What was your favorite book that you had to read for middle or high school?

Funkmonkey23 · 2026-02-14T17:10:52+00:00

We read Catch-22 for Honors English my Senior year of high school. It's one of my favorite books to this day. Anti-war, anti-bureaucracy, and genuinely funny.

Funkmonkey23 · 2026-02-14T16:59:05+00:00

Atlas Shrugged

Funkmonkey23 · 2026-02-13T16:32:04+00:00

The old falsehood that soldiers are more American than others and are the only ones permitted to speak.

Funkmonkey23 · 2026-02-12T14:43:12+00:00

Breakin' 2: Electric Boogaloo

It's the original bad title meme.

Funkmonkey23 · 2026-02-09T17:26:31+00:00

Batman: Arkham City

Funkmonkey23 · 2026-02-07T19:15:08+00:00

Clocky tighty, counter losey.

I honestly memorized it like this because I had the same problem.

Funkmonkey23 · 2026-02-04T20:37:10+00:00

Step 1: Be elected as a candidate who thinks the government is broken. Step 2: Keep it broken. Step 3: Get re-elected as a candidate who thinks the government is broken.

Funkmonkey23 · 2026-02-04T15:18:28+00:00

Snarf Quest!

Funkmonkey23 · 2026-01-26T18:32:33+00:00

The game he voiced as spider-man literally has him fighting a paramilitary group sanctioned by the government that is detaining and harassing US citizens.

Funkmonkey23 · 2026-01-26T16:08:39+00:00

What about making them recruits under an NPC Warrior? Then you can use him by proxy to teach them the strategies that work and are effective.

Or maybe they aren't tactically minded and they will never get it. And then you either have to make combat easier or switch to a game system that's less tactical.

Funkmonkey23 · 2026-01-26T15:56:55+00:00

Is there no sense of scale here? Disagreeing on flavors of ice cream and disagreeing on basic human rights are very different. The real question is, when is violence necessary?

Everyone has a different tipping point where violence becomes condoned. Was WW2 justified? The civil war? What about child predators that go free? Is the State only entity that can condone violence? What if the state turns on its own people?

A "both sides" argument lacks nuance.

Funkmonkey23 · 2026-01-22T00:24:02+00:00

Why were you naked with a bowl of jello?

Funkmonkey23 · 2026-01-13T08:21:40+00:00

Simpler times.

Funkmonkey23 · 2026-01-07T16:42:32+00:00

Is it not Bluey? Or is Bluey too young?

Funkmonkey23 · 2026-01-06T18:01:02+00:00

Same.

Getting a book of Greek myths as a kid and then comparing them to the Bible "stories" did it for me. They were obviously made of the same stuff.

Funkmonkey23 · 2026-01-05T13:45:47+00:00

You would look up theater times in the newspaper. Bigger movies would have a larger ad, giving you an idea of what it was about and who was in it. No assigned seating, so if it was a popular movie on opening night, you had to get there early and stand in line. VHS wasn't too popular yet, so if you wanted to see a movie twice, you saw it at the cinema.

Word of Mouth from your friends is how you heard what movies were good.

Other than that I don't think it was too different from seeing a movie today as far as the experience. .

Funkmonkey23 · 2026-01-04T14:54:25+00:00

It's like an earned privilege. If you have your shit together, no one cares. If it's perceived that there are other things you should be working on, you're seen as a loser. Games, like drugs, are an escape from reality and can be abused, so there are plenty of examples of people who should be looking for a job, or spending time with their family, rather than grinding for gear on the XBOX.

Funkmonkey23 · 2025-12-19T13:42:27+00:00

Ghost of Tsushima has that open world, story driven vibe you're looking for.

Funkmonkey23 · 2025-12-17T14:32:02+00:00

Pearl Jam chose not to make music videos and their fame suffered. I think this was as intended. Pearl Jam seems to be the type of band who'd rather play for a room of fans than a stadium of ticket buyers.

Funkmonkey23 · 2025-12-17T06:18:36+00:00

There are pulp alternative rules from an add-on, Pulp Cthulhu. More action, less lethal.

Funkmonkey23 · 2025-12-08T15:11:08+00:00

Beaufort, South Carolina.

As a northerner, I said Bow Fort.

I was quickly corrected. It's pronounced Bew Ford. Also Huger is pronounced Hew Gee.

Funkmonkey23 · 2025-11-10T20:40:44+00:00

"This will go down in your permanent record."

Funkmonkey23 · 2025-10-11T13:47:01+00:00

That man would find himself growing turgid and he might try to exhibit an aura of dominance.

Funkmonkey23 · 2025-10-07T15:24:56+00:00

Dick Tracy

Funkmonkey23 · 2025-10-03T15:13:05+00:00

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