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indigi posted:yeah his translator is top loving notch I wish the same person had done the Strugatsky brothers because for some reason my copy of Monday Starts on Saturday is impenetrable. Roadside Picnic is alright but still has some of the weird style that probably works better in the source language
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I feel like we live in enlightened enough times that we can just apply the term "Mary Sue" directly to a male character without it being a big deal.
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Doom Mathematic posted:I feel like we live in enlightened enough times that we can just apply the term "Mary Sue" directly to a male character without it being a big deal. the term you want is "self insert"
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I just think gary sue is a good pun
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well I need a new book to read. what’s good
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Silver Alicorn posted:well I need a new book to read. what’s good
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I don’t know why they bothered inventing mary sues when Jubal Harshaw was already there
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Silver Alicorn posted:well I need a new book to read. what’s good read some terry pratchett
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qirex posted:I just think gary sue is a good pun alt, gary stu
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qirex posted:I just think gary sue is a good pun yeah like it's 2020, women jack off now too but calling it "jilling off" is more fun
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SmokaDustbowl posted:I got my pawn shop playstation 2 out and I'm playing the original Yakuza. it's fun to play the very first kiryu
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H.P. Hovercraft posted:yeah like it's 2020, women jack off now too
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Nov 25, 2020 03:25
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Kenny Logins posted:honking off is better and all-inclusive honking off implies the production of ejacula because to honk is to vomit
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Kenny Logins posted:honking off is better and all-inclusive it also includes clowns
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H.P. Hovercraft posted:honking off implies the production of ejacula 
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Silver Alicorn posted:well I need a new book to read. what’s good latest stormlight archive came out what do you want, i can recommend a lot of trash fantasy
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Nov 25, 2020 03:39
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BaldDwarfOnPCP posted:sort of related from another thread someone suggested verhoeven should have come out of retirement to make the movie instead of that hack spielberg this would have been amazing
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one of the things i really like twitter for is following book people and authors and getting recommendations. i've been really enjoying Rebecca Roanhorses stuff. she has a modern/urbanish fantasy series about a post-apocalyptical world set in the navajo reservation (which escaped in many ways unscathed). she's also got a new one out called black sun, which takes place in a fantasy realm based on pre-columbian mesoamerica. i've not gotten very far into it yet.
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Kenny Logins posted:i keep meaning to fire up yakuza 0 and play through to kiwami yakuza 1 is so good and holds up. I was just healing kiryu by eating burgers, and as soon as i left smile burger I got attacked. are these dudes really gonna fight the giant yakuza who just ate 4 borgars and a fish delight?
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SmokaDustbowl posted:yakuza 1 is so good and holds up. if my nunchucku doesnt get him surely the arteriosclerosis will
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SmokaDustbowl posted:yakuza 1 is so good and holds up.
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Kenny Logins posted:i’ve only played yakuza 3 but it was one of my favorite games on ps3. i have 0 and kiwami (ps4 versions) and 4+5 (ps3 ps+ and also psnow) and one of these days i’m just going to sit down and plow through them 0 is so good, I really like beat em ups with upgrade systems
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H.P. Hovercraft posted:honking off implies the production of ejacula when i was maybe 11 years old and kind of hazy on all the sex acts and terminology i remember joking that one of our creepy older teachers was probably "knocking up little boys in the back of the church" fortunately all my friends were also 11 and just laughed and nodded, oh totally, he's definitely doing that
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SmokaDustbowl posted:read some terry pratchett I already read them all mediaphage posted:she's also got a new one out called black sun, which takes place in a fantasy realm based on pre-columbian mesoamerica. i've not gotten very far into it yet. gonna check this out Xaris posted:latest stormlight archive came out hit me. there’s too much fantasy for me to pick. I recently really liked the Raven Tower
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Silver Alicorn posted:I already read them all same but it's still good
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indigi posted:eh at least his heart’s in the right place regarding gender stuff meanwhile his nerd porn post where he objectifies harder than ever remains BaldDwarfOnPCP posted:sort of related from another thread someone suggested verhoeven should have come out of retirement to make the movie instead of that hack spielberg that would have been a loving perfect take on the material. im a bit mad thinking about how good it could have been SmokaDustbowl posted:the term you want is "self insert" having read rp1 the term is ouro-bore-os because ernest is definitely up his own rear end
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Silver Alicorn posted:hit me. there’s too much fantasy for me to pick. I recently really liked the Raven Tower
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Bhodi posted:red sister 
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indigi posted:yeah his translator is top loving notch what translations are you reading? i picked up solaris at a thrift store and when i tried reading it the translation seemed like something was missing i was also strung out on opiates at the time so that may not have helped
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yo mediaphage id never heard of Rebecca roanhorse but that sounds right up my alley, thanks for the rec!
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I couldn’t finish name of the wind, and I’m so glad I didn’t waste my time
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Silver Alicorn posted:there’s too much fantasy for me to pick. I recently really liked the Raven Tower raven tower is easily one of my favorite novels
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Achmed Jones posted:yo mediaphage id never heard of Rebecca roanhorse but that sounds right up my alley, thanks for the rec! yw! she’s very readable. have you guys read vita nostra? only the first has been translated from the ukrainian. extremely good take on the idea of magic, apprentices, and training (which is not a great description, but it’s the best i got). also enjoyed max barry’s lexicon not too long ago, which might be chrarcterized as a similar genre, if magic were limited to channeling influence.
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Archduke Frantz Fanon posted:i was also strung out on opiates at the time so that may not have helped yeah, thats really more of a pkd mood there
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audible has Solaris translated by bill johnston and I found it a good listen, not sure if that was a new translation or a previous one they recorded, thoughmediaphage posted:yw! she’s very readable. vita nostra sounds like itd be up my alley, then! i liked lexicon and a lot of barry's books, though I havent gotten to providence yet. maybe that's because a story about four people living in close proximity (though on a starship) was a bit too real for early 2020, so maybe its time for a go
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Archduke Frantz Fanon posted:what translations are you reading? i picked up solaris at a thrift store and when i tried reading it the translation seemed like something was missing Michael Kandel’s stuff is ace
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Silver Alicorn posted:hit me. there’s too much fantasy for me to pick. I recently really liked the Raven Tower i made a long post in the previous thread (rip graph) that's still relevant. it's long so I don't want to c/p it but here: https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3774436&userid=100414&perpage=40&pagenumber=6#post506414195
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the worst part of any fantasy / sci fi (I guess really any genre but it’s worst in these) is having to read about the authors hosed up sex things. like it’s so ridiculous for rothfuss to not only have Amazonian sex ninjas but they also didn’t know that babies came from sex and STIs didn’t exist in their society because they were clean or something over a decade ago I read some heinous AI singularity wank called the metamorphosis of prime intellect and it was an insanely huge amount of gore porn wedged in between normal boring sci fi poo poo. sex is a normal part of life and it wouldn’t make sense to have sexless fiction but jeez dial it back or something.
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