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Apr 28, 2024 02:39
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Prof. Crocodile posted:what do you think about the lions taking cb's in the first and second rounds? I’m actually really happy with that because it’s better than gambling on overpromising offensive weapons. Also we got some monster dude in the 7th round or something that sounds dope so
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Apr 28, 2024 02:46
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ilovebeersooomuch posted:Hello 5kpt, just wanted to let you know Truly addicted to cat and dog.
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Apr 28, 2024 03:27
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I have so many cool Stephen King stories
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Apr 28, 2024 03:30
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redshirt posted:I have so many cool Stephen King stories yeah I've got like a whole shelf
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Apr 28, 2024 03:33
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TIP posted:yeah I've got like a whole shelf That short story of the surgeon who crashes on a desert island and ends up having to cut himself up and eat is awesome.
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Apr 28, 2024 03:35
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its my birthday on monday if everyone sends me ten bucks for my birthday i bet i can raise the remainder for a steamdeck
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Apr 28, 2024 03:44
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King's realistic fiction is some of his best stuff. And usually makes better movies.
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Apr 28, 2024 03:46
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Jimbone Tallshanks posted:King's realistic fiction is some of his best stuff. And usually makes better movies. Like "The Song of Susannah"
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Apr 28, 2024 03:47
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or Dreamcatcher
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Apr 28, 2024 03:47
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Like, am I character in some King stories? Maybe. It's real weird to consider.
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Apr 28, 2024 03:54
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i've never read anything by stephen king and my friends who have and know what I like to read tell me I probably wouldn't like most of his stuff or his general writing style 
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Apr 28, 2024 03:56
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redshirt posted:Like, am I character in some King stories? Maybe. It's real weird to consider.  
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Apr 28, 2024 03:58
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fartknocker posted:i've never read anything by stephen king and my friends who have and know what I like to read tell me I probably wouldn't like most of his stuff or his general writing style Wow, he's one of the most popular writers of the 20/21st century. You should read "The Gunslinger" imo. It's nice and short at like under 250 pages. Tight.
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Apr 28, 2024 04:01
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lol I haven't read it but I have no doubt King literally has a tap into my brain so this book is somehow my fault. Or something.
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Apr 28, 2024 04:02
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it's the wig snapping sis for me!
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Apr 28, 2024 04:07
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you should read The Mist and Returnal
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Apr 28, 2024 04:08
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SIDS Vicious posted:you should read The Mist and Returnal Have you read "The Regulators"?
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Apr 28, 2024 04:09
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I read The Mist not that long before the film came out and holy poo poo did that ending catch me by surprise.
Jimbone Tallshanks fucked around with this message at 04:24 on Apr 28, 2024 |
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Apr 28, 2024 04:17
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Btw, the pickle brined chicken was delicious
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Apr 28, 2024 04:23
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Stephen King's The Moist I'd read that
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Apr 28, 2024 04:26
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Jimbone Tallshanks posted:I read The Mist not that long before the film came out and holy poo poo did that ending catch me by surprise. Movie ending was better imho
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Apr 28, 2024 04:26
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redshirt posted:Wow, he's one of the most popular writers of the 20/21st century. hence the I know part of it is I generally don't care for horror (Books or movies), which automatically throws out a sizeable chunk of his stuff. My best friend, who is also an avid reader and very much knows the sort of stuff I like (Both general overall content and King's usual prose) has read a few of his books and pretty much said I'd hate them. Quick story regarding popular writers/stuff, I may have told this before: I was in elementary school when the Harry Potter books were coming out, just a bit younger than the characters were by the time the 4th book released. They were hugely popular, and apparently sensing that these were books that kids liked and wanted to read, the school pushed them hard, probably under the assumption that getting kids to read those books would get them into reading in general. The thing for me, even before the first book came out, is I was already reading normal books (Not strictly kids stuff) on my own and knew the topics and subjects I was interested in. I was a huge Star Wars fan and had already stumbled on to the old EU (My copy of Shadows of the Empire is old enough to rent a car), which had all sorts of stuff. I was also quickly becoming interested in military history, and our school was fairly new (It had opened in like 1990) so it had a very well stocked library of all sorts of stuff, like slightly-edited-for-children versions of stuff like Guadalcanal Diary or books on British Commandos in WWII. So, when given the choice between X-wings dogfighting TIE Fighters and the St. Nazaire Raid, or kids going to wizard school, them wizard kids could gently caress off. Same poo poo happened a few years later when we had to read the first Narnia books for a class, I had no interest in those dumb kids finding some half goat dude in a closet when I was already reading about the Black Sheep Squadron engaging in dogfights in the Solomon Islands or the history of the Apollo program or whatever I was personally interested in at the time. Of course, in middle school I went through almost all the Tom Clancy books, so it's not like I completely ignored "popular" authors, but the best of those books involved Soviet tanks get blown up or had cool movies based on them (And then the later books in the 90s got really, really insane, even to teenage me), which were things I was interested in.
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Apr 28, 2024 04:28
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it's my birthday today 
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Apr 28, 2024 04:28
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fartknocker posted:hence the oh drat really? woah
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Apr 28, 2024 04:28
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ilovebeersooomuch posted:Movie ending was better imho King himself said the same, or so I've read. Which isn't a surprise, his endings are often the weaker parts of his stories.
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Apr 28, 2024 04:28
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The first time I met Stephen King, formally, was right in front of a coffin, it's so perfect. At the time I was like "R U loving kidding me???"
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Apr 28, 2024 04:29
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redshirt posted:The first time I met Stephen King, formally, was right in front of a coffin, it's so perfect. At the time I was like "R U loving kidding me???" Oh poo poo that was the Stephen King cameo
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Apr 28, 2024 04:33
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Jimbone Tallshanks posted:Oh poo poo that was the Stephen King cameo Maybe. I don't even know. I might be a recurring King character. There's text evidence....
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Apr 28, 2024 04:36
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redshirt posted:Have you read "The Regulators"? yes and desperation alongside it, fantastic stuff he is so imaginative
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Apr 28, 2024 05:04
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ive read everything of his up to doctor sleep and the mr mercedes trilogy or whatever and i have copies of sleeping beauties and another one of his more recent books i just had a few bad brain years and couldnt sit and read a book at all so i gotta catch up
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Apr 28, 2024 05:05
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SIDS Vicious posted:yes and desperation alongside it, fantastic stuff he is so imaginative Yes! If you read The Regulators you also have to read Desperation!
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Apr 28, 2024 05:06
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I read desperation a while back and found it very readable, but also just so generically stephen king, felt like he hit so many familiar notes I was gonna say that's the newest king I've read but I guess it's older than I thought, came out in 96 but still, the only newer ones I've read are bag of bones, dreamcatcher, and cell I wasn't really crazy about any of those either, although dreamcatcher is kinda funny for the pure ridiculousness of stuff like mr gay and the shitweasels
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Apr 28, 2024 05:31
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TIP posted:mr gay and the shitweasels band name
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Apr 28, 2024 05:31
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TIP posted:I read desperation a while back and found it very readable, but also just so generically stephen king, felt like he hit so many familiar notes Did you read The Regulators? Desperation/The Regulators is a cool linked story.
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Apr 28, 2024 05:39
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I am at this place in my life where I'm not 100% sure what I want to do next. If anyone older than me hears this they start telling me what I need to do. Some people have given me advice that has been valuable to me and given me something to think about, but if they're like 5 years older or more it's all I need to do what they're doing in no uncertain terms. A lot of times it's that I should get into tech and how I "don't want to" work for a Japanese company. I get the criticisms of Japanese companies, but I don't know that they're really any worse than most American companies at this point. It's not the 80's or 90's anymore. That said, yeah. There's hosed up stuff. But working with a bunch of expats in the tech industry sounds like a special kind of Hell. I don't know what I'm doing next, but I have time. I've gotten some advice and insights that I've found helpful, but Jesus Christ. I hate that whole railroading thing.
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Apr 28, 2024 05:41
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y'all keep saying "regulators"
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Apr 28, 2024 05:45
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redshirt posted:Did you read The Regulators? I... think I did? I have no memories of the plot but I remember the covers next to each other and thinking "wow the artist really gave up" lol  yes I know the original releases had more interesting art that combined into one piece
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Apr 28, 2024 05:48
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DorkusMalorkus posted:y'all keep saying "regulators" *M'lady *tips Fedora
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Apr 28, 2024 05:50
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Having chevre on toast with an egg over easy babyyyy
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