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Sooo, the co-creator of Azathoth Blues (and writer of other cool shit like Talos Principle, Gospels of the Flood) has a Patreon now!

I've posted another annotated Azathoth Blues script to Patreon. These feature introductions discussing the themes and writing process, and notes on individual lines, references, etc. Should be pretty interesting for fans and/or those interested in writing.

As you may or may not know, AB S2 is in the works...this is one way to support it!

Read the scripts + extras, juicy so far. Previews from the Patreon, so I'm not sharing anything that isn't already public:

"Okay...I think this is on, first of all....sorry for such an hour again, it's just that the night gives me time to think things that I haven't thought of before, like...what is a motivator for people to...commit crimes? To murder another person? To...go down such a terrible path? And well, tonight...glorious misfits, we are going to dive into this topic of why? To understand cases on a more...psychological level instead of a "Oh! This person was just insane and out of his damn mind!" No, nonono. I...at least what to understand why people do such acts and what leads them to do it."

[Pause]

"I've looked through like...two websites so far and they said pretty much the same stuff except for one of the websites expending on the topic of mental health as well, so here are some of the reasons on why people commit crime on a psychological level. A key psychological theory is behavioral theory, which postulates committing a crime is a learned response to situations. Another prime theory is cognitive theory, which explores how individuals solve problems through moral development and information processing.

Psychological theories scrutinize personality traits like extraversion, neuroticism, agreeableness, openness, and conscientiousness when examining criminal behavior. Additionally, they examine the concept of the psychopathic personality, where an individual may engage in criminal thrill-seeking behavior to compensate for low arousal levels. Studies indicate that personality traits of hostility, narcissism, and impulsivity correlate with criminal and delinquent behavior. If we expend to a sociological level we could also see this as well Researchers have proposed various theories examining social and environmental factors that influence or drive individuals to commit crime. Some theories point to elements like neighborhood dynamics, pressure caused by cultural goals and social structures, and the development of subcultural systems as the reasons for criminal behavior. Other theories suggest factors like rational choice, feelings of being unfairly disadvantaged compared to peers, and various biological and social elements as criminal influences. There are also theories that examine the reasons why people don’t commit crime, such as relationship strength and belief in abiding by laws."

[Pause]

"And I know it seems weird I am talking about this, but...this- I mean all my interest comes from the whole phantom killer thing that happened and is already over, but I'm still not over it entirely, I want to understand why he would commit such a crime, why he would go such a path, did he ever know the consequences of his own actions? I know he already answered like half of these but it doesn't make sense in my mind, I think i've mentioned this last episode or in threads of silence but I would understand if it was somebody's rapist who they killed to achieve some sort of justice or something like that but...for a thrill? [Deep sigh] Jesus fucking christ serial killers are unbelievable. And the justice system in my opinion, like it took you...what? Six or more months or whatever with this damn killer and you were on the brink of putting all the cases, even the ones being investigated as cold cases and boom! Some teenager with too much ambition and stubbornness that can be used as a rod to be shoved up somebody's ass found the person you were looking for, is the justice system fucking stupid or I'm just lucky? Because I believe the justice system should do their damn job, and I know looking for a killer is damn hard at times, especially killers like the phantom killer, like I've said before, Charlie fucking Watson, this black haired mother fucker could be found if you guys actually asked if someone saw somebody like him or actually saw them, in the research I've done when Charlie was being searched for, there was limited mentions of the police asking people if they saw him, if at all! For fucks sake ...I'm getting way to damn heated about this crap I need to breath."

[Pause]

"I'm back! I'm back! maybe I should shut up a little, Sam and Jill are sleeping, or I assume they're sleeping. If they are sleeping, the last thing I want is them waking up because of me, but what I think is that the entire reasoning and motives killers have is interesting on some levels, even though some are unjustified, it's still well...good to know, the more you know I guess, otherwise? I'm tired, pretty fucking tired if you ask me. I should go to sleep, I'm going to regret staying so late in the morning... [yawn] good night glorious misfits, goodnight."

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