|
Some dude has a videogame, were you shoot shadow creature things. Eventually, you get sucked into the game and are physically there, shooting monsters until you win. Dude and his friends all play the game over and over and start getting addicted and seeing dark cracks in the corners of their vision and start acting like dicks. I remember the ending was dumb but I don't remember why
|
#
¿
Sep 28, 2015 04:36
|
|
|
|
| # ¿ May 9, 2024 07:03 |
|
|
Clipperton posted:Possibly the none-more-eighties HOT drat edit: it's a trilogy ??? 
The Chad Jihad fucked around with this message at 23:49 on Sep 28, 2015 |
|
#
¿
Sep 28, 2015 23:43
|
|
|
504 posted:A collection of stories, I read in school so roughly the mid 90s.. Could it be Strangely Enough ?
|
|
#
¿
Nov 6, 2016 06:15
|
|
|
Along those lines, it was a book where the technology was such that you could save your memories up to that point, and then if you died that clone would be activated again. One of the characters rejects some dude and saves a backup, and then goes on some mission where she dies. She gets a dying message back to her activated clone that says she really should have hooked up with that dude, and the clone is "ahaha no that guy sucks" and dismisses it. Also (pretty sure the same book) two dudes who drowned in a swamp get resurrected, and are horrified to discover that people thought they were lovers and in the interim between recovering the bodies and having the technology to resurrect them, made a giant statue out of their dying moments
|
|
#
¿
May 12, 2017 23:10
|
|
|
Dude gets teleported or something into a fantasy/primitive realm, heavily "island paradise" tribally themed. Dude gets a native wife, and then later on travels to another tribe where he cheats on his wife with a girl who can't say his name right and calls him "Rob-Rrt" or something. There were also these weird butterflies that were attracted by fruit juice that would drip a nasty acid-poison, the main character is badly wounded by one early on and kills the badguy at the end of the book with a swarm of them
|
|
#
¿
Aug 29, 2017 02:35
|
|
|
It was a goosebumps-era book, not horror but targeted at that same age bracket. The main character(or possibly a side character) lives at a walmart-style super store, hiding in it at night. The only solid detail I remember is that at one point they decide to get bubblegum flavored popcorn, the concept of which apparently disgusted me so much it left decades old mental scars. edit: I don't think it is, Secrets Of The Shopping Mall after flipping through that The Chad Jihad fucked around with this message at 03:17 on Dec 15, 2017 |
|
#
¿
Dec 15, 2017 03:06
|
|
|
Humans are all dead, but get resurrected by tree aliens, who also make them immortal. They travel the galaxy in a giant tree ship trying to find out why humans all died out, turns out there's like some rotating gyre of gamma beams or something that wipes the galaxy clean every X amount of years
|
|
#
¿
Mar 27, 2018 23:19
|
|
|
Short story, might have been Stephen King, where some kids get a weird wire toy that completely befuddles all adults. Eventually a scientist looks at it and is also stumped but at least determines that the toy is using higher dimensions and that adult minds are already too set in their ways to comprehend it. Before they can be stopped the kids use their knowledge to travel to said higher dimensions. The end! No moral
|
|
#
¿
Sep 9, 2019 03:36
|
|
|
Thanks, this is definitely it, though all the time travel and alice in wonderland parts got memory-holed
|
|
#
¿
Sep 9, 2019 12:51
|
|
|
Dude gets sucked into a fantasy world, discovers that their magic system can like, be translated into binary or something and uses that to become super good at magic. There was also a dumb sub-plot where the love interest thought he was only interested in her because she cast a love spell on him, but it turned out the spell didn't work to begin with. In the end he actually loses to the head evil guy because he's still a novice with no stamina but another wizard saves the day (the only interesting part). I feel like riding dragons may have featured Popped into my head because it's basically one of those garbage isekai stories but it had to be at least a decade or two old and before those got really big
|
|
#
¿
Aug 9, 2020 06:40
|
|
|
regulargonzalez posted:I've intentionally forgotten most of it but sounds a bit like Off To Be The Wizard That was too recent, however you still get the credit as reading that books description led me to google "magic is computer code book" which popped up Wizards Bane which is what I was looking for https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/631233.Wizard_s_Bane#bookDetails (Fun fact the main characters name is literally Wiz)
|
|
#
¿
Aug 9, 2020 14:50
|
|
|
Sounds like it could be Mortal Engines Edit: for some reason I read that multiple times as "big city in a huge CARAVAN" , gonna go lie down The Chad Jihad fucked around with this message at 03:17 on Apr 27, 2021 |
|
#
¿
Apr 27, 2021 02:52
|
|
|
ScienceSeagull posted:Trying to find a folktale/ parable that goes like this: This is the variation I am familiar with: quote:Several centuries ago, a priest and a rabbi agreed on having a religious debate.
|
|
#
¿
Jul 24, 2021 00:34
|
|
|
Humanity is extinct or something, and some tree-like aliens resurrect them and also make them immortal. And then they sent them off in a spaceship, also possibly shaped like a tree, and the humans go off to find earth or something. Turns out theres a gigantic rotating gamma ray burst thing that wipes out all life in the galaxy every hundred million years
|
|
#
¿
Jul 22, 2022 22:12
|
|
|
Yuuuuuup that's it! I recognize the old cover with the dragonfly nymph alien and the weird walker. Apparently I've only ever read the sequel? Thanks a ton that's been bothering me off and on for years
|
|
#
¿
Jul 23, 2022 22:23
|
|
|
|
| # ¿ May 9, 2024 07:03 |
|
|
Shady Amish Terror posted:Another story I believe is about a child in an alien class where they commit a faux pas by giving away something irreplaceable, I think, like a photograph, or something to that effect, and there's a whole discussion about teenage liminality and how they're neither really a child nor an adult, and they end up getting the photograph back. If I'm recalling this correctly, this actually interesting bit of late-childhood/early adulthood writing is immediately cut short by a joke about an alien race who communicates by devastatingly noxious flatulence. So, this might be Bruce Coville's "I, Earthling" from Bruce Coville's Book of Aliens, through the haze of memory
|
|
#
¿
Nov 28, 2023 02:26
|
|