NotASharkInAManSuit
@NotASharkInAManSuit@lemmy.world
- Comment on Why Commander Riker Is The Best 1 day ago:
One of my favorite things to have learned about Johnathan Frakes, he wanted Riker to be down to fuck everyone. Sadly, he got only so much room to decide who the character was, but he understood the concept of a post religious morality society, and understood that if a sentient being wanted to have a roll in the hay with Riker that he would be down.
Which is why until Star Trek is willing to adapt my Rikcard ship fan fiction as canon I will continue to send them my over detailed OC until they cave. It’s too good, they can only say no for so long, it’s just a matter of time.
- Comment on Why Commander Riker Is The Best 1 day ago:
He may be #2, but he’ll always be #1 in my books.
- Comment on Nice 2 days ago:
I meant earnestly asking that question to anyone in the first place.
- Comment on Nice 2 days ago:
It’s anti-semitic hate mongering guising itself as progressivism since it’s pretending to criticize Israel but instead of saying anything about state authoritarianism it’s actually just hate speech against jewish people.
It’s nazis coopting progressivism, just like always.
- Comment on Weird 5 days ago:
Happy birthday!
- Comment on Anon is given an ultimatum 5 days ago:
- Comment on 1 week ago:
It’s the only MMO I’ve ever played through the full story of and maxed out more than one character in because it was just fun to play and explore. It’s one of the best the genre has to offer, and the community is a joy.
- Comment on Complete lunacy. A toaster... really... a toaster? 1 week ago:
If you were dumb enough to buy a toaster with a touch screen then I refuse to feel any level sympathy, you’re an idiot and you deserve to suffer.
- Comment on Alpha AF 1 week ago:
That’s so gay.
- Comment on They remind me of a very special place to me in my heart 1 week ago:
Well, now I’m thinking about balls and potatoes.
- Comment on NOT THE BEES 1 week ago:
The curse is now free.
- Comment on Conservative values 1 week ago:
Considering they overwhelmingly occupy the statistics of child sex offenders, that’s pretty fucking far from what would be considered a conservative value.
What’s your stance on christian church leaders?
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- Comment on Accepting Cookies 3 weeks ago:
LibreWolf, is my response.
- Comment on Vibe management 3 weeks ago:
It’s almost like it was an obvious and stupid pile of lies and shit the entire time. If only literally everyone with a brain had been pointing that out literally the entire time, then we could have done better, right?
- Comment on history repeats itself once again 3 weeks ago:
Sort of in the same boat, but I also feel like that is a specific case of a book to movie adaptation in that it feels like it’s meant to be watched before reading the book and that it knows that it is not the book. Coscarelli seems to have intentionally done the film in a way to not spoil the book because they knew there was no way they could ever make a proper adaptation without a budget like Endgame had, but they still managed really nail the feel of the book and characters, and that opening primer is so integral to that feel.
- Comment on history repeats itself once again 3 weeks ago:
Most of the time I’d agree, but when it comes to John Dies At The End, I don’t think the brain was in control of the body for any part of that scenario.
- Comment on history repeats itself once again 3 weeks ago:
Aww, man, you’ve really got to read the book. From that comment alone I am 100% certain you’d love it for nothing more than the chewy thoughts with long lasting flavor that it has to offer on that precise level.
- Comment on history repeats itself once again 3 weeks ago:
Nah, for that kind of plot armor you’d probably want to blast something like Holding Out for a Hero by Bonnie Tyler or Home Sweet Home by Motley Crue.
- Comment on history repeats itself once again 3 weeks ago:
I’d say yes, you’d need a lot more overhaul to hit ship of Theseus levels, I think a head replacement counts as a simple repair, you know, like changing out an air filter.
- Comment on history repeats itself once again 3 weeks ago:
You really should, Jason Pargin just in general is a blast to read. All of his stuff is top drawer. The ship of Theseus theme does tie into the story in a heavy way, but that’s all I will say about it. Of his books the John Dies series are my favorites just because it opened me up to the gonzo Lovecraftian genre for the first time and satisfied a longing for the type of story telling I had always craved in my bones but had never known existed before that book and has lead me to many more great books in the genre (fucking read Skullcrack City, holy shit, it’s so good!) but the Zoe Ashe books are just as good and hit that same nail but with a Blade Runner on meth kind of feel, and I’m Starting to Worry About This Black Box of Doom is a standalone story in a real world setting that still manages to go so god damned far off the rails.
Also, the movie is a lot of fun, but watch it before reading the book or you’ll hate it. It doesn’t spoil anything from the book, they only managed to get maybe 15% of the story in there, and it doesn’t at all touch on the core theme of the book and the scenes and setup are not the same as what you get from the book, but it was made with genuine love of the source material and they did the best they could with what they had to work with.
- Comment on The open seas be the only place for Steve 3 weeks ago:
Let’s see if it pays off for him.
- Comment on history repeats itself once again 3 weeks ago:
John Dies At The End by Jason Pargin. My favorite book series of all time, no contest. That’s how the book starts.
The fifth book, There Are No Giant Crabs in This Novel: A Novel of Giant Crabs, is releasing this year.
- Comment on history repeats itself once again 3 weeks ago:
Let’s say you have an ax. Just a cheap one, from Home Depot. On one bitter winter day, you use said ax to behead a man. Don’t worry, the man was already dead. Or maybe you should worry, because you’re the one who shot him.
He had been a big, twitchy guy with veiny skin stretched over swollen biceps, a tattoo of a swastika on his tongue. Teeth filed into razor-sharp fangs—you know the type. And you’re chopping off his head because, even with eight bullet holes in him, you’re pretty sure he’s about to spring back to his feet and eat the look of terror right off your face.
On the follow-through of the last swing, though, the handle of the ax snaps in a spray of splinters. You now have a broken ax. So, after a long night of looking for a place to dump the man and his head, you take a trip into town with your ax. You go to the hardware store, explaining away the dark reddish stains on the broken handle as barbecue sauce. You walk out with a brand-new handle for your ax.
The repaired ax sits undisturbed in your garage until the spring when, on one rainy morning, you find in your kitchen a creature that appears to be a foot-long slug with a bulging egg sac on its tail. Its jaws bite one of your forks in half with what seems like very little effort. You grab your trusty ax and chop the thing into several pieces. On the last blow, however, the ax strikes a metal leg of the overturned kitchen table and chips out a notch right in the middle of the blade.
Of course, a chipped head means yet another trip to the hardware store. They sell you a brand-new head for your ax. As soon as you get home, you meet the reanimated body of the guy you beheaded earlier. He’s also got a new head, stitched on with what looks like plastic weed-trimmer line, and it’s wearing that unique expression of “you’re the man who killed me last winter” resentment that one so rarely encounters in everyday life.
You brandish your ax. The guy takes a long look at the weapon with his squishy, rotting eyes and in a gargly voice he screams, “That’s the same ax that beheaded me!”
Is he right?
- Comment on Depluralize 4 weeks ago:
Tooth.
- Comment on Spooooookyyyyy Scaaaaaaaarrryyyy 4 weeks ago:
Was i supposed to put any effort into your bad faith argument? You didn’t.
- Comment on You gotta try #19 4 weeks ago:
Cremated. I would like my bacon cremated.
- Comment on Spooooookyyyyy Scaaaaaaaarrryyyy 4 weeks ago:
I’m not going to worry about what argumentative capitalist goons would consider to be honest.
- Comment on Spooooookyyyyy Scaaaaaaaarrryyyy 4 weeks ago:
You don’t read the news much, eh?
- Comment on Spooooookyyyyy Scaaaaaaaarrryyyy 4 weeks ago:
And what do capitalist states look like in real life for those not in the 0.1%?
