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This is another good book http://smile.amazon.com/Poor-Mans-Fight-Book-ebook/dp/B00RH1NV4M/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1432218551&sr=8-1&keywords=poor+man%27s+fight
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it's throwback thursday again https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OG3PnQ3tgzY
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May 21, 2015 15:47
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NoNostalgia4Grover posted:poo poo can the mazda for scrap If he wants to get rid of it, advertise it in the Puerto Rico* version of CL or some poo poo. *Puerto Rico loves and values mazda rxs as much as Australia it seems. Fo3 fucked around with this message at 16:06 on May 21, 2015 |
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May 21, 2015 16:02
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i dunno about you but i sure as poo poo wouldn't pay shipping on a $20k car i found on craigslist.
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May 21, 2015 16:13
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That's not what I said. I said a restored one here in Aussie land is worth $20k. Someone saying to scrap it is clueless. He could get some decent money for it if it was advertised as is, because Puerto Ricans buy all the mazdas from the mainland and ship it themselves over there. Seriously, google that poo poo, they are mad for mazdas and rotaries, same as they are worth so much in Australia and NZ for a weird reason. Fo3 fucked around with this message at 16:24 on May 21, 2015 |
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May 21, 2015 16:20
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RichieHimself posted: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 enjoyed the whole series of what's out so far. With 40k, stick to Dan Abnett and Aaron Demski-Bowden and you'll be okay. The other authors range from "okay" to "I wouldn't wipe my rear end with this for fear of contamination."
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Mike-o posted: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. It's new. My girlfriend told me to stop doing crunches because she likes a little pooch. Seems like girls under 26 nowadays want to gently caress middle aged men. Just go with it
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May 21, 2015 16:39
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I'm glad to see that all the effort I put into not working out over the past year is finally starting to pay off.
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May 21, 2015 16:40
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Booblord Zagats posted:It's new. My girlfriend told me to stop doing crunches because she likes a little pooch. Seems like girls under 26 nowadays want to gently caress middle aged men. Just go with it It's like America as a culture has collectively lowered its standards because it knows that ain't nobody working out. Not like I care, it just keeps getting easier and easier for me and my wife to look loving awesome in comparison.
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May 21, 2015 16:55
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Stultus Maximus posted:It's like America as a culture has collectively lowered its standards because it knows that ain't nobody working out. I just told her I'd just stop shaving my happy trail as a compromise. My greatest fear is getting fat because I know at 31 it will only get harder to lose weight from here on out
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May 21, 2015 17:01
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Booblord Zagats posted:It's new. My girlfriend told me to stop doing crunches because she likes a little pooch. Seems like girls under 26 nowadays want to gently caress middle aged men. Just go with it Between this and yoga pants I think maybe I actually died in Iraq. Everything is cool and good. edit: I also blew 4k on a new laptop for editing and a RAID soooo I'm winning at something.
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May 21, 2015 17:23
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All this chat about sci-fi books and no mention of A Canticle for Leibowitz? I'm ashamed of you. It should be the thread's favorite book. It involves not one collapse of civilization from nukes, but two!
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MA-Horus posted:All this chat about sci-fi books and no mention of A Canticle for Leibowitz? I'm ashamed of you. It should be the thread's favorite book. It also has the benefit of being actually good quality writing like a book you wouldn't be ashamed to use for a college class.
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May 21, 2015 17:31
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I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream
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May 21, 2015 17:50
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Had to read William Gibson for class. I don't like that cyberpunk bullshit.
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May 21, 2015 18:23
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is it because you like steampunk more?
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elite_garbage_man posted:is it because you like steampunk more? Not even.
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I didn't enjoy the William Gibson stuff I read. However, the Takeshi Kovacs series by Richard K. Morgan is some pretty good cyberpunk.
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The Rat posted:I didn't enjoy the William Gibson stuff I read. However, the Takeshi Kovacs series by Richard K. Morgan is some pretty good cyberpunk. Morgan is good. His fantasy series is supposedly very good. Joe Abercrombie writes loving awesome fantasy. All of his characters are fun degenerates.
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May 21, 2015 18:59
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Truth, Abercrombie is amazing. If anyone is into Lovecraftian kind of stuff, Laird Barron is the only other author who put chills up my spine in the same way Lovecraft did. Charles Stross's Laundry series is pretty good in that regard as well.
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Lookit this illiterate scrub.
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May 21, 2015 19:27
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just lashing out cuz my kindle broke
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Helldump Immunity. posted:just lashing out cuz my kindle broke Upgrade to a Paperwhite.
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May 21, 2015 19:34
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Helldump Immunity. posted:just lashing out cuz my kindle broke
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May 21, 2015 19:39
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Spicy Guacamole posted:Hey, I hear they now make books that don't require batteries or anything! Yeah, they just print them onto a whole bunch of paper and stick those papers together in one neat little stack. How crazy is that? I tried to get one of those once and the monks got pissy when I tried to saw off the chain holding down the book.
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May 21, 2015 19:47
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I liked most Larry Niven's Ringworld series and even though it's more along the lines of fantasy Roger Zelazny's Amber series is great.
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May 21, 2015 19:48
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Two Finger posted:human being seriouspost incoming Here I thought it was meant to scare off evil spirits or something. Re: bookchat Ever since someone in here talked about 40K books a couple of weeks ago, I've worked my way through a Blood Angels arc, an Iron Hands book and a collection of three Grey Knights books in one just came in 2 days ago, poo poo owns. Tech priests own. Inquisitors own. Praying to the machine spirit of anything with moving parts owns.  Other things that own
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May 21, 2015 19:49
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Hey, I found a cool website: [url]http://卐.com[/url]
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May 21, 2015 19:49
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Trying to take back the swastika? Good luck with that anywhere outside of Asia. Someone mentioned Culture novels. I just finished The Hydrogen Sonata and it was very enjoyable. Showed off what I think Banks (RIP  ) did best -- dialog and exploring the inner workings and politicking of the Minds.
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Spicy Guacamole posted:Hey, I hear they now make books that don't require batteries or anything! Yeah, they just print them onto a whole bunch of paper and stick those papers together in one neat little stack. How crazy is that? sounds gay
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May 21, 2015 20:09
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Nostalgia4Infinity posted:Someone mentioned Culture novels. I've only read Consider Pheblas. It was very Mass Effect-y but better in every conceivable way.
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holocaust bloopers posted:Had to read William Gibson for class. I don't like that cyberpunk bullshit. The Rat posted:
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Hahaha yeah, I'm not scrapping the RX4; as of 2008 there were only 67 of them registered in the US across all bodystyles. The Mazda is going into storage to save it from the winters around here; meanwhile, buying a Ford that for a time was second in total sales only to the Model T as a beater sounds like a great idea, seeing as how there's still so goddamned many of them left. Edit:also the Galaxie is "rust-free" in the Midwestern Craigslist sense, which means the pics next to "rust free" have obvious surface rust/body rot on multiple panels Professor Bling fucked around with this message at 20:55 on May 21, 2015 |
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Dead Reckoning posted:That's a shame, because he's a really fantastic novelist. He did a trilogy of present day books you could try. Pattern Recognition is slow as hell, but Spook Country and Zero History were great, and you don't need to read PR first to appreciate them. Well I've just read Neuromancer, which was a loving slog to get through. I have The Peripheral on my kindle. It'll be some time before I get to it, if at all.
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Move chat: my lease is up just as I graduate. I'm looking into other cities to move. Anyone here from Raleigh?
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holocaust bloopers posted:Move chat: my lease is up just as I graduate. I'm looking into other cities to move. Anyone here from Raleigh? I live in Wilmington, Zeris lives in Charlotte, and I think Carteret lives somewhere near New Bern/Beaufort. Here's a better place for any NC questions though: http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3032525&pagenumber=182#lastpost
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Cost of living is much, much lower than Chicago, which is nice.
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Watching Chappie again and I wasn't very vocal after seeing it in the theater for whatever reasons, but...it sucked. If they'd cut it down to like 80-90 minutes tops, it'd be pretty watchable. That Afrikaaner-druglord owned hard and the shootout with Jackman's giant, fuckoff mech owned as well, but Neil Bloemkamp needs to start JUST having ideas and leaving the entire writing/screenplay to folks that know their job. I knew I wasn't walking into the greatest of action movies, but outside of the action scenes, it was basically Die Antwoort: Der Homemoowie. From articles during filming and leading up to the movie release, I got the impression that people on set were legitimately terrified of Ninja being completely insane and that Bloemkamp was trying to cut him out of the movie as much as possible and then the two are basically the protagonists of the movie, ahead even of Chappie. I almost got the impression that they were holding Bloemkamp hostage throughout the filming, what with like an entire album's worth of their songs IN the movie as well as the entirety of their "signature" wardrobe and "ZEF" (whatever the gently caress that means) being airbrushed/sprayed onto something in basically every single scene. The animation of the robot was loving amazing though and the movie world needs more Afrikaans-speaking villains (that aren't Die Antwoord)
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