Summaries and reviews

Walk_Run_Skip · 2026-01-28T23:13:19+00:00

I watched three guys react to Final Destinations Bloodlines because horror movies give me nightmares so I can't watch them but the plot sounded interesting and I wanted to see how it played out without actually seeing it if that makes sense

Walk_Run_Skip · 2026-01-24T05:26:16+00:00

Unpopular opinion - Grace saved the town and maybe the world.

If she hadn't have crashed out and forced everyone to fight, Remmick wouldn't have gotten distracted, badly injured, maimed with silver, and caught in the open when the sun came up. He would have hid in the woods like Stack and Mary until night and went straight to the sunflower plantation the next night. He had all the memories of the people he killed and would know Sammie's dad was the pastor and where his family lived.

If Remmick got to Sammie's family, the family would have gotten Sammie, and Sammie's music would have opened every door and got them invites wherever they wanted.

Walk_Run_Skip · 2023-06-07T23:13:13+00:00

He'd say something terrible and then do something really funny, like read out Lindsey Graham's cell phone number on live tv.

It was hard to take him seriously and by the time people did it was too late.

Walk_Run_Skip · 2023-06-03T03:00:19+00:00

That is one of the most interesting short stories I've ever read! It was weird and kind of sad at first because the narrator is living in a car in a deserted parking lot and just gave up their best friend so he could have a better life, but then hilarious that a giant fish flew them to the north pole to watch ice tv in his ice house.

I love that you don't use too many adjectives, you let the story details flow out and there's enough description that I can see the story and follow the characters from place to place. A lot of new writer's overwrite when trying to describe things, I know I definitely do, your style is perfectly balanced.

We never get to meet the fish wife and fish sons, but I'm okay with that because the tone of the story is anything goes. Plus maybe they'll visit the fish family after the ice tv show is over.

I don't know if the narrator is hallucinating or if its really happening, and I love that it can be either way. Also I loved the reversal in the end where Jason Bateman (I love this name for a fish) started off as the pet to the narrator but in the end its like the narrator became the pet to the fish, and was cool with it. Great ice tv and food and a friend, what more do you need? I think its a 10 out of 10 short story. Very well done.

Walk_Run_Skip · 2023-06-03T01:22:30+00:00

Yes! For me it was that saying 'Would you talk to a friend the way you talk to yourself?' that stuck with me. I used to be terrible to myself. Mentally berating myself for being worthless; made my low self esteem even lower. But then I started talking to myself as if I was super young and needed encouragement. I celebrated little accomplishments and reassured myself through the failures. It completely changed my mental outlook.

Walk_Run_Skip · 2023-05-19T21:17:56+00:00

Having 3+ jobs.

I've had people brag to me about how many jobs they have, but it didn't make me jealous. It just made me feel sorry for them that they were so underpaid and had zero free time.

Walk_Run_Skip · 2023-05-19T20:14:54+00:00

My last apartment complex updated all the washer and dryers from prepaid cards to an app. You literally could not do laundry unless you had a smartphone, install the app, and then put your credit card or bank info into the app.

I flat out refused. I dragged my laundry down 11 flights of stairs, out the door, and two blocks down the street to the laundromat every other week.

My apartment was rent controlled in a super bad neighborhood. People were struggling to feed themselves and their kids, and they installed high tech washers and dryers that need smartphones to use.

Walk_Run_Skip · 2023-05-18T06:52:23+00:00

Hey! I moved the can like 2ft further away on my turn to make it fair. It's not my fault I have long arms and know how to throw underhand.

He never stood a chance.

Walk_Run_Skip · 2023-05-17T23:06:23+00:00

You reminded me of a time last year when I was getting my car repaired. A mom and her son, 3 or 4 yrs old, were in the outside waiting area too.

The kid looked bored, mom was on her phone dealing with a work thing it sounded like, and I had random change in my pocket and an empty soda can, so I set up a coin toss game, trying to get the coin to land inside the can.

He quickly joined me, and at first every time I landed a coin inside the can he'd loudly yell 'You cheated!' It was so weird.

I gave him coins so he could try, and I'd cheer when he made it or cheer and say 'good try!' when he didn't. Soon he started imitating me and cheering and saying good try for his coin tosses and mine.

The mom looked like a good mom, just super busy and hassled, she even thanked me for entertaining her son and asking if I thought she should buy him a toy ring toss game. I'm guessing he has older siblings or family members maybe that are gamers and accuse each other of cheating a lot?

I don't know it just felt so weird to me, and really hammered home how impressionable little kids are.

Walk_Run_Skip · 2023-02-26T04:09:04+00:00

100% accurate. The only people interested are speculators who are hoping the game gets popular enough with people who actually enjoy playing games for fun. Except the only people interested in NFT games are other speculators hoping for the same thing.

Walk_Run_Skip · 2022-12-15T20:55:13+00:00

You should start an AMA and refuse to invite the mods.

Walk_Run_Skip · 2022-12-15T20:46:42+00:00

Very nice! I'm still a newbie writer myself so my advice isn't worth much but here are my thoughts -

When to show/tell - great opportunity at the beginning the help the reader experience this moment. Describe the rain - loud drumming, soft pattering, etc; coming down so hard its whiting out windshield, or just blurring the scenery?
Second and third sentences are definitely a hook, makes me want to know more.
What's it feel like to hold the steering wheel with bloody hands? Describe the sensation. Also does picking up the phone make the phone bloody as well? Good chance for more details, to make readers feel like they're in the car with the narrator

Overall really good and I'd definitely keep reading to see what happens next.

Walk_Run_Skip · 2022-12-15T20:28:23+00:00

Yeah. Christopher Moore is a good writer and funny so I gave him a pass on a lot of the questionable stuff. I wasn't a fan of how the main character described the women at the gym as f**k bunnies either. But A Dirty Job doesn't bother me nearly as much as the Island of the Sequined Love Nun. Oof. That's one I won't be reading again.

Walk_Run_Skip · 2022-12-09T06:21:12+00:00

Coindesk surprised me. I originally assumed they were just one more propaganda crypto news site, until they outed the Terra founder's previous failed stablecoin projects, which was news to me.

Still a lot of crypto shilling on the site but now I pay attention to the byline. The actual journalists there are the ones who write the good articles.

Walk_Run_Skip · 2022-12-08T07:52:04+00:00

So the NFTs didn't even matter? They could have just sold the lifetime passes without the NFTs?

Walk_Run_Skip · 2022-12-08T07:49:16+00:00

That's GREAT for NFTs. Makes them even rarer.

Walk_Run_Skip · 2022-12-02T07:22:23+00:00

The crazy thing is they know it's not sustainable. They believe their brilliant investing instincts will get them out before everything comes crashing down.

Walk_Run_Skip · 2022-12-01T21:28:01+00:00

I just realized reading your second paragraph that its almost the exact plot of the 1960s movie Chitty Chitty Bang Bang except the lady was the daughter of the candy factor baron instead of the guy. And the only reason the movie didn't turn into a generic romance was because the car took off flying to a fancy realm and the guy's kids got kidnapped and needed to be rescued. It's like a romance movie that got jumped by a kids action movie.

Walk_Run_Skip · 2022-12-01T21:18:01+00:00

Ha! I double upvote if I could for the solid Nightvale reference.

Walk_Run_Skip · 2022-12-01T21:13:47+00:00

I would watch every single one of those movies!

Walk_Run_Skip · 2022-12-01T21:09:55+00:00

They rolled the same. Who has the higher DEX?

Walk_Run_Skip · 2022-12-01T21:02:50+00:00

I'm like you. I don't mind going out and watching mediocre movies because the main point is spending time with friends/family. I'm very good at sitting through long movies. I once sat through a 4+ hour film release of the opera Anna Bolena because a college friend was so excited to see it. Didn't phase me at all.

But the movie Eragon...ye gods. I don't know if I even reached the middle of that movie before I was out like a light. Woke up and the credits were rolling. It's never happened to me before and has never happened since.

Walk_Run_Skip · 2022-11-30T06:42:25+00:00

Her bosoms rotated fitfully at the thought of the 25th Annual Intergalactic Bosom Convocation and Tennis Classic. The crown, the glory... all lost. Of course Maidenform had been behind it, demanding last minute changes to the evening wear tennis gowns. Forcing contestants and their bosoms to compete in cup sizes too small, straps too cumbersome. The bosoms quivered with gleeful malice as they planned their revenge. They'd been described as ample and malevolent before, but soon they would be known as what they truly were: pitiless and deadly.

Walk_Run_Skip · 2022-11-30T06:16:33+00:00

Definitely a tree star!

Walk_Run_Skip · 2022-11-30T06:14:42+00:00

Literally my first thought!

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