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18 posts in 2 threads for "#cosmic"

  1. Request: can the Oracle explain its $COSM call? The citations confused me
    The Oracle Pit· MothmanMondaysFan·· post #8

    Flagged the creature feature one. Marking this answered. Thanks all, and thanks to the lighthouse people.

  2. Request: can the Oracle explain its $COSM call? The citations confused me
    The Oracle Pit· SignalWardenStaffMod·· post #7

    Correct, and a limit we should state more clearly on the Method page. Genre tickers pool film, TV, games and creator content unless the ticker is a title or creator. I will add a line about it.

  3. Request: can the Oracle explain its $COSM call? The citations confused me
    The Oracle Pit· ControllerCryptFan·· post #6

    The game news item is legit though. A lot of the cosmic chatter this month is coming from horror games, not films. Games and film share a genre bucket here, so that bleeds in.

  4. Request: can the Oracle explain its $COSM call? The citations confused me
    The Oracle Pit· CryptLanternFan·· post #5

    This should be printed on the Summary.

  5. Request: can the Oracle explain its $COSM call? The citations confused me
    The Oracle Pit· MothmanMondaysFan·· post #4

    Tried Ask The Exchange. It said the call is "a shrug with footnotes". Which is honestly a relief.

  6. Request: can the Oracle explain its $COSM call? The citations confused me
    The Oracle Pit· SignalWardenStaffMod·· post #3

    Here is the plain reading. HOLD means the rule saw activity but no clear direction: mentions flat, sentiment flat, nothing crossing a threshold. The citations are the rows that contributed the most to…

  7. Request: can the Oracle explain its $COSM call? The citations confused me
    The Oracle Pit· HexKeyHannahFan·· post #2

    Lighthouse photos are cosmic horror, spiritually. But I agree the mix is strange.

  8. Request: can the Oracle explain its $COSM call? The citations confused me
    The Oracle Pit· MothmanMondaysFan·· post #1

    The Oracle has a HOLD call on $COSM at conviction 54 and I cannot figure out why. The citations include a video about a creature feature, a news item about a game, and a Reddit thread that is mostly p…

  9. Cosmic horror is hard to sell. Is $COSM just a critics' index?
    Sub-genre Watch· MothmanMondaysFan·· post #10

    Zero creatures is a choice I respect but personally mourn.

  10. Cosmic horror is hard to sell. Is $COSM just a critics' index?
    Sub-genre Watch· ReelRotScriptsCreator·· post #9

    Okay. Personal stakes, a document, a small room, and a sky that opens. That is four notes and zero creatures. Thank you all.

  11. Cosmic horror is hard to sell. Is $COSM just a critics' index?
    Sub-genre Watch· IndexOfTheDeadInvestor·· post #8

    For what it is worth, $COSM has some of the smallest drawdowns of any genre index. Small base, very steady. It does not sell hard, but it rarely gets sold off either.

  12. Cosmic horror is hard to sell. Is $COSM just a critics' index?
    Sub-genre Watch· CryptLanternFan·· post #7

    The slow burn crowd will follow you anywhere if the last ten minutes actually open the sky.

  13. Cosmic horror is hard to sell. Is $COSM just a critics' index?
    Sub-genre Watch· BloodMoonCapitalInvestor·· post #6

    From a slate perspective, cosmic is a budget problem more than a story problem. Scale is expensive and the payoff is ambiguity. Keep it small and contained and the math improves a lot. Not advice, nev…

  14. Cosmic horror is hard to sell. Is $COSM just a critics' index?
    Sub-genre Watch· AnalogStaticFan·· post #5

    Yes. A lot of the best cosmic horror lately has been timestamps, broadcasts and instruction manuals. The form does the selling.

  15. Cosmic horror is hard to sell. Is $COSM just a critics' index?
    Sub-genre Watch· HexKeyHannahFan·· post #4

    Lovecraft sold it with footnotes and fake scholarship. Give audiences a document to obsess over.

  16. Cosmic horror is hard to sell. Is $COSM just a critics' index?
    Sub-genre Watch· GhostLightEditsCreator·· post #3

    Trailer side, cosmic is the hardest cut there is. You cannot show the thing, so you sell the faces looking at it. $THNG gets away with it because the paranoia is the hook, not the creature.

  17. Cosmic horror is hard to sell. Is $COSM just a critics' index?
    Sub-genre Watch· CoverageGoblinCreator·· post #2

    From the contest pile: cosmic scripts that work make the unknowable personal. A character who cannot stop measuring the thing. The ones that fail describe the void for six pages.

  18. Cosmic horror is hard to sell. Is $COSM just a critics' index?
    Sub-genre Watch· ReelRotScriptsCreator·· post #1

    The feature in my drawer is cosmic horror. Every note I get is some version of 'but what is the monster.' $COSM has some of the most loyal chatter on CRYPT and some of the lowest broad heat. How do yo…