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Internet Wizard posted:Yeah PMCs probably aren’t the best example to use when trying to say privatization is a good thing. The government pays them, and other companies like them, a bounty based on some actuarial tables or something and/or get hired like exterminators by businesses. They don't go charging around negotiating up front fees with regular folk like they're a group of Witchers.
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Internet Wizard posted:"We make the rest in contracts set up with various municipalities, organizations, and private individuals with monster problems." sure gives that impression. Eh, seems to me it's basically a supernatural exterminator service.
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Samizdata posted:You can have ketchup if you want. Fedora, trilby or snapback? It’s been forever since I read this, but I *think* they’re employees with room and board. Each mission they get hazard bonus and part of the PUFF (with the lion’s share being plowed back into MHI for operational and personnel expenses). But they also typically go after the big number gigs, so it’s probably pretty drat profitable for everyone involved. Except for that whole life expectancy thing.
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Drunken Baker posted:Is "puff" an outdated 80s homophobic slur in America like it is here in the UK? Not that I can recall in high school. It was typically all "Homo" or "human being", back then.
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I feel like you're overthinking a Baen Truck Stop novel.
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Yeah, I made it through I think three of these things (because I really wanted to read about the adventures of monster exterminators), before I gave up. There's a real thread of "The violent and strong are the only hope. And that's us. If you're peaceful (i.e. pathetic and weak), I suppose you can hide behind us and not get in our way. But we want money for doing this. We'd probably be doing an even better job if it weren't for all those pesky laws and regulations from those greedy, conniving politicians"
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Mel Mudkiper posted:You explained why you liked it, you didn't explain how your enjoyment of it is separate from its messaging. How do you draw excitement from the action scenes if you are not invested in the narrative behind that action? Why are you demanding the thread justify it to you? I'm here to mock it, as are most others. Occasionally I may point out something I like. If that bothers you, then sorry-not-sorry, gently caress off. Ultimately, you're just some stranger to me. You instead seem to be demanding some sort of obeisance to your enlightened, literary critique. But no one cares. Most of us are here to dunk on the book and make fun of it. You seem to think we need to have a serious, critical discussion on the implications of power fantasies. We don't. I mean, I'm sorry we all can't live up to your expectations when making fun of stupid gun book, but get over yourself.
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Mel Mudkiper posted:You are giving me a power I dont have. I am engaging with the book and mocking it too. If you dont want to take the direction I am taking in having a go at it, that's fine. If you don't think I have anything relevant to say, you dont have to listen to me. Yeah, I over-reacted on that and I apologize. I come in expecting more making fun, puns, and other poo poo with this. Instead there's this huge debate on whether its morally questionable to enjoy a work whose ethos is contemptible. Which, while a fascinating topic, not one I want to engage in at the end of a day of work and I'm unwinding in these dumb forums. Especially with a bottom-of-the-barrel fantasy-militia series. So that's on me. I got frustrated the conversation wasn't delivering what I wanted. Again sorry for being a douche about it.
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I just want to thank you for “Persons of People” to refer to golems. Brilliant.
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Wait. You’re saying I’m a vampire because I deserved it? How dare you!
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EVGA Longoria posted:Yeah, it's an interesting concept, but it gets real rape-y in execution for the Lust ones, who are 99% of the ones you meet. I’d say that’s probably the entire point, given that the White Court are almost entirely supernatural rapists. The problematic part is Butcher put one of them on Team Scooby presenting him as a noble man for struggling with his desire to rape. Proteus Jones fucked around with this message at 15:21 on Apr 14, 2018 |
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JUST MAKING CHILI posted:This derail loving sucks. Can we get back to the MHI read-a-long? Yeah, LostRook got the last word in, so mission accomplished for him. Let’s get back to making fun of this unconsciously racist, libertarian hack please.
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JUST MAKING CHILI posted:Including trailer park elfs? I think monsters can get an exemption from PUFF if they do some kind of service for the gov’t or some such poo poo. It’s been at least a decade since I’ve read any of the books.
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Clipperton posted:Is this even true? All of the Lovecraft protagonists I can think of go nuts after a single hideous revelation, they don't have a "gradual descent into madness". In fact the guys who've done the research usually keep their poo poo together the longest, like Dr. Armitage in The Dunwich Horror. There's a couple, but I'm not sure if they were actually written by Lovecraft or part of the writing circle like Bloch and others. Some of the 1st person journals show increasing paranoia and hallucinations until they end with an inevitable "I hear something under the floor..." or "There's movement behind the walls..."
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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.quote:An unfortunate armadillo blundered into our path and was sent on its way to armadillo nirvana. Hey, Mr Writer-Man, how about you dig deep and use your wordy-skills to workshop one of those sentences? Maybe the one with the superfluous adverb?
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chitoryu12 posted:Make Skippy the protagonist instead. chitoryu12 posted:Make Holly the protagonist instead. They get alternate chapters.
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Renegret posted:I liked this book better when the plot didn't exist. I do appreciate that everyone not part of MHI wants to murder Pitt as soon as they meet him.
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Mel Mudkiper posted:Well yeah but theres no shortage of bad books out there. A thread about Twilight or Fifty Shades is already essentially pre-written. Everyone knows what is bad about it and why its bad. It would be a recitation rather than a reaction. There is nothing stopping you from starting a thread for those.
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Orthodox Rabbit posted:[25/F] My BF [25/M] of 10 hours cheated on me with my mom [immortal/F] 
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." Obviously I freaked out and went into his room and my mom was there and she was a vampire now. They had been basically having sex. Once I saw them I pulled out my gun and put a ton of bullets into her. She laughed at me and flew away.
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chitoryu12 posted:Pitt defeated who we thought was the main villain, who turned out to be a pawn of the real main villain, who was then killed by the guy who was actually the side villain because our hero accidentally ruined everything and could only be saved by the side villain coming back to life. Wouldn’t that be the 2nd assistant side-villain (in casting terms)? Main Villain = poor man’s Pizarro Side Villain = MILF vampire 1st assistant Side Villain = Nazi vampire 2nd assistant Side Villain = That Viking mercenary/tattoo guardian thing Oh, right. I almost forgot Super Double Secret Probation Villain = dime store Cthulhu Proteus Jones fucked around with this message at 14:20 on Jun 21, 2018 |
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chitoryu12 posted:It's more like: I amended my last post. Proteus Jones posted:Oh, right. I almost forgot Too many god drat villains up in here.
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