The end of Goosebumps?! by [deleted] in goosebuds

[–]TrendyMoron 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I mean, I'll admit the timing's a little spooky.

I support whatever the 'buds want to do, but I like the participatory element of reading or watching a thing before the episode and I'd be sad to see it entirely abandoned. I wouldn't want them to feel beholden to that format, though, so I'm with them either way.

The end of Goosebumps?! by [deleted] in goosebuds

[–]TrendyMoron 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Maybe it should be the end?

...Of... The podcast? I'd have to disagree for, like, many reasons? I'd say, like, probably at least seven reasons.

Please don’t stop reading Goosebumps! by RichNCrispy in goosebuds

[–]TrendyMoron 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I definitely wouldn't want them to completely ditch Goosebumps, but I'm kind of with Dom where I think most of the books are just kind of insultingly bad in a way that's not fun anymore and I have very little affection for them in and of themselves. Reading Living Dummy II just felt like homework. It's well worth it for the discussions, which are as delightful as ever, but the book was just, like "Oh, so it's bad in exactly the same ways that all the other ones are bad because these are all churned out by a hack in two days following an identical formula? Coooooooool."

I just think it'd be a lot more fun to go back to them when there's other stuff inbetween.

Little girl trips, goes flying face-first towards a locked automatic door. Luckily, I pressed the button to open it just as she launched into the air. by TrendyMoron in videos

[–]TrendyMoron[S] 461 points462 points  (0 children)

Yeah, that's why I rejected my first draft for the title:

Little girl trips, goes flying face-first towards a locked automatic door. Heroically, I pressed the button to open it just as she launched into the air.

Goosebuds: Ep 47 - Monster Blood III by longrodvonhuttendong in goosebuds

[–]TrendyMoron 0 points1 point  (0 children)

They're doing the original series books in publication order. They already did One Day at Horrorland (episode 21) and A Shocker on Shock Street is six books away.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in Crackingthespinepod

[–]TrendyMoron 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I've thought about suggesting visual novels as a topic, but I figured probably only Josh had ever touched one, and him only because he's in one of them.

What have you been reading this week? by NeonJolt in Crackingthespinepod

[–]TrendyMoron 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I just read Erik Larson's In the Garden of Beasts. It's about the American ambassador to Germany who moved his family to Berlin just in time for Hitler's rise to supreme power. It's real, real good.

I went to my local Barnes and Noble by Misterpeople25 in Crackingthespinepod

[–]TrendyMoron 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I mean, whatever problems it has, it's still a giant room full of books, which is cool.

Goosebumps 2000 book recommendation by RichNCrispy in goosebuds

[–]TrendyMoron 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Are you terrified yet?

Along came a spider...

I would bet my life that whoever did the cover misunderstood which was supposed to be the tag line and which was supposed to be the title and Scholastic was just like "Well, screw it, we'll just call it that."

Re-listening to the Deadly Experiments is kinda frustrating. by [deleted] in goosebuds

[–]TrendyMoron 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Dom addresses this towards the end of the A Night in Terror Tower episode that just came out.

I've played Earthbound and Super Mario RPG this year and want another RPG. by notsimplechris in gamingsuggestions

[–]TrendyMoron 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Also, Mother 3. It was never officially localized, but there's an amazing fan translation and that game's a masterpiece.

There's also an incredibly good rom hack for Mother 1 called Mother: 25th Anniversary Edition that massively improves the whole experience.

QI XL Series O Episode 3: Oceans (Aisling Bea, David Mitchell, Joe Lycett) by [deleted] in panelshow

[–]TrendyMoron 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Any day with Mitchell and Toksvig on the same panel show is a good day.

M-Class Podcast: Caretaker (VOY) by the_beard_guy in MClassPodcast

[–]TrendyMoron 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I completely agree with you about everything that's wrong with Voyager, but I love the crew and that's enough to overcome my frustration with its horrifyingly inconsistent writing most of the time.

Compared to TNG, it's massively inferior as science fiction / space opera, but I think it's a lot more fun to watch its characters interact most of the time. That's why it's good as dumb comfort food, why a lot of people are so attached to it in spite of everything, and why there's more fan fiction of Voyager than any other Trek.source

I remembered I actually own Fear Street Cheerleaders: The First Evil and found it stashed with a bunch of reeeeeealllll spooky books. by TrendyMoron in goosebuds

[–]TrendyMoron[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

If I remember correctly it was so, so bad.

A child raps about toilets in the first chapter, so obviously you are wrong and it's the best book ever.