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Apr 22, 2014 13:38
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Godholio posted:Not enough pictures? More up to HB's reading level? http://www.amazon.com/Children-Oregon-Trail-Puffin-Books/dp/0140301720
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Apr 22, 2014 14:38
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holocaust bloopers posted:Hey so Revelation Space is a loving difficult book to read. sound out the big words, man
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Apr 22, 2014 14:52
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holocaust bloopers posted:Hey so Revelation Space is a loving difficult book to read. Just pay attention to what year and where each chapter takes place. Once you figure out a certain location and time means a certain character takes center stage it will read a lot easier.
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Apr 22, 2014 15:00
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Nostalgia4Infinity posted:I actually started watching it a year ago, but someone spoiled Eddard's death and I was like "gently caress this poo poo" since I really liked the character and quit a couple of episodes into season 1. Since then I read the first and second books and spoiled myself by reading a synopsis of the third. Oddly enough knowing who dies lets me just enjoy the absolutely hosed up world GRRM crafted. When I first watched it I knew Ned was going to die (because he's Sean Bean, come on), but I wasn't expecting it to happen so soon.
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Apr 22, 2014 16:08
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Fart Sandwiches posted:Just pay attention to what year and where each chapter takes place. Once you figure out a certain location and time means a certain character takes center stage it will read a lot easier. This is good advice.
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Apr 22, 2014 16:15
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I'm still early in it, maybe 150ish pages, all three of the stories have yet to come together in any serious way. It's just kind of a chore. In between RS, I'm reading Roadside Picnic which is great and have Alas, Babylon on the way.
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Apr 22, 2014 16:57
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A good book I grabbed on a whim was the Wool Omnibus. It started out as a couple of short stories, then the author turned it into more of a novel. Some cleverly hosed-up stuff in there.
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Apr 22, 2014 17:24
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Godholio posted:A good book I grabbed on a whim was the Wool Omnibus. It started out as a couple of short stories, then the author turned it into more of a novel. Some cleverly hosed-up stuff in there. I just read Wool Part 1 last night. It wasn't bad. Worth the 5 bucks for the rest?
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Apr 22, 2014 17:25
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I think so. The next section is similar in style, then he writes like a novel, so it's weird. Story is good though.
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Apr 22, 2014 17:28
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Godholio posted:I think so. The next section is similar in style, then he writes like a novel, so it's weird. Story is good though. I'm leery of these self-published books. I got burned most recently on The Martian. God that book was loving miserable.
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Apr 22, 2014 17:30
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Godholio posted:A good book I grabbed on a whim was the Wool Omnibus. It started out as a couple of short stories, then the author turned it into more of a novel. Some cleverly hosed-up stuff in there. The whole series owns.
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Apr 22, 2014 18:51
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I really need to watch GoT from the beginning. My wife has been watching it religiously so I often get spoilered/don't understand wtf is going on. Though I am glad Geoffrey is dead because gently caress that little poo poo lord human being
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Apr 22, 2014 19:24
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Wool/Second Shift/Dust is a good set of books to buy. Dust ended kinda weak, but it didn't take away from the rest of the series.
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Apr 22, 2014 19:38
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"The infantry sergeant was a solitary drinker who did not believe in cutting corners. Neither did he believe in dilution or wasting money on fancy packaging. He had used all his money to bribe a medical orderly and obtained two carboys of 99 per cent pure grain alcohol, a drum of glucose and saline, and a length of rubber tubing. The ethyl-glucose-saline mixture in carboys had been slung from a rafter over his bunk with the tubing leading to the needle plunged into his arm and taped into place as an intravenous drip. Now he was unmoving, well fed, and completely blind-drunk all the time, and if the metered flow were undisturbed he should stay drunk for two and a half years." Bill the Galactic Hero/Harry Harrison
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Apr 22, 2014 19:52
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look at all these book readin faggots up in here
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Apr 22, 2014 20:06
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tuluk posted:"The infantry sergeant was a solitary drinker who did not believe in cutting corners. Neither did he believe in dilution or wasting money on fancy packaging. He had used all his money to bribe a medical orderly and obtained two carboys of 99 per cent pure grain alcohol, a drum of glucose and saline, and a length of rubber tubing. The ethyl-glucose-saline mixture in carboys had been slung from a rafter over his bunk with the tubing leading to the needle plunged into his arm and taped into place as an intravenous drip. Now he was unmoving, well fed, and completely blind-drunk all the time, and if the metered flow were undisturbed he should stay drunk for two and a half years." Wikipedia posted:Harrison reports having been approached by a Vietnam veteran who described Bill as "the only book that's true about the military." Guess I need to buy this one.
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Apr 22, 2014 20:09
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Apr 22, 2014 20:30
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THEY MADE A SEQUEL TO CONGO?
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Apr 22, 2014 20:32
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USMC503 posted:I really need to watch GoT from the beginning. My wife has been watching it religiously so I often get spoilered/don't understand wtf is going on. Same, but Joffrey deserved worse than that, I wish he got the Theon Greyjoy treatment
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Apr 23, 2014 01:06
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are tviv goons flippin out about the rape scene yet
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Apr 23, 2014 01:09
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genderstomper58 posted:are tviv goons flippin out about the rape scene yet YUP
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Apr 23, 2014 01:47
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Carteret posted:YUP lol
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Apr 23, 2014 01:51
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go in and explain how that's just the way things were way back when
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Apr 23, 2014 01:56
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Carteret posted:YUP lmao of all the things to get morally outraged about in a show where children die on the reg and folks are offed in the most graphic ways possible it's an insufferable bitch everyone hates getting raped that throws them into fits
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Apr 23, 2014 02:02
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Nostalgia4Infinity posted:lmao of all the things to get morally outraged about in a show where children die on the reg and folks are offed in the most graphic ways possible it's an insufferable bitch everyone hates getting raped that throws them into fits
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Apr 23, 2014 02:05
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Nostalgia4Infinity posted:lmao of all the things to get morally outraged about in a show where children die on the reg and folks are offed in the most graphic ways possible it's an insufferable bitch everyone hates getting raped that throws them into fits Because women. Nevermind Joffrey using a whore for target practice; that's not troubling. But how dare they rape a woman!
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Apr 23, 2014 02:05
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holocaust bloopers posted:Because women. Nevermind Joffrey using a whore for target practice; that's not troubling. But how dare they rape a woman!
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Apr 23, 2014 02:09
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Also where is the outrage over Dany getting raped on the reg by Drogo until she made him love her through the magic of "woman on top"?
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Apr 23, 2014 02:11
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Mad Dragon posted:Don't forget Joffrey also threatened to rape a 14 year old girl on her wedding day. It's pretty bad when a whoring drunkard midget is the least morally repugnant member of that family. I don't care. I like the show, and I'll keep watching just to see who ends up killing who. Well you're also a reasonable adult who can divorce reality from a narrative where the awful poo poo that happens fits the story.
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Apr 23, 2014 02:11
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yeah but i totally shipped jamie and brienne and this just ruins everything!!! 
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Apr 23, 2014 02:13
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Friendly Factory posted:I actually liked the champion "fight". It was the best outcome they could have had without Belwas. Jaime raping Cersei, however, made this easily the worst episode of the series. The director claims consent at the end of the scene, so I'm thinking it may have just been really really really lovely editing. rypakal posted:Nope. He clearly says that's his edit. Don't let any women around that man  of course I had to go and read the GoT thread.
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Apr 23, 2014 02:40
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Slim Pickens posted:
never read TVIV.
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Apr 23, 2014 02:43
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we can laugh about it in our circlejerk echochamber now though bc GD and grover are gone so small victories  im in new jersey now and ike i can see the empire state building and the new WTC and metlife stadium from work....p cool and the small towns around here aren't too bad
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Apr 23, 2014 02:52
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Slim Pickens posted:
The weirdest part about that scene was the show somehow made it more rapey than the book which is a loving accomplishment. Got the new roommates to watch True Detective. They're hooked now. Just watched episode 4 with that crazy rear end action sequence in the ghetto of Houston? Austin? with the bikers. I love this show.
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Apr 23, 2014 08:10
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jOg25HlBNiU Crossfit...with guns.
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Apr 23, 2014 09:04
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gently caress kettle bells. stupid rear end officers and their crossfit. edit: hahaha holy gently caress what is the point of that IM UPSIDE DOWN SHOOTING A GUN WOOOOO
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Apr 23, 2014 09:47
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Slagcheek I'm strainin' at the chains on this one
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Apr 23, 2014 09:49
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Snowdens Secret posted:Slagcheek I'm strainin' at the chains on this one Don't let the man keep you down.
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do we get in trouble if we talk about how awesome guns are in here
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