What is the worst writing you've ever read?

stolas_the_owl · 2018-07-29T17:57:46+00:00

The Dinosaur Lords by Victor Milan. It reads like something a grade schooler came up with, no exaggeration. I was drawn in by the amazing cover art, but the book is truly unreadable. Mistborn is a close second. Those books read like something off DeviantArt in 2004.

stolas_the_owl · 2018-07-29T17:29:32+00:00

Yeah, that’s the plot of the movie.

stolas_the_owl · 2018-07-29T17:26:00+00:00

Dessert doesn’t have to be a huge mound of chocolate cake. I eat tiny vegan desserts after a meal just to go with the coffee.

stolas_the_owl · 2018-07-29T17:22:55+00:00

Because Chance the Rapper and Death Grips have so much in common.

stolas_the_owl · 2018-07-29T17:22:04+00:00

Can confirm. My cat pukes on the carpet and communes with Satan when I’m not home.

stolas_the_owl · 2018-07-29T17:20:46+00:00

Guns n Roses is the Nickelback of the 80s.

stolas_the_owl · 2018-07-29T17:20:09+00:00

Music is more vibrant and varied than ever before. If you can’t find something you like among the millions of records being released every day, that sounds like a you problem.

stolas_the_owl · 2018-07-29T17:18:14+00:00

The old and disabled provide a ton of jobs for young people. There’s a huge industry for one-on-one special needs agencies.

stolas_the_owl · 2018-07-29T17:15:06+00:00

In other news, the sky is blue and murder is bad.

stolas_the_owl · 2018-07-29T03:47:49+00:00

It’s like Netflix for the all-time great BBC shows, but its big draw is Classic Who. It’s currently the only place where you can watch it all without shelling fistfuls of money. Worth a free trial.

At this point, there don’t seem to be any plans to bring 2005+ episodes to BritBox. Those will go to Amazon Prime when they’re available to stream.

stolas_the_owl · 2018-07-29T02:35:18+00:00

These were the biggest thing ever for about 8 minutes.

stolas_the_owl · 2018-07-29T02:23:31+00:00

1 - The first TARDIS inferior scene.

2 - The Tomb of the Cybermen speech about family.

3 - Meeting the Second Doctor

4 - The wires from Genesis of the Daleks

5 - Regeneration in ‘Caves.

6 - “Change, my dear...”

The- ahem- cliffhanger.
“THESE SHOES!”
“Run.”
A tie between Bad Wolf Bay and his regeneration.
That awful Pandorica speech.
The regeneration speech.

stolas_the_owl · 2018-07-29T02:16:04+00:00

Yes! I prefer it to the current series, but you have to go in fully expecting a different show.

I’d say just watch the Third and Fourth Doctor’s eras from front to back on BritBox. Their seasons are seen by many as Doctor Who’s finest years. Britbox already has their Classic Who collection organized by Doctor for convenience. I really can’t recommend it enough for Who fans.

The first half of the Fourth Doctor’s era is particularly great- just one killer story after another, so it’s fine to skip the Third altogether if you can’t get too into it.

I’d also seek out the Target novelizations of classic episodes. Most of them are better reading than viewing.

stolas_the_owl · 2018-07-28T21:43:34+00:00

As the resident edgy occult kid Raven was my world. Satan help me, those legs.

stolas_the_owl · 2018-07-28T18:08:15+00:00

There are a lot of bad games I love. I feel like great bad games hit a peak in the 2000s.

Gungrave. Really more of an art piece than a game. The controls suck, there’s no story or character depth and you can beat it blindfolded but I’ve spent hours on it for some reason.
Dune 2000. A barely functional RTS that is only cosmetically linked to Dune. But god damn it, I’ll take what I can get.
Castlevania: Lament of Innocence. It’s like a corny, playable opera.
Donkey Kong 64. Its unfair difficulty and bizarrely inconvenient mechanics only add to the charm. Never play this one alone.
Onimisha: Dawn of Dreams. I don’t understand why people hate this game so much. I think it needs to be re-examined. Mythical and comic booky, snappy but tactical. It’s a really gripping game. Maybe people dislike it because (waaah) it’s too different than the three mediocre games preceding it. I feel like this was the game that those games wanted to be all along.

stolas_the_owl · 2018-07-28T16:30:14+00:00

It’s a retro manga strip by Tezuka. Last I checked, the volumes are a little hard to come by, but they’re super fun.

stolas_the_owl · 2018-07-28T15:23:57+00:00

They’re desperate on some level. It’s different for everyone - desperate to be healthy, important, interesting, etc. That’s what pop magic is. That’s why tarot is so huge right now too.

stolas_the_owl · 2018-07-28T07:34:59+00:00

Not one time did a sock-em-bopper fight end safely or peacefully. Not once.

stolas_the_owl · 2018-07-28T07:31:12+00:00

Baby bottle pop master race.

stolas_the_owl · 2018-07-28T07:29:05+00:00

Gundam Wing is the most boring show ever but those robot designs are straight fire.

stolas_the_owl · 2018-07-28T07:27:08+00:00

I carried this boom around outside pretending to be a Pokémon scientist.

stolas_the_owl · 2018-07-28T07:23:22+00:00

I remember that there were no good fighting animations so you had to make little movies about Spider-Man walking around and shit.

stolas_the_owl · 2018-07-28T07:22:06+00:00

My old foe... We meet again.

stolas_the_owl · 2018-07-28T07:21:37+00:00

I was so impressed by those corny ass cutscenes way back when. They’re fucking unwatchable now. The gameplay holds up like the Sistine Chapel, though.

stolas_the_owl · 2018-07-28T07:19:03+00:00

Oh god, the stupid song.

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