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With Eragon, you could read Dune or any number of fantasy books that the author blatantly copied, and they'd probably be more interesting.
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It pisses me off that people let such a blatant ripoff of Akira Kurosawa's The Hidden Fortress stand
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The Vosgian Beast posted:Goosebumps My guess is Christopher Pike, like the one where the twist is that they're all lizard people, because drat
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Aug 20, 2017 15:54
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Ironic Twist posted:My guess is Christopher Pike, like the one where the twist is that they're all lizard people, because drat Is that the one about Creeps or whatever that's told in second person?
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Aug 20, 2017 17:52
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Whatever it is, it shouldn't be too much longer before we find out.
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Aug 20, 2017 21:37
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Heath posted:Is that the one about Creeps or whatever that's told in second person? No, that was Scavenger Hunt.
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Aug 20, 2017 21:59
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X-Ray Pecs posted:With Eragon, you could read Dune or any number of fantasy books that the author blatantly copied, and they'd probably be more interesting. Dune is more interesting than most things tbh
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Aug 21, 2017 17:52
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Oh man, I loved that blaster master book when I was a kid  Gonna be tough to get an hour out of it, it's only like 100 pages long.
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I read the novelization of Sonic the Hedgehog once where it turns out Sonic's origin story is that he used to be brown and slow, and then science, which turned Robotnik evil and made Sonic blue. He ran around a lot and his uncle made better shoes for him.
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Aug 22, 2017 02:59
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Heath posted:I read the novelization of Sonic the Hedgehog once where it turns out Sonic's origin story is that he used to be brown and slow, and then science, which turned Robotnik evil and made Sonic blue. He ran around a lot and his uncle made better shoes for him. I think that's just the plot of those bad archie sonic comics
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Aug 22, 2017 03:09
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laughing at this chat about the version differences
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Aug 22, 2017 03:45
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A Pinball Wizard posted:Oh man, I loved that blaster master book when I was a kid That Blaster Master remake that came out a little while back incorporated aspects of this book into the story https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V6hPZ_5cSbc
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Aug 22, 2017 04:04
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Heath posted:I read the novelization of Sonic the Hedgehog once where it turns out Sonic's origin story is that he used to be brown and slow, and then science, which turned Robotnik evil and made Sonic blue. He ran around a lot and his uncle made better shoes for him. The backstory of the Gex games involves his dad's death in a spaceship explosion, infantilizing depression, and NASA being disbanded and Australia being bought wholesale. This is only present in the first game's manual and the novelization. It exists only to set up why Gex owns a big-screen TV in the first games opening cutscene, and does nothing to set up the game's world and conceit.
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Aug 22, 2017 04:47
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I never realized how much I wanted to read a kid-lit adaptation of Metal Gear before.
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Aug 22, 2017 09:25
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Someone actually read from the Metal Gear Worlds of Power book way back when they had the reading terrible garbage contest. It's much as you'd expect. I'm pretty sure one of the recommended reads for it was All Quiet on the Western Front, too.
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I found the Blaster Master pastebin: https://pastebin.com/bUrvPcAu 'Transcribed, revised, & expanded by Andrew L. Modeen.' also there are 2 more WoP books on youtube: Metal Gear Mega Man 2 (read by James Rolfe aka AVGN)
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Heath posted:I read the novelization of Sonic the Hedgehog once where it turns out Sonic's origin story is that he used to be brown and slow, and then science, which turned Robotnik evil and made Sonic blue. He ran around a lot and his uncle made better shoes for him. What color were his arms though?
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Aug 24, 2017 08:35
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I don't know how new this is, but I noticed they have added a new reward on their patreon where you can get the copy of the book they did an episode of. So if you want to own J's copy of Night Of The Crabs, here's your chance.
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http://www.idontevenownatelevision.com/2017/09/04/089-a-million-little-pieces-w-lauren-parker/ oh god this is going to be delectable
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Oh boy, I worked in a bookstore while this was on the Oprah bookclub list and it was horrible. People clamoring for this awful book, for several months, and then nearly every one getting returned after the fraud became news. Total waste of everybody's time and energy.
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Sep 4, 2017 22:37
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I only know about the book because of my high school using it as an example of plagiarism lol
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Sep 5, 2017 00:14
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It wasn't plagiarism so much as just embellishing or straight up lying, was it? (Haven't heard the ep yet)
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Improbable Lobster posted:I only know about the book because of my high school using it as an example of plagiarism lol ed: tab open too long 
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Sep 5, 2017 01:38
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Maybe not plagiarism but it was used as an example of what not to do, I remember that much
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Sham bam bamina! posted:It's fraudulent, but as far as I know, it isn't plagiarized. It was about 90% plagiarized. I remember a piece from a now-dead website which found the original book, it was a hardcore scene dude's bio. It was ripping into Frey's story and going "how did nobody figure this out sooner?" based on a lot of the details he poorly sanitized to make it more "acceptable". I just recall a screaming paragraph about "Glue? Only white trash and poors too loving broke to get a first hit of something or without anyone to steal from turn to GLUE as their big addiction, rich boy here woulda had whatever he wanted if he just asked a dude."
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Sep 5, 2017 03:23
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There's something amusing about a wrestling fan throwing insults at boxing fans but I really Don't Want to Go There.
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Sep 5, 2017 04:17
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I can't listen to this show anymore, collision's gimmick has bled from "hahah I'm insufferable *wink*" to "no this is who I actually am, I don't need to couch it in pretend now"
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Ugh, it's not just me, then. JW's as personable as ever, but between Chris and Lauren, I spent the entire episode torn between wanting to hear people rip into a lovely book and wishing to God that it could be anyone besides the inhumanly smug assholes that I was hearing.Vincent Van Goatse posted:There's something amusing about a wrestling fan throwing insults at boxing fans but I really Don't Want to Go There. Sham bam bamina! fucked around with this message at 06:54 on Sep 5, 2017 |
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Sep 5, 2017 06:50
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I honestly don't give a flying gently caress about either wrestling or boxing and I find a fan of one (assuming JW wrote the episode description) being dismissive of the other amusing. The end, no moral.
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Sham bam bamina! posted:Ugh, it's not just me, then. JW's as personable as ever, but between Chris and Lauren, I spent the entire episode torn between wanting to hear people rip into a lovely book and wishing to God that it could be anyone besides the inhumanly smug assholes that I was hearing. Yeah I love JW, he has that dorky enthusiasm that makes me want to keep listening. Every time Chris talks lately I can almost see the sneer on his face
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What makes it so galling is how nakedly hypocritical it all is. The overall tone of the episode is how much better they understand themselves to be than Frey, and while that's probably true because he's a shithead, what they gloat most over is how rich and white he is. And I just want to yell in their faces, "Hello?!" Like a creative writing major who can support herself with "word art" doesn't already have the confidence and the exact goddamn lifestyle of the "mediocre white guy" on her shirt. gently caress you.
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Sep 5, 2017 09:30
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Hunh, I prefer Chris. No real reason why. I wish they'd do more classical lit, too, while I'm posting in here.
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Fleta Mcgurn posted:Hunh, I prefer Chris. No real reason why. What classic lit episodes have they done? I'd rather not have them try to take A Pilgrim's Progress or something down a few pegs if that's what you're suggesting.
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Drunkboxer posted:What classic lit episodes have they done? I'd rather not have them try to take A Pilgrim's Progress or something down a few pegs if that's what you're suggesting. I don't know, it might be pretty funny to hear them do Pilgrim's Progress. I was thinking today that I'd enjoy how angry Tess of the d'Urbervilles would make them.
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Sham bam bamina! posted:What makes it so galling is how nakedly hypocritical it all is. The overall tone of the episode is how much better they understand themselves to be than Frey, and while that's probably true because he's a shithead, what they gloat most over is how rich and white he is. And I just want to yell in their faces, "Hello?!" Like a creative writing major who can support herself with "word art" doesn't already have the confidence and the exact goddamn lifestyle of the "mediocre white guy" on her shirt. gently caress you. Yeah, Lauren Parker is pretty awful.
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Fleta Mcgurn posted:I don't know, it might be pretty funny to hear them do Pilgrim's Progress. I was thinking today that I'd enjoy how angry Tess of the d'Urbervilles would make them. I heard enough complaining about that in the 9th grade. I don't want more.
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Sham bam bamina! posted:What makes it so galling is how nakedly hypocritical it all is. The overall tone of the episode is how much better they understand themselves to be than Frey, and while that's probably true because he's a shithead, what they gloat most over is how rich and white he is. And I just want to yell in their faces, "Hello?!" Like a creative writing major who can support herself with "word art" doesn't already have the confidence and the exact goddamn lifestyle of the "mediocre white guy" on her shirt. gently caress you. Lauren Parker doesn't strike me as exceptionally privileged like James Frey does. Looking at her patreon, it doesn't look like she can support herself on word art either. Are you gonna complain about Collision only reccomending books by women next?
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I'll hazard a guess that Lauren has an income besides her Patreon. Neither podcasters nor authors have to be James Frey to be bourgeois, and this entire podcast is as bourgeois as the generalized targets of Chris's and Lauren's disdain. "Thank God I'm not like them," is an awful credo in any case, but it's especially cretinous when you literally are "them".
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Sep 5, 2017 18:33
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Sham bam bamina! posted:I'll hazard a guess that Lauren has an income besides her Patreon. Neither podcasters nor authors have to be James Frey to be bourgeois, and this entire podcast is incredibly bourgeois. "Thank God I'm not like them," is an awful credo (and they've certainly made it their credo) in any case, but it's especially cretinous when you literally are "them". Collision posted a photo of himself on his Twitter once and at least one of the replies was "ugh look at this white guy chode" because he looks exactly like the kind of guy they make fun of
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Man as someone who's been on record as getting annoyed when they go all Californian holier-than-thou, this episode did not bother me at all. I just really liked Collision reading that stupid passage about the beaver while Lose Yourself played
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