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indigi posted:review bombing is fine I think but don't harass the poor weirdo From what I'm gathering the author is attempting to doxx the people who gave bad reviews? There's alot of flinging poo poo back and forth with rallying cries of POC that is hella confusing and really similar to other disasters linked to current sci fantasy books. I'd love to find a thread that delved more into it.
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As a POC I refuse to engage. Like not spending a single second rubbing my two braincells together about this.
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apparently the author had to leak the ending to stop the harassment and based on what people are saying about it I’m pretty sure the ending is “she realizes she’s been manipulated and kills him”
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BONGHITZ posted:just read the books ya they're good
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loquacius posted:The fact that it's being sold as a physical published book on Barnes and Noble dot com and about a real historical war crime team are what's attracting attention here; if it were just a fanfic about the Avatar Fire Nation or whatever nobody would bat an eye. loquacius posted:Being from real history makes a difference too. This kind of poo poo happens in fantastical settings all the time and nobody really notices i think you must have only skimmed the tweets because it actually is set in some made up fantasy world
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Mantis42 posted:i think you must have only skimmed the tweets because it actually is set in some made up fantasy world I only read the post, I didn't click through. Is it like an alternate history deal or what
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I disagree with the notion that a woman of Chinese descent writing it makes it NOT a "colonizer romance" if it would be considered that had a white woman wrote it. It's just more uncomfortable to think about the colonized party being the one doing the fantasizing.
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gradenko_2000 posted:https://twitter.com/ghoulcowboyy/status/1766506892098965630?t=F4zDg7YAOd-kwCdx2NAPGA&s=19 lol
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Pretzel Rod Serling posted:apparently the author had to leak the ending to stop the harassment and based on what people are saying about it I’m pretty sure the ending is “she realizes she’s been manipulated and kills him” lol
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Pretzel Rod Serling posted:apparently the author had to leak the ending to stop the harassment and based on what people are saying about it I’m pretty sure the ending is “she realizes she’s been manipulated and kills him” BONGHITZ posted:just read the books
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I don't have to read a book to be mad about it!!!!
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indigi posted:I don't have to read a book to be mad about it!!!! Impressive...
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The regime continues to be meh. Its a shame. All the ingredients are there but they just dont go together. In 2024 you really need to present something a little sharper than "those funny slavs and their barbarous ways". At least Kate Winslet continues to be amazing.
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we actually cant read this book because its not going to be out for a month and maybe it never will be at this rate wait the controversy is that its being review bombed but it has 3.6 out of 5 on goodreads? that doesnt really sound so awful
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Mar 12, 2024 18:02
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Book people are insano in the braino
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KirbyKhan posted:Book people are insano in the braino a lot of people have the impression that reading books makes you smarter but that only works if you're reading things that challenge you and make you think, not if you're reading the 10,000th variation on the same genre slop you've been consuming your entire life
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Is this a real thing that happened or a subculture of like 50 people having a fight?
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Gumball Gumption posted:Is this a real thing that happened or a subculture of like 50 people having a fight? those are not mutually exclusive
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Gotcha, a small corner of internet weirdos and will never impact anything important or really anything at all. Hope they enjoy the book about poo poo that didn't happen. Or hate it or whatever is the correct virtue to signal
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Gumball Gumption posted:Gotcha, a small corner of internet weirdos and will never impact anything important turn on your monitor ok now click away from the forums
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poo poo-that-didn't-happen.txt evolving into its next stage - "that didn't happen to enough people to be considered real"
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Pepe Silvia Browne posted:poo poo-that-didn't-happen.txt It's called fiction moron
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guess you're not familiar with that phrase, but there's no need to be a jerk
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I'm gonna say what I say every time: Something Awful is a website for making fun of Internet stuff
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Shageletic posted:On Cinema seems like an intimidatingly hard show to get into. Are all the eps on YouTube? Are there alot of them? So I need to watch anything else to understand what's going on? I just started with the Oscar Specials. 4-6 being the highlights. all on youtube. the review series are good background noise and add bonus context beyond Tim hating movies and Gregg liking them for the wrong reasons 
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loquacius posted:I'm gonna say what I say every time: Something Awful is a website for making fun of Internet stuff right and thats why the front page collapsed nothing about the internet is funny anymore
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Shageletic posted:On Cinema seems like an intimidatingly hard show to get into. Are all the eps on YouTube? Are there alot of them? So I need to watch anything else to understand what's going on? It's not intimidatingly hard in that it's really funny, and you can get most of the jokes without being obsessive about it. That said, the continuity is pretty extreme. This video is merely a recap for the first seven seasons: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gj7VEcSjdXU Here is another sorta recap video, but it's mostly just a video essay about the show: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7mtoawnUsL0 Everything through the 2020 Oscars Special is on Youtube. After that, it's paywalled to the HeiNetwork for $55 a year. This is because Adult Swim cancelled the web series, so Tim has independently operated it since. It's probably the funniest current show, and the Oscar specials are incredible productions because they're live and hilarious. A particularly interesting thing about the show is that the continuity branches across various mediums, such as social media posts that are in character, a literal TV show on Adult Swim that stars Tim and Gregg as "Tim and Gregg" playing their characters on the show, and a mockumentary, Mister America which was released in theaters. Another aspect is Tim and Gregg's cameos in the 2015 Fantastic Four, and the three Ant-Mans are also the characters of Tim and Gregg playing their movie characters. Nichael has issued a correction as of 19:07 on Mar 12, 2024 |
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Nichael posted:It's not intimidatingly hard in that it's really funny, and you can get most of the jokes without being obsessive about it. That said, the continuity is pretty extreme. This video is merely a recap for the first seven seasons: and it proves, without a doubt, that Eric Wareheim was the weak link in that duo
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Some Guy TT posted:right and thats why the front page collapsed nothing about the internet is funny anymore SA has a front page?
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Durf posted:I just started with the Oscar Specials. 4-6 being the highlights. all on youtube. Stuff like this is immediately funny without knowing the lore. Tim burns himself alive, while committing his third or fourth arson. It's insane. It's also all within the context of a movie review show that has completely gone off the rails, and gives out "five bag of popcorn" reviews 99% of the time. Except of course for the first Ant-Man, which got zero bags of popcorn because Tim was upset Gregg was in it.
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I watched the entirety of the Electric Sun Desert Music Festival Trial on youtube in like 30 minute chunks before bed without knowing anything and it was hilarious
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Pepe Silvia Browne posted:I watched the entirety of the Electric Sun Desert Music Festival Trial on youtube in like 30 minute chunks before bed without knowing anything and it was hilarious I got a third through Poor Things before bed last night without knowing a single thing about it beforehand and hoo buddy,
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i say swears online posted:I got a third through Poor Things before bed last night without knowing a single thing about it beforehand and hoo buddy, the reveal about 15 minutes in of what Willam Dafoe's character actually did to Bella made me laugh hard enough that I was on board for the rest of the film
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Pepe Silvia Browne posted:and it proves, without a doubt, that Eric Wareheim was the weak link in that duo i think Eric's strengths are more behind the camera than in front of it, but its the interplay of their styles that makes their collaborations interesting - theyre transformative of one another as opposed to additive man ive thought about that too much over the last couple decades huh
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DoombatINC posted:i think Eric's strengths are more behind the camera than in front of it, but its the interplay of their styles that makes their collaborations interesting - theyre transformative of one another as opposed to additive I don't disagree but I still think Tim is a much, much stronger performer than Eric. I mean they probably know it too because the loser Tom is the more difficult character to play compared to the bombastic, over the top Mayor.
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Pepe Silvia Browne posted:the reveal about 15 minutes in of what Willam Dafoe's character actually did to Bella made me laugh hard enough that I was on board for the rest of the film it's genuinely funny, I'm shocked at the comedic pacing I didn't even know dafoe was in it so I'm having a good time
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i say swears online posted:it's genuinely funny, I'm shocked at the comedic pacing the pacing is legit excellent i think the only thing a person really should know about poor things before watching is that its divided into five distinct acts the second through fifth of which all have title cards so if you want a break it doesnt take that long to get to the next one
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galagazombie posted:SA has a front page? it literally doesn't anymore
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Pepe Silvia Browne posted:I don't disagree but I still think Tim is a much, much stronger performer than Eric. I mean they probably know it too because the loser Tom is the more difficult character to play compared to the bombastic, over the top Mayor. yeah but only Eric played bass for Ink & Dagger https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j1l4Yv6NDhM
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