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jeeves posted:Just drink it in, it is part of the charm. They're your friends, doing a bit. It's fine. 
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Aug 18, 2023 20:47
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It's me, the guy who likes their cheesy skits. I'm part of the problem. 
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Aug 19, 2023 00:30
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jeeves posted:Just drink it in, it is part of the charm. It's not charming at all though.
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Aug 19, 2023 00:41
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Just a reminder that there are people who out there that hate the host sketch segments of MST3K
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jeeves posted:Just a reminder that there are people who out there that hate the host sketch segments of MST3K Those rarely ran themselves into the ground with the regularity of the 372 sketches. Also they didn't come with several minutes of painfully-forced introductory improv playing up some dumb conceit.
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Aug 19, 2023 02:15
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Poll for the next book is up on the patreon and the options are The Missus Redshirts and The Adventures of the Teen Archaeologists by Larry and Denise. You can guess which is winning.
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Sep 13, 2023 18:39
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I read Redshirts like 10 years ago or whatever and remember thinking "wtf why do people like this?" It's the most like Ready Player One of the options, but of course I can see Teen Archaeologists winning! I can't wait for Dogstar to be over, as I am seriously unable to pay attention to this stupid story. jeeves fucked around with this message at 19:42 on Sep 13, 2023 |
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Sep 13, 2023 19:38
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It is over, and yeah, it was a little weak. Outside of the bizarre premise and authoritarian dog takeover, nothing much seemed to happen, and the prose itself was competent enough that there wasn't enough to mock. The Mr. was one of the funniest they read so I'm fine with them revisiting a crowdpleaser. Mordja fucked around with this message at 21:02 on Sep 13, 2023 |
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Sep 13, 2023 20:14
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jeeves posted:I can't wait for Dogstar to be over, as I am seriously unable to pay attention to this stupid story. Hey! Oh.
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Sep 13, 2023 21:55
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I want Larry and Denise to win because I loved Antigua so much but if The Missus wins I think it will be the first of these books I read along with.
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Sep 14, 2023 00:57
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jeeves posted:I read Redshirts like 10 years ago or whatever and remember thinking "wtf why do people like this?" I hope Redshirts wins, Sclazi is a very Clineian writer and what I've read of his works really turned me off very quickly.
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Sep 14, 2023 01:07
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MassRafTer posted:I want Larry and Denise to win because I loved Antigua so much but if The Missus wins I think it will be the first of these books I read along with. I actually ordered a used copy of Redshirts just in case it wins so I can read along. I spent some time reading every Hugo Award winner and it won the year after I finished that project and I wasn't too interested in going on with it then. It's not like many of the other books for the podcast where if I read along I'd want to throw the book out afterward.
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Sep 14, 2023 01:30
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RedShirts is not as bad as like actual creepy Cline stuff, but it’s definitely not good. However I think like Wil Wheaton did the audiobook, just like in ready player one. Never a good sign.
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Sep 14, 2023 01:40
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When I looked at the patreon poll earlier today, Teen Archaeologists was winning with a healthy margin, but all 3 books were at 30-something%. I hope they get to all three of these at some point. Really good choices.
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Breadallelogram posted:When I looked at the patreon poll earlier today, Teen Archaeologists was winning with a healthy margin, but all 3 books were at 30-something%. I hope they get to all three of these at some point. Really good choices. Given how The Missus and Teen Archeologists are by two returning champion 372 fan favorite authors, I can't help but see them each getting done at some point no matter which one wins the poll. The only one that's up in the air is Redshirts, which probably just needs more people to sell Mike and Connor on how easily Sclazi slides into a trifecta with Cline and Weir in terms of unearned nerd bravado cringe poo poo writing.
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I just want another TekWar, said the robot pimp disdainfully. Fezz fucked around with this message at 06:27 on Sep 14, 2023 |
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Sep 14, 2023 04:48
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Fezz posted:I just want another TekWar, said the robot pump disdainfully. Them not going back to Tek or Titus Uno makes me sad.
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MassRafTer posted:Them not going back to Tek or Titus Uno makes me sad. And I can sort of see why. Unless there's some real bangers of bonkersness in the other Titus Uno books, you kind of get everything you need to know about the series in 64 Squares, and doing two or more Titus Unos would just be insufferable because of all the auto-complete repetition. Not going back and finishing the Tek series though is a loving sin. I need to know how many more meetings about Sonny Hokori there are in the books before Sonny Hokori actually finally shows up.
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nine-gear crow posted:And I can sort of see why. Unless there's some real bangers of bonkersness in the other Titus Uno books, you kind of get everything you need to know about the series in 64 Squares, and doing two or more Titus Unos would just be insufferable because of all the auto-complete repetition. Not going back and finishing the Tek series though is a loving sin. I need to know how many more meetings about Sonny Hokori there are in the books before Sonny Hokori actually finally shows up. Them getting mad about cut and paste was really funny and some of the other Titus Uno plots sounded really funny. Who's the Sheriff of 64 Squares is also one of the running gags that actually makes me laugh.
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I think the simple fact that they would know what insanity to expect going into a sequel to something they’ve already covered kind of ruins it for them.
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jeeves posted:I think the simple fact that they would know what insanity to expect going into a sequel to something they’ve already covered kind of ruins it for them. Then they wouldn't want to go back to EL James or Ernest or any of these incredibly repetitive writers.
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I think they’re cursed to read whatever drivel Cline shits out next due to the original premise of the show. I don’t think they’ve done any other author twice otherwise yet?
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I'd be down for more Tekwar but iirc the novels are more of the same they kill off Beth Kittridge in the 4th book and Jake's son becomes a major character. I can't remember when I stopped reading them but I know I didn't read them all The trick of finding older bad novels that are weird, not boring, and not rapey is harder than you'd think
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Lair of the White Worm is one of my favorites just for how much of a nothing story it is. The mongoose and the kite just kill me every time.
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jeeves posted:I think they’re cursed to read whatever drivel Cline shits out next due to the original premise of the show. I don’t think they’ve done any other author twice otherwise yet? I would buy this if the next book wasn't a repeat author and one of the other options in the poll another repeat they basically said they'd be doing in the future either way.
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MassRafTer posted:I would buy this if the next book wasn't a repeat author and one of the other options in the poll another repeat they basically said they'd be doing in the future either way. I was also gonna say that most of the 372 Pages library of authors don't really have follow-on books that could be explored, but no, actually, it seems like it's just Jim Theis, Charles E. Harris, and whoever the gently caress wrote My Immortal. Because even Amanda McKittrick Ros had two other novels to her name after Irene Irene Iddesleigh, somehow.
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I don't think Tyra Banks has any other (fiction) books; I'm sure she has a memoir/self-help or something, though probably not the same author as Modelland.
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Kangra posted:I don't think Tyra Banks has any other (fiction) books; I'm sure she has a memoir/self-help or something, though probably not the same author as Modelland. Yeah, she (and by that I mean whoever ghostwrote Modelland for her)'s another one who's a one-and-done for them too. Bram Stoker's kind of off the table because Lair of the White Worm was his only dud. And I don't really see them going back and doing anything else from either Stephanie Meyer or Dan Brown because just like Cline, they have one style of writing and every book is basically the same for them, so there's nothing really interesting to dig into there from the rest of their repertoires. At least EL James is such a batshit trainwreck of an author (and a person) that The Missus is worth a look at.
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https://372pages.com/ep-151-the-adventures-of-the-teen-archeologists-intro It's Teen Archeologists time, bay-be! How many loving repeated sentences are gonna be in Larry and Denise's lesser known opus THIS time?
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nine-gear crow posted:https://372pages.com/ep-151-the-adventures-of-the-teen-archeologists-intro The first episode is up on the patreon and the first few chapters being set in "reality" makes their style even weirder than Antigua.
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Mordja posted:Very glad to have Larry & Denise back Always exciting when the way to find the real entries in Real or Fanfic is to pick the ones that are too stupid to be fanfic.
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Mordja posted:Very glad to have Larry & Denise back I love that all their old staples are back with them: characters who all hate each other, endless simplistic repetition of ideas, not understanding basic geography, history or culture, and just piling on way too many characters than you could ever be expected to remember or give a poo poo about like they're just clowns spilling out of a clown car. I'm halfway through Episode 1 right now and it's like, okay there's the three main teens, then two more join them because they're the kids of the family friend/local guide, that seems reasonable, five's a decent number for a group dynamic--AND THEN TWO RANDOM KIDS JOIN THEM OFF THE STREET FOR NO REASON! And they're basically just carbon copies of the first two additions. And I expect there's gonna be like five more teens joining them when they get to the lost civilization, in addition to the two or three whole characters that are in the prologue that just do nothing, and then disappear for the rest of the book. I'm really starting to buy the theory that these books are just the published result of an editing war between Larry and Denise.
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I bit on the same Real or Fan Fic that Mike bit on and got laughed at for in the latest episode.
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Denise: You what's better than eight main characters, Larry? Larry: [sips a big margarita] Ssssssfukkin EIGHTY MAIN CHARACTERS! *belch* E: Like, for real, I'm actually kind of impressed by the Ellises' inability to understand what a protagonist is so they just wander in and out of viewpoints like a car drunkenly swerving all over the road. To the point where the alleged main character(s) just disappear from the story for hundreds of pages at a time because they get wrapped up in ten different minor characters' interlinking bullshit and they just loving forget who they were supposed to even be writing about in the first place. At least with Antigua you could realistically say the main character was supposed to be Rebecca, even though she's in like 1/10th of the book. I honestly could not tell you who the main character of Teen Archeologists is even if you put a gun to my head. nine-gear crow fucked around with this message at 07:59 on Nov 28, 2023 |
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I forgot I ordered a copy of the Super Constitution Remix "How to Revive the Middle Class" so yesterday I open my mailbox to find a package from Top Wholesale Jewel that felt like a book was inside and I was really confused.
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I'm a bit behind on this, so just finished Teen Archaeologists. I only realized after listening to the entirety of the third episode that I had completely missed the second episode. Having a completely new set of characters and situations was completely unsurprising to me; about all I noticed was that Mike & Conor seemed to be more familiar with Isabella than I would've thought, but I chalked it down to them having actually read the book.MassRafTer posted:I forgot I ordered a copy of the Super Constitution Remix "How to Revive the Middle Class" so yesterday I open my mailbox to find a package from Top Wholesale Jewel that felt like a book was inside and I was really confused. But was it signed by the author himself?
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Kangra posted:I'm a bit behind on this, so just finished Teen Archaeologists. I only realized after listening to the entirety of the third episode that I had completely missed the second episode. Having a completely new set of characters and situations was completely unsurprising to me; about all I noticed was that Mike & Conor seemed to be more familiar with Isabella than I would've thought, but I chalked it down to them having actually read the book. It was! You, and everyone on the free feed are in for a treat when the next episode comes out.
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