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My last three books read have been on a Kindle. I am considering dumping all my books because I can fit a whole library on the Kindle and saves so much space in the (very small) house. Have I become unfuckable?
If you buy your books on amazon too, yes.
You guys buy your books? Haven’t you heard of anna’s archive?
May I remind you of the first rule of (lib) genesis.
No.
Yes
Says the man that hasn’t moved homes a lot.
Fuck them book boxes. All hail the public library where you most importantly give the book back!
I knew I recognized him from somewhere.
I have no idea who he is, but this is my favorite quote ever, as someone who’s both a goth/punk poser and works in cybersecurity.
he wrote and directed the musical Hairspray and the movie Pink Flamingos. Both of which are worth it if you don’t have a predisposition to hating campy, lgbtq+ or musicals.
I’ll take a look. This is the second quote from him that resonates with me prety deeply, he seems like a cool guy.
If you find his films a bit too much (which is fair), he’s also done a standup show called This Filthy World which you would probably enjoy.
If you have that predisposition you should hatewatch them
John waters. As a young straight kid in a religious household in the south he was the first person that showed me there can be humor that involves lgbtq+ people that isn’t hateful or dismissive, followed by David Sedaris. And strangely enough it was through comedy that I first felt empathy for people I had been indoctrinated to hate. He’s definitely out there and quite honestly a lot of his stuff isn’t to my taste but he’s got some great material
The ludicrously tragic? The tragically ludicrous?
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000691/
Definitely worth knowing.
What does he mean, there is no look to that. Sure there is…
I still love how a movie about hackers completely made up what they thought hacker culture might look like, but instead of laughing off a bad Hollywood film hacker culture embraced this invented asthetic and hasn’t really let go since
I recently watched that film for the first time and holy shit that movie has aged like fine wine and makes me nostalgic for a bygone subculture that never really existed in the first place
Hey, my favorite coffee shop has at least two comfy chairs at each of their… Five? I think they have five locations now. Way to go dudes. Anyways I can shrimp up whenever I visit. I don’t want to say they did it just for me but I am a regular and if I can’t shrimp I have to go home. They are the best for looking out for me.
If you want a movie of his that’s very accessible, I recommend Pecker. The stuff he’s most known for was just a bit too out there for my tastes.
Legend
He made the greatest No Smoking in the movie theater spots ever made.
Once I offered to buy John Waters a drink, and the bartender got offended
Edit: at the very idea that John Waters would ever be charged for a drink
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Dry humping only.
Mormon style soaking?
You can soak, but no jumper.
that’s why you get a friend to bounce the bed 😂
HE SAID NO JUMPER🗣️
I dunno, can’t see them in a bookshelf. He didn’t say anything about making reading cool, just books. “If they don’t have books, don’t fuck them.”
I don’t think digital versions count, at least not for John.
True, but I imagine a well-organized Calibre library will flood most basements, genitally speaking.
This is perfect for me as I have a lot of chess books that I never read
Playing chess against people who have read chess books is the worst… you make one move and they go “ah… the Toledo-Salamanca opening, I can checkmate in 34 moves.”
But that is my favorite way to play chess!
I just haven’t actually read any books and an making up the names of moves. I hope my wife hasn’t caught on (she caught on the first time didn’t she)
I have yet to experience that even when playing against a fide master, but talking at the board is bad form. They do however know their way in the opening and it usually ends in disaster sooner or later
That opening is worth about a million bucks.
I find it’s best to play ridiculous moves then that don’t show up in any books, you may end up in a strategically worse position but they have to work for their win now instead of just doing memorised plays. It’s better to burn out, than to fade away!
Heterodox style. It’s the only fun way to play left
I guess they don’t for me, either, because when I read or listen to a book and really, really like it, I buy a physical copy.
just virtual sex for you.
It’s spelled “pubes” and having a couple thousand really isn’t that impressive, though showing them off at the end of a date might still get you laid…
Some people read ebooks, especially if they’re in a small apartment
Or are poor and have to obtain them creatively™
Can confirm lol
Soulseek FTW!
Yeah, I have zero in my house now. I have over 1k on my ereader, in my pocket, and on my tablet. Even when I read physical books I never had this many, every time I got to a couple hundred I’d take them to Goodwill for others to enjoy. My reading list is so long, it’s not like I’m likely to reread anything. Every book I reread is one other book I won’t get to read before I die.
I see bookshelves like this these days it’s like someone with a lot of vinyl. They’re either old (old to me and I’m almost 50), or just into an old format for some reason. Nothing wrong with that, it just doesn’t mean the same thing it used to.
I have a similar mentality, but I do have some that are particularly memorable that I like to return to, like Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy for example. I also have certain books which are less for reading, like the Onion’s our dumb century or I have some railroad and travel books that have tons of cool pictures, but once I’ve read a book (especially fiction) if I dont forsee rereading it I’ll pass it along to someone or donate it to free up more space on my shelf for future books. And then my e-reader has a subset of my ebook library on it, with a mix of both re-reads and to-be-reads because that 32GB of storage will easily hold thousands of ebooks so there’s no stress to perfectly curate what I’m carrying with me on it
So my steam library isn’t enough hur?
It better be at least 51% visual novels
Visual “novels”
Most of them are probably closer to novellas by word count, that’s a good point.
I have the core rules book, investigator manual, and keeper manual for the Call of Cthulhu TTRPG, does that count?
It counts double.
Looks at hot accountant.
“QuickBooks”
Close enough?
QuickBooks is for when you’re getting fucked by the IRS.
So, for everybody.
Does manga count?
If i go to someones house and they have a manga shelf my clothes are coming off pronto. Assuming all parties consent, that is.
I’ll count it
Eh, i rent i dont own. Which means i move every few years. Also i have a library card, so i dont own very many books at all. I still read alot tho.
Eh, i rent i dont own
Having sex with hookers is still having sex. Book up or no sex!
Sorry, you have to do your sex at the library.
What are we sorry for? I thought I enjoyed the library before…
Exclusively the library. Hey, I don’t make the terms and conditions on the library cards.
what if all my books are on the compooter
Cyber sex
That’s a name I’ve not heard in a long time.
A/s/l?
My books are on my phone…
So you can fuck wherever then. Nice.
Yeah, and I am certain you don’t have “Poor” by K O’Sullivan
No, I read for fun and that doesn’t look like a book I’d have fun reading
Only fuck people who make an expensive signal like Jay Gatsby.
Hahahahaaa
I think books are cool. Anyone who read books is a cool person and not yet lost to social media addiction. They can still be in the moment with themselves.
I had a period when I could not read a single page in a book because my mind was constantly wanting to use the phone instead. Many people are like that right now.
