Domus posted:

People thought that poo poo was good?

The Lone Badger posted:

Or is this porn for dyslexics?

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He was a good-looking gentleman in his thirties, handsome in a way no longer fashionable, not health-club handsome, not rock-star handsome, but Eisenhower-era handsome, Pillsbury-doughboy handsome, his hair cut by a barber rather than a stylist, his suit purchased at a discount warehouse.

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Madame Alexina began to tease the bowling ball, tracing little circles around the finger holes. The shell was becoming steadily more translucent, the interior less dark, more liquid. Hesitantly, Madame Alexina slid her fingertips ever so slightly into the holes and, emboldened by the lack of resistance, began to probe ever more deeply and vigorously. ... As Madame Alexina’s pace quickened and her fingers grew more confident, the inky depths grew ever weaker, until, in a moment, the bowling ball surrendered itself—transparent, exposed, and vulnerable.

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Still, as the daughter of a developer, herself a part-owner of Harbrough and Daughters, the conventional wisdom was that Doah would never elect a developer as mayor.

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Mr. Caputo was fiercely neutral, took great pride in the fierceness of his neutrality

Tiggum posted:

Madame Alexina began to tease the bowling ball, tracing little circles around the finger holes. The shell was becoming steadily more translucent, the interior less dark, more liquid. Hesitantly, Madame Alexina slid her fingertips ever so slightly into the holes and, emboldened by the lack of resistance, began to probe ever more deeply and vigorously. ... As Madame Alexina’s pace quickened and her fingers grew more confident, the inky depths grew ever weaker, until, in a moment, the bowling ball surrendered itself—transparent, exposed, and vulnerable.

ibntumart posted:

Just please tell me that the bowling ball in this story isn't sentient a la Lumiere or Cogsworth.

McKilligan posted:

What the gently caress? Someone fingerbangs a magic bowling ball so hard it turns from opaque to transparent? Is that what I'm reading?

McKilligan posted:

What the gently caress? Someone fingerbangs a magic bowling ball so hard it turns from opaque to transparent? Is that what I'm reading?

Tiggum posted:

I wish I could tell you that I cut out some important context that makes those words mean anything else. But I can't.

divabot posted:

We can start right here. I honestly can't tell if that image is rendered, a Photoshop disaster based on a photo of a model, a Photoshop disaster of an artist who can't draw, or what.

Sham bam bamina! posted:

It's definitely a render.

divabot posted:

We can start right here. I honestly can't tell if that image is rendered, a Photoshop disaster based on a photo of a model, a Photoshop disaster of an artist who can't draw, or what.

Sham bam bamina! posted:

It's definitely a render.

divabot posted:

Antivehicular posted:

If you need to make a ham-handed joke about equal restroom accommodations, wouldn't it make more sense for it to require women's restrooms to have urinals? I mean, it's not funny either way, but at least that'd make more sense, even if it wasn't a precious emasculation joke.

Practical Demon posted:

I mean, logically it would make sense, and if MRAs were the more old school misogynist that made fun of women for trying to be like men there would probably be a joke about women standing up to pee in there. But the whole big thing for these guys is how all feminists want is to oppress men. So a feminist lawyer, who for some reason also manages a band, making men sit down to pee is the obvious joke in that hosed up way of thinking.

Antivehicular posted:

Yeah, it makes sense in its stupid "lovely joke by lovely dude" way; I suppose it's just bothering me for some reason. (Maybe because it makes me think of all the guys I've known who would be perfectly happy with all-stalls restrooms even if it meant sitting down to pee.)

Antivehicular posted:

Yeah, it makes sense in its stupid "lovely joke by lovely dude" way; I suppose it's just bothering me for some reason. (Maybe because it makes me think of all the guys I've known who would be perfectly happy with all-stalls restrooms even if it meant sitting down to pee.)

TheChaosPath posted:

What? That sounds like a loving nightmare

divabot posted:

Feminazi bitches, amirite?

Strom Cuzewon posted:

using a title that only British citizens can be awarded

divabot posted:

Tiggum posted:

That's not so much a straw man as a pile of straw that he's just grabbing handfuls of, throwing them in the air and yelling "This is a feminist!"

Unless he was knighted in a different country, or just uses the title anyway despite not officially being allowed. Of all the criticisms to make, that one's pretty weak.

Alhazred posted:

That's not how umlauts works

DStecks posted:

It looks like, sadly, Space Raptor Butt Invasion did not win the Hugo.

divabot posted:

Phil Sandifer tweeted a "hey, look what I just stepped in":

https://twitter.com/PhilSandifer/status/766658632503132162

As a connoiseur of the worst of popular culture, and novels about pop music are definitely the worst of popular culture, I foolishly looked. This is where staring into the abyss gets me. (well, doing a swan dive into the abyss and wallowing while sending back reports probably involves staring at some point.)

It's published by Vox Day, who is now most famous for doing his damnedest to gently caress up the Hugos. He almost certainly is the actual author of this thing, because he's used variants of "Fenris Wolf" as a tag through his whole career.



We can start right here. I honestly can't tell if that image is rendered, a Photoshop disaster based on a photo of a model, a Photoshop disaster of an artist who can't draw, or what.

Here are some fragments from the Amazon preview. No, I'm not retyping this garbage.



That is, this is a fictionalised crib of The Daily Adventures of Mixerman from 2003. An amazing tale, purportedly real-life (and ringing fairly true), posted in installments to a messageboard, about an engineer recording some well-funded bozo nobodies.



Presumably this is Vox's attempt at using your human "humor". It's like it has a canned laughter soundtrack that's actually a three-second sample on loop with a mismatched splice, forever.



Feminazi bitches, amirite?



That last line is an allusion to "stop making yourself look like loving sex clowns to milk money out of men's dicks", anarchocapitalist Stefan Molyneux's famous contribution to valuable men's rights discourse.

So basically Vox Day has done a rehash of an actually interesting music industry insider tale, but even having been in an actual band with actual minor hit records he doesn't seem to know much about his subject, and launches into his rendering by mixing in his opinions on women.

Apparently there's a plot of some sort and some other ideas, but you can read Vox Day as long as you like and never reach the "there" there, so I'm not going to bother. As Phil put it:

https://twitter.com/PhilSandifer/status/767019670499098624

House Louse posted:

No, it's great news, because giving a racist sexist facist any kind of satisfaction at all is bad and telling him to gently caress off with results like we got this year is great.

Alhazred posted:

That's not how umlauts works

DStecks posted:

I'm assuming you weren't following the controversy, but from the moment he was nominated Chuck Tingle set out on a massive campaign of trolling the Puppies, including sending Zoe Quinn to accept the award on his behalf if he won it.