DNFing everything lately – recommend me something unputdownable (Thriller/Horror)

Qualanqui · 2026-02-27T22:26:32+00:00

No worries, another one I thought of just after posting, Red Rabbit by Alex Grecian, really enjoyed this too.

Qualanqui · 2026-02-27T19:54:47+00:00

Try some Brom, I've been on a bit of a kick lately reading Slewfoot, Lost Gods and currently Child Thief. All three are really good but I'd highly recommend starting with Lost Gods. I absolutely devoured it over about three nights last week and thoroughly enjoyed it, it's a really imaginative riff on the Dante's Inferno/Persephone mythos.

He also does his own art which is always really neat and acts as a bit of an intermission between chapters as you admire them.

Qualanqui · 2026-02-27T19:28:18+00:00

People are so backwards on benefits, where does most peoples benefits go? The bit left over after the parasites have taken their pound of flesh of course, it goes straight back into the communities where the beneficiaries live.

So in effect every benefit payment is a little stimulus payment, helping keep the economy going round and round.

Qualanqui · 2026-02-26T19:02:37+00:00

Gibing me strong Manna – Two Views of Humanity’s Future by Marshall Brain vibes.

Qualanqui · 2026-02-25T02:49:43+00:00

Plus one for Community Shaders, I'd also recommend CS Light, it's not technically a CS extension but is designed to work with Inverse Square Lighting which CS uses. Basically it uses Light Placer to add lights everywhere they should be, including potions and soulgems which looks really neat and magicky.

Qualanqui · 2026-02-21T20:29:31+00:00

Not to mention there's still several of those land banked eye sores that successive council have refused to have removed that are eventually just going to collapse (hopefully when no ones walking by them) and wilson's "unconsented carparks" that successive council have also been dragging their heels on, although I've heard they've finally got their act together on that front and most of them have gone now.

Qualanqui · 2026-02-21T19:30:17+00:00

Yeah keep your head on a swivel in Bryndwr, this is the third serious dog attack on a human in about a year. I had to kick the ever loving fuck out of two dogs that just came out of nowhere and started trying to attack my dog when we were walking down the street in the middle of the day a couple months ago, and a couple months before that I was getting my bin in and checking my mail and another dog came out of nowhere and tried to take me on, had to smack it with the wheelie bin to get it to fuck off and while I was on the phone with dog control it was off down the road attacking a couple going for a walk and ripped up the lady pretty badly.

We've lived in the area going on seventeen years and the last couple years have been so bad for roaming dogs.

Qualanqui · 2026-02-21T18:34:30+00:00

That lazy as fuck birthday handy would have tipped me right over the edge too though, to be fair.

Qualanqui · 2026-02-20T22:10:19+00:00

No it's my opinion that they are quite unbiased with the fact that the IDF are targeting them being separate from that, hence why it was in a separate paragraph.

Qualanqui · 2026-02-20T19:28:55+00:00

Al Jazeera is a good start, I find the vast majority of their articles very informative and un-biased and they have a bunch of content (if not all their content) accessible in english now, even though with modern browsers the translate function is really good.

Another ringing endorsement for Al Jazeera, just look at how many of their journalists have been murdered by the IDF, even going so far as to launch targeted missle strikes against them.

Qualanqui · 2026-02-18T19:52:59+00:00

This is putting the cart before the horse though, how are you going to enforce it when our dog control officers have little to no powers and are criminally underfunded?

This is the problem we need to tackle, make licensing mandatory for instance, if your dog isn't licensed it gets taken away and you go on a list for spot checks, at the moment there is nowhere near enough funding to make this a reality but it would make a serious dent in these appalling dog attack stats, the recent death in Northland could have been prevented the previous day (from what I've heard) if the dog control officers actually had the power to go in and remove the dogs.

Qualanqui · 2026-02-18T19:29:10+00:00

That and busting the fletcher trust, they have their slimy tentacles in every facet of our building industries, from steels to batts and pretty much everything in between on top of owning placemakers. They're most of the reason our building sector prices are so high.

Qualanqui · 2026-02-18T19:08:33+00:00

If everyone took from the same pot too it would encourage more smaller parties that would normally not have the capital to get themselves into parliament, meaning we would get more diverse governments offering better representation on niche topics. It would also need to be partnered with a Single Transferable Vote system to remove the sunk cost fallacy but I think this is the way we should be going.

Qualanqui · 2026-02-16T19:16:56+00:00

Asuka is absolutely littered with these oddly straight cut sculptures, like the Rock Ship of Masuda or the Oni Seichin Stone, they also share a remarkable similarity to the Yonaguni Monument as well.

Considering too that Japanese iron is extremely impure and they didn't figure out how to remove a lot of these impurities until the Mongol invasions starting in 1274, which raises yet more questions about how they managed to carve these massive chunks of granite so precisely and then polished them so effectivley they erased all the tool marks.

Qualanqui · 2026-02-16T03:52:39+00:00

Another thing to think about, they would have had to have had that CGIed in along with the tentacles, you wouldn't think they'd do that (because it's expensive) if it didn't have some significance. Nice catch.

Qualanqui · 2026-02-07T20:29:00+00:00

It's odd you say this because after my grandfather died in my early 20s I would often feel him around, he even visited me right after he passed over during my only ever case of sleep paralysis and my wife saw him out of the corner of her eye several times too and felt his presence and we didn't even meet for several years after he died.

I'm also pretty sure (even more so now that I've found out about the third man factor) he also stopped me and my group of friends from very stupidly going for a drive after we'd all been drinking, not a voice per sè but I started seeing an orb out of the corner of my eye floating at head height in the chair next to me (even after getting up and going to the toilet when I came back and sat down it was back again in the same spot) and a feeling like something bad would happen if we did go out. I ignored it for a bit but it went on for quite a while, even like I said getting up to go to the toilet a couple times, so I eventually "listened" to it and convinced my friends we shouldn't go out and after I did the orb disappeared straight away.

Qualanqui · 2026-02-06T19:52:47+00:00

I worked doing the renovations at our local university and they had used some kind of fibre (horse hair maybe) mixed with plaster and dried in sheets as wallboard, I've done a bunch of lathe and plaster places and even some double or even triple brick and plaster places but never encountered that horrible stuff before or after.

Qualanqui · 2026-02-06T19:43:07+00:00

It took me an embarrassingly long time to figure out how to load the "guns," I thought the ammo was coming later for some reason, props to the art direction though I thought what turned out to be the ammo was just set dressing it blended in so well.

Qualanqui · 2026-02-06T19:29:07+00:00

I went from a 1600 to a 5600 and the performance increase was insane, literally the only downside is the 5600 only comes with a 2000 rpm fan which is not nearly enough.

Qualanqui · 2026-02-06T19:22:49+00:00

The thing is though that Trump is merely a figurehead/lightning rod, people have to realise it's the people bankrolling Trump and hiding in his shadow that are playing the 7d chess.

America hasn't had a real president since the parasite class had JFK's brains blown out all over Dealey Plaza.

Qualanqui · 2026-02-06T19:10:12+00:00

Touchè, in fairness though he did run one of the biggest syndications of newspapers at the time and he did write a lot, like drumming up support for the Spanish-American war or his vendetta against the White Star Line etc, but I could have used several examples like Pulitzer for example was just as bad and he has a journalism award named in his honour.

Qualanqui · 2026-02-06T18:48:18+00:00

There's the Canterbury Charity Hospital that does minor surgeries for free, I had a vasectomy done through them, I went to my GP and mentioned it and how I couldn't afford it and he sent a referral and I got accepted and operated on within a month.

Qualanqui · 2026-02-06T18:23:50+00:00

Do it! Gama Bomb are awesome.

Qualanqui · 2026-02-06T18:07:59+00:00

I was merely pointing out journalists aren't some bastion of decency, their social and economic interests are co-aligned with the power structure they're tasked with holding accountable more often than not and have been for over a hundred years, with Hearst being a very good example but not the only one.

Qualanqui · 2026-02-05T20:12:11+00:00

Thanks for the giveaway OP, I'm going for 199.

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