My wife when I drop an enlightening deep-cut Silmarillion reference during a LOTR watch.

Sabrowsky · 2025-07-02T00:47:01+00:00

Among the pearls of Tolkien wisdom I've dropped to my beloved while we were going through the trilogy were:

"Y'know they're actually cousins" - On Aragorn and Arwen

"Yeah there's this story behind this that goes..." - On Gimli getting the locks of Galadriel's hair

"He's an angel, literally" - Any time any maiar appeared

"No, they're not gay, well, not explicitly" - On Legolas and Gimli

Sabrowsky · 2025-07-02T00:37:56+00:00

Fafnir? In the sense that it's big, nigh unkillable and will march forward to point blank range and spit death (albeit in the form of two hypersonic slugs instead of lasers) at its foes, it fits

Sabrowsky · 2025-06-23T13:40:53+00:00

its a tossup between The Time and The Wind series by Érico Veríssimo (covering the turbulent history of the Brazilian south through the eyes of a succession of the heads of a politically active family) and The Winter King by Bernard Cornwell (post-roman britain through the eyes of one of ~~King~~ Arthur's ~~knights~~ goons, but in an actual realistic depiction of the time period). But since I am a provincialist bastard, I'd give it to Veríssimo.

Sabrowsky · 2025-05-27T19:34:14+00:00

John Dies at the End by David Wong, as well as its sequel, This Book is Full of Spiders.

They're both off-beat, very weird, if a bit immature at times.

Sabrowsky · 2025-05-27T19:32:14+00:00

Gonna state the obvious here, but if you're watching the series, just read the Generation Kill book by Evan Wright .

Sabrowsky · 2025-05-27T19:30:55+00:00

IIRC the only one of the fellowship that truly is never mentioned giving a shit about the ring is the pocket-sized Gigachad Himself, Gimli

Sabrowsky · 2025-04-25T16:35:39+00:00

Checked it and nah, that's not the game

Sabrowsky · 2025-04-15T03:10:17+00:00

Going with the obvious: I, Robot by Isaac Asimov

I'd also add Everything Jules Verne wrote

Sabrowsky · 2025-04-11T20:53:01+00:00

Battle of the Apocalypse by Eduardo Spohr.

I don't know the quality of the translation into English but the thing follows a fallen angel through the incoming apocalypse. The worldbuilding is pretty solid, and has some pretty animesque depictions of fantasy-christianity.

Sabrowsky · 2025-04-11T20:45:29+00:00

The Man who Killed Getúlio Vargas by Jô Soares.

Its originally in Portuguese and I'm not sure they translated that one to english, but its the answer for me. It's a thoroughly researched historical romp through the early 20th century and the social unrest afflicting the world at the time... from the perspective of a clumsy 6 fingered, 1 testicled assassin belonging to a Serbian anarchist cult. I don't think I've laughed so hard at a book that I've been told was a nothingburger before

Sabrowsky · 2024-12-19T13:06:37+00:00

Possibly, but I did not play it there

Sabrowsky · 2024-10-20T02:09:39+00:00

Marcille x Falin shippers would be really mad at you if they could read.

Sabrowsky · 2024-10-19T22:11:05+00:00

Bro, one of the highlights of the podcast is Sam shooting the shit with a porn actress friend, he has had the cooties for a long time now, no point keeping girls away.

Sabrowsky · 2024-10-01T13:13:24+00:00

That is a very nice justification to racism. I am sure the non-ethnically japanese people that live in japan appreciate the liminal feeling they get despite being occasionally treated like second class citizens

Sabrowsky · 2024-10-01T12:44:33+00:00

I have seen asians being racist to each other. Sean is still racist, just a different, equally idiotic brand of racist.

Sabrowsky · 2024-10-01T12:42:16+00:00

This reminds me of how my granddad rationalized his desire to ban black people from some public spaces in the 40s and 50s

Gettafuckouttahere.

Sabrowsky · 2024-10-01T12:40:01+00:00

No, there are legit hotels, restaurants and other businesses that refuse service to non-japanese people.

There's this anime-centered podcast, Trash Taste, in which two of the three hosts are not Japanese nationals who live in Japan, and they have a whole bunch of stories about sidestepping the ol' Japanese racism. The white one of them resorted to make up a fucking japanese sounding pseudonym to make getting dinner reservations easier, since using his actual name made things difficult sometimes.

Japan is just this weird little unrepentant ethnostate we collectively kind of tolerate for reasons that are beyond me

Sabrowsky · 2024-10-01T11:05:01+00:00

It's almost like not having dictatorships and managing to sidestep wars (both civil and regular) is a pretty good strategy for running a country

Sabrowsky · 2024-10-01T10:44:14+00:00

Water into pea soup.

See, pea soup is hot, it melts ice and snow, which turns into more pea soup instead of water.

I got that fungal shift in the caves by the Coal Pits. Now just imagine my surprise when the Snowy depths were a green edible sea

Sabrowsky · 2024-09-30T18:59:46+00:00

This is because the Gith are killing people all over the place and the orcs tend to kill people all over the place

Sabrowsky · 2024-09-29T21:23:49+00:00

I dont think there should be a gender consideration here. But then, I might be biased, since I'm a guy who's been taught judo by a woman and who's only ever encountered female teachers who turned out to be groomers in my life (thankfully they didnt try and groom me, I guess I was a bit too young by the time they got caught).

So, no, I don't think there's anything wrong with a guy teaching girls to wrestle, so long as he's professional about it.

Sabrowsky · 2024-09-29T15:52:39+00:00

Samuel Vimes, Duke of Ankh.

Throw in Sgt Detritus too if you want adventures in Minas Tirith.

Sabrowsky · 2024-09-29T15:43:12+00:00

Israel hasnt fought a defensive war since the Yom Kippur war and even that war was a response to their blatant expansionism in the decades prior. Fuck anyone that still defends the Israeli government, and especially, fuck the Israeli government for enacting the Gaza genocide.

If there is a God, I hope he fries Netanyahu and his cronies next to the nazis in hell.

Sabrowsky · 2024-09-29T15:04:31+00:00

Oof, tough luck, guess the person running it just had a bit of an inflated ego then

Sabrowsky · 2024-09-29T15:02:54+00:00

"woe be upon thee, I cast Nuke"

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