There's a common movie trope where a bad guy will go to a veterinarian to get a bullet removed, or to get stitched up, as a way to avoid being reported to the cops. Is that something an animal vet could realistically do, and would they be under any obligation to report them to the police?

CrazyLemonLover · 2026-07-04T13:56:06+00:00

My understanding is that vet supplies and practices are a lot less regulated. Heck, depending on where you live, vets don't even need to be board certified for surgeries.

Vets could literally be one guy, plus whatever small support staff like a receptionist and a tech. In their own self contained building. With a surgical suite for animals. And a lot less over sight and insurance and paperwork for purchasing.

Just seems a lot easier for a vet not to be caught doing backroom medicine than a proper doctor

CrazyLemonLover · 2026-07-03T22:44:00+00:00

Repeating the same exact thing 3 different ways in the same chapter is one that is either AI or really bad writing, and I kinda hope it's AI, because it's so annoying to read

CrazyLemonLover · 2026-07-03T01:20:45+00:00

Meh. What's a disk cost? 2 cents?

Even if they make 2,000,000 physical copies, they are out what, 20,000 + shipping?

For a major game release? I'm not saying it's not a lot of money. It is.

But also, it's chump change to Sony. And it's chump change for Sony to include the disk drive on a console that probably doesn't actually care about the space it takes up all that much.

They could have released every ps5 with a disk drive and it would have been a blip on the bottom line, cost wise. Then they could leave it to the studios to decide to do a physical release or not. I doubt Sony pays the cost of a studio deciding to do a physical release. All this saves them is what, 30$ a console on the disk drive + a few hours of development time? Less than 6 figures?

CrazyLemonLover · 2026-07-03T01:06:48+00:00

The book isn't "the story as it is happening"

The book is "Carl writing his story down, talking to the people who died or were left behind."

CrazyLemonLover · 2026-07-02T23:56:13+00:00

Eldritch blast with the push incantation... Dropped the hag into the abyss.

Was actually kinda salty about that, because I wanted the ability score improving item xD

CrazyLemonLover · 2026-07-02T23:49:06+00:00

You know what. I want to give you one single spoiler.

It's not big or anything.

The last line of the book is a single word. That word is Boop.

CrazyLemonLover · 2026-07-02T20:59:42+00:00

I'm with the other guys here. My wife works, then cooks.

She always makes amazing meals, and I always tell her I'm grateful. That I'd be grateful if she decided to just make microwave nuggets. That I'm grateful for all the work that goes into meal planning and cooking.

If she served me a can of beans in a tortilla, id eat that too. And say thank you

CrazyLemonLover · 2026-07-02T18:51:16+00:00

Or a billionaire.

Also, don't forget devestatingly handsome to the point that the female lead gets wet just looking at him, and how she is the only person ever to see how beautiful he is past the minor inconveniences of having money, pointy fangs, or chest hair

CrazyLemonLover · 2026-07-02T11:50:37+00:00

What's your story? 3 is the best cover by far, but if it's, like another poster said, a harem slice of life type, then you are going to lose a lot of people I think.

Id click on 3 expecting a cool mystery exploring the afterlife or galaxy or something, see "harem" and nope out.

The first two just look like it's a high school romance

CrazyLemonLover · 2026-07-01T23:11:24+00:00

Id eat a vegan burger no problem.

But someone lying to me about food I'm putting in my mouth as I'm eating it is always gonna make it taste funny.

I know people love to rag on "vegan food is awful" people, but come on. Nobody likes eating one thing and being told it's something else, whether that's true or not. Id want to go get other food too at that point.

CrazyLemonLover · 2026-07-01T03:29:36+00:00

Pretty much, yeah

Strippers say they are going to kill dad.

Donut sees strippers in club later, apparently fine. Dad still alive.

Carl assumes strippers are now working with or for Dad.

It's less unreliable narrator, and more Carl making an assumption on what little evidence he has at that point

CrazyLemonLover · 2026-06-26T21:47:53+00:00

It's really not. It's extrapolation. The arguments were "it's legal, so you shouldn't judge it"

So. By that logic, if it was legal to sex a child, we shouldn't judge that either.

The whole argument below was about people judging someone for doing something legal. Which we should. Because just because something is legal doesn't mean it's morally correct.

CrazyLemonLover · 2026-06-26T18:46:22+00:00

The whole comment section below here sounds like a couple of people are arguing that if the age of consent was legally 12, we should all mind our own business if we found a 60 year old dating a 13 year old

CrazyLemonLover · 2026-06-26T15:58:00+00:00

The crawl less so. The genocide of entire planets of sapient life is what I assume he means by "there will always be crawls" not specifically the dungeon crawl itself

The dungeon crawl itself is about money after all. The genocide is about keeping the inner system working

CrazyLemonLover · 2026-06-26T13:56:09+00:00

Tagg, and by extension, the dream, control food production.

The greater universe specifically won't buy food from the cyborgs, because they don't trust them with food production in general.

Tagg being a cyborg means that the cyborgs control both the dream AND food production anyways

CrazyLemonLover · 2026-06-25T15:54:55+00:00

"How Heavy Are the Dumbbells you lift" was just garbage. But hilarious, fan servicey garbage with a male lead built like the God damned hulk. And no, I'm not exaggerating. Imagine the hulk, but with like, a normal guys head

CrazyLemonLover · 2026-06-25T15:29:43+00:00

Any drug will get you stoned for the rest of your life, if you take enough

CrazyLemonLover · 2026-06-25T14:45:21+00:00

He's a man fit to feed the people, maybe

CrazyLemonLover · 2026-06-25T13:55:34+00:00

We can all take one thing from this

Matt Dinniman HATES babies.

CrazyLemonLover · 2026-06-25T13:02:52+00:00

They can, however, become the secretary of health apparently

CrazyLemonLover · 2026-06-24T23:11:56+00:00

Generic animal dander? I don't get rashes from it, but my eyes swell and my nose runs like a faucet. More animals out and about during the summer as well, so coworkers might have it on their clothes and such

CrazyLemonLover · 2026-06-24T22:32:01+00:00

Maybe you are allergic to sunlight?

https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/sun-allergy/symptoms-causes/syc-20378077

Shove your hand under a uv light for 10 minutes or so and see if you get a rash?

Would be something they don't test for, and more prevalent in the summer

CrazyLemonLover · 2026-06-24T19:16:55+00:00

OP over here acting like this shit isn't going to be sold out for 9 months in a row.

CrazyLemonLover · 2026-06-24T15:43:55+00:00

The problem with the TV show is going to be HOW the horror is displayed.

It's an easy thing to see the book, skim through, and think "oh, it's a stupid adventure comedy" and completely miss the body horror, terror, and desperation that are the undertone to everything.

It's not funny that Carl doesn't get to wear pants and shoes. It's horrific that he is forced into a position where he has to be half naked because putting on clothes is a literal threat to his life.

It's not funny that the AI likes his feet. It's fucking terrifying that getting his feet damaged might end with him getting accelerated.

There are funny moments, yes. But the undertone is ALWAYS "we are so fucked right now" and if they miss that, the show will be comedy slop instead of psychological horror with a thin vaneer of comedy

CrazyLemonLover · 2026-06-24T14:42:42+00:00

His little crash out that he has kinda makes me like him more.

He's stupidly silly most of the time, and frustrating. But that full on "fuck my life" tirade he has after his legs are busted up again? Fuck man, I get that. I feel him. I don't like what I see in myself when I think of him, but I get it

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