vagon5.bsky.social @vagon5.bsky.social · 15hAverage Grindr experience "Can I see a picture of you" "yea" *grainy extreme closeup of a butthole* 010
vagon5.bsky.social @vagon5.bsky.social · 09/10/2026God now you got me remembering again how shit Ready Player One really was by the end of the book. Ya know, Dungeon Crawler isn't high art or anything, but man I just can't agree it's anywhere near the same level 000
vagon5.bsky.social @vagon5.bsky.social · 09/10/2026Like, you could remove 95% of the references from Carl and the story would still be what it is. They exist as flavor text for his character... Just, very, very often. Whereas RP1's whole conceit essentially doesn't exist and falls apart if it can't be all about nostalgic pop culture references 100
vagon5.bsky.social @vagon5.bsky.social · 09/10/2026I'm listening the audiobooks, which I think lends A LOT to it because the voice performance is so good. But I will claim, very mildly, there's a difference in that the dungeon books feature a lot of references as part of the charcter, vs RP1 basically being ALL about pop culture as their plot 100
vagon5.bsky.social @vagon5.bsky.social · 09/10/2026Also I've listened and read my fair share of Stephen King and he is 100% on another level from schlock (most of the time) 000
vagon5.bsky.social @vagon5.bsky.social · 09/10/2026Probably helps that the narrator is basically giving an all-time best ever sort of performance. Honestly incredible, I think he deserves pretty much equal credit to the author in making this story work for me 100
vagon5.bsky.social @vagon5.bsky.social · 09/10/2026Does it make sense if I say I think that I probably wouldn't like it all that much reading the book... but in audiobook form it's like one of the most effortlessly entertaining things to listen to, and it really sucks me in? It's like listening to an old time radio serial every night. 100
vagon5.bsky.social @vagon5.bsky.social · 03/10/2026I agree, I think the performance in the audiobook really sells it. I probably wouldn't stick with the series reading it 010
vagon5.bsky.social @vagon5.bsky.social · 30/09/2026I can hear his fucking voice in my head while watching this 😭 0141
vagon5.bsky.social @vagon5.bsky.social · 25/09/2026I love everything Nathan Fielder has ever done but ranking The Rehearsal 10 spots LOWER than Nathan For You is crazy work. And also The Curse should be a contender if this is about "best" shows, even if they weren't popular 000
Reposted by @vagon5.bsky.socialInfoWars @realinfowars.bsky.social · 23/09/2026The agenda is being forced upon us. Even our games aren't safe. 10971141377
vagon5.bsky.social @vagon5.bsky.social · 20/09/2026Social media specifically rings true to me. I consider FB and IG to be noxious, unpleasant apps. I would gladly assign an AI agent to use FB for me to gather all the local events, restaurant specials, updates from friends I actually care about, etc, into a digest so I never have to touch it myself 081
vagon5.bsky.social @vagon5.bsky.social · 19/09/2026Good point i am now switching my ai's voice to sound like a sexy anime waifu to be more progressive 🫡 121
vagon5.bsky.social @vagon5.bsky.social · 18/09/2026I thought: 1) The word "lesbian" was basically the same as calling someone a pervert, just for women only 2) It was all pretend and just a funny playground joke Rumors spread and I had kids asking me for weeks why I called her a lesbian 😭 000
vagon5.bsky.social @vagon5.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Oh yeah, in like 5th grade I had a pretend "girlfriend" at recess who asked me one day underneath the playground if I wanted to kiss her. Idk, maybe she wasn't pretending. It freaked me out because I was still in the "girls have cooties" phase. So I shouted the word "LESBIAN!" at her, then ran away 100
vagon5.bsky.social @vagon5.bsky.social · 18/09/2026I'm sure there are earlier examples but this is one of the biggest ones that leaps immediately to my mind, like multiple times a year, and I STILL feel the residual shame and cringe from it 100
vagon5.bsky.social @vagon5.bsky.social · 18/09/2026So I made the most "mature" joke about it I could think of, which was asking him completely cold, "So, [Name], how's puberty going?" And the other kids turned and gave me a look and asked what the heck was wrong with me. I hadn't grasped what a weirdly personal/inappropriate question that was. 100
vagon5.bsky.social @vagon5.bsky.social · 18/09/2026In like 7th grade (12 yrs old) I wanted to impress an older boy out of, idk, a pre-pubescent sense of masculinity or something, because his voice had deepened and he'd started growing facial hair, and I hadn't 100
vagon5.bsky.social @vagon5.bsky.social · 14/09/2026(I only say "a lot of people" because the rest of them would say the show already started its decline awhile before that) 010
vagon5.bsky.social @vagon5.bsky.social · 14/09/2026(He had a cameo on the show in the later seasons and it was mostly inconsequential but a lot of people agree the moment he appears onscreen also perfectly lines up with when the show starts taking a huge nosedive) 230
vagon5.bsky.social @vagon5.bsky.social · 31/08/2026My understanding is it's not a remake but like a weird... Prequel? You know, because all the Scrooge-heads out there needed more Scrooge backstory content. Can't wait to find out the mysterious tragic meaning behind his "bah humbug" catchphrase, you know 120
vagon5.bsky.social @vagon5.bsky.social · 24/08/2026It might be better translated as "the years start comin' and they don't stop comin'" 060
vagon5.bsky.social @vagon5.bsky.social · 18/08/2026100% agreed! It's a fun action-adventure. Tbf I'm listening to the audiobooks and I think I like that better than if I had read it. Also pretty much everyone agrees the first book is kinda the most plain one and has to carry the most game setup. After that the settings and plots get more interesting 000
vagon5.bsky.social @vagon5.bsky.social · 17/08/2026I'd agree there's a lot of front loading of the more tedious game mechanic elements in the first book. I just meant it's not straight up listing their stat points at every chapter like the post said. The stats and game mechanics are background elements that are getting way overblown here imo 000
vagon5.bsky.social @vagon5.bsky.social · 17/08/2026Asking you not to act like a presumptuous prick over liking a certain book or not? Wow ya got me 000
vagon5.bsky.social @vagon5.bsky.social · 17/08/2026Having listened to roughly 60% of the series so far, I get the "derp" humor comment but am truly baffled where they would be getting racism from 020
vagon5.bsky.social @vagon5.bsky.social · 17/08/2026The 3rd book has a forward where the author actually tells you some of the game mechanics are stupid and overcomplicated because he over-thought them, and that readers shouldn't worry about it because that stuff doesn't really matter as opposed to the actual substantive character and story arcs 100
vagon5.bsky.social @vagon5.bsky.social · 17/08/2026That and people just outright misrepresenting it to justify said rudeness. No, it is not "like Ready Player One" except in maybe the most glancing and superficial ways. No, it is not about memorizing any game stats. If you believe these things then I do question your comprehension/integrity 010
vagon5.bsky.social @vagon5.bsky.social · 17/08/2026I'm not gonna pretend like, "Oh it's perfect, deep literature and you're stupid if you don't like it". Perfectly fine if it's not your thing. But it irks me that ppl in this thread who haven't read/don't like it are just being straight up rude and misrepresenting it. 100
vagon5.bsky.social @vagon5.bsky.social · 17/08/2026The emphasis is much more on how the character arcs and how the game progression affects them, what new creative fantasy abilities they can use to survive, etc. 100
vagon5.bsky.social @vagon5.bsky.social · 17/08/2026No it's not. The stats exist and do get mentioned regularly, in that the plot is about a guy literally living in a sci-fantasy dungeon crawler arena game where he is forced to manage them to survive. But they're not like something you're meant to pore over and care about that extensively. 100
vagon5.bsky.social @vagon5.bsky.social · 17/08/2026No it straight up does not, jfc. People in this thread just literally lying to justify being mean about a series they're not personally into 010
vagon5.bsky.social @vagon5.bsky.social · 17/08/2026Okay, so don't read it? I don't mind that but this thread is just becoming people being unnecessarily rude about it. "I don't think I'm into this semi-popular thing" suddenly, unsurprisingly, becomes "This is the worst garbage ever and if you like it you're an idiot who doesn't get literature" 110
vagon5.bsky.social @vagon5.bsky.social · 17/08/2026The guy literally writes the chapters on his Patreon, what are you even talking about. You know you can just reasonably not be into something without having to exaggerate be an unnecessarily rude prick about it, right? 141
vagon5.bsky.social @vagon5.bsky.social · 05/08/2026It bothers me that we're all still being tracked anytime we cross over into Marinette, something residents here do almost daily, despite being so clear we do not want them here 010
vagon5.bsky.social @vagon5.bsky.social · 05/08/2026Source: it was like a 5 minute walk from my house lol 100
vagon5.bsky.social @vagon5.bsky.social · 05/08/2026Deflock needs to update their database-- that one camera shown on the Michigan side of the border was taken down after Menominee residents successfully got city council to cancel their proposed Flock contract. 220
vagon5.bsky.social @vagon5.bsky.social · 17/07/2026Wait the matrix is rated R?? A teacher literally showed it to us in high school philosophy class 😭 000
vagon5.bsky.social @vagon5.bsky.social · 17/07/2026Cheating a bit because I did NOT see this in a theater. But when I saw Clint Eastwood's 15:17 to Paris, I knew with absolute certainty it's so far the only movie I would have ever walked out on 010
vagon5.bsky.social @vagon5.bsky.social · 09/07/2026I love the idea of Pokemon Go leading you to another trainer and then just telling you to physically fight them to win 😂 1100
vagon5.bsky.social @vagon5.bsky.social · 07/07/2026At least the basic existence of the footage in the plot seems well justified to me, certainly more than a lot of other pure found footage films manage. The main character's extreme motivation or obsession to get the footage is well established and relevant too, imo 010
vagon5.bsky.social @vagon5.bsky.social · 07/07/2026I guess I don't get why that needs to be "justified". It's just the perspective the director chose to show those events from. I mean if you didn't like the sequence for substantive reasons, like you thought the characters were weak or didn't buy why they were filming, fair, but then just say that. 120
vagon5.bsky.social @vagon5.bsky.social · 30/06/2026But have you tried Rockstar Games Table Tennis 000
vagon5.bsky.social @vagon5.bsky.social · 26/06/2026Or maybe it's a hopeful message, they decided they don't wanna die and complied with the cop's orders 🥲 000
