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Kung Fu Fist gently caress posted:scifi flashman The Flashman books are both hilarious and legitimately worth reading. Whereas Ciaphas Cain is just a normal dude with an inferiority complex, Flashman is a complete unashamed scumbag. He does poo poo like throw an unconscious woman out of carriages when being chased by Russian cavalry in order to lighten the load and get away. A woman that he had just banged a few hours previously. No scruples whatsoever. If we're gonna toss out 40k book recommendations, Helsreach is what I'd start someone not into 40k with.
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Rad Lieutenant posted:Post your opinions about incest itt siblings, parents, aunts/uncles and 1st-3rd cousins aren't for loving. Though if Katy Perry was your third cousin and offered to throw you a lay, you'd be a massive human being to say no
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May 21, 2015 01:27
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Starship Troopers and The Moon is a Harsh Mistress are good. Then there's some other stuff that's alright too. Then there's a bunch of awful libertarian garbage.Booblord Zagats posted:siblings, parents, aunts/uncles and 1st-3rd cousins aren't for loving. Though if Katy Perry was your third cousin and offered to throw you a lay, you'd be a massive human being to say no
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May 21, 2015 01:28
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LongDarkNight posted:Read Old Man's War or Hyperion. If you like old man's war read Redshirts, fuzzy nation, and locked in. What I'm saying is read Scalzi
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May 21, 2015 01:29
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Casimir Radon posted:Starship Troopers and The Moon is a Harsh Mistress are good. Then there's some other stuff that's alright too. Then there's a bunch of awful libertarian garbage. Yeah I know, there's an entire episode of Futurama that kind of takes a poo poo on that. It's one of the best episodes, too
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May 21, 2015 01:31
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Revelation Space, or anything else by Reynolds. Always tough to start but the payoff is incredible. Iain Banks is/was pretty good. Armor was the book that got me started on Sci Fi. Fredrik Pohl has some legit hard Sci Fi. Old Mans War is crap.
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May 21, 2015 02:16
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Thanks you. This thread doesn't make sense when people don't post chicks
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May 21, 2015 03:26
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Revelation Space and Hyperion were both good, both worth getting into.
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May 21, 2015 03:32
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Society is freaking me out. 1. I wear plaid, flannel, and denim because I've worn them for years. Suddenly, it's "sexy" and "popular." 2. I grow a beard because I got out of the military and no longer am forced to shave twice a day (also I'm lazy) and, whaddya know, beards are suddenly sexy. 3. I have a gut because I brought myself back from "functional alcoholism" down to "college student" (also, as in point two, I'm lazy), then suddenly the "dad bod" is a thing, where having a gut and some body hair is considered sexy. Through literally zero effort on my part, society has decided I'm one of the sexiest men alive. What the gently caress. This is like some kind of cosmic fuckin' joke. My favorite description of myself came from here, when someone told me I looked like Danny Trejo fathered a crack baby. This is weird.
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May 21, 2015 03:43
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Scoop up that trendy easy cooze while you can I suppose
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May 21, 2015 03:47
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when the hell did having a gut become sexy? i know i'm getting old because i didn't even know this was a thing.
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May 21, 2015 03:50
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i promise chicks will like you more if you dress nice, smell nice, and you look like you work out.
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May 21, 2015 04:00
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The Black Fleet is pretty good, but don't read the other stuff the same author wrote. Like Omega Force. It's like reading a sci-fi verson of clive cussler.
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May 21, 2015 04:03
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Rad Lieutenant posted:Who's this lady FC Barcelona footballer Neymar's girlfriend, Bruna Marquezine. Footballer is the correct term right? Who cares you could call me whatever you want if I was going home to that every night. 
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May 21, 2015 04:14
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Cole posted:you guys have probably 20 minutes before this gets fixed, but go type "nigga house" into google maps. when it gets fixed i'll spoil it, but it's funnier to find out on your own. Weird, it worked the first time I did it, then wouldn't the second.
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May 21, 2015 04:24
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huh....i just tried incognito mode and it worked again. weird.
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May 21, 2015 04:29
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posted on my facebook wall today https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xI6TRTBZUMM haka chants are pretty much the most badass thing possible
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May 21, 2015 05:38
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Godholio posted:Revelation Space and Hyperion were both good, both worth getting into. The first two Hyperion books were good, but the second two. . . ehhhh. . . In the vein of military sci-fi, Marko Kloos has a trilogy out that GiPpers would probably enjoy.
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May 21, 2015 05:50
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Casimir Radon posted:Starship Troopers and The Moon is a Harsh Mistress are good. Then there's some other stuff that's alright too. Then there's a bunch of awful libertarian garbage. To be fair The Moon is a Harsh Mistress is pretty heavy handed when it comes to libertarian bullshit. But Mike is the coolest loving character Also the Commonwealth Saga is loving awesome and well worth reading. The Culture books are pretty solid to with Consider Phlebas and Use of Weapons both being really loving good.
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May 21, 2015 06:00
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Commonwealth Saga is the Peter F Hamilton series yea? Pandora's Star was mostly excellent except the space politics bullshit
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May 21, 2015 06:41
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Yeah, the first 1/4 of Pandora's Star is real loving slow, but once the Alamo Avengers roll out it picks up real fast. Judas Unchained owns from start to finish especially the last 1/4 which is basically Mad Max but with Particle Rifles and mini nukes. The Void Trilogy that follows it is pretty solid but it starts off extremely slow for the first 1/3rd of the first book and finally picks up. He really like building his worlds, I just wish he'd do it quicker.
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May 21, 2015 06:53
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Clarkson is doing an interview on BBC Radio 2 in a little over an hour with Chris Evans just a heads up
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Nostalgia4Butts posted:posted on my facebook wall today human being seriouspost incoming the haka traditionally is a challenge basically saying COME THE gently caress ON I WILL gently caress YOU UP in this particular context it's honouring your mate, much in the sense of 'i am giving my best but you gave everything' if you want to read some insane poo poo read about the maori battalion in ww1/2 or charles upham (kiwi, only living man to win the vc TWICE) or willie apiata (most recent VC recipient) no joke nz is a tiny loving country but our military is loving insanely good particularly our SAS
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Peter F. Hamilton is a huge weirdo and I got way too skeeved out by the first book of his I read to keep going. Damned if I can remember the title now, though. I must have been a teenager. A common thread between a lot of pop sci-fi authors is imagining that technology and social mores will conveniently evolve to enable hosed up creeps to act out their sickest sexual fantasies consequence-free. I avoid the whole genre unless I get a book specifically recommended to me by someone who doesn't ordinarily read a ton of sci-fi and fantasy. Incidentally, I'm in the middle of Ancillary Justice and it's pretty good so far.
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You can always go back in time if modern authors aren't doing it for you. One could spend a lifetime just with heavy hitters like Asimov, Bradbury, and Clarke. If you want to get really old-school, check out Edgar Rice Burroughs' A Princess of Mars. Somebody made a film adaption a few years ago, but I heard they really butchered it.
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On the dad bod flannel poo poo whatever chat why does having a beard make you a hipster. What if you're just too lazy to shave or have shaved everyday for 5 years and want a break Anyways dumb poo poo aside I know I'm wayyyy late here but just saw John Wick and yeah you guys were right about everything. If you haven't seen it go watch it
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May 21, 2015 07:44
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You guys are way more chill with booty. Please post more booty.
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May 21, 2015 08:48
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I would have bareback sex with KATY PERRY.
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Hipsterchat: I have no idea what the gently caress having a beard means toward hipster status. Then again, hipsters have basically taken my style choices and popularized them while attempting to ruin it by not doing any actual manual labor, so that shows how much I fuckin' know. Butts/chicks:  :nsfw: http://i.imgur.com/6QS9bji.jpg :nsfw: http://i.imgur.com/O8xDCCD.jpg Randochat: I've got a chronically non-running Mazda (car in my avatar) that's going into storage until I can do all the work it needs, and everyone is telling me to buy a cheap, reliable car for beater use in the meantime. So I found a '67 Galaxie 500 for $2k that I'm hopefully going to pick up soon, since an old V8 Ford is what I'd call dead reliable. Pretty sure everyone meant for me to buy a fuckin' Honda or something, but gently caress that noise, I'm a goddamned road warrior and I need my car to have miles of chrome.
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Professor Bling posted:
poo poo can the mazda for scrap, buy the Galaxie 500 '67 for restoration down the road, and put the Galaxie into storage unless really needed. that's just my opinion, because no Galaxie should be turned into a beater.
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The Rat posted:If we're gonna toss out 40k book recommendations, Helsreach is what I'd start someone not into 40k with. The Gaunt's Ghosts series by Dan Abnett is good stuff. 40k in general is heavily focused on genetically engineered giants cruising around in armored suits cracking skulls and loving poo poo up on the reg. Abnett writes about the Imperial Guard in this series who are regular people conscripted in huge numbers and thrown at various enemies. They often participate in massive battles and die quickly and in obscene numbers. I got five books in before school reading sapped my time so I can't speak for the entire fourteen book series, and the books have some small flaws and boring parts, but overall they're very entertaining and worth checking out.
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Two Finger posted:I really like Heinlein. I read some book of his recently about weird slugs that jump on people's backs and control them and despite the totally ridiculous premise it was actually really drat good. The puppet masters. Book was okay, movie was kinda okay but not as good as the book.
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Cole posted:Footballer is the correct term right? Metric footballer
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Professor Bling posted:Randochat: I've got a chronically non-running Mazda (car in my avatar) that's going into storage until I can do all the work it needs, and everyone is telling me to buy a cheap, reliable car for beater use in the meantime. So I found a '67 Galaxie 500 for $2k that I'm hopefully going to pick up soon, since an old V8 Ford is what I'd call dead reliable. Pretty sure everyone meant for me to buy a fuckin' Honda or something, but gently caress that noise, I'm a goddamned road warrior and I need my car to have miles of chrome. You might be able to find a 65 or 66 cheaper: 
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