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Mel Mudkiper posted:The new RGD mod allowed an open attempt to argue for BotLs freedom with a sixer if you lose. I really dislike BotL, I don't think they deserve the energy, but I respect your upward climb in defending their idiocy, Sisyphus.
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Franchescanado posted:I really dislike BotL, I don't think they deserve the energy, but I respect your upward climb in defending their idiocy, Sisyphus. I can see why you would dislike him, but he posits ideas, which I respect. Its too easy to just casually dismiss everything, BotL at least takes the risk of putting thoughts out there rather than acting in a way which is wholly dismissive. Like you and chernobyl are my two favorite posters on here because you are both willing to risk personal stakes in seeking out new ideas, which I think is the most valuable thing for discussion. jagstag posted:you should attempt every six hours Like see, this is an essentially meaningless attempt at trolling because it doesn't posit anything. Its the typical slinging of stones from a place of safety. BotL at least puts forward a personal stake in his posts. Mel Mudkiper fucked around with this message at 20:03 on Apr 23, 2018 |
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it's not trolling I just hate your posting
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just waking up in the morning gotta thank god i don't know but today seems kinda odd no barking from the dog no smog and botl ate a month-long
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Apr 23, 2018 20:33
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jagstag posted:you should attempt every six hours Hahhaha
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Mel Mudkiper posted:The new RGD mod allowed an open attempt to argue for BotLs freedom with a sixer if you lose. i'm going in, see you on the other side brother
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Apr 23, 2018 22:15
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botl uses his powers to exasperate and annoy and he does a transcendent job of it. this forum is nothing without him
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Apr 24, 2018 00:50
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jagstag posted:you should attempt every six hours
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BotL being probated has derailed two (2) threads in TBB, and this isn't even the forum he was probated in he is a champion and we dont deserve him
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chernobyl kinsman posted:BotL being probated has derailed two (2) threads in TBB, and this isn't even the forum he was probated in Probably because the Lit thread is the only thread that has people that like him. Well that and his own thread.
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Apr 24, 2018 02:07
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i like him
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Apr 24, 2018 03:07
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my love for not-strictly-realist literature means that i welcome critiques of it; hearing someone else's well-considered opinion furthers my own understanding even when i don't agree with everything they say (and i agree with most of what botl says) and i mean yes he can be rude, but he's finnish
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this broken hill posted:he's finnish at least for the next month he is yeah
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this broken hill posted:and i mean yes he can be rude, but he's finnish Oh okay it's all making sense now
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this broken hill posted:and i mean yes he can be rude, but he's finnish Please, he's barely getting started
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I didn't see this in the rules, and I rarely see book related posts in SA Mart... My wife and I are moving cross country, we've had yard sales, and still have mountains of books. Has anyone had luck selling off their collection in the case of moving? How did you do it?
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Truth posted:I didn't see this in the rules, and I rarely see book related posts in SA Mart... Unless you have shelves full of books that are highly sought-after, selling them is typically a long-term affair. This is particularly true if your goal is to make any money whatsoever rather than mostly just covering the cost of shipping. If your goal is to just get rid of them, talk to your local library and see if they accept donations, either for inclusion in the library or for the book sales libraries typically hold once or twice a year. Even if they can't accept your books, they may be able to point you in the right direction.
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Ornamented Death posted:Unless you have shelves full of books that are highly sought-after, selling them is typically a long-term affair. This is particularly true if your goal is to make any money whatsoever rather than mostly just covering the cost of shipping. Thanks a bunch. That's what I expected.
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Apr 28, 2018 19:01
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perhaps you can ship them cheaply to nearby goons
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sometimes nonchain bookstores will buy books off of you. they do want to know ahead of time that you want o do that usually
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If you have a Half Price Books nearby, they'll also buy drat well near everything, and donate the rest to school reading programs or programs that take textbooks and provide them to underfunded secondary schools across the world. That said I think the most I've ever gotten from them was $30 for a banker's box full of books so it's more about convenience than actually making money.
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Here's my advice: Don't be afraid to just throw books away. Lots of people act like books have some sort of protected status and you can't just throw books away. That's bullshit. There's nothing special about mass-printed genre fiction or the like, and you can just dump a car load of books in the recycling dumpster if that's the most convenient option. It's not a crime. Don't feel obligated take the books or store them if you can't sell them before the move. You can just throw them out. There's nothing wrong with it.
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Dump them in a big pile in the street and burn them.
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While chanting “gently caress the poor”
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Ornamented Death posted:If your goal is to just get rid of them, talk to your local library and see if they accept donations, either for inclusion in the library or for the book sales libraries typically hold once or twice a year. Even if they can't accept your books, they may be able to point you in the right direction. As a librarian, I'd like to emphasize the part about asking first. A lot of libraries can't or don't want to handle donations, especially if it's essentially worthless stuff like old textbooks, last year's bestsellers, etc.
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Krankenstyle posted:perhaps you can ship them cheaply to nearby goons just let goons ravage your home for books, nothing bad will happen and they come to you! meet new friends! (don't do this) also there are some services who will come like decommission book hoards, take them all, and then sell them all off on their own but you have to have a very very large library to make it worthwhile.
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You could try selling the collection on bulk on ebay or craigslist - "here's some photos of the boxes and some titles, the rest is a grabbag, buy 200 books for 40$"
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Apr 30, 2018 15:35
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Hold a nazi rally reenactment and burn all the books in a big pyre
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Is there a 2nd and Charles nearby? They take bulk books as a business model
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   I got these in the mail. Because I wanted to read them. I don't know why I wanted to read them. I've never read any books from the "mystery novel but also there is a cat" subgenre and yet here I am. Fat Cat...
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I think my daughters read something like that when they were 10, only it was a dog and he was a spy.
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Oh no this cat isn't like a detective or anything, he's just fat. The pitch for the second book is that he got away from the main character at a county fair and when she found him, she found him at the butter sculpture contest where he was munching on butter while next to the corpse of one of the top butter sculptors. In this first one, she's trying to put him on a diet and he instead escapes and finds some meatloaf her neighbor had made and also the neighbor is right next to the meatloaf with a steak knife sticking out of his chest.
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FirstAidKite posted:I got these in the mail. Because I wanted to read them. I don't know why I wanted to read them. I've never read any books from the "mystery novel but also there is a cat" subgenre and yet here I am. sudden bizarre behavioral changes can be indicative of a brain tumor or a stroke
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FirstAidKite posted:Oh no this cat isn't like a detective or anything, he's just fat. The pitch for the second book is that he got away from the main character at a county fair and when she found him, she found him at the butter sculpture contest where he was munching on butter while next to the corpse of one of the top butter sculptors. That cat's totally a murderer.
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FirstAidKite posted:Oh no this cat isn't like a detective or anything, he's just fat. The pitch for the second book is that he got away from the main character at a county fair and when she found him, she found him at the butter sculpture contest where he was munching on butter while next to the corpse of one of the top butter sculptors.
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FirstAidKite posted:
My wife completely wiped out a local used bookstore's stock of The Cat Who ... books. If I remember correctly, the author got into writing the books because she suspected a neighbor killed her pet, and she had a little fantasy about a cat apprehending the murderer.
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If you write a whole series of books where your cat is consistently found next to the corpses of dead people (with the first one being a dead neighbour), it sounds more like she had a fantasy about her cat murdering her neighbour than apprehending them.
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It's okay. I'm 8 chapters in and her worries so far have been that the co-owner of the shop is ignoring the vet's advice to stop feeding cookie bars to the cat and now Quincy is getting fatter and could possibly develop diabetes, and someone has been taking money out of the cash register, and the murdered neighbor at some point had called the health inspector on her after he bought and released some mice into her kitchen, and the two women working under her keep getting into fights and one of them has a boyfriend who is the son of the dead guy and said boyfriend has been stealing merchandise and the co-owner has been getting into fights with the dead guy's wife because the co-owner maybe dated the dead guy at one point and the wife stole him away from the co-owner and also the only other witness to the crime scene has made his story "I saw the protagonist kill that guy" and then some dude she knew from chicago has shown up in town and she doesn't know why and that dude is the reason she left chicago and on top of all of that, she is now the primary suspect in the murder case and the hot vet might have a girlfriend/wife. But mostly she's worried about finding out which coworker has been spreading rumors about her stealing money from the till and there being rats in the kitchen.
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Selachian posted:As a librarian, I'd like to emphasize the part about asking first. A lot of libraries can't or don't want to handle donations, especially if it's essentially worthless stuff like old textbooks, last year's bestsellers, etc. Yes please. So many people just dump old moldy crap that has been left in a garage of a now deceased relative. Thanks for the "donation".
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