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I don't know why I find:A Dragon Demon Apparently posted:I walked up to the bar dressed to kill. I wore cargo pants As funny as I do. Should have been combat jorts.
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Dracula wants his coffin back. what's he sleeping in while it's gone, poor dracula 
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Qwertycoatl posted:Why does he need to have a magic tattoo to punch himself in the balls and yell at a woman? The tattoo is in case he needs a high-pitched yell.
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RoboRodent posted:"I need to work on my people skills."
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"I activated my Dragon Roar Tattoo." That phrase has been cracking me up all day.
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Lumbermouth posted:This is like Sandman Slim minus the modicum of self-awareness. Yeah, I was going to say, it reads like a bad parody of Sandman Slim.
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muscles like this! posted:Yeah, I was going to say, it reads like a bad parody of Sandman Slim. Or Dungeons & Dragons fanfic.
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spite house posted:I suspect that the author is actually a woman taking the piss. That prose reads like the "describe yourself as if you were a male author" Twitter thing from a couple months back. Whatever the reverse of Poe's law is I think, I mean it all seems too on the nose to be a parody combined with all the other stuff the author has written. And the bio says he's a guy who immigrated to the US from Brazil. http://www.morgan-blayde.com/books quote:The Old Man's in Las Vegas and Caine is going to give him a bachelor party despite relentless murder attempts by a shadow sorcerer. Caine’s magic is crippled, leaving him vulnerable to enemies, and at the mercy of his scheming harem. The silver dragons are after him. So are the mysterious Villagers. And then there’s the nine-year-old dragon-boy from the future. Caine dares to face the ultimate horror—fatherhood—while battling to escape the jaws of hell.
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C.M. Kruger posted:Whatever the reverse of Poe's law is I think, I mean it all seems too on the nose to be a parody combined with all the other stuff the author has written. And the bio says he's a guy who immigrated to the US from Brazil. I mean, that’s still Poe’s law, which is just about parody and the genuine article being indistinguishable. It’s just that this time it’s probably the genuine article.
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food court bailiff posted:"I activated my Dragon Roar Tattoo." Uli would turn his nose up 48o at this writing.
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F'n Hell, that's book four of nine And all have colors in their titles
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Years ago, Penny Arcade did a comic that was basically about this very book before it apparently existed. I was always a little surprised that they didn't actually write the book because it seemed like the only kind of book that the writing half of Penny Arcade could probably really do.
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ryonguy posted:That's supposed to be a (good) jab at the Dresden files, right? Can't be, it's written in the third person. All good (bad) Men's Adventure has to be first person.
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Am I wrong in thinking White Jade Reaper is a pretty neat title?
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Cornwind Evil posted:Am I wrong in thinking White Jade Reaper is a pretty neat title? It sounds like you could pull it out of an Exalted sourcebook
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God I missed this thread. I bought Steven Seagal's book and never got around to reading it. Now it sits in my Kindle, mocking me.
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IIRC, there's a running theme that L.H. Franzibald is a skewering of Tim Buckley, though might just be used for bad fiction in general.
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Screaming Idiot posted:lol at the PA guys calling other writers bad There's a difference between mediocre video game jokes and the godawful poo poo series that get pumped out in the fantasy section of the bookstore. PA only wishes it could be as awful.
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Cornwind Evil posted:Am I wrong in thinking White Jade Reaper is a pretty neat title? Yes. Yes, you are.
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Xarbala posted:It sounds like you could pull it out of an Exalted sourcebook it sounds like a weed strain
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Ghost Leviathan posted:IIRC, there's a running theme that L.H. Franzibald is a skewering of Tim Buckley, though might just be used for bad fiction in general. 10+ CAD mock threads definitely confirmed this theory, Franzibald is absolutely Buckers and any occurrence of him is usually timed with B^U doing something particularly inane
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The Penny Arcade guys suck and 90% of their comic is bad but I will never stop finding the this series of strips kinda funny https://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2009/01/23/further-songs-of-sorcelation-part-four
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InediblePenguin posted:it sounds like a weed strain So, yes
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To be honest, all this cheesy fantasy stuff they ruthlessly mock seems to just be the Western version of anime.
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Contributing to the derail! Penny Arcade had their day in the sun a decade (or two) ago, but the humor's rarely there anymore and I read it more out of a habit. The writer commented once about how he was having up&down psych issues back then, producing great work, but ruining his life. He's now medicated and admits his stuff is weaker. It's been literally twenty years running, it's not surprising that things have changed, both for the audience's tastes and the creators tendencies.
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Some of the side stories are interesting. You can definitely tell a running theme of parental anxiety.
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Serephina posted:Contributing to the derail! Penny Arcade had their day in the sun a decade (or two) ago, but the humor's rarely there anymore and I read it more out of a habit. The writer commented once about how he was having up&down psych issues back then, producing great work, but ruining his life. He's now medicated and admits his stuff is weaker. It's been literally twenty years running, it's not surprising that things have changed, both for the audience's tastes and the creators tendencies. Goons think they have to automatically hate PA because of some stupid feud Lowtax had with them back in the day. But I think you're right. I read it entirely out of habit these days. It's fine, but only fine. The humour has changed, and not necessarily for the better.
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PA's current art style is pretty loving ugly.
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It's better now than the pile of melty wackiness that it was for a few years.
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I'd read a Da Sharez0ne book.
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Sweevo posted:Goons think they have to automatically hate PA because of some stupid feud Lowtax had with them back in the day. But I think you're right. I read it entirely out of habit these days. It's fine, but only fine. The humour has changed, and not necessarily for the better. I think there are plenty of reasons to dislike current PA that have nothing to do with goon hivemind. I genuinely liked it back in the day and think most of the peak stuff holds up reasonably well, but I haven't read it in like 5 years and that was already several years after it stopped entertaining me. EDIT: man I always forget how long PA was sucking. I keep thinking of 2007-2009 as being peak PA but I just went and clicked on a few random strips and it was already downhill by then, although still a ways from rock bottom. the holy poopacy has a new favorite as of 15:16 on Jul 17, 2018 |
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oh hai thread! Did all books become good for the last three months? Surely not! Fortunately, I'm here to remind you that everything's not just terrible, but weirdly terrible. I dredged the wasteland of Kindle Unlimited books about bitcoins - because I hate myself - and I found this. "99 Bitcoins and an Elephant" is a book for children about the world of bitcoins in 2028! Obviously, it's going to be frankly bizarre. It thinks it's a book that is literally, in fact, for children - not a satire of the present in the form of a children's book, like "The Ladybird Book of the Zombie Apocalypse". I was honestly wondering if the elephant was going to be demonstrating the horrible things that can happen if you allow yourself to be socially engineered. And what about a Monero necklace doesn't scream "I'm from the darknets, and I'm here to skin you." The author is convinced he's telling the kids about the fabulous future world, that's coming just a decade away! It's not the book it thinks it is. Shiny kiddy cartoons of a dark cyberpunk world, where bitcoiners' dreams of a grim meathook Mad Max petrolpunk world have come true. Everything actually sucks and is broken, but everyone from early childhood wears VR/AR glasses everywhere, all the time, to make the world look less broken and sucky. Then the glasses break, and you get the picture below, which could have been ripped from the pages of "My First Charlie Stross":
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so in this world does your head shrink as you grow up or what
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In the future all work will be done behind dumpsters
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GIRL BRAINS posted:In the future all work will be done behind dumpsters Something something your mother.
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Jerry Cotton posted:Something something your mother. My mother would make a fine dumpster, yes
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