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Baka-nin posted:Huh, I honestly don't understand what goon porn is, and I both count that as a blessing and am busy distracting myself so I don't try to look it up. You only need to know 3 things: 1)SA used to have a porn forum 2)an explicit ban on “homegroan” had to be issued 3)fishmech’s a data hoarder
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Grandmother of Five posted:Good job @ Ruflux, Solice, Paladinus and others who put some effort in @ calling that trash earlier out And a (dis?)honorable mention to bob human being. Dude, please clean your nails; you have an entire month.
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Veni Vidi Ameche! posted:Stephen King is actually a very good author, and, at his best, completely untouchable in his space. The problem is he should have stopped writing novels 25 years ago. Let him stick to short fiction from now on. I have a personal grudge against Steven King for writing Under The Dome. Have you ever read a book that is kinda terrible, but you keep thinking maybe it's about to get interesting, it's going to all come together, and while you're not really enjoying this you do want to see where it goes... Under The Dome is nine hundred pages of that, with a good amount of really hosed up and gratuitous garbage, followed by the worst ending, an idea so bad it retroactively makes the entire book the dumbest thing you ever saw. gently caress that book. Kerbtree posted:“homegroan”
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Nov 15, 2019 13:01
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yes and it was called the tommyknockers
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TheDarkFlame posted:I have a personal grudge against Steven King for writing Under The Dome. Have you ever read a book that is kinda terrible, but you keep thinking maybe it's about to get interesting, it's going to all come together, and while you're not really enjoying this you do want to see where it goes... Under The Dome is nine hundred pages of that, with a good amount of really hosed up and gratuitous garbage, followed by the worst ending, an idea so bad it retroactively makes the entire book the dumbest thing you ever saw. gently caress that book. Haha, if you think the book is terrible, try watching the show (on your Microsoft Surface).
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Nov 15, 2019 13:17
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Always reminded that King's reaction to the movie ending of The Mist was basically 'drat, wish I'd thought of that'.
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Ghostlight posted:yes and it was called the tommyknockers Even King doesn't like that one. Not as much as Rage, which he intentionally let go out of print, but he full well admits The Tommyknockers is awful. That's the last book he wrote while still coked out of his mind at pretty much all times. King has issues in his writing, and I think his short stories are far better quality than his novels overall, but I can definitely see a difference between his books during his substance abuse issues (he apparently barely remembers writing Cujo), during recovery (The Dark Half, and Four Past Midnight), and what he considers post-recovery (starting from Needful Things on). Another he doesn't like is Dreamcatcher, which he wrote following being hit by that van, and was doped to the gills on Oxycontin at the time.
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I'm willing to believe King wrote worse books than Under The Dome, and maybe even some got published. I don't know how that's a thing, but I'm going to accept that it is, and I'm not going to try and disprove you by reading them myself. This forum definitely knows a thing or two about terrible poo poo.Paladinus posted:Haha, if you think the book is terrible, try watching the show (on your Microsoft Surface). Okay this is not a thing, don't try to tell me some production company was so desperate for content they picked up that housebrick of a turd. No.
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Nov 15, 2019 13:36
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Under the Dome is mediocre bad. Boring, and meandering, and never quite gets where it seems to be going. The Tommyknockers and Dreamcatcher are completely batshit bonkers on top of being bad.
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Nov 15, 2019 13:41
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AngryRobotsInc posted:Under the Dome is mediocre bad. Boring, and meandering, and never quite gets where it seems to be going. The Tommyknockers and Dreamcatcher are completely batshit bonkers on top of being bad. Under the Dome has one hilarious bonkers section: the assault on the potheads at the radio station.
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Nov 15, 2019 13:50
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TheDarkFlame posted:I have a personal grudge against Steven King for writing Cell. Have you ever read a book that is kinda terrible, but you keep thinking maybe it's about to get interesting, it's going to all come together, and while you're not really enjoying this you do want to see where it goes... Cell is nine hundred pages of that, with a good amount of really hosed up and gratuitous garbage, followed by the worst ending, an idea so bad it retroactively makes the entire book the dumbest thing you ever saw. gently caress that book. Lol I didn't have to change a single thing about this post except for the book title and it's still 100% accurate. Cell was the worst novel I've ever read, and I'm counting the old Doom game novelization and my collection of old Star Wars books.
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Nov 15, 2019 14:08
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i was not prepared for what i learned in the leper's colony today
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Snow Cone Capone posted:Lol I didn't have to change a single thing about this post except for the book title and it's still 100% accurate. Cell was the worst novel I've ever read, and I'm counting the old Doom game novelization and my collection of old Star Wars books. Cell was my second King novel (my first one not by Richard Bachman) so maybe that explains why I have such a good tolerance for bad King 
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Son of Thunderbeast posted:I just wanna direct everyone's attention to this great little QCS nugget in the goldmine. I'm over a month behind but I wanted to thank you for screen shotting in the linked thread. I've missed out on so many funny moments because I wasn't there for the limited time a poster had a specific av/text and I appreciated this.
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Nov 15, 2019 14:19
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Arivia posted:Cell was my second King novel (my first one not by Richard Bachman) so maybe that explains why I have such a good tolerance for bad King I'm literally getting annoyed thinking about it again
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Nov 15, 2019 14:21
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I still just gotta respect that the guy just keeps writing and writing when he probably doesn't need to anymore.
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Nov 15, 2019 14:48
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Ghost Leviathan posted:I still just gotta respect that the guy just keeps writing and writing when he probably doesn't need to anymore. I like this quote from him as well quote:If you wrote something for which someone sent you a check, if you cashed the check and it didn't bounce, and if you then paid the light bill with the money, I consider you talented. Like his writing or not, he knows what he's about with it (he enjoys it and it makes them dollars), and is insanely dedicated about it. He's spoken before about how he set himself a daily quota of at least ten pages/2,000 words a day, and sets three months to get a first draft done. He struggled after getting hit, since he found it painful to sit up for long periods of time. That he got back in the saddle to the degree he has is impressive.
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I've got nothing against the "library book sale" tier of authors - I used to read Tom Clancy and Michael Crichton when I was a kid and they're fine. But King's stuff in the last decade has been aggressively bad. I bought Cell at an airport bookstore thinking it would be harmless fluff with a decent King concept, but it was just so bad. Cell and The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo are the only books I've ever donated to Goodwill.
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Snow Cone Capone posted:I've got nothing against the "library book sale" tier of authors - I used to read Tom Clancy and Michael Crichton when I was a kid and they're fine. But King's stuff in the last decade has been aggressively bad. I bought Cell at an airport bookstore thinking it would be harmless fluff with a decent King concept, but it was just so bad. stick to his short story collections, Full Dark No Stars and Bazaar of Bad Dreams still have winners king's got an increasingly bad case of boomer-brain (i skimmed a novella of his recently that was basically an agonizing 100-page attempt by him to somehow write gay people, and he's still doing the "oh lawd yes massa" jive-talk schtick in his recent material) but luckily it's mostly the kind that's turning him misanthrophic and mean and that really gives his short stories a boost
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I do get the idea that brutal misanthropy is a requirement for writing the best short stories.
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Can someone explain the Anime Ban drama for an idiot like me who doesn't watch anime? I read the QCS thread and it was like reading another language.
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zakharov posted:Can someone explain the Anime Ban drama for an idiot like me who doesn't watch anime? I read the QCS thread and it was like reading another language. from what i gather, there's a comic called berserk which is about ultraviolence but also its supposed to be  good also the author makes another comic that focuses on child butts. some fans of the berserk comic think that is cool and good.
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zakharov posted:Can someone explain the Anime Ban drama for an idiot like me who doesn't watch anime? I read the QCS thread and it was like reading another language. Some popular anime guy had a new comic that was a bunch of naked little kid asses and a bunch of anime goons think that's fine because people in the Renaissance painted angels as naked babies
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And then Smythe swept through like the Angel of Death and with a wave of his hand turned multiple posters into pillars of salt via permas.
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Thank you thank you. Now I need to know how the Fishmech porn server came to light. I'm amazed he was banned for that and not his insufferable personality.
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Proteus Jones posted:And then Smythe swept through like the Angel of Death and with a wave of his hand turned multiple posters into pillars of salt via permas. A Doré painting if I've ever seen one. 
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Absurd Alhazred posted:A Doré painting if I've ever seen one. it was a beautiful thing to be sure, qcs and reporting works sometimes!
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Nov 15, 2019 16:38
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Ghostlight posted:yes and it was called the tommyknockers Is that the one where at the end the aliens turn out to be complete dipshits who just kinda accidently invent advanced gadgets? Cause no bullshit I kinda loved that twist
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Nov 15, 2019 16:43
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ulex minor posted:it was a beautiful thing to be sure, qcs and reporting works sometimes! I feel like over the last few months there's been a ton of QCS success stories in here. I'm glad they finally have that working the way it should.
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mandatory lesbian posted:Is that the one where at the end the aliens turn out to be complete dipshits who just kinda accidently invent advanced gadgets? Cause no bullshit I kinda loved that twist Isn't that also literally how Under the Dome ends?
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Nov 15, 2019 16:50
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zakharov posted:Thank you thank you. *She, for the record.
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Nov 15, 2019 16:54
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Is the "my servant Enrique" a sa forum specific meme? And where did it start from I forgot, I think I was even in the original thread
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Snow Cone Capone posted:Isn't that also literally how Under the Dome ends? no, under the dome ends with the revelation that the dome was created by child-aliens basically playing The Sims with a real-life town. one character mind-travels to the aliens' space-bedroom and says "hey cut it out" and they go "aww okay" and that's the end the tommyknockers is a rare stephen king novel that actually ended well
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The Saddest Rhino posted:Is the "my servant Enrique" a sa forum specific meme? And where did it start from I forgot, I think I was even in the original thread Think it was the dumb marketing moves thread. They were discussing some product and a goon posted something like "smh if you don't have your manservant Enrique (perform action product was meant to do) for you". Could be wrong on how it came about, but it was definitely that thread.
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Oxxidation posted:no, under the dome ends with the revelation that the dome was created by child-aliens basically playing The Sims with a real-life town. one character mind-travels to the aliens' space-bedroom and says "hey cut it out" and they go "aww okay" and that's the end So the aliens are complete dipshits with advanced technology
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Snow Cone Capone posted:So the aliens are complete dipshits with advanced technology you're trying to be funny but no under the dome sucked because the alien kids were a last-second explanation that got resolved within a chapter, and the alien kids are never shown to be unintelligent, just apathetic to the suffering of the people they're playing with the tommyknockers were built up for the whole book as super-advanced beings that were just being inexpertly mimicked by the townspeople and then we find out they were basically a shipful of snarling interstellar meth-heads who only crashed in the first place because they all decided to start murdering each other mid-flight in a fit of pique
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I dunno, "Alien kids who think it's fun to gently caress with an entire town of humans by sealing them in a giant invisible dome" sounds a lot like the aliens were complete dipshits with advanced technology to me
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zakharov posted:Thank you thank you.
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What a weirdo.
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