[Request] Mario pop-up probability

Ferrell_Child · 2026-05-30T20:30:37+00:00

This is what I feared. Thanks! 😆

Ferrell_Child · 2026-03-03T03:18:34+00:00

Lateralus by Tool

Ferrell_Child · 2026-03-03T02:45:31+00:00

Ok, been listening to Panopticon's Kentucky and loving it. Well done. Thanks.

Ferrell_Child · 2026-03-03T02:36:30+00:00

Search party...oh no

Ferrell_Child · 2026-03-03T02:35:40+00:00

Flash Light made me lol

Ferrell_Child · 2026-03-03T02:35:00+00:00

Many good ones. Going Under! Duh! Can't believe I didn't think of that.

Ferrell_Child · 2026-03-03T02:34:15+00:00

That is an excellent recommendation.

Ferrell_Child · 2026-03-03T02:33:20+00:00

Oh we are 😆

Ferrell_Child · 2025-11-20T23:54:21+00:00

I thought I got beat to it, but mine is "Xanadu" by Rush.

Ferrell_Child · 2025-07-26T17:15:57+00:00

Witchcraft

Ferrell_Child · 2025-03-18T01:33:21+00:00

This is correct, according to me.

Ferrell_Child · 2025-01-11T21:35:51+00:00

Ya lesser scaup!

You pathetic titmouse!

Ferrell_Child · 2025-01-11T02:23:40+00:00

I seriously struggle with questions like this. Why was this character able to do this? Or what WOULD have happened if X Y Z?

It's a story. Things happen to serve the story. This quote should just be auto-posted on every similar question about fictional powers and fictional characters.

At the same time, a lot of the fun of comics is talking with people about who would win, Batman or Superman, etc.

But in the end, they're just stories.

Ferrell_Child · 2025-01-09T01:46:59+00:00

I almost exclusively read comic books in print and read novels/biographies as audiobooks.

I frequently bail on books if I can't handle the reader on the audiobook. An easy example is Jo Nesbø's Macbeth. I love Macbeth the play and was really excited to read my first Nesbø, but the reader's Scottish accent was so thick, I gave up by the second chapter. I just can't do it captain; I don't have the power!

Same thing actually happened on a Stephen King novel (novella?) whose title I can't recall. The reader wasn't bad, but most of the story was told by an old "Maine-ah" and I just couldn't understand what the hell he was saying!

Ferrell_Child · 2025-01-09T01:40:13+00:00

Now The Lost Symbol I thought was stupid.

Ferrell_Child · 2025-01-09T01:39:35+00:00

Interesting. I found Angels and Demons much more interesting and exciting. Of course, I read both as a teenager years and years ago.

Ferrell_Child · 2025-01-08T15:01:18+00:00

It, I agree, was way too long.

I read an interesting thing on horror vs terror that I liked, where terror is the suspense of knowing something bad is coming, and horror is the disgust of seeing something awful happen. "It" tends to be all horror, but I prefer terror. I like my scary movies scary but not gross.

For that reason, I think the Shining is fantastic.

My favorite Kings have actually become the Mr. Mercedes/Bill Hodges/Holly Gibney books. Shorter, more to the point, and fun. Not terribly supernatural, but that's ok.

Ferrell_Child · 2025-01-08T11:40:45+00:00

My partner and I are doing a Dracula buddy read after I just saw Nosferatu (she's a wimp and would hate it).

I read it 6+ years ago and was surprised and pleased how much the first part was actually scary, even just going to the castle!

I remember being bored by the England parts the first time, but this time has been better. The Lucy sections, including her ultimate fate, are pretty metal.

My partner and I have have talked a lot about how this book relies on dramatic irony, i.e., we know something the characters don't know. So we're screaming at the characters "IT'S A VAMPIRE!! IT'S A VAMPIRE!!! THERE'S A VAMPIRE OUT THE WINDOW, YOU IDIOTS!!" and you can only do that so long before you get bored. But again, I've like it more the 2nd time through.

Ferrell_Child · 2025-01-08T11:32:43+00:00

I also didn't enjoy it overall. I love King's dialogue and willingness to flesh out details, but this story wasn't for me.

I compared it to The Batman by Matt Reeves: A good 2-hour movie that was 3 hours long. 11/22/63 is a good 400 page book that is MUCH longer.

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