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That's stockholm syndrome you natural disaster teru teru bozu.
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KOGAHAZAN!! posted:Cussler was my introduction to the concept of gear porn, and even as an idiot 12 year old I thought it was gross and boring. Because they don't actually require a lot of thought or concentration to enjoy, which is perfect for brain chewing gum to keep you sane when waiting around at airports/on flights. I went through a period of reading that kind of milwank in my teens (yeah I was one of the cool kids) and two of them do actually stick in my mind and I wouldn't mind rereading them to see if they still hold up, but I've no idea who wrote them or what they're called, maybe someone here might remember as so many people are coming out of the closet to admit to reading this poo poo? - First one was a super-secret British sub somehow ended up in a Soviet port (or maybe run aground in Soviet waters?), and this guy had to sneak in and either disable it or sail it out, and I remember it was actually pretty tense even if it was completely ridiculous. - Second one was a fairly blatant Red Storm Rising knockoff except this time World War III was happening in Antarctica because they'd discovered a shitload of oil there. The descriptions of American carriers getting merced by some special Soviet missile that split in two, one of which detonated on the flight deck and one under the keel, really stuck in my mind because it was one of the few books that actually admitted that maybe American technology wasn't completely superior and able to wipe out the Red Hordes with ease.
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Tesseraction posted:That's stockholm syndrome you natural disaster teru teru bozu. ngl i really want to experience an earthquake about a 7 on the Richter scale i am going to be starting work on monday friends. its not the job i want but it pays alright and hopefully the one i interviewed for on tuesday will offer me the role and i can quit after 2 weeks of getting paid
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Tesseraction posted:why are our presenters so loving horny for a nuclear holocaust I wanna gently caress a mushroom cloud for the ultimate orgasm.
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Jan 9, 2020 12:00
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"the green alliance" what is wrong with just using paper bags for stuff? surely carbon emissions is a tiny amount of plastic bags and its the fact they don't biodegrade that is the issue https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-51040155
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Jan 9, 2020 12:07
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Jose posted:they're in the gbs thread about him i think since it got quoted before he could remove them even though they've been quoted a million times in cspam. there has been a lot of stupid drama on SA over the years but this is absolutely the stupidest Hmm which GBS thread about it. Also they're not (at least I couldn't find them in several seconds of searching)
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Jan 9, 2020 12:07
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Seems Clive Lewis's stance on Sindy2 has gotten at least one SNP onside https://twitter.com/TommySheppard/status/1215203941706805248
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Jose posted:ngl i really want to experience an earthquake about a 7 on the Richter scale gl bud
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KOGAHAZAN!! posted:Cussler was my introduction to the concept of gear porn, and even as an idiot 12 year old I thought it was gross and boring. Gear porn - call me sexist but if a book has a few pages of lovingly described, detailed kit lists (weapons, computers, survival) I figure the intended audience is male. Ranulph Fiennes is a good example. I do enjoy the books (gear porn) from an escapist perspective as they're great for holidays or stressful times but skip the gear lists. I also skip anything written in verse form and ludicrous sex scenes wittering on about arched backs and low moans.
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Jan 9, 2020 12:10
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Any book has one of these damned sex scenes I throw that mothafucka on the ground and pray to My Jesus for forgiveness.
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Jan 9, 2020 12:13
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I read Clive Barker's Weaveworld as a kid and the sex scenes in that scarred my pre-pubescent mind.
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jaete posted:Hmm which GBS thread about it. Also they're not (at least I couldn't find them in several seconds of searching) most of them are gone now but the second post has what was by far the worst one of those i saw. i didn't realise he'd reuploaded them himself and just assumed they were the links already in cspam https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3909812
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Jose posted:"the green alliance" what is wrong with just using paper bags for stuff? surely carbon emissions is a tiny amount of plastic bags and its the fact they don't biodegrade that is the issue Yeah I've seen that before and not fully understood it. Might it not be worth "spending" a bit of extra carbon on a paper bag, to avoid ending up with a plastic bag that never goes away ever? And glass bottles being heavy is only as carbony as the transport method used - and taking them back to the shop to be refilled (as in Germany) seems better than either smashing them to pieces first, or again having plastic ones that are around forever in some form. But as with all things, it's probably more complicated than that 
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Bacon Terrorist posted:I read Clive Barker's Weaveworld as a kid and the sex scenes in that scarred my pre-pubescent mind. Clive barker/steven king/irvine welsh were the staples of my teenage reading. Great stuff.
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Jan 9, 2020 12:24
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Bacon Terrorist posted:I read Clive Barker's Weaveworld as a kid and the sex scenes in that scarred my pre-pubescent mind. Same but Imajica. Actually, I'm rereading it now and it holds up 
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:but skip the gear lists. I also skip anything written in verse form and ludicrous sex scenes wittering on about arched backs and low moans. As a sweat bead rolled on down her face A .458 Win Mag An MPAD, ten sandbags Four daggers, two swords, and a mace
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Jan 9, 2020 12:29
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Jose posted:wish they'd just turn it back on the interviewer "would you kill millions of people?" if they did that the interviewer without skipping a beat would reply "WELL I'M NOT STANDING TO BE PRIME MINISTER AM I" 
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Jan 9, 2020 12:38
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Ratjaculation posted:just checked, the raised bridge is a massive succe- that van definitely isn’t penske material!
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Tijuana Bibliophile posted:how the gently caress does this forums drama stuff keep happening when every goon's like 37+ years old I used to bartend at a holiday park where the average age was about 65. Worked there for over ten years. My conclusion was that maturing with age is a complete myth, and most people are frozen at whatever emotional state of development they hit at 8-years-old
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Bacon Terrorist posted:I read Clive Barker's Weaveworld as a kid and the sex scenes in that scarred my pre-pubescent mind. Did anyone else ever read the Pearl Saga books? I recall a lesbian* shower sex scene that made quite an impression on a 12yo me. *Though one of the parties was an alien male prince who had been put into the body of a female native. The trans -gender, -racial and -class textual themes didn't occur to me at the time but looking back it seems like that might have been one of the more Correct series of sci-fi? Edit: Turns out the author ended up putting the series on hold because he started writing Bourne books. Boo! WaffleACAB fucked around with this message at 13:05 on Jan 9, 2020 |
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forkboy84 posted:There are definitely segments that put me to sleep, the parts you can assume Clancy enjoyed writing the most, coz you can tell he got a rip-roaring hard on every time he lovingly describes so piece of military hardware. That was a man whose copies of Jane regularly had the pages stuck together. But the pew-pew-pew action just puts me in mind of some of the absolute dreck I watch on TV like NCIS and because it's so far outside of my own world I just find it amusingly dumb. I think part of it is that a lot of the time I read books that are quite dry histories so taking a break to gorge on absolutely shameless trash is a nice change of pace. There's also something about the Cold War which I really love as a background for fiction, especially poo poo written during the period, there's a whole lot of mythologising the big bad Soviet Bear that just tickles me. Dale Brown is the thinking mans right-wing popcorn novels. He was doing constellations of battlefield satellites launched from a converted super-B52 bomber waaay before Musk. quote:Flight of the Old Dog is the story of a secret highly modified B-52 bomber flying into the Soviet Union on an impromptu strike mission. Between him, Douglas Reeman and Wilbur Smith I read some right dodgy stuff as a teenager.
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Debbie Does Dagon posted:I used to bartend at a holiday park where the average age was about 65. Worked there for over ten years. My conclusion was that maturing with age is a complete myth, and most people are frozen at whatever emotional state of development they hit at 8-years-old I worked in a pub for half a decade, and I concur
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Pretty sure maturity is a function of how much effort you put into understanding yourself and your relationship to other people and the world, not time.
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Jose did you close my GBS thread? I know it wasn't great but come on.
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Purple Prince posted:Pretty sure maturity is a function of how much effort you put into understanding yourself and your relationship to other people and the world, not time. *pushes your head into the toilet bowl* lmao
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:Gear porn - call me sexist but if a book has a few pages of lovingly described, detailed kit lists (weapons, computers, survival) I figure the intended audience is male. Ranulph Fiennes is a good example.
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HJB posted:Jose did you close my GBS thread? I know it wasn't great but come on. No
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Jose posted:No Okay. I think I need a break.
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HJB returns to this thread to find it open but as he goes to post again notices his hand is transparent and fading away
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Is that one of the symptoms that Dr. Masturbation warned about on twitter?
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Guavanaut posted:Is that one of the symptoms that Dr. Masturbation warned about on twitter? 
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Tesseraction posted:*pushes your head into the toilet bowl* lmao The sage often appears as a trickster
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What is that av because it looks like a seagull needing some immodium
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Guavanaut posted:They clasped in exquisite embrace She arched her back and gave a moan She's enjoying he thought, that's ace. But no, twas cramp in an unexpected place.
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Debbie Does Dagon posted:I used to bartend at a holiday park where the average age was about 65. Worked there for over ten years. My conclusion was that maturing with age is a complete myth, and most people are frozen at whatever emotional state of development they hit at 8-years-old Depends on context. When I'm working I'm 'reliable, sensible, thoughtful, mature' etc. At my mother's, my sullen moody 14 year old persona reappears.
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Flipswitch posted:What is that av because it looks like a seagull needing some immodium I believe it's a racing driver celebrating with shaken champagne that's been caught in a comical pose
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Flipswitch posted:What is that av because it looks like a seagull needing some immodium I would guess someone spraying champagne. But it could be eating poo poo, true.
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Bacon Terrorist posted:I read Clive Barker's Weaveworld as a kid and the sex scenes in that scarred my pre-pubescent mind. Yeah Wilbur Smith was my first exposure to the whole 'sex' concept at the tender age of 12. It started with Birds of Prey quote:So you also get lots and lots of explicit sex. You don't remember your boys' adventure stories being full of keenly detailed squidging? They are now - no doubt, they always would have been, had boys had their way. Supplying this want is Wilbur Smith's speciality - Rider Haggard plus rumpy-pumpy equals a riotous success: some 100 million copies sold over his career, reportedly. Then moved on to lascivious descriptions of a 'budding' 14 year old Egyptian girl. Then the tantric sex warlock who was a eunuch until he magically regrew his penis but was still devoted to his 'queen' the aforementioned nubile egyptian girl. gently caress actually as I'm sitting here I'm remembering some deeply, deeply disturbing female 'execution' scenes that I'm not even going to write out here. Looking back on it with 20 years of hindsight HOLY poo poo were those books problematic in so many ways. Let alone his disturbing habit of marrying off cousins. Oh yeah and a vote for James Follet too. Torus was a interesting enough popcorn plot but holy gently caress that explicit vietnamese refugee rape was not something I should have been reading at 14. E: The clarify, these were absolutely massive mainstream books I got from the local library (remember those?) with no content warnings whatsoever. And they're worse than 80% of modern amazon erotica poo poo. Yet my parents wouldn't let me watch 15 rated movies at that point. RockyB fucked around with this message at 14:49 on Jan 9, 2020 |
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I vaguely remember when I was younger getting some books from a series I think called the well of echoes, some fantasy thing that seemed interesting except for the fact that the books kept going off onto really weird sex tangents like where this dude has a super hard on for a hypersensitive nymph girl or something that can't wear clothes, and also there's... lion men or something, and I think they bang too, and I vaguely remember there being breeding factories which are basically brothels for producing children... Like the actualy fantasy parts were interesting but I stopped reading because the author kept taking time out every chapter to have a big weird wank.
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