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Kaiser Mazoku posted:"The thread" meaning THIS thread? Nah, it was offsite. Don't recall other details, except the caricature was a malfunctioning transsexual battletank that everyone hated or something.
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Tunicate posted:Nah, it was offsite. Don't recall other details, except the caricature was a malfunctioning transsexual battletank that everyone hated or something. Oh Christ, that guy. I hadn't realized. Yeah, there's a reason several popular SF/F discussion forums refer to him by the anagram of his name, "Tank Marmot". Not importing outside drama by naming forums but if anyone is curious what happened PM me and I can provide some of the links. In a few cases the meltdown is actually pretty funny.
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Stupid_Sexy_Flander posted:Local slang for an outhouse is "privy". That adds even more depth to the "loving why?".
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Tunicate posted:Nah, it was offsite. Don't recall other details, except the caricature was a malfunctioning transsexual battletank that everyone hated or something. Well I have a new handle if I ever need to re-reg.
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# ? Jan 30, 2017 07:49 |
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worst case he gives lowtax and shows up to whinge, best case we get a new letter from leonardo j crabs
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Tunicate posted:Nah, it was offsite. Don't recall other details, except the caricature was a malfunctioning transsexual battletank that everyone hated or something. This would make a wonderful story by itself. Like Ghost in the Shell, but funny and with less lesbian porn.
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there wolf posted:Well I have a new handle if I ever need to re-reg. I know right? That sounds awesome.
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So I came across The White Man and the Pachinko Girl while I was looking for a completely different book on Amazon... Let me just offer you this 'sentence', here: quote:Among these cheerless men, only occasionally stirred to irritation by the clanking sound of steel balls pouring out in an enviously large quantity into the winning buckets of their lucky yet dispicable neighbors, was a white man in his fifties sporting a wrinkly gray suit called Smith. And some very odd views on gender relations: quote:Japanese women, in his opinion, turned out to be far more capable of inflicting pain on men due to the sheer improbability that a simple facial gesture they made could mean so much more than the abusive language of women, much better in size, in his home country. And a poorly proofread love of tea: quote:By now, he was already numb to the poignant fragrance of the tea that he had stopped pausing between gulps to savor it lavishly as he used to. Between every gulp he would let it glide on top of his tongue and roll around his mouth until his taste buds were all fully saturated with the refreshing flavor of it. Then slowlylyhim hehe would let the tea trickled down his throat, tickling it with a nice, warm sensation, which he liked so much, before swallowing everything. About the Author: Vann Chow was born in Hong Kong. She graduated with honors from Carnegie Mellon University with a Chemical Engineering degree and has lived and worked as a scientist in three continents by age twenty eight. Her life experience has granted her unique insights into interactions between different cultures which inspired her many novels.
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Tom Kratman is a retired US Army Lieutenant Colonel who was once Director (Rule of Law) for the US Army War College's Peacekeeping and Stability Operations Institute. He's also an open fascist whose contribution to John Ringo's Legacy of the Aldenata series was to write a book about heroic resurrected Waffen-SS fighting aliens. So reading one of his books might provide you with a useful insight into another likely member of the Trump administration, at least.
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I swear if I ever write a book series and get an extraordinarily nasty review from a critic, I am going to put them into my next book as a useful, competent background character. I think this would work a lot better than neurotic tanks and child molesters; they'd probably be so baffled and going through the text with a fine tooth comb to find the insult that wasn't there, which seems a better return jab than 'Mr. Dickcheese Shitopinion was ugly and smelled, and someone ran him over with a steamroller and everyone cheered, and then six models came to my house and I left them all screaming I was the best at sex."
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The_White_Crane posted:So I came across The White Man and the Pachinko Girl while I was looking for a completely different book on Amazon... " THE WHITE MAN AND THE PACHINKO GIRL is the winning selection of an international book award with over one hundred forty thousand submissions" No reviews. And it has a sequel.
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Cornwind Evil posted:I swear if I ever write a book series and get an extraordinarily nasty review from a critic, I am going to put them into my next book as a useful, competent background character. I think this would work a lot better than neurotic tanks and child molesters; they'd probably be so baffled and going through the text with a fine tooth comb to find the insult that wasn't there, which seems a better return jab than 'Mr. Dickcheese Shitopinion was ugly and smelled, and someone ran him over with a steamroller and everyone cheered, and then six models came to my house and I left them all screaming I was the best at sex." All I can think of is this paragraph from Roger Ebert's review of the 1998 Emmerich Godzilla: quote:Oh, and then there are New York's Mayor Ebert (gamely played by Michael Lerner) and his adviser, Gene (Lorry Goldman). The mayor of course makes every possible wrong decision (he is against evacuating Manhattan, etc.), and the adviser eventually gives thumbs-down to his reelection campaign. These characters are a reaction by Emmerich and Devlin to negative Siskel and Ebert reviews of their earlier movies ("Stargate," "Independence Day"), but they let us off lightly; I fully expected to be squished like a bug by Godzilla. Now that I've inspired a character in a Godzilla movie, all I really still desire is for several Ingmar Bergman characters to sit in a circle and read my reviews to one another in hushed tones.
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"The Beginning" by Kevin Lindo Cadelina Some samples from that album:
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If your dick is shaped like this you should get it checked
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Five inches? Heh.
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Pastry of the Year posted:"The Beginning" by Kevin Lindo Cadelina Wow, this is impressively crazy. e: I mean, he might not even be wrong, current events considered. ee: daym nigers! Fleta Mcgurn has a new favorite as of 12:10 on Feb 22, 2017 |
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Fleta Mcgurn posted:e: I mean, he might not even be wrong, current events considered. No, you're right: this is a historically-accurate history of the National Football League, as well as a prayer book.
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I tried to build a sexual stadium in my room but the landlord objected.
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A Pinball Wizard posted:I tried to build a sexual stadium in my room but the landlord objected. You will find it difficult to become a world-class fuckthlete if you are renting.
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Pastry of the Year posted:"The Beginning" by Kevin Lindo Cadelina Reading this is like a stroke. There are words, and I understand these words, but trying to turn them into sense is maddening.
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I was recently in a podcast episode that covered some terrible books. I meant to post it here when it went up a couple days ago, but there was a hiccup or two with the release, and I forgot by the time it was straightened out. Anyway, it's here. The show's something of a spinoff of/tribute to The F Plus, and I recommend hearing that podcast first for anyone who hasn't, but I'm happy with the job I did on this one.
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https://imgur.com/a/Og1eo
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poo poo I want some sin in space
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# ? Mar 19, 2017 07:41 |
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I've read that Sheckley short. That cover is... not right.
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# ? Mar 19, 2017 07:56 |
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Dagger's Point looks magnificently schlocky. I'm not sure it can live up to the promise of that cover and "SHADOW THE ELVAN THIEF!"
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# ? Mar 19, 2017 08:09 |
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There was no way in hell that artist was gonna divert from their reference photos. That cat man looks like a photoshop.
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I'd wondered where that grinning spaceman was from
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Xarbala posted:I'd wondered where that grinning spaceman was from
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Sham bam bamina! posted:It was on the front page. Some goon you are! I was looking through that and saw one cover that I had to look up. It took me to this fascinating article/summary of the book.
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Sham bam bamina! posted:It was on the front page. Some goon you are!
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I just remembered a terrible "history" book I read a few years ago: Caligula: Divine Carnage by Stepehn Barber and Jeremy Reed. It's a collection of essays about various Roman emperors, plus one about the gladiator games, and the orgies, blood-sports, and general debauchery the Romans supposedly got up to all the time. I don't have the book, but here are a couple of reviews I found and quotes from each: http://www.branchfloridians.org/plebeian_scum.html quote:will be generous and say that 5% of this book is historically accurate. Indeed, that is probably what is most perplexing about this: given the vast wealth of dirt and absurdity that are amply documented about Rome’s nuttiest Emperor, it is a mystery why Barber and Reed would chose to go into uncharted territory and brazenly make up lurid bullshit. For historical accuracy, this book is more manure than McVeigh used to bomb the Oklahoma City fed building. http://consumedandjudged.blogspot.com/2012/02/caligula-divine-carnage-2001.html?view=classic quote:For the first twenty or so pages, Barber and Reed almost have you convinced. Sure, a lot of what they describe seems improbable. Maybe Tiberius forced everyone in the palace to kneel every morning before his “diseased, blackened sexual organ,” maybe he didn’t. And perhaps it's only slightly hyperbolic to say Caligula spent “the first months of his reign almost entirely in incestuous copulation with his sister, Drusilla”—that depends on just how one defines “almost” and “entirely.” But then Barber and Reed go too far, writing that Rome’s “plebian scum” loved Caligula because: Another claim I remember, from the gladiator chapter: sometimes an artificial lake would be made in the coliseum, and gladiators would come out in boats to fight "naval battles." Maybe that much did happen (I'm no expert) but according to Barber and Reed, the most spectacular part of the show was at the end, when all the male spectators would jerk off and simultaneously ejaculate into the water. Also, I recall there were maybe two primary source citations in the whole thing, and no citations of scholarly works except maybe a vague reference to "German researchers" or something like that. SerialKilldeer has a new favorite as of 19:24 on Mar 30, 2017 |
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SerialKilldeer posted:Another claim I remember, from the gladiator chapter: sometimes an artificial lake would be made in the coliseum, and gladiators would come out in boats to fight "naval battles." Maybe that much did happen (I'm no expert) but according to Barber and Reed, the most spectacular part of the show was at the end, when all the male spectators would jerk off and simultaneously ejaculate into the water. The mock naval battles thing is true, under the surface of the arena was a network of corridors that were normally used as storage/animal pens but could be cleared out and flooded to make a small temporary lake. God, can you imagine, though? "When the battles ended everyone stood up and jerked off. The stones echoed with the sound of a couple of hundred strangers' dicks fapping. Nobody thought it was weird at all and why are you looking at me like that, Brenda, it's historically accurate and not 'one of my weird Roman fanfictions', whatever that means--"
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SerialKilldeer posted:
What's the problem here, exactly? It seems fairly accurate.
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quote:Sure, a lot of what they describe seems improbable. Maybe Tiberius forced everyone in the palace to kneel every morning before his “diseased, blackened sexual organ,” maybe he didn’t. Sham bam bamina! has a new favorite as of 05:48 on Mar 31, 2017 |
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Sham bam bamina! posted:This reads like a speech bubble from Tycho in a Penny Arcade strip. Not quite. It's funny and not being said by a noodle-armed man with a glowing red nose.
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# ? Mar 31, 2017 07:10 |
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That reminds me of when I tried to read Colleen McCullough's Rome series and she has Cleopatra write a letter to Caesar that begins with "Darlingest Caeser." I noped that book right into the donation box.
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SerialKilldeer posted:I just remembered a terrible "history" book I read a few years ago: Caligula: Divine Carnage by Stepehn Barber and Jeremy Reed. It's a collection of essays about various Roman emperors, plus one about the gladiator games, and the orgies, blood-sports, and general debauchery the Romans supposedly got up to all the time. I like to think that they did consult actual historians and got trolled really hard, like they were Zim and the historians were the Tallest: "That seems a little unlikely..." "It's not unlikely! It's ~meticulously researched~ :iamafag:"
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BioEnchanted posted:I like to think that they did consult actual historians and got trolled really hard, like they were Zim and the historians were the Tallest: There is historical precedent: Margaret Mead got the poo poo trolled out of her by Samoan teenagers lying through their teeth about their sex lives, and for a long time everybody took Coming of Age in Samoa as basically gospel truth.
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Cumming on Dave's Old Jerboas
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Cornwind Evil posted:I swear if I ever write a book series and get an extraordinarily nasty review from a critic, I am going to put them into my next book as a useful, competent background character. I think this would work a lot better than neurotic tanks and child molesters; they'd probably be so baffled and going through the text with a fine tooth comb to find the insult that wasn't there, which seems a better return jab than 'Mr. Dickcheese Shitopinion was ugly and smelled, and someone ran him over with a steamroller and everyone cheered, and then six models came to my house and I left them all screaming I was the best at sex." I read that as leaving the models at your house while you went outside screaming "I am the best at sex!"
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