfare: Sound, Affect and the Ecology of Fear - Steve Goodman
  • Super Mario 64 is a Free Masonic and Illuminist Digital Ritual[threadreaderapp.com] - Owen Cyclops
  • TempleOS website[web.archive.org] (archived) - Terry A. Davis
  • The Ladder of Divine Ascent - John Climacus
  • The Total Fishing Manual: Catch Giant Fish With These 317 Essential Skills - Joe Cermele
  • Time Cube[web.archive.org] - Otis Eugene "Gene" Ray
  • Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man - Marshall McLuhan
  • Understanding Stocks - Michael Sincere
  • US8246454 B2[patents.google.com] - Sony Interactive Entertainment LLC
  • US9280157 B2[patents.google.com] - Amazon Technologies Inc
  • Utopia - Thomas More
  • Walden Two - B. F. Skinner
160 Comments
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CAVEDATA 24 May @ 3:56pm 
no bataille? uh ooh kay
Vampire Hunter D  [author] 26 Apr @ 4:21pm 
You are made in the image of the perfect audience and may attain His likeness.
Doppio Gaming 26 Apr @ 4:06pm 
but that's the very thing, i simply meant the moment i booted cruelty squad up. you must understand that i have since traversed from eradication of hope to re-patching my divine link several times. my question is, as i have tracked every little detail through the haze of beautifully dogshit visuals, am i the perfect audience?
Vampire Hunter D  [author] 26 Apr @ 4:02pm 
When an imagebearer first plays Cruelty Squad, he severs his divine link almost immediately and only recovers it later on.
Doppio Gaming 25 Apr @ 6:43pm 
how come i innately understand everything that happens exactly when it happens without ever having played cruelty squad before
R4DIC4L 7 Mar @ 11:44am 
Literally every source except Georges Bataille
Wolly 15 Feb @ 11:48am 
So that source is not a virus and is actually an interview where the creator of C++ explains that the syntax was purposefully bloated and horrible to navigate so that projects written in C++ would take longer to complete and thus require greater salary time.
Vampire Hunter D  [author] 15 Feb @ 9:45am 
Cat-V Considered Dangerous
Wolly 15 Feb @ 8:42am 
It would be nice to have summaries of these works along with citations to where they are relevant in game or in lore. Also maybe update with warnings on potential sketchy sites! I tried clicking "I did it for you all..." and I got a pop-up saying the site was dangerous before even getting past the steam redirect link confirmation. Francis E. Dec is a goat but his theories are tangentially related at best to the themes of the game, it is hard to say if Ville even took inspiration directly from his works. Then again, Ville has hit the stage of post-psychedelics where he just laughs nervously and says "Idk why I did this or where I got inspiration from."
Vampire Hunter D  [author] 11 Feb @ 10:55am 
Every necromech is a Psycho Patrol R alphatester.