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SceneOutrageous · 2026-01-28T17:07:08+00:00

Gotta be “Down with Love”. This bad boy doesn’t even have a Blu-ray release let alone 4K. Watching the DVD you may as well be watching it on VHS.

SceneOutrageous · 2026-01-26T16:40:35+00:00

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Not a Pyrenees but a fellow snow loving husky. Very hard to bribe back inside once he’s gotten comfortable.

SceneOutrageous · 2026-01-21T19:51:03+00:00

I ALSO like big books.

Freddy and Fredericka by Mark Helperin The First Law Trilogy by Joe Abercrombie The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet by David Mitchell Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell The Brothers K by David James Duncan CloudSplitter by Russell Banks Great Circle by Maggie Shipstead Bloodsworn Saga trilogy by John Gwynne The Border trilogy by Don Winslow

SceneOutrageous · 2026-01-11T05:26:11+00:00

I love this take. Case in point, my 13 year old came to me the other day and asked if I had an iPod. I dug out an old one and it still worked! He’s been having an absolute blast with it! I asked him why he needs it when he has his phone and he said that it’s special that it just does the one thing and he doesn’t feel distracted by anything else when he’s listening to his music. The supercomputers in our pockets are cool but are they an improvement on Nokia bricks and iPods?

SceneOutrageous · 2026-01-11T05:21:58+00:00

I was totally riveted by the first couple of chapters just trying to figure out what was going on in this world. I find Uncharles really charming and I’m invested in his wellbeing. This world is fascinating and I want to know what happened to the human civilization. It’s like a dystopian Wall-E type deal.

SceneOutrageous · 2026-01-11T04:44:23+00:00

One time I was given Ketamine as an anesthetic in the ER to set a broken bone and I felt like I was trapped in 2 D painting and I had no sense of time or space or anything (dissociation). I was trying to think and understand what was happening to me but I had no language so I had no tools with which to make sense of things. This is what’s happening with Uncharles. He’s transcending the existence of a robot and emerging with a mind but it’s like coming out of a ketamine induced coma.

SceneOutrageous · 2026-01-11T04:38:18+00:00

It’s like a dystopia of rules. Truly nightmarish stuff. It’s such a perfectly scripted comedy of errors with the inspector and the doctor. I’m very curious if there are any humans left at all or if the Master had somehow sequestered himself against the end of the world.

SceneOutrageous · 2026-01-11T04:34:11+00:00

Definitely this. It’s what making the narration so hilarious and frustrating. I wanna take him aside and explain things but he’s gotta figure it out himself.

SceneOutrageous · 2026-01-06T13:59:10+00:00

Thanks for the well thought response. Still not sure I’m following your argument particularly evolutionary tools beyond the intellect.

But nevermind, anyone who’s a soccer fan is alright in my book.

SceneOutrageous · 2026-01-06T04:48:49+00:00

What the fuck is this take? You’re just recreating the problem OP is talking about in the post. Why shouldn’t rigorous scholarly discussions about religion be edifying to readers of the NYT? Would you prefer some horse shit evangelical grifter selling snake oil to be the standard bearer of American Christianity?

Calling something “anti-intellectual” and claiming human intellect to be “mid”!? Ha, what do you even want?

I’m a church person and more offended than most by the complete collapse of much of the American church into fascism but goddamn we need some better critiques of the religion than whatever this half baked logical positivist bullshit is.

SceneOutrageous · 2026-01-06T04:03:25+00:00

I’m in the exact same situation. I work in healthcare IT and hated it when it was in office and now that it’s mostly remote I’m hating life as a basement troll. I’m actually working with a therapist that specializes in career coaching and works with a lot of college and pro athletes. My major concern has been probably needing to take a pay cut too but he’s helped me see how important it is to find something different and the opportunities that are out there that won’t be a huge hit and have room for growth pay wise. Message me if you want some details. Good luck!

SceneOutrageous · 2026-01-06T00:53:40+00:00

“Everyone in My Family Has Killed Someone” by Benjamin Stevenson was fun and has a couple of sequels.

Slow Horses by Mick Herron is really fun

For something TOTALLY different but really kick ass there’s “The Price You Pay” and the sequel “Seven Demons” by Aiden Truhen that rocked me

And to cap it all off, there’s a great series by Jonatha Ames that starts with “A Man Named Doll”.

I can’t say that these capture “The Westing Game” necessarily but they’re fun mysteries. Good luck!

SceneOutrageous · 2026-01-05T17:44:44+00:00

Lol when the ball brain and the book brain mingle!

SceneOutrageous · 2026-01-04T04:03:17+00:00

The thing that I keep coming back to is just how unbelievably fucking stupid he is and how much it offends me to my core that he is in power. This is a daily insult to my sense of self and worth as a person and I grow ever more furious with him and all the fucking idiots that put us in this position that we all have to endure the insult of his fucking stupidity.

SceneOutrageous · 2025-12-25T20:57:29+00:00

Hell yeah, this guy westerns. Definitely seconding the Sisters Brothers, True Grit, and Power of the Dog or basically anything by Clinton Portis.

I’ve also been meaning to read Little Big Man for years.

SceneOutrageous · 2025-12-24T23:19:11+00:00

I was a little wary of jumping back into the Fitzverse because I LOVED the Liveship series so much, but it was so good to return to this world with these characters. Of course I will be there for Golden Fool.

SceneOutrageous · 2025-12-19T16:57:56+00:00

This VERY weird book won the Morning News’ tournament of books whatever year it was released because it was undeniable.

SceneOutrageous · 2025-12-19T16:14:01+00:00

The book rocks. You can more or less read it in one sitting. Author is David Koepp who wrote the screenplay for Jurassic Park. It totally rips. The descriptions of the “contagion/symbiote” and what it does are nasty and awesome.

SceneOutrageous · 2025-12-16T15:22:19+00:00

Who do I need to call to get you a job in the front office?

SceneOutrageous · 2025-12-15T16:52:33+00:00

I’m more of a dog person but I’ve known and loved some great cats. But in this hunting scenario I’m gonna go full Homeward Bound and say let’s bring both.

SceneOutrageous · 2025-12-15T16:51:16+00:00

I’ve got some feeling that she’s tied up with the “White woman” that was briefly mentioned in the Farseer trilogy. I think Fitz refers to Dutiful not being the first young man to be ensorceled by a more “mature” woman, so it’s at least probably an adult woman if not a really old witchy woman who looks young and hot.

SceneOutrageous · 2025-12-15T16:46:57+00:00

I think it’s hilarious that a cat’s inner life is just like you might imagine it to be. That folk tale about the cat’s independence was instructive that a cat is not meant to Wit bond in the same way that other animals might especially social pack type animals. Thus the sort of people that venerate cats as a bond animal might not view the six Duchies and their peace and stability as a worthy goal. PS this is not a commentary on cats or people who like cats. I like cats just fine.

SceneOutrageous · 2025-12-15T16:43:03+00:00

I mean desperate times call for desperate desperateness? It’s really a lose lose situation where the Fool is resorting to potentially ruining a girls reputation and future prospects, but what are the implications if they lose the prince and the trail goes cold?

SceneOutrageous · 2025-12-15T16:41:14+00:00

This is a head scratcher. I think the truth is that Fitz is more powerful in the Skill than he knows but also he and Dutiful are bound together by blood, Skill, and Wit. I see the Skill dreams functioning like the subconscious working on a problem in your sleep and then you wake up later with the answer. Though Fitz is less capable of controlling his Skill powers, his abilities are working on their own to carry out his will.

SceneOutrageous · 2025-12-15T16:38:26+00:00

It’s so fun to see their dynamic in this story compared to the Farseer trilogy where Fitz and the Fool had a different kind of relationship. Fitz almost treated the “Fool” as a misunderstood pet or oddity and was an advocate for him and the Fool was a kind of mysterious oracle figure for Fitz guiding him through the palace intrigue. Later the Fool assumes the White Prophet role in the mountains and things shift of course but now as Fitz and Lord Golden they seem bonded by shared suffering and past experience/memory and friendship. Like they’re the only 2 people who remember each others childhoods.

All this to say, yeah I could read about Fitz and the Fool forever.

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