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Captain Trips is about to start sweeping through the United States (and, soon, through the world as soon as some government gently caress decides that the rest of the world should go down with us). 99% of the world will die from a superflu. I feel like we'd be even worse off than we were in the 90s. We are so dependent on ubiquitous internet that almost no one knows how to do anything without Wikipedia.
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god would now be real
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Mar 31, 2015 06:53
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I dunno OP I bought the eBook but I'm only on like page 580/1600 but book 1 was pretty good 
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Mar 31, 2015 06:57
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We sure as hell wouldn't call it Captain Trips, perhaps the most 70s name you could give to a nightmarish pestilence
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Mar 31, 2015 07:00
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Also those chapters where it was like "Timmy was immune but fell down a well" would be replaced with "Fatty fell off his hoverround and died of thirst, whilst blubbering around like a beached whale" repeated 20x with small variations
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Mar 31, 2015 07:03
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Wouldn't it get caught all the sooner? One camera phone/instagram from that first gas station stop and the news is out there.
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Mar 31, 2015 07:04
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The creepy goon would be largely unchanged except now he's got a fedora and bemoans the loss of his youtube channel while others mourn their families
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Mar 31, 2015 07:04
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i can't wait to fall in love with a devil woman and carry a printer for her to vegas
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Mar 31, 2015 07:05
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Scaramouche posted:Wouldn't it get caught all the sooner? One camera phone/instagram from that first gas station stop and the news is out there. One weird trick to not catch the Dissolve Into A Pile Of Mucous Plauge! Satan analogues hate him!
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Mar 31, 2015 07:05
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We're trying to rebuild civilization here, moving into these abandoned houses and whatnot, plus side is all the food that everyone stocked is still mostly good, bad news is each house has 2+ rotting carcassas that are 300 lbs+ that we really can't move, also there's a Satan out there making fun of us
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Mar 31, 2015 07:10
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There'd be more references to preppers and iPhones
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Mar 31, 2015 07:13
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The main character good guy would be an Iraq veteran with ptsd and a heart of gold
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Mar 31, 2015 07:16
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Given King's painfully naive understanding of modern technology, there'd be a chapter where, trying to conceal the news of the outbreak, the US military throw a big switch that turns the internet off. *"i don't care what's going on Harold, I asked you if you could fix it!", Fran snapped. Harold turned back to the monitor, pudgy fingers flickering over the keyboard. His forehead creased in frustration: "I don't get it", he finally admitted; "AOL: down. Yahoo: down. Something's taken out the entire network!"*
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Mar 31, 2015 07:21
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the cell is his scariest book because it deals with an old mans fears of modern technology
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Mar 31, 2015 07:22
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Dobber from Coach was in The Stand movie. Hes the voice of Patrick on sponge bob. I sat next to him at a bar in vegas.
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Pistol_Pete posted:Given King's painfully naive understanding of modern technology, there'd be a chapter where, trying to conceal the news of the outbreak, the US military throw a big switch that turns the internet off. M-O-O-N that spells iphone
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Mar 31, 2015 07:28
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Are the black people still magical? This is important.
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Mar 31, 2015 07:28
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There'd be a really weirdly inaccurate description of guns, like a Smith and Wesson automatic revolver that takes "clips" chambered in .42752 automatic and characters would be constantly "racking the charging handle" and "cocking the safety"
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Mar 31, 2015 07:29
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naem posted:There'd be a really weirdly inaccurate description of guns, like a Smith and Wesson automatic revolver that takes "clips" chambered in .42752 automatic and characters would be constantly "racking the charging handle" and "cocking the safety" Remember Net Force? :deepestFacePalm:
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Pistol_Pete posted:Given King's painfully naive understanding of modern technology, there'd be a chapter where, trying to conceal the news of the outbreak, the US military throw a big switch that turns the internet off. "The whole internet is down, but I can still get to Myspace on my phone! The military didn't think of that!"
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Doesn't matter what year it is, there's going to be a shitload of walking. Walking for chapter after chapter after loving chapter. And somebody has to get gutshot.
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Mar 31, 2015 07:34
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M O O N that spells bad posting.
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Mar 31, 2015 07:49
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he would have posted on a blog. probably about drugs and ducktales.
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Mar 31, 2015 07:56
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Rambling Robot posted:he would have posted on a blog. heh
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Mar 31, 2015 08:01
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Capitalism is saved by an ad-hoc bitcoin mesh network.
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Mar 31, 2015 08:05
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lots of people actually love satan now and he's not such a bad guy
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Mar 31, 2015 08:09
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Angela Christine posted:Capitalism is saved by an ad-hoc bitcoin mesh network. Now that filthy fiat is dead, bitcoin reigns supreme
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Mar 31, 2015 08:20
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I love to love nadine and buy her krispy kreme
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Recycling Bin Man
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Mar 31, 2015 09:23
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I wanted to go viral, but not like this! *Vomits up blood, dies and leaves a 3-year old to fend for themself*
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Mar 31, 2015 09:26
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i liked the part where randall flagg was doing backflips and poo poo over the corpse of a weed eater
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Mar 31, 2015 09:50
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i like this thread idea more like this pls goons
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Mar 31, 2015 10:20
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he would change the payday bar back to milky way bc whats a payday lol
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Mar 31, 2015 10:33
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statistically like half the cast would start off at a prison like lloyd
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Mar 31, 2015 10:35
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the trashcan man only knows how to start flamewars of a different kind and loses all relevance to the plot
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Mar 31, 2015 10:35
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larry makes electronic music and wears a giant foam cartoon head
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Mar 31, 2015 10:36
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pretty sweet posting iit
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Mar 31, 2015 10:43
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harold would be a goon
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Mar 31, 2015 10:51
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We'd get a lovely pop cover of Don't Fear the Reaper.
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randall flagg, dark man, would not wear a jean jacket. todays american bad boys are not mulleted blue collar billy joel fans who gently caress and do drugs. everybody fucks and does drugs and listens to billy joel now. the subtle allure of not doing what you're told exists only in unemployed full-time consumers of media, and music producer kanye west
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