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| Do not, under any circumstance, post ridiculous sex stuff from sci fi! |
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17 | 21.52% |
| Okay, you can post weird sex stuff from sci fi, well-played! |
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Aesop Poprock posted:*tries to resist LoTR arguments that have existed for like 50 years, can’t* Frodo could have flown on the eagles though... Yeah, did someone actually argue about the eagles physically carrying the rings or was that just a strawman
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Nov 9, 2018 01:04
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Aesop Poprock posted:*tries to resist LoTR arguments that have existed for like 50 years, can’t* Frodo could have flown on the eagles though...
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Nov 9, 2018 01:04
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FactsAreUseless posted:It's only a plot hole if you're the kind of idiot who thinks everything in a story has to be some sort of explicit truth. If you take two seconds to think about the series' themes it's obvious that the eagles can't carry the ring for the same reason Tom Bombadil can't, or Gandalf, or Legolas. The eagles don't carry the ring ding dong they carry Frodo
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Nov 9, 2018 01:04
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FactsAreUseless posted:If you're the kind of person who gets annoyed by the eagles, go read Tom Clancy. Clancy makes sure to spell everything out in exhuasting technical detail. I like the Eagles I just think they’re jerks for not helping out more. Also they won the super bowl so clearly they were capable of it
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Nov 9, 2018 01:06
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There was that one book where the rat was a knight and there was a badger that was also a knight Rats and badgers cannot be knights
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Nov 9, 2018 01:08
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where the blue gently caress is grendels father
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Nov 9, 2018 01:10
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curlys gold posted:where the blue gently caress is grendels father he lives in andilusia where the skies are always fair. don't worry he sends wereglid to support grendel. sometimes
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Nov 9, 2018 01:12
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raton posted:The eagles don't carry the ring ding dong they carry Frodo Eagles carrying Ring Dings instead of the fellowship relying on lembas bread would have been a fun comic to include at the end of each book, ala fruit pies and superheroes.
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Nov 9, 2018 01:12
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raton posted:There was that one book where the rat was a knight and there was a badger that was also a knight Who was knighting these animals in the Redwall books? It obviously took place in the UK was the queen going around putting those little cocktail swords on a shrews shoulder? That seems like it’s making a mockery of the idea
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Nov 9, 2018 01:12
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El_Elegante posted:Eagles carrying Ring Dings instead of the fellowship relying on lembas bread would have been a fun comic to include at the end of each book, ala fruit pies and superheroes. I wish they would have taken huge shits on the wizard
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Nov 9, 2018 01:16
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Aesop Poprock posted:Who was knighting these animals in the Redwall books? It obviously took place in the UK was the queen going around putting those little cocktail swords on a shrews shoulder? That seems like it’s making a mockery of the idea
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Nov 9, 2018 01:26
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Here's a fun question: what was the religion that resulted in a mouse abbey?
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Nov 9, 2018 01:27
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the only good part of the entire Redwall series was when those two rats get captured and taken back to Redwall, one rat stays evil but the other becomes good and builds boats for the children to sail around the pond in i hated everything else about it, even as a kid, i think the only reason i read them was just to get to the end of the story
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Nov 9, 2018 01:29
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FactsAreUseless posted:Here's a fun question: what was the religion that resulted in a mouse abbey? Shrewdaism
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Nov 9, 2018 01:30
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Moles and rats do not go boating together. And toads cannot drive automobiles.
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Nov 9, 2018 02:20
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There is no elephant king. They live in matriarchal collectives, or alone. And they do not wear green gabardine suits.
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Nov 9, 2018 02:22
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T C C https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.fatherly.com/play/curious-george-ether/amp/
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Nov 9, 2018 02:59
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curlys gold posted:Shrewdaism ratholicism
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Nov 9, 2018 03:14
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raton posted:There was that one book where the rat was a knight and there was a badger that was also a knight my gf loves the red wall books. my biggest issue is how big is everything supposed to be because it changes from book to book. is it medieval animals in a Human sized world where everything is bigger then them or is everything there sized? gleebster posted:Moles and rats do not go boating together. And toads cannot drive automobiles. actualy. how the gently caress does that world work? like humans know about animals being people sized. idk. anyway. i mostly read these when i was a kid. https://www.greatillustratedclassics.com/illustrated-classics-great-illustrated-classics-s/45.htm Dapper_Swindler fucked around with this message at 04:20 on Nov 9, 2018 |
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Nov 9, 2018 04:15
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gleebster posted:There is no elephant king. They live in matriarchal collectives, or alone. And they do not wear green gabardine suits. Babar gets weird when you realise it's meant to be sanitised post-colonial Africa
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Nov 9, 2018 04:32
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Ghost Leviathan posted:Babar gets weird when you realise it's meant to be sanitised post-colonial Africa And isn't it kinda messed up how The Man in the Yellow Hat kidnaps Curious George from his home in Africa?
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Nov 9, 2018 04:51
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Edmund being successfully tempted by Turkish Delight when eating Turkish Delight is like biting into a slug that's just crawled through the contents of a reclusive duchess's dressing table.
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Nov 9, 2018 04:56
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ulex minor posted:Edmund being successfully tempted by Turkish Delight when eating Turkish Delight is like biting into a slug that's just crawled through the contents of a reclusive duchess's dressing table. candy wasn't as good back then. this is not immersion breaking
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Nov 9, 2018 05:02
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The average child of 7 weighs about 50 lbs, having 2 children jump on their overweight father's belly would be similar to having 100 lbs hitting you in the gut in rapid succession, which could result in internal bleeding. Anyone can imitate common sounds. Mr. Brown is completely unremarkable. Just because elephants have large ears doesn't mean they can hear microscopic organisms. Green food coloring does not effect the taste of food. Perhaps Joey abstains from ham and eggs due to religious, dietary, or moral reasons. Sam-I-Am should not be so unpleasantly self-assertive, and should know that setting or dining guests do not change a persons view on a certain type of food. I seriously doubt if this Seuss even has a doctorate.
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Nov 9, 2018 05:04
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Rutibex posted:candy wasn't as good back then. this is not immersion breaking Remember the Lion, Witch and the Wardrobe takes place in Britain in WW2, where even the mediocre candy was probably rationed to all hell
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Nov 9, 2018 05:05
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Linux Pirate posted:I seriously doubt if this Seuss even has a doctorate. neither does dre but nobody brings his qualificaitons into question even though his rhymes don't come close to the original dr
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Nov 9, 2018 05:07
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The White Dragon posted:neither does dre but nobody brings his qualificaitons into question even though his rhymes don't come close to the original dr Kinda unrelated but Dr. Seuss illustrated a slew of boner books and I think everyone should know. But yes Dr. Seuss does rule.
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Nov 9, 2018 05:30
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Aesop Poprock posted:Who was knighting these animals in the Redwall books? It obviously took place in the UK was the queen going around putting those little cocktail swords on a shrews shoulder? That seems like it’s making a mockery of the idea Actually it was probably the Norwegians.
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Nov 9, 2018 05:48
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Guys the eagles were too busy loving up t*m br*dy to fly the lil midgets
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Nov 9, 2018 07:01
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The White Dragon posted:
My mind is blown. I wonder how I came to read the original, considering it was revised well before I was born.
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Nov 9, 2018 08:57
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raton posted:In Narnia the lion talks but in real life lions can't talk. Maybe no-one ever asked them politely enough
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Nov 9, 2018 09:19
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Creamed Cormp posted:ratholicism They were mouselim.
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Nov 9, 2018 10:01
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Dapper_Swindler posted:anyway. i mostly read these when i was a kid. Looking at that link and seeing Aesops Fables reminds me of when I was at middle school and we did a project on them. The teacher got us to write our own, and we had to tell the rest of the class the title of the one we were going to write. I can still remember the look on the teachers face as each kid stated their title and they were all "How the Cow Learned to Sing" or "How the Dog Became Pope", as she became more and more resigned to the fact nobody had any idea how it worked. One particularly insightful, intelligent and promising student did come up with "How the Snake Lost its Legs", and got a bunch of "BUT SNAKES DON'T HAVE LEGS". Me, that was me, I was the smart one. I'm a complete legend, is what I'm saying. It's definitely when I peaked, though.
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Nov 9, 2018 10:29
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I got into Stephen King around 9 or 10, and read IT when I was 11 It was the first time I read a book with explicit sexual content and I just assumed the sex stuff in that book was “normal” for R rated fiction which sort of Fd my brain for a long time
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Nov 9, 2018 11:53
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Commie NedFlanders posted:I got into Stephen King around 9 or 10, and read IT when I was 11 Goddamn how do you let your brain become that affected by Stephen kings poo poo, his writing isn’t even that powerful. Like lol if you read that garbage and anything sticks, weak willed bitch baby might as well join a cult lol. 
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Nov 9, 2018 11:56
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ClamdestineBoyster posted:Goddamn how do you let your brain become that affected by Stephen kings poo poo, his writing isn’t even that powerful. Like lol if you read that garbage and anything sticks, weak willed bitch baby might as well join a cult lol. Before I hit puberty I thought Stephen king books were extremely cool and edgy bc they had cuss words also some were legitimate scary AF (the shining)
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Nov 9, 2018 12:06
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Commie NedFlanders posted:Before I hit puberty I thought Stephen king books were extremely cool and edgy bc they had cuss words also some were legitimate scary AF (the shining) Oh come on the guy spends the whole book telling you how it’s gonna be scary at the end and writing a psychological thesis on how it’s gonna be so scary for 30 chapters and then it’s like softcore horror at the end. It’s like trying to watch a humorless man write comedy but he can’t flesh out his own irony to fruition.
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Nov 9, 2018 12:16
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George's Marvellous Medicine: mix all of your household cleaning products together and trick your infirm grandmother into drinking it to get vengeance for her meanness. Then when the story ends with grandma shrinking and disappearing it is treated as a happy ending for George and even his father accepts it since "she was becoming a nuisance".
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Nov 9, 2018 13:31
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They've got the original Goosebumps live action show on netflix right now, and it is quite a thing to watch. The primary theme that R.L. Stine seemed to be trying to get across is that no matter what, no adult or authority figure is going to be on your side with anything in any situation. The first episode on there has an exchange where a girl is saying "the creepy librarian followed me home," and her parents are all "no he didn't, you're crazy." And then TWIST, turns out he totally did and they knew that, but he's a monster and they're monsters and they had to scare the other monster away so as to protect their monster turf. Nearly every other episode ends with a twist like that, if not a twist and then an additional "and also, they were aliens the whole time." It is truly wretched.
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Nov 9, 2018 13:42
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They're honestly right that adults and authority figures will not protect children from predators
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Nov 9, 2018 13:44
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