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I CARE DEEPLY ABOUT EVERYTHING AND I HOPE EVERYONE IS HAVING SUCH A NICE DAY!
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Fleta Mcgurn posted:I CARE DEEPLY ABOUT EVERYTHING AND I HOPE EVERYONE IS HAVING SUCH A NICE DAY! I'M ACTUALLY NOT FEELING GREAT TODAY BUT I JUST TOOK A SUDAFED SO HOPEFULLY I WILL BE FEELING BETTER LATER ON.
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Aug 3, 2017 06:21
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Fleta Mcgurn posted:I CARE DEEPLY ABOUT EVERYTHING AND I HOPE EVERYONE IS HAVING SUCH A NICE DAY! I AM HAVING A VERY NICE DAY IT WAS MY BIRTHDAY DINNER
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Aug 3, 2017 06:26
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Hate Fibration posted:I AM HAVING A VERY NICE DAY IT WAS MY BIRTHDAY DINNER HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!! I HOPE IT WAS EVERYTHING YOU WANTED IT TO BE! Tiggum posted:I'M ACTUALLY NOT FEELING GREAT TODAY BUT I JUST TOOK A SUDAFED SO HOPEFULLY I WILL BE FEELING BETTER LATER ON. SUDAFED IS HIGHLY EFFECTIVE AND I AM HAPPY T HEAR YOU HAVE MEDICATION! FEEL BETTER SOON AND TAKE CARE OF YOURSELF! This is fun!
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Aug 3, 2017 11:20
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I GOT THE PROOF OF MY BOOK IN THE POST AND IT LOOKS AWESOME I CANNOT TELL YOU HOW ABSOLUTELY DELIGHTED I AM RIGHT NOW it's not fiction though but it's probably genre
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Aug 3, 2017 14:01
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Fleta Mcgurn posted:SUDAFED IS HIGHLY EFFECTIVE AND I AM HAPPY T HEAR YOU HAVE MEDICATION! FEEL BETTER SOON AND TAKE CARE OF YOURSELF!
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Aug 3, 2017 15:43
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divabot posted:I GOT THE PROOF OF MY BOOK IN THE POST AND IT LOOKS AWESOME
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Aug 3, 2017 15:46
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Sham bam bamina! posted:I haven't been keeping up with that thread, but this is extremely good news. Congratulations! also spotted a mahoosive typo right there on the frickin' cover, which somehow evaded both my and the artist's attention for two weeks my current theory is that every book contains more typos than there are actual characters so uh paperback release date will be Monday, which gives me until Saturday before the final upload (using Createspace, whose products are actually lovely! which they certainly should be, given the price) so I'll be going over every aspect with a fine-toothed comb (the ebook's been out two weeks and is doing really well! but everyone keeps asking for a PB, so) divabot has a new favorite as of 18:34 on Aug 3, 2017 |
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Aug 3, 2017 18:31
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divabot posted:also spotted a mahoosive typo right there on the frickin' cover, which somehow evaded both my and the artist's attention for two weeks Sham bam bamina! has a new favorite as of 20:29 on Aug 3, 2017 |
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Aug 3, 2017 20:24
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Sham bam bamina! posted:Is it the missing hyphen in "50 Foot", or is there something else I'm somehow not catching? the hyphen's supposed to be missing (I need to update the website art) no, on the spine, ETHERUIM as I said, neither of us spotted this in two weeks, despite that including a whole day wrangling with Kindle Print's lovely shittiness (never use Kindle Print, always use Createspace and link it to your Kindle book afterwards). ofc as the bitcoin thread points out, it should be BUTTCOIN, BUTTCHAIN, BUTTHEREUM AND SMART BUTTOCKS
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Aug 3, 2017 21:04
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divabot posted:I GOT THE PROOF OF MY BOOK IN THE POST AND IT LOOKS AWESOME I'm kind of on the fence. I mean this purely objective review has me wondering. Also, you don't seem to accept any kind of crypto to purchase the book. quote:What 3 letter agency paid to have this fud propaganda written? (j/k I remember reading some of your chapter drafts in the buttcoin thread, I think. Added to shopping list for my next round of eBook purchases)
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Aug 3, 2017 21:23
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divabot posted:the hyphen's supposed to be missing 
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Aug 3, 2017 21:45
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Proteus Jones posted:I'm kind of on the fence. I mean this purely objective review has me wondering. Also, you don't seem to accept any kind of crypto to purchase the book. There are no general ebook stores that accept crypto. None. 
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Aug 3, 2017 22:54
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divabot posted:There are no general ebook stores that accept crypto. None. Email me a bitcoin personally and I will figure out the details and email you a book myself
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Aug 3, 2017 23:17
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Tunicate posted:Email me a bitcoin personally and I will figure out the details and email you a book myself i have thought of selling the book for bitcoin at a special price of BTC 4.99, but that would involve having anything at all to do with bitcoins also my wife said i wasn't allowed to start an ICO chicks eh
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Aug 4, 2017 00:44
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divabot posted:SMART BUTTOCKS Mods please.
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Aug 4, 2017 00:50
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divabot posted:also spotted a mahoosive typo right there on the frickin' cover, which somehow evaded both my and the artist's attention for two weeks I got two separate people to proof my book, did another run through myself after not touching it for months and even then, after it went to print it was STILL full of typos. Annoying, so I went through again after another few months so I wouldn't just be skimming words I already knew. Fine... Then it goes to print again and on the back page there's a typo! So I pull the book again, fix that one word, nothing more, send it back to print and I get a proof copy... And Somehow the cover is now completely misaligned and I want to put my head through a wall and never look at a computer again! 
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Aug 4, 2017 11:41
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Today, RPO author Ernest Cline issued a youtube DMCA takedown notice. What was this notice for, you ask? Oh, just a dramatic reading of some, uh, RPO quotes. https://twitter.com/supergreatfrien/status/893286470890516480 quote:“I would argue that masturbation is the human animal's most important adaptation. The very cornerstone of our technological civilization. Our hands evolved to grip tools, all right—including our own. You see, thinkers, inventors, and scientists are usually geeks, and geeks have a harder time getting laid than anyone. Without the built-in sexual release valve provided by masturbation, it's doubtful that early humans would have ever mastered the secrets of fire or discovered the wheel. And you can bet that Galileo, Newton, and Einstein never would have made their discoveries if they hadn't first been able to clear their heads by slapping the salami (or "knocking a few protons off the old hydrogen atom"). The same goes for Marie Curie. Before she discovered radium, you can be certain she first discovered the little man in the canoe.” 
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Aug 4, 2017 12:40
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lmfao I wish i'd seen that video
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Aug 4, 2017 13:27
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I don't think Ernest Cline knows what hydrogen is.
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Aug 4, 2017 15:25
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Brass Key posted:Today, RPO author Ernest Cline issued a youtube DMCA takedown notice. What was this notice for, you ask? Oh, just a dramatic reading of some, uh, RPO quotes. Minor correction: It wasn't RPO quotes , it was a "poem" Cline has freely available on his site, thus making the takedown notice even more spurious http://www.ernestcline.com/spokenword/npa.htm
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Aug 4, 2017 15:46
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The Vosgian Beast posted:Minor correction: It wasn't RPO quotes , it was a "poem" Cline has freely available on his site, thus making the takedown notice even more spurious http://www.ernestcline.com/spokenword/npa.htm Oh, whoops. By the time I came across it it was already taken down and someone in the comments referenced the Marie Curie bit so I thought it was that. Honestly that poem is even funnier. quote:These aren't real women. They're objects. What the gently caress is this.
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Aug 4, 2017 15:55
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Ernest Cline, RPO and Armada are so terrible, so truly awful, that I'm half-tempted to ask you guys to cool it as a subject until the movie comes out and more people are exposed to it. I mean, if a mod could change the title to "PYF terrible book: Yes, RPO is really that bad" or something I think it would get the point across. That's like the second or third time that poem has been posted in a week.
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Aug 4, 2017 15:59
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food court bailiff posted:I mean, if a mod could change the title to "PYF terrible book: Yes, RPO is really that bad" or something I think it would get the point across. That's like the second or third time that poem has been posted in a week. +1
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Aug 4, 2017 16:10
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Brass Key posted:Today, RPO author Ernest Cline issued a youtube DMCA takedown notice. What was this notice for, you ask? Oh, just a dramatic reading of some, uh, RPO quotes. I haven't read the book but based on this I assume it's soundtracked by the lonely noise of a single joystick waggling back and forth.
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Aug 4, 2017 17:49
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Brass Key posted:Today, RPO author Ernest Cline issued a youtube DMCA takedown notice. What was this notice for, you ask? Oh, just a dramatic reading of some, uh, RPO quotes. Yeah, the same video I linked, no less! Sham bam bamina! posted:some rando on YouTube? (SGF's a goon, he did the LP of Deadly Premonition. Not entirely a rando  )
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Aug 4, 2017 18:42
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Folks I agreed to edit a friend's novel and let me advise you to never, ever do that. Here spend 10 hours reading and revising the most boring book you've ever read. It's not even fun bad, it's just dull and trite.
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Aug 4, 2017 19:00
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zoux posted:Folks I agreed to edit a friend's novel and let me advise you to never, ever do that. Here spend 10 hours reading and revising the most boring book you've ever read. It's not even fun bad, it's just dull and trite. Some woman saw me star books on goodreads or something (I mean I never really wrote reviews, I literally just starred books for a while & then got bored with it). Anyway, she contacted me and sent me her novel, called something like "Twin Souls", asking for criticism/review. It is literally fanfiction about her and her deceased husband if he hadn't died & I can't bring myself to read it much less give feedback. Just tragic all around tbh.
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Aug 4, 2017 20:05
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Powerful Two-Hander posted:I haven't read the book but based on this I assume it's soundtracked by the lonely noise of a single joystick waggling back and forth. 
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Aug 4, 2017 20:46
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Powaqoatse posted:It is literally fanfiction about her and her deceased husband if he hadn't died & I can't bring myself to read it much less give feedback. Just tragic all around tbh. Aw geez. 
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Aug 5, 2017 00:20
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zoux posted:Folks I agreed to edit a friend's novel and let me advise you to never, ever do that. Here spend 10 hours reading and revising the most boring book you've ever read. It's not even fun bad, it's just dull and trite.  But yeah, there's really no fixing something that's bad from the start. You should probably always ask to check it out first (make sure you don't actually say "read" though) before getting yourself into anything awkward.
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Aug 5, 2017 01:06
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Proteus Jones posted:Aw geez. Yea to be honest I'm kinda sorry for even bringing it up. Fwiw it was a couple years ago so hopefully she got on with her life.
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Aug 5, 2017 01:34
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I don't know why I enjoy people making GBS threads on RPO as much as I do. I haven't read many terrible books though, mostly because the reccomendations I get are normally solid. I read the whole thing though, waiting for something of substance to happen.
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Aug 5, 2017 01:51
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RobotDogPolice posted:I don't know why I enjoy people making GBS threads on RPO as much as I do. I'm a hopeless nerd who's Of The RIght Age to appreciate references to 80s pop culture ephemera and RPO offends me on a very base level. I'm angry that someone was able to monetize my stupid childhood nostalgia for stupid bullshit cartoons made to sell toys that my parents (to their eternal credit) refused to buy me. I'm also mad that I didn't think of that poo poo first.
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Aug 5, 2017 02:12
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I think the worst thing about it is that it just isn't fun, which is something of a miracle. You'd think that a story specifically written as an anything-goes medley of cool things from classic movies and games would manage at least that, but every single detail is just forced, lifeless, and false. It feels very similar to The Big Bang Theory, which is a show that expects its audience to be ignorant of the nerd references and laugh at the characters who make them. How does a guy as committed to nerddom as Cline manage that?
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Aug 5, 2017 02:53
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Sham bam bamina! posted:I think the worst thing about it is that it just isn't fun, which is something of a miracle. You'd think that a story specifically written as an anything-goes medley of cool things from classic movies and games would manage at least that, but every single detail is just forced, lifeless, and false. It feels very similar to The Big Bang Theory, which is a show that expects its audience to be ignorant of the nerd references and laugh at the characters who make them. How does a guy as committed to nerddom as Cline manage that? As much as people like to accuse nerds of worshipping pop culture because they have nothing else going on in their lives that they pay attention to at all, (and still managing to miss the point of everything they watch/read) Cline looks to be an example of exactly that.
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Aug 5, 2017 03:08
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Sham bam bamina! posted:I think the worst thing about it is that it just isn't fun, which is something of a miracle. You'd think that a story specifically written as an anything-goes medley of cool things from classic movies and games would manage at least that, but every single detail is just forced, lifeless, and false. It feels very similar to The Big Bang Theory, which is a show that expects its audience to be ignorant of the nerd references and laugh at the characters who make them. How does a guy as committed to nerddom as Cline manage that? But Big Bang Theory isn't really for a nerd audience; it's really for people who interact with nerds enough to find really broad satires of them funny. Does RPO appeal to non-nerds on any level? I know it references broad pop culture things, but is the level of worship towards the obscure stuff going to appeal to people who don't know or care about it?
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Aug 5, 2017 03:17
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there wolf posted:But Big Bang Theory isn't really for a nerd audience; it's really for people who interact with nerds enough to find really broad satires of them funny. there wolf posted:Does RPO appeal to non-nerds on any level? I know it references broad pop culture things, but is the level of worship towards the obscure stuff going to appeal to people who don't know or care about it? Sham bam bamina! has a new favorite as of 04:14 on Aug 5, 2017 |
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Aug 5, 2017 04:10
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There are definitely people out there who find RPO fun, but I also found it pretty joyless, aside from a few isolated bits that landed for me (because I'm a nerdlinger). I feel like it's probably because it's such a laundry list, almost never actually describing anything besides listing off the things it's referencing; my assumption is that people who found it fun are the ones who were willing/able to do the extra mental work to imagine and embellish what Cline implies. That's reasonable enough (if you're gonna read dumb schlock and you want to put in the work to have a good time, feel free), but it's not really about any quality of the book at that point.
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That's a very good point. If you're looking to be pandered to, I guess that caring about the "quality" of the pandering is a little silly.
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