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Inzombiac posted:...kid's book? Lots of “kids” books delve into some really screwed up poo poo. I remember reading The Chocolate War in middle school and there’s a part where it intricately describes one of the characters jerkin’ it while making out with his thirteen year old girlfriend. Some people see that kind of gross poo poo in a book and think “wow! they put this gross crap into prose, how deep!” See also: most science fiction
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Sulla-Marius 88 posted:I think they meant adult children 
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CaptainViolence posted:literally every excerpt i've ever seen reads exactly as if someone who hated the book wrote a parody of it. it mangles my mind that something so poorly written has any hype at all. it somehow makes me miss when twilight was huge, and that makes me quietly contemplate what the sweet release of death will finally feel like I honest to God thought the masturbation part was made up until I found it in the book.
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Xenoborg posted:So Ready Player One is basically the Big Bang Theory for gamers?
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Killed By Death posted:It's the Big Bang Theory for 80s pop culture as a whole, not just games. It takes place in a VR game, but only because that was the easiest way the author could think up to justify having Godzilla, the entire cast of Ghostbusters, the Predator, the Ninja Turtles etc. all come in for a HUGE party. https://twitter.com/kthorjensen/status/971151760629747712
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Pookah posted:Does crack make you look like that? I was going to say meth, but given his 80s fixation, crack seems more likely. Nah, coke or speed
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Flyball posted:Nah, coke or speed Bah, I was going to say speed but wanted that cool '80s vibe In other news, I think my dog just saw a ghost  
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Pookah posted:In other news, I think my dog just saw a ghost looks more like your dog IS a ghost
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Pookah posted:Bah, I was going to say speed but wanted that cool '80s vibe The ghost of Bob Marley  
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Lots of people salty ITT bout not thinking of writing Ready Player One first. I am one of them.  I wrote a book once. It's worse than RP1 and my mom has the only physical copy. She loved it. Edit: the book. Not whatever you did to her last night. Her toes still hurt, rear end in a top hat.
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CaptainViolence posted:literally every excerpt i've ever seen reads exactly as if someone who hated the book wrote a parody of it. it mangles my mind that something so poorly written has any hype at all. it somehow makes me miss when twilight was huge, and that makes me quietly contemplate what the sweet release of death will finally feel like If I've learned anything from these last ten years of my life, it's that you can never lose money by underestimating the quality of work that people are willing to consume. I feel that you can write a book where every sentence is no more than ten words long using only words you learn in elementary school and it will sell millions so long as you put enough references into it. Watch out for my next book: Monster Island Romance, where a gamer is sent to a world populated by hot monster ladies and has sex with all of them because they are extremely turned on by his ability to quote game, movie, and science trivia at them. It will sell billions
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Kit Walker posted:Watch out for my next book: Monster Island Romance, where a gamer is sent to a world populated by hot monster ladies and has sex with all of them because they are extremely turned on by his ability to quote game, movie, and science trivia at them. It will sell billions I'm almost 100% certain that this is already an anime.
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Kit Walker posted:If I've learned anything from these last ten years of my life, it's that you can never lose money by underestimating the quality of work that people are willing to consume.
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My Lovely Horse posted:You'll attempt to write the great American novel, and support yourself in ways not of your choosing. Hopefully sooner rather than later you'll crack open a book that is older than Coca-Cola and realize that here under the sun, there is nothing new left to be written. Once you recover, you can just rattle off whatever you like and sell it by the pound. will i at least get to shower with a band
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Pookah posted:Bah, I was going to say speed but wanted that cool '80s vibe I think he was possessed by a ghost and you managed to get a picture of the moment the ghost left his/her body. SpacePig posted:I'm almost 100% certain that this is already an anime. The F-plus did an episode on a game with a similar plot, just without the 80's pop culture references.
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World War Mammories posted:will i at least get to shower with a band Get in on nu-metal nostalgia now, that would make a great novel. Throw in some warped tour “punk” while you’re at it.
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The Bananana posted:Im stealing this https://twitter.com/Daanieltran/status/950096964821114881?s=20
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Kit Walker posted:If I've learned anything from these last ten years of my life, it's that you can never lose money by underestimating the quality of work that people are willing to consume. I feel that you can write a book where every sentence is no more than ten words long using only words you learn in elementary school and it will sell millions so long as you put enough references into it. Watch out for my next book: Monster Island Romance, where a gamer is sent to a world populated by hot monster ladies and has sex with all of them because they are extremely turned on by his ability to quote game, movie, and science trivia at them. It will sell billions what's your kickstarter
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Has Gilbert Gottfried made a recording of RPO yet?
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Ready Player One isn't high art or good science fiction, and it didn't seem like it was really intended as such either. It was fine light read to see what all the hype was about, entertaining like a Donald Duck comic would be.
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doverhog posted:Ready Player One isn't high art or good science fiction, and it didn't seem like it was really intended as such either. It was fine light read to see what all the hype was about, entertaining like a Donald Duck comic would be. Along with being really bad, it also has transphobic, homophobic, and racist behavior on the part of the protagonist (and in some ways the author) that never gets addressed or viewed as a bad thing.
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Donald Duck comics taught me that with enough Ping Pong balls, you could raise a sunken ship. All Gamemaster Anthony's Birthday taught me is to delete all nerds. Just to prove the former: https://www.articleonepartners.com/blog/donald-duck-patents-and-ping-pong-balls/
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SomeJazzyRat posted:Donald Duck comics taught me that with enough Ping Pong balls, you could raise a sunken ship. All doverhog knows of Donald Duck is Ducktales.
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Milo and POTUS posted:Why women like cats more. A dog would just use its teeth No. Just no. Cat tongue is like scratchy velcro hooks.  
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doverhog posted:Ready Player One isn't high art or good science fiction, and it didn't seem like it was really intended as such either. It was fine light read to see what all the hype was about, entertaining like a Donald Duck comic would be. How dare you dishonor Carl Barks' memory with this comparison.
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Ccs posted:How dare you dishonor Carl Barks' memory with this comparison. All the good Donald Duck stories were written by Italians though.
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Dang, you're right. Can't rob a thief.
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chitoryu12 posted:Along with being really bad, it also has transphobic, homophobic, and racist behavior on the part of the protagonist (and in some ways the author) that never gets addressed or viewed as a bad thing. Guess I should go read the thread in GBS about this for more on that point. I didn't mean the classic Barks stuff, but rather the worn out books by whoever wrote the weekly? issues my cousin had laying around on his floor when I was a kid. Some Italian I guess.
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TotalLossBrain posted:what's your kickstarter  https://www.patreon.com/monstergirlisland$444k a year 
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It troubles me that there are people who are so horny that they will give away $5 on average to something that doesn't exist.
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china bot posted:this dude makes close to my yearly salary in a month But think of the insane requests and unsolicited wank material they get sent from fans/supporters.
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Zil posted:But think of the insane requests and unsolicited wank material they get sent from fans/supporters. Sure, but I don’t think those Patreon numbers include the value of those in-kind payments.
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Why pay for porn when you can instead pay for the promise of maybe getting porn in the future?
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I would buy that t shirt in a heartbeat..
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Elysiume posted:Why pay for porn when you can instead pay for the promise of maybe getting porn in the future? I'm just assuming anyone who thinks it's OK light reading is severely autistic and would also consider The Legend of the 10 Elemental Masters OK light reading. e: I'm pretty sure this is not what I meant to quote but 
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Jerry Cotton posted:I'm just assuming anyone who thinks it's OK light reading is severely autistic and would also consider The Legend of the 10 Elemental Masters OK light reading. Sure, I'll be autistic for you. What will you be? Wanna talk some more about Donald Duck? It was always best read on the shitter, imo.
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