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Haven't listened to it yet, but I'm disappointed they decided to go with the third book in the series instead of the first, because I've actually read the first one.
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rumble in the bunghole posted:That and JW doesn't have twitter. He still runs the IDEOTV Twitter I think
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BENGHAZI 2 posted:He still runs the IDEOTV Twitter I think Both him and Chris do as needed
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This episode was awesome. Maybe my favorite since Level 26: Dark Origins. Just a non-stop roller coaster of stupid, stupid laughs. Spoiler to avoid ruining the funniest thing in the episode: "Potcig" may have been Chris's favorite portmanteau, but what took the cake for me was "plastray" at the end. You know it's the future because a tray is made of plastic.
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Sham bam bamina! posted:Awesome. Between this and the Rush Revere episode, it's looking like they've finally figured out that laughing at lovely books is more fun and worthwhile than getting bent out of shape over politics. That's kind of a relief. They ruined the Scruples and Valley of the Dolls episodes with that poo poo. "The OTHER F-word," how bloody coy. Think we used to smug that exact line back and forth in freshman year of college before we re-realized that unsavory nomenclature in older books isn't always meant as a slur. See also: Huckleberry Finn. I am in no way advocating the use of hurtful language.
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Fleta Mcgurn posted:Think we used to smug that exact line back and forth in freshman year of college before we re-realized that unsavory nomenclature in older books isn't always meant as a slur. See also: Huckleberry Finn. Except that the "unsavory nomenclature" in Huckleberry Finn was a slur. I mean yeah yeah context and everything but when a novel set in the 1800s American South uses that word it's definitely a slur. That's not smugness, it's acknowledging history.
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A slur is a slur, but I think Fleta meant that Twain wasn't using it hatefully. It was part of the characters' dialect. Regarding Scruples and Valley of the Dolls, it's fairly clear from the sympathetic potrayals of the gay characters (which the hosts consistently manage to be surprised by) that the term in question is used as vulgar slang, rather than as a denigrating slur. That this use has (deservedly) fallen from grace now obviously cannot inform texts written in the '60s and '70s. Sham bam bamina! fucked around with this message at 00:50 on Aug 8, 2017 |
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Sham bam bamina! posted:A slur is a slur, but I think Fleta meant that Twain wasn't using it hatefully. It was part of the characters' dialect. Yeah but not everyone is going to be comfortable using it on their podcast.
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Improbable Lobster posted:Yeah but not everyone is going to be comfortable using it on their podcast. Sham bam bamina! fucked around with this message at 00:57 on Aug 8, 2017 |
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Sham bam bamina! posted:A slur is a slur, but I think Fleta meant that Twain wasn't using it hatefully. It was part of the characters' dialect. Honestly it depends on which character was saying it. Some were using it hatefully, some because it was the ordinary word used to describe black people because the Antebellum South was just that racist.
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Whoever was saying it, Twain wasn't using it hatefully.
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What bugged me most was the whole "lock your doors, hide your children, cover your ears, we're gonna say a bad word!" song and dance right before, and then they bleeped it anyway. Maybe it's just because I have memories of that word being thrown around a lot more casually, but I would think either just skipping it or saying it with a "yeah it's not cool" disclaimer would be more than enough. Doing what they did gives it way too much power. Especially since J goes on later in the same ep to say the n word casually when saying the name of a song. 
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Sham bam bamina! posted:Whoever was saying it, Twain wasn't using it hatefully. THANK YOU. Jesus. That's literally all I meant. And you can avoid saying certain words while not simultaneously scream-giggling over how offensive they are. That's performative and unnecessary. Which was my other point! I don't use racial slurs, you honky crackers, but I've had to reference specific lines of a work while teaching in a classroom and managed to effectively do so without going "OOoooOOOohhh the N-WOOOOORD URRRRR IT'S BAD *snortgiggle*" A Pinball Wizard posted:What bugged me most was the whole "lock your doors, hide your children, cover your ears, we're gonna say a bad word!" song and dance right before, and then they bleeped it anyway. Maybe it's just because I have memories of that word being thrown around a lot more casually, but I would think either just skipping it or saying it with a "yeah it's not cool" disclaimer would be more than enough. Doing what they did gives it way too much power. yeah this! Fleta Mcgurn fucked around with this message at 17:59 on Aug 8, 2017 |
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from the facebook group:J Williams Friedman posted:Just wanted to post a little teaser: our next episode is going to be a book from the series of novels that have dominated our requests since the day I started this show. We're sort of breaking one of our cardinal rules to do it, but it's not one of the "big ones", and I think it will be worth it cuz a lot of you are gonna be very excited when you see the episode title in a couple weeks. J Williams Friedman posted:okay, here's some anti-hints:
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This is clearly going to be a YA novel for boys, but Eragon is longer than 200 pages, so I'm stumped. Edit: Narnia? 
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Sham bam bamina! posted:Edit: Narnia? I think the "not a YA novel for girls" line is just to say it's not Twilight though. It could be a YA novel for boys, but I don't think he was hinting at that.
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Tiggum posted:From what I remember The Last Battle is pretty bad. But if they were going to do CS Lewis, the space trilogy is the better choice. Sham bam bamina! fucked around with this message at 11:19 on Dec 31, 2018 |
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Aug 10, 2017 11:01
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It's probably gonna be a self-pubbed book or something, but with a big enough audience that it's not one of the big rules.
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I'm gonna say Left Behind. e. They already did Left Behind 
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Aug 10, 2017 11:33
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Maybe it's a repeat of an author
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Did they do Twisted yet?
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I'm betting it's a Choose Your Own Adventure book, those are all very short.
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Oh, that's a solid bet.
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Drunkboxer posted:I'm betting it's a Choose Your Own Adventure book, those are all very short. That would be so fun!
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neongrey posted:It's probably gonna be a self-pubbed book or something, but with a big enough audience that it's not one of the big rules. That's my guess, self-published or maybe fan-fiction.
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hoobajoo posted:That's my guess, self-published or maybe fan-fiction. So like that dino-sex lady or the pounded in the butt guy?
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DontMockMySmock posted:I really want them to do
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Drunkboxer posted:So like that dino-sex lady or the pounded in the butt guy? Oooh, hope it's a bunch of Chuck Tingle.
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Imagine that I have a big pennant that says "TWISTED!" on it, because goddamn I love that pile of trash.
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Drizz't Do'Urden or whatevs hopefully.
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omnibobb posted:Drizz't Do'Urden or whatevs hopefully. That wouldn't be breaking any rules of the podcast though
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Is Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality shorter than 200 pages?
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fatherboxx posted:Is Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality shorter than 200 pages? It's apparently 2007 pages long so don't count on them ever bothering with it.
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fatherboxx posted:Is Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality shorter than 200 pages? 
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I really want it to be Animorphs but J specifically said it's not 'a big one'
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Sham bam bamina! posted:I want them to skip straight to one of the sequels. I hope they do the one with the wrist slitting duel, ninja dwarves, Doctor loving Who as the hero of one of the in-story legends, and the absurdly over-described fight scene where Eragon's "ordinary human" brother kills nearly 200 soldiers singlehandly.
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