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is smugworth's gimmick that all his posts are written by chatgpt?
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Apr 30, 2023 00:50
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The radio play was very good.
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Apr 30, 2023 01:21
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TIP posted:is smugworth's gimmick that all his posts are written by chatgpt? No I definitely spent time writing all those thoughtful responses
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Apr 30, 2023 01:28
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yeah that book sucks dick!!!!
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Apr 30, 2023 01:28
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20 Blunts posted:yeah that book sucks dick!!!! I’d give it two stars if it did
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Apr 30, 2023 01:42
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guide to the fallacy more like it since i guess he is full of poo poo!
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Apr 30, 2023 02:16
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Toxic Mental posted:Yeah it's pretty bad, most of that SOOOOO quirky!!! brit writing like Adams and Terry Pratchett etc, is a cringe black hole *Me, reading a joke in a book* Ugh. Ugh, this text is being very unserious. How could anyone be so unserious, and in a book of all things? I feel so embarrassed for the author and for myself. If my internet friends knew I was reading something so silly, I would just die.
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Apr 30, 2023 02:52
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Torquemada posted:Books are good now, were absolutely stellar forty years ago. Yeah the series is old as balls, the first book came out 44 years ago and the author died 22 years ago. I was actually in a HHGttG fanclub way back in the early 90s when I was going to uni, they all got back together when the new movie came out and were snapping up all the collectables like the H2G2 branded towels
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Apr 30, 2023 04:13
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Slugworth posted:Books or show? Books or show!? Truth. Mediocre fantasy series that’s never going to be finished, beloved by barely literate public.
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Apr 30, 2023 08:52
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Hitchhikers was originally a radio show. It was one of my favourite things when I was a kid and I listened to it an immeasurable amount of times growing up. The first two "phases" (series) are legit and still hold up fairly well forty-five years later. The first novels were adaptations of the radio show and lost all of the charm. The story ended up being completed in book form and they didn't resume the radio show until 2004, which is a shame really for many reasons. It's a shame that it took so long to complete but it's a bigger shame that it was an adaption of the books instead of being written primarily for it's original format. The TV series was a great adaptation and it helped having some of the actors from the radio show reprising their roles. The film was absolute dog poo poo. But yes, quoting from this series out of context is annoying but I can say that about any other series.
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Apr 30, 2023 10:23
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Radio show is basically a podcast and that's always berrrry bad
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Apr 30, 2023 11:52
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Hey millenials, I'm here to tell you the things you enjoyed during your developmental stage were actually bad!
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Apr 30, 2023 12:12
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i would advise all people who "have" tea and no tea at the same time to be careful because that likely means you have a predisposition to a mental illness. peace.
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Apr 30, 2023 12:33
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CheeseThief posted:Hey millenials, I'm here to tell you the things you enjoyed during your developmental stage were actually bad! This is a healthy thing to admit and come to terms with! Admitting things you liked might have been bad or just tainted with nostalgia is the first step towards liking better things!
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Apr 30, 2023 17:16
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It's fine, OP. There's better and worse stuff. In high school, we had to write a report about our favorite author. As the class listed off who we were going to write about, I remarked that mine, Adams, was the only author being written about who was still alive. When I got home that day, I found out that Douglas Adams had died; specifically at the time I was in that English class. As a writer of convoluted coincidences, I think he'd have appreciated that fact (barring the dropping dead).
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Apr 30, 2023 19:35
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You should try reading books you like instead.
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Apr 30, 2023 20:05
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Hitchhiker's guide is the monty python and the holy grail of books. Quoted endlessly by the m'lady people
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Apr 30, 2023 21:07
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CheeseThief posted:Hey millenials, I'm here to tell you the things you enjoyed during your developmental stage were actually bad! they mostly were though
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Apr 30, 2023 21:20
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I loved the books as a 12 year old nerd, but have never gone back to them because I kind of worry they wouldn’t hold up. The fact that Douglas Adams was BFFs with Richard Dawkins is kind of a red flag IMO. That being said I do like the TV miniseries and think that holds up pretty well. He wrote some good Doctor Who episodes too.
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Apr 30, 2023 22:13
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I read the first one and liked it but the sequels ran out of steam, too many jokes about telephone sanitizers, jogging, and customer service that were probably fun in the 80s but got dull. Like sniglets.
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Apr 30, 2023 22:16
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I remember Dirk Gently mentioning robots that watch TV for you, and that's pretty much what DVR is.
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Apr 30, 2023 22:31
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Last Chance to See is the better Douglas Adams book
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Apr 30, 2023 22:36
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Hyrax Attack! posted:I read the first one and liked it but the sequels ran out of steam, too many jokes about telephone sanitizers, jogging, and customer service that were probably fun in the 80s but got dull. Like sniglets. I remember a few bits from the sequels but for the life of me couldn't tell you the general plot of them.
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Apr 30, 2023 23:36
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space uncle posted:Book - good @space uncle was your ball ok
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May 1, 2023 00:09
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space uncle posted:Book - good a quote so empty that, being full of emptiness, its paradoxical superposition of both fullness and emptiness was studied at length by the paradox priests of bramblarcus IX, who described it as, and i quote: "exhaustingly masturbatory."
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May 1, 2023 00:38
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I walked out of the movie after like 15 minutes (it was a second-run dollar theater to be fair).
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May 1, 2023 00:48
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Pneub posted:I walked out of the movie after like 15 minutes (it was a second-run dollar theater to be fair). if only the studio had the balls to let zooey deschanel sing "santa claus is coming to town" at the end, we'd be having a different conversation right now.
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May 1, 2023 00:53
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At the time I was annoyed but in retrospect I admire the film makers for having the last joke of the film being "Uh.. isn't the restaurant at the end of the universe the other way?" referring to space rather than time, and thus annoying all the True fans in the audience. like 14 year old me raising their fists to the ceiling. also bbc series owns, see my avatar for details
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May 1, 2023 03:26
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Chairman Capone posted:I loved the books as a 12 year old nerd, but have never gone back to them because I kind of worry they wouldn’t hold up. The fact that Douglas Adams was BFFs with Richard Dawkins is kind of a red flag IMO. At the time Adams died, Dawkins hadn't yet become tiresome. Adams knew the 'scientist with a few neat books and the word 'meme' to his credit' Dawkins, not the 'omnipresent yelling about religion' guy. Adams is obviously not religious, but the books are very definitely 'poking gentle fun' not 'frothing tirades'.
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May 1, 2023 07:15
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The radio play, book and tv series were pretty good. The movie was pretty bad.
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May 1, 2023 08:20
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I'm part of the dumb masses who just couldn't get into Hitchhiker's like other people did. I didn't hate it, but it just lacked that certain something for me that made me enjoy it like other people. The damnedest thing though is that for humor of a similar bent, I preferred the first two Red Dwarf novels/adaptations. I maybe even prefer them in some ways to the actual TV show plotlines they're based on.
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May 1, 2023 08:59
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Hyrax Attack! posted:I read the first one and liked it but the sequels ran out of steam, too many jokes about telephone sanitizers, jogging, and customer service that were probably fun in the 80s but got dull. Like sniglets. I really loved the first book as a teen, and thought parts of books 2 and 3 were good. I also really liked the radio play (although due to it being the before Internet days, the version I listened to was a Finnish version). I went back to re-read the books and listen to the English original radio play a few years ago, and the first book was still OK, but after that it just falls off a cliff or disappears up its own rear end in a top hat so loving fast. quote:The Outside of the Asylum is the home of Wonko the Sane. Designed to keep the outside world enclosed when he realised that it had gone mad, it was made entirely inside out, going so far as to make a visitor park on the carpet. Outside (the house, not the Asylum) are bookshelves, paintings "made to soothe," and some semi-circular three legged tables. The roof is decorated with upward hanging chandeliers. Wonko refuses to ever leave the Outside of the Asylum. It's just this poo poo for hours and hours. I seriously don't know if I'm just too loving stupid to get it, or if this kind of pseudointellectual tryhard amateur philosophy poo poo has just lost any shine it might have had over these past 40 years.
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May 1, 2023 12:38
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more people would probably like the book if it was '69' or '420' instead of '42'
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May 1, 2023 12:57
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Shaman Tank Spec posted:It's just this poo poo for hours and hours. I seriously don't know if I'm just too loving stupid to get it, or if this kind of pseudointellectual tryhard amateur philosophy poo poo has just lost any shine it might have had over these past 40 years. The house is inside-out. Wonko the sane thinks the world is crazy, but actually, he's the crazy one. 
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May 1, 2023 13:11
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Nah it's just pseudointellectual masturbation
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May 1, 2023 13:12
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Moai Ou posted:The house is inside-out. Wonko the sane thinks the world is crazy, but actually, he's the crazy one. No yeah I got that, but not why it's meant to be the height of hilarity.
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May 1, 2023 13:17
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Panic! At The Tesco posted:who would want to be a hater? twisting like a stir fry? no thanks, not for this OP 'Cause hate is all the world has even seen lately R.L. Stine posted:Hitchhiker's guide is the monty python and the holy grail of books. Quoted endlessly by the m'lady people Yeah, that was the vibe I got from the people I knew who liked the book, which is the main reason that I never read it
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May 1, 2023 13:17
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Shaman Tank Spec posted:No yeah I got that, but not why it's meant to be the height of hilarity. you're not meant to laugh out loud at it, you're meant to puff on your pipe and go hmm, yes... very droll
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May 1, 2023 13:43
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It's been around for 50 years for people to be obnoxious about it though, someone is gonna ruin it sooner or later
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May 1, 2023 13:52
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Hitchhikers guide to my balls
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