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Crimpolioni posted:Yes? Is there an extremely disappointed smiley face?
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3D Megadoodoo posted:... do you call the Sony Play Station home computer system the Play Station 1? yes
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I call it the psx because I read a lot of gamefaqs back in the day
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I'm not going to read the Dan Simmons Hyperion.
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Jun 13, 2020 22:54
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dan simmons is one of the worst because he loads his books full of asinine literary 'allusion', like the robot in the illium books who drives a spaceship called the dark lady and quotes shakespeare all the time, and hes just so clearly trying so hard to look Literary but it just ends up like cargo-cult intellectualism also he really hates muslims
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Bonaventure posted:I was trying to find this information but couldn’t— how do they get their ebooks? The about pages on IA suggest people are scanning and uploading them individually? Because if that’s the case, then that’s not at all how libraries get their ebooks and publishers certainly would be mad that IA isn’t paying $80 for a license to circulate a single copy of Stephen King’s ‘Graveyard Shift’ ten times before the license expires and they have to buy another one. The books aren't really scanned by random people, they're digitised by archive staff at scanning centres and this is funded in part by libraries and foundations. There's an explanation of how it works here: https://archive.org/scanning It is possible for users to upload things to the archive as well but that's not the source of most of the books.
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Take the plunge! Okay! posted:Oh, the Hölderlin! Enjoy and let us know what you thought when you’re done I would also like to know about the Hölderlin book.
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I made a thread for Internet Archive/general publishing discussion: https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3927696
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Safety Biscuits posted:I made a thread for Internet Archive/general publishing discussion: https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3927696 awesome great i love the idea of a dedicated thread where the sci-fi writer in the star wars thread who's afraid that libraries will deprive him of health care can argue head-on with adult human beings who use the IA for research purposes (USER WAS PUT ON PROBATION FOR THIS POST)
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I've sort of already burned myself out on the topic in this thread so someone copy all my posts and post them in that thread thanks
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Jun 14, 2020 13:32
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I'm gonna submit this thread to the Internet Archive
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Mel Mudkiper posted:I've sort of already burned myself out on the topic in this thread so someone copy all my posts and post them in that thread thanks
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Jun 17, 2020 03:03
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Mel Mudkiper has set himsself to "No contact".
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I dont have plat and also wtf
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Jun 17, 2020 03:22
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TheAardvark posted:Mel Mudkiper has set himsself to "No contact". you are being super weird across several threads and you should stop
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I like getting PMs :3
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So I have felt like learning about Demons and I bought a book that depicts the Infernal Hierarchy of Demons as depicted In the Infernal Dictionary and it owns But, I noticed that the book came with an introduction by "Diablito Ordo Al Ghoul" and looking at that name I knew I was in for some good poo poo Sure enough, he has a bunch of magical grimoires for sale on Amazon and they own so hard I am gonna buy one   truly powerful magicks must be contained within
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Jun 17, 2020 14:29
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See if you can conjure me up my bike that got stolen a couple months ago TIA
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How is it that we get a dumb parody victorian parlour novel about dragons but no one has made a farce based on the WB Yeats and Aleister Crowley wizard fight
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Mel Mudkiper posted:How is it that we get a dumb parody victorian parlour novel about dragons but no one has made a farce based on the WB Yeats and Aleister Crowley wizard fight Gaiman kinda riffs on it in the first couple volumes of Sandman but it isn't played for laughs.
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Hieronymous Alloy posted:Gaiman kinda riffs on it in the first couple volumes of Sandman but it isn't played for laughs. Thats the point Yeats kicked Crowley down a flight of stairs after Crowley came at him in a Scottish Tartan chanting and drawing pentagrams in the air and how the gently caress is something that hilarious not more widely known about We always hear about Crowley the evil wizard but never crowley the chubby dork who liked to dress up like an egyptian and once got into a years long wizard battle involving summoning demons to get people to stop making fun of him
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Jun 18, 2020 23:24
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This is, without hyperbole, one of the funniest paragraphs ever written
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Jun 18, 2020 23:35
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Mel Mudkiper posted:This is, without hyperbole, one of the funniest paragraphs ever written I didn't realize Yeats was a Muscle Wizard. 
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I am no joke gonna commission a photo of Yeats kicking Crowley down a flight of stairs from one of my artist friends and post it here
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Jun 18, 2020 23:42
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Mel Mudkiper posted:This is, without hyperbole, one of the funniest paragraphs ever written an effective banishing
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Mel Mudkiper posted:I am no joke gonna commission a photo of Yeats kicking Crowley down a flight of stairs from one of my artist friends and post it here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rl2TFmjdCo4
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Mel Mudkiper posted:This is, without hyperbole, one of the funniest paragraphs ever written Lmfao
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To a magician, even kicking someone down the stairs is a magical act. Safety Biscuits fucked around with this message at 02:55 on Jun 19, 2020 |
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its so good
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Mel Mudkiper posted:This is, without hyperbole, one of the funniest paragraphs ever written What book is this from? This is amazing.
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Grenrow posted:What book is this from? This is amazing. https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&sou...6-VjpNNjR5AlKBL
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I love Crowley so much. just a big weirdo who got tons of money from inbred rich dilettantes for being strange and theatric
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I'm starting to see a pattern here
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I went to an OTO Crowley meeting one time, to watch a baptism. They are a little too nerdy for me. There was this really old couple, and the lady had her top off and this wizard looking man was doing things to her with a cardboard sword. I wanted to walk out because it went on way too long. Id like to look at the Book of Thoth someday though. Im reading a tarot book by Jordorowsky. *edited because i cant type on a phone and it was unreadable excellent bird guy fucked around with this message at 05:26 on Jun 22, 2020 |
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The Oh No Ross and Carrie episodes about OTO are great listens and match that description perfectly.
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Is there a longer and more in depth book on all this that could be a good BOTM?
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Hieronymous Alloy posted:Is there a longer and more in depth book on all this that could be a good BOTM? babyfucker
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Where is a good spot to make a thread. I want to do my book report on Infinite Jest somewhere. Im afraid of spoilers so to choose between TBB which is awesome or the blog place that might be too obscure. Could I write obessively about the book without the goonsquad letting me know it's secrets before I make the discovery?
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excellent bird guy posted:Where is a good spot to make a thread. I want to do my book report on Infinite Jest somewhere. Im afraid of spoilers so to choose between TBB which is awesome or the blog place that might be too obscure. Could I write obessively about the book without the goonsquad letting me know it's secrets before I make the discovery? I mean, it sounds like you want to do a let's read. If you want to do it as "hey guys who havent read it, lets read it and do this many pages a week and then talk about it" it might work. I think the big challenge you are going to face is getting people interested in your thread if you are limiting what they can engage with to just your present experience which seems to be how you are describing it.
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