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1. Nierenstein: Romcom Villain Arc (nierenstein@poa.st)'s status on Thursday, 12-Sep-2024 04:41:29 JST Nierenstein: Romcom Villain Arc
   I cast Lengthen House
   • Woggy's Zeonic Frolicks (washedoutgundampilot@poa.st)'s status on Thursday, 12-Sep-2024 04:41:28 JST Woggy's Zeonic Frolicks

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     @doctorsex @nierenstein Even now I don't get why that book was "terrifying"

     Everyone shuddered when they read it but it seems like it only affects atheistic, frameless redditors

   • Dr. Sex, Ph.d, Esq. (doctorsex@nicecrew.digital)'s status on Thursday, 12-Sep-2024 04:41:29 JST Dr. Sex, Ph.d, Esq.

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     House Of Leaves sequel
   • Trevor Goodchild:verified::pondering_orb: (trevorgoodchild@poa.st)'s status on Thursday, 12-Sep-2024 04:48:40 JST Trevor Goodchild:verified::pondering_orb:

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     @WashedOutGundamPilot @doctorsex @nierenstein It had a few clever moments buried in hundreds of pages of tiresome footnotes
     
     Long slog, small payoff. And I like stories about eldritch houses.
   • Woggy's Zeonic Frolicks (washedoutgundampilot@poa.st)'s status on Thursday, 12-Sep-2024 04:48:40 JST Woggy's Zeonic Frolicks

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     @TrevorGoodchild @doctorsex @nierenstein I turned my nose up at it, having to read boring stories about trash people and their shithole wretch lives planning tattoos, maintaining drug addictions, staving off imminent schizephrenia was just irritating to me.

     Same reason I hate breaking bad: I don't like indulging in voyeuristic media that celebrates the worst aspects of trash life

   • Woggy's Zeonic Frolicks (washedoutgundampilot@poa.st)'s status on Thursday, 12-Sep-2024 04:58:24 JST Woggy's Zeonic Frolicks

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     @doctorsex @TrevorGoodchild @nierenstein They say it's terrifying because it represents the unknown, the fear of the eldritch. Hence my characterization as a 'redditor's terror: There's something about their arrogantly atheistic outlook that find it extremely spooky to read this "authentic" log of unexplained events that show man ultimately knows nothing of the cosmos

     Every well adjusted person thinks it's nothing, but the redditor? He's emotionallly affected by it to a strange degree

   • Trevor Goodchild:verified::pondering_orb: (trevorgoodchild@poa.st)'s status on Thursday, 12-Sep-2024 04:58:25 JST Trevor Goodchild:verified::pondering_orb:

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     @doctorsex @WashedOutGundamPilot @nierenstein The impression I got was 'tryhard magical realism'
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   • Dr. Sex, Ph.d, Esq. (doctorsex@nicecrew.digital)'s status on Thursday, 12-Sep-2024 04:58:25 JST Dr. Sex, Ph.d, Esq.

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     Personally I think it was all just a bunch of "bait and switch"- there's enough there to make you *think* it could be a horror story there, but it isn't. There's enough there for you to *think* it's about academia, but it isn't, etc. It's not really "about" anything, I think the author just had some ideas, not really a full story, but just wanted to put the concepts out there
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   • Dr. Sex, Ph.d, Esq. (doctorsex@nicecrew.digital)'s status on Thursday, 12-Sep-2024 04:58:26 JST Dr. Sex, Ph.d, Esq.

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     I don't think it was intended as a horror story tbf
   • Woggy's Zeonic Frolicks (washedoutgundampilot@poa.st)'s status on Thursday, 12-Sep-2024 05:01:29 JST Woggy's Zeonic Frolicks

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     @doctorsex @TrevorGoodchild @nierenstein Exactly, like it's a great burger but the cook forgot to include a patty. The bread is well toasted, the tomato is ripe, the cheese perfectly melted, and people's mind just fills in the taste of a patty that's not there

   • Nierenstein: Romcom Villain Arc (nierenstein@poa.st)'s status on Thursday, 12-Sep-2024 05:02:07 JST Nierenstein: Romcom Villain Arc

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     @doctorsex @TrevorGoodchild @WashedOutGundamPilot Monster House
   • Woggy's Zeonic Frolicks (washedoutgundampilot@poa.st)'s status on Thursday, 12-Sep-2024 05:02:07 JST Woggy's Zeonic Frolicks

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     @nierenstein @doctorsex @TrevorGoodchild My gal read that, heard it was okay

   • Dr. Sex, Ph.d, Esq. (doctorsex@nicecrew.digital)'s status on Thursday, 12-Sep-2024 05:02:08 JST Dr. Sex, Ph.d, Esq.

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     Any other "eldritch houses" recommendations?
   • Christmas Coon (mebigbrain@poa.st)'s status on Thursday, 12-Sep-2024 05:08:50 JST Christmas Coon

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     @WashedOutGundamPilot @doctorsex @TrevorGoodchild @nierenstein >the media literacy crowd doesn't understand that none of the stuff in the Navidson Record actually happened even as part of the fiction of the book
     I am shocked.
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   • Trevor Goodchild:verified::pondering_orb: (trevorgoodchild@poa.st)'s status on Thursday, 12-Sep-2024 05:22:02 JST Trevor Goodchild:verified::pondering_orb:

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     @WashedOutGundamPilot @doctorsex @nierenstein I think the concept and depiction of 'The Minotaur' was the most powerful and striking theme in the entire book
     
     Come to think about this, I can see why the literary description of an all-devouring, stalking nothingness would upset reddit atheists :reddit:
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   • Woggy's Zeonic Frolicks (washedoutgundampilot@poa.st)'s status on Thursday, 12-Sep-2024 05:23:05 JST Woggy's Zeonic Frolicks

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     • Dr. Sex, Ph.d, Esq.

     @DEERBLOOD @MeBigbrain @doctorsex @TrevorGoodchild @nierenstein No wonder I hate it. That description screams "not interesting enough to read, but enough to read the wiki"

     I just demand more of my time if I spend it reading a book, I don't have patience for the mediocre if it wants more than 2 hrs

   • Pride of Utopia (deerblood@poa.st)'s status on Thursday, 12-Sep-2024 05:23:06 JST Pride of Utopia

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     • Dr. Sex, Ph.d, Esq.
     @MeBigbrain @WashedOutGundamPilot @doctorsex @TrevorGoodchild @nierenstein Unpublished scraps of a book about a documentary that doesn't exist
   • Pride of Utopia (deerblood@poa.st)'s status on Thursday, 12-Sep-2024 05:33:12 JST Pride of Utopia

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     • Dr. Sex, Ph.d, Esq.
     @WashedOutGundamPilot @MeBigbrain @doctorsex @TrevorGoodchild @nierenstein That's just a segment of it, like the house being bigger on the inside is. It's about how the protagonist discovers these bizarre writings and it's effect on him
     
     It's not an easy book to explain. I liked it, I don't love it. It definitely clears mediocre
   • Woggy's Zeonic Frolicks (washedoutgundampilot@poa.st)'s status on Thursday, 12-Sep-2024 05:33:12 JST Woggy's Zeonic Frolicks

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     • Dr. Sex, Ph.d, Esq.

     @DEERBLOOD @MeBigbrain @doctorsex @TrevorGoodchild @nierenstein Yeah, it's a matter of taste. I hate reading "people" stories where the person is a wretch. Listening to the crazy guy's spiral digusts me, because I've dealt with enough of that nonsense IRL. I want to read about people who are like me or better, it's more edifying and enjoyable.

     Reading about freaks, losers, druggies, kooks, just makes me feel like the voyeruistic women who watch lolcows - you're just playing social worker and cringing at the bottom-rungers of society.

   • Christmas Coon (mebigbrain@poa.st)'s status on Thursday, 12-Sep-2024 05:39:32 JST Christmas Coon

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     @WashedOutGundamPilot @DEERBLOOD @doctorsex @TrevorGoodchild @nierenstein Idk man, I feel like reading a wiki wouldn't work for this, it seems like you're looking at the density of information in the book and getting lost in that. It's more about the vibe than anything. I'm with you about stories about shitty people being off-putting, but it clicks with me because Johnny Truant is a liar and a retard and probably none of those gratuitous sex scenes that I skimmed over actually happened because why would any woman want that weirdo faggot in the first place... and the narrative acknowledges all of that, so it's cool. Idk maybe the book is best when you can intuit what parts you're supposed to focus on and which parts you're supposed to not focus on, like if you really think there's a ton of useful information in those footnotes then the book has already driven you insane.
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   • Woggy's Zeonic Frolicks (washedoutgundampilot@poa.st)'s status on Thursday, 12-Sep-2024 05:39:32 JST Woggy's Zeonic Frolicks

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     @MeBigbrain @DEERBLOOD @doctorsex @TrevorGoodchild @nierenstein I'd sooner read a book twice as long about the travails of engineering and installing the turrets on the King George Class. I'm a things guy, not a people guy. It's just a misfire for me.

     I get why it works for the people who like that stuff though, that's always how its fans explain it to me. The fact the sequels all revolve around whether or not his mom was insane at the lighthouse are even more boring.

     Like breaking bad, where it's awesome to people who've never even met someone on meth, people who've never had to deal with the kind of scum the show portrays, it just reminds me of things I hate about real life, and that's not an enjoyable scene for me

   • Wolfgirl in Wheatfield (wgiwf@poa.st)'s status on Thursday, 12-Sep-2024 05:52:37 JST Wolfgirl in Wheatfield

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     • Dr. Sex, Ph.d, Esq.
     @WashedOutGundamPilot @MeBigbrain @DEERBLOOD @doctorsex @TrevorGoodchild @nierenstein YOU HAVE ACTIVATED MY AUTISM! THIS ISN'T A KING GEORGE CLASS BATTLESHIP, IT'S NOT EVEN BRITISH! THIS IS AN AUSTRO-HUNGARIAN TEGETTHOFF CLASS (AKA VIRIBUS UNITIS CLASS) BATTLESHIP!
   • Woggy's Zeonic Frolicks (washedoutgundampilot@poa.st)'s status on Thursday, 12-Sep-2024 05:52:37 JST Woggy's Zeonic Frolicks

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     • Dr. Sex, Ph.d, Esq.

     @wgiwf @MeBigbrain @DEERBLOOD @doctorsex @TrevorGoodchild @nierenstein I think it's the eugen? I thought I had the pic of the workshop with that turret being dropped in but I couldn't find it

     common issue in publishing

   • Pride of Utopia (deerblood@poa.st)'s status on Thursday, 12-Sep-2024 06:24:40 JST Pride of Utopia

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     @wgiwf @WashedOutGundamPilot @MeBigbrain @doctorsex @TrevorGoodchild @nierenstein What's she look like as an anime girl?
   • Wolfgirl in Wheatfield (wgiwf@poa.st)'s status on Thursday, 12-Sep-2024 06:24:40 JST Wolfgirl in Wheatfield

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     @DEERBLOOD @WashedOutGundamPilot @MeBigbrain @doctorsex @TrevorGoodchild @nierenstein The best I could find is an OC shipgirl, none of the gachas have her as a shipgirl because of anti-Austrian racism.
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   • Wolfgirl in Wheatfield (wgiwf@poa.st)'s status on Thursday, 12-Sep-2024 06:32:21 JST Wolfgirl in Wheatfield

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     • Dr. Sex, Ph.d, Esq.
     @WashedOutGundamPilot @MeBigbrain @DEERBLOOD @doctorsex @TrevorGoodchild @nierenstein I think this may be the source. You're half right. It's a different Prinz Eugen.
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