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Nostalgia4Infinity posted:So I got a PS4 pro on Friday and am selling my old PS4. I'm selling it on letgo with like 3 games I never play any more for $200. I think it's a fair deal and I, poo poo you not, have had 3 different people offer me $20 and a Galaxy S5 like what the frick am I going to do with a (probably stolen) cell phone from 3 years ago Ok, how about "$30 dollars, a Galaxy S4, and the complete Tom of Finland postage stamp series?"
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# ¿ Jan 29, 2017 16:30 |
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# ¿ May 3, 2024 00:36 |
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Bitches have forgotten about Stripes. And the 100% accurate recruiting scene.
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# ¿ Jan 30, 2017 07:56 |
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I read Leviathan Wakes, and was ok (hoping for, honestly) with everyone dying at the end of it. It felt like someone's interstellar roleplaying campaign got turned into a novel. "Ok, here's your millenium falcon, complete with everything a adventuring party will ever need, now go off & adventure!" Einstein's theory on brownian motion is pretty cool though.
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# ¿ Jul 14, 2017 05:48 |
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Thanks for the replies. I googled the expanse series & mother of poo poo writers....that's Neal Stephenson tier poo poo. No way am I reading more Expanse novels. Might be time for a Malazan book of the fallen series or some Judge Dredd casebooks re-reads. The Judge Dredd storyline about Dave the orangutan being better at predicting outcomes than professional pollsters and Dave eventually getting elected to political office was fantastic, the followup story a year later was harsh but so 2017 in tone. Any amateur gip stargazers ever manage to see earth's 2nd moon? Always wanted to, never had the patience. And yeah the 2nd moon is real. It's super tiny, but exists.
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# ¿ Jul 14, 2017 18:33 |
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I finally saw Avengers: age of ultron. Hulkbuster armor and James Spader monologue specialist were the best parts of the movie. Age of ultron also helped me figure out why the MCU Iron Man armor vaguely bothered me...basically Robert Downey Jr is a manlet, and the iron man armor makes him look normal human sized. The standard iron man armor I mean, not the hulkbuster armor; although the hulkbuster armor making RDJ normal human sized is a great. Tiny sized Tony Stark immediately makes all his character flaws & actions understandable. Thinking back, the afghani cave iron man suit 0.5 was probably only six feet tall.
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# ¿ Jul 25, 2017 04:34 |
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Original Scarface movie is badass. You fucks need to join veteran support groups like the VFW or American Legion. You probably don't need their services right now, but will definitely need their services in 20 - 30 years time. Help support all the previous generations of military people who got hosed up by their era's incompetent & uncaring leadership. Yearly membership costs less than a PS4 game. Join up you fucks.
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# ¿ Jul 28, 2017 00:33 |
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ElMaligno posted:The STONER BROTHERS Rick Scott and Scott Rick are fighting tommorow. Will any east coast "tastykake" wrestlers be there? Protesters trolling Volkswagen HQ with 'fort NOX' signs is great.
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# ¿ Aug 4, 2017 03:51 |
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Just read the last 20 pages of this thread. Cole having the bladder of a senior citizen & Spongebob giving jury duty advice were the highlights for me. Please nobody read Neal Stephenson books. Stephenson plots & characters only make sense if everyone in his books has Downs syndrome. The one good book he wrote, Snow Crash, was probably ghostwritten by someone else. Even then, hardcore Downs syndrome in Snow Crash.
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# ¿ Aug 6, 2017 16:07 |
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Dead Reckoning posted:
What was Stephenson's best book in your opinion? Pretty much all I remember about Snow Crash is the dude Hiro Protagonist was the original secret programmer of the online sword-fighting protocol so he always had cheat codes to win online fights, and that Hiro lived in a U-haul storage unit with roommates IRL. Also everything was franchised corporations, the radium powered ultra-minigun, and roughly 30% of the book was infodumps. That level of humor + self-mockery was unlike anything else by Stephenson, so the idea of it being partially ghostwritten isn't implausible to me. The only Japanese movie character I remember besides Godzilla (and gamera) is Jet Jaguar. https://youtu.be/2BVFq5LueSA
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# ¿ Aug 6, 2017 21:00 |
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tastefully arranged labia posted:First jar of cherry peppers comes off the vine today...and of course the loving seal breaks as I'm canning them and I end up with boiled peppers. First time that's happened to me. Re-canned but pissed since I waited two months for these fuckers to grow and they're not sold in supermarkets. What method do you use to can? I'm used to the drowning stuff in olive oil method of canning...works great.
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# ¿ Aug 6, 2017 23:02 |
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LtCol J. Krusinski posted:Seven eves was loving awful and Snow Crash sexualized a 14 year old girl and had her bang the antagonist. Kazinsal posted:Neal Stephenson is John Ringo for the cyberpunk fetishist. Stultus Maximus posted:Cryptonomicon was a thousand pages of desperately wanting to be William Gibson and Thomas Pynchon and miserably failing at both. Neal Stephenson has spent his entire career desperately trying to be M John Harrison. Read M John Harrison, avoid Stephenson at all costs. Trust me, it's worth it. Peter Watts is also a drat good author, just don't read up on him IRL. Stanislaw Lem was also exceptional, triply so once you realize all his stuff was written in polish, and that 95% of his english translated books were adapted from the french translations of his books. Then of course there's the 136 issues of Cryptolog, the heavily redacted internal NSA newsletter. To quote from the public release announcement of the Cryptolog archive: NSA is committed to Transparency and Openness. The Agency recognizes that the sum value of these documents is significant to NSA’s history and to the public understanding of our functions and activities.
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# ¿ Aug 7, 2017 03:48 |
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Nuclear Tourist posted:Just started re-reading Light. One of my favorite books ever. It's like a surrealist suddenly decided to write bleak as hell hard sci-fi. Haven't really read anything like it before or since. Then his 'the Centauri Device' will blow your mind. It's bleaker than hell space opera. Don't read the spoiler for it. Almost everyone in the book dies I treasure each Harrison story I stumble across. Conan the Barbarian's temple fight scene will always be aces for what each character does at the beginning of it. Asian guy: sneak up and murder the huge vat chow chef. Blonde lady: slice up a bunch a dudes, decapitate a fool. Arnie: run up stairs, shove a lady stoner aside.
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# ¿ Aug 7, 2017 21:53 |
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The original Godzilla suit dude apparently has died. It is a sad day for kajiu film fans worldwide. Meanwhile in a dark corner of Japan, Gamera cackles & rubs together his flipper-hands.
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# ¿ Aug 8, 2017 14:08 |
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Duzzy Funlop posted:Trip Report: was offered a free upgrade to PREMIUM economy class (loving ballin' 24/7) If you need a job in after getting settled back in the fatherland, I am sure that Germany's eminent domain seized salt mine turned nuclear waste storage site is hiring. Those stories about walls collapsing, and cracks starting to form in the waste vaults is just ignorance & fake news. Surely German engineering would prevent all that. Bonus: you can reenact all your S.T.A.L.K.E.R. & PUBG fantasies there.
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# ¿ Aug 9, 2017 16:35 |
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Was talking about Stephen King novels last night, and hail satan, Stephen King has always been creepy. Some people gave up on King when reading the Talisman. Other people gave up on King after finishing Misery. I peaced out on King halfway through his Dark Tower series (the flashback book). Stronger people are still chugging on King books. Tiny elvis cosplayer with revolver rape fetish is just mindboggling, how did that get published in the 1980s? quantumfoam fucked around with this message at 13:44 on Aug 13, 2017 |
# ¿ Aug 13, 2017 13:17 |
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I have no idea what those King books are that you mentioned. And I'm happy about that. Degradation fetish is the best way I can describe King's writing style up to the point I bailed out.
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# ¿ Aug 13, 2017 13:39 |
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NUKES CURE NORKS posted:Just noticed the Stallone Judge Dredd is on Netflix. Stallone does a perfect happy douchebag dispensing justice Dredd. Then the movie falls apart when Rob Schneider meets Dredd. Dredd 2012 is inherently better. Especially when you realize that the director of Dredd 2012 called dibs on all the megablock extra's outfits. TheGreasyStrangler posted:King can really only hold it together for his short stories. Agreed, even then King is cracking. I blocked out the entire horrorshow of Tommyknockers, but now it's seeping back. Damnit this is why I stopped reading King. quantumfoam fucked around with this message at 16:19 on Aug 13, 2017 |
# ¿ Aug 13, 2017 16:14 |
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tastefully arranged labia posted:That movie is five years old already. I get lovely marvel movies shoveled on me but Hollywood can't make Dredd 2. Hollywood is poo poo. Hollywood will always be poo poo. It took 30 years for a Mad Max sequel to happen. Our only hope is Bollywood. A Bollywood Judge Dredd movie full of singing & retarded dance numbers could be amazing. The only other praise I have for Stallone Dredd movie was that it was 99% visually accurate to the Judge Dredd comics of that time. Judge Dredd Casefile collections are fantastic for diving into the Dredd universe. Everything that happened in the comics is canon. Even the cash-grab spinoffs with Batman, Marvel, Aliens, etc...EVERYTHING IS CANON and nothing is rebooted.
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# ¿ Aug 13, 2017 19:35 |
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The Judge Dredd series has been running continously since mid 1977 without any kind of series/universe reboots like Marvel & DC Comics do every 7-10 years. In the series, the man himself is pushing mid 80's. Was mostly de-aged within the past year via nanomachines or something. I say mostly de-aged because criminals tried to kill him during the process so a skinless naked Dredd was forced to give them eternal dirtnaps.
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# ¿ Aug 13, 2017 20:19 |
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Saw Logan the movie last night. Everything dying except the new X-men was fitting. Two things popped out at me: -extremely convenient some of the bad dudes were packing .357 revolvers so the super-bullet could be used and not thrown really hard. -Logan SPONSORED BY FORD. WE DON"T BREAK THE gently caress DOWN.
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# ¿ Aug 24, 2017 16:51 |
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A interesting InterAgency Board publication regarding the typical GiP posters residence. Recommendations on Selection and Use of Personal Protective Equipment and Decontamination Products for First Responders Against Exposure Hazards to Synthetic Opioids, Including Fentanyl and Fentanyl Analogues This document is considered public and may be distributed as you see fit.
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# ¿ Aug 29, 2017 02:50 |
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redneck nazgul posted:If you want weird smelly camping with hippies and drugs, there's infinitely better options nowadays. IE. The appalachian trail, pacific crest trail or continential trail. Spongebob's & Shimazu'd appalachian trail attempt will always be, uh wait I can't fini
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# ¿ Aug 29, 2017 15:23 |
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Has anyone watched the amazon prime reboot of the Tick yet? Comrade Detective episode one was ok. Patriot prime tv show pulled me in hard, Comrade Detective left me shrugging. Although the the JORDACHE joke in Comrade Detective ws pretty funny though.
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# ¿ Aug 30, 2017 03:41 |
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I burned out on Patrick Warburton, H Jon Benjamin, and Arrested Development Mom. They have one voice, and use that one voice for almost everything they appear in. Archer season 3 premiere was where it all went to poo poo for me. Just for that reason I am happy that the Patrick Warburton Tick died painlessly. Bat Manuel will be missed however, just like Sewer Urchin & the human bullet from the Tick cartoon.
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# ¿ Aug 30, 2017 04:03 |
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Spongebob The trail attempt was a good try. If I recall correctly, you went with the low cost mostly sane setup, Shimazu was the guy who went fullbore "lightweight for life" and spent thousands of dollars on his gear. A gip internet detective who is infinitely more skilled than me(and knows how to repost Shim's pictures to instagram) should definitely create a new gip thread archiving ALL the posts about the trail attempts. And it should be forever sticked by Shimazu as a bonus. I said mostly sane setup for Spongebob's gear because Spongebob's deerskin legging boots still make me laugh and laugh.
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# ¿ Aug 31, 2017 00:03 |
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LITERALLY SHAKING posted:I still have those moccasin boots. They still look loving hilarious. It is good that your Ren-fair sex worker boots survive to this day. True comedy is hard to kill. In that vein of that thought, Shim SHIM SHIMAZU. I didn't think it was possible to top this http://imgur.com/a/9AvtX ...but it is. You need to start reading the CYPHERNOMICON, a deadly serious 1994 FAQ-slash-manifesto about computer privacy, cyber activism, cryptology, and free speech. In 2017 it reads like high comedy + mega-nerd phrase dropping, with the added bonus of stuff like this... code:
...appearing every 3 or so pages. So far I am only on section 5.4.19, my mind boggles at how much more insaner & hilarious the Cyphernomicon is going to get. Just to clarify, the CYPHERNOMICON is considered one of the more "balanced" cyber-activist manifestos. There is another crazier manifesto I haven't read yet called Assassination Politics by Jim Bell. Jim Bell is.....just google him & back the hell away from that level of crazy.
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# ¿ Aug 31, 2017 02:51 |
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LtCol J. Krusinski posted:It's good to have you back man Thanks Shim. I've been reading tons of old scifi & fantasy books in my spare time. So much insanity, so many creepy rear end fetishes. One 1930s - 1950s scifi writer literally wanted to gently caress cats and/or cat-human hybrids. Never read Cordwainer Smith. For non-tech dudes, the zimmermann picture link I posted early is funny because Phil Zimmermann created the PGP software in 1991, which allowed everyone + their hamster to encrypt personal data securely. Zimmermann became rich, and geek famous as the poster-person for privacy rights advocates & private encryption in general. His mantra was always use encryption, never send anything in plain text. Cut to 2014 and http://imgur.com/a/9AvtX quantumfoam fucked around with this message at 05:14 on Aug 31, 2017 |
# ¿ Aug 31, 2017 05:11 |
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Stultus Maximus posted:poo poo... The first time I read through The Science Fiction Hall of Fame anthology, I hit "The Ballad of Lost C'Mell" and what the everliving gently caress? There is a lot of bad science fiction & fantasy authors out there. One memorably bad series(the STEN archives) that I remember repackaged 1970s -1980s action movies into scifi adventures for 7+ books with a do-not-steal-please villain. Generally I can make it through at least one short story or novel before giving up on a author, usually. Here's my current avoid this author list post car accident Stephen King anyone published by Baen Books (ie. David Weber, John Ringo, Eric Flint, etc) excluding Keith Laumer. Laumer was cool. Neal Stephenson China Melville John Ringo -listed twice for a reason Neal Asher Philip Jose Farmer Peter Hamilton Samuel Delany Piers Anthony Robert Heinlein Cordwainer Smith Hannu Rajaniemi So far the only avoid at all costs forever author I have is George RR Martin. I tried reading him/stuff edited by him and bounced off hard. GRRM style synopsis seems to be: degradation rape porn baked in poo poo.
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# ¿ Aug 31, 2017 14:10 |
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Calling it now, american gip guy born in germany/who recently got a sweet job with a german car company is going to be the official scape-goat for whatever future emissions scandals at that company. Hope you didn't blindly sign blank paperwork mein herr.
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# ¿ Aug 31, 2017 16:33 |
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Remember how Stephen King started inserting himself into his novels after being run over by a van, because King wanted to kind of live forever, even if it was only in his own books? In late era Heinlen books, everything is part of a shared multiverse, time travel & cloning are used to gently caress close family members, everyone is a descendant of old-man Heinlein aka Lazarus Long (SUBTLE), morals like don't gently caress your nuclear family/don't gangbang gender-swapped clones of yourself are mocked and everyone worships the wisdom of old-man Heinlein. In short: Don't read Heinlein, even his earlier stuff is creepy in retrospect. Flikken posted:I like the 1632 Ring of Fire universe though. Eric Flint is one of the many Baen Books authors who can be successfully replicated by custom game modes in Europa Universalis/Hearts of Iron. For more futuristic Baen Book authors toss in Stellaris + Galactic Civilization 2 (mostly for the awesome shipbuilder minitool). I theory crafted this idea more in one of the book subforum threads. Baen Book authors almost universally suck, except for Keith Laumer. Laumer did the Bolo & Agent Retiff series which I highly reccomend to milvets.
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# ¿ Aug 31, 2017 21:45 |
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Stultus Maximus posted:I just took a look at the list of Baen published authors. Poul Anderson, C.J. Cherryh, and Lois McMaster Bujold are entertaining if not great and deep. Poul Anderson's non-Baen stuff was good, everything he got published under Baen....ehhhhhh. Cherryh has the not-Kzinti, and Bujold stories failed to entertain/actively grate for me. Dead Reckoning posted:David Drake was published by Baen, and you can't hate on Hammer's Slammers. Yes. Yes I can hate on Hammer's Slammers. David Drake was the John Ringo of his era. I fully admit that even my favorite authors have massive flaws. Here's me hating on most of my favorite authors Harry Harrison was never able to depict any of his characters in real danger, his villains were Saturday morning cartoon carticures, his heroes always seemed to win by pulling new gadgets out of their asses, and there was a really disturbing human & evolved dino sex scene in Harrison's retarded "what if dinosaurs never got genocided by that massive Cretaceous meteor?" series. Stanislaw Lem's writing always had the feel of outsiderness/a outsider looking in, which is really apparent in his Ijon Tichy series of stories. Ijon Tichy was a scifi version of Candide, awful horrible things always happened to him & to things around him, Ijon just shrugged that poo poo off like a true russian. The Strugatsky brothers series of stories are essentially futuristic russian misery porn on a sliding scale of cheerful drunkeness to buran hanger maintenance quality. Ken Macleod is obsessed with communism, specifically trotskism & the international, and Tony Blair coming to power absolutely broke his goddamn mind/destroyed his writing ability. Philip K Dick was legitimately damaged(Agoraphobia + Claustrophobia + hearing voices + delusions are a hell of a thing), all his stories are depressing and he had a underaged girl fetish. Iain Banks non-scifi novels are utter garbage, and always seem to revolve around coming of age stories, even if the main character is 35+. Peter Watts desperately wants to be taken seriously with his footnote fetish, and is such a absolute internet tough guy douchebag in real life that I hate that I enjoy Watt's stuff. M John Harrison always has had a weird 15 yrs too early style while having a writing speed similar to GRRM's, damnit. Thomas Pynchon novels go up their own rear end so many times it's like a slinky.
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# ¿ Sep 1, 2017 03:46 |
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Nuclear Tourist posted:I met Watts very briefly at a book signing where he signed my copy of Blindsight, I spoke to him for a minute or two about the sequel to Blindsight (Echopraxia), which at the time was still a few months away from being released. He struck me as a pleasant guy. Joe Abercrombie was with him at the book signing, and at the time I just thought of him as Random Fantasy Author #55721-A. I'm a sci-guy by and large but I read the First Law trilogy a while later on and regretted not getting a book signed by him. Was this before or after he got banned from entering the US? Just read Peter Watt's blog, and it will all make sense. Here's a quick example. Month 1: Me & my wife looked into it, and all YA (youth-adult novels) are goddamn trash. Month 2: Hey guys, I'm writing a YA novel, it's gonna be so awesome.
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# ¿ Sep 2, 2017 16:15 |
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Stultus Maximus posted:On a tangent to this, I'm teaching 6th grade English this year and I've quickly discovered that there is better children's and YA literature from the last 20 years than the previous 80 combined. So your avatar picture is so very accurate then. Yoda bad-touching Luuuuke. I have no idea who Joe Abercrombie is, and suspect that's a good thing. Most of the stuff I have read comes from public libraries, or from periodic visits to a really cool used bookstore(s*) in niantic CT that sells paperbacks for $1, and tradepaperbacks & hardcovers at $4+. Even at that price point, some books/authors are so horrible that I feel ripped off spending even THAT AMOUNT on such poo poo. I don't think I would be able to find Gary Gygax's insane D&D novels, or the totally insane new-old west gunslinger survivalist porn series by Harold Ing, or goddamn Kampus if that niantic CT place didn't exist. KAMPUS is forever. Kampus is so bad it turns good because by then you're reading it strictly to see how the main character will ruin the lifes of the next people he encounters. He's a reverse Ignatius Reilly. If I wasn't poo poo at linking pictures, I'd have a huge cover picture of Kampus right here, google "Kampus James Gunn cover" it's the red cover with riot police on the bottom & a professor in a glass cage with holographic projections of naked people. *Bookstores because that bookstore is in 4 different locations(and 7 different buildings + tents) across 3/4 of a mile. It's one of the few remaining reasons to visit CT. quantumfoam fucked around with this message at 16:44 on Sep 2, 2017 |
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tastefully arranged labia posted:Let's do one sentence summations of public school books. A Separate Peace: "Ambiguously gay and probably going to die in Europe whoops my broken leg killed me first." A catcher in the rye: Entitled jackass musings, gently caress you this book sucks.
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# ¿ Sep 2, 2017 21:44 |
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Equus: a dude was really REALLY in love with horses then ripped out his eyes for the lulz.
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# ¿ Sep 2, 2017 22:07 |
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Dead Reckoning posted:Do schools really have Equus in the English curriculum? The place where I went to school had 10+ horse farms in the area/there was students REALLY into horses. So yes. Precautionary tale of not touching horses or else you'll rip out your eyes were deemed necessary by the school system.
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# ¿ Sep 2, 2017 22:17 |
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Godholio posted:Red Storm Rising: Weather wet dreams If we're going to be retarded like Godholio, well then I get to summarize something from his Special Education classes. The Super Dictionary: Lex Luthor stole 40 cakes, and Lois Lane worked all night long.
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# ¿ Sep 2, 2017 22:21 |
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Watched most of the amazon prime Tick episodes. It's not bad. Static electricity lady & roboninja punisher are pretty much Lady Liberty 2.0 & Bat Manuel 2.0, but killey. Dangerboat the sidekick of robotninja punisher feels like Sewer Urchin: machine intelligence.
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# ¿ Sep 3, 2017 00:18 |
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NUKES CURE NORKS posted:temperatures have been in the 60s all week with a spike here and there up to the high 70s. Cole it's cool now, you're out & the Army can't touch you anymore. Not sure why you keep fantasizing about barracks life though, ah well not my problem. The furnace kicked on a few times this week, which is bizarre for August, however I'll take it over the usual FloridaJr weather here for August.
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https://youtu.be/ruCsYGL3QlY
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