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Ground Floor! Woo! At least the cover looks professional, especially for a self-published book.
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Wolfman's got nards! Also, I suspect Pitt miiiiight be a self insert, and the author pic looks like he might not be a small guy.
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Apr 5, 2018 00:24
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To be fair, a tabletop set in the modern world where you're a covert organization hunting monsters in secret is still a pretty fun idea. I'm patiently waiting for when the book setting milkshake ducks us.
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Apr 5, 2018 16:00
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To be fair, spite is a pretty great motivator historically.
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Apr 5, 2018 16:38
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I'm rolling my eyes so hard at Pitt's backstory that I think I may have damaged something. I will say this, when his dad cornered him asking what really happened, it almost felt like he already knew what sort of "something strange" he might be into. Or is that subtle foreshadowing?
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Apr 6, 2018 01:26
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I love how he says that she rifles off stats that would only be interesting to gun nuts, then immediately rifles off those stats. Meanwhile, the Silver conversation totally appeals to me, and I love seeing modern technology applied to old monster lore. I wonder if MHI ever has to handle Sidhe style threats and instead switch to ammo that is iron based.
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Apr 7, 2018 19:44
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Idran posted:That's a more modern redefinition. "Cold iron" was originally just a poetic description for any iron blade, like "cold steel". Yeah, I've looked it up and apparently it's just a flourish like "Cold Steel" that I suspect they mean "heartless" rather than "frigid" when they say Cold. Like, any iron will do for fighting witches and fae, as long as it's just iron. chitoryu12 posted:This is also something I've studied. A big problem with iron is that depending on your particular formula, it can also end up being too hard and ruining your rifling. One question is "What does 'cold iron' mean?" If it means a specific kind like consecrated iron, you've got a problem. If any kind of iron or steel works, you've got steel core ammo or steel buckshot and birdshot. So I'm not a gun guy, but I tend to understand stuff when people talk about it (it's funny, I'm the same way about programming language, so people automatically think I'm some computer expert for it). It sounds to me like the whole hollow point with a chunk of silver inside that the book went with and you said was where you independently decided to go with other stuff, it's basically the same principle as buckshot, wherein the payload isn't the bullet, but rather inside the bullet to do it's damage piggyback style, correct?
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Apr 8, 2018 01:50
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I guess creampuff still is used like wimp here, but mostly puff is used in reference to smoke or breathing or what have you.
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Apr 9, 2018 13:43
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Wait, I thought he said earlier that the one brick building was the only permanent structure at the camp? Now they have barracks, aircraft hangers, a refrigerated morgue, etc etc
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Apr 9, 2018 15:40
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Wait a second book, put it in reverse...you can't just drop that Golems are in the monster pool without explaining what kind they are. Are we going by D&D rules where just any vaguely man shaped monster created by a wizard counts? Or is the the old school Jewish variety with "Life" etched in Hebrew on their clay foreheads, waiting to be smeared into "Death" to undo them?
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Apr 9, 2018 22:22
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Don't forget the conflicting ethnic descriptions
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Apr 10, 2018 02:13
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Y'know, the overall plot of the story is cool by me, I always dig modern fantasy and horror. But whoo boy, the Mary Sue levels of Pitt are just unbearable.
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Apr 10, 2018 17:51
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Again, I have to say this isn't bad. If you can overlook the super aggrandizing of the protagonist (and yes, I realize that's a big "if") it's worst crimes so far have been being a fairly generic mashup of military and monster tropes. Like it's so far sitting in the fairly innocuous "turn your brain off" airport fiction category to me. It's not something I'd read myself, but I don't hate it.
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Apr 11, 2018 00:08
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So, it occurs to me, why doesn't MHI have their own boat? They can afford a Hind for goodness sakes, they can afford to buy boats.
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Apr 11, 2018 15:06
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Tangentially related, but how does morse code work for non english speakers? Everything I've always seen is it's based on English...
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Apr 11, 2018 22:50
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My hot take on the vampires immediately being evil thing is that Darne is as much under the will of ol Machado as his wights were under his. But what do I know, I'm a Monster-American myself, so of course I'll try to rationalize their actions.
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Apr 12, 2018 20:51
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Monocled Falcon posted:I wonder where it's coming from, I don't remember campy monster movies having a lot of girlfriend stealing NTR bullshit. Considering Pitt is a Mary Sue self-insert, I'm wondering if Julie is based on an irl woman...
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Apr 13, 2018 10:22
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Frankly, when I've talked about the book being not bad, it's because I enjoyed the action and monster stuff, which at the end of the day is pretty drat boilerplate. I mean, we could be going through an Anita Blake book and have the same enjoyable sections, only interwoven not by weird Libertarian propaganda and might-makes-right mentalities, but instead dimestore romantic drivel and poorly written sex scenes slowly getting more elaborate. The book would still be about a person whose main purpose in life is killing monsters, in a world where monsters actually exist, whether or not they actually automatically mean a threat to be put down. And we'd still be complaining about the trashy prose and uncomfortable mary sue protagonist. At no point in the scenario would anyone say "Boy I sure like what these guys are saying about the world, I think it's helped me decide how I'm going to vote next time!" or anything like that. I do think an interesting point is raised by having vampirism be an automatic morality switch to thunder and lightning, mustache twirling evil. Like, they've already hinted that some monsters can be reasoned with and even allied with, but apparently vamps are a zero tolerance thing? Maybe I'm just too sensitive to Monster Discrimination, being a Flesh-Golem myself (Don't call Persons of People Frankensteins, that's our word now) but I'm probably going to side with the vamps on this issue.
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Apr 14, 2018 07:16
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Mel Mudkiper posted:I mean I would think not since, as I understand, the blood acts as pure life force. Not sure if it leaves any waste products after being metabolized Shoot, even if it does, it's liquid, so I would think it'd be all pee.
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Apr 17, 2018 05:41
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It occurs to me how absurd Turley's "specialty" was. An expert on all native practices in the entire Western Hemisphere?? It's rare to find an anthropologist who's an expert at more than like, 3 or 4 groups of people tops.
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Apr 17, 2018 15:53
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Proteus Jones posted:My pet peeve is when writers use the same god-drat modifier word in consecutive sentences, especially when one use of it is an adverb. Seriously, that's like, something you'd get knocked down for in 10th grade English class.
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Apr 19, 2018 20:09
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Godzilla fans do call him "Big G" often. Just saying. EDIT: VVVV Same. Choco1980 fucked around with this message at 06:43 on Apr 21, 2018 |
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Apr 21, 2018 04:11
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We have to be introduced to Grant like he hasn't been a part of like half the book already?
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Apr 24, 2018 20:46
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Gee, I wonder who this Mystical Champion could be, I have no idea whatsoever....
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Apr 25, 2018 20:58
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PittTheElder posted:I cannot imagine how stupid they must look kitted out in their tactical gear, with stakes, grenades, custom firearms, webbed pouch carriers and then rounding it all off with loving hockey helmets. Eh, I'm just picturing cages over the faces instead of the traditional riot gear helmet with a shatterproof clear plastic section over it, but the rest of the helmet relatively similar.
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May 7, 2018 20:09
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I've heard such horror stories, both of the prose quality and the incorrect depiction of bdsm, I can't wait.
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May 8, 2018 01:30
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I actually don't mind the world building of there being terrifying monsters in the world that have no bearing on any plots in the series.
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May 11, 2018 11:28
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Stop, stop, I can only get so flaccid...
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